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Freshly transplanted from 1 gallon pots into an established vegetable garden with slightly raised beds. Native sandy soil, on the acidic side. Soil heavily amended with dolomitic lime, azomite, Bumper crop soil builder, home-made compost and oak leaf mold. Beneficial nematodes in the early spring.
Showing pre-flowers at this point--all female. Did not find any trace of male flowers despite the reputation of guava jelly to hermie. Put down more granular fertilizer. Garden tone on the guavas and llimonet CBD and tomato tone on the Green Crack. I ran out of garden tone and the nursery only had tomato tone! I think they are pretty much interchangeable.
Did more work defoliating. Also had another split crotch, this time the Llimonet
All of them are in very early preflower; they show female preflowers. They were all lightly defoliated last week, the Llimonet CBD was more drastically de-fan leafed. You would never know it from the looks.
Plants are getting too big, almost peeking over the fence. I bend the tops very carefully until I feel a crack. I keep a knife and grafting tape ready in the event of any mishaps (only one and it healed good as new).
Powdery mildew reared its ugly head. Very light infestation so far--sprayed with copper fungicide mixed with a spreader-sticker.
Must not grow over the fence!! I bend the branches until I feel a crack if they get too close. The branches grow thicker and stronger, like this is good for them. Of course the risk is that you might break them but they can be taped up so long as you do it immediately.
No more powdery mildew--all gone.
Unfortunately the Green Crack has a spider mite infestation. It doesn't get as much water as the other plants so this makes it vulnerable to those pests. I sprayed with spinosad which greatly reduced their numbers. Will follow up with another spray and that should knock them out for good so long as I give it extra water.
Main issue now is to control the height so as to not grow over the fence. I continue to use HST to accomplish this. Now, as for the mite-infested Green Crack, I think I have it beat although I still see a few mites when using my loupe. But population reduced by 90% after two spinosad+ spreader sticker treatments. I am hoping that I can rely on cooler temperatures and very heavy rainfall to control them. Nature controls them with diseases when temps fall and rainfall is more regular.
I think they spread to the poor Green Crack from the neglected grapevine behind it.
Everything humming along nicely. Even the Green Crack has made a great comeback from the spider mite infestation awhile back. Not much more to do except give them Agro Thrive brown label every 10 days until harvest and keep bending down the colas so they don't grow higher than the fence. Maybe later towards the end I will start feeding them bio bud, which is a bloom booster that I have used for indoor plants.
It's good stuff but expensive--might just use compost tea plus molasses to finish them
The buds are thickening nicely. Still have to bend some of the colas over so that they don't top the fence. At this point, it is a waiting game--maybe give them a supercharged compost tea (compost brewed with molasses and a few cups of Dr Earth Flower Girl or Happy Frog Fruit and Flower) to see them through till the end.
Well, bad storm a few days ago--another plant not included in this diary snapped in half. I did not support it securely enough because it was smaller than the others, a Northern Light RQS.
So I had to scramble and do an early harvest. It was almost done anyway. No sign of bud rot so far, I ran out with an electric leaf blower right after the rain. The CBD plant may come down tomorrow; the Guavas need more time and so does the Green Crack. Did a final feed with Agro Thrive brown label and I think that is it. Won't do anything else until harvest--let well enough alone. Good weather predicted for the next few days.
The Llimonet Haze CBD was taken down--trichomes mostly cloudy which is the right stage for a CBD plant. Grew it last year also and loved it for morning smoke to get my day started with a bang.
Still patiently waiting for the right moment to take down the others. Checking daily; all cloudy but only an occasional amber so far. Removed some mold from the Guava Jelly as we had a few days of drizzly, foggy and cool weather which is very concerning. It is supposed to warm up for the rest of the week, so I get a reprieve there. I think this is the final week however.
Huge prolific plants; will take some time to process. Scissor hash an incentive to keep trimming! Relatively little mold damage with very large flower spikes. Can easily distinguish from other strains thanks to the pungent grapefruit odor.
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