The weather is starting to heat up where I am at so there have been some hot days. They have grown a lot since their first transplant, but already I've noticed their growth slow down so time to chuck them in their final pots! I felt they wouldn't last longer than a couple of weeks in those little things, so I preemptively destroyed the cover crop to make way for them. They definitely had a little bit of root circling going on, but overall nothing unhealthy so I think I've timed that well!
Unfortunately the seeds from the cover crop keep germinating, which is a bigger problem than you'd think, because the buckwheat has a 90% chance to helmet, and from there develop powdery mildew from inside the shell...so there are all of these little PM bombs constantly popping up, meaning I have to scout for them multiple times a day. Do I mind? No, because I can stare at them for way too long.
I treated them with a milk/water solution, and raised the temp to 32c each day for 20 or so minutes to mitigate any spores propagating through the tent. I have now bought some castile soap in case the problem develops into something. So far, I don't believe it's affected the girls. The paranoid self in me keeps looking at the milk residue and wondering, is THAT PM?? But it hasn't been. With the increased heat has come some pretty dry days where the tent refused to go above 50RH, so I put the girls just in their top tray pretty much on top of the humidifier with the funnel just acting to redirect the mist outwards instead of up. Genius or am I just asking for mould problems??
The next day after their transplant they were looking happy as could be, just like after their first transplant into this soil! I was preparing to see some droopy girls for the next couple of days, but they barely seemed to notice, even after one of the root balls almost disintegrated when taking it out of her pot. Don't transplant while the soil is wet! It'll just fall apart. I knew that, but thought they had dried out more than they had. I gave the transplant pits a sprinkle of AMF myco before plopping those bad girls in. Can't wait to see how they'll grow!
DevlinBeanington
