Week 3
Day 15 | 05/05/2022:
The new garden wires (for bonsai trees!) have finally arrived! I've been looking forward to training Jackie so much, she's looking very healthy and this growth is amazing (even Coco is quite a lot smaller). I tried to expose as much of the new growth as possible with LST and of course I will be tightening up the training every few days. I think for Coco I will wait for another few days to train her because even her main stem is much smaller
Day 16 | 06/05/2022:
No time today
Day 17 | 07/05/2022:
Was going to water them today but the soil is still quite moist and I wanted to start training Coco tomorrow (and train Jackie) so I will leave both to tomorrow morning!
Day 18 | 08/05/2022:
Finally Coco is big enough to be trained, I did the same method as with Jackie - I just use thick wires (made for bonsai training) and dig them into the soil rather than using the holes on the pot because I feel like this gives more control. They are both looking really good - I adjusted Jackie's training and tucked away the big fan leaves although I might cut them off soon.
I also watered them with 3ml of BioGrow and no more Piranha - will just keep increasing the BioGrow bit by bit until flower
Day 19 | 09/05/2022:
The girls look like they need some training but unfortunately I didn't have time to do that today - will tighten up their training tomorrow!
Day 20 | 10/05/2022:
Did some training on both of the girls today - they really needed it! Might need to tighten it up again tomorrow since it seems they are very strong against these wires ๐ Also I wasn't going to cut off leaves at first but I really tried my best to tuck away the main fan leaf (on both girls) that was covering the entire canopy but it just couldn't bend in the way I needed it to. So I've cut off a fan leaf each and there is so much more exposed to the light now.
Day 21 | 11/05/2022:
What a great end of Week 3, the girls made such amazing progress! Their leaves are looking really healthy and no signs of any issues so far. I will probably have to do a light defoliation some time next week. And I also watered them today with 3ml of BioGrow