This year growing plan is progressing as it should. Critical CBD plants are growing well for the first crop. And my clones are developing nicely.
Week by week progress:
Week 14 – Topping off to keep plants from getting too tall.
Week 15 – Trim off sucker branches and plants have out grown 7-liter pot.
Preparing soil.
I use only organic fertilizer so far. And soil had become acidic. No need to change practice as I am enlarging the pot size. Toward flowering, I won’t change pot size and will fertilize with salt fertilizers. Salt fertilizers usually raise pH.
Soak coconut husk in water and rinse every day for three days. This takes works but I need to refresh my soil every year as coconut husk decomposes.
Also bought 100 kg of earth worm casting from a farm. Each plant takes about 20 kg of earth worm casting.
Progress
Week 16 – change pot to 20 liters basket. Starting to put in ¾ PVC pipes as staking.
Week 17 - Woa – plants are stretching in rain strom. Three plants are 120 cm tall. The smallest is 80 cm tall
Next month:
Replace solar light to keep plants from flowering. I plan to let them develop flower after raining season wane after mid October.
I shall put two plants in big 80-liters planter and keep two plants in 30-liter basket. This is all the space I have in my garden.
Nice breeder and strain. All the best 😉 and yeah thc/cbd ratio are often different than what the breeder say. I had a discussion with a guy that tested a few pure cbd and 1:1 strain with a gemma cert device, he got funky result with the ratio depending phenotypes.
They are pumping med,,
I haven’t seen those basket type pots here in AUS,
It gives me an idea to drill a heap of holes around one of my pots this year to try it 🍻
@Shooey, my biggest 25 gal basket cost around 7 AUD.
It is mainly used to carry farm produce.
At first, I was thinking about drilling holes at bottom of some laundry baskets. But it is much cheaper to buy produce baskets from farm supply shop.
My thing is growing on the cheap. 😀😀😀😀😀
@GYOweed, it's sea purslane. Root supposed to give beneficial hormone and host micorrhizae. It is useful when I transfer to bigger pot. Sucks up excess fertilizers.
This sea purslane plant actually growing along the beach. I actually plugged them out at high tide when they were fully under sea water.
Logic is not fully clear but weeds grow better with them especially during vegging cycle. After a while, weed root overtakes the pot and sea purslane won't grow that well.
I recycle the purslane as a way to keep microbe community going in my soil.