Outdoor trees

ILikeCheezzz Quite an unremarkable week, growth was slow - as expected - while roots were finding their way through the soil. Near the end of the week I noticed two plants bending over slightly. I've been correcting this by bending the stem back every now and then; this lead to those stems thickening up significantly compared to the other plants! Makes sense as that kind of stress is similar to airflow, and we know that increases stem strength too. The plant with the thickest stem (which is the one i bent more often) has started to grow significantly faster, but that's a few days after i was supposed to upload this diary, so I'll report more on that next week ;) No pics, but i finished prepping the soil outdoors and I can see some white clover coming through! If I hadn't mentioned yet, im planning on moving the ladies outdoors in about a month from now, probably just under. I'm hoping growth speeds up more the coming week, and hopefully I can top end of the week (I know, very optimistic). And happy late 4/20 everyone!

ILikeCheezzz Good growth this week. Thinking i could top end of this week was obviously too optimistic, but i will be able to this week. The plant with the stronger stem is still the most vigorous one, definitely keeping her. The others are doing fantastic too tho, I can see the beginnings of the 4th node already. The white clover is coming through, it will have about a month time to grow till i’ll chop most of it. I’ll leave some near the edges of the plots. Added some old pics of the bamboo I’ll be using to support the plants outdoors. Should be plenty long haha. Excited for the coming week! Growth is speeding up and they’ll soon get their first training.

ILikeCheezzz Growth sped up! Didn’t take a clear pic of the plants before topping but they were getting nice and bushy already. Yesterday I transplanted them, the roots were looking very healthy. I let them recover overnight and topped them at the third node the day after because I didn’t see any signs of stress. I’ll be keeping an eye on them to see how each of the 4 respond to the stress, which might help decide which 3 plants stay, and which one gets tossed. We had a hot hot week here, so I’m getting real excited to put them outdoors, few more weeks. Also starting some more seeds later this week so there will be two new diaries up soon. Cheers!