ILGM Big Bud Outdoors

Last week, it rained all week. This week, it was just hot. It gets sticky in Dixie. Average temps this week were 90 F, with relative humidity 55%. After their haircuts last week, the girls continued bushing out, so this week we continued the grooming: I topped the traditional manifold girl and stripped her pretty bare below the top, and then did similar things with the three quadrifolds. Runt, the wildling, is now 24" and too big for my deck - it was time to find her a new home. So I found a spot at the edge of my forest, where I can see her from my deck - she'll get plenty of direct afternoon light, shaded morning light and she should have good balance between moisture from the forest and the soil I added to keep her feet dry. I dig a three foot hole, filled the bottom foot with compost and veggie clippings, and then repotted her directly into the ground. Unfortunately, she didn't have near the root ball I was expecting, and I basically tore the bottom half of her roots transplanting her :( Poor girl, has a tough start to life, finally starts flourishing, and then I go screw it up for her. She's turned out to be a resilkient thing, I think she'll recover. The four girls remaining on the deck I'll keep tying down and keeping them low-ish until they get a better root structure - don't want that to happen again.