Thai Stick It to Me

June 28: Week four will be the second week in the grow bags. Lot of new growth evident. They're doing well in spite of my rapid transplants ahead of schedule, heat, wind and nutrient burn from professional market gardening soil used to produce vegetables. They look good but the soil is a bit too rich for such tender young seedlings. Clipped off first leaves on each plant because I want them to grow more roots and foliage to replace them. Once we're through this week, we've made it a month and the early nursery stage is done. I'll go to weekly updates after that unless something happens. June 29: Leaving them alone to recover. Growth tips are really putting some veg out at present. If I can keep the burn away and let them sit, they're shaping up well. June 30: Looking good for the most part, TS1 is a little droopy from the rich soil, but seems to be continuing to grow at a good rate. The others are fine. TS5 is picking up speed. July 2: All five plants are vigorous and getting bushier. Had a little rain today. They look a little paler color to me and vertical growth seems slower. TS5 is finally starting to grow faster. July 3: Got a quarter inch of rain today while we were in town. Lot of water for such small plants. Have to keep an eye out for overwatering symptoms. Just gave them a good watering a couple days ago. July 4: Definitely slowed down vertical growth but still bushing out. Paler, too. Overwatered from the rainstorm I think. Made a solution of two tablespoons vinegar in a gallon of water and sprayed around the bases just a little to get the pH lower so nutrients are more available. Re-potted them into gallon nursery pots. Not much bigger than the bags but had room for three extra inches of dry soil in the bottom to draw some extra water off. Also used a really big, fat screwdriver to punch eight holes down through the soil in each pot from top to bottom to get them dried quicker and make oxygen available. They're still perky with good spring and seem vigorous. Lost some growth and that sucks. They're at about 3.5 inches but I wanted them at least to 4 inches this week. TS2 has branches getting ready.