Thai Stick It to Me

July 5: Started off this week with plants overwatered from the rain, on the edge of nutrient burn from rich soil. It's tough to lose some growing time but keeping at it. I think they'll be better once they've dried some and the nutrient burn will get better as they get bigger. July 6: TS3 looked really bad from heat and light stress on top of the overwatering and nutrient burn. Looked terrible, faded almost to yellow, burned tips, brown and bronze areas, stressed edges. LOL I'm not looking like a hotshot grower right now. Potted this one into a slightly smaller container. I was honestly surprised. A couple roots have reached the bottom of a gallon pot. I rearranged them into a smaller pot on top of slightly damp, milder soil and crumbled the dirt around the root ball to get more oxygen in there and dry it some. I put TS3 in the shade for the rest of the day to get a break from the hardcore high altitude Arizona sun, heat and light. Looking much better. The rest are starting to green back up a little. Pictures tomorrow. July 7: Every plant looks better now, starting to get more green, still a little pale. TS3 spent the day in the shade again and is also starting to get more green. The burn from nutrients and light is still bad, but that's not fixable. I'll trim those leaves off once more new foliage comes in. She still looks terrible, but less terrible than before. These are very strong genetics. None of the five plants has even wilted through all of this abuse. They've all kept their vigor and excellent spring. This is the first time I've grown a landrace strain since back in the early 90s and back then we didn't know as much about achieving high levels of nutrition in organic soil. This soil is way hotter than what we were using back in the day for outdoor grows. The other thing I should have thought of is that landrace strains are basically weeds and probably don't need high nutrient levels and may not even be able to make full use of them. At least things seem to be getting better for now. July 8: TS3 improved so much that I gave every plant a break in the shade for today. They're all greener and look better. Trimmed the worst leaves to keep the energy in new growth. I think they're finally going the right direction again. Lost probably a week of growing time, could amount to a couple of feet or more at the other end with pure sativa. July 11: End of Week 5. They're all much greener. I believe my pH meter has a problem. The soil finally dried well. I punched some holes down through the soil with a big screwdriver to help dry and oxygenate them. Once they got dry and it was time to water, I used vinegar at the rate of 2 tablespoons per gallon of water to lower pH. They've all been getting some time in the shade each day and the burned foliage has been trimmed. TS5 is absolutely tiny. All are small and behind the curve, but they are greener now and growth has finally been kickstarted. I'm buying a new pH meter and having the old one recalibrated.