Auto Bubblegum - Organic Outdoor

**Please note that I sometimes share pics and comments from my concurrent diaries** ----------------------------------- The girls took a walk outside this week, and decided to stay. It was overcast and a bit cooler, so it was a great time to transplant. I hardened them off over about 2 days, giving them morning sun and bringing them back indoors in the afternoon when it gets hotter. When I transplanted, I again added mycorrhizae in the planting hole and watered with trichoderma fungus. I'm growing in used organic living soil so I'm trying to innoculate all the medium I use - especially in these early stages. With the intense heat that kind of springs out at you here, I'm going to feed a few times along the grow with silicon plus, a product that helps prevent environmental stress and helps recovery if it happens. This is a great product for outdoor growers, because together with trichoderma, it can help against stuff like powdery mildew as well. Gotta fight that one proactively! If you're feeding with a silicon product, it helps to add that to your water first, then your other nutrients. If you add all the nutes first, they coagulate and make it difficult to stir together. Gave them their first feeds, using Biobizz again alongside other organic nutrients. Feeding microbes once a week. Great to see that the weird leaf warping/curling only affected the first leaves of the Glue Gelato and Daiquiri Lime. They are good to go! I planted some red clover for a living mulch. Clover is also nitrogen fixing to an extent, but I believe that is only truly beneficial when the plant is decomposing. Also - it takes available nitrogen from the soil if it is present first, before adding it back in - so I wouldn't rely on these as a nitrogen solution as companion plants. They're pretty and they will prevent my soil surface from drying out, that's my main reasons. They will however probably benefit the next grow, since the dead clover will be worked back into the soil adding some organic matter - like a green manure. For the chilli heads, I've had some great harvests on some phenomenal peppers (see images for names of varieties) . My garden is a colourful, fiery playground right now! 🔥🔥🔥🔥