July 6: peak growing season now and I expect she’ll be growing about an inch per day here for the next couple of weeks. Weather should be perfect and just have to dodge the thunderstorms. Started another lazy compost tea.
Cheers to all growers. 👍
July 7: mild defoliation done over this last week to let light in to the growth tips. Water only as a light flush.
July 8: definitely fast growth and looking very dark green but hopefully not too much N. Watered in evening with lazy compost tea.
This lazy compost tea is just a 5 gallon (20 L pail) with couple handfuls of mature compost, some molasses, some humic acids and kelp, Dr Bronners peppermint soap as a surfactant (or wetting agent) and vinegar to get pH near 7. Then it’s all left in the shade for about 24-48 hours with the occasional stir.
Alternately you could just use Recharge which is made from bacteria, molasses and humic acids. Super easy either way.
July 10: added a couple handfuls of malted barley as a top dressing. This is a top organic growing tip from Clackamas Coot. Just get some from a local brew shop which should have a variety of malted grains. Cheap stuff is fine. I’ll add some Power Bloom next week but I figured the barley is good enough for now.
Now 25 inches so she grew 6 inches in 4 days. Good times. Good times.