Weather all over the place the last week, high of 30c earlier, then highs of 15c and 15mm of rain overnight. Rain is welcome though, our whole area is heavily below average rain / drought this year.
Easy week, I keep shuffling up bud clips every week or 2 to help control height and even out cannopy. I'm letting her spill out the sides as much as possible to spread out her growth and open it up. I'll secure a trelis net maybe early / mid August once I know the stretch is over.
10g airpot is still struggling to push into full flower, stretch has subsided, but definitely not flowering as fast as last year when I used fabric pots. I gather she gets less of that "omg root bound" signal in these airpots then she does when she's maxed out fabric. All good though, just hate seeing her in such a long drawn out decision to flower haha.
The birds just love my top dress compost so much due to the epic number of bugs (worms, millipedes, etc) , more annoying then anything but they're constantly getting under the canopy removing mulch and pecking away at the feeder roots so I may toss down some bird netting.
Other then that she's absolutely beautiful, height is so much better this year, much more spread out, she really is beautiful.
Drip irrigation, silica, monster maxx and a weekly spray of LCPT after she dries up from this rain and that's a wrap for week 18.