I pulled apart an ugly, mutant clone today & realized “Oh yeah! I forgot I rooted them in perlite & transplanted to peat/perlite”
When taking apart a smart-pot a few years ago, similar thing; Discovered a 2 gallon center of coco that was bone-dry but the other 20 gallons of mixed soil/perlite was moist.
The plants definitely need to adjust. They are moving from an environment where raw nutriments surround them to a completely different, more diverse ecosystem. Like moving a child from baby food to adult food but more so.
Back 3 are the Grand daddy purp. I manhandled #2 and had to use a little bamboo skewer for a stake. Front are the 2 fems that will be in 10 gallon pots. OG Kush and practice plant Bruce Banger
4 fems, no transplant will go in the ground in the next day or so. Starting on the left Blue Dream (I still haven’t chopped the twin off, you can see it on the bottom) , Blue Gelato 41, Skunk 1 and Cheese
Plants seem to be adjusting nicely to the transplants. They were perky today. Spent the day with my sweetie. Nothing but watering happened in the garden today. If it’s not windy tmw, I’ll plant the 4 fems and get the straw mulch down. It was a lazy day
I’m exhausted! Of course the man and I waited until the hottest part of the day to start digging up the veggie patch. Anyway, The 4 fem plants are in the ground now. Layed down the straw mulch, except I was supposed to get a compressed box of straw like I received last time and they stuffed a bunch of fluffed up crap in my box, so now I have to spend 60 more damn dollars buying another box of straw. I’m very disappointed in Build a Soil. Last year, the same box covered the entire veggie patch plus… The straw is cheap, but they charge like 40 bucks to ship it. I was too dirty, tired and itchy from the straw to take pics. I also completed the liquid fish drench per the soil test. 3 weeks I switch back to cal/mag. Well, at least I feel accomplished as well as half-dead. lol
Corona is far! We don’t have stuff like that here in the city, unfortunately @MidwestMover just no market for it. The gas it would cost me to drive and pick something like that up would cost as much as paying for shipping. I have friends on here who live in the country paying like 2 bucks for bales full. It’s a bummer.
Keep in mind @WMoon518 you are 36 miles inland from me. You are much closer to places like that.
Every other order I’ve ever gotten from them was within 3 days max. It took like a month to get this straw. They may be partially closed due to the rona. I honestly don’t know wtf is up with them right now.
For real though!! Not trying to be debbie downer, but the struggle is real in Los Angeles for farmers or any kind of farm supplies. I can’t even get cattle panels. They do sell these tiny bales of halloween or decorative straw for 13 bucks a piece. 1 of them would cover a cubic yard, maybe. lol