Well, went out to the grow space a few days ago and after taking a look around, for some reason, even though I haven’t listened to Tupac in over 20 years, one of his songs popped into my head, with one minor substitution: “Ain’t nothin’ but a sausage party”.
Anyway, had a feeling I would have to cull at least 1, maybe 2 of the Hendrix Haze as they hadn’t been sexed yet, however, it ended up being 3 of them! That makes 1 female out of 6 plants, I think even when MLB was having pitchers bat, they still hit for a better average than that! Oh well, just kind of screwed me on spacing now, haha.
That curtain to the right of the bed is a blackout curtain, I always have veggie seedlings going in racks with LED lights at different times of the year and now, an auto growing on the other side under an HLG 100 Rspec so the blackout curtain helps when the other side of the room is on the 18/6 lighting schedule but the bed is on a 12/12 cycle.
Black Triangles looking good!
Hendrix Haze which was the most stretchy plant to begin with and I wasn’t a fan of its structure (of course it ends up being the sole female), looks crazy vining and I hope it doesn’t end up with spaghetti noodle limbs once they’re supporting some flowers.
Purple Pakistani Chitral, haven’t fed it once with amendments or even fish hydrolysate, only a weekly feeding of microbes. Evidently excess nitrogen can lead to bud rot so the half wine barrel was only minimally amended with a couple cups of amendment before the plant went in.
What do you think @minitiger since we were talking about this in your thread a month or so ago, looks like it’s starting to flower, not much stretch yet (maybe at all?) and columnar growth which is to be expected.
Russian bocking 14 comfrey patch, planted 8 different patches like this throughout the property around fruit trees. Looks like it’s about time to chop and drop around the fruit trees for the first time this year. This patch is probably at least a 3x3 foot swath.
Bachelor’s Button or Cornflower, bees really love the flowers and the birds come in later once the seeds start to form.
Cosmos (double click variety meaning they produce double blooms on one flower), bees like them and birds love the seeds too.
Giant Coral or Giant Salmon Zinnia (?), butterfly magnet as well as moths and bees.
Evening Colors or Autumn Beauty (?) Sunflower, bees love the pollen and the birds love the seed. I am sensing a pattern here, haha.
Opopeo Amaranth, first time growing it this year.
Bouquet Dill (variety) umbels to be used in pickle recipes. This variety can get 3-4 feet tall and is a host plant for Swallowtail butterfly caterpillars as well, along with parsley, carrot greens, and fennel among others.
California Poppies going nuts this year with some purple penstemon flowers nearby, bumble bees really love both of these.
Another CA native, mimulus or monkey flower, they come in a variety of colors, we also have some red ones we planted and some light orange to dark yellow that are growing wild on the property.
Well, I think that’s about it for now. Will show some veggie plants going forward as they start to produce more, just popped another round of summer squash (to be planted out in 3-4 weeks) to replace the 4 summer squash in the garden that were planted out in early April, we would have to eat at least 2 squash a day to keep up with what the plants are producing right now.
