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[gorilla ganja]

Removing leaves can help to control height if done properly. Especially in early growth stages. But your plant's look great so keep doing what your doing.

Peace GG

 

[deepwaterdude]

Whew, sir orfeas, she's a thai beaut! I didn't look at the strain and I could easily scroll up, but it looks like you got one on the extreme edge of the spectrum, very nice! Looks very much like my purple thai GT, maybe even thinner leaves than mine in veg. What a babe!

AS for waters, similar here; mountain snowmelt running into the Rio Grande, ball-shriveling cold, whereas 95 air temps I've been often to the heel of Italy, and on the Greek side those waters will clean your silverware they're so full of minerals. Can't hardly even dive with the salt content. Lucky dude you are!

 

[dubi]

Tah, mate!

P.S. dubi, what have you to say about the pheno?

It's a VERY Hmong/Meao Thai influenced pheno It will be a late flowering plant, not very high yielding, feed her softly/moderately, she should provide an all in the head super electric effect.

Have a great start of summer!

 

[orfeas]

Removing leaves can help to control height if done properly. Especially in early growth stages. But your plant's look great so keep doing what your doing.

Peace GG

Thank you GG! I always remove lower fan leaves and small branches since they willl never get enough sunlight...

Whew, sir orfeas, she's a thai beaut! I didn't look at the strain and I could easily scroll up, but it looks like you got one on the extreme edge of the spectrum, very nice! Looks very much like my purple thai GT, maybe even thinner leaves than mine in veg. What a babe!

AS for waters, similar here; mountain snowmelt running into the Rio Grande, ball-shriveling cold, whereas 95 air temps I've been often to the heel of Italy, and on the Greek side those waters will clean your silverware they're so full of minerals. Can't hardly even dive with the salt content. Lucky dude you are!

She's my fav among the litter, simply outstanding...not a usual pheno to encounter...yet finishing properly entails so much doubt since late fall can be catastrophal...

You're damn right about them waters, I realise it whenever I dive with open eyes and they get fire red as if I smoked a huge spliff As for them temps, I once got such an intense revitalising feeling when I sat in a mountain river pond, ball-shriveling cold
Aye, I do feel blessed to have been born and live in this part of the world...this particular niche has been perpetually inhabited since Iron Age...

It's a VERY Hmong/Meao Thai influenced pheno It will be a late flowering plant, not very high yielding, feed her softly/moderately, she should provide an all in the head super electric effect.

Have a great start of summer!

Thank you for the input! Funny thing is I sprouted the bean out of sheer curiosity to see what them S1 seeds can produce and was planning to cull the seedling once I saw the outcome ... Now, how could anyone discard this beauty...not me, although I know she's big trouble alright...

Orfeas

 

[orfeas]

FIM!

FIM!

Well, the title usually refers to clipping off tops but alas not in my case
I'd mixed me own soil the way I've always done before I repotted JDL x KC. As I was filling the 35lt pot I got the impression that the perlite was somewhat too much and I decided to amend the mix...
I had this brilliantly imbecile idea to add a balanced granular 15-15-15 fertiliser having forgotten adding a couple of handfuls when initially mixing the batch...moroon me!
Now I am too embarassed to upload the pics I've taken...not that they would blemish my otherwise meagre growing reputation...it's just hurting to see the lovely lady in that kind of state...

To lighten the situation a bit, here are two veggie pics, the first depicting the infamous cucumbers I've been growing for our beloved north European creditors and the second one my favourite Cherokee Purple for me folks and friends...I don't owe them

Off now for a dive...

Orfeas

 

[baduy]

Ouch! sorry to hear that, happens to me all the time, those are joys the ones who use readymade mixes will never have the luck to experience. I assume you repotted her with a lighter mix and she will be ok again in a week.
Earlier on you talked about how you planned to fight against mold and mentioned Rosemary, nettle and horsegrass teas. This leaves me puzzled, could you please explain? Are you sure about rosemary, I never heard about that? And by horsegrass did you mean horsetail? I do use horsetail as prevention against mold but I don't even know what horsegrass is. Nettle I use for growth and stop using it late August never thought it was of some use against mold.

 

[orfeas]

Ouch! sorry to hear that, happens to me all the time, those are joys the ones who use readymade mixes will never have the luck to experience. I assume you repotted her with a lighter mix and she will be ok again in a week.
Earlier on you talked about how you planned to fight against mold and mentioned Rosemary, nettle and horsegrass teas. This leaves me puzzled, could you please explain? Are you sure about rosemary, I never heard about that? And by horsegrass did you mean horsetail? I do use horsetail as prevention against mold but I don't even know what horsegrass is. Nettle I use for growth and stop using it late August never thought it was of some use against mold.

Good day, baduy!

thank you for taking the time to read my older posts and thus giving me the chance to be more explicit about them aforementioned herbs...horsegrass was a slip of mind or typing fingers and that's the only one fighting mould. Rosemary is used as a pest repellent and since Salicylic acid is present in the tea then together with nettle that provides various nutrients they boost the overall health of plant making it more resistent to diseases and why not mould...

As for ZDL x KC, I dug it out of the pot, left her in a bucket full of plain water for 10 mins or so in an attempt to rinse the rootball and put her in the previous 5lt pot without any new soil...most of her foliage has been burnt with only a few new small shoots still remaining green...she doesn't look as if she's going to get over it...yet what the heck, she's one too many for my restricted "licence" every cloud has a silver lining, haven't they?

Orfeas

 

[baduy]

Ok now I see, thanks for clarifying
I never used rosemary as a repellant yet, I should try that so, any idea if it's of any use against metcalfa pruinosa? I'm trying everything against those ones, currently trying foliar of hot chili tea.
May the Aegean winds be dry and warm for you

 

[Guest]

any idea if it's of any use against metcalfa pruinosa? I'm trying everything against those ones, currently trying foliar of hot chili tea.
:

Try foliar spray with zeolite(specific kind of rock dust)

 

[Buddler]

Good day, baduy!

thank you for taking the time to read my older posts and thus giving me the chance to be more explicit about them aforementioned herbs...horsegrass was a slip of mind or typing fingers and that's the only one fighting mould. Rosemary is used as a pest repellent and since Salicylic acid is present in the tea then together with nettle that provides various nutrients they boost the overall health of plant making it more resistent to diseases and why not mould...

As for ZDL x KC, I dug it out of the pot, left her in a bucket full of plain water for 10 mins or so in an attempt to rinse the rootball and put her in the previous 5lt pot without any new soil...most of her foliage has been burnt with only a few new small shoots still remaining green...she doesn't look as if she's going to get over it...yet what the heck, she's one too many for my restricted "licence" every cloud has a silver lining, haven't they?

Orfeas

Nice coastline there ORF , what about taking a few slips off your baby trying to root them I ve screwed up more plants than I care to remember ..Good luck to you..

 

[orfeas]

Nice coastline there ORF , what about taking a few slips off your baby trying to root them I ve screwed up more plants than I care to remember ..Good luck to you..

Thanks, Buddler!
Unfortunately your advice isn't applicable for there's no tip left unburnt...might as well pop another bean, see what becomes of it...

Now no more whining about the loss...mercury's been hitting 105 for the last 3-4 days, but the thriving Panamala doesn't give a dime...she's got the brightest sunlight, she's got shade in early morning and late afternoon, as much well water as she fancies and she's rolling sweet...

Two more scorching days to go...but like I said before, cool waters undo the heat alright...

Orfeas

 

[herbgreen]

Yeap! It does the job alright!

Now my question is "To repot or not to repot?"
Were I sure the fan leaf yellowing is due to root restriction, I'd repot without a second thought. Yet, I've had the same yellowing before with Jamaldelica(same seed batch) and it had nothing to do with root restriction...thing is I'd like to keep her in that 5lt pot for as long as possible to keep her low...repotting her now will give me a heck of a space problem...speaking of space things have started getting tighter...

Orfeas

You may want to try a smart pot which is a cloth bag type pot or any bag style pot that breathes and they claim to "air prune" root systems....less root issues

 

[orfeas]

You may want to try a smart pot which is a cloth bag type pot or any bag style pot that breathes and they claim to "air prune" root systems....less root issues

Thanks, herbgreen!
I've heard about them bags but never come to use it for I grow in pots quite sporadically...mother Earth is my favourite...
might as well give them a try though and make a comparison...

Now to the plants and this is what used to be a trough(literally) where old calves munched away at their fodder totally unaware of what was to come the following day...but then so was Pessoa when saying "I know not what tomorrow will bring."...poor buggers...
Well, that was then...Now you can see a Karoulia IBL, an allegedly local cultivar, on the left and dubi's OE on the right...they've been growing "silently" so far with no mishap whatsoever...so far

Orfeas

P.S. Forgive my blurry photographs! My camera sympathises with me apple pies!

 

[Samuel Caldwell]

+1 on the fabric pots

I've used smartpots and geopots and IME they work quite well. Keep in mind that the fabric dries your soil faster than standard pots.

Airpots are a similar idea. I've never used then but you'll find good reviews around here if you search.

 

[konopenko]

Hey Orfeas are you often spittin on those cucumbers for northern Europeans
I miss Greek salat and souvlaki..

 

[orfeas]

+1 on the fabric pots

I've used smartpots and geopots and IME they work quite well. Keep in mind that the fabric dries your soil faster than standard pots.

Airpots are a similar idea. I've never used then but you'll find good reviews around here if you search.

Thank you, Sam!

Hey Orfeas are you often spittin on those cucumbers for northern Europeans
I miss Greek salat and souvlaki..

spitting depends on the intensity of schadenfreude I wanna get... been enjoying my tomato pepper cucumber rocket coreander portulaca showered by my own olive oil and feta cheese...

Now there seems to be something wrong with that plant, it's been there for couple of days now...it's this intense lime green colouration starting at the base of the blades and moving outwards...and there's also quite a lot of clawing with the lower leaves...the feeding I gave her last week might have been a tad too strong...just repotted it today into a ~30 lt pot...

Orfeas

 

[orfeas]

streching and spreading every which way, four foot six tall and wide she's side-branching hecticly throwing pistils all over...a vigorous dame all around...but alas there's more to it than meets the eye...stem rot is the name of the game...go figure... been welcome to mouldy depression...

orfeas

P.S. couldn't focus on the sore spot...quivering hand...

 

[orfeas]

had a good moan yesterday...today is another day, no more quivering hand but still failed to get the cam to focus on the spot...anyway you can still see the job of the scalpel...
gave her some aspirin to help up immunity and tomorrow I'll drench her with some fungicide ...

The zam in the 4th pic keeps me on the rebound...

orfeas

 

[ChaosCatalunya]

Have you tried peroxide Orfeas ? It works great cleaning out wounds in my dogs when they have been playing with the boars, use liberally, it burns all the bad stuff--- Good luck amigo

 

[Buddler]

Nice plants Orf .Last summer I had stem rot in my Malawi s same thing rain did it to mine I just cut it all out and she recovered nicely.B