Afghan and other Experiments Downunder

[JackHerer]

Trifid looks good how big is the space you want to use her as a hedge for

[sarah louise]

Thanks smokenss and hydro. JH, she has plenty of room to grow into, but unfortunately the shed is producing to much shade for her to be happy about growing into it. I have untied most of the horizontal length of the trunk and am going to give her a couple of days free before guiding the growth off to the side and into better sunshine.

As for the sprouts, many be I should have titled this ~ growing cannabis with a cognitive deficit.

I've recently needed to increase the amount of narcotic and antipsychotic meds I'm using and the short term results are confusion, forgetfulness, sedation etc. thankfully my head is beginning to clear and my seedlings should suffer less as a result.

I've made more mistakes in the last week than I have made in the last 10 years, my own stupidity stuns me :wtf4:

The very next morning after posting this thread, I put my sprouts outside and completely forgot about them... so sun crisp sprouts. If that wasn't bad enough, I realised over the next few days that I had used the wrong sort of coir fibre in my seed raising mix.

4 sprouts overcame the early sunburn only to have the 2nd set of leaves develop bizarre twists as they emerged. Yep the coir fibre i used in the seed raising mix was pre fertilised. Damn.

Flushed the poor little mites and realised there was something weird was happening to the drainage. Tried to slide one out of the pot to see what was happening and the mix disintegrated in my hand leaving me with a bare rooted seedling and half a handful of loose sand. The coir again, ground too fine and separated from the sand when i flushed, then pooled at the bottom of the pots preventing drainage.

So 4 little Afghan sprouts have now been removed from their failed seedling mix and been potted on in a modified propriety organic mix, dosed lightly with seaweed extract, and are slowly recovering. The fifth is still in the nursery in critical condition.

The bondage pots and other random sprouts seem to be doing ok despite my 'out to lunch' brain. I'll put some pics tomorrow, because now I have to go to bed :hippy:

[Shovelhandle]

Don't get too close to the Triffid, Sarah Louise! Wonderful grow though.

Seaweed and fish emulsions have been my staple nutes for 35 years. They're the best.

Shov

[sarah louise]

Thanks Shov,

Been slack so no pics yet, I knew there had to be at least sci fi reader here. Roots still seem attached to the soil, so I'd say she's dormant. I'm keeping her on a short chain just in case.

We have a problem with introduced carp messing up the inland waterways, so I always buy my fish emulsion under the "Charlie Carp" brand name (made from genuine feral European carp).

[sarah louise]

A couple of snaps from today after I finished tying her down again. Instead of growing in a northerly direction and into the shade, now she is facing east and bathed in sunshine once again.

It actually rained on the weekend, immediately after I had watered the garden on Saturday night of course. Shouldn't complain, it has only rained twice this month. In November it didn't rain here at all.

[smokenss]

very cool , hats off :thumbsup:, how thick is the stem ?

[sarah louise]

thanks mate,

the lower two thirds of the stem is thicker than my thumb, the last third thins off pinkie size. The base is getting quite impressive. If my joints allow me that much movement tomorrow and I remember, I will take a pic of the base.

[JackHerer]

I can only fream of having plants like that in my back garden. Not only would I have the old bill banging the door down I would need to have traps to keep the whole housng estate out. :thumbsup:

[Jerry Garcia 2007]

Very, very, very impressive.

Nice to see it is almost summer somewhere. And dream for my next.

Can't wait to see her flower.

I am going to watch this one.

Great work Sara!!!

[sarah louise]

Thanks guys

She's eight months old already and I can expect another 4 months of growing weather. Good thing I am a patient sort of person.

Pics of the main stem and an update on the pot plants. :hippy: