Havok’s Unscientific Un-grow Blog
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These pics are from Friday, but I’m miles from home in Cypress Hills SK and bored, so…
This first fella I’m still convinced is two that got hoed together. The last is the fella from the last post; he seems to think I’ll be merciful.
This first fella I’m still convinced is two that got hoed together. The last is the fella from the last post; he seems to think I’ll be merciful.
I controlled my urge to euthanize the test subjects as they didn’t seem to be impacting the growth of my keeper plants -which, by the way have come and gone.
The test subjects still remain and have survived the first two frosts of the end of the growing season.
Worth mentioning: of the 40-something test subjects, which were comprised of Prelip, Little Dutch, Yellow Gold, and Symbol 4 -it appears that the 4 survivors were all Symbol 4. Perhaps the engineering of this strain contributed to its hardiness in some way. Since my experiment included a heavy hoeing, which removed many subjects, it could all be coincidence that I was left with these four Symbol 4.
(Never mind the weeds, I really dropped the ball on that this year…)
This fella grew up heavily shaded under a bushy Little Dutch and ended up a bit scraggly:
Whereas this one was in the most open space of them all, and didn’t grow much since the last post:
And the last two, a bit healthier than the others:
Despite going in the ground many weeks earlier than my keeper crop, the subjects never reached maturity. Even with my keepers flowering early due to a crap season, these fellas never budded or suckered.
The temperature was down to -6C this morning but we’re expecting to bounce back up to mid 20s in the coming days with overnights above freezing for a few days.
The test subjects still remain and have survived the first two frosts of the end of the growing season.
Worth mentioning: of the 40-something test subjects, which were comprised of Prelip, Little Dutch, Yellow Gold, and Symbol 4 -it appears that the 4 survivors were all Symbol 4. Perhaps the engineering of this strain contributed to its hardiness in some way. Since my experiment included a heavy hoeing, which removed many subjects, it could all be coincidence that I was left with these four Symbol 4.
(Never mind the weeds, I really dropped the ball on that this year…)
This fella grew up heavily shaded under a bushy Little Dutch and ended up a bit scraggly:
Whereas this one was in the most open space of them all, and didn’t grow much since the last post:
And the last two, a bit healthier than the others:
Despite going in the ground many weeks earlier than my keeper crop, the subjects never reached maturity. Even with my keepers flowering early due to a crap season, these fellas never budded or suckered.
The temperature was down to -6C this morning but we’re expecting to bounce back up to mid 20s in the coming days with overnights above freezing for a few days.
If there were any suspicion that these plants were immortal, rest assured that they have met their fate by way of hoe. I guess Christopher Lambert could make the argument that didn’t make them mortal… unlike the Highlander though, in my garden, “there can be only none” over the winter.
The fall frosts did some damage to the scraggly one. The two little ones faired well against the frosts but were not without their quandaries. And the bushier one sustained damage to enough leaves that I declared that I was done fucking around with them.
Of my good plants, as I reported elsewhere (somewhere, hither to, here there, or there there) that I planned to try sun curing some of each type, and, in which, despite of my cool, arid climate: the Symbol 4 sun cured almost entirely within a week, the Yellow Gold within 2 weeks (with the exception of 1 plant), and the Little Dutch Within 4 weeks. Don’t ask about the potted Prilep. We don’t talk about that around here.
The fall frosts did some damage to the scraggly one. The two little ones faired well against the frosts but were not without their quandaries. And the bushier one sustained damage to enough leaves that I declared that I was done fucking around with them.
Of my good plants, as I reported elsewhere (somewhere, hither to, here there, or there there) that I planned to try sun curing some of each type, and, in which, despite of my cool, arid climate: the Symbol 4 sun cured almost entirely within a week, the Yellow Gold within 2 weeks (with the exception of 1 plant), and the Little Dutch Within 4 weeks. Don’t ask about the potted Prilep. We don’t talk about that around here.
