Rza
Well-known member
Hi Everyone,
Really like the updated forum software and wanted to make a thread to track my outdoor grow for 2020. Got these beans at the last second from a close friend, just in time to get them sprouted and outside with some time to grow. There are 20 currently outside in somewhat prepped holes. I've only lost one so far to an animal munching it down to a nub. Soil used was a mix of homemade compost, soil from a raised bed I've had for a few years, azomite, silica stone, leaf mold, some 10-10-10 fertilizer pellets, and gypsum. I've watered with some 18-18-21 two times.
This is the spot:
And this is one of the better looking ones from last week:
Things are looking good so far, they are all pretty well established and are growing at a decent rate. Weather isn't too bad, had a dry spell for a bit but not anything like drought. Still have a good amount of time to get some size.
As usual I trimmed the main apical meristem in an attempt to get more main tops. I didn't just clip the whole top and let the second set of branches take over as 2 main tops, I try to get it so that I take ~80% of the top meristem and hope for 3 or 4 tops to get equal and all become tops. Just wanted to say that these strains didn't take to that very well. For most of them all I did was end up stunting growth, the next set of branches didn't gain apical dominance and take over, the top apical meristem just pushed through the cut and continued to grow normally, although a little mutilated. Maybe I didn't cut low enough when I trimmed them, but it does seem that these strains in particular didn't like this style of trimming and just brushed it off and kept going with just a single main top. I took off a lot of the lower branches, up to the 4th node or so from the soil.
Will see how it all pans out, glad to get my hands dirty this year and put some effort into it. Last few years have been really low effort with results that were also mediocre.
Really like the updated forum software and wanted to make a thread to track my outdoor grow for 2020. Got these beans at the last second from a close friend, just in time to get them sprouted and outside with some time to grow. There are 20 currently outside in somewhat prepped holes. I've only lost one so far to an animal munching it down to a nub. Soil used was a mix of homemade compost, soil from a raised bed I've had for a few years, azomite, silica stone, leaf mold, some 10-10-10 fertilizer pellets, and gypsum. I've watered with some 18-18-21 two times.
This is the spot:
And this is one of the better looking ones from last week:
Things are looking good so far, they are all pretty well established and are growing at a decent rate. Weather isn't too bad, had a dry spell for a bit but not anything like drought. Still have a good amount of time to get some size.
As usual I trimmed the main apical meristem in an attempt to get more main tops. I didn't just clip the whole top and let the second set of branches take over as 2 main tops, I try to get it so that I take ~80% of the top meristem and hope for 3 or 4 tops to get equal and all become tops. Just wanted to say that these strains didn't take to that very well. For most of them all I did was end up stunting growth, the next set of branches didn't gain apical dominance and take over, the top apical meristem just pushed through the cut and continued to grow normally, although a little mutilated. Maybe I didn't cut low enough when I trimmed them, but it does seem that these strains in particular didn't like this style of trimming and just brushed it off and kept going with just a single main top. I took off a lot of the lower branches, up to the 4th node or so from the soil.
Will see how it all pans out, glad to get my hands dirty this year and put some effort into it. Last few years have been really low effort with results that were also mediocre.