(06-07-2023, 05:46 PM)Chiefsmom Wrote: So, not much going on, but it has now been a month, I believe, since we have had rain.
Farmers are freaking out. Can't blame them. everything in the fields is dying.
30% chance of rain this weekend, so fingers crossed!
Very weird for our state, this time of year.
Sick of dragging hoses!
I'm sorry you are experiencing drought like conditions. I reckon we must be getting your rain. As a matter of fact, we're getting it right now, and have been since 2 am this morning. We've had a slow, steady, soaking rain for the past 15 hours.
I just replaced some of my dead tobacco plants yesterday, so this raining-in is just what they needed. I've got 30 or 31 of them outside now, but 8 of those are in pots for experimentation to see if I can increase yield by pinching off buds and not allow them to flower... which should force the plant into more leaf production. I've got several hundred thousand seeds from last year's crop, so I can afford to experiment like that.
The winter's cannabis crop is about to give up the ghost now, and didn't produce much. what it did produce was pretty good stuff I'm told, but I'd say that altogether I only got maybe 3 grams per plant, and only had two females in the gang, so 6 grams or so total, which is kinda dismal from what I'm told. I planted 18 more seeds from that same stuff for a fall crop, figuring that I might get 6 plants total out of 18 seeds, but I actually wound up sprouting 10.... most of which died off of damp-off, and didn't make it. I had one single lonely seed from some White Rhino, so I planted it too, but so far it's not sprouted and it only has a few more days before I declare it dead. I planted 6 seeds from some kind of Burmese stuff that I'm told was pretty good, but only two of them popped, and the rest only have a few days to go before I declare them dead, too.
That's the problem with these silly assed plant count limits governments impose. You never know how many are going to be female, but generally only half of them will be. The winter's crop only had 1/3 females. So if they limit you to 4-6 plants, only half of them are going to be useful for pain management, and that's not enough to cover one person for an entire year, or even 6 months. It's like they're playing with us, just teasing us that we can grow our own pain relief! Bastards!
Peppermint is bolting, so is the catnip, basil, and rosemary. I'm trying to plan out a place to put them in the ground, and out of the pots they are currently in. The catnip in particular is already root-bound, so I've not got much time to get them in the ground. For some reason, the thyme is just sitting there, so I reckon I need to research it so see what it needs. A couple of the sage plants are bolting, and a couple are not - but I only need a couple, since sage has a long lifetime.
Tomatoes and corn and beans are moving right along, but the peppers are still not bolting, they're just kinda sitting there, too. I had planned on planting some potatoes in grow bags, but never got enough dirt to fill them, so it may be too late to start them now for this year. The dirt here is too much clay for potatoes or any other tuber crop, so it has to be the bags and foreign dirt.
And so it goes.
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