Hello all.
I got to visit the remote Cosmic Lights today.
I haven't seen her in 15 days and she actually doesn't look all that different than when I last saw her. She may have gotten a little bit beefier, but her height remains about the same.
Fifteen Days Ago:
Today:
Not much difference to these old eyes.
But when I looked at her another way I could see she had put on a little weight:
LB tries to look busy when I'm there.
He actually found and picked a thrip from her while I was there. He said he thought he had gotten rid of them.
He's doing a fine job, IMO. He's dealing with the hand I dealt him and the plant is alive!
I took him some Safers insect soap to begin using. Before we had just be going with SNS 209. I also took him some BT spray for the caterpillars. (I saw a few munched leaves so they may be around already. If they're looking for some buds they've landed on the wrong plant!)
She's still not in flower and is still throwing single leaves.
So that's it.
She's still in "hold" mode. Hopefully, as some here have suggested, things will change come August.
Until then she continues to hide in plain site.
BTW, LB is really bummed about his garden this year. The record heat and lack of rain has taken its toll. He says he can't keep up with some many of his plants needing watering this year when in past years they were sustained, for the most part, by rain. That dead tree to the right of the our weed plant is one that he just planted about 3 months ago. He said it struggled mightily under the heat and eventually succumbed to it despite his best efforts to save it.
It was a sad story. It made me feel a pang of guilt because of all the attention I believe he's devoting to the CL.
But I quickly got over it.
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Thanks for looking in.
PEACE