For the Tuesday update, I'd like to focus on the trials, tribulations, and (spoiler alert) recovery of
Chiquita Banana from
@Weed Seeds Express. They aren't sponsoring my grow but there were very agreeable about sending whichever beans I wanted as my contest winnings, so I thought I would give them a feature, being such an excellent
sponsor of the site.
As most of you know by now, CB started off like any other good bean, by germinating! This is day 1 on April 21st:
I planted it in a solo cup of used ProMix HP, and after 25 days (May15th) it was time to transplant:
That's where everything went wrong. Since I couldn't find any ProMix HP, I planted it in unknowingly shite soil with what turned out to be a pH of 7.6 out of the bag. Within 3 days it started downhill and looked like this:
Oof! I topped it on June 20th, and it continued to grow, but very slowly. Here is what it looked like on day 65 (June 24th) after another transplant, still using the shite soil:
I finally found the source of the problem after slurry testing the pH of the soil, and I also finally found a source for ProMix. On July 31st I knocked off as much of the soil as I could and transplanted
the (mostly) bare roots into a 7 gallon
GeoPot of ProMix HP:
Without changing the nute strength, two weeks later (in the most recent pics taken on August 13th), it looked like this:
The excellent genetics from
Weed Seeds Express were just waiting for me to get the hell out of the way.
I'll probably flip this and the Sour G this weekend so they will get some summer sun during flowering.
for following along.
). I don't consider myself a master grower or even a sense. Most of my grows suffer from at least one or two major issues. I can't always apply the knowledge I've gained to the way I grow, but I do try to share it with folks who might find it helpful. And some folks who don't as well. 
