~VEG ROOM~
A pleasant surprise awaited me, as most of my veg plants are recovering quickly from the wilty flu and starting to look like real plants again. Yay!
The leaves of the affected plants are still quite small and lower growth is a bit funky, but they look way better. The Mama Thai is still looking pretty rough, but she is also somewhat improved.
New baby Thai Stick is down by Mama's feet, maybe that will cheer her up and distract her from her flu. Get well soon Mama, so you can take care of me.
ขอหายไวไวไทยแม่!! ฉันรักคุณมากเลย!!
The three Malawis.
I topped them last week, reluctantly. Despite my dreams of growing nice untrained plants like Spitz's, I just couldn't see a way around it if I'm not going to be around full time to deal with tall plants, tweak lighting distance, etc. I'm going to have to go with what works for now, and scrog them. I don't know what these plants are capable of. They're already quite large and have big thick stems on them. I need the option of chaining them up to a scrog screen. Sorry Malawis.
The other reason for topping was to get them to grow some side branches for cloning, which they immediately did. I labelled the plants A, B, and C and took two cuttings of each.
If they root before their parent plants show sex I may put them into 12/12 to reveal the moms and dads. The curly looking cuttings in the very back are Mama Thai.