Stunger's Organic Balcony: Growing Daughters Of Mulanje: Watering Via Root Aeration Chambers

InTheShed said:
The plants are looking terrific even with a few yellow leaves in the dark underreaches, but I wish you luck with the coming weather and the top dress!
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Thanks Shed!
InTheShed said:
Australia again? Tell them to stop sending you their crap.
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It's a historic pattern, I don't think they're gonna change their ways!
 
InTheShed said:
Australia again? Tell them to stop sending you their crap.
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Turns out we ordered a few extra extreme weather events to meet forecasting requirements provided by the climate change hypothesis committee, overseen by our political elite.

Well the company that produces those threw in a few extras and if memory serves the Greens in NZ said they could make use of the extra above our requirements. So far the flooding has been a particularly effective product, quite the impact was felt! Much discussion was had on the wireless!

Would be un-neighbourly to hold out, Trans-tasman relations are important.

In light of your displeasure I searched for an address to send a letter, couldnt locate but the government department you need is

The Interior Ministers Office - Propaganda and Extremist Dept for Environment.

Good luck.
 
Stunger said:
Every year it happens where I neglect top dressing because the plants are looking good and I don't want to tip them over the wrong way, and then they yellow. As a reminder,next grow I will look to top dress around 3.5months!
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After 4.5 months of veg (without any feeding?), some yellowing is expected in early flowering. Imho your plants are telling you they're hungry. I like to top dress with a 3-9-4 mixture at the start of flowering. I think you're right @Stunger that they need some nitrogen.
 
Emeraldo said:
After 4.5 months of veg (without any feeding?), some yellowing is expected in early flowering. Imho your plants are telling you they're hungry. I like to top dress with a 3-9-4 mixture at the start of flowering. I think you're right @Stunger that they need some nitrogen.
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Thanks Emeraldo, the dry fert that I amended with in the 'off season' is supposed to be top-dressed every 2-3 weeks at half a cup per 20L.

I was more comfortable with seeing for myself in case it turned out to be too much, if wrong I'd rather give too little. I have already given a single half cup dry fert top dress with also Neem and Kelp a while back.

Anyway, that incoming rain is going to start hitting us in about 90 minutes I guess, and that should help give a lovely watering in of this morning's dry fert top dress!
 
Good luck with keeping your girls safe.

And my thoughts and prayers go out to you, your countrymen, and the sheep.

If it turns to shit, we will whip the hat around I promise.

#Anzacs

🇦🇺♥️🇳🇿
 
Trala said:
Good luck with keeping your girls safe.

And my thoughts and prayers go out to you, your countrymen, and the sheep.

If it turns to shit, we will whip the hat around I promise.

#Anzacs

🇦🇺♥️🇳🇿
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Thanks Tra! We should be fine.

They say a butterfly flapping its wings in the Amazon can change the weather half a world away. Because this cyclone seems to be coming down the Aussie coast I did wonder if perhaps a few banana benders in Queensland were over enthusiastically waving their sunhat corks to shoo the flies away and that caused it all. Yeah probably not likely, just a cannabis influenced imagination at work!
Emeraldo said:
I second @Trala's emotion there! Hold on to your rainhat @Stunger ! Strange days have found us...
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Thanks Emeraldo! Yes, strange days indeed.
 
Stunger said:
But let me be clear here, I am bumbling, but hopefully cautiously bumbling!
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My brother! :)
They look so good today! Hold em down! 🍃
 
Thanks Otter! Should be fine hopefully.
 
Stunger said:
Thanks Tra! We should be fine.

They say a butterfly flapping its wings in the Amazon can change the weather half a world away. Because this cyclone seems to be coming down the Aussie coast I did wonder if perhaps a few banana benders in Queensland were over enthusiastically waving their sunhat corks to shoo the flies away and that caused it all. Yeah probably not likely, just a cannabis influenced imagination at work!
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If it only brings good rain and a bit of wind, consider it my gift to you.

(But if it brings havoc and destruction totes blame Deeve ;))
 
Trala said:
If it only brings good rain and a bit of wind, consider it my gift to you.

(But if it brings havoc and destruction totes blame Deeve ;))
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Thanks for caring Tra! :)
 
Trala said:
Good morning Stung :)

How did you fair?
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Good morning Tra, we are all good, thanks. Last night the winds were so strong, really buffeting and shrieking at the house, I thought the windows might break, but so far this morning it has quietened down a lot, for now.

While the media like to dramatise things, and they are warning us that the worst is yet to come. As the ex cyclone goes out of tropical waters it becomes a 'tropical low', and due to the cooler air temperatures the air pressure drops and the intensity increases. They are suggesting the dropping of air pressure over us could be the lowest ever recorded for our region, so we'll see..
But importantly my plants are looking fine! :ganjamon:
 
Emeraldo said:
Glad to see you've got your priorities straight!
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Haha, it's more a case of having no choice. It would be gutting to lose them from damage of any kind. So far they're doing fine because the brunt of the weather is not hitting them directly, and if it does I can only hope that their relative lowness and the glass sides of the balcony will give them enough protection to come thru it.

I have to say, it is sounding very rough out there tonight, and it will deteriorate further for a few more hours as this ex-cyclone gets closer. But with a bit of luck, by midday tomorrow it'll be rapidly leaving us, and none too soon either.
 
Stunger said:
Haha, it's more a case of having no choice. It would be gutting to lose them from damage of any kind. So far they're doing fine because the brunt of the weather is not hitting them directly, and if it does I can only hope that their relative lowness and the glass sides of the balcony will give them enough protection to come thru it.

I have to say, it is sounding very rough out there tonight, and it will deteriorate further for a few more hours as this ex-cyclone gets closer. But with a bit of luck, by midday tomorrow it'll be rapidly leaving us, and none too soon either.
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Sounds bad @Stunger Let's hope they make it though the storm. It would be devastating to have them damaged. Crossing my fingers! Be well
 
Emeraldo said:
Sounds bad @Stunger Let's hope they make it though the storm. It would be devastating to have them damaged. Crossing my fingers! Be well
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I am sure they will ok, and if they're not then hopefully they'll still have a good base to build on in the time that remains of the outdoor season. It is gusting up to 130kph and really hosing down currently, but if any plant can take a direct hit I'd say this one would do better than most, fingers crossed of course. Cheers.
 
Stunger said:
Haha, it's more a case of having no choice. It would be gutting to lose them from damage of any kind. So far they're doing fine because the brunt of the weather is not hitting them directly, and if it does I can only hope that their relative lowness and the glass sides of the balcony will give them enough protection to come thru it.

I have to say, it is sounding very rough out there tonight, and it will deteriorate further for a few more hours as this ex-cyclone gets closer. But with a bit of luck, by midday tomorrow it'll be rapidly leaving us, and none too soon either.
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Nothing is scarier than a Tropical Storm 🌀, I went through several living in Florida. Good luck, hunker down and ride it out is all you can do. CL🍀
 
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