Well, I'm thinking placing a garbage bag over the soil in your pot, mounded a bit so to discourage drips and then take it off after the rain stops. Don't see the humidity angle as long as you don't leave it there once the sun comes out.
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Sorry Azi. Your original suggestion sounded like you meant to cover the plant. I did not see the angle you intended regarding the droughting aspect and covering the soil. That is why I was suggesting against using the bag. Again, sorry.Well, I'm thinking placing a garbage bag over the soil in your pot, mounded a bit so to discourage drips and then take it off after the rain stops. Don't see the humidity angle as long as you don't leave it there once the sun comes out.
It is really gooey.When I cut the 2 buds with pruning scissors, the non droughted bud cut through like nothing, but the droughted bud was like cutting thru fudge. I reckon @DonkeyDick would love squishing this in a rosin press.That test bud is looking gooey!!! How amazing would those in a rosin press?! MmmMmmmMmmm
I was also thinking you meant to cover the whole plant, but now I see it as a means to help reduce the rain watering the soil of the plants. With the Mango Sherbert, she has already reached her survival response and I don't intend to further droughting her, just waiting for another 10 days or so then I'll chop her.Well, I'm thinking placing a garbage bag over the soil in your pot, mounded a bit so to discourage drips and then take it off after the rain stops. Don't see the humidity angle as long as you don't leave it there once the sun comes out.
That's a nice thought GDB, but the wind and rain on other side of the doors can be horizontal with the force of it against the doors. The wife would not be happy if I tried to open it in such weather.I think he should just get a big umbrella (maybe two) and set it by the door. When the storms come, he just needs to go out on the balcony and hold the umbrella over the plants until the storm passes. Easy.
Only a donkey would argue against that kind of wisdom.I reckon @DonkeyDick would love squishing this in a rosin press.
"If there is more rain in the forecast, could you drape a garbage bag or something over the pot to keep the water out?"Sorry Azi. Your original suggestion sounded like you meant to cover the plant. I did not see the angle you intended regarding the droughting aspect and covering the soil. That is why I was suggesting against using the bag. Again, sorry.
Only if he goes outside for a year or two. And returns with flowers.Wow, MS looks great!!!
The Mrs won't let you bring them inside for a night or two?
That's when you break out the leaf blower!It was in between the buds where the water can and will pool up and cause the rot to set it without enough wind.
As long as it isn't 10 days of straight rain, as then you never get a dry chance to use it. Luckily on the balcony, normally there isn't a shortage of wind when it rains.That's when you break out the leaf blower!
not that much has fallen
On the flowering day count I'd have check, I've not been counting. The Mango Sherbert is now pretty crusty compared to the more pliable papery leaves of the other two.Stunger, how many weeks has Mango S been in flower now? What's the day count? (I somehow lost track of that! ). Will the droughting of your tropical sativas be a lighter version of droughting than you performed on the Mango S? Will a 10-day droughting achieve an adequate response? What's the plan?
I'm viewing the main measure of drought as simply observing wilting regardless of rainfall. My only previous droughting experience, was purely accidental. I even I tried to water that plant every day. But because of it's ceramic pot which was too small and would heat up, it wilted badly every hot sunny day. It's buds also had the same 'shellacked' look and feel, like they'd been coated in hairspray, like what I am seeing now in the Mango Sherbert and it's tactile feel. I think you just need to trigger that droughting response, how you do it, it doesn't really matter is my guess.You could easily measure rainfall. There are cheap devices, and even cheaper home hacks.
I still wonder if my more frequent generous waterings in early flowering could have added to it's stress. In hindsight I now view that as being excessive, and in future I will allow a full watering to drain off until the next day, that is probably far better for the pH nutrient drift too.Yeah, Mulanje. ...poor thing! It's not for nothing sativa growers and breeders warn to stick with low N levels, depending on the strain. I've read that ACE's Malawi likes low N levels, so watch out there Stunger. Crosses seem to vary on that: Purple Haze x Malawi apparently does not like high or even medium levels of N, but Super Malawi Haze (Malawi crossed with Nevil's Haze) is a hungry feeder and ACE recommends full nutrient levels all the way through. Haze crosses with even a 20% indica genetic background apparently are hungrier and tolerate fertilizer better than pure tropical sativas.
No, I accept my top dressing was probably the main cause of it's demise, but I also think my watering 2 or 3 times a day didn't help, that may have exacerbated things. At the time, I did that because the pots are so heavily drilled out that the plant could be wilting again a few hours after the first watering, so that I tried helping them with a 2nd and on some really hot days a third watering. But in hindsight it wouldn't have killed it if was watered in the morning and wilted in the afternoon, if anything it'd help it 'resinate' more.Ah, so you're thinking maybe Mulanje's demise was brought on by overwatering?
Duuuude! That's such a great idea. I have a little hand held blower for around the tools shed/wood working area. That would be perfect to get in between the flower buds. Thanks.That's when you break out the leaf blower!