No pictures, but just a quick update.
I just topped C'99 at the newest node. It still looks a little rough - definitely putting it through its paces. But if the breeder info is worth a damn then it is supposed to be a resilient strain.
Afgooey is still recuperating, but I can see the beginnings of two new branches poking out. So ya, all progress is good. Even if its slow. I think it could even take another topping down the line. Could be a really good producer.
I hit the soil with a kelp/fish drench:
1000ml of water
2 teaspoons of kelp meal
1 teaspoon fish hydrolysate
1.5 teaspoon molasses
Just mix all the ingredients (I'm using a graduated spray bottle), shake it up, and let it sit. Once it sits 10 minutes I shake it up again and apply it - mash and all. I should be brewing with an air tone at the very least. I wanted to wait one more week before I hit the plants with a full blown tea (24hr. min brew)...you know, make sure they were really established.
Its incredibly important that plants receive water with good amounts of dissolved oxygen. After CoOrg and Dr. Cannabi left no one else here put much thought into how they were brewing their teas. Vortex type brewers typically help to dissolve much more oxygen into water than an airstone. The bubbles from an airstone do not oxygenate the water, but instead its happening where the bubbles rupture the surface. Vortex brewers are alot more efficient at doing that without the need for an air stone. I got some solid advice from a friend who touts even just plain watering and foliar with highly oxygenated water can improve a plants performance...so that's become a project for the near future though...
I just split it between the two plants, doing short 2-3 second pours until the soil was drenched. The thinking with this drench is that we create a good baseline of beneficial nutrients with the kelp meal, put a little more phosphorous into the soil in a form that can be mobilized by microbes, and provide food for the hyphae community I am trying to cultivate.
A note on Phosphorous in the soil:
Soil P is found in different pools, such as organic and mineral P (Fig.1). It is important to emphasize that 20 to 80% of P in soils is found in the organic form, of which phytic acid (inositol hexaphosphate) is usually a major component (Richardson, 1994). The remainder is found in the inorganic fraction containing 170 mineral forms of P (Holford, 1997). Soil microbes release immobile forms of P to the soil solution and are also responsible for the immobilization of P. The low availability of P in the bulk soil limits plant uptake. More soluble minerals such as K move through the soil via bulk flow and diffusion, but P is moved mainly by diffusion. Since the rate of diffusion of P is slow (10−12 to 10−15 m2s−1), high plant uptake rates create a zone around the root that is depleted of P.
Plant root geometry and morphology are important for maximizing P uptake, because root systems that have higher ratios of surface area to volume will more effectively explore a larger volume of soil (Lynch, 1995). For this reason mycorrhizae are also important for plant P acquisition, since fungal hyphae greatly increase the volume of soil that plant roots explore (Smith and Read, 1997). In certain plant species, root clusters (proteoid roots) are formed in response to P limitations. These specialized roots exude high amounts of organic acids (up to 23% of net photosynthesis), which acidify the soil and chelate metal ions around the roots, resulting in the mobilization of P and some micronutrients (Marschner, 1995).
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The bit about cultivating hyphae might shed more light on what I am trying to do here. I'm going to be amending with more inoculant in the future. I'm kicking myself that I didn't do it tonight. I applied as much of the kelp mash from the Tea as possible, then top dressed with extra soil mix. It would have been good to get the inoculant in there between the new layer of soil, but I'll just have to coordinate with another topdress.
That's about it for tonight.
I'm wicked burnt out right now on some very dank Sour D from a Denver. Its funny, I was all down about that dirt bud I was telling you all about...a literally 2 nights later I am surprised with some very smelly heady stuff.
Things could be worse.
I'd say goodnight to CC, but he's already asleep. 
