Garden Update - Day 67

Hello Everyone,

Things have been coming along pretty good with the outdoor garden.

Some areas of the garden could be better, but overall I'm happy with how it's looking.

The tomatoes are showing impressive progress. Some of them look absolutely perfect and ripe.

The Cherokee tomato plant in the front that I grew from seed is looking very healthy and should start producing tomatoes soon. If all goes as expected, these tomatoes might be the best ones (flavour wise) in the entire garden.

This little bean plant from seed is doing its thing. Hopefully it will get a lot bigger and produce a lot of beans.

Along the back of the fence is a sad sight, and the part of this garden that isn't doing so great. Truth be told I don't even feel like doing anything with it, which is equally as sad but I just am not feeling it really. I kind of knew right away that I chose poor placement for the pepper plants, but since they aren't the super hot types that I like I won't lose any sleep over the failure.

And if this thing is a cucumber then I definitely need to work on my cucumber growing skills :D

So that is what is going on with the outdoor garden.

I'm really happy that the plants are doing good, but my excitement for the outdoor plants does not come close to the excitement with the indoor plants.

So let's have a look at some of them.

The Crack Mack cannabis plant is a monster, and only four more days are left in vegetative growth before I switch the light schedule to 12/12. I expect this plant will get much bigger during the initial stretch.

The photo above represents the plan. The arrows indicate the overall vision of projected growth.

During the stretch phase, which is when the plant is changing from vegetation to flowering is when I will gain the needed size to spread this plant out to absorb maximum luminosity for production.

I think establishing maximum spread to maximize lumen efficiency will be a challenge. If I do not establish a spread to comparable size to the light, efficiency will be lost, which equates to a loss in production, so fingers are crossed that this plant will stretch hard.

The height of the top net is not a sure thing yet because the stretch will dictate the needed height for the spread.

Still no roots after a week in water, but they are still looking good and I am rooting for them to root :)

Word on the streets is daughter aloe on the right is turning more heads then her mother lately. I think she has surpassed the size of her mother. In fact I think the mother aloe might need a little bit of nutrients or something, her color is a little dull and her growth is not very fast lately. Maybe it's because I've been eating her so much lately that she needs a little time to recover.

I decided to put the 4X4 tent back into use since I'll be flipping lights in the 4X8 soon.

These plants look rather happy in there.

I'm not sure why I ever mixed the Graptopetalum Sedums with the Ceropegia Woodii but they seem to enjoy one another's company, and also they look pretty together.

This tub is part of a greater vision. My goal was to allow the string of hearts to take over this container so that I can create mass clones from it. The plan is going great and it's been growing really good. The sedums struggle a bit in this big container but not in the smaller container where I cloned them from.

The Graptopetalum Sedums have been some of the touchiest succulents I've ever cared for. Not enough water they die, too much water they die, not enough light they die, and I've still not zeroed in the perfect pH for them, but they seem to like a 6.0 approximately.

Their current state is pretty happy! These Graptopetalum Sedums are a pretty specimen lately with a beautiful little blush from intense light exposure.

The baby aloes are happy as can be! Which one is your favorite of the three?

The bamboo has been making me work to achieve its green lushness. I think they look alright but could be better, I might be overexposing them with the light and am considering putting them on the floor of the tent so that their new foliage doesn't burn. I feel the foliage should be greener and this is likely a sign of too much light or an issue with the soil. I think they'll come around eventually.