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Update - a game of Musical chairs on the Balcony and unfortunately the Mulanje lost out
Greetings 420 enthusiasts!
It's been quite a week, my pride and joy the Mulanje completely rooted (Downunder vernacular) but thankfully the remaining 3 plants appear quite fine. Plus our whole family got Covid this past week, but we're pretty much all good now thankfully. I was wondering how I would cope at the thought of losing all my energy but didn't happen for me, just the headache, altho it did happen for my wife and daughter who got the aches and sore throats too.
For this update I will start with the surviving lineup!
Mango Sherbert
Honduras/Panama x Purple Honduras
Malawi/Ethiopian x Mulanje
Mulanje
Her demise is a real disappointment. I have thought back, and looked back over my pics, to try and get some understanding as to what went wrong. After losing her it would be really great to understand why, for future grows.
Post flush
I am pleased I tried this as I've never carried out a flush before, but ultimately it didn't help. The plant seemed to continue to collapse even more. Initially I kept it on the balcony, hoping that at least some of her growth would survive because she smelt lovely and gave a nice finger stickiness, it is quite gutting to lose her. Since I gave the flush we had some major downpours of rain that probably knocked her around even further.
But late afternoon today I noticed mites crawling all over her, so that was it, I didn't want her being a pest magnet for the other plants, she had to go. So I undid her ties and chopped her and threw her over the balcony.
Top dressing
Last year I didn't top dress until the first signs of lower yellowing showed, and then I applied 1 single large top dressing. This year I decided to top dress prior to first yellowing, and only then very lightly, every 2 weeks. The Mulanje was showing some very minor early yellowing that I put down to being a sativa thing. But now on reflection I recall how some stems were only showing sparse growth, I checked under the canopy thinking this was because these were thin weak stems but some were actually strong stems, strong stems should not be pushing out weak growth. It was these stems that first started showing sparse weak growth followed by yellowing.
Now when I reflect back, I surmise that the plant was already at the stage of being under stress, and I feel by that point she had already decided to push her resources to a subset of her stems. So if the top dressing was the fault I feel she was going south very early on in the top dressing. And sure, in the end I erroneously chased the yellowing with yet more top dressing, but if the fault was top dressing then I feel I should never have given her any.
The other 3 plants all appear to me to be growing uniformly in spite of their top dressings, including the Malawi/Ethiopian cross, which is half Mulanje. I mean uniform in the sense that they are without the sparse growth that some of the Mulanje stems showed.
Did damage from the storm winds, or overly aggressively plastic coated garden wire contribute?
The storm period in early February really did throw the plants around, especially the Mulanje who was in the prime sun shine position but also was positioned for the most wind when it was getting up around 120kph which was really beating her around. Did the plant suffer some wind damage?
The plastic coated garden wire that I bought between lockdowns last year was not my first choice, in fact it was the only offering left in the shop, so given the circumstances it was all I had to use. But I found it was so strong that even if applied 'loosely', the plant tissue would envelope and grow around the wire instead of pushing it open. Did that cause/allow damage and infection to occur to the plant?
Do these pics offer any clues?
I've lost buds to bud rot before, and limbs to stem rot, fusarium wilt, and accidental breakage, but I have never lost a whole plant, so it would nice to establish the cause.
Anyway I've left her resting under cover, and probably tomorrow I will see if there is any immature buds on her that I can try as an early vape, or maybe use for an edible, such a freaking shame to lose/waste her. Funnily enough, as I was looking at the immature budding on her, I noticed some bracts that looked rather swollen, and I squeezed one and found it to be quite hard. It contained a seed. I think probably too immature altho it is a good size, but hey, I'll let it cure for a bit and save it anyway. I'll look a bit more closely for more tomorrow.
So that's it. If these pics help anyone spot something, please chime in and we can all learn from it. In the meantime I need to focus on my remaining 3 girls and hope they get to harvest ok. I definitely will review my garden tie approach for future grows in case the wire damage had anything to do with it. In future I will probably get some of the expensive soft coated plastic wire and make collars of that and then connect ties to them.
A bit of a sad update, but onward and upward! Thanks for dropping in, and I hope your gardens are going great!
Greetings 420 enthusiasts!
It's been quite a week, my pride and joy the Mulanje completely rooted (Downunder vernacular) but thankfully the remaining 3 plants appear quite fine. Plus our whole family got Covid this past week, but we're pretty much all good now thankfully. I was wondering how I would cope at the thought of losing all my energy but didn't happen for me, just the headache, altho it did happen for my wife and daughter who got the aches and sore throats too.
For this update I will start with the surviving lineup!
Mango Sherbert
Honduras/Panama x Purple Honduras
Malawi/Ethiopian x Mulanje
Mulanje
Her demise is a real disappointment. I have thought back, and looked back over my pics, to try and get some understanding as to what went wrong. After losing her it would be really great to understand why, for future grows.
Post flush
I am pleased I tried this as I've never carried out a flush before, but ultimately it didn't help. The plant seemed to continue to collapse even more. Initially I kept it on the balcony, hoping that at least some of her growth would survive because she smelt lovely and gave a nice finger stickiness, it is quite gutting to lose her. Since I gave the flush we had some major downpours of rain that probably knocked her around even further.
But late afternoon today I noticed mites crawling all over her, so that was it, I didn't want her being a pest magnet for the other plants, she had to go. So I undid her ties and chopped her and threw her over the balcony.
Top dressing
Last year I didn't top dress until the first signs of lower yellowing showed, and then I applied 1 single large top dressing. This year I decided to top dress prior to first yellowing, and only then very lightly, every 2 weeks. The Mulanje was showing some very minor early yellowing that I put down to being a sativa thing. But now on reflection I recall how some stems were only showing sparse growth, I checked under the canopy thinking this was because these were thin weak stems but some were actually strong stems, strong stems should not be pushing out weak growth. It was these stems that first started showing sparse weak growth followed by yellowing.
Now when I reflect back, I surmise that the plant was already at the stage of being under stress, and I feel by that point she had already decided to push her resources to a subset of her stems. So if the top dressing was the fault I feel she was going south very early on in the top dressing. And sure, in the end I erroneously chased the yellowing with yet more top dressing, but if the fault was top dressing then I feel I should never have given her any.
The other 3 plants all appear to me to be growing uniformly in spite of their top dressings, including the Malawi/Ethiopian cross, which is half Mulanje. I mean uniform in the sense that they are without the sparse growth that some of the Mulanje stems showed.
Did damage from the storm winds, or overly aggressively plastic coated garden wire contribute?
The storm period in early February really did throw the plants around, especially the Mulanje who was in the prime sun shine position but also was positioned for the most wind when it was getting up around 120kph which was really beating her around. Did the plant suffer some wind damage?
The plastic coated garden wire that I bought between lockdowns last year was not my first choice, in fact it was the only offering left in the shop, so given the circumstances it was all I had to use. But I found it was so strong that even if applied 'loosely', the plant tissue would envelope and grow around the wire instead of pushing it open. Did that cause/allow damage and infection to occur to the plant?
Do these pics offer any clues?
I've lost buds to bud rot before, and limbs to stem rot, fusarium wilt, and accidental breakage, but I have never lost a whole plant, so it would nice to establish the cause.
Anyway I've left her resting under cover, and probably tomorrow I will see if there is any immature buds on her that I can try as an early vape, or maybe use for an edible, such a freaking shame to lose/waste her. Funnily enough, as I was looking at the immature budding on her, I noticed some bracts that looked rather swollen, and I squeezed one and found it to be quite hard. It contained a seed. I think probably too immature altho it is a good size, but hey, I'll let it cure for a bit and save it anyway. I'll look a bit more closely for more tomorrow.
So that's it. If these pics help anyone spot something, please chime in and we can all learn from it. In the meantime I need to focus on my remaining 3 girls and hope they get to harvest ok. I definitely will review my garden tie approach for future grows in case the wire damage had anything to do with it. In future I will probably get some of the expensive soft coated plastic wire and make collars of that and then connect ties to them.
A bit of a sad update, but onward and upward! Thanks for dropping in, and I hope your gardens are going great!
I hope your family is on the mend and that your only lingering effect is the hernia (who knew? 
).
