Hi again, another weekly update, it's day 47 and I'm finding the Cindy Jack's to be a bit difficult. CJ2 is very poorly, I gave her a trim then she stopped growing and all her leaves went yellow, so I've put her to one side. I might have a go at reviving her, but to be honest, water is a precious commodity at the moment....
We don't have a domestic main water supply, instead we rely on rainwater, and have a 5000 gal tank under the house to collect rain, when it fills up, it pumps the whole tank up to the main 25000 gal tank up the hill, then gravity feeds the house. In the 4 months we've been there, that tank under the house has pumped up 4 times, to the main tank, so 20000 gallons has fallen on us in the last 4 months! But now the rain has stopped, and it's summer, so it's dry as a bone and temps up in the high 30's.
Plenty of water, you might think, 20000 gallons plus whatever was in there, it must have been full.
Then the landlord decided to get this Pauline Hanson loving (look her up) wanker from Queensland (apologies to
@hecno and
@orrganic) to make some electric fences, he stayed 3 nights in the jungle at the bottom of the hill. One morning, we were woken up by the sound of a boom, and a plume of white smoke...... he'd lit a camp fire and forgot he'd left a gas cylinder near it.
Anyway, for some reason, he pulled out a pipe from the main tank, turned a stopcock and let the entire lot piss down the hill.
Just before Christmas, the (normally very high pressure) water became a dribble, and then we found out what had happened..... anyway to cut a long story short, we had 4000 Gals brought in by a water tanker truck and pumped up to the main tank.... a drop in the ocean, but enough to get us through till the rain comes. Problem is that's chlorinated water from the nearby town, EC 0.1 as opposed to my usual pure(ish) EC 0 rainwater.
Still, it's lovely weather, it's scorchio the moment the sun comes up, and every morning I see this out the bathroom window as I take a dump.....
Each of the boards are 13cm wide, you do the maths.
Joanna the Goanna is a monitor lizard, one of many hanging round the property. This isn't the biggest one, I've seen one that looked like a bloody crocodlie wandering up the driveway once. I think it's because of them we don't see many snakes..... that's not to say there aren't any around, cos I found a python skin round the side of the house this very morning, and it was fat.
Anyway......... to summarize, I don't have enough water to give CJ2 the care and flushes and separate feeds etc that she needs
CJ1 is slowing down, she started flowering then when the others started to stretch, she didn't. Her leaves are (and have always been) very thin and light green, and the new tip leaves are pale at the tips.... her flowers don't seem to have changed much this week and she doesn't seem to be drinking much either.
She looks OK but she could be better. I might give her some kelp and see if she needs some micronutrients. I gave her a bit of a trim up before I took this pic this arvo.
The Glueberries are doing really well, GB2 first.....
She's stretched nicely and has some nice looking colas forming.
Then there's the massive GB1.....
in a way, I'm glad the CJ2 is laying low, there's not much room for her. The GB1 is taking up a fair amount of the tent! She has got heaps of blooms forming.
GB1 on the left and the GB2 at the back with CJ1 in front.
I have another Skyline 400W on order, so I'm looking forward to getting more light on the GB1. Fingers crossed there might be another monster on the way!
Thanks for looking in!
