So I've had some horrible luck with my new grow spot - beetle borers!
Ugh! They ate through quite a few stems despite liberal amounts of diatomaceous earth.
This is what I'm working with now:
3 Euforia (though I think one was stunted from our late summer/cold nights) The porch Euforia is well over a meter tall though - almost a meter and a half. She's pre-flowering now and I'm super excited to see what happens as she's just enormous already. I may need to add some support though. The top is fairly floppy and the stem base as a whole isn't as sturdy as I'd like it to be once it's loaded with bud... though I expect the stem to bulk up as well, I'm early in the game yet as I don't expect to harvest until mid-August or so.
2 Black Cream - though one germinated in the last week of June as it's a replacement for a beetle borer. I'm crossing everything (just cause) that my two remaining Black Cream show the purple phenotype. I'm fairly positive the deceased one would've as it was pretty purple with new growth and all it's leafy stems... sad day.
2 Sweet Tooth - germinated June 17 so they're just starting to take off now
2 Cheese - germinated June 17 so like the Sweet Tooth, just starting to take off.
1 Amnesia - looking nice, pre flowering now at about 2.5/3 ft tall, also had half its stem eaten by a beetle borer though the injury didn't prove as fatal as her sister's.
The 2 Early Miss were started mid-April and due to our 'late' spring/summer season this year, they really failed to produce. I chopped one the other day and don't expect more than 15 grams, if that. Which is a BUMMER because I enjoy the Early Miss smoke/vape.
I've also got 3 photoperiods in the race - Vanilla Kush, Canuk Cookies and a Blueberry. They're all looking pretty nice at close to 3ft tall as well, and really growing these days with the hot summer weather we've been getting.
I'm super sad that I lost so many promising plants... I think the new spot was just too far from my house/not groomed enough to keep pests away (even with the DE.) I'll know better for next year (sigh... so far away.) I'm debating whether I should chance starting a couple more in hopes of a long hot fall... but by the time seeds get to me it would probably be next week, which puts germinating mid-July... I'll probably just suck it up and make notes for next year.
I think a greenhouse might be on my Christmas list
It would just help so much with starting off the girls (not to mention all my flower and veggie starts!), or keeping a couple going later in the season when the rains start to hit.
)We've grown sweet corn a few times, but always struggles with it since we dont use pesticides.
