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Wednesday, July 06, 2022 ARrOoster Little Rock, Arkansas

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Caught up on the work tonight, so blessed to have an amazing wife that feeds us and keeps all the things moving for our family.

Trenched and buried all the exposed secondaries and main vine with my soul mix. This time its a heavier peat,
Black Kow, potting soil trio with kelp, gypsum, azomite, mycorrhiza and humic acid amendments.

Noticed a lot of striped cucumber beetle on all the leaves. No holes or evident chewing damage, they did seem a litte lethargic. But so am I when it’s this hot outside LOL. Went ahead and ground drenched the base and main vine with 3tsp Domionion 2L to keep things tight. Another cup of mycorrhiza spread all about, and then proceeded to deep soak everything in. This is the sexond day to deep soak the plot. My sandy loam is quick to leech and quick to dry, but my leaf cover is helping retain a lot of moisture.

Finally a foliar feed of the Max Sea Grow and Calcium to finish off.

Tomorrow morning we pollinate this first beauty. It only has like 12 secondaries behind it. Not all of the secondaries actually take off, like 35% stay stunted right at the node and just prduce a 3+ pack of flowers. I am not sure if this is genetic related, or something I am causing.
 



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