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Thursday, May 19, 2005
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shazzy
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Joliet, IL
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the last picture was the 1247 handy at 43 days since sprouting with its main about 7'. i lost one secondary on a chilly morning adjusting bamboo stakes and it snapped like celery. glad it wasn't the main. remember, wait until the plant and temps warm up before putting any downward pressure on the main or secondaries. i was going to hold off pruning every other secondary on my early plant so i can get as many leaves and growth before setting a kin. but this boo boo took care of the pruning all by itself. i just angled the surrounding secondaries towards each other a bit to fill the gap.
this picture is the shade cloth i threw over the plant just about 2 hours ago. we had some wicked storms approaching with hail producing history. so up went the shade cloth in just the nick of time. and we did get hail and there is not a single bit of damage to the plant. it is the first time i got to see it work. me and Timmer stood in my solarium drinking beers as the tornado sirens were going off and listening to the hail hit the glass solarium windows.
we were laughing our asses off at how silly we are. Timmer was a Bobby's tap when he say the weather channel, and everyone got a kick out of how fast he drained his full beer and then raced out of the bar and over to the patch. they all think we are crazy, and they are right. it was quite the adrenaline rush though i will have to say.
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