We've just had 4/5 days of 25+ degrees straight and then today its chucked it down. Have you had none of this good weather yet Clyde??
One day, mate. ONE day. And that was it. Sunday it was. Hit 20C and it was glorious right up till about nine in the evening.... next morning it started pissing again and it's been hammering down since.
I went to do some checking and all my Purple Mazars have copped it, plus the second load of Speedy G. That's them totally off the menu as early toughies - no Purple Mazars left and tried Speedy twice and it flopped. Got three of them left and will save them till mid-summer.
The rain is making the earth in my plots turn into gravy. I've got more seeds, so I can keep popping them but I'm taking heavy losses. Even lost a patch of 6 Danish Gold and they're bred for my lats.
Still, some good news. The 3 Super Cali Stitch have hardly grown with the cold but they're still solid. This strain seems most resilient so far. Checked Purple Marocs today and they were looking good too - still very small but. Next to them are my last couple of Midtjysks - I only had five seeds to start. here is the best one:
The pink stuff is diatomous earth - against slugs. I covered it up again after sprinkling it around. The Midtjysk is an unknown sativa, acclimatised to the Danish environment, crossed with ruderalis and Sensi super Skunk.
I was a bit cruel to one of the SCHs. Since they are doing so well I took the lid off one and put a cage over it:
It looks a bit lost in there. I just want to see how much they can take. I've seen the ruderalis that Stitch made these out of growing in the wild and the seedlings thrive even under snow. They just stop growing, then resume when it heats up a bit. I'm wondering how much of that resilience has carried over into the cross and there's only one way to find out....