2025 Summer-Fall-Winter Grow -- Maria's Haze Heaven Hacienda!
Day something something...
Managed to visit the garden, before rain about to set in.
All is well on the entrance.
I could hear the dogs well before I got there, but at a different location.
Sure enough, they weren't in the batcave.
Bat activity more than last year.
Maybe they're still just checking me out.
Or maybe it's just more bats in there.
Anyway, I have that 2m PVC pipe in my hand for safety.
I hold it a bit above my head in the batcave.
They will give me more distance that way flying around.
I had been at the site only a short period of time,
and heard the dogs again, but sounding a bit closer.
They usually only come here when it's rainy.
So I cut the visit short.
The path cut under the vegetation is now thick in wet mid summer.
It's really jungle in there right now.
But also makes it more safe, other's far less likely to enter.
I was moving fast, but have to be careful, it gets slippery under foot.
It's okay, as I didn't need to stay long.
No need to water.
Plant looking good, pics will speak for themselves.
Color is pretty good.
Nice green, but not to deep, so N is at sufficiency level, that's it.
She's lost a few fan leaves that are now just overtaken by the branches and other foliage.
Just run my hand along the branches, and those oldest leaves just drop right off.
She stands about 100 cm = 36' from top of soil to top of main cola.
She has now five mains, when before just four.
The meristem cola in the middle, one front south facing, one back on the north side, and one each east and west / left and right.
Nice shape.
Each main is taking a bit of a frond shape.
Inter-nodal length is really quite short.
Each node having a flowering stem pushing out.
Leaves are mainly three-pointers.
Looks like those single-pointers a while ago were a weird anomaly. Strange.
Looks like a bit of spider mite issues, same as last year.
I will look into solutions...
Blah blah blah, get to the pictures lady......
Quite busy in there.
I may have to prune a bit, clear out inside branches that are crossing over each other.
Looks totally like a clone in shape, but she's a seed start volunteer.
I moved her main cola back behind the rope.
Opens up some space, and gives better support as well.
Photos are from before I adjusted her.
NLD all the way here.
Same as the parental generation of Grail x ThaiFrican.
The shape of these three-pointer leaves is so cool.
The outside leaflets curve back.
Looks like Lord Shiva's trident.
Definitely flowering.
But in the stretch and setting out her shape still, looking like weeks more to come.
Considering last year the older plants only turned to start flowering in August (at various times),
this girl is still an earlier trigger for flowering.
Mid August here is about 13/11 for light.
This girl triggers at maybe 13.5/10.5. Interesting.
Not a huge girl, but she's looking very promising at this point.
Last year the older plants were all too big, the SSSTN crosses all a little too small, haha.
This may be just about right.
She's going to stretch for weeks to come,
but she only puts on like 10 cm per week.
Maybe hit 150 cm = 54' or so at this rate.
Perfect.
Tempting to want to tie down those side colas and really open her up.
But I think tying like that is really good with the wind around here,
the branches would break at the tie points when the strong winds hit.
Just let her go natural, but tidy up inside.
Next visit...
Peace and Love,
~MJS


