Omegamint [comrade/them, doe/deer]

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Cake day: November 5th, 2020

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  • I would at the very least till in some composts. If your soil is lacking in organic material it’s gonna be a hard life for the MJ. Chicken manure for compost and pelleted chicken manure for dry fertilizer down the line are probably the strongest cheapest options if youre ok with animal product.

    You’ll need to really be careful about overwatering when dealing with plants in the ground. On the upside you can typically water less. You should get a feel for how fast the top layer is drying out, maybe the safest thing to do is to underwater and try to see how long it takes for the leaves to drop and then water them. This timing will change depending on the size of the plant and the weather. Overwatering will clog the roots and give them root rot, which will kill them without any way of stopping it once started.

    Get it in the ground asap if you want flowers!


  • Be really careful about what kinda soil you wanna pop one of these into. A hydro store will have some fancy stuff but otherwise I’d recommend popping one into some Mel’s mix (essentially 1/3 compost blend of preferably 4+ composts and I’d suggest using chicken manure as the base/primary here, 1/3 peat or coco coir, 1/3 perlite). Whatever you do make sure the soil you buy is labeled for containers and probably stay away from miracle gro unless there’s a fancy option they have now.








  • Zone 10b. Got two colorful hybrid tomatoes doing really well, but started a bit late so no blushing on the fruit. One purple Cherokee I’m actually pruning properly instead of these other two bushy guys. Mel’s mix has proven to be a very good container soil mixture, but I really only used chicken manure instead of 4-5 different composts. Hoops I’ve got on my plants are very stupid, should’ve considered better scaffolding at the beginning. It’s going to be a problem later