Dropping a quick picture after a week or so of having the plants outside. It hit 8 or 9 C (46-48 F) last night, and no one seems the worse for wear; it's not likely to drop below that again this year, so I'm not planning on bringing them back inside. Moving them to the tiny balcony that will be their Forever Homes, yes; that'll happen this week, since the whole week is vacation!
In the far upper right is my only datil. It was my first Kratky experiment, but the bottle plug it was in is too big to get water into the bottle without a fight. So I pulled it today. Fortunately, I did little to no root damage, which is way better than I expected. It's going to need to acclimate to soil and the great outdoors (it's only out temporarily right now to start hardening off), but if it lives through that, it'll get to live with its buddies.
The plants on the lower right are hawk's claws that are going to friends, but they've been so happy outside I haven't bothered to bring them in. I haven't seen any bug problems at all out there, which is awesome, but we have plenty of vinegar should they need it. Castile soap, too, if things get really dire.
I ignored my tent for a few days and ended up almost killing my mini-Kratky SLR, which drank its little reservoir 100% dry. On the plus side, it looks much better after I diluted its nutrients, so hopefully its nitrogen burn is a thing of the past. It's also flowering happily, as is the one I have in a larger Kratky bottle. At least one of them is on pheno, maybe both, so hopefully I'll be able to put something up in the growdown thread soon. Feels like I've been saying that forever, though. Meh.
The coir bag kids are looking great, and will be getting another nice big batch of fertilizer tomorrow (the young SLR in back is begging for it, but the rest are also consuming what I give them like crazy).
The vacation is called Golden Week, and it's always the longest set of public holidays of the year here. It's particularly nice this year, since we're getting a new emperor May 1, and they added a holiday for the coronation; instead of being something like two four-day weekends separated by two days of work, it's a full 10 days. So almost everyone -- annoyingly, including banks and anything else you might actually
need, including
doctors -- is off work the whole time. Even the freaking ATMs will be closed for some or all of the banks, so I had to take out plenty of cash just in case. Small price, I guess.
[edit: I'm putting off starting any hybridization since I actually tried the choco habs. I could start CGN 21500 x J bell pepper, since I know I like both of those, but that's not one I'd planned on at all... probably wait until I have a few different varieties fruiting and start the WHP F1 just to have something to try growing out.]
