RoadManDenDron
Chumono
Very happy with the progress so decided to start a thread, I fertilise very heavily, just easing into it for the season but already up to 2x a week feeding the soil plus a weekly foliar feed.
Soil feed: alternating organic veg feed or Bio Gold I have dissolved in water in advance.
Mixed with Humic Acid, Kelp, B vitamins, tech grade amino acids, enzymes, grow formula microbes, silica, cal mag and yucca
Plus naruko pellets on surface.
Soil is very free draining and in the summer when I water daily I have been known to fertilise daily also!
Foliar feed: fulvic acid, Kelp, cal mag, b vitamins, yucca
Occasionally fulvic acid and fish emulsion instead
(Never more than once a week for foliar feed)
I have about 50 left, mostly seedling cut, my 'keepers' had a decent number of roots at the base, the reject pile had less immediately off the trunk so serve as my guinea pigs to experiment on.
All have nice low branching to become first branch and new leader in time.
Everything has been allowed to grow wild, this year I will be candle cutting what I hope to be my first branch and new leader in the hopes of promoting back budding on these branches and to keep needles close to the trunk.
I have not pruned these sections as proven by the swelling of some, I believe this will grow out as the trunks thicken but will be thinning to my 2 branches and the trunk soon.
These ones, I credit the biostimulants for the lower branch actually overtaking the previous apex, watching with interest how this develops, all just trunk thickening here and not worried for inverse taper as it will all be sacrifice growth in the future anyway.
I remember seeing a post in the last week or so about a candle on a candle, I have also experienced this, this year! In fact multiple candles on my candles!
As well as new buds!
Thank you for looking! Any advice appreciated, particularly about managing the future first branch and new leader.
Soil feed: alternating organic veg feed or Bio Gold I have dissolved in water in advance.
Mixed with Humic Acid, Kelp, B vitamins, tech grade amino acids, enzymes, grow formula microbes, silica, cal mag and yucca
Plus naruko pellets on surface.
Soil is very free draining and in the summer when I water daily I have been known to fertilise daily also!
Foliar feed: fulvic acid, Kelp, cal mag, b vitamins, yucca
Occasionally fulvic acid and fish emulsion instead
(Never more than once a week for foliar feed)
I have about 50 left, mostly seedling cut, my 'keepers' had a decent number of roots at the base, the reject pile had less immediately off the trunk so serve as my guinea pigs to experiment on.
All have nice low branching to become first branch and new leader in time.
Everything has been allowed to grow wild, this year I will be candle cutting what I hope to be my first branch and new leader in the hopes of promoting back budding on these branches and to keep needles close to the trunk.
I have not pruned these sections as proven by the swelling of some, I believe this will grow out as the trunks thicken but will be thinning to my 2 branches and the trunk soon.
These ones, I credit the biostimulants for the lower branch actually overtaking the previous apex, watching with interest how this develops, all just trunk thickening here and not worried for inverse taper as it will all be sacrifice growth in the future anyway.
I remember seeing a post in the last week or so about a candle on a candle, I have also experienced this, this year! In fact multiple candles on my candles!
As well as new buds!
Thank you for looking! Any advice appreciated, particularly about managing the future first branch and new leader.
