Journal Roadrunner culture Pepe Automatic-Week-4th
Hello friends of the web, I continue with the story of what happened to me in the fourth week of my experience with the automatic, and I tell you that if in the past week saw the flowering came in the 4th week I can tell you now is clearly and in all plants.
Between 23 and 28 of life, all plants were already clearly defined sex, and it showed also that while still growing strongly. So far I can tell you that all grew, they were stretching at the same time that drew the first flowers and were going from about 30cm. to 40 cm .... the Roadrunner was giving it all, because while it was entering the flowering process, and this plant also spend a lot of energy as you know!
Flowering for 28 days
Of course we were at this time with many hours of light and marking the summer and strong, temperatures were high during the day, some days are well above 30 degrees at noon, and night had milder but also with a temperature perfect, as it is never below 10 degrees, always between 15 and slightly above 20, perfect for them ...
With these temperatures all day and getting plenty of light, as the plants passed this 4th week in a phase of expansion at top, and then if you feel they asked me more and more water, unlike the first, who threw low irrigation. Now they needed more water to keep the momentum and dehydration caused by high temperatures. At this stage water use for payment of a hair algae growth stimulator added roots, they left me to try the Green Hope, and otherwise quiet good well water, that I have your pH controlled, and no secrets apart.
So if that began to be a problem was the increasing presence of bugs, we had to control the caterpillars of butterflies that I told you, and grasshoppers and others. Against caterpillars look that I could use, and they told me to prove to the Bacillus thuringiensis, which is used against biological caterpillar tomato plantations, snuff, etc ... I said it is a bacteria or something that only affects the caterpillars are they eat our plants, spraying the bacillus that on plants and it seems, it passes the stomach of the caterpillar eating the leaves, then paralyzes the stomach and he continues to grow at our expense! ... but this biological treatment must be continued gradually applied to keep the caterpillars at bay, and who knows these caterpillars know they are ready, tough and leathery where they exist. (You can see the typical caterpillar in the picture below, I asked a friend who controlled the camera to take pictures of my "enemies")
One of the tracks photographed by a friend
If you think, I tell you the following week and follow my tough battle against the caterpillars, and like the Roadrunner reach half of its growing season with a robust painted feet and starting to point to which may be his rozarlas final aroma!
Pepe (Spain)