Cpurola's Outdoor grow in Southeast Michigan 2025

[EternalSun]

I let my plants decide when it’s time to start thinning! But different climate!

What’s the climate like where you’re at today?

 

[Oldchucky]

What’s the climate like where you’re at today?

Cool today! The humidity usually drops to low teens during the heat of the day! The humidity is the important part! I hate all humidity in the air! I will supply the plants with humidity! Lol! Low humidity encourages the evaporative cooling effect in the pots! It also encourages the transpiration train! Around here, two trains, you want to keep chugging along! The evaporation train, and the transpiration train! Then then we be clam happy!

 

[Leste]

Yesterday was 100 degrees and humid, today 70’s with an east wind , cool and raw.

 

[Oldchucky]

Yesterday was 100 degrees and humid, today 70’s with an east wind , cool and raw.

Yeah, we see 70! At about two or three in the morning!

 

[Thatoneguyyouknow_]

I think I'm going to add trellis netting in the middle to help space out the branches.
But yes, this tying thing is getting old already. LOL

It hasn't got below 75 here even at night for like a week. Been brutal as hell. Crazy hot, crazy dry, and windy.

The trellis netting is so cheap, and so effective, I just cut it as I harvest the plants.l, and use it for other smaller projects and buy more following season

I like to leave the east facing side open though, or just trellis on top and bottom with a gap in the middle. you can usually do that without risking any real breaks or issues later on, and you can get into the space to work on em way easier still.

9 out of 10 times you lose a branch it's the headwind side of a plant. They get blown upwards, and then break when they come back down under gravity. And 9/10 times there's wind whipping on this side of the country the wind is coming out of a westerly oriented direction. I don't think I've ever had an east facing branch break in the wind on a staked plant tho, unless it was the result of a much larger break or stalk split. And never had issues leaving the east side open for access on a trellised plant. I also think I like a triangle shaped side trellis vs a 4 corner trellis, but I'll have to tinker in more seasons to come there.

One of those things many don't think about til after they trellis tho. Leaving easy access to work on the plants, and which faces of the plants will tend to bear the most headwind.

 

[Galgrows]

Yeah, we see 70! At about two or three in the morning!

same here as the summer moves forward

 

[Oldchucky]

same here as the summer moves forward

I like sitting outside in shorts, drinking beer, burning one, and listening to music at about 10 PM! When it’s still in the low 80s! Feels good!

 

[Like2Grow]

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I like sitting outside in shorts, drinking beer, burning one, and listening to music at about 10 PM! When it’s still in the low 80s! Feels good!

There's usually dew for the plants over night and water still shows up every few days and hangs around for a while. The down side is the landraces don't have a long enough season the produce here. Always plus and minus to everything.

Listening to tunes is a good way to spend some time :-).

 

[EternalSun]

I like sitting outside in shorts, drinking beer, burning one, and listening to music at about 10 PM! When it’s still in the low 80s! Feels good!

My regular routine, lol

 

[cpurola]

I would personally start to do a little thinning of them too before they get all overgrown and super thick and it’ll take ya hours to do a single plant but that’s just me

Yes, that is on the agenda, but I wanted to give the branches a chance to wrap around the main stem and grow upwards a little ways before figuring which leaves/branches to trim. Have to balance me trimming with what the critters might eat/trim. It's a long long time before harvest.

BTW, how are the zinnias doing? I'm a little disappointed that mine are starting to flower and are only 2 feet tall. They were supposed to get 3 at least.

 

[Beazy]

Zinnias are doing pretty good but nowhere near 2 ft tall.Rabbits mowed down most of the first sown so more seed went in and are coming up.I’ll get some pics tomorrow when I get out

 

[cpurola]

Moved the photos in pots to the back acre. Then fed the 12 with one teaspoon each, Recharge, Micos, WOW (kelp and humic, fulvic acid) in 2 gallons of well water. Might have overdone it on the humic and fulvic acids, but OH WELL.
Noticed the potting soil is drying faster than I thought it would. Some of the plants looked a bit thirsty but we're getting rain tonight and I didn't want to over do it.

Found a leaf with a spot of what appears to be Septoria. Need to start examining everything.

 

[tall boys]

I've been working on mine since the over spray hit the last two plants of the four

Since the heat wave they've doubled in size

Here's a biscotti Sunday

Here's the hurricane

Here's a cherry popper

And a permanent marker

 

[cpurola]

Found another with Septoria.
What do you think?

 

[tall boys]

Found another with Septoria.
What do you think?
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What's the rest of the plant look like is it an isolated area

 

[cpurola]

What's the rest of the plant look like is it an isolated area

Found on two different plants/variety at least 12' apart.
We have a tall hedgrow right next to our property and I think it's the carrier. Nothing I can do about that.

 

[Oldchucky]

Found on two different plants/variety at least 12' apart.
We have a tall hedgrow right next to our property and I think it's the carrier. Nothing I can do about that.

Was it this big of a problem five years ago? Maybe you are just falling victim to climate change!

 

[Bigalmoby]

Found another with Septoria.
What do you think?
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It might just be some bug that did that is it all over the plant ?

 

[cpurola]

It might just be some bug that did that is it all over the plant ?

Well, the two I found so far were lower down on the plant, near the 'dirt' (potting soil) and may be weakened by age anyways. At least that's what I'm telling myself. :/

 

[Like2Grow]

Well, the two I found so far were lower down on the plant, near the 'dirt' (potting soil) and may be weakened by age anyways. At least that's what I'm telling myself. :/

With the number of plants you have I hope you just took out the 2 plants completely and disposed of them far away from the rest of your plants (drop them off at the local fire hall as orphans ;-) ).