Late
April
Firstly I hope everyone is safe & well in
these worrying times, it’s a bit of a struggle to keep motivated with
the 2 major shows cancelled. It’s also a struggle to find room for all
the plants, so the really small cutting tubers are staying in a 1 litre
pots & will be treated as a cutting grown on just for the tuber. All the
early plants are now in their 2nd pot of 2 litres, I’ve now decided that
this is also going to be their final pot due to space. This 2nd pot was
a 50/50 mix of my multipurpose & my John Innes No 2, a mix that I was
trying hoping for a better root growth. I think I have achieved what I
was hoping for & would now be very confident that the final potting into
my own John Innes No2 mix would improve my growing further. The plants
that were for Shrewsbury started at the beginning of March are just
starting to be potted up, these were started in my own multipurpose. The
plants that were for Dundee & started at the beginning of April are
romping away, again in my own multipurpose super happy with the root
system. As we reach the end of the month there are only about 200 plants
now needing potting up although I’ve run out of 2 litre pots. Also I’m
running out of room rather quickly, most of the baskets & hanging pots
have all had their first stop & are all sitting on a bench for the time
being, won’t be long before they will need hanging up somewhere. Next I
need to decide what & how many I will flower for a display in the
glasshouse. For these plants that I will flower I’m restricting them to
3 litre pots due to lack of space, there will be a few selected to grow
on in my normal 4 litre final pots but it will be a few. I will have a
closer look at the seedlings I have kicking about this year so there
could be some that might make the grade.
Bye for now keep safe.
Regards Phil
