I’ve been monitoring the temp from the beginning. Good question.
It very well could have been the heat because the internal temp did go up during the “charging” of the bale.
I don’t remember what the the temp was when I stuck this booger in the dirt. I didn’t expect it to live. 
Was just wondering. I compost a bunch for my farm and see temps in compost hit 170. Not sure the bale would get that high but I’d bet it did go up.
@Bow4Buck Dude, you were totally right.
You can totally see tiny baby Dottie in this post from 6/20 when the bale had been over 100F the entire week before.
Cool, that’s actually hotter then I thought. I bet you let compasting finish and temps.come way down, you’d get completely different results. Food for thought.
Looking great man
She is looking great!!!
Outside girls
There were a dozen or so leaves on Jack that were either touching the ground or about to brush the ground, so I cut them off. I haven’t seen any slug trails in a few weeks, but I don’t want to give any slimy bastids the opportunity to come back for more.
Memory: 43”
Wash: 42”
Jack: 30”
Zero: 26”
My word has Jack made a rebound from the bug attack. They all look fabulous!!
Nice lookin balls of cannabis you have there! Booshy! Like a wookie
Oops. I dropped that post in the wrong journal. Lol!
Did you? Did you really? Is there a wrong place to post pot pics on a cannabis website? 
I thought this was my garden club! Lol!
Not for my 4-H project!
I can’t believe it works. I’m not shocked but surprised. Great idea that came to fruition.
Dialed in my man!
It only does that if you bale it when it is still green and not totally dry.
This has been a fun project. I’d like to do this though with the straw on the ground, though. Doing this on my back deck is kind of a PITA. I just want the runoff to RTE. She’s been getting about 1/2 gallon of Jacks321 spread out between two days. I work from home, so I have the good fortune of being able to just walk out on the deck and water her a little bit throughout the day. Sometimes I just get ice cubes out of the fridge and spread them out on the straw. She hasn’t had any pond muck since starting the J321 two weeks ago or so. I might start again in a week or two to see how she reacts.
I get about 2 liters of run off every other day. Sometimes I dilute the runoff and water my trees and bushes with it. Sometimes I just pour it in the dirt. Somebody told me something about being careful with the runoff because of the salts that get flushed out of the straw… I don’t know if I’m remembering that correctly.
But next summer, I’ll be doing this straw project again down in The Bakery (the downstairs girls).
I almost forgot.
I am also delaying flowering for a few weeks to get a little more veg time for Dottie.
Are you not concerned about people stealing your roadside bushes?
I am concerned. But the bushes cannot be seen from the street.
But if I thought it would be a problem, I’d bring the two potted plants upstairs.
Your plants are monsters lol! I take it you only do photoperiod plants right? I can’t imagine growing a plant like memory with an auto, not enough veg time. But maybe under the right circumstances? 
