I wish SCROG worked with vegetables. I top and FIM my peppers in veg to create more nodes and then I prune some lower leaves once they start setting fruit to focus growth on the fruit, but they don’t appreciate or tolerate supercropping or being forced to grow horizontally. ha ha ha
So I’ve already learned an hard but important lesson about SCROG. Don’t top and FIM until they are ready to go outside. These suckers are so bushy already I’m going to have to lower my screen onto them instead of waiting for them to reach up to it.
It’s so friggin gorgeous outside today, it’s all I can do to stay inside and listen for the phone to right or inbound support requests to show up in the queue. I know as soon as I try to get anything personal done on the clock the phones and Zendesk will blow up so… I’m really having to work at being a good boy and not getting all outfitted to tuck more SCROG.
Also - Note to self: Order some long sleeve tees. The buttons on the cuffs of my button down gardening over-shirts keep catching on the netting as I reach through and work the clips and branches.
While my assistant may be OoO today, I DO still get a lunch break and callers CAN leave VM.
So…I’m getting geared up and going outside to tuck,tuck, tuck for an hour. woot!. Pics to follow.
Once I get the last 2 tucked after supper, the leaf hoppers are going to get a light dose of pyretherin and maybe a layer of the extra thin agribon floating row cover for a few days to ensure the dew doesn’t just rinse it right off or accelerate the already short half life of that stuff.
There aren’t a whole lot of them (now) but you know how that can go unchecked.
Also found those disgusting squash bugs and loads of the eggs on the pumpkins and winter squash patch to spray with neem and mild soap solution.