Unexpected Losses & Quick Situation Recovery

Hello fellow Smokers and Growers, Gardeners and casual Readers of my blog!

Today my post is going to be about a not-so-pleasant but fixable experience.
When growing weed in the outdoors, you should always be prepared for the unexpected and have a stock of marijuana plants for such an occasion.

My pet birds, who provide me with tasty free eggs, walking around in the wild, did not think of anything better than to rake the soil right where my plants are. It is understandable, the soil there is more loose and saturated with various impurities and fertilizers. But nevertheless, the damage caused by my bird to my plants is very significant

Of my four autoflowering plants, only two survived! And one of them suffered earlier, but has already managed to recover and regrow.

This plant now has a few growing points and a little stunted, but I still hold out hope for tasting this Bubblegummer variety.

Bubblegum Blue from “Crimean Seeds” remained untouched because of the distance from the rest of the bushes and is already in a state of pre-bloom showing the first tender stamens

The plant is compact. I'm expecting significant growth

At the moment, the affected plant specimens are in a deplorable condition and I see little or no chance of successful development from them


Another Bubblegum Blue from “Crimean Seeds”	Bruce Banner SWS91 7G

A disappointing situation, of course, and not to wait for the late fall harvest of regular varieties decided to buy grains of autoflowers and plant more bushes!
So I did!

I called a local reseller and picked a few varieties with minimal flowering time to get the harvest as early in the summer as possible

My order arrived in an amazing package with the names written in crooked handwriting))

Auto euphoria 3 (After germination transferred to the soil)
AUTO GODZILLA HAZE 3 (They're soaking now)
Auto Lowrider 1 (Didn't germinate yet) 🤷‍♀
Auto Double knockout 1 (After germination transferred to the soil)

Traditionally, we prepare the planting holes by adding to the clay soil humus with chernozem and ash in arbitrary proportions

Spines began to appear the day after soaking.

Very carefully, so as not to damage the root, I transferred each individual grain into the prepared, pre-moistened wells

I try as much as possible to orient the grain in the hole with the root downwards. it seems to me that a straight root will reach the moist depths of the soil sooner, and that is as much as possible similar to natural growth conditions

In addition to choosing a new place to grow cannabis where my birds don't have a chance to walk around and peck the plants, I've also secured the seedlings with glass jars.

This is the third plantation around my house.
The first one consists of photoperiodic varieties, I will show it to you later.
The second is of autoflowers, attacked by a bird
And the third autoflowering bed is being created right before your eyes.

Since the grains didn't germinate at the same time, I had to continue planting the next day as well.

A fresh hole was dug and a new nutrient substrate was mixed on the basis of humus, ash, sand, and last year's dried wood lifted directly from the ground next to the hole

I also stuck the germinated seed with the root tip down straight into the wet well-mixed soil. The dry soil around the hole will quickly absorb excess moisture from the substrate, regardless of the swamp shown in the photograph.))))
I lightly covered the grain with dry earth from this hole, ground almost to dust.

It was a great surprise for me today to find under one of yesterday's jars this cute little baby Auto Euphoria variety.
It took only a couple of days from receiving the parcel to sprouting! Really fast girls came to me this time!

I've lost about a month of time since last planting, but my haste exposed past plants to overnight frosts. There is a chance that the stress of frostbite will greatly affect the quality and quantity of past remaining autoflowering plants. That is, unless my chickens finish them off.))