MonkeyGrinder
Well-Known Member
So I had abandoned a patch of regular KC45 I had thrown in the ground when daytime hours were 12.5 and climbing. Vegged them indoors and outdoors for a few weeks until they failed to flower on me. So I just chalked it up to a loss in the auto department. I had given up on them around May and left them to nature. 9 out of 10 of them never showed sex.
So with it being harvest time and all I decided to go back and take a look out of curiosity.
I've never EVER seen fully seeded girls before. There were 4 girls left standing and 3 males. The girls were jam packed with beans. Every calyx was completely stuffed with a nice fat, dark watermelon looking bean. There's 100s of them sitting here. A quarter of a ziplock sammich baggy. I chopped the girls and pulled all the beans out. Not to mention there are beans scattered around the place where they had fallen out of their moms. The leaves are starting to fall so they should compost and cover them right up. It'll be something fun to look into next year.
Regardless these were lift in soil months ago that had been lightly amended with Llama compost and a tiny bit of MG organic outdoor stuff. It was highly concentrated anyways. They seemed to do perfectly fine out in the wilds. On an NPK chart the Llama compost had nothing over a 3 on them. I'm sure that was used up and or washed away during the first month. Used it because it was very airy, fluffy and soft.
It goes to show for me though how tough these guys are.
These things have been beat up by wind, rain, hailstorms etc.
I have a nice little sack of beans to toss out somewhere random come spring. Might just find an out of the way place and make a big garden bed.
So with it being harvest time and all I decided to go back and take a look out of curiosity.
I've never EVER seen fully seeded girls before. There were 4 girls left standing and 3 males. The girls were jam packed with beans. Every calyx was completely stuffed with a nice fat, dark watermelon looking bean. There's 100s of them sitting here. A quarter of a ziplock sammich baggy. I chopped the girls and pulled all the beans out. Not to mention there are beans scattered around the place where they had fallen out of their moms. The leaves are starting to fall so they should compost and cover them right up. It'll be something fun to look into next year.
Regardless these were lift in soil months ago that had been lightly amended with Llama compost and a tiny bit of MG organic outdoor stuff. It was highly concentrated anyways. They seemed to do perfectly fine out in the wilds. On an NPK chart the Llama compost had nothing over a 3 on them. I'm sure that was used up and or washed away during the first month. Used it because it was very airy, fluffy and soft.
It goes to show for me though how tough these guys are.
These things have been beat up by wind, rain, hailstorms etc.
I have a nice little sack of beans to toss out somewhere random come spring. Might just find an out of the way place and make a big garden bed.
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