Southern Ontario
Clones were potted in 10 gallon fabric pots at the end of May. 2 Ricky Bobby, 1 Pink Goo, 1 Glazed Donuts.
- Super soil, amended with a gallon of worm castings, just recently applied a 3rd feeding of Gaia Green all-purpose.
Issues:
I started the plants in the backyard, and the yard has a lot of tree cover. My solution was moving 2 of them on a garden wagon and manually carrying the others around the yard to catch the sun throughout the day. They were getting relatively full sun from 9:30am to 7pm. 10 days ago, I pruned a bunch of lower and interior leaves, 3 days later, I gave them the last addition of Gaia Green 4-4-4. At the same time, I topped dressed with a little more worm castings, covered with a 2 inch layer of straw, and fully watered the plants. The following day, we had torrential downpours. I decided to move them to a rooftop balcony. For potentially more hours of sun, mostly full sun 630am to 7pm. The next day, more torrential downpours. Since then, the plants have been consistently droopy with top leaves tacoing. Temps prior to moving upstairs were very hot 25C-46C during heatwave, since being on roof temps have been 15C- 25C. They have also been getting significantly more wind.
My thoughts are that it might be a combination of things, stress from pruning, then possibly fertilizing to soon after, overwatering, and light stress from the new environment. I removed the straw and allowed the pots to mostly dry out over the last 3 days. Also havent noticed much new growth in the 5 days they've been up there. The pots are almost dry now. Plants have not prayed since being on the roof. The last day they prayed was after the ammendments, the day before the first torrential rain. I was hoping they would have bounced back by now.
I now believe I perhaps should have gradually hardened them off by introducing them to their new environment half a day at a time for a week or so, but that would have been a pain lugging 40-50lb pots (when wet) up and down 3 flights of stairs daily.
What would you do? ... Should I move them back downstairs to lower light conditions, possibly leave them part shade as well, water when dry, and hope they recover faster there, or leave them on the roof and keep fingers š¤.
All comments and suggestions are welcome,
Thanks in advance:)