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Already harvested half of my crop. Now the bottoms are filling in with new flowers. I’ve been continuously watering it once soil gets bone dry 1-2 Inches underground. I see people here saying not to water them but if you look at big commercial crops they have full irrigation. If you want to get full potential of plant size and bud sites it needs water. My biggest plant this year harvested 17 pods and I have 6 more coming in now!

New flowers still coming on some of the lowers. Some of them are days away I think.

What’s the trick to maximize pods. A couple of my new bud sites dried up. I’m assuming it’s from lack of water. So if that’s true why not water right until the end until it stops putting out flowers

So far this year has been an absolute success. What I’ve learned is root real estate is so important. The ones that got the biggest had the most root real estate. In addition to this, vegetation time is so important. When they bolt into flowering too early, they don’t get that lush veg growth, side stems = more pod sites.

This garden only has 7 hours per day of direct light. And the rest of the time they get indirect light (in the shade). They are in direct light from 10am-5pm and the rest of the day there are trees and houses blocking them from the sun. The benefit was they had an extra week or two in veg stage.

60 days ago they were only 2-3 inches tall

Best farming practices I believe is to space them out, less is more, let them spread their wings. Let them stretch wide and tall and if you’re growing indoor leave them to veg for longer

UPDATE: I’ve learned from experienced growers on Reddit that the rain is ok in this situation as long as the windows haven’t opened. The pods are hardy and suitable for rain in this stage , as long as water doesn’t inside the pods. If the vents are open and water gets inside, that is when disaster occurs

As for a few broken branches, I’m going to just leave them be, and let nature do its thing!

Wow this is kind of cool. How many more weeks? What are those brown sappy spots?

Every day more blooms. How many seeds per pod can one expect generally? This is my first year.

Does anyone care to share their experience with flowers that look like this. Can anyone identify?

Anyone have experience with these? I want to know people’s thoughts on these. I’m new this is my first year growing and I’m kind of obsessed.

A couple more decided to pop out today and smell that crisp summer air.

Does anyone know the variety of this? It’s like a reddish purple.

I know the ones is a peony but what’s the other one? Anybody have experience with this?

A couple more decided to pop out today and smell that crisp summer air.

Does anyone know the variety of this? It’s like a reddish purple

After the petals fall, the inner pod will continue to pack on size as all resources then shift to seed production. I’m hoping I get some decent size pods. What do you guys think?

How many days do I have left before they fully bloom? Does anyone have experience with bloom quality on only 6 hours of direct light? The rest of the day they’re in the shade getting indirect. They’re in the sun everyday from 10am-4pm.

Is there anything to do at this point or should I just chuck it. I guess it let it ride out and do the old squish but I don’t know

One of the newer pods looks like this what is that? The rest look healthy a couple dark spots but not like this