LOL the grow pot is just an extension of my wood working.
Thank you.
This summer/year as I mentioned in your thread, has been a little stymied. It seems to be sensitive to repotting + this unusually dry Spring brought the worst infestation of spider mites I've ever had.
This cascade is the 2nd hardest hit by the mites. I'm afraid that had I not left the foliage heavy from last year, that it might not have made it. It lost a bit of colour and I realised the malathion I had used initially, had been mixed up and left over from last year. Wait a week, rotate to insecticidal soap, then 3rd wk fresh malathion. End of a month went by and I rotated in a third miticide for trees and shrubs. Finally...very little trace of mites remained, then after a 2nd application, all traces were gone. Juniper suffered (mostly), somewhat. Hardest hit was a Sargent juniper. Everything got Mancozeb this evening.
Here it is candid this evening.
The vibrancy just isn't there I would expect this time of year. We did just have a 110F heat index less than a week ago, but it's more the sucking mites that stymied it this time.
This is the tree that alerted me to the mites with lackluster.
Anyway, I'd love to be thinning on this a month ago...but no. It is not in recovered mode. It put out new growth yes, but not vibrantly. More slow and behind the others. I do want to do some light wiring to get the pot more visable. Nothing heavy .