Just under five months in the ground and all is well. The GM are still shooting up, deleafing to three leaves has been steadily maintained and will now cease on the stems that have reached six feet as these are all first year mats. On second year plants in older fields, we continue deleafing to eight feet, aiming for an ideal eight to nine leaves at flowering.
The plants on the inside are growing the best, those on the outside of this rectangular field are all smaller in height by at least a foot. A kind of mild krummholz effect that can be clearly noted in this HD configuration. We have one more field already planted and another on the way as we approach the end of the rainy season. It will be interesting to compare the growth performance taking into account the transplanting date.