Project terminated

We have had three good weeks of sun and warm temperatures. I have done three waterings that I did not record over the blog. I'm afraid that I can't continue this project for two reasons though. I have been planning on terminating the project for the last week because I am having serious trouble keeping up with the special watering needs of the four plants. If I don't water before a windy day the leaves get really tattered and give the plants a sickly look for a while. That was the first reason. Reason 2: When I woke up this morning the plants had been snowed on. This means that all of the plants except for the percipitation plant has been tainted. The results are that no plant seems to be more or less healthy than the others. At least one plant in each pot had flowered and no casualties are to be reported. I'll attempt to write up a full summary of the project soon. 

This is a photo I just took of the plants getting sleeted on. 

Blooming onions

The other day I noticed that the well watered plant had a bud coming up. Without thinking I snapped it off. I don't want their energy going into blooms. I want leaves to eat! After I realized I screwed up I took a picture of the snapped bloom. Anyway, no biggie now since all the pots have at least one plant with a bud on it. The well watered plant has a bud on the second plant in the pot and the boiled watered pot has two as well. The pots watered with microwaved water and percipitation still just have one bud. All plants look very healthy and are not suffering the lack of sun problems that the first batch did. In fact, today is the first day the plants were forced to stay indoors without sun since we have had rain and snow all day. 

The first bud. 

Those two shots were from earlier this week. Here are the plants today.

Now that this is documented I will decapitate all buds. 

I watered today

All of the onions look about the same. I just noticed today that all pots except for the well water pot have their first new shoots of leaves. I can feel the trunks of the well water plants though and I can feel that their new leaves are coming. All plants are the same shade of green and very firm to the touch. They have spent every day since planted outside and every night indoors.