Anything outdoors 2020

[bibi40]

Bad news with my outdoor Mango sapphire ,


despite my greenhouse ,yesterday i noticed some mold ( bothritys ) spot on the more compact one , so i cut all the tops , the other plant had nothing ,
and today was attacked , so i cut all tops too ,


too much compact buds for my shitty weather ...


and mold is fastest than me

 

[Bud Green]

I hate fuckin mold, and the plants that get it..
The worst kind is the kind that develops around the stem and the outside of the buds look great..
Then you harvest and find it when you start drying and trimming your buds...

I decided to stop chasing after strains that sound good and then I'm disappointed after putting in months of work..

Next year, nothings going in the ground at the hideout except the clones of 2 girls who have proven themselves for 2 years now...

..

 

[axle2u]

my hrybrid pure red leb male X cherry bomb female F1s
-starting to harvest (plant 1)

-axle

 

[axle2u]

my hrybrid pure red leb male X cherry bomb female F1s

close-ups below....

some trichome shots
40x-200x range...electronic scope

-axle

 

[Great outdoors]

my hrybrid pure red leb male X cherry bomb female F1s

close-ups below....


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some trichome shots
40x-200x range...electronic scope

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-axle

Pretty!

 

[Montuno]

King Congo #1 2020

King Congo #1 2020

1-October-2020.

King Congo #1 (Congo Point Noire * South African Ciskei; Tropical Seeds Company; born con the first May week) Looking West: steam birth's side of the plant:

 

[TychoMonolyth]

1-October-2020.

King Congo #1 (Congo Point Noire * South African Ciskei; Tropical Seeds Company; born con the first May week) Looking West: steam birth's side of the plant:

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I've been watching your show. Very nice.

When do you think they will be ready, and where are you located?

 

[Montuno]

King Congo (Tropical Seeds Company)

King Congo (Tropical Seeds Company)

I've been watching your show. Very nice.
When do you think they will be ready, and where are you located?

Hola.

The previous time I grew a King Congo, it was more on the South African Ciskei side and could be picked here (38° N, 900 metres high) during the first half of November. (I showed some pictures and a brief tasting also in the Landraces thread of Trópical Seeds Company here in I.C.)... But this King Congo #1 is more on the Congo Point Noire side, and I guess it won't be ready until the second half...
I am also growing another King Congo this year (I call it #2 because it sprouts much later than #1) from the more South African Ciskei side which is faster in flowering...

Salud montuna.

Pd: King Congo (more South African Ciskei side) buds, the 20-November of another year):

 

[Montuno]

King Congo (Tropical Seeds Company)

King Congo (Tropical Seeds Company)

Pd: King Congo (more South African Ciskei side) buds, the 20-November of another year):

More of the previous one I was talking about driying up...
King Congo (Congo Point Noire X SouthAfrican Ciskei Highlands) driying...

 

[gsxr97]

Update 10/4/20

 

[TychoMonolyth]

Awesome job gsxr!

 

[Organilush]

Update 10/4/20

Looking good!

my hrybrid pure red leb male X cherry bomb female F1s
-starting to harvest (plant 1)


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-axle

That looks like it's still in the early stages of flowering?...There's a lot of pistils still developing, to me those flowers don't look anywhere close to being ready for harvest.

Or is there a reason why you are harvesting so early?







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[PDX Dopesmoker]

my hrybrid pure red leb male X cherry bomb female F1s

close-ups below....


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some trichome shots
40x-200x range...electronic scope

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-axle

How early/late flowering were the parents on that one?

 

[axle2u]

How early/late flowering were the parents on that one?

the hybrid seeds were ready end of september 2019

 

[gsxr97]

Harvest has begun for me

 

[axle2u]

Looking good!











That looks like it's still in the early stages of flowering?...There's a lot of pistils still developing, to me those flowers don't look anywhere close to being ready for harvest.

Or is there a reason why you are harvesting so early?







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oh ya, they are ready alright....
ive taken off the main colas of 3 plants....

in fear of catching mold....today oct 4, i chopped the top
of the 3rd plant, she was over 7' tall....and i took off the most dense
top 22".....left the rest for frost

my hrybrid seems to be very stable, and mold resistant
but i dont want to push fate, we have had rain on and off
for a week solid, tomorrow is no rain....then rain next 3 days

and mold is on the way....
hopefully i dodged that bullet....

the remaining buds on plants, will fair just fine i think
it was the super dense tops that i was concerned about...

the top of the flowers in my pix
are just the tips of smaller colas (branches)....
the bulk of buds are a solid white mass, with red hairs

i will be lab testing for a full mark-up
what im interested in is thc% cbd% and terpene profiles

prob do this first thing in the new year
will post results....

axle
42 north

 

[LizardMan]

Who are you using for testing axle2u?

 

[therevverend]

Well that's it, I'm done for the season. I thought last year was the worst summer I had ever seen in 35 years in my area but this summer stomped it for shit weather.

Last year and this year have both been terrible. It must be a nightmare in BC, down here there's been less rain and it wouldn't be a bad year except for the smoke sabotage. At least I haven't had to chop everything down yet. Not because it isn't molding but because I'm stubborn, I'd rather watch it rot then cut it early. That's been my motto this year.

how many weeks you think this needs to finish ?

To my eye at least two weeks, minimum one week to ten days. The hair and crystal change make it look nearly done but that's weather damage not natural maturation. If it got two weeks of 25 degree C weather it would blow up into a big frosty nug. I'm guessing it won't get that and you'll have to chop early.

It's sad looking through the last few pages of this thread, I'm seeing hardly any mature flowers at harvest. At least it's getting harvested instead of rotting into the ground. It seems I'm not the only one struggling with the weather and smoke. I hate having my hand forced by weather. I'd like to create a thread about succeeding in a cool wet climate. Hell, I might write a book about it.

There's a big difference between a rookie who goes running for their clippers as soon as a few drops of rain hit their plants and an experienced grower who knows when it's time to pack it up for the season because the rain's never going to stop. One thing I hate more then anything is cutting down wet plants. I'll almost always wait for a couple of dry days so the plants can lay down a fresh layer of resin and terpenes to replace the shit that got washed off. We're having yet more weird weather, the smoke and humidity has created an inversion layer. The clouds and cold are sticking to the lowlands while the warm air and sun is hiding up in the mountains. It's created a nasty fog layer that's darkened the sky, it sticks to the ground and soaks down my plants. The last couple days it hasn't burned off and yesterday morning it was so thick it was raining. Of course the plants never completely dry out.

At least it's cooled off which means the boytritis isn't spreading as fast. However the lack of UV light has caused a powdery mildew outbreak in the southeast facing part of my garden. Since there's no morning or early afternoon light. At least the plants it's attacking are the ones ready for harvest. I need to get them down fast because I don't want it to spread to the later maturing plants. At least there's a few more rain free days and a chance the fog could lift.

Despite all the bullshit the plants soldier on towards maturity. My biggest problem is that the flowers are too big, fat, and dense to dry out. I lose the flowers over 2 inches and end up with lots of dingle doingle to sort through. Instead of cutting a branch, stripping the fan leaves and placing it in a box. I cut a branch, then have to cut it into pieces and sort through them to salvage the non-moldy bits. It takes forever, a big plant that would normally take me 2 hours took me a day.

Despite all the despair there's still quite a few plants with very little mold. I'm letting them go, they can rot or they can finish. Some of it is absolutely killer. The best might be the Royal Kush x 5G Blue. She blows me away, beautiful lavender color and nice frost. Great mold resistance, I've cut her top and some side limbs, she's reaching full maturity. It's been hard to resist cutting her all, every day I lose more but she gets better and better. Here she is before I cut her top.

She's coming down today or tomorrow. The Black Cherry Garlic was slow to switch into flowering but she's maturing very fast. Wonderful smells, beautiful colors, and a ridiculous amount of frost. So far no bud rot but she's had stem rot since August.

It's hard not to cut her now but she'll be a lot heavier if I let her go. The Strawberry Glue is incredible. Huge insanely frosty colas. I'm having a terrible time, watching the mold slowly destroy it as it gets closer to maturity.

I can tell this bud is infected with boytritis, it's effectively ruined. I had to tear it apart to salvage parts of it. Dealing with moldy buds takes so much time, it saps the joy out of harvest. Can you spot the grey mold?

 

[Montuno]

King Congo #1 2020

King Congo #1 2020

1-October-2020.

King Congo #1 (Congo Point Noire * South African Ciskei; Tropical Seeds Company; born con the first May week) Looking West: steam birth's side of the plant:

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1-October-2020.

King Congo #1 (Congo Point Noire * South African Ciskei; Tropical Seeds Company; born con the first May week)

Looking North-West; secondaries branches from the steam birth's side of the plant:

Looking North:

 

[Montuno]

King Congo #1 2020

King Congo #1 2020

1-October-2020.

King Congo #1 (Congo Point Noire * South African Ciskei; Tropical Seeds Company; born con the first May week):