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Anything outdoors 2020
- Thread starter TychoMonolyth
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It seems I'm not the only one who's plants are taking off. What a great time of year to be a gardener. Watching the plants change for the better on a daily basis.
That's horrible. At least it's still early in the season. It should come back with loads of vigor. Too bad you couldn't tape and tie up more of the lost branches. It's one thing when they snap clean, it's another when they get twisted and ripped apart. All the king's horses and men couldn't put humpty...
Last year my biggest best plant got torn in two. In mid September so the buds weren't developed enough to salvage. The top was barely attached by shredded skin. The stalk had shattered, 1/3 of it was gone. In a rage I was seconds from saying fuck it and removing the top. It was too big and heavy to properly re-attach. It's impossible when a huge 14 foot tall plant breaks at the 6 foot mark. Most of the branches were above the break but it was so bushy there were a lot of main limbs below it. I had to leave it leaning to the side and bind it together with green stretchy tape, poles and rope.
It was a miracle. Somehow it didn't die and made it to harvest. The flowers turned out great. I harvest it over two weeks. By the end the broken part was covered in grey mold. it looked terrible but made it. May as well show a couple pictures.
Here's before.
And After:
I had buds growing upside down, right side up, sideways, every ways. The purple parts are above the break, green below.
Got sidetracked from what I was going to post about. The wet spring has resulted in several minor plant diseases. I've had a bit of leaf tip boytritis. Hadn't seen that before. Wish I'd taken a picture. It looked like normal tip burn but when I inspected the underside of the leaf there were grey mold spores. It infected one plant, almost every new leaf had yellow tips. Didn't do much damage, I'm glad it didn't hit the stalk.
The slugs have been a plague, I'm sure they're spreading disease. They've topped a couple plants which I don't like. Of course they hit my bushiest one, the one that would benefit the least from being topped. I've found what looks like brown rot on a few leaves of a male. I've had a mild case of dampening off on a couple plants when the temperature hit the 80s and the ground was still waterlogged. As soon as the ground dried the plants snapped out of it.
Every year I get a nutrient deficiency that shows in leaf variegation. Here's a picture of a Shishkaberry leaf showing the symptoms.
And a Snow Queen male
I top dressed the Shisk with Fish bone meal, 4-14-0, 15% calcium, and epsom salts. Saw results within 24 hours. The new growth doesn't show it. You could dissolve the minerals in a tea as well.
I discovered and treated this disease growing Grape Ape, it and it's hybrids are especially prone. The slightest lacking in Mag or Phosphate shows in the leaves. The Shishkaberry this year already had Fish bone meal and Epsom salts. The wet cool soil locked up the nutrients. As the weather has warmed the symptoms in the garden have eased, along with adding the supplements. In the past growers have mistaken this deficiency for various things, mosaic virus, genetic mutation, etc. It took me a couple years before I realized Epsom salts was the cure, and to a lesser degree phosphate and then calcium.
My plan to finish sexing in June by starting early is a success. I started all my plants before April 1, they're all sexed except for a couple outliers that are probably male. Won't yank them until I'm certain. A few showed in May and most of the females by June 10th. Black Cherry Garlic was the last strain to show, my big female had tantalized me all month. June 24th it showed for sure although I was sure I saw a hair a week earlier. I've got two others that haven't shown but every day they look more male. I'll be surprised and pleased if either one shows female.
That's horrible. At least it's still early in the season. It should come back with loads of vigor. Too bad you couldn't tape and tie up more of the lost branches. It's one thing when they snap clean, it's another when they get twisted and ripped apart. All the king's horses and men couldn't put humpty...
Last year my biggest best plant got torn in two. In mid September so the buds weren't developed enough to salvage. The top was barely attached by shredded skin. The stalk had shattered, 1/3 of it was gone. In a rage I was seconds from saying fuck it and removing the top. It was too big and heavy to properly re-attach. It's impossible when a huge 14 foot tall plant breaks at the 6 foot mark. Most of the branches were above the break but it was so bushy there were a lot of main limbs below it. I had to leave it leaning to the side and bind it together with green stretchy tape, poles and rope.
It was a miracle. Somehow it didn't die and made it to harvest. The flowers turned out great. I harvest it over two weeks. By the end the broken part was covered in grey mold. it looked terrible but made it. May as well show a couple pictures.
Here's before.
And After:
I had buds growing upside down, right side up, sideways, every ways. The purple parts are above the break, green below.
Got sidetracked from what I was going to post about. The wet spring has resulted in several minor plant diseases. I've had a bit of leaf tip boytritis. Hadn't seen that before. Wish I'd taken a picture. It looked like normal tip burn but when I inspected the underside of the leaf there were grey mold spores. It infected one plant, almost every new leaf had yellow tips. Didn't do much damage, I'm glad it didn't hit the stalk.
The slugs have been a plague, I'm sure they're spreading disease. They've topped a couple plants which I don't like. Of course they hit my bushiest one, the one that would benefit the least from being topped. I've found what looks like brown rot on a few leaves of a male. I've had a mild case of dampening off on a couple plants when the temperature hit the 80s and the ground was still waterlogged. As soon as the ground dried the plants snapped out of it.
Every year I get a nutrient deficiency that shows in leaf variegation. Here's a picture of a Shishkaberry leaf showing the symptoms.
And a Snow Queen male
I top dressed the Shisk with Fish bone meal, 4-14-0, 15% calcium, and epsom salts. Saw results within 24 hours. The new growth doesn't show it. You could dissolve the minerals in a tea as well.
I discovered and treated this disease growing Grape Ape, it and it's hybrids are especially prone. The slightest lacking in Mag or Phosphate shows in the leaves. The Shishkaberry this year already had Fish bone meal and Epsom salts. The wet cool soil locked up the nutrients. As the weather has warmed the symptoms in the garden have eased, along with adding the supplements. In the past growers have mistaken this deficiency for various things, mosaic virus, genetic mutation, etc. It took me a couple years before I realized Epsom salts was the cure, and to a lesser degree phosphate and then calcium.
My plan to finish sexing in June by starting early is a success. I started all my plants before April 1, they're all sexed except for a couple outliers that are probably male. Won't yank them until I'm certain. A few showed in May and most of the females by June 10th. Black Cherry Garlic was the last strain to show, my big female had tantalized me all month. June 24th it showed for sure although I was sure I saw a hair a week earlier. I've got two others that haven't shown but every day they look more male. I'll be surprised and pleased if either one shows female.
I've got a good problem...maybe a bad problem. My plants right now are as big as they've been the last 4 years when I harvest. I've got 10 weeks left of veg, and these fuckers are about 6ft already. Want to chop them down about 2-3 feet. Anyone see any major issues with this?
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Sounds like a good problem to have. Have you considered tying/bending the branches to lower them?
TychoMonolyth
Boreal Curing
You haven't even entered the stretch. lol
I never tried it, but if you top the side branches, you might be forcing it to expend it's energy on side growth.
Dankwolf
Active member
I get the same mag/ cal issue early in season . epsom salt and gypsum at 2/1 usually corrects issue . only happens second week in my big potters .
Had a storm blow through yesterday that dropped over 5 inches of rain and some hail in a few hours. I was glad I had these in pots and was able to bring them inside when the hail started. Two blueberry on the left a black pearl on the right. Still waiting for sex: maybe next year I'll try therevverend's method.
My C99 is in the bed already, so it got shelled by the hail along with my veggies. Looks like it'll pull through, not to sure what's causing the white lines on the leaves...some kind of pest maybe?
My C99 is in the bed already, so it got shelled by the hail along with my veggies. Looks like it'll pull through, not to sure what's causing the white lines on the leaves...some kind of pest maybe?
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Yea I’ve got another one I don’t have a pic of I’ve bent out pretty far. That ones my biggest.
I decided to do some experimenting and chopped the shit out of one of them today
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That’s what a buddy and I were saying. Fuckers will be 12 ft + if I don’t do anything ?
I don’t need that much dope. I grow for myself and friends ?
Problem, Yes. Pinching tops is one thing, "chopping" off 2-3 feet is quite another. You'll leave open hollow stems, that will "probably" become diseased.
Options in order of my preference are;
#1 Dig large hole, drop your plants down 4 feet. might be a bit of work, but best option.
#2 combination of some pruning, and a lot of training.
#3 Taller fence. Probably more work/expense than digging hole.
#4 security system to deter the night time poachers. Poachers can also come by day, security systems can be beat, and once one person sees them they tell 2 friends, and so on.
Rent mini excavator, be done in no time, reasonable cost. Bonus, won't have to mess with your nice plants.
40degsouth
Well-known member
Hey everyone,
Thereverand, I’ve chased my tail also with deficiencies and in my case, were lock outs, looked a lot like your Snow Queen male, but worse. It made me realise, some girls will and some girls wont!! even from the same seed batch. I’ve over fed and under fed....what a wonderful world.
How’s that Royal x 5gs Purple doing, did it make it??
Cheers,
40.
Thereverand, I’ve chased my tail also with deficiencies and in my case, were lock outs, looked a lot like your Snow Queen male, but worse. It made me realise, some girls will and some girls wont!! even from the same seed batch. I’ve over fed and under fed....what a wonderful world.
How’s that Royal x 5gs Purple doing, did it make it??
Cheers,
40.
First one down for the season
Crazy temps (Celcius)
Not much info on her, seed was a promo seed
She,from seed, had to endure temps, an average of 35C,partial shading
In her 18ltr pot,BioBizz LightMix,sprouted and pre flowered during a heatwave, when I decided not to give her any nutrients.Remained like that till the end
Aromas for now, sweet,fruit,a touch lemony,and,a sour smell, a clinical sour if that's acceptable
Great experience,very easy to grow
