Canadian Auto's organic and Outside

[Dr Psycho]

This is my attempt to grow some tough outdoor auto-s and semi autos in the great outdoors. They are all strains and hybrids of my own making.
Anklebiter ( Mighty Mite x Eastern Purple selected for 10 years for early flowering)
#1( AnklebiterxstuporsonicxM39
Haleys Comet x Anklebiter
Sweetooth x AnkleBiter
Anklebiter x Sweetooth x Stuporsonic
Early Wonder Skunk x Sweetooth x Anklebiter ( Picked a very potent and fast EWS mom .https://www.icmag.com/ic/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=722064&ppuser=63882
I soaked my beans in a sea-weed solution over night and then between two paper towels soaked in the same solution until they cracked open. I like to plant as soon as they pop and not wait for long tails IMHO this leadsa to more vigourous seedlings. The sea-weed is an over all tonic and seems to lead to better ratios of females.
the Anklebiter xstuporsonicxM39 came from clones I took 3 weeks prior to planting my seeds, This hybrid is prone to hermaphrodism so i thought it safer to start with a true female and take cuttings.
I planted my seeds in my own potting mix 1/3 compost 1/3 vermiculite 1/3 peat moss fortified w/kelp meal and Gaia Green Organic Power Bloom w/ dolomite lime. I throw a cup of each in each wheelbarrow of soil. I fill the bottom two inches of 500 ml beer cups with 4 drain holes cut in the side w/ coarse coco fiber and place them in shallow rubbermaid tubs I pour about an inch 2.5 cm of seaweed and Vitamax solution mixed per manufacturers specs in the bottom and sprinkle the soil surface w/ the same after I'm done planting the seeds . I got about 90 seedling survival with this method. Very little damping off. I'm ruthless about pulling scrawny seedlings or weak clones I have lots of seeds so no need to limp anything along.

 

[Dr Psycho]

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_j40purD6Z9E/TAlvq9NJP2I/AAAAAAAABCM/Wo6s6DmCBwc/s128/IMGP2097.JPG
This is AnklebiterxM39xstuporsonicxsweetooth, finishing in a green house after 4 weeks under a 1000w HPS even though we are getting 20hrs of daylight it is making no attempt to revert to vegf growth

 

[jimmy carter]

I will be watching your girls. I too have some autos (although Nirvana, not canadian genetics) going out of doors and organic in the true north strong and free.

Best of luck to you.

Former President Yimmy Carter

 

[Dr Psycho]

This is a Haleys Comet x Anklebiter Male flowering at 5 weeks from seed. This is months earlier than the HC mom which wouldn't quite finish at this Latitude but produced some seeds for this cross.

 

[Dr Psycho]

Sorry about the photos ,I;m having all sorts of problems uploading. The one I posted is of seedlings at 31/2 weeks under 240 watts of cfls ready to go to the green house for a week of hardening off before they head outside. I've been at it for twenty years and pulled 19 harvests so I'm confident I'll get something, just don't know how some of these hybrids will perform at this latitude and altitude. I tried Sweetooth and Haleys Comet last year and they were too late but the Anklebiter should move up the flowering date. On it's own it finishes in late July, if the seeds are started the first of May. Unfortunately the taste is lackluster and the stone is potent but very sleepy.
I think the Cross will help because 1 of the Haleys comet males showed at 5 weeks and a female at 6.http://lh3.ggpht.com/_j40purD6Z9E/TAlvul0TniI/AAAAAAAABCY/pQKDNJ0vqvc/s720/IMGP2102.JPG

 

[Dr Psycho]

Hey Jimmy Carter! I liked your work in the seventies, didja really smoke one with Willie Nelson in the whiteHouse LOL. Best of luck to you, which NIrvana strains are you growing? I grew Early MIsty Last summer and It sucked big time- The seeds were okay i got 7 out of 10 to pop and grow but only 2 plants flowered at all and the Bud from them tasted like burnt coffee with a sleepy boring stone. I got one really tasty Mazar out of the freebies but I had to finish inside.

 

[Dr Psycho]

Yesterday I hiked into the spot and did some work. It has been cool and wet but my Haleys comet x Anklebiter are two feet tall and putting on newleaves and showing some nice female hairs. The SweetoothxAnklebiterxStuporsonic clones are growing slower and have lots of purple on the leaf petioles and some u.v burn on the lower leaves, they are vere bushy which I find surprising I grew three crops from the same mothers inside this winter and they grew like fence-posts mostly a main cola and a couple sets of lower nugs. You never know what a plant will do until you put it out in nature.
Everything else is still under cover , the AB pure, ABxSwt, and #1 are in the green house hiding behind the tomatoes with a fan blowing on them. I just planted the Early Wonerskunk X and had 19 out of 20 seeds come up in the first 3 days.
Last fall I got a pick up load of well rotted cow manure from a Rancher friend, I hauled it as far as I could by truck and then wheel barrowed it the rest of the way into a clearcut.
The clear cut was selectively logged to remove beetle killed pines so there are still other trees left to provide a bit of cover, I also made sure that all tree-planting in the area was done for the year and the road was de-activated. Hence the wheel-barrow.
I found a place situated roughly N-S alignment with morning sun and wind off a small lake. The lake is close enough to provide water and Lots of MOsquitoes to keep away hikers, the lake is not good for fishing and is quite remote. The spot I chose had been scraped down to the clay by a logging machine so I made a raised bed w/ some fallen logs that were left on the block and left my soil there for the winter. Yesterday I hiked in with a Pulaski ( Mattock on 1 end axe on the other) and a shovel, I turned all the compost over twice and
mixed in some of the native clay soil- it is high in phospates and micro nutrients but needs to be areated w/ lot of organic matter in order to grow anything, I also added a bag of alfalfa pellets and some dolomite lime. I used to add bone-meal but find it is too attractive to both bears and porcupines , both of which are very plentiful in the area. I added kelp meal when I put out the dirt last fall. I found some tree roots and quackgrass were creeping into my pile on one end so those had to be chopped out with the Pulaski. It started to rain after I finished so I'll be able to plant soon!

 

[Puffster]

Dr psycho: Real interesting stuff this, I love seeing grows of early outdoor genetics not widely available. I am real interested in that Anklebiter strain of yours and would love some details and pics

I take a big interest in Canadian outdoor genetics and I frequent another forum where the only thing discussed is early canadian genetics, you guys have an impressive variety going on over there and we are faaar from this yet in scandinavia, we mostly grow early Danish strains like Nepal \ Typhoon plus alot of different autos over here (I am at 60deg north @ Norway)

Anklebiter - start in may, harvest in july is very impressive. How is the yield and high? I've grown mighty mite, guerilla gold and bonkers in Norway, all but the Bonkers finished. Very impressed with the results.

 

[Bighill]

can't wait for pics.

 

[Dr Psycho]

Puffster, Ankle biter took ten summers of my life, it throws two phenos a two foot single cola and a 16 inch bush. The yeild is usually around 50-60 grams. It has a stong piney smell, with a potent Indica high that is a little sleepy for my taste. The flavour is greasy, with thick smoke and a earthy taste on the exhale. The Bubble hash is sweet and piney like the best Lebanese. It passes on its early flowering and general heartyness easily withstanding -5c of frost and a couple years ago a Californian Friend who had a medical card grew some out in his back yard in 100F + 40 c heat with a good yeild He started april 1 and harvested july 1 . what i'm trying this year is Making hybrids with sweeter tasting more satva influence plants. IN oder to get them to finish here 54 N by mid-sept. and ad better taste and yeild,

 

[Dr Psycho]

Hey Bighill-I hope I have betterl uck posting photos than I have been, Early flowering strains will revolutionize cannabis cultivation with people in temperate areas being able to grow 2 or three crops a year outside and people in Northen and Southren latitude being able to take advantage of remote areas far from the eyes of the oppressors.

 

[Dr Psycho]

I hike out this morning and put in some Anlkebiter X sweetooth and #1

 

[Dr Psycho]

The girls have all survived transplanting and the weather is warming up-I have to be awy for work for a while but before I go I'll prepare my soil for my Early Wonderskunk grow. For the bottom of the pots I soak a bale of coarse mulch grade coco coir in warm water in a wheel barrow. I rinse it once to get any salt out. I put 4-5 inches of this in my 12 liter pots and then fill the top with my regular potting mix. This acts ast an airy spnge for the roots.
My Potting mix
for each pot ( All measures are aprroxaimate)
1/4 cup ( 75) Mls Gaia Green Power bloom ( Or what ever organic fertilizer you have on hand. ) 2-8-4 is the analysis on this one and i've had great luck with it and it's not too expensive 15-17$ C for 3 KIlos
4 liters compost
4 liters peat moss or fine coco
1/4 cup kelp meal
1/4 cup fine dolomite lime.
It's great if you can let this sit for 2 or 3 weeks before you use it.
This is alot thicket and less airy than what I would use inside
but light mixes with lots of perlite just dry out too fast here and my work keeps me away from my plants for up to a week at a time
I find this is a great compromise that bears results.
If I were growing longer flowering strains I would use 20 0r 25 liter pails but for a strain thats done in 12 weeks thes should be fine.

 

[Dr Psycho]

http://picasaweb.google.ca/littlebearranch/Cannabiss?locked=true#5479033333680315746
tHIS IS THE HALEYS COMET X ANKLEBITER OUT IN THE FOREST, THIS IS A PLANTER MY BROTHER AND i MADE A COUPLE YEARS AGO FROM A PICK UP BED LINER WE RESCUED FROM THE DUMP. THIS IS VERY HEARTY CROSS WE HAD -3 THE OTHER NIGHT AND IT WAS COMPLETELY UNFAZED.

 

[Dr Psycho]

I'm back and have been busy maintaining the garden. While I was away , we had hard frosts, hail. 25mm of rain in 20 minutes and some strong winds. The good news is no plants were lost, the bad news is that my sweet-tooth crosses are set back and lost alot of lower leaves to frost. The further bad news is that of 10 of my pure Ankle-biters 8 were males. Fortunately I had some Early Wonder skunk seelings to fill the holes in the beds. The Best so far are the Haleys comet x Ankle Biter I got 8 females out of ten seedlings and they are all starting to form buds -21/2 to 3 ft tall with thick stalks and long jagged Sativa Looking leaves- I'm just praying for better weather.

 

[Dr Psycho]

Better weather is here and the girls are growing like stalks of corn! I treated the frost/wind dammaged ones with a foliar spray of compost tea today and they are greening up but the structure forf large yeilds is not there. The Early wonderskunk is proving to be fast and hardy-the frost on the 1st of july fazed it not at all, It grows light green where all the other strains are showing dark green and w/ purple tips and stems, temps are in the upper 20-'s and lots of sun so I'm expecting good things.

 

[Lume]

yes isnt it hot summer weather now canadian ways July......more watering more often , outside mine blossoming finer now also

 

[Lume]

Did urs finish ok Dr Psycho?--------Just fantastic finish here...like early this year outdoor AF ...yum.......the heatwave only help them finish sooner and well,with some xtra watering in a well seasoned flowerbed.

 

[Bighill]

I was wondering how yours did this summer Dr.

It seems like my spot was the only place in the whole country that was cold and wet all summer. I didn't have to water them once this year. I had my 2nd frost last night, so i think my season is done. I am not optimistic. Been a banner shite year, that is for sure! I can count on one hand how many overnight lows i had that were double digits. I should have been out east.

Can't wait until the next year

Updates on yours?

Bh.

 

[Dr Psycho]

Well, sorry I've been away, work family etc. My camera has died so no Picts, the weatherhas been cool for the last couple weeks, smoke and forest fires before that. I had to pull alot of my sweettooth crosses as they were not flowering by aug 14. My Ankle biters are almost done, dark green and very bushy, strong pine smell but not as frosty as some others. The Haleys comet X anklebiters have been very strong, they could be sliced now but I seeded a few branches so will wait another week. Very frosty with a dank lemony aroma and light green buds. it's taking alot of self control not to get scissor happy. No frost yet so I'm okay. The Number 1 crosses were kind of spindly and weak with low yeilds, around an ounce, but the nugs are tight and skunky, starting to purple up w/ the cool nights. Another success is the sweettooth x Early wonder-skunk 50 percent of them were very fast I started the seeds June 2 and they will been done in a week, very fat sticky single colas, the other half are just starting to flower and will be sacrifice to the learning curve. I made seeds w/ HC anklebiter crossed to itself and to sweetoothxstuporsonic which is not an auto but will finish around the end of Sept. With some of the best quality ever for my personal tastes ( sweet sweet flavours with an up , yet relaxing high) No mold in any of the strains so far. will try and keep you posted as I harvest.