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Clones in SoCal
- Thread starter BlackHaze
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Ah man you are in luck. So. Cal has some fertile ass soil now. With the record breaking rain totals this Winter (yes we had a winter this year) the ground Has been enriched. Anywhere along the west coast will give you some big tasty yeilds.2-5 pounds Nooooo Problem!
Get em in the ground now The equinox has passed!
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Get em in the ground now The equinox has passed!
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lester gas
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Blackhaze: all we can say is use mulch. Get a nice 4 to 6 inch layer of leaves or grass or kelp on the soil without directly touching the stalk. You wont be sorry and its free. Water crystals work great if you install them correctly. They allow you to go on vacation ifn your plants are'nt self-watered(swamp, spring or stream).
Socal people: try this just for grins. In your part of the west you can grow year round outdoors if you are well below the snow line -- especially in san diego area. Used to do it for personal stash and breeding. Start seeds in pots in september. When your main harvest is out of the ground a month or two later, transplant into the patch and (yes) mulch and fertilize. Next may you can have substantial chunks fresh off the vine-- with maybe a little bud rot but its worth it. You can then dose it with nitrogen and go for a fall harvest on the same plant but what I liked to do was kill the may plant and replace it with a fresh one I started a month earlier. Thus, if you breed a favorite line you get two generations a year, outdoors. Also, you dont have to water for most of the winter. The most extreme I did this was years and years ago with some strong columbians(red and gold). Two at death were 1 1/2 years old and one was 1 3/4 years old and had gone through several sets of bud before giving up the ghost. Also, used to grow haze variants over winter but couldnt seem to get a high yield. They grew like thai but even whimpier and with no hermies like most thai puts out. The plants overwinter were more vulnerable to insect attack than all the other strains I tried . Still, the smoke from these equatorial sativas was nice nice nice.
Socal people: try this just for grins. In your part of the west you can grow year round outdoors if you are well below the snow line -- especially in san diego area. Used to do it for personal stash and breeding. Start seeds in pots in september. When your main harvest is out of the ground a month or two later, transplant into the patch and (yes) mulch and fertilize. Next may you can have substantial chunks fresh off the vine-- with maybe a little bud rot but its worth it. You can then dose it with nitrogen and go for a fall harvest on the same plant but what I liked to do was kill the may plant and replace it with a fresh one I started a month earlier. Thus, if you breed a favorite line you get two generations a year, outdoors. Also, you dont have to water for most of the winter. The most extreme I did this was years and years ago with some strong columbians(red and gold). Two at death were 1 1/2 years old and one was 1 3/4 years old and had gone through several sets of bud before giving up the ghost. Also, used to grow haze variants over winter but couldnt seem to get a high yield. They grew like thai but even whimpier and with no hermies like most thai puts out. The plants overwinter were more vulnerable to insect attack than all the other strains I tried . Still, the smoke from these equatorial sativas was nice nice nice.
lester gas
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almost forgot: What is the deal with all that ditch weed in iowa? Was there last july and couldnt believe the thousands of giant sativa plants we saw growing right next to the road. Some were 7 feet in july! Did'nt try it cuz we'd heard it is powerless field hemp left over from ww2. But it set us to thinking.... if it looks about the same couldnt an enterprizing young hooligan slip some potent plants right in the middle of the patch? Sure he/she could. Besides, that plant is supposedly illegal, yet its everywhere we went in iowa. So I can dig that they cant have the manpower to truly erradicate this evil(non-potent)plant; but how can they then bust someone in iowa for growing the exact same species? What are leo then just potency police? They analyze and say " yours were potent so you are going down but your neighbor is ok cuz he didnt plant the bunk that volunteers on his property"? When did we become a nation of hall monitors? With cops who say"you didnt wipe your feet enough when you came in"? Mr.BLackhaze, there must be some kind of big growing scene in a state where it grows wild right?
