Hombre del Monte's garden.

[Hombre del mont]

Oh dear! Most of my life I worked with delusional people
I thought now I'd retired I'd finished with all that!
We'll have you next one though and it won't be down to the wire. (Now i hope in not being delusional).

Although it's not a Tuesday or a Friday, Mrs DM and I have decided to go down to the beach for a few hours to escape the humidity of the mountains today. We know how to live dangerously!

No real plant news today. No pictures anyway.
This morning I took a Killer, a Destroyer and a Zenith to a good friend.
Also this morning I took delivery of a very nice selection of India seeds. Thank you @revegeta666 . In going to attempt to grow some of these out of season.

I'm off now to beach for some rays

 

[Luiggi]

Hi there,

I am happy to announce you got followers @Hombre del mont. Last year I already did some extreme bending trying to keep canopy as close to the floor as I was able, however, this year I have decided to imitate your technique.

It is a Panama feminized.

I accidentally toped it (thought it was another plant I wanted to top) and it is taking a while to recover from the bending so the top is pointing down for a week or so but seems it is recovering little by little.

I know you do some pruning after bending but not sure how you do it. do you prune on 1st node of the secondary branches to keep buds at ground level (I mean 1st node in branches which are born out from primary branches). should I keep them a bit taller?

I think from your pictures you take out the fan leaves when bending them. Am I right?

Have a great day you all,

Luiggi

 

[CaptainLucky]

I've seen changes inn the 9 years I have been here.
From my armchair I can see a 2000m peak. At this time of year it should be covered still in snow. It's been clear for months! Same for the last few years
I remember 10 yrs ago seeing small patches still at the end of September.

Our area of Spain is irrigated from mountain springs and channelled to us by acequias. We are on a rota and each are supposed to get so many hours a week. Our acquia is dry.

Years ago they used to say abbot life in the high Alpujarras, "9 months of winter, 3 months of hell" . It's certainly not that these days.

I wonder what might be causing it all?

Global Warming? CL

 

[Hombre del mont]

@Luiggi , hi my friend.

I try and spread my plants out as evenly as I can across the ground.
Initially I grow them very close to the ground, but as the branches get longer I start to let then come away from the ground more, so that they are growing at an increasing angle from the ground.

Where the individual branches leave the main trunk I will remove the first 2 or 3 growing sites. Growing sites, not fan leaves or tips. This is to prevent what will later be the centre of the canopy being to over crowded.

Later, once they are flowering I will remove all the scrawny growth and all the buds sites that are lower down beneath the canopy.

I'll go out and take a couple of shots for you, where hopefully you can see what I mean about removing close to the junction of the main stem and it's side branches.

 

[Hombre del mont]

Two different plants (destroyer and destroyer 23x dc/thh).

I think you can see that I've removed the first couple of growing sites from the branches but left the fan leaves.

It's a sort of outdoor scrog grow but without the screen. I was an indoor grower for many years and I've adapted my techniques to try and keep them about waist height. TBH, I make it up as I go along to some extent. This year I'm going to try very hard not to do any serious pruning after mid July.

 

[Raco]

@revegeta666

 

[revegeta666]

@revegeta666

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[Raco]

 

[Raco]

Right now...19:56

 

[revegeta666]

Right now...19:56

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Same thing in Castellón for the whole next week.

I can't say I'm bothered by it in the leaast by the way

 

[Luiggi]

Hi all,

Thanks @Hombre del mont for explaining it so in detail and for taking those pictures on the flight.

I will try to do the same so to take care of the center of the canopy being not so crowded. I would love them not to get taller than half a metter so probably will have to bent them closer to the ground for longer than you do. As you said, in my case, I prefer to do not prune them after mid july so to let them relaxed for the flowering period but I think I will still bend them along july before pre-flowering signs are getting into flowering signs and probably a bit more. By the way @Hombre del mont I saw your branches do twisting when bent too. I thought I was doing something wrong but I guess is how the plant reacts to that hard bending.

All the others, here it is rainy too but I am happy since it means guerrilla plants are getting watered with no effort.

Salud,

Luiggi

 

[blondie]

I was in Spain a few years before the pandemic. I thought about visiting dubi but I stayed more north. Rented a car in Barcelona and roadtripped west. Lots of fun.. wish I realized a bunch of you guys might have been on my route. I didn’t have bud for three weeks!! Nice country, nice people. Just nice.

 

[Luiggi]

If you did go west your route for sure crossed near me.

Barcelona seems not to be a place where it is difficult to score some weed since CSCs are all around.

Anyway I am not sure I was in this forum by that time. Or probably I was but not that active.

cheers,

Luiggi

 

[Eltitoguay]

...No os preocupeis los norteños, que aquí estamos los de "la demás tierra conquistada", para hacer media y poder mantener en todo lo alto lo de "el País del Sol Ardiente"... Porqué lo que se predice para la campiña de la capital del antiguo Califato y la sierra al norte, no deja de ascender...

...Y refrescante airecillo del Sahara...

Así, por la noche y sin aire acondicionado, "no se arrima ni paya ni gitana", primos...

 

[Hombre del mont]

Buenas tardes a todo,

It's been 11 days since I last posted, so I thought it's about time I did.

I think it's safe to say that the rain has finished for the next few months and that the heat will continue to ramp up.
The last few days the temperature has dropped to a pleasant 32-34c.

This morning was an interesting one.
After a break of almost 3 years, I restarted teaching Tai Chi.
I stopped teaching during Covid and then all of last year i was somewhat incapacitated with my big bollocks.
I'd had quite a few people asking me to do it again, so I thought, "why not".
Only 6 of us (I deliberately kept it small), but we had a really good session. I'd forgotten how much I enjoy teaching.

Anyway, enough of my rambling; I know you want to see plants and possibly a bit of beautiful Spanish mountain scenery.

First up week have the hazes. These are the most recent plants to be started and i'm sorry to say, they got a little neglected.

They were initially started off in small terracotta pots (too small!) and twice suffered from a lack of water. That allowed the white fly to get them. They've very recently got potted up into white fabric "pots" and are a lot happier. The 4 on the left are the Icmag Haze, with the Green haze on the right.

Destroyer 2005

In the second picture you can see the main stem (centre of picture) where it goes into the ground and that generally the plant is fairly well spread out in all directions.
In the last picture you can see how all the tops are at the same height, or there abouts. Had I left this plant untrained already it would be well over a meter.

 

[Hombre del mont]

Next up we have a sneaky Destroyer male that's hiding under the lemon tree. He doesn't get as much light as any of my other plants and it's stretching for the light, but I will use him for cuttings that hopefully I'll force flower for some pollen.

Not much to say about him really other than grew growing really well and is a meter tall already despite being topped a 3 weeks ago. These Destroyers are extremely vigorous for old seeds. That must say a lot for the original genetics, no?

 

[Hombre del mont]

Double post.

 

[pipeline]

Thats great, those plants are so low, looks like a groundcover! Nice job the training!

Looking great! Plants are moving along well! Where does the ICMAG Haze come from?

The Destroyer from old seed does look pretty vigorous! How was the germination success rate on it? Do you plan on reproducing the line to make new seed soon? Usually breeders do that every 10 years or earlier. Would be a good idea to remake if you want to preserve the line!

Thanks for sharing! Glad you had a good morning, it is good to teach and share what you know! Most of the time, you end up learning something new yourself!

 

[Hombre del mont]

Next in the Hombres Garden is the
Zenith.

This is, if you remember, a replacement for the first Zenith which the snails did for, so she's not been in the ground as long as the Destroyers and she was started one month later.
I only started training her 3 days ago and 2 days ago she was topped.

So, the next plant in the show should be the Zamal x Jamaican blue mountain/Thai A5.
Some how I managed to select a boy! In all my years of growing weed it's only the 3 or 4th time I've done it. Admittedly for years I was growing clones from my own mothers, but I've sexed a lot of plants in my time. My eyes are not what that were by any means, but there's really no excuse.
Both the spares were also boys. 3 out of 3, unusual but not unheard of.

Usually by this time of year I've given all my spare girls to friends, but luckily I had another zenith in a pot.
So in place of the ZxBJM/TA5 we have another Zenith and a double chance of getting the "climbing the walls" pheno.

I've only taken the one photo; she's been in the ground 3 or 4 days and has not yet got her feet down.

 

[Hombre del mont]

Destroyer#23 x DC/TTH.

Another vigorous plant. She was started the same time as the Destroyers, so the eve of the full moon in April. That makes her 3 moons old today!
In the first picture you can easily see the stem where it comes out of the ground, roughly in the centre of the growth.

Ok, the last of the plants for this week.

Killer A5 haze

She took her time to get going after being attacked initially by the snails but now she's gong, she's going! I started training her just over a week ago I think and she's been topped, but in really struggling to keep the top of the plant down, as you can probably see from the first two pictures, (the top of the plant is on the right). The last picture has my for foot scale.
She's 2month from starting germination today.

I think that's it for today.

In not going to mention the cricket, other than to say Stokes is a fine batsman and played a blinder. Congratulations to the Aussies.