Late Summer Back Yard - Purple Kush, White Widow, AK-47

[inverse]

Hey all

I started off the spring with a guerrilla grow of Rose Bud, Deep Chunk / Strawberry Cough, and Purple Kush. Delicious strains, and the rose bud was a personal drought resistant strain in development. Unfortunately the deers got to them, followed by the pests, followed by the East Bay Conservation Corps. Basically it was my first out door and i was sloppy, careless, and ran a poor guerrilla grow. That was a complete loss...very depressing

I just got a new place with a backyard however. I am a medical patient here in the east bay and this grow will be CA legal. However, i don't want to arouse any attention at all...so i will try and grow other plants to hide the MJ. The backyard is very bare and brown right now, but hopefully that will all change in the upcoming week

I started these plants - 3 White Widow, 3 Purple Kush, 6 AK-47 on august 23rd from clones. I know it's late but hopefully ill be able to yield decently from them...here in the bay we have extremely sunny and hot indian summers...with first rains usually arriving the first week of november. The white widows will go on until probably the mid to end of november...but if it gets too wet i can bring them indoors to finish in my closet

Here are my plans for the garden:

From left to right: Unknown Salvia cuttings from my friends yard which grow super tall and MJ like, rock wool cubes with Rivea Corymbosa, Peruvian Torch, and Sinuichichi seeds germinating. The two on the right are E. Coca seeds hopefully germinating.

My bare herb garden in it's current (and temporary) state. The girls are in 5 gal pots with Organic Moonshine Mix. In the foreground you see Wild Dagga, Rosemary, and Lavender just starting out. Also notice the three trenches which will be lined with hardware cloth (damn gophers) and turned into herb gardens on tuesday when the hydro shops open up

week old little girls loving the sunny CA skies

The white widow is thriving in this indian summer heat

My veggie garden before being born


Will update soon with garden transformation pics

 

[rollinfatty]

nice job inverse...im gonna keep an eye on this one.

Peruvian torch from seed? keep us updated on that too....i hear the cactii from seeds are usually more potent but i don't have the patience to wait that long haha.

i recently chopped one of my peruvian torches to try with an acid base extraction (my buddy had a ton of san pedro cuttings)....didn't work out so well...a lot of time/effort/money gone. anyways good luck bro.

 

[Cannasseur]

Loving the strain choices my friend! AK-47 and White Widow have a home with a solid foundation in my garden. Looks like a lot of care will go into this operation, a late harvest is better than nothing, I'll be watching anxiously for the next update! Good luck with this run.

 

[inverse]

Big update today...lots of pics



Morning glory which should take to my back fence with vigor...

Wild Dagga growing big and ready to explode with orange blooms

This coral brugmansia should put out pink, wonderfully scented flowers once it grows

little baby peruvian torch

Heres a Cielo (Yellow) Banisteriopsis Caapi rooted plant i just recieved in the mail trying to acclimate to my semi arid desert like valley. I hope she pulls through!

And finally what you've been waiting for...

the yard as it is now (still sorta barren...the seedlings can't grow fast enough to hide my mj )

The purple kush is already quite dense. She smells of overripe mangos / fruit. Lovely little nuggs, but shes quite short:

Here we have a white widow with a special friend on her leaf . Her buds smell faintly of citrus...quite distinguishable as white widow by smell alone

another angle:

up close buddage. Shes the slowest to frost...will be growing weeks after my others have been cut...good thing shes mold/mildew resistant

Here we have an ak-47...which also smells like delicious fruit right now. medium height...some of the ak's are still quite puny. should be dank smoke...my indoor grown ak as my first grow was dank and i screwed up on her.

So far no need for nutrients added...i doubt i will need to add nutrients at all for the growth cycle...my soil was quite loaded with organic goodies to start with...

i will be adding molases (sp?) in a couple weeks

 

[guerrilla]

nice garden. any updates?

 

[inverse]

The rain has come, and hopefully gone. My little plants are bulking up. I'd say the ak's and pk's have 2.5 to 3 weeks left to go, and i think the white widow wont be done for another 4-5 weeks, maybe more. that should be interesting, lol

Since my plants are not of impressive stature, these are bud shots to give you an idea of their quality

AK-47:

Purple Kush:

White Widow...still really skinny with the buds, but like 3 times taller than everything else:

garden after rain:

papaver:

caapi:

 

[Marcellas]

Hey man, lookin good!! I'm growing a PurpleKushXHaze cross, the grower I got it from calls it BlueCottonCandy or PurpleHaze.. My plant also stayed short and has a bit of an over-ripened fruit smell, but more like a PurpleHaze(Grape-scented) Blunt or like cotton-candy/fruit.. My plant is super frosty and turning some great bright purple/bluish colors!! She smells so good but she started budding late for some reason so she's finishing real late for my area (43N)

 

[inverse]

Hey man, lookin good!! I'm growing a PurpleKushXHaze cross, the grower I got it from calls it BlueCottonCandy or PurpleHaze.. My plant also stayed short and has a bit of an over-ripened fruit smell, but more like a PurpleHaze(Grape-scented) Blunt or like cotton-candy/fruit.. My plant is super frosty and turning some great bright purple/bluish colors!! She smells so good but she started budding late for some reason so she's finishing real late for my area (43N)

yeah, that over-ripened fruit smell is the purple kush in the cross...mine smells so delightful, not really like weed at all. That smell will actually change once you cut it/cure it into a less fruity/sweet aroma. You got any pics of your plant? it sounds great

 

[Marcellas]

Just cell phone pics right now but I'll be sure to bring my cam next time I go out.. Definatly smells more like a desert than something you'd smoke!!

 

[teddybud]

looks good!

 

[TheSg]

wow quite the list of psychoactives inverse, wish I had the OG rosebud n' hey yours sounds like a great breed.

 

[inverse]

thanks for stopping by guys

 

[sound healer]

Hey Inverse

Nice grow you got goin on, I like the maze of assorted plants

Are those the cuts from blue sky...i'm pretty sure they may be as I'm in the general area as well and picked up a purple kush, ak-47 and white widow (along with bubblegum) there... Sort of same situation i threw the PK and AK outside early august...they're starting to finish up !!! nothing to look at yeild wise, but ooof quality is all there...much like your crop

i commend you!

Just built a cold frame and i'm gonna see about stretching out another cycle or two till spring! lovely mild cali weather...

peace

- sound healer

 

[inverse]

hey sound healer,

Yeah, as you guessed they are all blue sky cuts. It sounds like you put yours out a little bit earlier than mine...mine weren't out until the last days of august (lol). judging from my most recent pics would you say your plants are ahead of mine?

my pk just started showing shades of purple on her upper leaves / bud sites


i'm really interested in that cold frame you're talking about. i'd love to grow another crop outdoors this winter...mind sharing your plans / details?


edit: my 420th post

 

[esbe]

wonderful frosty garden!

congratz on 420!

 

[sound healer]

Inverse -

My plants look maybe a week or two older than your most current pic...i put them out like early early august or maybe even late july, though I think august, hah. Though i must say, because of security issues my blue sky babies spend most time in partial shade So these factors weigh in as well, yours look like they bathe in some generous sun so we're pretty much pulling even (though you'll see the frosty factor and the stink factore explode over the next week or two, mine just did)

Yea! the PK is starting to turn a purple edge on the buds. Are you planning on going the 10 weeks as the oaksterdam booklet says for the leaves and all to go purple?

The cold frame was a success...though I am no builder and actually have to say my girlfriend did most of the work haha...just take some wood and make a box shape with some hinges for a top sloped downwards that you can open/close...then get some builder plastic sheet, the kind that can hold concrete, and screw it in the wood and plastic so that it's like a mini greenhouse box...you could use old windows too i guess...man i don't know, but i'm sure there's some info online and it may be even more fun to just smoke a joint and get some power tools and wood and see through plastic material and go carpenter!

- sound healer

 

[inverse]

thanks esbe!

sound healer - yeah the smell is starting to become quite a bit of a security concern...its not IF my neighbors smell it...but WHEN they do, how will they react? I'm growing tiny plants but im still a few over county limit

the purple kush is getting more purple every morning i check her. ii'm going to grow her until shes got about 30% amber trics...if shes not completely purple, so be it. The first time i grew her, only half the buds turned purple. *sigh*

i definitely like that cold box idea...i am planning a breeding project for this winter so a little mini greenhouse outdoors might be a great place to keep my males away from the girlies indoors. what are you doing about ventilation in the box? you including a fan?

 

[sound healer]

hmmm didn't think of ventilation, how you use it for just normal garden plants doesn't require fans if you just open it every day...i'm planning on leaving the top cracked open, and there's air flowing underneath as the ground it is on isn't quite level...this is something i'll just have to play with as i learn as this will be my first time with the cold frame.

if you get any 'cool' ideas let me know!

- sound healer

 

[inverse]

little update

things goin smoothly...although the ww and ak are not growing as fast as i would like

Purple Kush turning that nice color

AK-47 needs to put on some weight

White widow smells so damn delicious...like lemon candy. It's super crystally too...cant capture it on the camera yet though. shes about 2.5 feet tall:

 

[arne564]

They look great. How old are they?