Malawi x Panama fem & Malawi x PCK

[orfeas]

The screen has gone out of sight and things are getting tough...been knitting and bending and topping and all every single bloody day!
They grow frantically them girls... don't know when they're going to come to a halt, hopefully some time soon for I already can't reach the centre of the screen...will have to get meself a stool or something or long blade hand pruners to gain some access to it...

So here goes the nether world and the one above...

Orpheus

 

[Azure]

Keep up the good work buddy! Looking great!

 

[blue_tick]

orfeas is that the 2 x 2 wire your using for the support. Is this what you would use on the bamboo poles

 

[blue_tick]

orfeas you been in here. I just read the whole grow here. looking good man.

keep up the good work

 

[orfeas]

orfeas is that the 2 x 2 wire your using for the support. Is this what you would use on the bamboo poles

Come in here dear boy have a cigar...

The Jamaldelica I have uploaded in your thread is literally out in the open and the bamboo poles will be used to support the heavy branches later on when they become heavy by tying them to the poles or I may tie shorter bamboo canes horizontally around the upright ones creating a horizontal pentagon up on which the branches will rest...
I'll take a photo when done so you can have an idea...


Orpheus

 

[blue_tick]

thanks orfeas I will be watching for this. you have some monsters going brother. thanks for the cigar now I will watch the show

 

[therevverend]

You're really going all out vs the mold this year. Hope it stacks the odds in your favor.
The weather up here has been crazy over 80 almost every day since May. My girls are at 3 meters and growing fast.
The long term forecast for my region is above average warmth and below average rain through October of next year. There is a pool of warm water off the coast and it's an el nino year. It's making for one of the few droughts my wet soggy land has ever seen.

 

[orfeas]

Azure, flboy, thank you for the encouragement!

Therevverend, glad the weather's going on that way!
Over here it's been quite benevolent for the whole stretch with every aspect being moderate a real minimum amount of pests, a caterpillar here and a grasshopper there hardly any thrips or spidermites so far but enough PM & botrytis on my vine but being laden with grapes I am sure it'll provide my dinner table with enough sweeties...

As for the girls, the 5G's are doing fine at two metres now and the GrapeApes a little shorter but they seem to have kicked into flowering...will upload some pics in my album when I crawl into the bushes...

Orpheus

 

[orfeas]

The sun's been blazing with temps above 35 C but the nether world is cool as if air-conditioned and ~150 lt water every 3-4 days keeps it even cooler...

Knitting I do no more, time for long hand pruners and clip-clip-clip the beheading goes on...

The Jamaldelica in the last picture is steaming ahead at over 6 ft now with many a yellow fan leaves, but normal for her...

@Therevverend
My album's been updated...

Orpheus

 

[dubi]

Hi orfeas,

Here the summer is coming also extremely hot, with daily temps around 35ºC.
Plants growing mad, but there's also a higher risk to suffer plagues and fungus, and the gardening work is terrible during the day.

I'm enjoying a lot with your huge outdoor bushes, especially with Zamaldelica and the new Malawi x Panama F1, looks like is going to be a great season there

 

[orfeas]

Hi orfeas,

Here the summer is coming also extremely hot, with daily temps around 35ºC.
Plants growing mad, but there's also a higher risk to suffer plagues and fungus, and the gardening work is terrible during the day.

I'm enjoying a lot with your huge outdoor bushes, especially with Zamaldelica and the new Malawi x Panama F1, looks like is going to be a great season there

Hola dubi!

things have gone wild temperature wise and it's been hitting 40s for the last couple of days forcing me to water my pot plants daily...pest and fungus still at bay... hope it stays like that

As for your enjoying my bushes, "If you don't praise your own house, it'll collapse on you" they say in my neck of woods...
But seriously now, they are among the most vigorous plants I have ever come to grow and I relish the awe-inspiration they bring on...
Did I have a more appropriate growing spot, I'd surely be an all around contented grower!

Orpheus

 

[therevverend]

Always impressed by your ass kicking sea of green. I'm watering daily also we have temps reaching 90 degrees F which is near record breaking. I'm finding some powdery mildew on a few of my container plants especially on clones from a friend. I considered culling them but figured if there's spores about there's spores about the strong will survive.
I've never had big mildew problems like a lot of other growers around here. It's the boytritis that hurts me. Here's a few pics, size is between 2 and 3 meters.
https://www.icmag.com/ic/picture.php?albumid=61315&pictureid=1476244
https://www.icmag.com/ic/picture.php?albumid=61315&pictureid=1476242
And looking up at the canopy..
https://www.icmag.com/ic/picture.php?albumid=61315&pictureid=1476243
Last year I was able to start a few Malawis and Viet/Thais to replace the males I culled. I moved them inside to finish under HIDs in October. Can't do it this year I'm right at the limit of my plant count because I have so many females. Never seen anything like it.
All my plants in the ground are female. I counted on a couple males to ease the overcrowding. Oh well, some problems aren't that bad.

 

[Bleiweis]

orfeas...im in a similar situation also about the screen going wild. Do you prune the tops also or just the bottoms? I've just pruned the bottoms for better air circulation but now im considering to clip away the smaller tops also? Don't know what to do :/

 

[orfeas]

Always impressed by your ass kicking sea of green. I'm watering daily also we have temps reaching 90 degrees F which is near record breaking. I'm finding some powdery mildew on a few of my container plants especially on clones from a friend. I considered culling them but figured if there's spores about there's spores about the strong will survive.
I've never had big mildew problems like a lot of other growers around here. It's the boytritis that hurts me. Here's a few pics, size is between 2 and 3 meters.
https://www.icmag.com/ic/picture.php?albumid=61315&pictureid=1476244
https://www.icmag.com/ic/picture.php?albumid=61315&pictureid=1476242
And looking up at the canopy..
https://www.icmag.com/ic/picture.php?albumid=61315&pictureid=1476243
Last year I was able to start a few Malawis and Viet/Thais to replace the males I culled. I moved them inside to finish under HIDs in October. Can't do it this year I'm right at the limit of my plant count because I have so many females. Never seen anything like it.
All my plants in the ground are female. I counted on a couple males to ease the overcrowding. Oh well, some problems aren't that bad.

gotta love that greenery, man...so soothing to sore eyes
too many females was my problem last year, but like you said some problems aren't that bad...
is that cedar in the background?
btw the 5G's have kicked into real flowering and if they don't flower that long then end September will be the time...

orfeas...im in a similar situation also about the screen going wild. Do you prune the tops also or just the bottoms? I've just pruned the bottoms for better air circulation but now im considering to clip away the smaller tops also? Don't know what to do :/

mind you, this outdoor scrog is my first attempt ever, so I go a little blind...yet I am quite familiar with pruning and particularly the intensive one...
so everything(except for some fan leaves) below the screen has been removed, no sunlight there...as for the tops, I prune the ones overgrowing to create a level uniform canopy...
I might do some thinning later for I see the density getting out of hand...

Orpheus

 

[therevverend]

It is a Western Hemlock. No relation to Socrates' bane it is a conifer. One of the iconic trees around here with Douglas Firs and western cedars it's a beautiful tree. Our forests out here are amazing. Sitka Spruce is another beautiful one although the loggers have got most of them. I imagine the same has happened to most of your cedars.

 

[therevverend]

Went into the garden for a male check today to finalize what is male and female. On two of the plants I thought were female I was shocked to find this.

I'm not too disappointed because the strain is Early Spear. It is from Mendocino County from one of the best growers I've known. He's semi retired now and isn't doing much serious breeding any more. There was only a few seeds so I'm glad to have the chance to make more.

 

[orfeas]

It is a Western Hemlock. No relation to Socrates' bane it is a conifer. One of the iconic trees around here with Douglas Firs and western cedars it's a beautiful tree. Our forests out here are amazing. Sitka Spruce is another beautiful one although the loggers have got most of them. I imagine the same has happened to most of your cedars.

I hear you loud and clear on the forest bit having had a chance to catch a glimpse of the Vancouver forest grandeur...
As for cedar, it used to be indigenous to Greece but I think it's been extinct for long now and the nearest place you can see it is Cyprus where I was really astounded to see upright conifer cones.

Back to business now...

 

[orfeas]

...did quite a lot of thinning the other day almost a sack full of waste...topping here and there as well...no signs of flowering yet only a few pistils scattered around...no particular smells either only a vague cannabis smell...
gave them a last shower of a sulphur dilution hoping to deter mould

Orpheus

 

[konopenko]

Looks superb Orfeas bro, we can not imagine how will they look after 3 weeks of strech

 

[orfeas]

Kono mate, glad you like what you see!
Yet how I wish you were wrong about those three weeks for I am already nearing the safety height and I can only hope those lush girls won't stretch much

Btw magnificent picture the one with the sun setting behind the mountain ridge.

Orpheus