Maria's Subtropical Outdoor Guerilla Grows with Connoisseur Genetics (Perpetual Journal)

[Maria Sanchez]

O. I planted out a couple of the SSSTN (Sticky) x ThaiFrican seedlings today at Garden 2.
Still have a few of them on the balcony.
Will plant the rest out over the next week.
But doing a trial of a couple first, see how the go in the new site.

 

[Maria Sanchez]

Some rain yesterday and today at the main garden.
Makes me more confident that the girls will be okay.
Will probably visit on the weekend, and this rain plus the new compost boxes will last until then for sure.

 

[ojd]

Some rain yesterday and today at the main garden.
Makes me more confident that the girls will be okay.
Will probably visit on the weekend, and this rain plus the new compost boxes will last until then for sure.

Don't let them get to dry

 

[Maria Sanchez]

Don't let them get to dry

I'm trying!
There's been some good rain these two days, so the rainy season may be starting soon.
And the big boxes and extra compost will mean they should go for over a week without needing watering.
I think this shouldn't be much of a problem from this point on.

 

[Maria Sanchez]

Spring-Summer Grow -- Maria among the Hazes!

Day 113

How is everyone today?
Let's start with some bats, shall we?

After a week with both good sun but also a couple of rainfalls, I was interested to see how the girls would be doing in their new boxes with the wild compost.
Eight days since the last visit, which would normally mean they would be very thirsty.
But the extra size etc. has them looking good.
The SSSTN girls a little thirsty (I think?), and the others all good.

A few family pics:

This is looking kind of sourth, so this isn't their best / sunny side.
Left: (Reveg) SSSTN x 2
Mid: Grail x ThaiFrican x 2, Lemon 'n' Lime Jones
Right: (Reveg) Grail (NLD pheno)

From the side.
Near/left: Grail
Mid: two Grail x ThaiFricans; L'n'L Jones
Back/right: two SSSTN

Left: Grail
Mid: two Grail x ThaiFrican; L'n'L Jones (in the front)
Right: two SSSTN

Two Re-vegged Super Silver Sour Thai Nevilles

Deep green, healthy.
The box still had a bit of weight to it, so not sure if the droop / wilt is lack of water or the heat.
I put even more compost in the box and the cloth pot inside, really filling it up, to increase volume.

During veg, these two sisters look almost identical.
I think one of them is slightly taller, the other still more branched.
But the leave shape and color is identical.
No signs of flowering at all.
She's even putting out nine-leaflet leaves.
These two girls are going to have some big colas by the time they're finished!


Peace and Love,
~MJS

 

[Maria Sanchez]

Spring-Summer Grow -- Maria among the Hazes!

Day 113

Two Grail x ThaiFrican and one Lemon 'n' Lime Jones

It's pretty obvious the thick, dark, chunkier lady in the front is the L'n'L Jones, with the very tall (left) and medium tall Grail x ThaiFrican girls behind her.

Let's look at the Jones girl first, because I'm pretty sure she's going into flower now.

Building up that bud structure.
Inner leaves already showing good trichome development.

Light is still around 13.5/10.5, but maybe the slowly decreasing light hours is letting those flower hormones build up.
She's not going hard into flowering, but definitely starting to shape up.

Tallest Grail x ThaiFrican

She's growing like bamboo up top there!

Medium Grail x ThaiFrican
So is her slightly shorter sister, who has the full NLD character.

Re-vegged Grail (NLD pheno)

This girl was originally in the smallest cloth pot, and most at risk of drying out.
She seems a lot happier in her new shoes, and I topped the box up with a few more liters of compost today.

It's interesting that her shape now looks almost like a regular, un-topped seed-plant, and not a messy re-vegged girl from a single bud-stick that she once was.

Seven leaflet leaves up top, not really any signs of flowering yet, which is not surprising.

A last plant pic for you all, see if you can guess who it is?

And sign-off with our guardian protectors!

Hope everyone is having a great summer!
May your plants be happy and healthy!
May you and your family and friends be happy and healthy!

Peace and Love,
~MJS

 

[Maria Sanchez]

Tallest Grail x ThaiFrican plant is around 135cm - 140cm I think.
Shortest -- the L'n'L, Grail and SSSTNs, are all around 80cm.

 

[BOMBAYCAT]

Do you think the bats got lonely? Your last post you mentioned activity by the grow area. Was that hikers or something?

 

[Maria Sanchez]

Do you think the bats got lonely? Your last post you mentioned activity by the grow area. Was that hikers or something?

Someone was parking their car just outside the entrance into the bat cave.
There's a road there, that a few cars use to pass through to other areas with houses/apartments.
Also not far were some workers doing some stuff around another area of mostly empty apartments.

 

[Maria Sanchez]

Need to water, but the situation is conducive.

 

[Maria Sanchez]

Day 120 (?)

Quick visit to water and make sure they weren't dying of thirst.
The SSSTN girls were a bit thirsty, the Grail and Grail crosses fine.
The big boxes plus natural leaf mold compost for the win!

Near: SSSTN
Middle / right: Grail x ThaiFricans and L'n'L Jones
Back / left: Grail (NvHz x Mullumbimby)

Back right: SSSTN
Middle / left: Grail x ThaiFricans and L'n'L Jones
Front: Grail (NvHz x Mullumbimby)

 

[Maria Sanchez]

Apart from the SSSTNs, the other girls are a bit hungry too.
Will feed early next week.

 

[Hasch]

Day 120 (?)

Quick visit to water and make sure they weren't dying of thirst.
The SSSTN girls were a bit thirsty, the Grail and Grail crosses fine.
The big boxes plus natural leaf mold compost for the win!

Near: SSSTN
Middle / right: Grail x ThaiFricans and L'n'L Jones
Back / left: Grail (NvHz x Mullumbimby)
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Back right: SSSTN
Middle / left: Grail x ThaiFricans and L'n'L Jones
Front: Grail (NvHz x Mullumbimby)
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How much they have grown
Congrats on getting them this big!

Seem to be crying out: Water

 

[Mitsuharu]

 

[Maria Sanchez]

How much they have grown
Congrats on getting them this big!

Seem to be crying out: Water

They're becoming good sized outdoor plants!
The tallest Grail x ThaiFrican lady is about 150 cm tall now, her sister maybe 120+ cm.
The SSSTN, Grail NLD pheno and L'n'L Jones maybe 100 cm tall.
They were thirsty, and they still get thirsty in this heat -- 37C, but they're otherwise doing fine.

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Nothing flies higher than Ganja Bat!

 

[Maria Sanchez]

Spring-Summer Grow -- Maria among the Hazes!

Day 124

It was good time for a visit, check on things.

See how the watering situation is:
Seems pretty good now, temps were very high last few days, and they were a bit thirsty, but no problems.

See how the nutrient situation is:
Made a strategic decision to use some Osmocote 15-9-15 for the grow.
Easy ongoing nutrients to keep everything in order.
I used a small amount of Osmocote, plus a liberal amount of my usual 3-5-5 organic pellets, plus some kelp meal.

More importantly, prepare for some bad weather.

Typhoon season begins!

A typhoon is coming in very soon, and while it's not a big one, even a small typhoon can be devastating.
Here we call them 'typhoons', for you Americans, 'hurricanes,' for your Aussies and Kiwis, 'cyclones.'
Same thing, different place means different name, that's all.
Plants out in the open usually just get shredded.
Plus massive rainfall.

So I made the decision to move the girls into the indoor 'work area'.
The wind will still get into there, it's not fully enclosed -- no doors or windows here, anyway.
But it will reduce the strength of the winds, and avoid them getting knocked over (off the balcony!)

All today's work and photos are from the work area, so no direct light.
Not sure when I'll be able to bring them back into the sun after this,
but better a few days of artificial heavy cloud than facing a typhoon, that's for sure!

Left: two re-vegged SSSTN
Middle: two Grail x ThaiFrican; one L'n'L Jones
Right: one re-vegged Grail (NLD pheno)


Two re-vegged Super Silver Sour Thai Nevilles

Two happy healthy girls, living the summer life!
Just starting to throw nine leaflets up top.
No signs of flowering at all, haha!

Re-vegged Grail (NLD pheno)

Also throwing nine leaflet leafs up top.
No signs of flowering!

Peace and Love,
~MJS

 

[Maria Sanchez]

Spring-Summer Grow -- Maria among the Hazes!

Day 124

The family from the side of the work area:

Front left: two re-vegged SSSTN
Back left: two Grail x ThaiFrican; one L'n'L Jones
Right: one re-vegged Grail (NLD pheno)

Two Grail x ThaiFrican and one Lemon 'n' Lime Jones

L'n'L girl is a solid lump of dark green on a background of open lighter Grail x ThaiFrican.


Tallest Grail x ThaiFrican

She's a big mass of thin leaves and beautiful stems, branching out very nicely.
Some of the lower branches have themselves got branches coming out of them.
From a distance she looks like the common type of bamboo we have here.

Medium Grail x ThaiFrican

Very similar to the taller girl, still.
Maybe slightly thinner leaves, and of course a bit shorter in height from shorter inter-node length.

Lemon 'n' Lime Jones

At least somebody wants to flower!
L'n'L girl doing her thing, she's really just one main cola, but it has a bit of structure and size to it.

Blessings to you all, your families and friends.
Wishing you every happiness and success in life.

Peace and Love,
~MJS

 

[Maria Sanchez]

Please send my girls your prayers for safely passing through the typhoon.

 

[Maria Sanchez]

Forgot to add:

I think I watered 3 or 4 half-buckets, a half-bucket is about 10 L.
I do half buckets because I don't want to carry 20 kg up those stairs!!
So about 10-13 L each pot, prob more for the big pot, less for the smaller.
They had a little bit of run off as you can see on the concrete floor.

Originally the typhoon wasn't going to be so close.
I thought about leaving them out there, letting the rains do the watering.
But then it changed track, so moved them out of the way.
But under cover they won't get any rain water on them.
But in this typhoon weather they won't lose as much water, either.

You can see in the pics that the earlier yellowing has pretty much stopped.
This is due to two waterings of a fairly weak Peters 5-11-26 and 15-5-15 combo.
I removed a few dead and dying leaves today, but not many at all.
Basically just keeping the lower level leaf free and open,
and some fans lower down on the main stems are removed now too.

The low dose Osmocote 14-9-15-2TE plus organic 2-5-5 seems like a nice combination.
I do like growing organically, but guerilla growing is a challenge.
And I never thought these girls would end up being a full spring-summer-fall grow.
It's four months today, looking like another month of veg, plus 3-4 months flowering.
Thats ... OMG ... 8-9 month old plants in the end.

 

[Maria Sanchez]

Last pic of the Grail plant has three little pots under her.
They are the 3 + 3 + 1 seedlings -- horribly neglected and abused! -- of the SSSTN (Sticy) x ThaiFrican I made.
Two of them are at the other garden, but haven't checked on them at all -- maybe alive, maybe dead.
Thought I'd put these seedlings here, or they'll be trashed by the typhoon on my balcony at home.