Outdoor @ 48°N - Marley's Collie

[nielson]

hi guys!

growing MC at 48°N.

this is my first attempt to really finish a grow outdoor.

the main stem was cut and the other branches later supercropped and bent down. no one can see her. worked great.

she is standing in 10l airpots. normal soil with bat guano. no vegetative fertilizer added, just 2 times what we call "potato water" (the water with which you cook your organic potatoes, no salt added of course - a lot of minerals and vitamins are in this water).

she is placed under a greenhouse foil for rain protection. nevertheless i spotted budrot on 2 branches. i cut them down immediately.
i check the plant everyday, the rest seems ok so far.

trichomes are still clear and i think she has another 2 weeks to go at least.

right now i am just a little bit afraid that the weather changes to very bad and she can't finish or mold starts again.
the temperatures are starting to get really low as you can see on the colour of the leaves.

any ideas for a strategy? cut here down when the next rain is coming? or wait as long as possible?

she is a very nice lady, smells great and for grown outdoor at this latitude she is really going to be a good yielder! enough for a year for my needs!

best regards!
nielson

 

[nielson]

A few pics of her!

A few pics of her!

More to come!

 

[dimodz]

can you make photo from hole plant & were she stand & maybe colse up from plant ...

 

[nielson]

hi dimodz!

unfortunately the plant is too big to make a photograph without having my whole neighborhood in the background. i also can not bring her in because of that and because she is attached to a blumat watering system. when i finish her off i will post a picture of the whole plant.

she stands on exposed aggregate flagstone. the earth does not touch the cold ground because of the use of an airpot.
earth temperature is around 15°C right now.
also the blumat system really allows to water very little but still enough to further decrease the risk of budrot. a system i have used a lot and with whom i am very happy.

is there something you want to see in particular or why are you asking?

i did many grows on soil and on hydro indoors, but never did an outdoor grow in such a cold climate because i thought it wont really work.

but now, except of the 2 buds which had mold, i am really astonished about the size of the colas.

 

[mikeandnaomi]

How long are you letting it go...

 

[nielson]

damn it!

damn it!

today i spotted mold again ...
had to cut down a nice headbud ...

it did not rain the last days but the problem is that because of constant fog through the night the air gets really humid.

checked trichomes again. nothing seems to be milky ...

 

[dimodz]

you can make photo from the plant, if have make it you can make black circle as background than u can see only the whole plant.

did u can bulid one law budget rooftop .,?

 

[nielson]

i am sorry, i don't get the meaning of the second sentence.
can you rephrase that?

 

[dimodz]

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that pic is from P75 cindarella strain colne only

here u can see only the Bud and background is blue in that example, i hope now u will be understand better what i mean befor

best vibez
D

 

[CimeTempestose]

nice pic

 

[nielson]

yeah, i understood that sentence.
but not that one: "did u can bulid one law budget rooftop .,?"



picture is coming soon because i think in a few days i have to cut here down anyway. if the next big cola is budrot infected then i have to cut here down, otherwise there will be nothing left to harvest ...

i do not understand how people in the uk, denmark, etc. manage to finish their outdoor girls. i mean, i am way below that latitude and still it seems not possible ...

right now i think about trying ciskei by tropical seeds next season.
this strain might work. but who really knows. i hate this fucking climate.
no reason to live hear anyway. a guy once explained the weather here this way:
"the 4 seasons in this country? autumn, winter, spring, asshole."

 

[nielson]

fck! budrot on another headbud! ...
i seems that 2/3 of the denser headbuds have budrot.

 

[dimodz]

i mean u can build wi

yeah, i understood that sentence.
but not that one: "did u can bulid one law budget rooftop .,?"



5 bambus sticks every 4 coner and bigger stick in middle and last a material of breathable is in white then you can still with a spray-paint color as desired.

picture is coming soon because i think in a few days i have to cut here down anyway. if the next big cola is budrot infected then i have to cut here down, otherwise there will be nothing left to harvest ...

i do not understand how people in the uk, denmark, etc. manage to finish their outdoor girls. i mean, i am way below that latitude and still it seems not possible ...

"

i can tell u why dude

one from importent key points its have the right genetics and selected phenotyp for your lat.

That you can make it self start to make inbreed lines extra for lat and u climate. that is in my eyes the best way, that with right genetics and breed it combinate all the properties what u need to have successfully outdoor sesion every year


if you whant to have right Auto genetic for u lat, check LBH`Thread out ;


https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=133124

The breeder whant make few seed packs for sb

and Hyprid from Hell have also early strain with u can harvest from beginn of sep to end of sep. i guess that early enough for u

i hope u can understand me now better what i mean befor


best vibez
D

 

[nielson]

hi d!

i had a look at that thread.

of course the right genetics for the latitude is key.

i also have to say that i am not the biggest fan of these projects.

the question is whether this is really the way things should work. when you look at the way someone like for example shantibaba works, having thousands of thousands of seeds and clones where you start with your selection versus the way it happens here (having just a few males and females in the beginning as far as i understood) i am not quite shure whether it is a good idea to spread those beans around the globe and sell them as a solid 'product'. for me what's going on with all those crosses is a bit of a hype. everyone now seems to be a breeder. i think shantibaba would laugh very loud, when you tell him that you selected your male out of 5 in total (or even 30). for private purposes this is of course very nice.

but thanks for the link anyways. very interesting!

 

[gunnaknow]

Marley's Collie probably isn't the best choice for your location. If you want an early, mold resistant sat dom then I'd recommend something like Royal Dane, from HFH. The Super07 from HFH is also meant to be good, having a mostly sativa high.

 

[nielson]

done!

done!

thank you very much for that advice!

i cut her down today. having lost at least a third because of budrot it was time for harvesting the healthy parts. i hope i did spot all of the infected buds.

i built a little dry box myself.
hope humidity does not go up the roof in this small cardboard box.

if the rest of the plant is healthy, regarding the weight i would be really satisfied with this plant.