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OUTDOOR GROWS 2023 -ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE-

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Please be careful with the Weedwhacker :)
Thanks, I sure will be. Poor rabbit, taught me a valuable lesson.

My cat Sparkie got a 4th bird, a sparrow last night. It was interesting he caught a bird at night. Leroy the dauschund terrier ate it. Need to make sure I feed Sparkie enough wet food so he doesn't eat more birds. He was out at the back looking at the wintercreeper euonymus for a while, must have been onto the birds. May have made a nest down low. :smoke:
 

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AUTOFLOWER
GORILLA COOKIES
FAST BUDS COMPANY
Northern Italy
67 days from seed,
20 liter jar
Soil biobizz all mix
ph 6 water
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Very strong smell (heard at 3/4 meters with no wind) of sweet/chemical petrol.
I really love that flower structrure. Those are the good kepper phenos usually when they look like that and may have better mold resistance than something chunked out and solid higher density flower.

Looking great ChunkJaggershinzel! Honduran Jamaican sounds great! Be sure to refrigerate seed for best shelf life. So you made F2's from those? I bet there will be some amazing keepers in there, but will be more varied, of course may not show up that way with 4 plants.

Looking good one the light deprevation plants! Love seeing those 8 week flowers in July! Sorry to hear about the mites. The ladybugs were running wild all over my plants last weekend eating aphids which were starting to be fairly abundant. Not sure if ladybugs eat mites. Indoors they can be an issue I know. Be careful spraying though, because you want to minimize the harm to beneficials like the lady bugs and praying mantis. :smoke:
 

el mani

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Good morning
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Sweet blue SOL

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Peyote purple

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The orchard

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Hey everyone, l hope you’re all well.
I’ve been enjoying the pictures of the autos being posted and can’t help thinking how far the breeding’s come since they were first introduced, great stuff.
Anyway, some of you might remember the wam wamz testers from Bradley Danks last year; well l just cleaned out one of the beds and thought I’d share a photo of the root ball, the stalk’s a bit rounder than my wrist.
Cheers,
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el mani

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How did you get the spice of life sweet blue sir? Been looking for some spice of life for a very long time
The truth is that the move was to blame, some things appeared in the fridge as if by magic... old, half-forgotten packages (that fridge had been keeping my treasures for more than twenty years).
I didn't feel like freezing some things again and I put them directly in the ground to germinate and surprisingly I hardly had any failures. I hope that of the two that came out, a male would have come out to do some f2 or I could have put some SS x BB of chimera that I think are the same cross, but I have enough work to do now, if some pollen arrives from my brother DelMont, I will fertilize some bud (I keep a small Nh x g/bb male just in case he doesn't make it). If you want, I'll give you a few...
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Chuck Jägerschnitzel

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This is a Trainwreck x South African F2 seed that I started last February, but it ended up not fitting in my indoor grow so I left it outside in the greenhouse until I took the greenhouse down in May. Its only 2' tall because it was in a 3/4 gallon pot the whole time, it started to flower in spring, then reveg'd and had been moving along incredibly slowly ever since. I just moved it into a 3 gallon, so it should get it's color back and spring back to life now, just in time for flowering season, it has a zillion closely spaced nodes and little branches around it's mid section, gonna end up a really weird looking plant. The F1 mothers reminded me of a stagnant yeasty swamp as far as flavor/odor go. Not really what I was expecting from the cross, but I kinda liked it, reminded me of my best guerrilla spot in Virginia, which was near a cut off oxbow on a creek adjacent to an old civil war camp/lookout site that was on the hill above the creek.
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Yeah I think rainwater is the best. Its hard to distribute the water like that over time. God's doing some heavy lifting work for me, so I need to take care of other stuff now before I get truly busy with flower inspections later on.

Rainwater I was told, has a higher energy in the outside electrons, and its ionized so it may more benefit. You can see the results.

Going to be using up a lot of the nitrogen with these frequent rains and fast growth. Leaves are looking good and doing a great job fighting off disease for the most part.

Went through and verified a few times, they are all females except the breeding males now. Pollen has dropped on 2 of the 4 males. Hoping the Champion male releases pollen soon. Females are just starting to think about stacking, so expect them to be close next weekend for males to be culled. Will have to evaluate all the plants, some will be behind and won't have much to pollinate.

The chicken manure is the best I think but I would be very careful using it this time of year. Could use it for part of your nitrogen needs, but I like the cottonseed meal because its all slow release so its much lower risk burn. It seems to be working well, not getting any signs of N deficiency, plants are robust and growing fast. :smoke:

Had another storm this morning with a 40 mph gust so went to check and get some work done. Culled the last Sterling skunk mutant, cleaned out some diseased leaves, and burped the jars. Can any one help with this smoke testing? Need to get it done before harvest! :smoke:

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Enjoying the extra time off not having to water this weekend! Had a little incidence of some leaf spot here and there a few diseases, but thankfully weather has dried out and pressure has reduced. Also the spacing is better now with the males gone and a lot of the lower fans have been removed because of disease, so there is good airflow now. Have had an assortment of insect pests, and some significant damage to a few plants, but seems to be within the threshold, and plants haven't skipped a beat. Finding a few inchworm caterpillars, leaf hopppers crickets, japanese beetles, aphids. Trying to get them whenever i see them.

Lots of ladybugs on my plants probably because of the aphids. Saw some lady bugs mating, so expecting to see more in the future. That's why I don't spray insecticide, the beneficials take care of the infestations most of the time. The rain also helps reduce the aphids and they were less noticeable this weekend.

Finding out about the different expressions in cannabis, which can make early sex identification difficult when working with new varieties. I think I mentioned it the other day, there was a secondary growth similar to a stamen next to a female preflower on a plant. I had noticed this on the champion male, and I have seen it before on other plants that were female mostly. Well one of the DC x Las Vegas PK x Hindu Kush had one of these growths that was a visible shoot developing, and it even had a leaf. I examined it as well as other similar growths on that plant and the champion male SCC and determined them to be just a shoot. It doesn't appear to have any stamen development, but its compact small developing leaves which resembles a stamen preflower.

I have culled plants in the past as well as this year when I saw these little growths because i thought they were stamen preflowers or otherwise a mutation. But I had waited this year to cull when I saw them because i suspected it may not be stamen, and after allowing it to grow, it appears its just an abnormality or just a natural variation. Could be a mutation, but since its not throughout the plant and its not deleterious (damaging) its probably not a mutated genotype, just an unusual type of expression.

I think what caused this DC x LVPK x HK to have one open up like this was the growing point was pruned a couple weeks in the past because of disease and it promoted lateral branching and got this little micro-shoot expression to grow.

Deep Chunk X Las Vegas Purple Kush x Hindu Kush--Small adventitious micro-shoot by female preflower

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Sativa Candy Chunk Champion male #1 adventitious shoot near staminate preflower

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SCC- Speaking of Champion Male #1, picked these leaves off him because they were beginning to get diseased. They are some of the largest I have seen at about 1 ft long and wide! :smoke:

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Sativa Candy Chunk male #4 (most developed) dropping plenty of pollen for us already! :smoke:

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Under the canopy

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Lots of surface roots visible, the whole garden is a thick mat of roots! Helps soak up the water and holds the soil. The roots tips when exposed are red.

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Finding out about the different expressions in cannabis, which can make early sex identification difficult when working with new varieties. I think I mentioned it the other day, there was a secondary growth similar to a stamen next to a female preflower on a plant. I had noticed this on the champion male, and I have seen it before on other plants that were female mostly. Well one of the DC x Las Vegas PK x Hindu Kush had one of these growths that was a visible shoot developing, and it even had a leaf. I examined it as well as other similar growths on that plant and the champion male SCC and determined them to be just a shoot. It doesn't appear to have any stamen development, but its compact small developing leaves which resembles a stamen preflower.
I have culled plants in the past as well as this year when I saw these little growths because i thought they were stamen preflowers or otherwise a mutation. But I had waited this year to cull when I saw them because i suspected it may not be stamen, and after allowing it to grow, it appears its just an abnormality or just a natural variation. Could be a mutation, but since its not throughout the plant and its not deleterious (damaging) its probably not a mutated genotype, just an unusual type of expression.
I think what caused this DC x LVPK x HK to have one open up like this was the growing point was pruned a couple weeks in the past because of disease and it promoted lateral branching and got this little micro-shoot expression to grow.


Deep Chunk X Las Vegas Purple Kush x Hindu Kush--Small adventitious micro-shoot by female preflower
Few views from the outside, will get the individual shots up soon. :smoke:

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pipeline

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Thanks, they hit the green light! Up around 7-8 ft on some of them!

Lots of growing points mean lots of budsites flowerpower! That would certainly grab the wind like a sail. Not sure, but I think if they were allowed to grow with wind stress from a younger age, they may be less prone to breakage, but that must have been a heck of a wind! How fast was it that day it broke?

We got a 40 mph gust with wet soil and no issues with mine leaning. In the past I have worked the surface of the soil to work in top- dressing and sacrificed much of the lateral roots, then after watering a storm would hit and a bunch of them would need staking!!! Mine are anchored in well, and there is a wind break on all sides. Thats what you need is a wind break! :smoke
 
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