OUTDOOR GROWS 2023 -ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE-

[northstate123]

Your plants are looking great! Hope the weather will be good for the rest of season.

I can feel you im growing at 62 and it's always a battle against night frosts and mold. I did harvest some plants 1st week of october in the past when we had exceptional warm fall. Im just curious when is usually the last time you can harvest plants at 55? Of course depends on the weather. I would say here at 62 it would be normally end of september.

They are an Autoflower x Photo hybrid of mine. My JackSummerlove Autoflower x Gorilla Bubble bx4 By @Tonygreen. These ones are full season but I've worked them to an autoflower version as well.
You are right @pipeline at 55 North they will have trouble finishing properly. Need 6 more weeks to finish, and the odds are a killing frost before that. Unless we get a warm fall like last year.
They should finish before the end of September anywhere below 45 North.

 

[Energy Turtle]

Purple Urkle

 

[gorilla ganja]

Im just curious when is usually the last time you can harvest plants at 55? Of course depends on the weather. I would say here at 62 it would be normally end of september.

First frost on average in 3rd week of September. Killing frost +/- a week or so. Like you said depends on the weather and it varies quite a bit. I've had a freak snowstorm beginning of September before and last year it was nice till mid-October.

 

[Eltitoguay]

Yesterday, September 2 (second day of meteorological autumn):
Zamaldélica (A.C.E.), the still small [(Colombiana de Santa Marta X Dorada de Santa Marta) X Original Haze]S1 (MadMac) and Thai A5Haze (A.C.E.):

 

[Eltitoguay]

...When I enter "La Perrera" to see the plants, it's already night.
Zamaldélica fem (Zamal x Golden Tiger; A.C.E.):

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Yesterday, September-2 (second day of meteorological autumn).
Zamaldélica (A.C.E); she has the 3 lower nodes (6 lower twigs) pruned:

 

[Eltitoguay]

"Cumbiambera" it is suffering under the extreme dry heat of my summer, and I think that is what could be slowing its growth down so much; maybe, @MadMac? (He was the one who gave me the seeds of his crossing, @Dr. Mantis Toboggan )
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Yesterday, September 2 (second day of meteorological autumn).
(Santa Marta Colombian x Santa Marta Gold) x Original Haze S1; (Born on May-16).
It has the 2 lower nodes of the stem (4 twigs) pruned:

 

[Eltitoguay]

...And Thai A5 Haze fem (A.C.E.):
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...Buenas noches a tod@s.

Yesterday September 2 (second day of meteorological autumn).
Thai A5 Haze fem (A.C.E.):
Born on May 1, it has the 3 lower nodes (6 lower twigs) pruned. I keep bending it to the East. Over 2 metres/6'6 feet in stem length:

Buen otoño, y salud para tod@s.

 

[Chuck Jägerschnitzel]

Here's an update on how TychoMonolith's Honduran Jamaican is doing.
I have four females of these, but I only managed to collect a small amount of pollen from the earliest male, so I put it all on the fastest, earliest flowering female, which is the one in this picture. The one just to her right is pretty is doing pretty good too, I'd have bred that one if I'd had enough dust to do so.

Closer look at the top

This is one of the pollinated buds, I managed to breed 4 nodes worth of the plant fairly thoroughly about two weeks ago so I should have plenty of seeds for the next few years or longer if I refrigerate them.

I'm still on the fence about preserving seeds like that. I heard Heime Cheeba on the Alaska Cannabis Cache episode of The Pot Cast say that if you don't grow a plant for 3 years then you don't like it and theres no reason to keep the seed around, I kinda liked that logic, it saves you the trouble of worrying about missing out on some magic in a bag of seeds you haven't bothered to open for a decade. On the other hand I've been disappointed before getting weak sprouting percentages when I have bothered to open some of my older bags of seed.

 

[pipeline]

Thai A5 Haze fancy dancy sativa! When will that be done there where you are, Eltituguay?

 

[pipeline]

Honduran Jamaican looks amazing! Yeah thats coming out pretty early. Isn't Honduran a long flowring variety? Glad you were able to make some seed. Love those long central colas on the Jamaican Honduran, I think that comes from the Jamaican side. I have Jamaican spear in my Sativa Candy Chunk.

 

[pipeline]

Ended up having lunch at home and starting to squeeze for time trying to get all the chores done at once before dark. So pictures were done pretty quickly, but thankfully we got a few good ones. Flowers have bursted out! Looks like they're finished almost on some of them! Going to be a heavy harvest looks like!

A little rain chances on the way this week as well as next week so will have to keep an eye mold. May end up being mostly dry, so it shouldn't be too bad.

Knocked off a couple small branches by accident here and there and cut out a moldy bud with some tester material on the Cheese x Hindu Kush, so will see how far along it is. Lots of smells showing up, they're showing character now and most of the plants are medical indica friendly phenotypes, but maybe 25% is still undersirable overripe fruit sativa. As long as its decreasing in frequency, hopefully we will get rid of it for a true breeding line in the next generation or 2. Its tough when you use several males, never know what traits they are passing on.

Need to just keep trying and get several indica dominant champion type males and keep selecting good flower from the jar. Says in Proverbs, "...a prudent wife is from the Lord." Well I can say, "Developing a stable inbred line from scratch is from the Lord."

Peace ~~ Enjoy!
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Proverbs 19:14 NKJV

Houses and riches are an inheritance from fathers,
But a prudent wife is from the Lord.

Early Skunk x Lebanese--Flowering along well! sweet skunky hues, sativa leaning.

ES x L

Early Skunk x Lebanese

Pine Tar Kush-- Smells like pine tar! Slow to flower may be due to shade, but still on time.

Deep Chunk x Blueberry

DC x BB

DC x BB

DC x BB-- **Could possibly be DC x LVPK x HK with they morphology they are expressing. Will see as flowers mature, but they aren't red like the others and more resemble the DC x LVPK x HK. Will have to see.

Plant in lower Left is very far along in flower maturity!

Paradise Cheese x Hindu Kush

Paradise Cheese x Hindu Kush

PC x HK

Deep Chunk x Las Vegas Purple Kush x Hindu Kush---SOLID INDICA TeRpS!

DC x LVPK x HK

DC x LVPK x HK

 

[pipeline]

Smoking a fresh tester flower that just dried, they're mixed up, but I think this one was from the Cheese x Hindu Kush. Its pretty potent and has developed terps although uncurred. Fruity floral tasting and very reshreshing. Fresh resin ahhh, very refreshing to have fresh full potency medicine again.

While I was taking a smoke break and studying the plants, the dogs were enjoying a snack of fresh corn from the field!

Leroy loves corn, he brought his own snack. He's a corn dog. He's been known to go hunting way out in the middle of the corn and starts barking when he finds something to catch.

Wiley says, "I made it here, do I get some corn?

Bonnie says, " This is awesome, a corn snack at the garden!"

 

[pipeline]

Deep Chunk x Las Vegas Purple Kush x Hindu Kush

DC x LVPK x HK

DC x LVPK x HK

DC x LVPK x HK

DC x LVPK x HK

Sativa Candy Chunk-- Said I was going to focus more on these so here ya go @mountainoutlaw, a little more detailed look. Flowering hard! Looks pretty mature already on some plants, they're filling out fast! Finding most of them with medical indica /Cherry signature phenotypes!

SCC

SCC

SCC

SCC

SCC- flower of the last plant in previous post

SCC

SCC

Overall shot--mainly SCC in foreground

SCC--tall plant toward the front with SCC medical indca terps

 

[pipeline]

SCC--flower of last plant in previous post

SCC roots

SCC--fast flowering

SCC

SCC

SCC--medical indica SCC terps and fast flowering in partial sun with filtered afternoon light!

SCC

SCC--high resin production, leaf margin curl beginning

SCC--fast flowering plant, filling out fast!

 

[Chuck Jägerschnitzel]

Honduran Jamaican looks amazing! Yeah thats coming out pretty early. Isn't Honduran a long flowring variety? Glad you were able to make some seed. Love those long central colas on the Jamaican Honduran, I think that comes from the Jamaican side. I have Jamaican spear in my Sativa Candy Chunk.

It might be longer flowering at a lower latitude where the natural outdoor light cycles lead it into behaving that way, I harvested them last year at about 11 weeks and they were pretty nicely done. Tycho's Honduran Jamaican behaves has if it were purebred to perform at higher latitudes, I don't know how he did that, but he sure did it. I like the looks of the one I bred too, straight up with very short branches, got a tall narrow Engelman spruce shape, might have more to do with growing in restricted space than it does with genetics, its sharing a 3.5 gallon container with another plant and I never gave them anything other than water. The Honduran Jamaican that has a 3.5 gallon container all to itself branched out much more.

Heres some pics I took a couple weeks ago and forgot to post
I got a kind of weird, possible very good result from the cross of my early flowering Swazi BX1 female crossed with the early flowering Swazi BX2 male that I made last summer. The plants are oddly succulent or something like it, the foliage is thicker than normal pot plants, its like the difference between lettuce leaves and spinach leaves. The Swazi BX1 mother was like that too, none of the original Swazis were like that and neither was the strain I crossed it with to make it flower early. Unfortunately I only got two females of the 12 seeds I started, but they're both rubber tree plants, but neither were early flowering, they started about August 20 or so.
This is what they looked like August 22

You can't really see their weirdness in the photo, but if you met them up close and felt their leaves and then pawed a few of the other plants around them you would notice how much thicker the individual leaves are on the Swazi BX1 x Swazi BX2 plants. I got a late flowering male that was also rubbery with thick foliage and when I was digging out the root ball after killing it, the roots were weirdly thick too. Two years ago when I cut down the original rubbery Swazi BX1 mother, the green part of the stem cross section was much broader than they normally are, that plant was a great producer too, its the one in my avatar pic, one of the best seed I ever grew. Flavor was strong and reminded me of going into the dry cleaners during the 20th century.

Heres the males delivering their pollen batch

Heres the pollen batch (BX1 x BX2 = 81%)

Heres the pollen

And lastly, I harvested the little Blue Jägerschnitzel that I grew in light dep over the summer, this is what the buds looked like just before the plant was cut down

 

[Chuck Jägerschnitzel]

Corn dogs!

 

[Funkalicious]

Ahoy there outdoor growers!

The guerilla is looking great this year! We harvested our first couple of plants, the ErdPurt.. And the rest is still flowering well.

ErdPurt

Happy green

The Thai Chi is going to be slower than expected, half of the plants seem on track for mi-november harvest... That's the danger zone in the mountains!

Thai Chi

 

[pipeline]

Make sure you check out the pictures of my corn dog Leroy and rest of the hunting crew! They're excited about the harvest too!

 

[pipeline]

Gardens are looking great! Hope you can finish the Tai Chi there! What is the Erdpurt like? What is the smell/flavor and effect like? It has some CBD from what I remember.

I have grown it in hybrid form. I think I grew Erocket x Danish Passion which had it in it.

 

[shiva82]

Hello all!
This is my favorite thread on the site right now. A big thank you to all who have shared their inspiring photos and stories. Allow me to contribute my little slice of peace.

Here is the edge of my vegetable garden planted with Zinnias.

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I have melons, cucumbers, tomatoes, beans, and borage inside. It’s been a perfect growing season at 42N at sea level this year.

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The melons and cucumbers are hitting hard right now.
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Outside my garden fence I have my hot pepper patch.

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And at the far end of my peppers is my very first outdoor grow.
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She’s about 7’ tall and of similar girth.
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May you all find your peace.

do you make use of the borage , or just use as a campanion plant? great photos. i grow borage alongside strawberries and have always wondered how to make use of the plant when pruning them back instead of composting the waste. cheers