Four Girls Outside in Cages.

[smalltime]

Hey everyone, the start of this is from another forum that I belong to. But I think that it will get everyone up to speed on what I have going on. I will update this now though as the summer progress begins, until hopefully if the sun shines on me and these girls, I will have a bounty of lovely Colas and Nuggets.

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Come July, I have promises of clones if I want them, so I might be getting some plants out around then. I know that is a little ways off, but I think I would still get alright harvests on plants put out for, almost 4 months.
If something starts happening with any of these plants, I will start shooting pics and run a thread on em.
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I went back out yesterday and searched out some areas that I think will work if I can get the clones and get them out there.

As far as the animals go, that is one of the risks of growing outside.

Bonus is I don't have to worry about bears.
TICKS on the other hand are out with a vengence. 2 days tick count is up to 8 between Jdog and I.

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Well, I decided that if my buddy does have a few clones for me, I better have holes ready.

I took off areound 10 and arrived out at the first place. Man, if i can pull this off it will be getting full sun all day.
This location is termed snake thanks to the 3' black racer that I was throwing dirt on before I saw it. So then I stopped and hoped for it to go off but instead it stood its ground and even stuck at my pup shovel head. Lucky I didn't want to hurt it. So off I went. I let that spot be for a while.

Headed to spot 2 TURTLE. I started digging at this location and found a small box turtle. Jdog found about 4 others in this area. I don't know what his fasination is with them, but he will carry them around. Even swam in the stream for a little bit while he carried one.

Got both holes dug, mixed in half a bag each of perilte and earthworm castings and made sure it was mixed globally throughout the holes.
I would guess each hole to be close to 7 gallons in size.

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I took off tonight to go check out my holes that I dug last week.
So tonight I decided to get my camera out with me so that yall could see the locations.
Snake location. This is at the end of a patch of overgrown pine trees. The end that I'm planting in was pretty well cleared out by the beaver last year. I arrived near 6 and it was just starting to get shade from the woods that are along one edge. There is a cut through about 150 yards through the pines. The stream is about 50 yards away.

Turtle Location. This is probably 70 yards away from the snake location. It is stuck in between some smaller trees. I think that this could be a bonus as it will give the plant pretty much a full day of sun with some dappled shade here and there durning the day.

And location 3. I found and dug this one today. I think it might be a spot for 2 holes.
This is VINEYARD.
I decided to move farther back into the area that turtle is and see if there might be another spot. Near the back corner there is some space that is encircled by a bunch of wild grapes. I went ahead and dug a hole. I will have to get more perilite and worm castings to bring in for this one or two.

I would like to amend this soil with some other things such as blood meal and bone meal. Anyone have any other suggestions, I am listening. I've never put effort into growing outdoors. But with clones promised to me, I think I'm getting a good start.

Now if it would just cool down a bit. and if it would rain some. -4"below average right now.

Picture of the sites. each site from 2 angles.

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Started thinking about it this afternoon, especially after a visit to my buddy's last night whom I'm getting at least a WRx clone from, I need to be ready for clones to arrive.

So, I decided that I should get the office closet ready to help me get the clones to the size I would like them before the go out.

So, first off I got the space "cleared out" to the point that I needed to.

Then hung 2 4' shop lights with 2 warm white and 2 cool white.

taped up a space blanket and moved a few of my rubbermades around so that I can get the lights at a position close enough the benifit the plants when they arrive.

The last shot is of the doors closed. I think that I will put a packing blanket up behind the doors to help with the light leak.
Probably will put a small fan in there too.

So, the WRx clone is about 10 or 12 inches and will be ready to go out ASAP. Additionally from him I have my pick of, Bubblegum, Northern Lights, what is claimed to be Mass. Skunk.
I'm thinking I might go with the Bgum.

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Just a waiting game right now. Looks like Friday I will be getting some clone from another friend. So Friday night I will go out and get the other 2 clones from my buddy here.
Give the CD x SD a little bit of time in the closet, maybe the other one too. Not sure how big it will be, but the WRx is ready to go outside. Probably will be in the ground on Monday or tuesday.

We've had a few good storms roll through in the last week. Which is good, because it was really dry out, and I that has is the only reason that I'm not too disappointed that they are just getting ready to go out.

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I'm really happy right now. I just went out to the snake location to amend the hole with Half a bag of Potting soil, and additional half bag of worm castings, and 2 cups of Espoma Plant Tone.

Not what I'm happy about. When I got out to the location, the soil was nice and moist. Still pretty loose. I was a little worried when I was digging these holes because the ground was HARD. But it seems like they are going to end up being pretty good holes.

One more trip out with the other half bag of potting soil, worm poo, espoma. Then my holes are ready to recieve their charges.

I'm also happy that I went out because the Turtle location might require a tree trimming. There is a cottonwood that is pretty small that I think I will need to chop down. Either that or don't worry about it and let that plant start getting sun at 10 instead of 8am. It will have sun until about 6 or 7 at night.

I noticed that there are some thistles that are blooming beatifully this morning too, maybe I can haul the camera with me tomorrow and get a few pics.
I was soaked from head to toe in the morning dew. Not a bad way to start the day.

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Amazing what a day will do when you have friends.

The first plant that I have is Chem Dawg x Sour Diesel (CDSD) She is going into the Vineyard.

I have Hindu Kush. This girl is doing pretty good and will probably be read by next week to go outside. She will be going in the Turtle Location.

WRx#5, This is my seed stock grown out by grower friends that I have locally. She is an extra right now. I don't have a spot for her. I might have to haul some more dirt and poop in for another hole in the Vineyard.

WRx #1 She is my amazon princess. She is ready to go out and I will more then likely do that on Monday. She is going in at the Snake location. That location has full sun ALL day long. I would say 8am to 6 or 7 pm. She has the potential to be huge.

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With the addition of the WRx #5, I decided that I will have to find either location 4 or add another hole to one of the current locations.
Either way, that meant the I would be digging a 4th hole and that would require some more amendments.
So, I figured might as well show you guys what I'm doing.

The main base is Woodline Potting soil. To this I'm adding a bag of Miricle Gro Perilite. The Perilte is split between the entire 40# bag of soil. Then I took half of the soil and added it to the 5 gallon HomeGrow Depot bucket.

To this is added a 5# bag of Worm Castings and 2 cups of the Espoma Plant Tone.

After about 10 minutes, I felt that the bucket was ready to go and I refilled the soil bag and forced about 30#s of soil amendments into my old book bag. This is not the suggested way to transport soil. I need a better back pack, The only other one I have is fire engine red. I don't think I want to wear that while going out to a plot.

I want to get the WRx#1 out on Monday or Tuesday, and I think I might wait to dig the hole until after that. Still need to make my cages and get those out there too.

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I don't think that I jumped the gun, Infact, I think it might be a good thing.

This afternoon I made 4 cages for the girls. Bundled them up so I could carry them easier, and decided, fuck it, If I'm going to haul these out, I'm going to take out my WRx#1 and get her in the ground. She started to get a little yellowing going in the lower leaves, So instead of trying to make her exist in the closet I decided to get her into the Hole and let my organic nutes take care of her. Loosened the soil up, uncupped her and gave the roots a slight squeeze. Then in the ground and I watered her in with a gallon of water.

Made sure that the cage was secure and off I went. Droped the other cages and headed home. Now the rest of the stable needs to get going and get outside.

Go WRx#1 Go.

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Time for an update of what is going on.
I didn't have as much to carry with me today as last time, no cages or water to bring, it rained yesterday. So the camera when along and I got a few shots of what is going on.

I have been trying really hard to enter from different directions and struck off through the woods today. I got to the area where the Snake Location is and slipped out to get a couple shots of the WRx#1 that is looking like she is happy.

Then back into the woods and off to the Turtle location. I had the Hindu Kush with me today and decided that She would be going into the ground at Turtle. One thing that is cool, on the way back from Vineyard the other day, Jdog and I flushed a couple Woodcock. Happened that we flushed another one today. Jdog also was kind enough to make sure that everyone knew what location we were at.
I am thinking about supercropping this plant. She has really good secondary growth going already, and I think it might bennifit me in the long run to have this one as bushy as possible. How do the Kushes take to training. Or should I just tie her up using the screen as an eazy anchor location?

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My location is about a mile and a half from my place. I pretty much have bushwacked my way around back there and have the scratches to prove it. It is really thick but then there are spots that are open and perfect.

The idea with the cages is to deter animals. They are about 36" high. Sounds like they would stand out but the but the native plants are already tall enough to hide the cages. Today, while I was standing 15' from the Snake location, I couldn't spot the cage, and I was looking for it. Give that plant a few weeks out there, and it will be as tall as the cage. I would rather not have the cages, but I have also found some holes reddug for me, and I think that this will hopefully deter the critters. I guess that they are my fence, like reibsi puts up, but mine is for a single plant.


There is a stream that is located about 50 yards from these two locations. The Vineyard location would be closer to 100yds from the stream. There are beaver trails that lead down to the stream as well, so these allow me to get closer to my areas without leaving paths.

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Went out this morning while it was nice and overcast, there was actually fog, to dig the last hole.
30 pounds in my bookbag and my pup shovel. Decided that I was going to just put a second hole about 5 or 6 feet from the first one that I dug at the Vineyard site.

I checked in on the HKush and the WRx1 today and both are looking pretty happy. I'm glad that we have had some partly cloudy to overcast days so that they can adjust to being outside without having to deal with the full force sun all day to start off their lives outside.

I won't being going back out until next week tuesday or wednesday. I just don't want to be going back and forth all the time. We've been getting some rain and all my nutes for the veg phase are in the amendments, so hopefully I can just let them go for it for a little bit.


That brings me up to today. Welcome to the story of the 4 GIRLS OUTSIDE IN CAGES.

[smalltime]

Alright, photo's.
I have a few shot that you can see the kind of places these girls are going.
Then a couple shots of the WRx#1 that is in the ground and happy at the Snake Location.
Followed by the Hindu Kush that is also in the ground. She is at the Turtle location.
The last two are the ChemD x SourD and the WRx#5. These are both going in at the Vineyard location.

[kriptoker]

Lookin good smalltime.... :D cant wait to see all that hard work pay off for ya bro... much love ;)

[peakguy]

we'll keep an eye on this as I have some Hindu Kush for my next grow.

[gorilla]

Hey Smalltime, Good to see you around again. That was quite a read! You can bet I will be watching this journal, make sure to keep us updated. I love your idea for cages around the plants, and may implement that myself in the future. It looks like an especially sweet idea for tomato plants that like to branch.

I'm around,
Gorilla.

[smalltime]

Thanks everyone, I like to see the responses.
Just a quick update this morning. I was looking in and the WRx is starting to push some fresh growth out of her top, but by Tuesday or Wednesday, when I want to put these last 2 out, she should be going pretty well.

I saw another clone of this WRx5 that is flowering on my buddies Hydro table. It is stretchy, but it also stacking one budsets.

The CDSD, well the photos of her speek for themselves. Recovered and then some from the trip down in the mail. I decided that since she will have a few more days in the closet, and I would like her to have some better secondary branches going when she goes in the ground, I bent her over and tied her down.

I have been been debating brewing my own teas for this grow, but think in the long run, the easier direction to go would be organic nutes. I will be using the Pure Blend Pro series and adding Molasas as a Carbo boost.

smalltime

[smalltime]

Last night I decided that it might be nice for the plants to go out into soil that had warmed up all day, but as I got about halfway to the spot, it started to thunder and some serious lightning looked to be moving toward us. Walking in the woods while a Thunderstorm was rolling over them, didn't sound like my cup of tea.

This morning on the other hand, it was cool and wet. So I loaded the last 2 clones up in the transport box and off we went. Jdog was on a mission and found 10 Eastern Box Turtles. He is a dog on a mission when we go out to the spots.

We stopped at the Snake location to check up on the WRx#1 and she looks like the outdoors is going to be her favorite place. I plan on training all the plants out to the cages, but they need to get just a little more branching going on, so I super cropped both the WRx1 and the Hindu Kush this morning.

Next we stopped at the Turtle location and Jdog hooked me up by finding a turtle to make a cameo with the Kush. Like I mentioned above, the Kush also was super cropped as the pictures show.

Finally we got out to the Vineyard location and I got the ChemD x SourD in the first hole that I dug and put the WRx5 in the other hole. Started thinking about it on the way back to the house. probably should have switch them so that the CDSD was in the last hole dug. I just think it was a larger hole and that it probably had a little more amendments in it then the first hole that I dug there.

So they are all in the dirt and all caged up. Now we just have to have mother nature do her job and everything will be alright.

The weather for the next few days isn't supposed to break out of the 80's and there is also good chances of rain during the next couple days, so hopefully all the girls will be happy outside and the Sun will shine down and make them grow up.

smalltime

[smalltime]

A couple photos of the two girls that went in the ground today

[gorilla]

I really dig the cages. :D I know I said it before, but I am anxious to see them beef up and fill the cage in.

Thanks for the update.
Gorilla

[smalltime]

So how about a little update with what is going on out in the woods.

First off, I decided that I would go ahead and run Pure Blend Pro Grow and Bloom through out the rest of this grow. I also have Liquid Karma and Molasses as a carbo booster. I plan on starting them this week with the first feeding at half of what is recommended for veg week 1 on the Botanicare chart.
So 7.5ml/gal PBP grow, 5ml/gal LK, and I will add 5 ml/gal molasses.

I figure that I will ramp up to the full recommended amount within 3 weeks. I also think that I will stretch the transition week out a couple so that there is as the plant is getting its flowering stretch, it will be able to have more N available.

That brings you up to date on what I plan on feeding these girls for the rest of the summer. I went out this evening with a gallon of Liquid Sevin and my pump up sprayer. After each plant had its photo taken and the training done to it that I felt necessary, I shot the plants and the area around them with the Sevin. I figure if the bugs are going to land on plants near mine and start munching, then they can die before getting to my girls.

First pictures are of WRx #1, She had a head start in size when she went out and is using that to her advantage. She is starting to boom. The supercropping that I did to her seems to have had the desired effect of getting the lower branches going. As you can see, I tied her down some this evening in order to get open her up and get light to the lower branches. I want this girl to bush out as much as possible.

Next is the Hindu Kush. She didn't seem to take as well to the super cropping, so I think I will just tie her up and see if that will help her.

Finally, are the girls that went out last week.
The CDxSD is looking pretty good. Not much has changed with her, but she has only been out a few days and as far as I'm concerned she is probably filling in some of the new hole with some roots. I'm guessing that in the next couple weeks, that I will see some significant growth in her.

The WRx #5 is still the run of the litter, but again, she seems to be taking her time getting going outside.

I didn't bother training either of these two. I might be doing a little more trimming in the Vineyard. There is a wall of vines that is behind the CDxSD that I think will be getting cut down. I think it might just be blocking too much of the evening sun that this location is receiving.

Well that is what is going on in the world of this smalltime grower.

smalltime

[Sticky_Budz]

hey just wanted to say that the ladies are looking great. u definitely have a green thumb there ;) . good luck with the ladies latter:D

[smalltime]

Thanks for stopping in and paying attention to what I have going on. I know it isn't much, but I haven't been able to grow for a couple years, so I'm really excited.

I went out and gave the girls a mid morning snack. For the WRx#1 and the Hindu Kush, I gave them each a 1/2 gallon of water at 7.5ml/gal PBP grow, 5ml/gal LK, and I will add 5 ml/gal molasses.

The CDSD and the WRx#5 both got a 1/4 gallon each I also took the time today to get some of the grape vines that are right behind the CDSD cut down and I think that will help with the number of hours of sun it will receive.

I also gave them a foliar feeding at the same 7.5ml/gal PBP grow, 5ml/gal LK, and I will add 5 ml/gal molasses.
This is the level of foliar feeding that I will be following for the rest of the grow except the liquid K will go to 10ml and we will switch to PBP Bloom when the time comes.

I only took some pictures of the WRx#1 because she is my amazon girl, and the Hindu Kush because she is responding well to the training. There isn't much to report change on with the CDSD and the WRx#5.

It is hot as balls out now and I was soaked through with sweat by the time I got home.

smalltime

[high2dsky]

Thanks for stopping in and paying attention to what I have going on. I know it isn't much, but I haven't been able to grow for a couple years, so I'm really excited.

I went out and gave the girls a mid morning snack. For the WRx#1 and the Hindu Kush, I gave them each a 1/2 gallon of water at 7.5ml/gal PBP grow, 5ml/gal LK, and I will add 5 ml/gal molasses.

The CDSD and the WRx#5 both got a 1/4 gallon each I also took the time today to get some of the grape vines that are right behind the CDSD cut down and I think that will help with the number of hours of sun it will receive.

I also gave them a foliar feeding at the same 7.5ml/gal PBP grow, 5ml/gal LK, and I will add 5 ml/gal molasses.
This is the level of foliar feeding that I will be following for the rest of the grow except the liquid K will go to 10ml and we will switch to PBP Bloom when the time comes.

I only took some pictures of the WRx#1 because she is my amazon girl, and the Hindu Kush because she is responding well to the training. There isn't much to report change on with the CDSD and the WRx#5.

It is hot as balls out now and I was soaked through with sweat by the time I got home.

smalltime

looking very very good. cant wait to see future pics. keep up the great work.

[smalltime]

I opened up the closet this morning to get out my nutrients and there was a nice foam going on top of them. They have been bubbling for 36 hours. I mixed up the PBP grow, Liquid K and Molasses at the following rates.
PBP-G 15ml/gal
LK- 10ml/gal
Molasses-10ml/gal

Started out and just as I rounded the corner to walk back toward the sites there were a couple people out on their horses. I stashed the bag grabbed my camera and headed down to the stream. Before I got 20 yards they rode off into the woods away from were I needed to go. So I went to the stream then went back up hill grabbed my bag and headed back out. I went a different way to get to them again today wanting to make sure any prying eyes might not realize where my final destinations would be.

Well, I would say it is official. WRx#1 is getting huge. Every time that I see her she is bushed out more then she was and taller then she was. She is loving life out under the sun all day long. She is looking just awesome as you can see from the pictures.

Hindu Kush I am really excited about this girl. More so then I was last week. I just picked up some buds from the same mother plant and the high is really enjoyable. It has nice flavors and the buzz lasts for 3-4 hours. She is really starting to put out some nice secondary growth.

The ChemD x SourD looks like she it starting to get settled into her new home. I thought that she looked big enough to start getting some training done to her, so I tied her top down to the cage. Start getting some of her secondary growth going.

The WRx#5 is an odd little girl. She has started putting on new growth, but she is only throwing out 3 bladed leaves. I think this is mostly due to the fact that she was a revegged clone that has been behind most of the time that I have had her. I have been thinking about it and I want to leave one plant to grow like a typical christmas tree. Since she seems to have the least potential at the moment, I think she will just be left to grow straight and tall.

smalltime

[smalltime]

I decided that I would head out this evening and hit the plants with a foliar feeding I also took the time to do a little training on the girls.

Snake Site
Mostly repositioning the WRx#1, trying to make sure that the branches are going out on so they aren't covering branchs below them. Might need to start training out some of the lower branches with stakes. We will see how she goes.

Turtle Site
I repositioned a few branches at the Turtle site. The Kush is starting to get going now. Some of the lower branches are able to reach the sides of the cage. So she is starting to get spread out a little more. I have noticed that there is a little bug damage on a few of the leaves. I will have to take some more liquid Sevin out this week and give them a shot of protection.
Obviously the last batch is no longer working.


The Vineyard
The CDxSD is responding well to the training she has started with. I will be able to keep the growth tip trained down without tying her up before too long.

The WRx#5 is stretching like crazy and now in full on revegging growth is sending out single leaves too. She is going to be a funky little girl. I just hope she decides to start filling in. If she acts like a normal Flowering Clone, she will have more branching going on then all the other girls.


I will be checking in on the girls in another couple days when the nutrient's are all ready to go out. I will be feeding at full dose from here on out.

[smalltime]

Vineyard photos that didn't attach.

[CB]

some seem to be out growing there cages :watch:


:pass:

[smalltime]

Initially, the cages were just going to be protection from animals. But it they seem to be great for training the plants to open up.
I guess I'm doing tubular outdoor scrog's. LOL
I concidered removing them after plants go bigger, but I think they will be nice support in another couple months. They might make a good place to tie branches to when the buds get heavy.

[smalltime]

I was getting ready to leave this afternoon to go feed the girls and a thunder storm rolled in. So I decided that if it wasn't too long, I would go afterwards and get the nutrients out to them.
I ended up leaving within an hour, so it wasn't too bad, cooled everything down some, but also made everything soaking wet. I thought lucky me I wore my rain gear. It might keep you dry, but if you sweat through your shirt you might as well not have the rain coat on.

Tonight was a feeding of:
Pure Blend Pro Grow at 30ml/gal
Liquid Karma 10ml/gal
Molasses 10ml/gal

White Rhino x White Rhino #1 looked as good as she aways does. Repositioned a couple branches and gave her a half gallon of the nutrient mix.

Hindu Kush at the Turtle location was doing fine, I was planning on doing a application of liquid sevin tonight, but the rain made me put that off until I will have a day where more rain might wash it off.
She looks pretty good I repositioned her some so a few of the secondary growth would be able to get trained out to the screen.

ChemDawg x Sour Diesel was looking fine when I first got there, then on second thought I noticed that she had been topped. I had pull the top outside the cage to start training her and she was nibbled on by some type of creature. That was the only part that I saw any kind of damage on her.

White Rhino x White Rhino #5 on the other hand looks like she has been getting dined on by some bug. I checked around on the plant but didn't notice anything that appeared to be abnormal other then everything about her. Crazy reveg looking girl. When I gave her a close look, some of her leaves have some pretty heavy bug munching going, she looks like she was topped too. I guess that this reinforces the need for me to get out and hit them again with pesticide.

Sorry no photo's to go with this update, but I showed them to you just 2 days ago, Nothing really changes that fast.

smalltime

[smalltime]

I use Liquid Sevin to deal with bugs. I don't just want to prevent them, I want them to die if they decide to munch on the plant. So, I use my pump sprayer and pretty much soak the plants.

While the sprayer is relatively full, I will start from the bottom of the plants and holding it so the nozzle points up, working up and around the plants. Then I spray them from the top down. With all the local grasses and plants in such close proximity, I will spray the surrounding plants too.
So, if the bugs are visiting the plants nearby, they are getting dead too.


The WRx#1 that is at the Snake location is just plain tits. She just keeps getting wider and filling in all kinds of secondary growth on the secondary growth. I think she currently had 15 tops that are pretty much level with the main growth tip. In addition, there are about 8 smaller tops that all are about 4-6 inches behind these main tops. Most of these are secondary branches that are reaching for the sky too. I was looking at her stem near the base this morning. She is getting close to 3/4" diameter.

The Hindu Kush is also getting some better secondary growth going too. She will really need to explode over the next 3 weeks or so. Hopefully I can get her to get 8 to 10 nice tops going. I didn't notice anymore damage to her leaves. She is just plugging along getting bigger each time I go out.
I was trying to reposition her top this morning and creased the stem. So, I guess that I will do another session of super-cropping on her. In the long run, it is going to give me the same results, just more stress on the plant this way.

ChemD x SourD has been completely topped. What ever ate it decided that it was only hungry for what made its way outside the cage. I might just need to figure a better way to train her. It will be a race to see which of the lower branches tries to become the new top. Hopefully all of them.

WRx#5 was also severely topped and has major munching getting done to her. The poor girl just can't catch a break. I wanted to just let her grow straight and tall, but with the topping, I guess that I will have to deal with t main cola's. My dad told me to always be nice to the ugly girls growing up. Said those would be the ones that blossom into beautiful women.
I guess WRx5 is my ugly duckling.

smalltime

[gorilla]

Sorry for not responding so much to your journal.

Weird how I feel as if I missed some posts! Sorry dude.

That WR1 looks killer dude. :D I love it when a plant just kicks ass. Keep up the good growing and i really am watching and reading along.

From, Gorilla.

[smalltime]

Thanks for dropping by Gorilla.

This evening I went out to feed the girls. There was some rain that they got last night, but I think that the 90+ degree weather might make them go through the water that is available faster then they are receiving it.

I mixed up 3 gallons of dechlorinated water:
25 ml Pure Blend Pro Grow
5 ml Pure Blend Pro Bloom
10 ml Liquid Karma
10 ml Molasses

I figure that there might only be another 3 or 4 weeks before the flowering cycle begins. That would put me at the second or 3rd week of August. I think that I will start doing just a minimum of the bloom until the flower starts going then I will transition to full bloom formula in 2 weeks. But I might push the grow at 5ml for an additional couple weeks. See what the plants tell me at that point in time.

When I got out the the Snake location today WRx1 was showing off as normal. I fed her a full gallon of the nutes. Although I'm not all that concerned due to the fact they are lower fan leaves, I am noticing a little bit of necrosis going on with some leaves yellowing off. She might just need exactly what I gave her tonight. More FOOD, in greater amounts. I guess that she got a few days ahead of me.
Took one shot of her tonight that shows off some of the tops that she is sending up.

The Hindu Kush at the Turtle site is I think finally getting into the swing of bushing out. I would love to get a few more branches going but I think she's one of those plants that will really get going when flower starts. I have seen her doing just that inside so hopefully that will translate outside too.

Back in the vineyard, I figured out why there are so many vines going back there. There is a trunk of a "grape tree" must be 5" wide and the branches don't start until 10' up. Crazy shit. Anyway, there was some muncher back in the vines last week, but I think that the application of the Liquid Sevin did it's job.

ChemD x SourD is looking like she is alright that something chopped her head off. She is getting 3 other lower branches to make up for it. I rubbed her stem a little tonight. Sweet Jesus she smells lovely. I love her branch structure too. I can see why people love this plants lineage.

WRx#5 is also looking like she is recovering from losing her head. And I think that she finally figured out that it is a Veg. period. She started sending out normal looking 5 blade leaves. I also think that the flowering clone aspect of her is starting to show as she is starting to branch out.

That is the tour of the woodland garden. WRx1 is still busting out all over and WRx5 is finally getting the idea to grow, Time for the ugly duckling to catch up with her sister.

smalltime

[Dawg]

Lookin great man!!!

[Cranky]

ive been following along;) looking hunky dory mate...hope the extra feed does the trick for yas:)

cranky

[smalltime]

Last night I decided that I was going to try to go out this morning and give the girls a foliar feeding when I got up.

SO, I decided to just fill the ingredients for the foliar application into 4-1/2 Gallon containers. I can't really fit anything other then my pump sprayer and those 4 containers into my pack. I haven't dechlorinate any water so I decided that I would do something that I probably will continue to do for the rest of the season.

In order to get out to my plots, I have to cross a stream. Today, I stopped and used the bottle for the Sprayer and filled up each jug with stream water.
This means that the first 3/4 of a mile I don't have to carry water.

I set up my foliar as follows.
5ml/G PBP Grow
2.5ml/G PBP Bloom
15ml/G Liquid K
5ml/G tsp Molasses

I was up this morning at 7:10 and since I had the pack ready to go last night, I dressed and headed out into the woods by 7:30. It was very calm that early on a Saturday. Like a peacefulness had settled over the woods. Maybe I was just getting out there before everything was waking up for the start of the day. But that peace calmed me this morning and allowed me to take the time that I felt I need with each plant this morning.

As always, I am starting the WRx#1. This morning I made a valiant effort to get close ups of the tops, the camera just does not take good macro's. She is definetly getting ready to start her flower stretch. All of the secondary growth and the tops are starting to show hairs. I guess that this is where all the excitement begins.
She has a few main branches that were getting well above the other secondarys that I want to catch up. So this morning I trained a few of the branches out so that their tops would be lower then the other secondary tops. I will probably release them next week. I don't think it will take much time for her to get the idea. I also untrained her main growth tip. Mostly because there are multiple branches taller then it.

The Hindu Kush isn't being very bushy. It is filling up nicely, but I didn't feel like having her trained out was doing all that much for her, so today I pulled all the growth tips back inside the cage. Most of them are about the same height. She is also starting to show more hairs. By the middle of next week she should have hairs showing all over the place.

The CDSD is a really nice looking plant. If I would venture a guess, she will probably give me a pretty good size plant once the flower stretch starts. I hope that she can gain another 6-12 inches in height before that starts. The topping doesn't seem to have bothered her.

WRx#5 is starting to reach for the sky. She is only throwing normal leaves now. What ever it is that was eating her has either stopped or slowed down. Since I was out there today around 8:30, I know that they aren't getting full sun there until maybe 9:00 I got my trusty hand saw out and did a little pruning of the vines today. Cut down a few things so that the morning sun isn't blocking the CDSD and some to make sure the WRx5 had good evening sun.

Niether of the plants in Vineyard are showing off hairs like the Kush or WRx1, but I think we are in for a good time along the way. I got a shot of the WRx1 this morning that allows you to see inside the leaves and look at the branch structure.

[Sticky_Budz]

well the ladies are looking great sense the last time i came they have grown so much. i love how ur so detailed on your grow. i noticed that u have went up there to the ladies nice and early have u caught anything eating at them yet like deers? was wondering because u said something was eating the tops well I'm off will see ya around :D

[DLtoker]

Awesome growing! I'll be waiting for some bud pics ;).

[smalltime]

Afternoon everyone.

I have been complaining this week. Some of you might have even heard me. But this week we got rain 5 of the last 7. Today there are possible showers predicted too.
I know that it is is silly, but when you are trying to push nutrients so that you will get the biggest plants possible from an outdoor season, and you are using a water based nutrient delivery system, 5 days of rain seems like it is preventing me of getting my nutes out to the plants.

So, I decided, it has been a week, I'm going to go out and at least give the plants a foliar feeding. I continued the foliar same as last week.
I mixed up my foliar as follows.
5ml/G PBP Grow
2.5ml/G PBP Bloom
15ml/G Liquid K
5ml/G tsp Molasses

I also had some plant tone that I figured I could top dress the plants with if I wanted to.

WRx#1

What more can I say other then I am really excited. She has bud sets all over the place. I was lucky enough to put some new batteries in the camera this morning so, I could actually get some okay macro shots, or at least as good as it takes.
She looks good and keeps looking better every time I see her.

Hindu Kush

JDog helped me out alot at the Turtle Location this morning.
The HK is showing her stuff finally. All of her tops are getting little clumps of hair starting to show. Makes me kinda wish we were 2 weeks further into the season. I think that I will be seeing a bunch of stretching happening during August.

Chemd x SourD

Not all that much to report on her. She hasn't started showing bud sets, but the fact that everything else that I have out is, I am guessing that she isn't going to be that far behind the others. She looks like she is going to have two main colas. Since she hasn't started budding up, I went ahead and gave her a couple handfuls of Plant-tone on the top of the soil. Maybe about 1/2-3/4C total. Not alot, but it might give her a boost.


WRx#5

She is starting to get bud sets started, but they aren't going as great guns as her sister. He main branch has reached the top of her cage. I also didn't notice any more damage to the plant. I would put her about a week behind her sister, but her sister seems to have all the advantages.

Seems like they changed a lot more since I haven't seen them for a week.
Overall, things are still going well out under the sun.

[smalltime]

does someone have to nominate pics for Picture of the week or month?
Or can I post one myself?

[gorilla]

You can nominate your own picture of the month. I'm sure that one will be used. Hot damn that little bugger really hand to work to get to that leaf I bet.

Plants look great still. I understand what ya mean about the rain, Lol. Still, less work for you. :P

Peace dude.

[smalltime]

This morning I got up and out the door by 7:20.
I had my 5-1/2G bottles in my backpack and a 1G jug in my hands.

Each contained the following:
20ml/G PBP Grow
10ml/G PBP Bloom
10ml/G Liquid Karma
10ml/G Molasses
5ml/G 10% Ca
2.5ml/G Mg (epson salt)

As this month goes along, the bloom and grow numbers are going to slowly switch. By Sept.1 I will be in full bloom formula, Maybe 5ml grow to make sure they have enough N.

Overall, there isn't much to report. I guess the pictures will have to speak for themselves, because, well not much has changed.

WRx#1 is doing the same old thing. I have a couple bud shots of her.


Hindu Kush is filling in nice. I might pull the cage from that location in another couple weeks. Let her open up a little more. Couple shots of her flower sets too.

CDSD is still not showing flower sets. But she has to main colas that look like they will get going soon.

WRx#5 is out the top of her cage. Still looking kinda scrawny, but she is starting to get going.

Not to much to tell ya. I think that I will buy a 6" odorsok and vent my drying space with it. As harvest gets closer, I get more nervous about drying and trimming at my place. It is going to be a little stressful.

[CB]

come'n along nice smalltime :)

know what what you mean about dry'n in the house.... I use the attic but makes no different, can smell it from 20 feet out :eek:

good growing

[wakka]

while I can't fully enjoy what I know to be pictures of sweet looking meds, I can't help but be envious of you there are fortunate to be able to have outside grows.

I could have a years worth of meds in one grow dude. fill up jars, plus the side benefits of hash and kief and oil. seven or eight big indicas, and I would be home free until the next summer.

grow on dude, grow on.....

[Sticky_Budz]

hey smalltime the ladies are looking great as usual. great work and great pics thanx again for sharing them with us hope u share some of those buds with us too:D see you around peace

[smalltime]

I mixed up my nutrients for the girls feeding today as follows.

15ml/G PBP Grow
15ml/G PBP bloom
10ml/G Liquid Karma
10ml/G molasses
5ml/G Calcium
2.5ml/G Mag(epson)


Even with that type of mix, I don't think that my plants are getting enough nutrients. Maybe I'm way off in my judgement that they are needing a greater amount of Nitrogen at this point.
So, I think in order to solve this problem of necrosis happening with still close to 2 months before I will be chopping, I think I will break my all organic rule for this grow and give them a shot of Peter's 20-20-20 in a couple days. This will put some additional ready to use Nitrogen into the soil. I would prefer to do this with organics, but I'm not sure what to use for a quick fix on the N.

The first three shots are of the WRx#1.
The Hindu Kush, also showing some N deficiency.
The top of the ChemD x SourD
The WRx#5 getting well above her cage.

Not much to say about each one. The WRx1 and Hindu Kush both are showing N deficiency. It has been close to 100 all week here. I'm wondering if this would have anything to do with how the girls are acting right now.

For the most part everything is still going along pretty well. I figured that they would really start their stretch during the next couple weeks. I guess it is just a waiting game at this point.

[Dawg]

sure those girls aren't caging the cages :p
man those are some fine ladies you got.

[gorilla]

they're really filling out small time. whoa!

[smalltime]

I went Wednesday and picked up some Mexican Bat Guano 10-2-1

It suggests 2-3T/G in water, or a topdressing watered in.
I used 2T/G and each plant got a 1/2 gallon.
The in addition to that, I also top dressed the WRx1 and the Hindu Kush, since these are the two that are showing N deficiency.

When I started looking at this I just assumed that it would be a N deficiency, but then I started looking at what I was doing different in the last few weeks that I wasn't doing before.
1-Added Ca and Mg into my mix.
2-Started using the water from the local stream.
3-Started to transition to PBP bloom.

I took a couple shots of the yellowing that is occurring on the WRx1. But then I also took a few other shots of her. Overall, she is still looking pretty good, She is really budding up, I might even venture the guess that she is full into flower, but I might be way off.

I took about 5 pictures of the Hindu Kush, but they all look fuzzy so, sorry, no kush shots today.

ChemD x SourD is looking like she is going to start getting budsets in the next week. I wouldn't be suprised to see a lot of hairs on her next time I go out, but that is still probably at least 2 weeks off.

WRx5 is now the tallest of all my plants. And she is acting just like a flowering clone would. There are branches all over her.

Let's hope that the guano will do it job and give the N boost that is need to stop the necrosis from happening until October.

[smalltime]

I'm sure that anyone growing outside right now is starting to get that itch at the back of your neck. It is getting to the point where your hard work is paying off and your watching your back even more every time you go to the woods or fields that you have your plants.

I woke up this morning and just had that feeling that it could be the wrong time to go out, but I started thinking this is the easiest time of day, and most people are getting ready to leave, or have already left for work. So, I shrugged off the itch, and got ready to go.
Out the back door and not 5 minutes from my house I have to cut by a little opening where if they were looking at the right time 2 houses would be able to see me. This morning, there was a guy out tilling his back yard so I waited for time to get behind a tree and dash across the gap and into the tall weeds.

But it was cool in the shade of the trees and I walked down to the stream, which I decided I was going to keep using it as a water source. We are having drought conditions. Trees are wilting, their leaves are yellowing and falling off. I think that my yellowing has a lot to do with not getting them enough water.

I had filled all but two of the jugs when I heard something off in the woods. It sounded like a scream mixed with a howl, but I was like might be a way off. Finished filling the all but one and I hear it better this time. It is a Horse whinny and it was getting closer. I shoved all my shit in my pack and got into the woods away from the whinny. Then I crossed the stream on a beaver dam that is upstream from where I normally fill up and cross. Filled up the last jug and started back out. The whole time there is the horse whinnying and getting closer to my area.

I have seen people on horse back out here one other time. They never cross the stream, but god they got my hairs all standing up on the back of my neck this morning.

I fed the girls this morning. It will be the last time they get PBP Grow.
Fed at the following rate:
10ml/G PBP Grow
20ml/G PBP Bloom
10ml/G Liquid K
10ml/G molasses
3/8 tsp Dry BIG BUD

When I left where I was filling the jugs, I didn't put the camera in the bag, so it got some dew on the lens, and I didn't notice it until I got the the Hindu Kush and found a dry spot on my shirt to clean it with.

So, the first few shots are of the WRx#1, water spots and all. I took pictures of the whole plant from two sides. For size reference, the cage is 36" high and the top is about 20" in Diameter. This is the same for all the plant cages.
One show all the little white tops of the colas and the other show how much length each has.

The Hindu Kush is budding up nice too. I really think that I need to get the cage off her. I think she would do better if she could be opened up more to the light. But as you can see she is getting started. Her calyx are short and stubby.

ChemD x SourD is getting it's twin towers going. I have been told that it will bud up very quick once it gets going. Well the internodal length is getting nice and tight, so I think she will get going.

The WRx#5 is doing alright. Definetly doesn't have the resistence to bugs that the #1 does. Doesn't seem to matter what I do, she is still having the ugly duckling award. On a side note, She is starting to bud up pretty nice. Her main cola is already close to 4' high. Unfortunately I didn't get a good picture of her this morning.

So watch your back, it is the time of year that we need to pay attention to those itches at the back of your neck.

smalltime

[becky420]

nice pics they have really grown those ladies have great job!!

[smalltime]

Walking out to your plants starting at 11:30 in the afternoon, might not be the most enjoyable thing to do, but I will say this. I don't think many people would want to go wander around for 2 hours like I did today.
In addition to that, I carried around 4 gallons of water, the camera, my pbp bloom, liquid Karma, Molasses, and the bigbud. Then just before I was going to walk out I grabbed my nalgene bottle and a bowl of Jock Horror.

I knew ahead of time that today was going to be time consuming, so I might as well take the time to do the job right. I knew that It was already 89*F and only getting hotter. So with no rain in site, I planned on giving each plant 2 gallons of nutrients.
They were fed:
30ml/G Pure Blend Pro Bloom
10ml/G Liquid Karma
10ml/G Molassas
3/8tsp/G Big Bud

I filled up all the bottles at the stream then just before going out of the woods at the Snake Location, I sat down and mixed the nutrients up. I wanted to get them a good deep soak, so I added the first Gallon of water to the hole and let it soak in and I shot a couple pictures of the WRx#1. Then added the second gallon and headed to the Turtle location.

I did the same thing for the Hindu Kush, water and wait then water again. I want the dirt to have time to soak up the moisture of the first gallon, The second one is to continue the soak down into the lower part of the hole. So that the entire root ball gets soaked.

Normally, I would head right to the Vineyard, but I only had containers that would hold 4 Gallons so back to the stream and refill the jugs.

(Side Bar)
JDog was on his turtle finding mission today, and play turned to death and distruction. While I was refilling the jugs he had found a turtle and was running around with it in his mouth in the stream. I don't know why, but he dropped it in the water and it sunk like a rock. Easter Box turtles are land turtles, I don't know how well they can get out of streams. So, I think he might have drowned it. Then at Vineyard, he found a little guy about 2.5" big. He tried chewing that one a little and put a little hole in the shell with a tooth before I got it from him. Not sure what his deal was.


Got the jugs refilled, but instead of backtracking I forged ahead and bushwacked my way back to the Vineyard. The worst part for me is ducking through pine trees. The always seem to be depositing massive amounts of dead needles on my neck and down my back.

So after I watered the ChemD x SourD and the WRx#5 I looked them over and took some photos. The CDxSD is finally getting some bud sets going. While the WRx5 has some little buds started forming up. She sure stretched up. I sat down under the forest canopy drank some of my water and smoked that bowl.

By the time we got back to the house it was 1:30. I was worn out, but the plants are going to benefit from those 2 Gallons that they each got. I checked Weather.com the other day and it said the average rainfall for this month is 4.23" Currently we have had .17" this month. The rain is happening all over, but not in my neck of the woods.

Pictures of the girls showing their stuff.

[Dawg]

:wow: I love it...aug-oct. nothing but BEEEEE-AUTIFUL od crop shots. :D
Keep em comin ST. :gthumb:

[smalltime]

Hey everyone, thanks for all the comments. How will these shots do Dawg.


I am getting ready to leave for almost a week, so I decided I better get my ass out to the woods and give the girls some more nutrients and a nice soak.
Even though I feel like I lost about 4 pounds while hiking around, it was a decent day out with the girls.

All the plants received 2 gallons each.
They were fed:
30ml/G Pure Blend Pro Bloom
10ml/G Liquid Karma
10ml/G Molasses
3/8tsp/G Big Bud

I figure for the most part, I have about 3 more weeks, maybe 4 of feeding them, then the rest of the time I will just be giving them water. This will take me to the middle of October. I will probably have to carry extra nutrients for a while for the CD x SD because it is definitely behind the others in flowering.

I have been considering pulling off fan leaves as the flowering progresses. As it gets later in the season and the amount for cooler days, and the morning dew staying on the plants longer, I feel this will allow for better air circulation around the buds.
I know that there are people that would be concerned about this, but the WRx1 has effectively done it already. I have been pulling dead fans off it for a month now.

WRx1 is still putting on quite the show. All of the different colas are starting to bulk up. She might be getting the chop first week of October, but I will need to get my microscope back from my friend so I can check the tricomes. I took a few shots of her today. Full plant, The MAIN cola (not the tallest), and a bud shot.

Hindu Kush is really starting to impress me. She isn't all that big, and I don't think that I'm going to yield all that much from her, but I think all that I get will be lovely smoke. She is probably the stickiest of all the girls right now. When I check her buds my fingers come away with the most pungent aroma. It stays on my hands for 10 or 15 minutes. The shots I took of her buds with my Macro didn't turn out all that great, so you will have to be satisfied with a shot of the tops.

The ChemD x SourD that is back in the vineyard is really just getting going with the buds. I think she might end up with 2 major cola's and a couple other minor ones. I really like this plant and I think it will end up being a heavy hitter for me if I can keep it out until like November. Couple different shots of her. One of the plant and shot of a bud top.

WRx5 is starting to show off some. But for the most part I'm not sure I like what I'm seeing. I think that she will end up being a nightmare to trim, and I also think that I will be getting a considerable amount of popcorn bud off her. I guess that isn't that bad of a thing when you are smoking, but the amount of time that she is going to take to get trimmed up is going to be a pain in the ass. I got a couple pictures of her including a shot of her main cola as it is budding up pretty nice.

So, that is about the last you will hear from me for close to a week. I will be traveling to see my family in the Midwest and catch my favorite band in Their hometown of South Bend, Indiana. Umphrey's McGee are going to ROCKING and I'm going to be hitting my 103rd show.

See y'all next week.
smalltime

[Shadows]

Hey man I got a little experience with that CDxSD. you are in for a treat if she ever gets going on the buds. just look at the spacin up top.

And I have to say, damn good thing WRx1 is as far as long as she is. you could probably chop her in 4 weeks. Shes already been flowering for 5, lol...


Lovin the outdoors thing bro. looking damn good!

[CB]

cant wait to see the next update :)

like shadows i think the wrx1 will be ready soon (4-5 weeks)... nice look'n buds forming on it thats for sure

hope you can gain the 4 pounds back come harvest time ;)

have a safe trip

:pass:

[smalltime]

With my return comes bad news. I will update further, but the WRx1 has mold, and I will be chopped some of her.

So as you read, I have mold on my biggest plant. I went and chopped down any part that I could tell had mold last night, but it was a hair to dark when I got there, so I will have to venture back out today and get any more that might have mold.

Interesting thing. ALL the parts that have mold, seem to have what appear to be silk worms crawling around amid the buds. I have about 6 branches hanging and all that had the brown bud I found the worms. Found about 8 worms. Now it makes me want to just inspect the buds and kill the worms because it seems like they are the cause to my bud loss.

Needless to say that is really messing with my attitude toward the outdoor growing. You spend all kinds of time and money, not to mention the sweat equity that I have put in this summer and you end up putting most of your biggest cola into the trim bag to make hash with. Not the way I was expecting harvest to go.

I went ahead and got my 5 gallon bucket filter set back up. It should be able to handle the smell of the drying buds.

The Hindu kush is looking better and better everytime I go out to see her. On top of that, she has a fantastic smell.

The CDxSD is really budding up nice. If I can only keep her running as long as I need to.

The WRx5 at least doesn't have worms yet. She isn't the prettiest girl but she is still working on filling up with flowers.

Well those are the joys of outdoor grows. Mother nature can treat you well all summer long only to get PMS and bitch slap you later. Maybe it is menopause with all the heat we have had lately. Mother nature is having hot flashes.

These got dug out of the trash bag. There are about 8 in there and they are all about the size of a quarter. Some a little bigger some smaller.

sorry the pictures aren't sharp, but I put multiple images so you get a better look at the fuzziness.

There is also one in the picture above of the trimmed off mold bud. it is right infront of the scissors.

[StoninStanley]

those look like cutworms. bummer dude :(

they fucked my tomatoes up royal this year as well

sorry to hear about your grow man, good luck with the remainder of it

[SmokinMa]

Oh man that totally sucks. :( I hope the pests stay away from your other plants.

[smalltime]

On Saturday night, opening day of the deer season I shot an 8 point in full velvet. I decided that my deer season is pretty much over, but I still have weed that needs attention. So I got out and took them all a shot of just water today.

I didn't want to but when I got out to the WRx1 today I had more spots with mold to take off. She is sure doesn't look as majestic as she did a couple weeks ago.

But the Hindu Kush keeps looking better every week. She is starting to get a little more of a swell going on her buds. She smells a little like pinesol.

Now I might have another issue that I wouldn't have considered with the amount of dry weather we have been having. I think the CD x SD might be getting powdery mildew I tried to get a picture of it. there are a few white spots that you can see in the picture on the fan leaves.

WRx5 is starting to get a nice looking top cola going. See if the worms that are messing up her sister will leave the rest of them alone.

[Dawg]

gorgeous plants.....but Nice Buck MAN!!!!
Been a while since I went huntin.
Guess that rack is gonna finda nice home on the wall while of course the meat is gonna finda a nice home in tha freeze ;)
Looks like your having a GREAT season :D

[CB]

say smalltime,

really nice buck ya got there :) karma to you bow hunters and fred bear ;)

read Kentucky crops are hurting bad from drought conditions this year as well

not a lot one can do really but keep sniping the poo away....best of luck to the girls...

grow on

:pass:

[Shadows]

Damn, that CDSD sure does take its time going in an outdoors setting. 12/12 has it pushing buds like that in less then 3 weeks. Must be a real photosensitive plant, surprised it hasnt hermied on me considering that and how many times I've cracked flower open while lights were off for mid day check ups.

The mold and possible mildew suck bro. Those are the kinds of things that make outdoors growers, indoors growers :p, lol...
Besides that man, they are looking great. That hindu is impressive to say the least. still got a link to those genes?? hmmmm hehe

Oh, nice fuggin buck too man. Thats a great way to start and end hunting season. I say ya go get you another later in the season. You'd be tired of deer meat by spring.

Grow on Digger :)

[smalltime]

Damn, that CDSD sure does take its time going in an outdoors setting. 12/12 has it pushing buds like that in less then 3 weeks. Must be a real photosensitive plant, surprised it hasnt hermied on me considering that and how many times I've cracked flower open while lights were off for mid day check ups.

The mold and possible mildew suck bro. Those are the kinds of things that make outdoors growers, indoors growers :p, lol...
Besides that man, they are looking great. That hindu is impressive to say the least. still got a link to those genes?? hmmmm hehe

Oh, nice fuggin buck too man. Thats a great way to start and end hunting season. I say ya go get you another later in the season. You'd be tired of deer meat by spring.

Grow on Digger :)

SHHHH I don't want the H word mentioned about the CDxSD. :)
The PM might not even be PM, need a better opinion. If I were going to guess, white spots on leaves means PM.
Thought I told you what all I have access too. HK, JH, GDP, SDibl, An Old SK1, WRx, cdxsd, Bgum,Twilight, one other and a new add to that SAGE. For some reason I feel like I'm forgetting one or two. I know that post outdoor harvest there will be some serious smoking going on, and the plan is to drop all but about 4 or 5 of the best ones.
I know the SK1, JH, and SDibl will stay. I think that once we smoke the CDxSD, it will stay. WRx will be getting run by another friend that loves the Huge colas that it produces under his 1000's. I think 3 or 4 of the strains will be dropped.
Such is life with a group of 4 associates that are gathering the best they can get their hands on.
smalltime

[smalltime]

Yesterday, I went out to do the neem treatment on the CDxSD. Hopefully I will be able to control the PM on her until she gets done.
In addition to that I fed all of them a shot of PBP Bloom with Liquic Karma, Molasses and some Calcium.
Doing treatments over the last month or so of 2 Gallons of nurtrients each time I went out at full strength made me run through the quart of the Bloom formula that I bought.

So I guess that I will be watering with Liquid Karma, Big Bud, and Molasses for the rest of the show. Most of the plants only have about 4 weeks left. So this will be a couple weeks to use up what is still in the ground, and time to flush out the plants. I think I will be alright. If I really feel the need I can add some MG bloom I have.

WRx1 is looking better, even though she has lost serious amounts of foliage over the last couple weeks. She has filled up 2 pint jars so far, and there is another hanger of it in the drying closet.

The Hindu Kush is just getting better everytime I go see it. She has an interesting bud structure. Like lots of fingers with calyx's stacked around them. She grows the same indoors, so it is just her deal.

The CDxSD, like I said got a Neem oil, dish soap, baking soda misting over the entire plant. OD said to try and aviod the buds, but that is next to impossible. I figure her to be at least 6 weeks out. By then I think the Neem will be alright.

WRx5 is sure looking like she wants to bulk up, there are tons of little buds all over her. If she doesn't start putting on bulk soon, she is going to be a pure pain in the ass to trim. Probably will be a better high the her sister.

Sorry no pictures, The atomizor took the space the camera normally fills.

smalltime

[smalltime]

Everything is looking SWELL. Which is the perfect word, because the buds are putting on weight and swelling up nicely.

I tried hard today to get good bud shots. I think I took 3 or 4 macros of each plant. One of them turned out okay. I wish that I could look through the lens finder and get them in focus instead of looking at the little 1.5"x2" screen on the back of the camera. You can barely see the picture on it when it is sunny out anyway. Sorry I'm rambling.

The WRx1 is now looking really nice. It is a shame the number of colas that I lost to the worms an mold. It is an alright high, but the legs are shorter then a wiener dogs. But it has some promise of things to come. Let's get the rest of the buds finished up on that plant and see what we have at that point.
The only decent bud shot that I got is of the WRx1.

Wow the Hindu Kush is getting to be a show off. I didn't spend all that much time with here today. I could here what sounded like a tractor or some other type of heavy equipment that sounded like it was working near by. I could be way off, but I wasn't going to stay in the open or near the plants for long knowing that there could be other people nearby even if they were driving a piece of machinery. I hope to see her swell up a little more during the next few weeks. She is looking very nice and I can't wait to smoke her.

The CDxSD is starting to bulk up some. Maybe she will get done early then I expect. I was checking her buds out for mold and bugs and when I smelled my fingers, My first thought was Fruit Loops. That got me all excited. Because I think it will be a great part of my head stash. I sprayed her again for the PM. I only saw a couple little spots where is was showing. Maybe we can beat this before it gets to far into flower. I read a thread over at ICmag that mentions the Chem strains being prone to PM outdoors. I guess mine is just following suit.

WRx5 is just doing her thing. And her thing seems to be long stretched out colas that are starting to fill in and get bigger. She could have been a really brilliant plant had she gotten a better start and if she hadn't gotten munched on as much as she did this summer.

[CB]

when I smelled my fingers, My first thought was Fruit Loops. That got me all excited.

I bet it did :crazydan:

hope the PM is gone ST, gotta really suck to toss buds out....

wont be long now thats for sure:)

grow on

[smalltime]

Well they are starting to put it on.
After I took off this morning to get a haircut, Trim a little off the top seems to mean give me a buzz cut. Sure makes the thinning spot in the front more noticeable. Thanks Ralph. That is the barber. Rambling.
I headed over to the grocery and picked up a new bottle of molasses. Got home loaded up the back pack through some Molasses and Liquid Karma each of the jugs. Grabbed the camera a joint and bottle of water and out the door I went.

I picked up a good stick after walking through 2 nice spiderwebs. Walking with a stick held up right in front of you as will really reduce the numbers of silky collisions while traipsing through the woods. The are more of an inconvenience, than a danger, but you can never seem to try and brush them off fast enough. Got to the stream, filled the jugs and hit the woods again.

When I got the the WRx1, I stood for a min and observed the area. You can definitely see her from the woods now, but only a very small portion. there are some pine trees that help with visual cover. But then again I know where to look. The buds are swelling up so nice and fat. DAMN THE MOLD!!!!
I got a couple shots of the buds on her still. The last big Cola left on it is looking pretty awesome.

Jdog was busy finding turtles today. I think he found about 6, but I took 9 from him because he went back and got the ones he had already found.

By the time I got to the Hindu Kush I was getting really pumped she is really starting to show off. She is a really beautiful plant that should probably been in a better location. I still think that she will yield a bunch of nice fat buds. Again cola shots and they smell soooooooooo good.

Well I took two macros of different tops of the CDxSD and they were both fuzzy. She is still getting the PM. I think that I will have to get out to her sometime tomorrow to take the cage off and dig through the leaves and pull any with the PM on them. At the same time I think I might pull a bunch of the fans off her she seem to be the healthiest of plants leaf wise. She hasn't lost many to the heat this summer. I'm afraid If I don't thin her down some that they will cause me mold issues. I might take half of them.

The WRx5 is getting some weight going, but I found a bug crawling on it that I have only seen one other place. In my house about two days after the worm buds from the WRx1 were trimmed. Might mean that I missed getting all the small worms out of the wrx5 last week. I have one pretty nice shot of some lower nugs that are just below the main cola.

So the battle continues. Mold and Mildew. Cooler weather is going to be approaching and that means more morning dew on the plants. Let's hope that they at least get some good morning sun to help dry them out.
I wish luck was all we needed.

smalltime

[CB]

She is still getting the PM. I think that I will have to get out to her sometime tomorrow to take the cage off and dig through the leaves and pull any with the PM on them. At the same time I think I might pull a bunch of the fans off her she seem to be the healthiest of plants leaf wise. She hasn't lost many to the heat this summer. I'm afraid If I don't thin her down some that they will cause me mold issues. I might take half of them.



hey ST, just a thought....if ya gonna remove the cage as well as some fan leafs......why not stake it out some to aid in air flow:)

grow on

:pass:

[smalltime]

My only concern would be if there might be possiblities of animals still eating them. I have heard that once they get buds the animals seem to leave them alone. Still haveing them munched at this point would be like getting ripped.

It is in the main location, that I can only assume, was getting animal damage when I was trying to train both the CDXSD and the WRx5. So I guess that is my only reason for wanting to put it back after the fact.

[CB]

So I guess that is my only reason for wanting to put it back after the fact.

good enough :D I think that by remove'n fans like you said will aid plenty in air movement...

It would really suck to have them eat'n now thats for sure ;)

grow on

[gorilla]

Regardless of any problems, small time, your buds look sweet. i agree with what you said about the spider webs... it's crazy the instant reaction of disgust they give you. the worst is when you get a spider web stuck to your that's really thick, and you can see the glue stuck to your body while trying to remove it. ugh, fuck spider webs.

keep up the good, hard work, and all the best of luck.

[smalltime]

WRx 1 is still losing fan leaves and she is still putting on bud weight. The fact is I could probably take her at any point from now on and she will be very nice. Just an overall shot of what is left of her.

I took a couple of small branches off the bottom of the Hindu Kush. These will just give me a small taste of what is to come and will give me a little bit of variety to smoke when it comes time to harvest. If any of it will last that long. These are the littlest popcorn nuggets I have seen.

I got out and did the surgury on the ChemD x SourD. I also took some lower branches. I cleaned out a bunch of the fan leaves from around the tops because that seems to be the place that has the white spots on the leaves. She is a really good looking plant still this late into the season. She hasn't started yellowing off at all.

The WRx5 is just going along doing her thing. I got a shot of her cola here. There is a little brown spot near the top. I dug in behind it to find the worm and killed it.

So I have a few little nugs that I will be trimming up this afternoon. Really excited to have some cdxsd to smoke in the next few days.

outside getting it done
smalltime

[smalltime]

I decided that with the week that I have ahead of me that I should go out and give the girls a shot of water and molasses. I know that I won't have the time to get to them until late in the week if I get there at all before next weekend.

It is funny how going out to your plants will affect you. I will say that I must have been a little anxious today because I notices at both the WRx1 and the Hindu Kush that my hands were shaking some. I don't know maybe it is just that I'm excited at were my buds are at and I know that there isn't much time left before I chop them down and trim them up.

The Autumnal Equinox is just past one week ago and you can really tell the plants are getting into their finish stages. They are dropping leaves and fans are yellowing off really nice right now. So not only have they been fed Organically all summer they are getting nice carbohydrate loaded waterings so that they are getting sweet and using up all the stored nutrients. Things on the whole are looking stunning right now.

The WRx1 is half the plant that it used to be. What a shame that all the cola's that I took off and I'm currently smoking could have been like the one that I have in the picture. I lost serious weight from this plant. Her buds are rock hard. She will be coming down in 2 weeks. She will be the first to fall probably around October 7-8th.

The Hindu Kush is looking amazing, and smelling amazing too. She isn't a very big plant but all of her branches seem like they are solid colas. She also looks like she will be a pretty easy plant to trim. Her fan leaves are starting to yellow off. The lower ones are dried up and have been pulled off.

The CDxSD is getting so crystal laden right now it isn't funny. The cola's are filling in and fattening up. The lower branches that I took off of her last week while I was operating on her PM have dried enough to smoke and even 3 days off the plant she was a really nice tasting smoke. The sugar leaves on her are completely covered in trics. When I trimmed those buds up to what I deemed smokable the trimmed leaves wouldn't fall away from the blades of the Fiskars.
Another few lower branches were removed this evening and brought home to be trimmed up.

The WRx5 is starting to add alot of mass to the buds that have been so average until last week. I think that she will be out as long as the CDxSD is out. I think that both of these plant will be out past October 15. They are both in the same location and it is the most secluded of the spots. At this point first frost will be a major deciding factor on the two plants out in the vineyard.

I know that they will be out of the woods by November 5th. The deer Gun season starts that day. I don't want to be anywhere near that area by that point in the season. By then I will hopefully be smoking some buds that have a nice little cure on them.

So that is what is happening in my garden. Things are getting ripe. The time grow near. They are in the final stretch. May the good karma fairy smile upon me and my plants.

smalltime

[CB]

May the good karma fairy smile upon me and my plants.



indeed ST

hope the smoke is great

:pass:

[StoninStanley]

beautiful nugs ST bow huntin season starts soon as well in some places so watch for flyin arrows whilst harvesting

happy harvesting :)

[Permagrin]

mm mmmm mmmmm that is some very nice looking cola's. youve done well this season. congrats.:)

[smalltime]

Actually Bow season has been going down here since the beginning of September. I shot a nice 8pt in full velvet opening day.

[StoninStanley]

Actually Bow season has been going down here since the beginning of September. I shot a nice 8pt in full velvet opening day.

lucky ass i usually go all year and never get one :( am not much of a hunter though



grow on :pass:

[smalltime]

Friday evening I called up my buddy to see if he wanted to hang out. He said that if I wanted to that it would be fine, but they would be working. Well work was one of our grow friends had harvested 4 of his plants and the trim was on.
So today I have been sitting around and I know that there is going to be things to do this coming week. I decide that I would go out and grab the WRx1 and get her trimmed up so that I would just have to wait for the next one to roll in.

I got my full camo suit on and headed out just about an hour before dark. Decided to hit the Hindu Kush and then the WRx5 and ChemDxSourD before going and chopping the WRx1

The Hindu kush is looking like it really could be about done. I pulled some dead leaves of of it and headed off. It rained on Wednesday here so I didn't bother with bringing water.

I got to the Vineyard and slip in and for all of 3 seconds I stand staring at the cages. They are both knocked over and there is nothing else there.........Nada zip. "Who Ever the FUCK HEAD THIEVES are." decided that the plants should be cut off at ground level and that was that. Lesson learned. If you want to grow outdoors hide it better.

I came prepared to harvest. I walked away and this farmer brought the crop in. I went right back to the Hindu Kush and got all of it into 2 grocery bags. Into the back pack and off to the WRx1. I didn't even look when I went by to see if it was there. I'm thinking what if I get only one plant out of this entire summer.

I get to the snake location and the WRx1 is still up and I make sure I have my mask down and I went to work on her. She filled up 4 grocery bags.
I don't think that there will be much trimming to do on her. most of the leaves have been slowing dieing and I have been plucking them for months.

I waited near the edge of the woods until it was dark. Then with a backpack full of buds and 2 other bags that wouldn't fit I hiked back.
My buddy said that I could dry mine along with theirs and keep my apartment stink free if I wanted to. So headed out to trim there. He gave me the clones that these plants came from.

I started unbagging buds and he looks and says "Which one is this?"
I look and say "The Kush."
He looks again and says "I don't think it is. I think it is Northern Lights."

Well they say bad things happen in Three's. I guess that since I had a ripper take WRx5 and ChemDXSourD, That is one and two, and finding out the plant that I have referred to throughout this entire journal is more then likely a mislabeled northern lights, That is Three.

So, anyway he thinks I will be close to 10 oz. Not much compared to the pounds they have on the lines behind mine. BUT Mine have the biggest buds of all that have in so far.

So bring on the good things. I have a few job opportunities this week. Time to make a go of it. I have been a good farmer this summer. I harvested meat for my freezer and smoke for my head. I kept plants green all summer. Now may karma bite the person in the ass that took my weed. May they ruin it trying to process it or get busted trying to sell it. If they keep it may it mold in the jars before they get the chance to smoke it.

Fuck them and guerrilla growing. I'm not cut out for it.
You sweat and bleed and keep plants from dieing during drought all to have someone come and take you plants when they have done nothing. I want to have that room to hide my plants away in.

smalltime

sorry if anyone is offended by the use of the F word. I think it is appropriate use for rippers.

[gorilla]

fuck rippers.

that sucks so bad smalltime. i'm very upset this happened to you, you put a lot of good care into your plants. at least you ended up with weed and they didn't get all your shit.

best of luck in the future.

[Dawg]

Man, sorry to hear of your loss bro. Rippers are scum.
At least you got some of it. ;)

[CB]

hey ST,

this really sux big time :mad: but at least you got some of it

thanks for sharing your grow with us bro :D


rippers are lower then whale chit in my book

hope next year is better for you :watch:

:pass:

[Fing_57]

FFF's :mad
sux you got ripped ...... the POS's should be hung by the balls


think of it as part of the "G" growing learning curve and keep at it

[Dawg]

LOL Go out next year...Plant a lone not so stealth plant. Spray it with Geberllic acid (SP) they'll think its just seeded bud and smoke it. Make em sick as a dog. LOL
Too bad you can't soak em in a laxative....."damn dude this bud we ripped gave me the shits" :p

[smalltime]

I was informed that what I have written about all summer as the Hindu Kush is more then likely a Northern Lights. 3 of my grower friends have grown that particular clone and each of them says it is NL.

My WRx1 turned out to produce some really nice bud's.

And like I said early, the wrx5 and the ChemDxSourD both got ripped. So we will never know how those ended up looking.

smalltime

[Fing_57]

nice looking harvest :D

looks like you'll be :pass: in no time

[Sticky_Budz]

nice harvest bro this grow was great to watch and seeing that nice harvest makes it well worth it:D enjoy that lovely smoke bro At least those damn rippers didn't get all your good smoke.
let us know how it smokes peace

[smalltime]

Summer 07 is done.
The harvest has been put into jars and I have started the jar cure process on them.
I have pictures of each plants results.
I couldn't tell you a weight.
I guess that I will be smoking some buds for a while though.

The only other addition that this will get is smoke reports after the buds are done with the jar cure.

I am all set for winter. Now I just need to find a sexy young lady to share some smoke with.

First up is the Northern Lights/kush.
And then the WRx1 (white rhino x white rhino)

[CB]

look forward to the smoke report bro..... good luck with lady friend ;)

looks like some fine HGB ya got there..... enjoy

:pass:

[smalltime]

Northern Lights, this is the plant that I grew outside this past summer and was journaled as Hindu Kush.
Bong
Music- scolohofo Oh! (Sunday morning Jazz)

Appearance.
The buds are good looking buds that are almost Olive in color. There are very few visible hairs on this bud. For the most part it looks leafy.

Smell
In flower she had an amazing wintergreen smell that made you want to sniff your fingers over and over again.
Right out of the jar it doesn't have much scent to it. Little bit of pine, but not too much.
In the grinder, it is a different story. The wintergreen smell that it had in flower come back out with the slightest scent of fresh laid blacktop or tar.

Taste.
There isn't alot of flavors to this smoke. It tastes like nice weed. It definately makes me cough everytime I hit it. But on the whole there just isn't much to talk about as far as the taste goes.

Affect.
It is starting off with a little bit of a head high. The body buzz is fuzzy. It is so light that it feels like it is just at the surface. The head buzz is nice and spacey. This is the weed that you would smoke if you don't have anything to do for a little bit, cause it seems like where ever your mind wanders it seems like an interesting place to journey to.
I'm not sure if it from coughing after each hit, but there is some nice lung expansion.
Definitely a spacey high. More head then body buzz. Wow, how spacey, I just caught myself watching the curser flash on and off waiting for me to type.


I will give this an average rating. The buds don't look like they are rolled in sugar. There isn't much smell to the nugs until you break it up.
I'm alright with this high though. It spaces me out pretty good, so I don't think that I will be smoking it much during the day. I don't think I would ever get my work done on this. It makes me feel like a lazy stoner.