Planning out the 2025 outdoor grow

[TomH]

With a plants having shown signs of stretch and now seeing groups of stigma pairs, I’m gonna go out on a limb and say we’re in flower here!
If that’s accepted, end of week 1 of flower (different than stretch in my mind) will be today, 7/28.
End of week 10 will be 9/29 however, I’ll be out of town for a couple weeks.

Looks like harvest will be 10/10, middle of week 12. That indica should be good and stony at that point.

 

[freezeland]

With a plants having shown signs of stretch and now seeing groups of stigma pairs, I’m gonna go out on a limb and say we’re in flower here!
If that’s accepted, end of week 1 of flower (different than stretch in my mind) will be today, 7/28.
End of week 10 will be 9/29 however, I’ll be out of town for a couple weeks.

Looks like harvest will be 10/10, middle of week 12. That indica should be good and stony at that point.

Stigma pairs are always present. It’s the presence of preflowers at their bases is what to watch for.

 

[TomH]

Stigma pairs are always present. It’s the presence of preflowers at their bases is what to watch for.

Yeah, the super blue dream have had them all year, now they are coming in groups of pairs. I think that’s the beginning of setting buds. I expect more, so she will be getting some foliar feeds during stretch and the first weeks of flower. I’ll probably give it two more foliar feeds.

 

[Zen_seeker]

Canna control is supposed to be for most flies, worms, caterpillars, mites, but its not really for grasshoppers.
nothing I can find will affect those MFs

Does soaps like Safer’s help?
I know it kills the eggs from one of my sunflower bugs. Smothers them so they don’t hatch.

Caterpillars and inch worms are our current battle.

 

[TomH]

Does soaps like Safer’s help?
I know it kills the eggs from one of my sunflower bugs. Smothers them so they don’t hatch.

Caterpillars and inch worms are our current battle.

The only thing that I’ve seen for certain to deal with grasshoppers is a shoe!
Those little SOBs are ironclad! Supposedly, there are certain plants that keep other bugs away (rosemary, marigolds, etc.). Grasshoppers eat them!

One of the most effective bug sprays is made from an extract from chrysanthemums. I’ve found the little bastards eating the buds from the mums! It’s like they have no off switch.

I do the grasshopper dance at least 5 times a day! It’s like the green apple quickstep only you’re aiming for the jumping bug rather than trying not to crap on your own feet!

Maybe I need to spark up another bowl!

 

[Zen_seeker]

The only thing that I’ve seen for certain to deal with grasshoppers is a shoe!
Those little SOBs are ironclad! Supposedly, there are certain plants that keep other bugs away (rosemary, marigolds, etc.). Grasshoppers eat them!

One of the most effective bug sprays is made from an extract from chrysanthemums. I’ve found the little bastards eating the buds from the mums! It’s like they have no off switch.

I do the grasshopper dance at least 5 times a day! It’s like the green apple quickstep only you’re aiming for the jumping bug rather than trying not to crap on your own feet!

Maybe I need to spark up another bowl!

We get the occasional grasshopper I notice in the yard. Haven’t seen one in a few years. Wife said she saw one last week but I think it was a type of cricket.

Moth caterpillars, leaf hoppers, aphids are the usual problems. I’ve only used Safer’s this year as I see the bugs but it’s been a pretty easy fight this year. I think the lack of rain might even be helping.

We still get a lot of cicadas but not like a couple years ago.

Around 2000 we had a big bloom of praying mantis. Big green one I saw on the subway hanging off the door and a couple of 1” and 2” green or brown ones around the bushes in our yard. Don’t remember seeing them as a kid in the city and I haven’t noticed any since. To bad, I’m cool with them and don’t just spray poisons around the yard. So not sure why they are so scarce.