Planning out the 2025 outdoor grow

[TomH]

Just a quick mid-offweek update from the foothills.

plants are doing well, about half way there, maybe a little less but looking good.
I’m going to need to hit them one more time with a moderate nitrogen feeding when I return this coming Sunday. I detect just a little early yellowing taking place, I’d like to hold that off a few more weeks before letting them go autumn.

The Sativa/hybrid, KC Wolfenstein, must be at the far end of the sativa spectrum for it’s genetic line. The leaves are incredibly narrow and buds are slow forming. Getting there, but mass-wise they look and feel weeks behind the Super Blue dream.

SBD and Indica (Blackberry Moonshine) are putting on good weight and size.

We had an electrical storm of biblical nature here on 9/2. Fires everywhere in the vicinity. The closest got less than a mile and on the same side of the hill as us, so it wasn‘t a comfortable evening. Calfire and inmates from a local state prison (conservation center) did amazing work to put the fires out. We lost one historic town (Chinese Camp) nearly totally destroyed but most towns and structures were saved elsewhere.

More weather coming this weekend and next week so don’t know what the next update here will hold!

Weird year!

 

[Tremojem]

I had to bring one of my ladies inside to finish in the tent. She is now in for several days of darkness, then into the DIY Cannatrol by Koolatron, lol.

 

[TomH]

Looks like some big ole fat colas. Those look yummy.

 

[TomH]

This is the indica update, Blackberry Moonshine, in soil with full sun exposure all day.

She’s getting sugary now. Still need to pack on some weight.

Plenty of time to gain weight, still has about five to six weeks left.

 

[TomH]

Sativa: KC Wolfenstein all of a sudden got big. Bigger than the two blue dream plants combined.

It got taller and fatter in every direction.
Starting to get some sugar on the buds but not as heavy as the indica.

Super Blue Dream twins are gaining weight rapidly. Still no sugar but they’re not genetically prone to be sugary. Just good buzzy smoke.

Everything changed dramatically in the week I was gone. I’ve not seen this kind of growth spurt in a long time. Everything exploded.

 

[steamroller]

That's a great shot Tom~!

 

[TomH]

The stretch drinking binge has ended. I’ve reduced the irrigation duration from 4 min to 2 min. Continue 3 x daily (8:30AM, 11AM and 2PM).

I spent about 30 minutes this morning bending colas on the Sativa to get her back below the fence line. I can’t believe the explosive growth this plant went through in the last 7 days. It was slightly taller and thinner than each of the Super Blue Dream plants, now it was (until I bent her) 8 to 10 inches taller than SBD and as broad as the two SBD plants combined. The colas are numerous and gaining weight well. I can tell already, all the work I’m doing now to hold her down is going to be accompanied by an equal effort to support the weight, they already sway in the wind and it’s only the last day of week 4!

 

[BlueCollarBob]

This is the indica update, Blackberry Moonshine, in soil with full sun exposure all day.

She’s getting sugary now. Still need to pack on some weight.

Plenty of time to gain weight, still has about five to six weeks left. View attachment 113099View attachment 113100View attachment 113101View attachment 113102View attachment 113103View attachment 113104

Frame that last photo

 

[TomH]

I haven’t shown much of the garden this year so here’s a few quick pics.

Most of this is in and around our gazebo or arbor or whatever they are called.

Much of the yard looks like this. If I have my way.

 

[stonemason]

I haven’t shown much of the garden this year so here’s a few quick pics.

Most of this is in and around our gazebo or arbor or whatever they are called.

Much of the yard looks like this. If I have my way. View attachment 113137View attachment 113138View attachment 113139View attachment 113140View attachment 113141View attachment 113142View attachment 113143View attachment 113144View attachment 113145View attachment 113146View attachment 113147View attachment 113148View attachment 113149View attachment 113150View attachment 113151View attachment 113152View attachment 113153View attachment 113154View attachment 113155View attachment 113156

So cool thanks for sharing

 

[BlueCollarBob]

I haven’t shown much of the garden this year so here’s a few quick pics.

Most of this is in and around our gazebo or arbor or whatever they are called.

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I always love when you share these photos. Everything is beautiful and all of the succulents are exotic to me.

 

[Zen_seeker]

I haven’t shown much of the garden this year so here’s a few quick pics.

Most of this is in and around our gazebo or arbor or whatever they are called.

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So when’s viewing hours again?

 

[TomH]

I had to do more tie downs to keep the girls hidden. I broke a couple branches but mostly just made them lower and wider.

Super blue dream has the most amazing smell, but it’s different from their clone mother. I don’t quite understand how, but they are strong blueberry smelling. Their mother had a strong blueberry muffin smell. The muffin smell is absent this year. They also are beginning to show sugar/ trichomes which the mother had none of.

They get less direct sunlight, this has been a cooler year and I’m using a different nutrient line; don’t know why they are different but we’ll have to see what we end up with.

 

[TomH]

It’s a 4 grinder morning! Not out of necessity, but expediency!
Godzilla Glue
Green Haze
Maui Haze
Super Blue Dream

It’s going to be a smokin day! All this stuff is really tasty! I didn’t grow the GG nor the Maui Haze, but those are really good too!!!

 

[Tremojem]

Not nearly as impressive as TomH, cuz his garden is most excellent for sure.

But, here is plant one from outdoors. I had to finish in tent. NY is just not a good place to finish, unless we have an extended and Dry, Fall Season.

I have one left outside now and she is twice the size of this one. She will finish in the tent soon. The only way I could get them into tent, was to train or tie them downward, to fit. The top cola on this plant was tied down. After a week, the weight of it succumbed to gravity, as you can see, lol.

This is a Sativa, not sure of the strain. She produced seeds, not many, but of high quality. I had a male that I collected pollen from, for use at a later date. That is my only explanation for the seeds. Additionally, there were two seedlings growing in the pot. They must have fallen from her, into pot and then germinated. I dont know, as it was a shock to me when I found them growing. They are about two weeks old. Doing very well, by the way.

I did a wet trim and loaded the DIY Cannatrol by Koolatron. There is a six inch rule next to each picture of each shelf. The bags are golf ball sized buds, and will go into fridge for the Lotus Drying Methodology.

Here are the pics. They actually are heavy too. I did find a couple odd small spots on two larger buds, that looked like a combination of dead brown leaves and seed pods, that were suspect. Didn't present as mold, but I dissected the area and removed. After the inspection, it still didn't present as mold. But fuck it, I removed it.

Biggest, stacked and sweet smelling buds I have ever grown.

My apologies for the shifty picture of the branch laying on my work bench, as it is a poorly taken image.

 

[TomH]

I see an equitable trade possibility! Those look great! That’s going to be some awesome smoke!

 

[Max]

Are you in the desert bro…

your cabbage grows funny over there

 

[TomH]

Are you in the desert bro…

your cabbage grows funny over there
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It’s a very hot, dry location that gets too much rain in winter to be considered desert.

Summer is definitely desert. Yeah that cabbage has given me plenty of trouble