Too late for a start?

[Barnt]

So here's the deal, I got 3 mothers that are about a foot tall with multiple toppings so they are nice and lush. Originally these were going to be kept as bonsai mothers while my cab flowers, but I began to think what if I take clones of these girls to make into new mothers and then I can put my current mothers outdoors.

I'm in Northern California (lat 39 deg) so the temps should be fine until they finish (would be the first week of November--avg low is 40F). First frost is 10/30 so I might have to take them a little early but I'm not worried about that.

My problem is location. I found a decent spot I can ride my bike to that is in a dry creek bed. As far as I can tell the creek is the overflow for another creek. Because it doesn't really start raining till January, I dont think I will have a problem with it getting flooded out. The problem is that the two decent spots I found are north facing spots meaning with the sun low in the southern sky they will not got a lot of sun.

One spot is more secluded and much harder to spot, but I'm thinking it might only get a few hours if any of direct sun, and only a few hours of filtered light. The other spot will get more morning and afternoon filtered sun, but its not hidden as well.

Is it worth trying? I'm not too worried if they get ripped since I have an indoor going. What would you do? I'm leaning to the spot that gets more filtered light. If it doesn't get spotted, it'll be my best bet for getting decent buds, where the other spot I'm not sure if it will get any sun as the sun goes lower in the southern sky. Anyone with experience growing in the shadows/filtered sun have any recommendations?

 

[Guest]

What strain?

 

[Barnt]

Basically 3 unknown. 2 are bagseed from some supposed trainwreck that really didn't smell like trainwreck, but it was decent. The other was a random one that I have no idea where I got.

 

[asaru969]

if the weather is right..id say go for it...it cant hurt to try them...right?

 

[killafornia]

Put them out to pasture, what a great way to let those mothers retire! You could try putting them in both spots, but that may make things too complicated.

I once had a grow in a small space with a house on one side and fence on the other, so they only got about 4-6 hours of light a day. But they turned out great, very frosty & potent. I wouldn't worry about the light if you feel better about the secluded place. Having your conscious free and not worrying about your safety will be better for you in the long run.

I think I heard once that you can throw a garbage bag over a plant to keep if from being hit by the frost, might be worth a try.

 

[LemonCake]

go for it... if the temps get lower faster than you thought.. just use black trash bags and cover them up for the night... that will help keep the frost off them for a while so they can finish up properly.
good luck and lets see some pics
peace
LC

 

[Barnt]

Got back a little bit ago from planting

Sorry no pics from the site, my backpack was full of plants. I'll bring the camera next time when I water.

I did however take pics before I went to plant them.




In the second pic you can see the clones I just took on the left, the mothers in the middle and some rooted clones in water on the right that I was experimenting with. I tried cloning in just plain water and roots showed in two weeks. Problem with this method is when planting you have exposed roots which can easily be broken off, hence why I'm now using the ice tray with vermiculite for clones I took today.

The mothers went into the sunnier spot. I planted the 4 rooted clones into the shady spot. Not sure if they'll take, but its worth a shot since I wasn't going to do anything with them anyway.

 

[Barnt]

Took some pictures today.

This is the more sunny spot. You can clearly see the creek bed.



At the edge of the rocks looking at where they are.


There are the girls!




A few down leaves due to bugs.



The other spot looks like it gets no sun. I'm glad I planted the clones here and not the mothers. Turns out they got chewed on pretty good over the last few days. Two look like they could pull out of it, not sure what will happen though since they get no direct light.








Edit: Forgot to add, I got some poison oak on my leg now. I saw some while I was there, but I didn't think I got in any. Clearly I did. Luckily for me when I get it it doesn't really itch or rash up, just small bumps.

 

[Barnt]

Went to go feed them and came to a disaster. I'm assuming deer. I didn't even water them, figured I'd just use the food for my indoor tonight.

I hope that beast got a nasty stomach ache or was blitzed out of its mind...







I think I'll go back one more time in a couple months to see what they did, but with only a few small leaves/shoots remaining I don't think there would be much. Not to mention even if I tried to nurture it back to health, there is no stopping it from doing it again!