CTGorillaFarmer
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Hey all this is my first post on here, i been growing in CT for about 10 years. this year is my most ambitious grow, Co-Op grow with another user of this forum. any tips for this in CT climate?
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mojogreenhand
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Howdy people! Last time I checked in I was in the middle of my first real grow. Turned out very well I think. With 6 plants from seed, 1 NLxAK47 and 5 White Russian (1 of which was a LOT lankier than the others) I ended up with a little over 7z's. Due to my setup I had to harvest all at once and I'm sure some could have gone a bit longer than others. I was very pleased and everyone who sampled the goods said that it was very good and by FAR the stinkiest stuff they have come across. That made me happy. While it did seem very smelly to me I think I can do better. I'm sure working from clones I could have controlled a lot of things that went wrong this time, like having to train a plant late in veg that ended up bent over with a big sideways 'S' in the main stem that took up twice as much space as the others. Anyway I was very happy with the results and now I'm very sad because I'm almost out of the good stuff and gonna have to go back to the crap till I can get a second grow going. Which leads me too....
I saw Joey Weed had Apollo 11 in stock a few weeks ago so I quickly sent off an order for some. Ever since I started reading about growing seriously when I stumbled on OG about 8 years ago Apollo 11 has always sounded fantastic to me. I even went so far as ordering it from Bros Grimm back then, germinating half of them and failing miserably. I later tried to germ the other half 8 years later but none of them sprouted, bummer. So when Joey had them in stock I jumped as quick as I could. Well I got the order confirmation 6 business days ago. Tomorrow is the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission. If these things arrive tomorrow, as they very well could if the shipping time given is correct, then it certainly has to be a sign that good things are to come. Imagine Apollo 11 landing on my doorstep on the very day of the 40th anniversary. I'm getting chills just thinking about it. Ok, enough of my rambling. I really hope the high is as advertised, if so it almost seems like the Holy Grail of cannabis. Anyone have any hands on experience with it?
I saw Joey Weed had Apollo 11 in stock a few weeks ago so I quickly sent off an order for some. Ever since I started reading about growing seriously when I stumbled on OG about 8 years ago Apollo 11 has always sounded fantastic to me. I even went so far as ordering it from Bros Grimm back then, germinating half of them and failing miserably. I later tried to germ the other half 8 years later but none of them sprouted, bummer. So when Joey had them in stock I jumped as quick as I could. Well I got the order confirmation 6 business days ago. Tomorrow is the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission. If these things arrive tomorrow, as they very well could if the shipping time given is correct, then it certainly has to be a sign that good things are to come. Imagine Apollo 11 landing on my doorstep on the very day of the 40th anniversary. I'm getting chills just thinking about it. Ok, enough of my rambling. I really hope the high is as advertised, if so it almost seems like the Holy Grail of cannabis. Anyone have any hands on experience with it?
fieldgrower
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not too many outdoor grows this year ay? me and gorilla farmer are gonna post some pics soon that are gonna blow ya minds :jawdrop:
CTGorillaFarmer
New member
this years Rain here has been horrible 27 days of rain in june, everything is pretty well stunted from that shit.
Stalldaworld
Member
Whats up New England. Checking in over here. Hope everyones in and out is doing great. Finally starting to dry out a little. June was a biach. Not doing anything over the top this year just two clones and their mother outside.
All hashberry
Mommy is huge, put her out on the 1st of june, looking like she wants to do big things. 16 main shoots. All over 2 ft tall. Prolly stunted too from all the rain. she should take off soon. Got her in a 10gal hole with some heddy compost, FF, Perlite, mixed in with soil from last year. Im not planning on suplementing her very much unless she shows signs of malnurishment. Mandalas likes low nutes.
Thinking about cloning the shit out of her for a late season mini run. its either that or let her get huge...what do you guys think?
Have her two clones in 7-10gal pots with the same mix as the mother. They are def stunted from the non stop rain. Leaves are still reaching for the sky and they are trying to be all they can be. Both are between 2 and 3 ft. One topped, one not.
Grew 2 plants in the same sized pots last year and it worked out well. The pot was def packed with roots, a lil root bound...1 plant should be perfect.
Sorry no picks yet, dont wana waste bandwidth plus not much to show. Stay safe evryone.
All hashberry
Mommy is huge, put her out on the 1st of june, looking like she wants to do big things. 16 main shoots. All over 2 ft tall. Prolly stunted too from all the rain. she should take off soon. Got her in a 10gal hole with some heddy compost, FF, Perlite, mixed in with soil from last year. Im not planning on suplementing her very much unless she shows signs of malnurishment. Mandalas likes low nutes.
Thinking about cloning the shit out of her for a late season mini run. its either that or let her get huge...what do you guys think?
Have her two clones in 7-10gal pots with the same mix as the mother. They are def stunted from the non stop rain. Leaves are still reaching for the sky and they are trying to be all they can be. Both are between 2 and 3 ft. One topped, one not.
Grew 2 plants in the same sized pots last year and it worked out well. The pot was def packed with roots, a lil root bound...1 plant should be perfect.
Sorry no picks yet, dont wana waste bandwidth plus not much to show. Stay safe evryone.
CTGorillaFarmer
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rob you need to pre geminate those bad boys around here, for some reason i never have luck just stickin a seed in the ground in new england. i have 45 + in the ground and their atleast 1-2 feet tall right now.
Stalldaworld
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reppin ct,i like that. good luck with those 45
CTGorillaFarmer might be right, I never have harvested a plant around here that I didn't pop and veg for at least two weeks. This spring put a whoopin' on me this year. More accurately, the slugs. Of the 50 I took out in the second week of May, I only have 14 left. Strains are Deep Purple, CT-91 (afgooey/ecsd x chemdawg 91), C99 x Panama Red, White Rhino, Sourbubble BX1 Mother A, Drizzle and Bubblegumbo. The rains in June were a mixed blessing. They brought the slugs, but allowed whatever plants remaing to grow deep roots that have hit the local water table. Had 2 weeks no rain, went out there today expecting half dead, heat stressed plants. Nope, all healthy four footers reaching for the sky. Also found a male CT-91 in FULL bloom. Chopped that bad boy, got the main stalk sitting in a cup of water on the windowsill. Gonna attempt making seeds this fall. Good luck to all.
P.S. Representing CT as well . Can't wait for the Vibes this year.
P.S. Representing CT as well . Can't wait for the Vibes this year.
that nugget
Member
CT reppin
Stalldaworld
Member
cant make it to vibes...kinda bummed wanted to get a day pass to see darkstar but ill be in nyc. too bad...
cocogroguy
Member
Thanks guysI sure do love the way the mcfly grows. I should also say that everyone posting pics on the past couple pages is holding it down hard, nice work fellas and ladies!! Repped out as usual...
I snagged a couple plants outta the flower area for some quick pictures tonite... they're 20 days in if I'm not mistaken... this has been my first run in coco (been in promix the past couple years) and I sure am loving it. The rate and quality of growth is awesome. Also have switched over to floranova from PBP for my base nute in flower. So far I'm diggin' that aswell, hopefully nothing goes awry and I keep on liking it
Casey Jones
ChemD
ECSD
KKSC
nice dude.....i love seeing the difference in strains like the ECSD and CJ versus KKSC.......completely different beasts. Its hard to get KKSC to to play nice with other plants....shes always invading their space
. Cant wait to see those ladies in like......5 weeks .I gotta find some time and post up a couple pics of my shit. Getting there....day 42ish and starting to beef up decent. The damn ssh(rom) plants i got going have tiny buds on em....lots of em...but tiny. Hoping i yield decent...gonna be hard to run her again with them yielding so little. Such good smoke tho
Good to see all the CT peeps popping up.....born and raised....and back again finally!! love me some CT
Vibes was awesome last year.....black crows put on a helluva show.....i missed strangefolk tho cuz of rain.....that sucked.
No shows for this poor man this year tho.....gotta stay on my grind.CTGorillaFarmer
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i have to say you must have grown those bad boys in side for along time, cuz i have no Flowers yet what so ever and my plants are only 1-2 feet tall right now in full sun light, so you ether bullshittin about size and flowering or you started inside wayyyy early. lets see some picks, cuz june with 27 days of rain brought very little to no growth
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Lilly456
My Dirty Harry is finally done.It beat those damn spider mites and finished in 48 days but ahhh it doesn't look like much but there were tons of branches.I've been oven baking some this week for work on the road crew, by the time I made it home I was out for 12 hrs, but that's what tweeking a road grader will do for ya', bumping rocks and packing culverts with a front end loader, I hate redneck work, I'd rather even be in the archives of a museum or library in the cool a/c doing research on 19th century French Socialist authors......I'm so tired when things go f-ed up on a job and giant boulders stare at ya'. I bought my ticket, one way to beer on Sat morning...
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Lilly456
Luckily for me the spider mites do not like La Nina, they eat the leaves a bit but they do not encase the buds in webs.ECSD is their favorite dish , no doubt, they don't seem to like tropical strains.I have one Widow dominant La Nina that should be done in 20 days.I was gone for three days earlier in the week doing that road job and sleeping on a hill and I came back and it had been so hot several La Nina's dried out a wee bit.Almost 3hrs away to rebuild a road and 3 days of blazing, I mean blazing hot work plus the heat of a damn machine.No money, no honey.Time to roll one up.....
CTGorillafarmer- For security issues I don't post pics....and the lack of a camera as well. I started my plants inside from seed on 4/20. Had them inside on a 14 hour daylight setting to avoid flowering as soon as they went out. When I went out yesterday, I could sex 90% of them, and one very early male had about 1000 closed sacs on him, they were just opening. The strain is either c99 x panama red or ct-91, I lost my layout sheet and the wake and bake is keeping me from finding it. I was real surprised to see that male that far along this early. Growing over the last 5 years, I have never seen a plant in full flower before the second to third week of august around here. I collected the main cola and have it sitting in a glass of water so I can collect the pollen when it drops. Making seeds for the first time this year, so hopefully I'll have my own cross for next year.
CTGorillaFarmer
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just seems strange of what youre telling us here, i started mine about 4/20 also and had them in pots out side by the end of may, i still do not have any over 2 feet tall nor are any flowering, nor do i ever worry about my tree flowering when i put her out cuz the light cycle isnt correct for it this early on whats today 7/18/09 , there still veggin unless you got an auto flower, theres no way youve got flowers already. and males dont make "colas" so im calling you out on shananigans heres a quote from a page here "Clusters of flowers known as buds or colas only occur on female plants"
CTGorillaFarmer
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hmm keep forgetting to bring this up on here, maybe some one can help me out.
I have 2 plants coming out of one seed? one had a pinkish purple stem the other bright green, the purple stemed one is deformed, and looks to be indica judging by the leafs and growth patterns, and the green has the long thin leafs like a sativa. both plants are doing great, what should i do?
I have 2 plants coming out of one seed? one had a pinkish purple stem the other bright green, the purple stemed one is deformed, and looks to be indica judging by the leafs and growth patterns, and the green has the long thin leafs like a sativa. both plants are doing great, what should i do?
wtf? Yea, anyway to answer your question, two plants from one seed happens every now and again. It happens mostly with hybrids from what I've read. Two pollen cells hit a female seed cell at almost the same time, which with brush pollination would make that more likely. That would almost never happen with wind pollination. As for my ‘cola’ you're right, only females produce them. I incorrectly labeled the top part of the plant's main stem. Does not change the fact I have an early flowering male. It might have some freak autoflower characteristics, but this is not a ruderalis cross. My plants are in ground, in well ammended soil and were about a foot tall when put out in May. If its a Panama Red dominant pheno of C99 x Panama Red, then maybe the loss of about an hour of daylight since the solstice did it. Tropical sativas are more sensitive supposedly because in the tropics, the seasonal daylength doesn't change much, like only an hour difference between summer and winter solstice.
