2009 outdoor 55 N from clones

[d1ff1Ko1t]

Hi everybody,

I started this little project in december 2008, indoors obviously.
I ordered 6 different strains:

Early Fatty
Mango
Purple Bud
KC 33
Cyber Cristal
Passion #1 (feminized)

Germinated the seeds in paper towel and ziploc bags, 90% poped in 3-4 days. Transplanted them into plastic cups under 24/0 fluoro. Couple of weeks later into pots and kept them under 18/6. The purple buds started flowering right away.
At 6 weeks took cutting and put the cuttings under 12/12 fluoro to determine sex.
My initial goal was to have 2000 clones ready may beginning of june ready for transplant outdoors.

 

[d1ff1Ko1t]

After sexing, trew away the males and kept on cutting back the females.
kept them under 3 x 600W HPS, 1 CAN33 carbon filter attached to an Elicent 150B with a 6" passive intake.
Fed them 2 part DNF grow

 

[d1ff1Ko1t]

From the beginning i was worried about them not finishing considering the short growing season that we have up here. That why i tried to get early finishing strains (6weeks), unfortunately i did not know about autoflowering strains back then.

 

[d1ff1Ko1t]

My biggest concern (indoors) was that i had only about 400 sq feet of usable room in my basement, which would be enough for my motherplants, but not 4 the clones. So i started building a shelf system, using 50 pcs of 2x4s and plywood. I was using the bubble cloning method with about 70% succes rate. Had 20w cfl bulbs at every 3 feet and a couple of 80w double fluoros. I barely had room to walk inbetween the plants and the shelving system.

 

[d1ff1Ko1t]

As the room started filling up with clones and my mothers were getting pretty big, things started to get pretty stinky down there, so i had to get another carbon filter, a bigger one this time, a CAN 125 with a 10" fan. I also got an 8" passive intake in addition to the existing 6" one.

 

[d1ff1Ko1t]

it took us about 3-4 days to clean out the growspots, chopped down a shitload of bushes. my original plan was to put them outdoors on the first week of june to avoid the frostbite. the weather was really nice around the 25th of june and i was running out of room big time, so i decided to start putting them out, which was a mistake. i lost about 300 clones right after transplant, because of the really low night time temperatures.
My 2 growing partners and I started logging out the 2000 clones and 54 motherplants trough 1 km of forrest (in cardboard boxes). it took us about 1.5 weeks and we walked well over 100 km/person.

 

[d1ff1Ko1t]

Most of them survived though, but it took them almost 4 weeks to recover and get used to the great canadian outdoors. as soon as they were about 3 feet tall, i started to tie them down, i used about a 1000 yards of string
My watering system involves a 1/2 HP electric jetpump, powered by a supersilent (58 dB) Honda gas powered generator, that pumps water from a little creek near by trough a 1/2" garden hose that is burried in the ground on a length of about 600 feet. Even with this easy system it still takes about 3 hours to water them.

 

[d1ff1Ko1t]

I'm having a huge problem with deer or moose. I lost 1000 of my clones and about 30 of my motherplants. I used wolf pee, bobcat pee, human pee, plantskydd (blood) with more or less success. right now im trying irish soap and mothballs will se how that goes.

 

[d1ff1Ko1t]

i used heavy harvest all the way through, spring summer and falll blend.
right now 60 % of the plant are about 3 weeks into flowering (3 more to go), i'm hoping that we'll have a late winter so all of them can finish. Just gave them superbud this week, a little boost wont hurt.

Any suggestions for a resonable bud trimming machine?

 

[blackone]

I'll be following this one for sure
Sorry for your losses - I hope the rest will make up for it.
Very interested to hear about especially Passion #1 and KC33

Especially the fact that you're on 55N is interesting for us Danes... most Canadian grows I see around are from the southern part of BC - almost same latitude as Paris is in Europe, so everything finishes a lot sooner there.

 

[buddymate]

Confucius he say "Never say it cant be done to the man who is doing it" Excellent show mate,top marks,be interested in how your game plays out

 

[Puffster]

some serious effort being put down in this grow, lets hope that you get som serious bud as well

oh and nice watering system

 

[zapatoloco]

Especially the fact that you're on 55N is interesting for us Danes... most Canadian grows I see around are from the southern part of BC - almost same latitude as Paris is in Europe, so everything finishes a lot sooner there.

I thought this was a Scandinavian grow at first because of the latitude but the numbers and attitude seemed way Canadian eh !!!! SE Canada is even lower than Paris, more like the latitude of Bordeaux in France and Southern Oregon in the US but it gets a lot colder than both these places and Winter comes on even quicker than in Scandinavia. Give thanks to the Gulf Stream !!!

 

[d1ff1Ko1t]

thanks for the good wishes guys. i'll post some flowering pics this weekend and hopefully some harvest pics in 3 weeks
the temps drops down drastically at night, under 5 degrees Celsius, but i have faith in my strong established plants, i know they'll pull through.

any idea why i cant post anymore pics, its telling me i reached my 5 mb limit? what do i do?

 

[d1ff1Ko1t]

by the way they say El Nino is coming to help the northern gardener

 

[blackone]

I thought this was a Scandinavian grow at first because of the latitude but the numbers and attitude seemed way Canadian eh !!!! SE Canada is even lower than Paris, more like the latitude of Bordeaux in France and Southern Oregon in the US but it gets a lot colder than both these places and Winter comes on even quicker than in Scandinavia. Give thanks to the Gulf Stream !!!

Yeah man I just checked it out... Toronto is like northern Spain, hehe.
We are pretty lucky with the climate I guess - you can experience a whole winter with almost no snow in Denmark.

 

[buddymate]

Hope your effort is justified in Harvest size mate,you deserve a decent crop with the amount of hard work you put in,be lucky.

 

[d1ff1Ko1t]

Did a count on my plants... I got left with 650 plants out of the initial 2000 and 20 mothers out of 54. Pretty sad. Out of the 650 only about 120 are flowering, the Passion #1's . 10 of the motherplants r flowering as well (also Passion #1). My guess is that they r 3 weeks into it. The rest looks like its starting to flower right around now, they're in the stretch period. Hurry uuuuup!! It's 13.3 hours light out there right now.. The weather is still pretty good, i'm in semi-panic mode. I have high hopes in El Nino though. I'm wondering what's the lowest temperature that they can handle? 0 degrees C ?

 

[d1ff1Ko1t]

the last pic shows the ones that r just starting to flower now.

 

[3rd I]

Looking good d1ff1Ko1t...