007's Summer 2010 Grow

[007.]

Check your reps (MyIC) for where I am. When do you have to finish by? I've got until mid September I hope. I may let them get a couple hits of frost to really solidify that purple color. My strains are supposed to be very early and quick flowerers. I just hope they bulk up quick. I think I may try molasses next time I go out there.

 

[igrowkushbitch]

Thanks I did not know I could do that.

 

[igrowkushbitch]

I don't have a time limit on my season. My girls are in a green house but they are straight monsters. I can barley get into my green house and its 20 long, 10 feet wide and 10 to 8 feet tall. I have my medi cards here so its all good with the number of plants. I just hope they start flowering soon cause its getting out of control. I am growing a hash plant/ white widow mix, super skunk, lemon diesel, and some platinum kush. But as to adding molasses it does work. I like to add brown sugar because it has molasses in it and its a lot easier to deal with than its sticky counterpart.

 

[007.]

Oh man, that setup sounds awesome. It would be great to be able to control the environment like that. Something hard to do in a GG.

 

[gaiusmarius]

sweet grow you got going 007. it's surprising how much work it involves in the end, but it's a great way to learn for next season. i'm going through the exact same kind of thing with my guerrilla plants.

maybe you could make a short chimney on your drying box when the time comes and a small intake at the bottom, this way air will naturally move through the box from bottom to top. using the desiccant on top of that should allow you to succeed. as it will be cold air it will take a while and you will have to make sure the buds are not too close together.

anyway all the best for the rest of the season, stay safe from them bears

 

[007.]

Thanks for stopping by gaius. Yes, I've been watching your outdoor foray, and I have to say, your plants are far healthier than mine. It is fun learning as you go, and I've enjoyed watching somebody as skilled as yourself going through the same kind of process as me, struggling with light issues and whatnot.

As far as drying, I should have updated on that. Situations in my life have changed, and it should no longer be a problem to build and use a small rubbermaid container tricked out with screens and a carbon filter. I'll probably run something like that when the time comes. I'm also planning on using those tiny hygrometers that can fit in a curing jar, since I don't want to f*ck that up.

However, your input into the outdoor drying idea is appreciated. I may one day incorporate that into my plans, should I need/want to dry outdoors.

 

[rocket high]

hows the outdoor going 007.. im nearly at the finnish with mine and looking forward to next year

 

[007.]

Good of you to stop in rocket!

Went out once more since the last update. Plants looked little different, so I didn't take pics. I gave flowering nutes to all but those that looked close to finishing. Those just got water. I'm a little concerned that we won't even pull a pound off of these. I'm hoping for some fat budding and quick.

I think the real bottleneck I'm running into is temperature. It's been hovering around 5-13 C at night during the summer here, and stays in the teens, sometimes hitting the twenties during the day. Brutal summer.

I'm thinking the only way to combat this within a GG framework (no greenhouses) is to use a SOG. Low temperatures cause slow metabolism per plant, so why not grow a thousand babies? It will all come down to seed quantity. Too bad I didn't keep any males for pollen this go.

I'll probably hit the patch again soon. Some might be near/at harvest. I need to find a 30x loupe tomorrow, since I doubt I can operate my field microscope effectively while perched on a mountainside, trying not to harm the buds or smear resin off the plant.

I haven't actually checked the triches yet. I hope they all turn out clear though, since I'd like for them to bud up much more first.

 

[gaiusmarius]

those are some beautiful mountains and forests you have.

lets hope they fatten up, i think some of them will still get quite a bit bigger. the flowering stretch should help with the end yield. but in the end it will depend on the sun.

that flowering plant looks a bit over ferted to me, the leaves are a bit dark green and the edges seem to be burnt. but you already said you were only giving that one water.

maybe you will have to pre veg the plants a bit next year, to get a head start on the short season up there.

 

[007.]

Thanks gaius! Yes, it is some beautiful country out here.

That one pictured plant was actually underferted I think. Maybe a little too much N led to the dark green (although they were darker green before we started feeding them... I think that might have been due to temperature stress), but definitely too little PK. I think the light rings were a sign of the deficiency, because when we started feeding them PK, they started looking better and the light edges stopped progressing. When I took that picture they were already recovering.

We did pre-veg this year, for almost two months actually. Next year I'm planning on many more plants, with probably less prevegging. If I could put out a field of 6 inch seedings I think that would be ideal.

I'm eying black polymer mulch with interest. They are supposed to absorb heat from the sun and transfer it to the soil.

I think a big part of my trouble this year was also due to the soil I used. Next year I will plan a much better nutrition regime, along with a better irrigation system so that the plants never pause growth.

 

[Guest129216]

Awesome grow man! Beautiful nature you got there. You seem so dedicated too. Looking forward to updates,,,,,,,,

 

[007.]

Thanks Bom! I'm been following your impressive grow with great interest!

Sad news today, I'm afraid. We went to the patch and our three best plants were gone. I think deer, since the stalks look "snipped" rather than gnawed (so not rabbits, though I've never seen rabbits out there). Also, there was another plant right next to them that wasn't harmed (so not LEO). And those plants weren't flowering significantly yet (so not rippers, unless they were *really* dumb).

All the other plants were OK.

I chopped one Early Wonder and the top cola off of an Emerald Wonder. It was difficult to operate my field microscope in those conditions, but it looked like there were some amber trichs. Yield from both plants probably won't be more than 1/4 oz.

Hopefully the others will grow an awful lot in the next month, though I kind of doubt they will.

All in all, a pretty depressing day.

I'm trying two different drying methods. Half is drying in an open cardboard container (empty tissue box), while the other half is hanging. I have a feeling that hang-drying will go too fast given how dry my climate here is. I may alternate the box with hanging.

 

[gaiusmarius]

sorry to hear about your lost plants, specially as they were the ones not flowering yet. bummer. you might have to surround the plants with some fishing line at 1 ft and at 3 foot should stop any deer getting too close. they don't like the feeling of walking against the fishing line so they go around, apparently.

 

[Big Tree]

Sucks about your plants but better it be a deer than LEO finding your patch and waiting for your return.

 

[007.]

True that Big Tree.

Gaius, I'd do that but I'm kind of growing in a large clearing, so there's nothing near the plants to string the fishing line to, you know?

I went back recently to feed them some 5/15/15. Unfortunately I couldn't snap any pics because I had a helicopter situation that resulted in me running through the woods at high speed before jumping into a bog. I'd post more on what happened exactly but I don't want to help LEO any.

Oh well, if they decide to spend resources on this grow that's just plain dumb of them.

 

[gaiusmarius]

oh shit man, lots of people having adventures this year. stay safe bro...

 

[kaczy]

Tough to grow in the mountains huh? 007 nice grow and I see you have a lot of work. Carrying water, nutrients etc. This must be a heavyweight lifting championship for you everytime you have to go up into these mountains. I would have tough time cause mostly I smoke when I go check out my plants. Having these hills to take over should result a heart attack for me LOL

Nevertheless for what youre and your mate are doing in this hard conditions. Beautiful sites bro. Keep it green and show more pics.

Peace DuckU

 

[007.]

oh shit man, lots of people having adventures this year. stay safe bro...

Thanks for the good vibes gaius. Yes, it seems like 'tis the season for LEO's watchful eye, unfortunately. Kind of makes me wish my season was long enough that I could use autoflowers to harvest before the heat gets ramped up. Oh well.

Tough to grow in the mountains huh? 007 nice grow and I see you have a lot of work. Carrying water, nutrients etc. This must be a heavyweight lifting championship for you everytime you have to go up into these mountains. I would have tough time cause mostly I smoke when I go check out my plants. Having these hills to take over should result a heart attack for me LOL

Nevertheless for what youre and your mate are doing in this hard conditions. Beautiful sites bro. Keep it green and show more pics.

Peace DuckU

Thanks for stopping by dude. I'll do my best to grab some pics next time I'm there. They're starting to bud up nicely.

And yes, it is a lot of physical work. It's enjoyable to be out there though. And smoking (the good stuff) has always helped my cardio for some reason. We've found a game trail that leads through a pass that means we don't have to do all the climbing up and down we had to earlier in the season. So it's a relatively straight shot until you get to the mountainside we're actually growing on, and then its only a 15 minute or so climb. It still sucks to carry water up there, but we only have to bring water for nutes, since there's good rain up there. What really sucked was carrying all the soil. Our grow uses 0% native soil, and when we were bringing in all the soil, we didn't know about the hidden trail we use now. It took us three full days of work to lug all that.

 

[007.]

Well, it's been really cold here the last week. I think it probably dipped to 0 where the plants are. We'll see how they are in a few days. Probably harvest a couple. They should be nice and purple from the cold. Hopefully it warms up for a while so more can finish. Yield outlook is looking pretty pitiful.

In other news, I'm planning on popping some feminized Trainwreck beans in the next few days in rockwool, before moving them into hydroton netpots for a DWC grow. I'm planning on running a 126W Penetrator for flowering, but for now will veg under T5s and CFLs. One of them I will select as a mother and keep her under the T5s. My aim is to set up a perpetual cab, to be used for personal stash and GG F2 seeds.

 

[gaiusmarius]

good luck with the new project. lets hope the guerrilla at least pays off with a nice smoke, even if you don't get tons. also you can use the soil again next year and just bring in some stuff to freshen it up.