Doing it Outside 2011

[gaiusmarius]

Howdy everyone,

i guess it's time for a new thread, as i am doing another attempt at an outdoor grow this year. we are keeping things to 11 plants this year in the hopes that they will be 11 nice plants in the end. we did much better prep work then i did last year and chose the spots carefully. basically we are using 2 areas which have the best sun from the ones i scouted last year. i also didn't want to bother climbing cliffs with soil this year so my secret valley will be empty of cannabis this year.

anyway not much to see yet, although for us it was the hardest part, we were able to drive the soil etc in quite close but its was still hot sweaty work getting the stuff from the forest track into the bush where our area for planting was.

we made 3 holes in one area and 8 holes in the best area, some holes a bit bigger then others but all a good size, mixed up worm castings and guano and perlit with the store bought universal potting soil.

as no plants got killed in this area last year we were planning not to make any fences, the seedlings are still very weak and will be put out in the next days when they get a bit bigger. i put 1 clone of my pheno 6 SDxCJ today just to see if the deer leave it alone. because we did see deer on the way.

anyway was very sweaty and dirty work so i didnt take many pics but you get the idea.

view at the best area

2 of 8 holes in best area, second hole is hardly visible through the bushes.

not quite finished mixing perlit in

view at the 3 plant spot

thats it for now, peace out....

 

[LazLo]

GM
Tuned in for another year's grow. Pardnered up this year, did you? With good help double the number of plants.

Your site looks ideal but watch those deer. Net or cage best defense. The only way I get a harvest is to net my sites.

I doubled up this year. So far 18 of 38 are in the ground. Have had so much rain that holes are oozing at 1' depth. Using 50/50 native soil and a no fertz added potting mix.

 

[Paddi]

Hi gaius...

I´m sure you´ll do a lot better this year.
Outside we have no what-to-do-answers.
Learning the things by doing is the way.
You learned some of the outside-rules last year as we can see


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[esbe]

one more to follow! wishing you all the best out in the wild gaius bro!

 

[GOT DANK]

poppin. im hiding in the trees. can you see me? lol good luck

 

[Rysam]

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Good luck this year.

 

[gaiusmarius]

GM
Tuned in for another year's grow. Pardnered up this year, did you? With good help double the number of plants.

Your site looks ideal but watch those deer. Net or cage best defense. The only way I get a harvest is to net my sites.

I doubled up this year. So far 18 of 38 are in the ground. Have had so much rain that holes are oozing at 1' depth. Using 50/50 native soil and a no fertz added potting mix.

yeah nearly didnt do any outdoor this year but when my friend said he'd drive the supplies as close as possible without worrying about getting a ticket i thought ok why not. we are not gonna put any fencing up this time. last year in the same general area the plants were not bothered by the local wildlife.

Hi gaius...

I´m sure you´ll do a lot better this year.
Outside we have no what-to-do-answers.
Learning the things by doing is the way.
You learned some of the outside-rules last year as we can see


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thanks Paddi,

i'll do my best to make it better then last time lol. shouldn't be too hard. definitely got better soil and earlier start in the right place

one more to follow! wishing you all the best out in the wild gaius bro!

will be an other adventure i'm sure. thanks for the best wishes bro.

poppin. im hiding in the trees. can you see me? lol good luck

oh so that was you running off through the woods, my mate had you in his sites, but we decided to be merciful, lol.

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Good luck this year.

thanks man, lets hope for the best.

 

[liquidlight]

Hey all the best for this years grow fella! Fewer and bigger plants ... that's the way to go i think

 

[gaiusmarius]

Hey all the best for this years grow fella! Fewer and bigger plants ... that's the way to go i think

great to have you along again mate, i learned a lot from you outdoor guerrilla growers.

yeah if the plan works and i end up with real trees it will be cool. am still wondering if i should put a few of my SDxCJ cross clones out too? not sure if they can deal with the climate like the FD. maybe i'll just leave it at the one i already planted. also have 2 possibly 3 of my top44 x SD/CJ ready to go outside. plan to use pollen from one of those, i'm hoping 1 will be a male, lol, to make seeds on the FD's for next year. i know it's not ideal breeding practice to make seeds from fem plants, but it would be fun to have more seed so a tryout will be the way to decide if it's a worthy guerrilla cross or not. in a few seasons we will know, lol.

damn! 1 of the 10 FD ladies as dried up and keeled over dead


you doing some again this year?

 

[liquidlight]

No, no FD's this year. I heard great things from a few UK growers last year about the 'Easy Sativa' (from femaleseeds.nl) but my local seed vendor only had a pack of 4 left so i also bought a 10 pack of 'Maroc' (also from femaleseeds.nl). All should be nice and ripe by the end of Sept. ... but i havn't germed them yet so a late start this year.

 

[THC123]

nice guerillia patch


i'm passing on guerillia this year


gonna mis frisian dew i have really come to like all different phenos


they give a nice happy high especially in the volcano

i'll grow the frisian for sure again in the future

 

[liquidlight]

Yeah it was a happy high. Had some nice moments in the oct/nov sunshine smoking that

 

[gaiusmarius]

No, no FD's this year. I heard great things from a few UK growers last year about the 'Easy Sativa' (from femaleseeds.nl) but my local seed vendor only had a pack of 4 left so i also bought a 10 pack of 'Maroc' (also from femaleseeds.nl). All should be nice and ripe by the end of Sept. ... but i havn't germed them yet so a late start this year.

very interesting, will be interesting to see how they do. it's not easy to get the perfect strains for our climate. im hopping my project to cross some top44xSD/CJ males with the FD bears fruit, might be interesting.

nice guerillia patch


i'm passing on guerillia this year


gonna mis frisian dew i have really come to like all different phenos


they give a nice happy high especially in the volcano

i'll grow the frisian for sure again in the future

i also think it's a good patch, time will tell. i was gonna plant them yesterday, but i was feeling under the weather, so we are planning to do it Saturday.

Yeah it was a happy high. Had some nice moments in the oct/nov sunshine smoking that

looking forward to more of the happy high lol. i ended up giving most of my outdoor away last year. made some folks very very happy. but i have to say, for our climate it's a pretty good strain

 

[gaiusmarius]

Update:

Update:

Planting day 28th May

well finally my plants are in the ground, now we hope for the best lol. here some pics from planting day. was hot afternoon and we each had to spend a good 15 mins picking ticks off our clothes and skin, yuk. one or two on my back were already stuck on the bastards. there was us thinking we finally had an idea what to expect with the ticks we get overwhelmed by the fuckers. never had so many, but there again we had to brush our way through a whole bunch of thickly overgrown areas. it's such a bummer to have to worry about those things, makes the whole guerrilla project that much less fun. gonna have to ask the local forest workers what they do. had jeans and army boots on, but short sleeved shirt and i forgot to put my pants inside my socks before we left the path. think the fuckers must have got in on my arms and up my jeans. anyway enough about that, here some pics of the planted Frisians and the 2 Afghan Diesel clones of mine. want to test how they do outside.

when i got to this hole to plant my seedling top44 x sd/cj i found that some animal had dug up a lot of my soil mix, so i had to try scoop it back and cover it with a layer of the local soil. might be a male anyway so it's the best place for this one.

these are the FD ladies to be

opened up this spot a bit better before we finished, to let more sun in

Afghan Diesel (sd x cj pheno 6)

this one has been there since last friday, seems to be taking a while to get used to the soil

had to add a layer of local soil as a topping, to help it contain the moisture underneath. it's also a bit more stealth, then having the perlit mix totally visible. this will be a low maintenance grow so there won't be too many updates, but i will take pics when ever i do have to go. the first clone has been out there now for more then a week and no body ate her, so there is hope the rest will be left alone too. wish me luck lol.

 

[Eugen]

the first clone has been out there now for more then a week and no body ate her, so there is hope the rest will be left alone too. wish me luck lol.

good luck man!
i just visited some of my outdoor plants this weekend, a few have been eaten or digged out by animals.

all the best for the season

 

[yesum]

Cool grow you have there. What are those green pellets in circle, lime, slug bait?

 

[rocket high]

Great to see your on top of your outdoor Guais ... mine isn't going to plan at the moment as the slugs have multi-plyed by 100% due to this really wet weather were having over here atm.

 

[gaiusmarius]

good luck man!
i just visited some of my outdoor plants this weekend, a few have been eaten or digged out by animals.

all the best for the season

sad to hear you lost some of your plants, hopefully the rest will make it ok. will be nice if i don't lose any to animals, we will see...

Cool grow you have there. What are those green pellets in circle, lime, slug bait?

those are bio snail pellets, they are harmless to all animals and plants except for snails and slugs. it says they decompose harmlessly if not eaten.

Great to see your on top of your outdoor Guais ... mine isn't going to plan at the moment as the slugs have multi-plyed by 100% due to this really wet weather were having over here atm.

Damn! sorry to hear the slugs are fucking with your seasons beginning. we are having perfect spring weather here. with any luck mine will all survive this fragile stage. the clone i put out when we first dug the holes, has been left alone all this time, so i'm hopeful the seedlings will be left alone too. i'm a bit worried that i put too much perlit in some of the holes, we will see....

peace out ya'll

 

[rocket high]

i will win the war on slugs if its the last thing i do ...lol


Im going to go get some maxicrop as i think the plants need a feed im going down this weekend to see if they are ok , i hate being away from them for more than a week i tend to worry about them like they are my children .

lets hope we all have a fruitful year

 

[greenhaus]

the spot looks nice and hidden. wish you the best with this years crop!