The growing large plants, outdoors, thread...

[OrganicBuds]

Dam, this harvest moon really is ripening up my garden. In the last week the smell radius has tripled. Last week I could smell it coming up to my block, now I smell it coming off the freeway, lol.

Hope everybody is having an amazing season, I know I am grateful for the weather and genetics this year. Enjoy it while it lasts I always say.

5g's Red finishing up in the next couple weeks.

Edit: Another thing I have been pondering: I have noticed a fair amount of people complaining of an early season this year. Could the cause be the Harvest Moon being so early this year?


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[wallywombat]

mmmmmm tahoe straight fire boooyaaa

 

[Dr. Purpur]

You are all Lookin Good!

 

[Greeseyder]

what strains are you guys already pulling right now? the only stuff that i have thats ready are the dieselberry 5G's but they could easily go another week or two.....blue dream, green crack, cherry pie, and chem4 all looks like its going until october.

I only ran C-weed...my first time with this strain....pretty popular here. This was totally an experiment...4 clones almost zero extra love for 'em. Tom's basic soil mix & some extra bloom guano watered in at flower time....went in the ground ~2ft. tall June 1st, finished ~5'x5' each...pulling ~1lb each! The 2 best ones I thinned out the centers & that is all the extra labor I did! Def. a faster finish than usual I'm told (since I've never ran this strain before). My whole house reeks of piney skunky goodness No real worries/security here as I'm in the boonies! I don't want to look a gift horse in the mouth BUT trimming this quantity SUCKS! Next year I'm getting an electric trimmer & going LARGE! 4-5 giants is the goal!

Have a great harvest everyone!
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[MildeStoner]

Electric trimmers decimate your herb IMHO, lots of trichome damage and a kind of grassy, hay smell. Get used to scissors, or find a few friends who can, you won't regret it..

 

[Endur]

Here is a couple pictures of my biggest plants, this year...
grown in 100 gal smart pots.

Blue Cheese

Kens Phantom

Hornsswaggle X CherryPie #2 (Grown in a 200 gallon pot).

Endur

 

[dickcorn]

Nice! Those are practically in your house lol. Did you have to black out your windows to prevent light pollution? My old trailer had the exact same awning and poles on it.

 

[milkyjoe]

 

[theJointedOne]

nice bud size and canopy for those smarties, are they 65? 100 gallon?

Nice buds

 

[ponocrookedbrah]

 

[Dr. Purpur]

Nice yard Pono!

This Gorilla Glue has a month to go. Its in a 100 gallon smarty, and running real late. Real strong, heavy yield cut.

 

[Yes4Prop215]

OB, word man i definately noticed an increase in calyx sweling over the last few nights. PurPur, interesting that GG is taking longer....just like my chem4 and 4sd cuts, they look like they wont be ready until late october. i wanted to run GG outside next year but might have to only do a few as testers.

anyways this wind is fucking crazy tonight...real glad i decided to double wrap my plants a few weeks back. fingers crossed when i step out tmro morning to look for damage.

only a few strains are coming down early...i already saw some fresh blue knight out here, and the 5gs red is almost ready. i ran supp lighting so my stuff wont be coming down until mid october, a few other guys gardens look to be 1-2 weeks ahead of mine. il have some pics up later when i can find this damn camera cable.

 

[Cep]

^^^Botrytis has taken the biggest toll on my gardens in the past. Actinovate can only do so much. If your plants haven't built up a thick cuticle or sap pH is acidic (due to poor nutrition) and you get a bout of shitty weather you'll pay for it. I've had rain or heavy morning dew EVERY day for the past month and I'm starting to lose flowers. I only have the top 12-15 inches of soil amended however and I know my plants have sunk their roots into whatever unbalanced junk lies beneath. 4 yards of soil per plant minimum next year! This harvest is only at the halfway mark and I'm already thinking ahead about light dep schematics.

I do have a few smaller plants that are much healthier than the bigger ones (test numbers and overall appearance) that are also showing spot of bud rot. I have a hard time believing that, even if you have good nutrition, you won't get mold in really poor weather. I watched my brix drop 4 points during a period of thunderstorms. If they aren't getting enough sun, how are they to make sugar? I feel silly getting frustrated with the weather. I need to work on not being a control freak.

Killing Fields purple pheno:

 

[Cep]

For those of you that test your soil/plants I thought I'd share that I submitted petiole samples to a lab last week labelled as hops

The results I got back seemed in line with a lot of K being used at the moment. However, as the guy that runs the lab informed me, there are no established reference values for hops.

 

[milkyjoe]

For those of you that test your soil/plants I thought I'd share that I submitted petiole samples to a lab last week labelled as hops

The results I got back seemed in line with a lot of K being used at the moment. However, as the guy that runs the lab informed me, there are no established reference values for hops.

Here is what I am curious about K usage. Is it a) because the flowers are using a bunch of sugar to form or b) because we tend to get behind on other base cations and since K is the most sap soluble of all base cations it is the only thing that keeps up sap pH.

Hmmmm.

Normally high K is associated with woody plants (ok maybe we qualify), tubers (nope) or frutits (nope).

I am finding drenching and/or foliar with srp to be quite amazing. Next yr the micronized version for sure.

 

[viffer]

what is srp?

 

[milkyjoe]

soft rock phosphate.

 

[Cep]

Soluble rock phosphate I'm guessing. Yeah I was looking into that early this season. Looks like your pics are convincing enough. From what I've read it may not be adequate to try and provide all the plants P in the initial soil mix. Spoon feeding P is what Esper Chandler recommends. I would like to shoot for periodic doses next year via foliar.

To answer your question I would assume I'm a little behind in P. This is speculation though because I've been comparing my values to those established for tomatoes or other plants with similar nute requirements. Heres one test from Green Crack petioles:

(Percentage) N 2.16, S 0.11, P 0.28, K 5.32, Mg 0.52, Ca 2.77, Na 0.01
(micros in ppm) Fe 82, Al 17, Mn 129, B 30, Cu 6, Zn 45

Notice the high K. We might be qualifying for woody plant requirements rather than something like tomatoes. After all I'm probably going to be using a chainsaw on the above tested plant haha.

 

[Cep]

*Soft, yes.

I'm curious how soluble it is though or available to the plant? I wonder if those large ag companies like Albion make a P foliar worth investing in.

 

[theJointedOne]

I didnt get to use any this year but I found Dr. earth has a product called Liquid Solution that looks pretty interesting. Its organic, 'hand crafted' whatever that means..its basically Micronized and Hydrolyzed Soy Protein, Micronized Mined and Micro nutrient-dense Colloidal Soft Rock Phosphate, Naturally-mined Potassium Sulfate, Potassium-Magnesium Sulfate, Copper Sulfate, Iron Sulfate, Manganese Sulfate, Molybdic Oxide, and Zinc Sulfate.

I dont think its OMRi, but it does provide a nice blend of protein and minerals.