New Zealand outdoor thread 2013/14

[kiwigreen420]

Hey everyone

Wanted to start a thread for all the kiwi brothers to share outdoor plants this year.

I am germinating 3 landraces
. Malawi (Ace seeds)- African
. Mulanje (Holy Smoke)- African
. Tasketi (Cannabiogen)- Uzbekistan

 

[wallywombat]

woohooo pullin up a chair for this one

 

[kiwigreen420]

Taskenti, 3rd day from putting the seed in rockwool

 

[TheBatCave]

nice one

 

[kiwigreen420]

the Malawis have germinating and put into decomposable cups for no transplant shock. under 400 hps

 

[SeedsOfFreedom]

Hey brother, I am from way over in Canada. It looks like you picked some great strains. I will keep an eye on this thread. Malawi is awesome herb, and I can't wait to try Ace's version. I wish you luck.

 

[kiwigreen420]

Hey man, yeah I like pure strains like these and will be making a malawi x uzbeki. I can't wait for the malawi too! I haven't smoked a 100% sativa before and both of these strains are ridiculously strong.

Thanks for stopping by, I'll regularly update this thread when it'a time for outdoor. I have a taskenti grow log starting up in the landrace section and will start a malawi only log in the Ace forum

 

[kiwigreen420]

Malawi regulars, hope to get a male.

 

[kiwigreen420]

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Malawi and a taskenti, landrace indica and sativa.
I think I have the broadleaf pheno

 

[kiwi_growa]

A few Power Kush and Critical 47 clones put out 3-4 weeks ago. Nice and early. They have survived a few frosts and also some really horrible stormy weather that the north Island has been hit with the last couple weeks.

These photos were taken when they were first planted about 3-4 weeks ago, I will try to get more photos tomorrow for those of you who are interested. I usually put my girls out on labour weekend, but I thought this year I would try throw em out extra early to let them get a good head start. These clones get around 7-8 hours direct sunlight each day and are sheltered nicely by dense gauze/thorn bush.

 

[kiwigreen420]

nice man, where abouts are you in the north island? Tauranga has had good weather lately, 24 degrees the other day. the season has started early this year

 

[kiwi_growa]

Thanks K.G 420!! I am not really interested in giving away where I live.

You're lucky to be getting temps of 24 degrees this early in the season mate! I have been getting some really cold temps and the growth on my girls has slowed down considerably. They look almost exactly the same as they did a couple weeks ago apart from the leaves getting a bit darker. I am certain there will be a lot more going on below the soil that above at this point... We have been hit with a few frosts since I put these 4 clones out, so now I am down to 3 clones as 1 of them died.

Now that the temps are starting to warm up I expect these things to take off, I will post more pics in a months time and hopefully blow you all away!!..

Here are the pics from today as promised in my previous post. The survivors look like they will keep going all the way till the end. Here's to hoping!

 

[kiwigreen420]

North or south island then lol, the east side of the south island is getting some really warm temperatres. Last year I was getting no way near these temps at november- I put some plants out and they went into flower in the middle of october, my plants really really suffered from that and they didn't grow bugger all until december. It looks like your plants went into a little bit of preflower too, it will take awhile to come back to normal

I put put my Malawis out on the deck yesterday, some nice temps. I swear one outside day is equal to 2 indoor days.

Good luck with the rest of your grow man, seriously watch out for possums. You might want to get some netting or chicken wire around your plants, I lost 10 afghanis to possums last year. Were those clones or seeds you have going?

 

[kiwi_growa]

Bottom of north. Clones. I have a heap more going out this week. 50 or so. I would take pics of every single plot but that would take ages as I usually have 4 max on each plot. Much harder for the eagle to spot. I will be netting some of my plots which are more prone to pests but most of my plots stay 100% natural, I just use thick gauze bush and thorn /blueberry vines to ward off pests. I also usually drink a few cold ones before going out into the bush so that I can piss around the spots. I heard this is a great way of keeping the pests away as the smell of human piss is a huge deterrent for them. I will get some more pics up for all ya'll when shits starts happening. But at this point, everything has come to a halt. Temps are warming up though.

 

[monoclepop]

North or south island then lol, the east side of the south island is getting some really warm temperatres. Last year I was getting no way near these temps at november- I put some plants out and they went into flower in the middle of october, my plants really really suffered from that and they didn't grow bugger all until december.

Hot and windy this year mate - like 90% of the days this spring have had gusts over 60km/hr or something according to the news tonight.

Last year around the middle of Te Ika-a-Maui I saw a lot of heat stress on crops like corn on north facing slopes, which is the first time I've ever seen anything like that.

Sad to say, but this aint your Granddad's climate anymore. Shit is definitely creeping out of whack on this globe of ours.

Here's MetService's Oct roundup to show that it's not just in our heads.

October 2013 was characterised by mean sea level pressure anomalies that were strongly negative around the New Zealand region, particularly in the south-western sector. These regional pressure patterns resulted in frequent west to south-west flows across New Zealand.

These flows resulted in considerable October rainfall totals along and west of the Southern Alps, and frequent episodes of warm air temperatures to the east of the Southern Alps due to the foehn effect.

Considerable variations in rainfall anomalies were observed across the country. Well below normal rainfall (less than 50 percent of October normal) was recorded throughout Northland, Auckland and Gisborne. Rainfall was either well below normal or below normal (50-79 percent of October normal) in Waikato (with the exception of the southwest of the region), Bay of Plenty and Hawke’s Bay.

Below normal rainfall was also recorded in coastal mid-Canterbury and north-eastern Marlborough. In contrast, well above normal rainfall (more than 150 percent of October normal) occurred near and west of the Southern Alps, and in south-western parts of Southland, eastern Central Otago and northwest Tasman.

Rainfall was generally above normal (120-149 percent of October normal) for the remainder of New Zealand, with the exception of rather limited areas including Dunedin, the Canterbury Plains, Marlborough and parts of the south-western North Island where near normal rainfall (within 20 percent of October normal) was recorded.

As at 1 November 2013, soils were drier than normal in north-eastern parts of New Zealand, especially about Northland, northern Auckland and coastal Bay of Plenty. In contrast, soils were wetter than normal about eastern Southland and Otago, the Southern Lakes, northern Canterbury and Whanganui. Soil moisture levels were mostly near normal for the remainder of the country.

Near average temperatures (within 0.5C of October average) were recorded in western and southern parts of Southland and Otago, the Canterbury High Country, Westland, northwest Tasman, northern Taranaki, and northern parts of Waikato, Auckland and Northland. Above average temperatures (0.5-1.2C above October average) occurred throughout most remaining areas of New Zealand, with well above average temperatures (more than 1.2C above October average) recorded in parts of Hawke’s Bay and north Canterbury near Kaikoura. The nation-wide average temperature in October 2013 was 12.9C, (0.8C above the 1971-2000 October average from NIWA’s seven-station temperature series which begins in 1909).

October was a very sunny month for Northland, Gisborne, Hawke’s Bay and mid-Canterbury (well above normal sunshine totals, more than 125% of October normal). Above normal sunshine (110-125 percent of normal October sunshine) occurred throughout central parts of the North Island, Bay of Plenty and northern Auckland. Below normal sunshine (75-90 percent of normal October sunshine) was recorded for the northwest and southwest of the South Island. Sunshine was near normal elsewhere (within 10 percent of normal October sunshine).

Good luck with the outdoor guys

 

[kiwigreen420]

Yeah bro, I could of almost grown weed this winter it was that warm and with that many sunshine hours, we have the most in north isalnd . Imo Tauranga is the best place to grow in NZ, Northland may be warmer but they have a lot of rain. The west south island would suck to grow I reckon. Imagine trying to grow in Fiordland!, legendary if someone did.

Do you guys have your latitudes?, Mines 37.4S.

pissing around the area will be smart because they wont want to stay around for too long in 'marked territory'. Chuck your clones out this weekend man, shit weather for the next few days and they'll get hammered. I know an old school grower who uses fish netting and ties all the possible entries off, real light to carry in. Chuck some pics of your clones up when you put them out, good luck man.

 

[DarthFader1]

Shiiieeet, you guys are out early!! I was planning to keep mine small and put them out around Christmas time. This will be my first proper outdoor season. Hey when do they start flowering approximately is it around start of feb?

 

[kiwigreen420]

November is not early bro. If they are indica plants, put them out at the start of december because they will start flowering mid january. Sativas will be all right to put out at christmas because they don't start flowering until early to mid feb.

The rule is indica can flower under 14/10 light hours outdoor and sativas start at around 13:30 and under.

 

[kiwigreen420]

Going to take clones tomorrow.

 

[kiwi_growa]

Kiwigreen : What you said about my clones going into flower and now having to reveg is in my opinion exactly what slowed my girls down just like you said. Thanks for the tip, I thought I was bein clever puttin em out early. But you're right, it does more harm than good if the plants start to have to reveg! Cheers mate.

Back with another update. The clones I put out early are finally startin to take off. They haven't grown much at all since I put em out but now that summer is pretty much here they have started growing a lot quicker. Here are a couple pics.