(2013) Gold Country Gardening with Shcrews

[HellaFella420]

How big to you think them mid july cheesequakes will get?

 

[Shcrews]

How big to you think them mid july cheesequakes will get?

i'm hoping the biggest one will overtake most of my other plants, the cheesequake cut i have is very vigorous and heavy yield

i have 4 out there and only 3 have taken off, i might kill the last one and put another GSC out in her place

 

[Shcrews]

I'm going to say the one on the left is the sunrise and the right is the sunset.

that is correct

in this past week i've been having some yellowing issues with some of our plants.... Blue Dream, Cheesequake and GSC clones. I think the intense sunlight/heat and low humidity is fucking them up. The lower fan leaves are yellowing and dying, new growth is slow, and a couple even appear to be starting flowering.

My neighbors are using shade cloth over their entire garden and they are having some issues too, so my main thought is the air is too hot and humidity is too low.... The past few days we have been spraying the plants with water 2-3x per day to see if it makes a difference.

i dont have pics right now, posting from my phone on the hill, but i wanted to get some input from the wonderful ppl on icmag. anybody have any issues or advice relating to growing in a hot, dry climate? we are 3000ft elevation near Yosemite so the sunlight is intense.

besides that all the seed plants are doing great. we took cuttings of the best looking ones and will put them out in a couple weeks for a late harvest... nothing better than growing cuts right next to the original mom. Also harvesting some indoor Cookies in a couple days, my first time growing cookies and it is looking amazing. i will definitely keep her in the rotation.

I was also recently given a cut of the "Hardcore OG" from a buddy, he said its the best OG hes ever grown and i guess it won some cup or something. anybody heard of it?

 

[aepaepaep]

Your girls must be getting quite large now... Looking forward to your updates through flower.

 

[Bag]

is it deathly smokey there? ya dealing with fires or what man, yall ok?

 

[megayields]

that is correct

in this past week i've been having some yellowing issues with some of our plants.... Blue Dream, Cheesequake and GSC clones. I think the intense sunlight/heat and low humidity is fucking them up. The lower fan leaves are yellowing and dying, new growth is slow, and a couple even appear to be starting flowering.

My neighbors are using shade cloth over their entire garden and they are having some issues too, so my main thought is the air is too hot and humidity is too low.... The past few days we have been spraying the plants with water 2-3x per day to see if it makes a difference.

i dont have pics right now, posting from my phone on the hill, but i wanted to get some input from the wonderful ppl on icmag. anybody have any issues or advice relating to growing in a hot, dry climate? we are 3000ft elevation near Yosemite so the sunlight is intense.

besides that all the seed plants are doing great. we took cuttings of the best looking ones and will put them out in a couple weeks for a late harvest... nothing better than growing cuts right next to the original mom. Also harvesting some indoor Cookies in a couple days, my first time growing cookies and it is looking amazing. i will definitely keep her in the rotation.

I was also recently given a cut of the "Hardcore OG" from a buddy, he said its the best OG hes ever grown and i guess it won some cup or something. anybody heard of it?

Schrews - my "project" blew up but we were in a *very* hot and dry area and shade cloth was a must have ......I've also head seed plants do better with heat stress than clones...but that is 2nd hand info.

Your project looks amazing great job!

 

[Seal-Clubber]

it is indeed beautiful out in the foothills, very different from Santa cruz and the bay area where i've been for the last 8 years. I love it. We heard our neighbors shooting guns all day today and it sounded like freedom!



Spent the last 4 days clearing the hillside. got a nice plot of land cleared out and started leveling spots for the 200gal smart pots. I got poison oak all over my arms and my belly. lots of fun!!!

pro tip: wipe your skin off with rubbing alcohol within 30 minutes of contact to prevent most of the poison oak rash.

I think I`m going to walk into my yard and shoot some guns off this beautiful morning!

ps.. Tecnu works best for Poison Oak, I always keep some around. Just rub it in, wait like 2 minutes, and wash it off. It stops the itch..

http://www.amazon.com/Tecnu-Skin-Cleanser-32-Ounce/dp/B000ZK3V7E

 

[indianajones]

hope yer garden is doing well, the symptoms you were talking about sound similar to a root bound plant, but i've no real experience with outdoor(only 1 plant).

can't wait to see an update!

 

[megayields]

update? How did it go man? Inquisitive minds want to know!

 

[OLDproLg]

really......

i hate it when threads are NOT finished???
Lg

 

[aepaepaep]

no updates huh? too bad...

 

[Shcrews]

Sorry guys i had to abandon this thread due to lack of an internet connection and a camera..

The hill finished up in october, we got a decent yield but many of the big plants were stunted by intense sunlight.. Lesson learned, next year we are putting agricultural shadecloth over the entire plot.

We also ran a late plot, planted in late august. 60 plants in 7 gal pots of coco, fed everyday with house&garden nutes. Yielded almost a half pound per plant by halloween. I am now a huge believer in using coco outdoors.

Anyway big things are in the works here at the farm, including a new indoor room and a new vacuum oven. Got a new camera too so stay tuned

 

[Shcrews]

Schrews - my "project" blew up but we were in a *very* hot and dry area and shade cloth was a must have ......I've also head seed plants do better with heat stress than clones...but that is 2nd hand

Yah i fucked up, barely pulled a third of what we would have had with shadecloth. Some plants stopped growing almost completely throughout july and august because the sun was too much for them. It is a genetic thing too, some strains handled the sun better, mostly the indica / afghanica dominant strains. Our blue dreams got absolutely fried.

 

[Backyard Farmer]

Hey I don't think intense sun is why your grow had problems, the sun is an integral part of what makes plants grow...and the Blue Dream clone is capable of growing double-digit yields when planted in full sun and allowed to bloom to its full potential...I have personally seen it handle 100+ degrees , less than 20% average humidity, direct sun and do nothing but get big and put on hella!

Best of luck next year finding the real issue, i promise it wasn't full sun!

 

[Yes4Prop215]

this year had a bunch of early heat wave sun that did stunt veg growth in july, however plants LOVE the late season sun, really makes the nugs swell up. the key is getting them in the ground early, so they are more capable of handling the intense heat, then once july hits they are good to go. so only do shade cloth during the heat wave days..

we had temps hit almost 120 this year and definately saw the plants stop stretching in that period.

wish i did a bigger bumper crop this year....did a small one planting 4 seedlings per 200 planted late august and am getting some very nice quality nug, this october-november weather has been great almost no rain.

 

[furrywall11]

woah, 120? where you at, death valley? interesting about the 2nd crop idea.. been having really good luck with layered harvesting. definitely increases yields hugely. been doing it for years... just did my "third cut" today... ridiculous.

i'd say that if your temps are at 120 your plants better be uber established, huge and, totally drenched to survive. other than that, your plants just have to be established to survive intense heat... if i remember correctly, and i think i do, ya'll were kind of late in transplanting compared to a lot of folks who were doing supplemental light and had their plants outside in huge pots since march (me). the only times i've had to use ag shade cloth were just a week to ten days after transplanting (big plants) and with smaller plants until they become bigger and established.

 

[Shcrews]

Hey I don't think intense sun is why your grow had problems, the sun is an integral part of what makes plants grow...and the Blue Dream clone is capable of growing double-digit yields when planted in full sun and allowed to bloom to its full potential...I have personally seen it handle 100+ degrees , less than 20% average humidity, direct sun and do nothing but get big and put on hella!\
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Best of luck next year finding the real issue, i promise it wasn't full sun!

I respect your experience but I saw with my own eyes the effects of intense sunlight on fragile strains. My neighbors run a huge farm and they use shade cloth over their plants. Mostly Blue Dream and Bubba. They had a few blue dreams that didnt get covered, and they fried to a crisp while the BD's under shade cloth did well. However, the Bubbas did fine with and without shade cloth. Heat and humidity are one thing but the UV index up here is scary high, and sativas seem to handle it the worst.

I'm used to growing in santa cruz where the sun is not as strong, but out here in gold country we gotta use shade cloth and choose our strains carefully.

We planted the second plot in late august so therefore it was not subjected to the brutal mid-summer sun. This could be useful information for next year, when i will try to pull 3 back-to-back light-dep harvests and 1 full season.

 

[#1cheesebuds]

so any pix of the harvest?

 

[Shcrews]

No more pictures of the outdoors unfortunately my camera crapped out halfway through the season and i havent left the hill since august. I just recently got a new phone with a wireless hotspot so i can take pictures, access ICmag, crucial shit like that

This year was pretty much a bust anyway, our biggest plant was barely 3lbs.

 

[Backyard Farmer]

Call it what you want, the UV index isn't much different here...

Santa Cruz is foggy coastal BS...FWIW the UV Index average here is 5...