Hello ICMag, and greetings from northern Sweden. I thought I'd share my little outdoor guerilla project with you. This is my first grow. My goal is to have something half-decent to smoke with me and my friends come autumn.
I am growing some feminized Lowryders from a Swedish breeder. I have to use autos because of the short summers here.
I bought 70 seeds in mid May. 60 Lowryders and 10 AK47's. All of them are feminized and autoflowering and are supposed to be bred to suit the Swedish climate. Because of newbie mistakes and bad weather, the AK's didn't make it. What's left now is around 35 LR's.
Let me take you through the first few weeks of their life.
I started by planting the seeds in small pots, to be replanted later. My location is on a small south-facing mountain. So far I haven't had any problems with animals or people messing with my little garden, and I'm hoping it'll stay that way.
This picture is from May 31:
Around four weeks later it looked like this. As you can see, the growth was far from explosive, and a couple of seeds didn't sprout. But I bought a lot of seeds just for this reason. I didn't expect all of them to survive my abuse.
Me and a couple of friends replanted the surviving plants to a patch of bought quality soil. We used 400 litres (105 gallons). We also put up a net over the plants to protect against small animals.
At this point, my hopes weren't that high. I had expected a lot more growth during the first few weeks of their life. However, the ladies surprised me a lot by totally exploding over the coming weeks. Around 10 days afterwards they looked like this. Sorry for the lousy picture.
And a few days ago, a little bit over a month since being replanted, they looked like this:
I didn't think they would ever become this big, or else I would've spread them out to several patches. A couple of the plants get less sunlight than i would've liked. That aside, everything is looking good. They've finally started flowering. I would say they've been flowering for about a week when the last picture was taken. I'm going to have to harvest in the first few days of September, because of climate issues and the hunting season beginning.
This is a pretty scaled-back intro of my project, so I probably left out a whole lot of information (as well as pictures, I have tons more of all the in-between progress). If there are any questions, shoot! Comments are also very appreciated.
Best wishes from Sweden,
Hortic
I am growing some feminized Lowryders from a Swedish breeder. I have to use autos because of the short summers here.
I bought 70 seeds in mid May. 60 Lowryders and 10 AK47's. All of them are feminized and autoflowering and are supposed to be bred to suit the Swedish climate. Because of newbie mistakes and bad weather, the AK's didn't make it. What's left now is around 35 LR's.
Let me take you through the first few weeks of their life.
I started by planting the seeds in small pots, to be replanted later. My location is on a small south-facing mountain. So far I haven't had any problems with animals or people messing with my little garden, and I'm hoping it'll stay that way.
This picture is from May 31:
Around four weeks later it looked like this. As you can see, the growth was far from explosive, and a couple of seeds didn't sprout. But I bought a lot of seeds just for this reason. I didn't expect all of them to survive my abuse.
Me and a couple of friends replanted the surviving plants to a patch of bought quality soil. We used 400 litres (105 gallons). We also put up a net over the plants to protect against small animals.
At this point, my hopes weren't that high. I had expected a lot more growth during the first few weeks of their life. However, the ladies surprised me a lot by totally exploding over the coming weeks. Around 10 days afterwards they looked like this. Sorry for the lousy picture.
And a few days ago, a little bit over a month since being replanted, they looked like this:
I didn't think they would ever become this big, or else I would've spread them out to several patches. A couple of the plants get less sunlight than i would've liked. That aside, everything is looking good. They've finally started flowering. I would say they've been flowering for about a week when the last picture was taken. I'm going to have to harvest in the first few days of September, because of climate issues and the hunting season beginning.
This is a pretty scaled-back intro of my project, so I probably left out a whole lot of information (as well as pictures, I have tons more of all the in-between progress). If there are any questions, shoot! Comments are also very appreciated.
Best wishes from Sweden,
Hortic
Watered with the veg-nutes anyway. We'll see how the plants handle it.
