[Tynehead Tom]

Well, I figured I'd start a new diary for the summer time outdoor fun. My indoor flowering will be done by end of july but I have been moving my vegging plants outside over the past couple days.


now bear in mind, I'm not in the tropics , nor am I in a prime growing area like California. I'm at 52.5 North latitude and 2850 feet in elevation in western Canada.


Putting plants outside unprotected before last week would have ensured disaster LOL but now , mother nature has finally brought us summer time weather and I have been busy germinating seeds and transplanting vegging clones and seedlings.


My set up for now is just open sunshine and I have a covered area I can move the plants to in case of heavy rains. Around here we can get hail , torrential plant destroying rain right thru till july.
Once end of august comes I'll have a small hoop house so I can keep them warm at night in sept. We can hit zero C at night by sept 10th and hard frost by sept 30 so will be planning accordingly.
Some of my plants will require light dep starting by mid july, some are autos so should be fine without light dep.


I am growing in 18 gallon rubber maid totes with sunshine mix 4 fortified with dolomite Lime. I'll be using Alaska fish and some other semi organics but keeping things super simple and low maintenance.


So the varities that I'm running
First up germinating in 4" starter pots
-Afterthought Autos Azure Rocket - 6 regular seeds (seedbay freebies)
-Ancestral Seeds Betty Warp (betty paige x texada timewarp) - 5 regular seeds
-Swordfish (Black Tuna x Shiskaberry3f2) 10 seeds - my own cross
-OJSDKB F2 - server fund seeds by member Baked Beanz - 6 seeds
**males will be cloned and killed from swordfish and ojsdkb if they stand out and are early to flower.


Plants vegged a lil over 6 weeks indoors
- Shiskaberry F1 - 1 plant topped and trained and in 18 gallon tote
-Shiskaberry3 F2 - 1 plant , topped and trained and in 18 gallon tote.
-Antenna Seeds Purplelazerlite - 3 female seed plants , 2 in a 18 gallon tote and one in a 5 gallon pot


will take some pics tomorrow and update

[Tynehead Tom]

more coming but I have some work to do first and waiting for the new seedlings to rise from their cups.

[corky1968]

Bring on the barbecue.

Let's go outside and play.

Are you gonna spray anything on the plants? I find the 1st week
outside are when insects go nuts on the fresh greens. I only use
organic or low toxicity stuff like a few drops of dish soap in water.

I even made a small smokey fire once when I was watering my
RSC Lebanese in 2009 to smoke out the bugs. But honestly, this
was more for me.

Like 8 trillion black flies and mosquitoes vs one human is no fun.
So fire smoke signals to the rescue it was. Oddly enough, all the
leaf hoppers and grasshoppers vacated the area as well.

Be careful when making fires.

[Tynehead Tom]

Ya they will get a spray down with Scott's eco sense bug begon.
I'm not a big fan of spraying stuff on my plants but will take measures if required.

[corky1968]

I lightly spray the plants and use the rest of the bottle to spray the entire area from an upwind position.

P.S. I pretend I'm napalming the entire area.

[Tynehead Tom]

so I've sowed all the seeds into starter cups. I started the OJSDKB 24 hrs after the others and they all had tails this morning so all 6 of those have joined their cousins in starter pots.

so far Ancestral seeds Betty Warp (from Vancouver seedbank) are off to a good start , being the only ones above soil as of today. 4 of them are up and the fifth is pushin dirt.
I'm going to give each variety 7 days inside, matching the outdoor daylight hours , then outside with cut off 2 liter pop bottles over them while they harden off.
will post up some pics tomorrow

[Tynehead Tom]

okay it's been a couple more days and have seed germinating update.
Betty Warp 5 for 5 and all are stretching and developing well. They look very uniform.
OJSDKB F2 , 5 for 6 above ground, looking normal , #6 is my fault, I dropped the cup when I went to water it and it dropped a couple feet to the ground :(
Azure Rocket 3 for 6 are above ground, 2 look normal and are progressing, 1 looks a little funny but will let it ride. no action on the other 3.

The let down.... my new cross Swordfish. most had split and had little tails when I potted them up. but only one has come up of 10 and to my dismay it is a 3 leafed mutant :(
these are fresh from the bud seeds so I'll let the big pile of seed age till decemberish before I do a "for realz" test grow on the Swordfish.

So, have 12 good seedlings to go out with my other plants and 1 iffy one. The 3 leafed mutant is being killed LOL
will get some pics once they are outside and enjoying some sunshine.

[Tynehead Tom]

well..... I'm stressin out big time over my outdoor. The last few days have been ultra poor weather here. Cloudy with sunny breaks but very cool and intermittent heavy wind and rain. yesterday around noon I was outside tending to things and it started downpouring hail the size of frozen peas. Got all the girls under cover , no worries. Glad I left them sheltered as today it phucking snowed!!! About 2 inches of wet shitty snow, then it hailed for over an hour, then it rained like a monsoon for a couple hours and stay grey the whole day. I went and looked at the temperature.... 11:30 pm and it's +5 C outside. Can't be good :(
now, I'm at 2850 feet elevation but my 58 plants up the mountain are at 3020feet and have no protection from this disaster. I dunno what to expect when I get up there tomorrow but I'm thinking the mountain plots are gonna be frozen or at best smashed to hell from the rain and hail and snow. :( :(
oh well, all is good with the seedlings as they haven't gone out there yet.

will update after I have assessed things.

[corky1968]

I hate lousy Spring weather.

Sounds like you almost have to grow in greenhouse up there.
I really think You may have to build a Walipini into the side
of a mountain where your at someday.

Pit Greenhouses

Build a $300 underground greenhouse for year-round gardening

[rykus]

It's often surprising what an established Cannabis plant can endur... Almost as shocking as a Canadian weather forecast, lol, good luck my friend, I hope they fought it off... Down here we are getting slow growth from clouds and heavy rain, with cool nights, but I know from years past they are pumping roots down just waiting to shoot up at the first sign of light!