Okay, My Bad! I didn't get my update here for all of you last night and I'm sorry. But I do have a valid excuse: Yesterday was my GF's BD and we drank a few beers and I got pretty stoned too so I figured you all would understand.
I saw my buddy Jim the bear yesterday. He was probably 150ft from me in a clump of bushes. I kinda feel for the bear, he's kind of an outlaw too and struggling to make a go of it so close to humans can't be easy for a bear. I left him a couple doughnuts on a stump on my way back down and got to wondering if bears ever eat people's pot plants? I've never seen it or ever heard of it from people I know, but deer do sometimes and I know that racoons will sometimes eat em.
So I pulled a plant on my last visit. It was a male and I am gonna seed these gals, but I already identified a strong male up there and the one I pulled wasn't as nice so I pulled it..
The male I am keeping turns out to be the second plant I put in the ground. It's the one on the left in the picture.
.
.
The one I pulled was a beautiful plant, and had it been female would have been a nice produced. It gave me a different feeling to pull that plant than it would have ordinarily. I guess that I've gotten a little more attached to these outdoor plants because of the added attention and nurturing they have required. Pluckin males indoors is just routine generally, it hasn't ever bothered me, but this one was different.
.
I am gonna try and get another plant to replace it in the same spot.
.
===============================================
Well that spot is now down to 4 plants. Another spot has 7 plants and there are 5 more scattered around. Those 4 are the only plants that I have on the cliff though. I'll throw in a few pictures of some of the other plants as they mature, right now they are still pretty small.
I've put plants out until the middle of August before and they almost always finish between mid and late October. This year I'm not too sure tho cause we have been having some really weird weather this year. But I was really planning on taking another batch of clones out and doing a mini patch also this year with a mix of strains like: Bubba Kush, Bubble Berry, Dutch Passion, Headband, Cotton Candy, Curly Paul, Pussy Pink and a couple Northern Lights X Super Skunk clones I have left over. We'll see if I have time in the next few days to get em out tho. And I just got asked to revamp a friends ID grow room too, so my time is gonna get hurried for a couple of weeks. (I'll get pictures and maybe do a thread on his room later).
Not much else really to pass on folks. The plants look great, I have a couple new pictures to show. Otherwise it's all goin great.
They are starting so show a little nitrogen deficiency at the lower leaves. I noticed it creeping in a couple visits back and gave em all a good dose of 50-50-50 Miracle Grow this time. I know it sounds like it's pretty high mobile nutrient levels, but I figure it's outdoors and most of it will be rinsed away thru the course of rain and nature pretty quickly and I wanted to make sure they got some food before it dissipates into the soil or gets sucked up by weeds and surrounding brush.
.
.
This little lady isn't doing quite as well as I expected, It's one of my Pussy Pink clones. I haven't ever seen what it does outdoors yet. I was really hoping they would really grow like mad, but it's not impressing me yet.
.
.
Anyway folks, that's my update for now. I have to go and gut a room today and see what kind of plan I can come up with to get it running. I'm thinkin stadium... But we'll see what he has for materials, room and finances.
The last 3 cycles this guys ran thru this room were complete losses. All 3 were run with my clones/strains but the room just has issues... But that "may" be discussion for another thread as he wants me to set it up and advise him through the next cycle.