Location: a garden at 52°N
Strains: a few more precise: CPH-O-Matic, Royal Dane, BBQ, Lowryder 2
The nearly finished CPH-O-Matics were sown on March 22, harvest will be around June 30 (100 days fr. seed till harvest).
Short recap:
June 9
June 14
June 15
June 24
CPH Round 1 - Harvested 01, 02 and 04/07
Harvest CPH 2 (lost a few tops during drying )
Harvest CPH 3
Harvest CPH 4
Harvest of CPH 1 wasn't worth the effort, produced 2 joints.
Rather fluffy buds, but I didn't use bloom nutrients.
During trimming they smelled like a citrus fruit and mint.
CPH 1's taste was like those Mentho's candy
The others smell like a Bloody Mary and something roosted though I can't describe what exactly. Taste is to soft to explain (yet).
Effect is like 70% high, 30% stoned, sometimes even rather trippy. Quite unexpected.
CPH Round 2
Transplanted 5th of July (6 in total, 2 with a "heatstroke")
It's been rainy for nearly too weeks now, mostly just a drizzle but there've been a few days with heavy rain and wind as wel. Like last 3 days.
Luckily the plants ain't drowning yet
Afghan
Bwana Balcony Queen
After (hopefully) her first bondage session
CPH
Cauliflower to keep the aphids away from the CPH
Durban Excellent
Ierdbei
Lesotho
LowRyder 2, Tropaeolum majus and Physalis peruviana
Oldfarmer Nepal
Royal Dane
Back-Up Durban Excellent and Ierdbei, too dry then too wet
One side of the greenhouse when it rains
One of the other plants, which used up his found nutrients
@ jay-toker: Thanks And we call it a "pot-parka", it's kind of a raincoat for the container so the plants don't get soaking wet feet, quite common with the rather rainy climate here otherwise.
I've seen it on a Dutch forum and made my own version of it...
They used black and white plastic sheeting, I use empty bags of soil, manure,... Use white ones if you find them, keeps the container cooler and provides some extra reflection of the sunlight The white ones you see on my pictures are re-used bag the expanded clay grains I use come in
@ paddi: it's an honour to have you over here Your topic's have always been a joy to the eye and an inspiration to me
So here we go then...
Ierdbei
Topped 4 days ago
Mildew?
Back-Up Ierdbei and Royal Dane
Afghan
Back-up Afghan and BBQ
BBQ, also topped 4 days ago
And that's the end of the photographs apparently
Can't upload anymore...
CPH's started flowering, 3 females and one I'm suspecting to be a female but it's hard to see
LR#2's started flowering as well, 2 females and 2 males
just a quick textual update of what happened until now... (i'll find a way to upload pic's later, pretty busy with other things at the moment).
Afghan: Pre-flowered around July 9 - Female
Afghan - Back-up: Pre-flowered around August 5 - female
BBQ - vertical scrog: still no flowering or pre-flowering
BBQ - back-up: pre-flowered August 10 - female
CPH-O-Matic: flowering since June 28th - 4 female (3 going well, around 50cm in height - 1 staying behind and staying yellow because of the massive amounts of rain this summer)
Durban Excellent: flowering since August 5th - female
Durban Poison: no (pre-)flowering
Ierdbei: flowering since August 10 - male -> transplanted and put inside to collect pollen
Ierdbei - back-up: no (pre-)flowering
Lesotho: flowering July 28th - male -> composting at the moment
LR#2: Flowering July 24th - 2 male, 2 female - males are just as the Lesotho composting at the moment
Oldfarmer Nepal: Flowering August 3th - female
Royal Dane: flowering since August 2nd - female
Royal Dane - Back-up: flowering since August 4th - male (placed inside the house for pollen)
All (pre-)flowering plants (except LR#2) got a drip of rainwater with 0.5ml/l GL roots & 3ml/l Canna Flores to help them a bit in the bloom stages