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MrPeab;1757282 said:
Central Valley of California
Soil is Sandy Loam with Black Gold Waterhold used when plants were put into the ground.
Currently 28 Plants
14 Sour Diesel (feminized seeds germinated by me starting last week of March)
5 White Widow (cloned by close friend)
3 Purple Sour Diesel (Supposed clones obtained via a trade with guy on Craigslist)
3 Platinum Bubbah (Clones I purchased)
1 Bannana Goo (Gift from friend)
1 FOG "Fresno OG Kush" (Gift from friend)
1 Unknown (Beautiful fat seed I found in a unknown bud)
March 2013 I started germinating approximately 50 seeds. 20 seeds using the old paper towel method. I also germinated 30 of the seeds using the all fiber seed starter pots from the 99 cents store. I filled the pots with soil and placed a seed in each pot about 1/4" deep. I placed the starter pots into a foil cooking pan and kept adding water to the foil pan so the starter cups could absorb the water. I placed the foil pan into a folding fruit case and suspended it directly under a fluorescent light fixture with 24 hour light. I placed the paper towels between two plates to keep it dark and maintained the moisture for approximately 2 days and then the seed began to sprout.
When the seeds in the paper towels were ready I used tweezers to put them into a Solo cup with soil. The next day I moved them outside so they could acclimate to the sun and weather. The starter pots took a few days longer to show but when the sprouts began looking like plants I put them outside also to acclimate. When I felt they were ready I cut away the fiber pot and put them into small pots with Happy Frog soil.
Last year the house behind my garden had a tree that blocked all of the late afternoon sun from my plants. This year I had the idea to add some of the foil insulation used in indoor grows to my fence. It seems to be working great and serving it's purpose. The morning and early afternoon sun reflects off of the foil thus giving that side of the plant more light than it would get naturally.
With the seedlings planted in the ground I gave them their first taste of some nutrients and used General Hydroponics FloraNova one part Grow. I used it for a few weeks one day per week. I than switched to the nutrient package I plan on using all season long.
Humboldt Nutrients 3-part Micro-Grow-Bloom. So far they seem to be doing well and I have purchased additional nutrients to add when they get into the bloom schedule. I have Honey ES, and Ginormous.
I have been de-chlorinating my water using barrels of water and letting them stand for a few days and agitating the water. I have 2 barrels in this picture but have since added 4 more barrels.
The plants have been on a steady growth rate getting larger every day. You can clearly see the difference each day. With May I learned some things and they were things other than doing an outdoor grow is a ton of work daily.
One thing I learned is how to have an early crop so you can have some fresh chronic nugs to tie you over until the main harvest come fall.
The three Purple Sour Diesel plants I traded an item for were actually 3 plants a guy pulled from his indoor grow and in the veg state. These plants were nice and about 18" tall. When I put them in the ground on April 17th I never gave thought to what the light schedule was or anything. I just figured that my seedlings were good enough to go into the ground and the weather was warm enough. Well looking back at the weather channel for April 17 the sunrise and sunset were 12:15 and 11:45 and that this explains why those 3 plants began to flower and gave my garden an aroma that was not supposed to be for several months. Well over the next 47 days the plants produced some amazing bud and it was extremely sticky, covered with THC, and amazingly dense. By June 2 less than 50 days the trichomes showed in my microscope that they were all milky and a large percentage amber. The 3 plants were harvested and gave me just under 7 ounces manicured and in the jars curing.
This was a huge surprise and I am going to finish trimming them up and will be back to show you how the rest of the grow is going. Third week of june and with 3 or more months left to grow these plants that are over 5 feet tall and 5 feet wide have much more to grow.
