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Pool party at GB's house today!
GratefulBud's Summer 2023 Outside Grow
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Another update just because I'm not sure these plants will ever look this good again.
We had a party yesterday so I moved all out of the way but that puts them under my neighbors tree which drops leaves and bugs and stuff. No worse for the wear I think.
The two in Sips are still doing fantastic! I'm adding Fox Farm Grow Big and some SNS209. The SNS seems to be working well to ward off the critters. They spent yesterday afternoon in the shade and they drank hardly any water. Odd.
The fabric pot lades are doing wonderful!
I supercropped the Watermelon Kush the other day and she has bounced right back.
The Critical Kush is now the tallest - I may let her reach for the sky.
Mimosa looking really good.
White Widow looks great as well.
Pool Party.
Could not be more pleased with them so far.
6 plants outdoors. Sprouted around 4/19.
Royal Queen Seeds
(1) Mimosa
(1) White Widow
(1) Watermelon
(1) Critical
Also have (1) SFV OG and (1) SFV Gorilla OG. These two are in SIP buckets with Grow Dots.
The other 4 in fabric pots are fed Fox Farms Trio.
Adding SNS209.
All are about 65 days in Veg.
Royal Queen Seeds
(1) Mimosa
(1) White Widow
(1) Watermelon
(1) Critical
Also have (1) SFV OG and (1) SFV Gorilla OG. These two are in SIP buckets with Grow Dots.
The other 4 in fabric pots are fed Fox Farms Trio.
Adding SNS209.
All are about 65 days in Veg.
We had a party yesterday so I moved all out of the way but that puts them under my neighbors tree which drops leaves and bugs and stuff. No worse for the wear I think.
The two in Sips are still doing fantastic! I'm adding Fox Farm Grow Big and some SNS209. The SNS seems to be working well to ward off the critters. They spent yesterday afternoon in the shade and they drank hardly any water. Odd.
The fabric pot lades are doing wonderful!
I supercropped the Watermelon Kush the other day and she has bounced right back.
The Critical Kush is now the tallest - I may let her reach for the sky.
Mimosa looking really good.
White Widow looks great as well.
Pool Party.
Could not be more pleased with them so far.
Grateful those look great you have some nice plants.
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Thanks Keith!
Without a doubt the best looking plants I’ve ever grown.
Me neeths! Excellent stuff happening poolside.
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Thanks Shed!Me neeths! Excellent stuff happening poolside.
I think I know where I previously went wrong.
I put the plants outside too soon and they went into flower, then back to veg, then flower. Messed them all up. I was also moving them around more. This year they have stayed in the same spot that gets lots of sun, and the weather has cooperated nicely by keeping temps below 100˚F.
These ladies have been all veg so far. Not a pistil in sight yet. Hoping they flower in the next week or two (and stay in flower until late September).
G-Bud's tools for success:
- Place them outside no earlier than May 10th and leave in same spot.
- Feed and water them as much as they can handle. More until they cry uncle or show brown tips.
- Prune the interior larfy stuff in phases - starting around mid-June. Remove lower third first, then a week or so later remove middle interior stuff but leave fan leaves until they start to yellow then remove (yellow attracts bugs outdoors).
- Spray neem at least every 4 days.
- Add SNS209 every feeding / watering. It seems to be working great!
Will see how they progress to harvest but right now they are on track!
Sounds like a plan Stan.
You get dem buds baby!
You get dem buds baby!
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I read a post from someone a while back who said "I'm not growing plants or even buds. I'm growing trichomes."
Makes sense.
He must be a droughter.
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I have had (unintentional) success in stress training my plants late flower to produce more trichomes. I think.
LOL!
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The Gorilla OG was looking too bushy down below if you know what I mean, so I went to town and removed quite a bit of the larfy stuff.
Everything but the very tips on the lower 4 nodes. When I looked into the blue pan I thought for sure I removed too much.
But from a distance you can't even tell I removed much.
Also decided to supercrop the Critical Kush. She needs to fit under the netting.
I'll bend the other two top branches tomorrow.
Everything but the very tips on the lower 4 nodes. When I looked into the blue pan I thought for sure I removed too much.
But from a distance you can't even tell I removed much.
Also decided to supercrop the Critical Kush. She needs to fit under the netting.
I'll bend the other two top branches tomorrow.
Excellent clean up! Sometimes the best kind are the ones no one notices.
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Thanks Shed!Excellent clean up! Sometimes the best kind are the ones no one notices.
I'm not kidding - if I removed the same amount of plant matter from any of the others in pots, there would be no leaves left. The two in SIPS are bushy as heck!
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One other thing - for those who move pots in and outside, the 5 gallon bucket does not have 5 gallons of soil. Mine have probably 4 at most. There is a lot of air in that donut in the bottom when the res is empty. When I moved them for the party the other day the SIPs seemed quite a bit lighter than the 7 gallon fabric pots. Easy to move around.
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@Trala - SIPs are definitely not set it and forget it (like I thought they would be). You'll spend more time with your plants. I'm defoliating larf / refilling the res / checking for bugs several times per day. With the SNS209 I'm seeing very few bugs. I mean surprisingly few.
Crap I just jinxed it.
Gonna go spray neem.
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@Trala - SIPs are definitely not set it and forget it (like I thought they would be). You'll spend more time with your plants. I'm defoliating larf / refilling the res / checking for bugs several times per day. With the SNS209 I'm seeing very few bugs. I mean surprisingly few.
Crap I just jinxed it.
Gonna go spray neem.
I'm with you on moving them. My double-barrelled SWICK has a lot more soil and a lot more weight than the SIP did.
Neem on! Just sprayed mine as well for things crawling on the rim of the bucket.
Neem on! Just sprayed mine as well for things crawling on the rim of the bucket.
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I remove my cardboard caps and spray the soil as well.I'm with you on moving them. My double-barrelled SWICK has a lot more soil and a lot more weight than the SIP did.
Neem on! Just sprayed mine as well for things crawling on the rim of the bucket.
Have you ever tried SNS209?
I did mix it with my nutes for a few weeks when they first came on the site but I prefer foliar treatment over systemic.
Since the top of the soil is never damp on my SWICK I'm going to put down a layer of DE on top and spray the bucket with DE as well.
My SIP is no more.
Hello you!
Yeah SIP doesn’t suit my grow style.
You can’t get that Sns209 her in Australia. I’d be on it like a fat kid on cake if we did.
My plants seem super healthy atm, and I think that’s holding them in good stead. That and my weekly prophylactic treatment is holding me. And the fact it’s freezing here helps lol.
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I think is primarily rosemary extract. The bugs apparently hate it.
A few years ago my friend had to move suddenly and I made the mistake of trying to finish his crop outdoors in late fall / early winter. Every bug within a mile smelled the goodies and came running over.
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