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Just saying, I wasn't worried 
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InTheShed Grows Inside & Out: Jump In Any Time
Oh ya... must be hard for new growers in HB to break old habits.
Is it still pushing pistils? This one stopped doing so for about a week, and then 2 days ago pushed out a few fresh ones.
I’ve seen Graytail post about ripening and cycles of harvest windows. If I’d left it, it may have gone into another little growth period and bulked up some more. I was ready to take it tho’, and there was plenty amber showing.
If yours hasn’t drunk much the last 10 days either, then maybe it’s ready ...
IKR! That was the biggest bummer about missing the timing on this one I harvested today - it got a heap of rain that it never dried out from and I wasn’t able to get it the finishing drench at all. It’s tricky outside to get a handle on how much plants are drinking when there’s rain around, so I didnt really notice until right at the end.
No, in fact the pistils are mostly dark now but not really forming back into the bud yet. I'm sure it has another week. It has just been the last week. Normally fed 4L every two days (5gal pots) and now it's about 3L. Today was feeding day but the pot felt pretty heavy, so it can go another day. Most likely now 4L every 3 days. Still drinking, just slowing down.
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Get a loupe on that sucker!
Can't do that wet/dry thang outside so it's a completely different mindset.
that’s what I need to learn how to notice more in the future. (Meaning what Sauga described)I managed wet n dry a bit. But it’s really only the dry you can interrupt (by watering). Unless you build a plant umbrella - which i’m working on.
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It's gotta be hard to do the drench thing then. I wonder if a different type of organic is better outside where you are. Rainwater only.
Since our summers get no rain it would be easier to do HB outside here.
Since our summers get no rain it would be easier to do HB outside here.
Well I have, every night. The trichs are small and harder to see. BUt I have lots of cloudy ones, some clear, and no ambers. I'm having a hard time with the ambers anyhow picking them out. The WW the trichs were huge and bountiful. It was easy to see the ambers.
I'll get some pics up tomorrow. I have to leave for the evening now.
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#plantbrella® to @Amy Gardner.
DobeWan
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In Ontario right now the weather is just painful. Winters here suck. But Canada is pretty great otherwise. I can't imagine living anywhere else full time, although I hope when I retire I can afford to spend winters somewhere warm.
The shed is looking great, congrats on the pistils!
The shed is looking great, congrats on the pistils!
Doing the drenches isn’t so hard, and i’ll Get better at it. Ive experimented a bit with drenching during and either side of rains so I’m getting the hang of it for the raised bed. Applying the drench after rains works really well
Only bugger with rain is if it comes when you don’t want it - like when they’re drying out in veg and then during flower. The plants are much more forgiving to lots of water outside during veg tho 
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I didn't realize the timing of drenches was so loose!
Nor was I aware that you could have rain come at the times you wanted it, sometimes.
Nor was I aware that you could have rain come at the times you wanted it, sometimes.
Well the drenches are just applied when the plant needs a drink, and alternated with plain water on between. I don’t do it on a schedule as such, although come flower I may try to a little bit, but again it’s depending on the weather, how fast plants are drinking etc.
The instructions do make it look like the timing is rigid - but actually the ‘calendar’ on there just marks out the pattern of events to follow. The timing is totally dependent on the plants’ needs.
The instructions do make it look like the timing is rigid - but actually the ‘calendar’ on there just marks out the pattern of events to follow. The timing is totally dependent on the plants’ needs.
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What do you do if it rains almost every time the plants need water?
Drench during or after - or in between so the drench goes in with the rain - and depending on how heavy the rain is, i’ll make the drench more concentrated. Seems to be working so far
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Oh that's clever! Good thinking 
. I woulda shrugged and said "oh well...next time."
. I woulda shrugged and said "oh well...next time."
Well I thought of it once when I saw doc recommend someone give a plant a big flush (cause something had gone wrong - it was a few years ago, the post, I can’t remember the actual scenario)... and then “chase” the plain water flush with a nice hearty Drench. So I figured “chasing” the rains would work .
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I always recommend that when someone flushes that the last gallon be regular strength nutes. I guess I never thought of HB being a nute-based system.
It is charging up the soil. So the approach is similar I guess.
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