Konk's 1st Grow: ON Canada

[Konks Dirt Empire]

Here's something, I'm trying next year. I know not helpful now.
BioCeres

I haven't seen @Kodiak420 in a while, I even egged him on about stem splitting anyway, as they say time flies, and this @JimJonesJr probably would have arrived...it's also on my to look into list.

You've had to deal with a lot lately. Them damn bugs will make ya crazy. You with aphids n me n my thrips. I think next year I will look into a systemic approach with added weekly foliar spray even if I see no bugs at all. Once bugs get a grip it is a bitch to get rid of them...as you well know. Spinosad by the gallon next yr.

Now your heading into the bud rot stage. Bugs are maddening but bud rot kills overnight. Who knew outdoor growing could be so much fun..lol. Your taking it all in stride though and doing what ya have to do. You and I have learned a lot about outdoor cultivation this year.

We are so very lucky to have been given these learning opportunities sounds just like who?

I am grateful to have some hands on learnin', everything says be careful, gentle, don't handle the flowers... well, aphids burried in your flowers will toughen you up and you jump in. You know you shouldn't, but I am a salvager.
Things are stable, no new aphid cycle to report today...that's 32 days. Shhh, lets not get too cocky, they're ruthless!

Edited: 2 days, they're have only been 2 days which is still progress and my other to needed another o

 

[Konks Dirt Empire]

jot these ramblings down before I forget

Quick shout out to @Patient puffer who has patiently let me question him reletlessly, cat supervisor style...
I don't have the cannabis vocab to keep up with exactly what he's got going on in his journal, but there is crossing and seeds and years of growing those seeds and the historical reference to those attributes over grows...sorta the cannabis newbie take.
Anyway JCTC was talking seeds and pp's monstrous Mango is tied or maybe tied to KC Brains Escape that I bookmarked when searching sucessful strains in my area.

Wanted to put a pin in this, seeds sound hearty but an 11 week flowering would need to start really early. The ones I have now are 6 weeks in of 8 as per the the vendor. In Ontario with all of our rebates our monthly bill to stay warm and have a light on is $200 a month. I am unyielding in my frugality and if I can't cobble together $50-100 fix I need to drop this idea and refocus my energy on autos. I think they are the safest road to harvest from how quickly fall hits and can ruin 4 months of work.

 

[Pat Puffer]

Ya know what though Konk? I sprouted that Mango and grew the mother in a 3 gal pot to test her out first. I wanted to be sure she would be worthy of smoking. I grew her outside in the sun. Temps were a on the cold side and she didn't have super soil. That original mother did not grow like this clone is doing outside. The mother grew with short buds and a flat top on the buds. Her buds looked like little barrels. I didn't have any clue that she would like this one a big scale. I was unable to coax those 12"+ buds out of her in a pot. So they do look spectacular. Regrettably, I don't know that I could make her do that indoors. Given the height of the buds, if she did, the bottoms of her buds wouldn't be as dense as they could. I am not quite sure...I think distance to the light would affect their density.

 

[Konks Dirt Empire]

Ya know what though Konk? I sprouted that Mango and grew the mother in a 3 gal pot to test her out first. I wanted to be sure she would be worthy of smoking. I grew her outside in the sun. Temps were a on the cold side and she didn't have super soil. That original mother did not grow like this clone is doing outside. The mother grew with short buds and a flat top on the buds. Her buds looked like little barrels. I didn't have any clue that she would like this one a big scale. I was unable to coax those 12"+ buds out of her in a pot. So they do look spectacular. Regrettably, I don't know that I could make her do that indoors. Given the height of the buds, if she did, the bottoms of her buds wouldn't be as dense as they could. I am not quite sure...I think distance to the light would affect their density.

I am not about any hardcore definitive science here, I just think it is neat to see where you could take the grow from various points without getting too high tech or costly. Just noting what am I coming across that may be sustainable over winter at almost no cost. Or even to start in late march to gradually move outdoors in June. I have homework to do, but it gets my spidey senses going! I wanted to note it for me to go back to when I can dig deeper. I am seeking the pitfalls or obvious bad from the start ideas.
Thanks, pp!

 

[Pat Puffer]

I totally start my ladies indoors about March or April. That way they are established and about a foot tall or more by the time they go in the ground. It's a nice jump start to increase yields.

 

[DutchinAB]

Well, I did it Konk. Read through all 17 pages last night and this morning. I hope you’re able to get those aphids under control, it looks like you’ve thrown everything at them! Keep up the good fight!

Speaking of OCS seeds but totally unrelated to your journal . Pure Sunfarms now has Headband (OG Kush x Sour Diesel) and Cherry Head (Cherry Wine x Headband) seeds available through the OCS. The latter being a balanced 1:1 strain, kind of got me wanting to run an indoor photoperiod grow once these autos are finished and try both strains.

Ohh what I would do for those headband beans, doesn’t look like they’re available out west yet...

 

[Konks Dirt Empire]

Well, I did it Konk. Read through all 17 pages last night and this morning. I hope you’re able to get those aphids under control, it looks like you’ve thrown everything at them! Keep up the good fight!


Ohh what I would do for those headband beans, doesn’t look like they’re available out west yet...

DutchinAB to the dirt empire. Kudos, sorry what a waste of time , it's mostly pics at least

 

[Kodiak420]

@Konks Dirt Empire I totally forgot to mention another alternative it dawned on me coming back in here right now. get a spray bottle with rosemary oil and water spray those plants till the aphids prevail. Rosemary oil is a repellent that will kick those suckers in the a

Rosemary oil is awesome, it has anti fungal and anti bacterial properties also. But remeber it is a oil so be careful around bud sites. I use it with peppermint oil and neem all during veg stage ever 3-4 days as preventative measures.

DutchinAB to the dirt empire. Kudos, sorry what a waste of time , it's mostly pics at least

No it wasn't, that's what journals are for reading through and learning from others .



On to the PM, be careful, you're close to my area (judging by your Kingston weather post) and it is out there abundantly. I will be washing with generous amount of H2O2, among other usual ingredients.

Keep you head up Konk, there will be some fruits for your labours.... Outdoor growing can be a little more stressful than indoors. . We learn, we adapt, we conquer (eventually ).

 

[Konks Dirt Empire]

Rosemary oil is awesome, it has anti fungal and anti bacterial properties also. But remeber it is a oil so be careful around bud sites. I use it with peppermint oil and neem all during veg stage ever 3-4 days as preventative measures.

I have it on my preventative measures list for veg!

No it wasn't, that's what journals are for reading through and learning from others .

Aww, I'll take that, thanks...I notice about 7 pages of aphid wars on the dirt empire

On to the PM, be careful, you're close to my area (judging by your Kingston weather post) and it is out there abundantly. I will be washing with generous amount of H2O2, among other usual ingredients.

I'm in I haven't done my bud washing homework, after all of the aphid concoctions and insecticide soap I needed to start that research. I was bold enough to put @The Celt on the spot while he is very busy in trim mode about a bud washing tutorial, he was unphased and kindly provided this gem, right to the page!

Keep you head up Konk, there will be some fruits for your labours.... Outdoor growing can be a little more stressful than indoors. . We learn, we adapt, we conquer (eventually ).

Good to see you back, Kodiak420! I have even enjoyed embraced learning from this buggy aphid drama. I would not have taken the opportunity to aggressively handle the flowers and poke around the delicate pistils. I am impulsive but out of the gate my intent isn't harm.

I see the word rot in your post, damn, I hear ya calling it asap! I didn't get past that yet, you keep your head up, too!

 

[Konks Dirt Empire]

So, Mr. Empire and I went to a covid world funeral in Kingston, ON yestrday. We masked up and were permitted a 10 minute bubble to ourselves to stay goodbye. It is a whole new world, we couldn't park in the "drive thru viewing lane" of another service at the same time.... we are now considered compromised for Thanksgiving and have been uninvited, which is ok with us.
In the most bizarre way we contacted less people than a kid who rides a school bus and enters a school & classroom... It was a shock to us that my Aunt passed, but worse, it was a shock to my uncle and cousins who I spent my childhood with. I was called to the flock...it's sad but not covid related and she lived a full life.
Nah, this is too deep. I'm gonna make a pic dump update separately.

 

[Konks Dirt Empire]

Yesterday fed the crop miracle grow 15-30-15, 2 heaping tablespoons to 5L of water. Also pulled the last of this banana juice out of the fridge and added a tablespoon to about 2L per plant, but maybe ran it off as I added the additional 3L feed to each one. Kinda brave but each plant got a hit lol

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• Konks Dirt Empire
• Oct 5, 2020

Last of the banana water

I want to scream from the roof top that this is day 4 without spotting a new aphid life cycle, but think I should just whisper that instead!
Crop shot

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• Konks Dirt Empire
• Oct 5, 2020
• 17 weeks lemon sapphire ontario outdoor

Crop shot

Quarantine plants #5 & #5.5 they are still filling in, but really they are rough. I don't know that bug, maybe its an aphid eating machine
The bugs in the pics are dead, I think, or less than moving like they're alive. I might just spray these areas with some warm water, but it is really cold out.

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• Oct 5, 2020

Quarantine #5 & #5.5

Wonder if the purple is from stress? I do have two wee ones from plant #5 that are very deep green

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• Konks Dirt Empire
• Oct 5, 2020

#5.6 & 5.7 from plant 5

I am going to do that today, look into the colour...

Everyone stay safe!

 

[StoneOtter]

Nice win with the aphids Konk! Purple's nice on them.

 

[Konks Dirt Empire]

Nice win with the aphids Konk! Purple's nice on them.

Shhhhh! Feels pretty damn good this second...it might just be too cold for the bugs
thanks, stoneotter!

 

[DutchinAB]

Sorry to hear of your loss.

 

[Konks Dirt Empire]

Sorry to hear of your loss.

Thank you, I had to sort of spit out how bizarre is it coming out of my gummie haze to the state of things. My ah ha moment from leaving the dirt empire is gratitude my gummie guy delivers to the door!
The sad is done, I am going back into the haze... hard to guess but I run pretty tightly wound when things are as they should be

 

[oldsmokey]

Thing look good! My condolences on the passing of your aunt .

 

[StoneOtter]

Condolences for your loss Konk

 

[MrSauga]

I'm sure your Aunt will be missed. My condolences to you and your family Konk.

 

[Konks Dirt Empire]

Alright enough condolences, thank you very much .

The story was about over thinking, taking the safest high road (much safer than the one parents in this province have to do daily) to get to my Dad's brother, at the cost of missing Thanksgiving with my own Dad... It is effed, right?

Still no live aphids!

 

[Konks Dirt Empire]

Could this really be the 4th day without finding a new aphid lifecycle? Might be, I am finding a few spots on leaf backs but when I poke and prod anything with my fancy killing pencil they're hollow or less juicey. Ewww, sorry I think it is too cold for the bugs to thrive, but it only takes a little sun... Also, I am sort of ghosting the quarantine 2, making an effort to not reinfect the 4 on the weed wagon.

I wedged myself behind the weed wagon and took this last evening. It has been dreary but was sunny and cold, about 10C

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• Konks Dirt Empire
• Oct 6, 2020

Patriotic weed fort

I must confess with the aphid battle I have been preoccupied with foliage and pistils and not watching the buds. A forest for the trees sort of perspective.

New trouble to borrow is if these are ready and I am dancing around not paying attention, there are no jars in town, and I have three buckets and only one cup of peroxide

I took some pics of Plant #2 and her buds. With this plant, I attempted to top, then fim, then microtop the top 2 colas and some lst. Both my actions and terms are fluid here, but I found this guy on youtube and followed him blindly! No, he was cool beans and gave me the confidence to jump in. I tried to rig every branch down it's own stake and really open her to the sun.

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• Konks Dirt Empire
• Oct 6, 2020

Plant #2, 17 weeks - 6 weeks of pistils

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• Konks Dirt Empire
• Oct 6, 2020

Plant #2, 17 weeks - 6 weeks of pistils

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Plant #2, 17 weeks - 6 weeks of pistils

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• Konks Dirt Empire
• Oct 6, 2020

Plant #2, 6 weeks of pistils

Now these seeds say 8 weeks of flowering, so I have clutched my pearls fretting about them finishing before a snow date of Halloween, but suddenly thought these pistils have a wee bit of fluffy white growth and are fuller than yesterday...what if theyre done! Then I saw @JimJonesJr massive buds (& new airborne $hitstorm to battle!) and thought nice try, chill out this is week 6.

looks like it's borrow trouble Tuesday, thought I did that Monday...anyone see the winged aphid on the bud pic, ffs