Mollifier's First Grow Outdoor

[mollifier]

Week 4
Super Lemon Haze

Durban Poison

Early Vixen

Weather is cold and rainy, plants are purpling a little from the temperature and affecting buds no doubt. Starting to go below 10C or 50F at night

 

[mollifier]

Week 4-5

only feeding some corn sprout/molasses water from here on out. I will have to start covering them at night somehow

 

[mollifier]

Sept.26 Warm sunny day today finally. Tomorrow night's low is around 4C, I might have to figure out a way to spread a bed sheet over the plants

 

[4Dutchess]

Nice plants!!! What a pretty flower!!!! Namaste!!

 

[mollifier]

Oct. 1 Tomorrow night is a low of 2 degrees, and 3 for the following days. Not sure how they will handle it. Im going to push them through, harvesting this early sounds like a waste to me. All or nothing... except for one branch I clipped off right now to try out the drying process

 

[mollifier]

Do these buds look odd? Theres some black material on the very tips of the buds, looks like the outside of the calyxs

and heres some neat purple edges from cold temps

 

[Lord Simmer]

dude..... your plants are monsters. I cannot believe how big they are. I am growing outside, but I am being discrete with smaller plants. I cannot wait to hear about your yield.

 

[mollifier]

Yeah they had all spring/summer to veg out. I think I like sativas so I figured that's the kind of plant I'd grow.

I wasn't aware of the small time window I have here to flower, so my biggest mistake started before I even had seeds with sativa's long flower period. I was expecting the plants to begin flowering in june/july... wayyy off.

My SLH can still flower for over a month, but Im risking losing the plants to freezing temps. If there is a yield off of the big plants, the smoke won't be meeting my expectations. Id like to have the plant go through it's entire cycle and finish proper.

If I ever grow again in this area, I will have to choose something with short flower time or autos.

 

[Lord Simmer]

I had that happen once when I did an indoor grow but had to move. I prematurely harvested and it was OK at best.

I am growing Autos outside and its very convenient.

 

[mollifier]

Placed two bed sheets over the plants last night. Pulled them off at 8am this morning and they were soaked with some frost on the top. I live by water so it probably gets very humid during cold nights... I should have went and purchased a sheet of poly but Im broke.

The plants seem fine, but the tops are all bent over from the weight and having a frosty sheet on them probably wasn't great. Looks like the sun will be out all morning to dry them off

 

[mollifier]

 

[4Dutchess]

Beautiful!!!!

 

[mollifier]

Looks like I'm harvesting in a couple days, monday night is dropping to the negatives. I attempted laying poly over my plants and failed, I know what I'd need to do but its not worth it at this point.

At least I have one potted plant that I can see mature all the way through

 

[4Dutchess]

Looks like I'm harvesting in a couple days, monday night is dropping to the negatives. I attempted laying poly over my plants and failed, I know what I'd need to do but its not worth it at this point.

At least I have one potted plant that I can see mature all the way through

Whats negatives??? Freezing, 32 deg????????

 

[mollifier]

Yup, freezing. Im reading 29F on a couple sources for monday night, so harvest tomorrow.

I havent really "flushed" the in ground plants, they've just been fed water, molasses, and I think some corn sprout water 3 weeks ago. So they should be at the state flushing gets them to... mostly all organic anyways. I did use little osmocote pellets and general hydroponics for a while during veg prior to learning about the teas. And still supplemented some bottled cal-mag up till 3 weeks ago.

Wondering if letting the plants yellow out at the end can reduce chlorophyll in the buds.

Next time it will be a fancy auto-flower strain

 

[4Dutchess]

My climate is great for this compared to most. Another reason I tried this year. When i mean flush I mean no more nutes just plain water. Maybe rain here next weekend. We dont freeze until Jan. and then its rare.
Happy harvest!!

 

[4Dutchess]

Ive had the first pick hanging for 9 days and will only paper bag for 5 days maybe and then jars. They go in bags today and picking another round and another on Sunday. I have to hang more string for Sundays.
Great looking buds you have. I like the purple hairs! Thanks for following my thread Mollifier.
Happy Harvest!!!!

 

[mollifier]

Ive had the first pick hanging for 9 days and will only paper bag for 5 days maybe and then jars. They go in bags today and picking another round and another on Sunday. I have to hang more string for Sundays.
Great looking buds you have. I like the purple hairs! Thanks for following my thread Mollifier.
Happy Harvest!!!!

I've read some experienced growers swearing by long drying/curing times. And others swearing by very quick drying, then rehydrating for consumption. Both sides arguing with facts and experienced opinions...

What I'm going to do is hang dry for 10-12 days at 55RH. Then once eveything is finally trimmed up it will be going into sealed jars with a 62%RH Boveda pack and no burping for the cure/storage.

We'll see how it goes

 

[4Dutchess]

Exactly what I do except paper bag them a few days. It frees up the string for more and I think the darkness helps. I dont want mold and cant burp 130 jars weekly so I dry it out. I just got my first boveda and will experiment with it. Im thinking just put it in the ones that are soon to be used.
Happy Harvest!!!!!!

 

[Lord Simmer]

keep pushing. those plants are going to have you set for awhile