Outdoor Sativa Cultivation At 39N Inland, At 2950 Feet, 900 Metres, Altitude

[Cide Hamete Benengeli]

So from September 17 to November 7, I am many hundreds of kilometers from "La Perrera". On top of that, on November 7th they tell me that although I have satisfactorily finished my work there in Tarragona, on November 9th I have to be in the Campo de Gibraltar of Cádiz (Algeciras, San Roque, La Línea and Gibraltar) to start another job throughout the rest of the month, maybe more... I have to cross the country again (or at least the European continental part), but I take a detour through my valley and my mountains to spend a day at home.
And this is how I find myself in "La Perrera" after almost 2 months of absence: the plants have only received water, and not much, and the lack of any subscriber has greatly limited their development:

8-November-2022 :
King Congo (Congo Point Noire x South African Ciskei, Tropical Seeds Company, born 15-May; 5 nodes-10 lower branches pruned), in the middle, the small MadMac's Original Haze x Ultra Early Love Potion/Silver Bubble (born June 24, MadMac), and in the background the Zamaldélica fem (Zamal x Golden Tiger, A.C.E.; born May 19; 3 nodes-6 lower branches pruned):

Little MadMac's Original Haze x Ultra Early Love Potion/Silver Bubble (born June 24, MadMac), and in the background King Congo (Congo Point Noire x South African Ciskei , Tropical Seeds Company, born on May 15; the 5 nodes-10 lower branches have been pruned):

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8-November-2022 :

Of the three plants, the one that has suffered the most from the lack of food, water and care, has been the Zamaldélica fem (Zamal x Golden Tiger, A.C.E.; born on May 19; it has the 3 lower nodes = 6 lower branches, pruned):

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[Cide Hamete Benengeli]

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(8-Nov-2022)

I would wait with this Zamaldélica fem (Zamal x Golden Tiger, A.C.E.; born May 19) in ideal conditions, at least until November 20 (12 to 15 days) before thinking about harvesting this plant... But I fear that in a month overripening without supervision or care it could develop some male flower, or develop mold now that the rainiest and most humid season is coming in this area... I decide to harvest it on the run, but I leave a few tiny low flowers (two or three joints) to observe its evolution when I return, be it at the beginning of December or just before Christmas...
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[Cide Hamete Benengeli]

8-November-2020 :

The last one, the King Congo (Congo Point Noire x South African Ciskei, Tropical Seeds Company, born on 15-May; it has pruned the 5 nodes-10 lower branches); it has suffered less than the Zamaldelica the total absence of food and the scarcity of water during my almost 2 months of absence (from 17-September to 8-November), and it is much more "well branched". But its flowering is the slowest of the three sativas: I think that in ideal conditions I would not harvest it until from 25-November... Its buds are more sativa, spongy and open than the others, and this, together with the fact that I know this variety well because I have grown it before with very good results, including Saharan temperatures in summer, and frosts (and this so sativa Congo Point Noire phenotype, even a snowfall one year in winter; I will show it to you), makes that with this one I risk to go away for another month, leaving it on the ground flowering (besides, it is by far the most immature of the three):

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[Cide Hamete Benengeli]

9-November-2022:

I leave again to work, now to the bay of Algeciras and the Campo de Gibraltar in Cádiz. I don't know how soon before Christmas I will be able to return; and this time, the plants are left totally without any care: the previous time they got a bucket of 10 liters of water weekly (if it didn't rain that week), but now the wettest time of the year is coming here (December and January).
I leave drying the MadMac's Original Haze x (Ultra Early Love Potion/Silver Bubble) (MadMac), with a soft smell between incense, spicy and musky, and the Zamaldelica fem(Zamal x Golden Tiger, A.C.E), with an intense, sweet and fruity smell between orangeade, mandarin and sweet carrot...

 

[Stunger]

I reckon your plants look to be doing pretty darn well in your absences - great stuff.

 

[Cide Hamete Benengeli]

...I'm moving...:

Thread 'Adventures and Misadventures of Cide Hamete Benengeli, a humble Arab-La Mancha grower:' https://www.420magazine.com/communi...engeli-a-humble-arab-la-mancha-grower.526576/

Dear reader:

You will not find in this clumsy and disjointed thread of mine, but an attempt to chronicle the outdoor growing seasons of which I have some graphic reference. Moving my thread to this part of the forum, only obeys the reason of being able to illustrate it with both landscape photos and my animals, as well as being able to set it musically at my whim, without having half a team of moderators trying (kindly and already with certain desperation, heh...) translate for me the reasons why it should not be done... (that He of the 99 Names turns my ganjanal into transgenic soybeans if neither translating it into Arabic, nor Hebrew, nor aljamiado Spanish, nor to Greek or Latin, some enlightened scholar can understand such gibberish about how internet works...not even among the wisest and most famous translators of Toledo).

...But, surely my dear reader, after reading the previous dazed introduction, you must be thinking...: "In the name of Calliope!: how this Hamete disperses from the topic..." And without a doubt you are right. I do not make you dizzy, therefore more, and I link to the previous and last entry to my cultivation diary...:
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