Looking good! Gotta love Oregon!
I am very lucky to live in a state where it is legal and I do not have to worry about being busted growing a plant.
Hey there OG! Good to see ya again. Quite the setup ya got going on here now with the greenhouse. Love the ideas you have come up with. Sure looks like this will be an interesting grow to watch over the summer and them ladies are going to get dam big in there I bet with all the space for the roots! Great work and setup, best of luck my friend!
Lets hope they do not get to big, I figure I still have around 5 more weeks (maybe only 4) of veg before they start flowering so I still have a little time to get out there and do more pruning if I can find the time.
Plants are looking great! Sorry about your wife, knee pain is no joke! Busted up my knee on a dirt bike last week. Hubby brought it home and my dumb ass thought it would be smart to ride for the first time in years
18 to 20 gallons, now that's a lot of water! Bet you love that bill. What kind of water are you using? Is collecting rainwater an option?
Smart idea on the ladybugs! I have some in my tent, and they seem pretty happy there. I've thought about growing outside, but worry about pests. We have a deer run through our property, and I hear they love cannabis... can't blame them either Do you use any other forms of pest control?
Best of luck to your grow, can't wait to see the results on this one
I am spraying Neem oil on the plants plus I also am spraying the whole area inside the greenhouse with Neem as a precautionary attempt to keep the little buggers from entering.I did notice a few leaves with mite damage a few weeks ago, which was the reason for starting the Neem oil spray. Since I started the weekly spray I have seen no new damage on any of the ladies.
I do not have to worry about deer here in my area, though I do have to be sure to keep the gate closed on the fence surrounding my greenhouse to keep the chickens out. I have 4 Buff Harringtons, 3 Rhode Island Reds and 6 Americanias that all love to eat weed. They have gotten ahold of my plants in the past and are very destructive. In fact one plant, one of the Thick Wickets was eaten down to a single stem with about 25% of one leaf left on it when I transplanted them this year. I originally thought it was a goner for sure but she recovered, I will point her out when I post pictures.
I do collect rain water and I also have a filter for using tap water. I am currently using a 100 gallon stock tank and 4 30 gallon trash cans to hold my water in. I mix all my feed in smaller 10 gallon containers that my wife originally bought to make beer and wine.
Your ladies are looking amazing, greenhouse is so nice n clean.
Wish the rest of my yard looked as nice as my greenhouse but that is a work in progress.
You got this growing lark down to a fine art my friend. I wish many many big buds for your future.
Thank you for the kind words my friend. I am setting the bar especially low this year, my goal is 1 1/2 pounds per plant. Once the girls start flowering I intend to de-bud the hell out of them to force just the branches I want to flower. My line of thinking is less smaller buds = less trimming and believe me when I say, "I hate trimming BUDS" So much that on my last indoor grow I did not trim at all, I hung the whole plants to dry, then broke off the buds once it was dry and used the whole grow for nothing but butter and hash. I am sure it was pretty wasteful but on the bright side I did not have to do any trimming for that grow.
They are looking great. I have no doubt you will be greatly rewarded for your efforts. It's like a full time job with a full greenhouse but worth it. The DIY greenhouse still impresses the shit outta me. Quality outdoor garden that mate
Thank you for the compliment
I would really like to set up a light dep green house but currently I do not have the room to do so nor the time to operate it, though my brother has both the room and the time, so perhaps I will build one out at his farm. It is to late to really benefit from it for this year but since it will be about 4 to 5 years before I can get a place out in the country, it might be a fun project to do plus it will allow me to work any bugs out of the set up before I build my own.
Not much has changed in the greenhouse, the girls are still looking pretty good though I still need to prune more on them, perhaps later today I will make another pass through with the clippers.
No signs of any pests this week which is always a good sign. I will be giving them straight water today with a light top dressing of worm castings before I water.
Temps in the greenhouse have been hovering in the high 70's all week which I am especially happy about. I look at the weather forecast and either keep the doors open or closed depending on whats predicted and then either increase or decrease the fan setting to accommodate. So far I have been right on the money. Even when the temps have been sunny and upper 80s this system has been working, but the real challenge will be when the temps jump into the upper 90's and above.
Here are some pictures from this week, like I said, not much going on here.
oh and this is the plant that was eaten down to a single stem with 25% of a single leaf left on it, plus it had a shovel dropped on it when transplanted into the ground that broke of 2 major branches so bad they could not be grafted back on. It was really quiet ugly but as you can see she is doing quiet nicely now.
Hope everyone has a great fathers day and your gardens are green and pest free
I have been just swamped with work and work and more work. The dummies where I work gave me a service van so now I am working like I did 20 years ago. Not sure if this old man will be able to keep up this pace another 5 years. I finally got my friends grow built and wired. They are finishing up their 1st grow in it this weekend I believe. Been a few weeks since I was last out there. They kept pushing Pineapple Express on me, but I told them I already had to many plants as it was. I am pretty sure my brother ended up with a few of them since they had like an extra 30 or 40 of them.
I really like the scrog in the greenhouse though, that baby has filled out nicely. I just recently started my own scrog project, built 4 of them and set them on plants a couple days ago. Hoping that they fill out as nice as yours, they still need some more veg time! What are you plans for the high 90's when they hit your area? That's a pretty large space for an a/c!
