Relaxed's 2014 Outdoor Medical Grow

Looks like all your followers are looking for more pics.

I just want to say to the folks that haven't yet journaled, it is a lot of work. All of us also have lives disconnected from the plants and the computer. Putting as much effort as Lester does, I honestly don't see how he finds the time.

Hoping all is well in your relaxed world Les.

Thank you so much Brother Josh! You too! :circle-of-love::passitleft::ciao:
 
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Good morning Lester! Happy gardening today! :Namaste:
Good Day :) Right Back at Ya buddy :high-five:
High Lester hey I couldn't
make it through the many pages that have been added since my last visit BUT mate got to say that garden is sooo nice :) Love to be able to sit around in there an enjoy some nice meds:thumb:
:hugs: High Jaga, don't worry - there is much more to come. Thanks for cruising my friend :Namaste:

Well now that you mentioned popcorn...

Here is some locally grown Thin Mint Cookies :ganjamon:
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Nice nugs.

So I notice that you have not done much removal of leaves.

I am trying to plan the last 4-5 weeks of my grow and not sure when and if I should remove some leaves. So far I have only removed yellow ones. Not sure if I should pick leaves before drying. I know how much easer it is but to lengthen the drying process this might help.
 
Nice nugs.

So I notice that you have not done much removal of leaves.

I am trying to plan the last 4-5 weeks of my grow and not sure when and if I should remove some leaves. So far I have only removed yellow ones. Not sure if I should pick leaves before drying. I know how much easer it is but to lengthen the drying process this might help.

Removing some far-gone leaves can help, depends on the situation of the canopy. This is something I posted in a different thread:
Cannabis plants are annual flowering plants, meaning as they "sense" (or perceived sense) fall is approaching, they fruit and flower as an attempt to reproduce before its too late and they die. That is what it means to be an annual, they are preparing for death, but their hoping to get pollinated so the seeds can drop to the ground and sprout up next spring. So as fall approaches it begins to shed its leaves and scrounge up all that extra energy stored in the fan leaves to aid the budding process. It is as natural as the trees changing to "fall colors" as they shed their leaves and get ready for the winter. Nitrogen concentrations in the leaf tissue go down as the plant realizes "Oh there isn't as much sun so I don't need to produce as many green leaves to grow big and tall", so the plants turn yellow and sometimes purple approaching harvest. I usually aim to have my plants eat up most of their fan leaves by the time the fruit is ready. I have found that if nitrogen concentrations are too high at harvest, the buds can attain more of a "grassy" flavor that requires a good long cure to get out.

The way the plants get energy in the first place is by breaking down the stored nutrients that are mainly stored in the cellulose or, woody fibers of the plant, it is polymers of sugar where it can "harvest" its own sugars internally to supply itself with energy. The nutrients you give it don't directly supply it energy, rather it gives the plant the compounds it needs to metabolize the stored energy efficiently throughout the plant. I normally aim to have all my leaves yellow in "synchronis" or in a balanced manner, but however usually the oldest leaves on the bottom which receive less light underneath the canopy will die off first. So yellow leaves in late flower are nothing new. :thumb:

With that being said, when talking about the yellowing of the leaves, I check to see the resistive force of the petiole, if I am indeed considering plucking a leaf that has donated most of its energy, if it resists against a tug downward then I know its still sucking some energy out, and likely in the next few days would come off more naturally. Unless a yellowed leaf is directly covering a bud site, or blocking air flow, then I wouldn't forcibly remove it. A lot of people have their own different ways of growing plants, and maintenance techniques, it's all case by case..about the drying thing, I usually try to get all those fan leaves off before I start the real trim, just to make life easier for me during the trimming and processing, however I have dried and cured buds with leaving some leaf (so to speak) on and they cured really well, it just depends on what your mood is. :blunt:
 
you gotta come down here some day Brotha
or maybe ill go up to the states one day and go roam around and meet some of you guys
id like to meet some of those dudes on weed country lol
hey Great day to you Brotha :thumb:
 
Yeah Id love to meet mike and tawnie boutin from weed country. Seem like really decent hard working people
 
lol smoker thats actually who I had in mind
the only other person I wouldn't mind meeting is the old dude
the smith guy is it?
same last name as moonshiner guy lol tim smith makes you wonder if these guys could be related in some way
you never know :rofl:
 
Good read, thanks. I am not a leaf picker as you can see from my journals. Quality is my goal. Weight is nice but the cleaner the buds the better. I love pot.

My last harvest dried to quickly and took forever to clean up the flavor. Actually broke some out from my first picking over the weekend. It is finally worth smoking. 4 months in a jar. As I shared some with another fellow patient I asked for a comment on the high.

He said as I blew out I could feel this tingle around his head. I explained that we had just smoked headband. He replied now I see what you mean about how all the strains have their own personality.

Building a drying room now. It is actually an old walk in cold storage room that is well insulated, about 6x12. The greenhouse is 16x12 and an 80% canopy. It hangs at 55-56 when all closed up this time of year.

Going to hold 65 deg. @ 55% humidity with good air circulation. Not a lot of air transfer though. I will use heat and a dehumidifier.
 
you gotta come down here some day Brotha
or maybe ill go up to the states one day and go roam around and meet some of you guys
id like to meet some of those dudes on weed country lol
hey Great day to you Brotha :thumb:
Yeah, it would be a dream to fly to Hawaii :surf: :Namaste:
Happy Thurweed Day Hoggy! :clown:

that bud looks gorgeous!
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Weekly Update
OK so here we go to start off this new page of the journal, some pretty good shots in here. Still lots of flowering to go for the KC's although there are a few sample nugs that are preparing to be ready before a lot of the other flowers. Very nice aromas and smells coming off her, shes got a bit of a sour smell to that lemon flavor, she sure does smell good. THE AMAZING NEWS is that 8/10 of the seeds I planted (including KC-45 and Blackberry) are FEMALE. It is a shocker, I can't believe that many regular seeds showed female. That sure is some luck right there. I already threw away one BB male, , and it seems there is going to be one KC male, that makes 4/5 for each batch of seeds :woohoo: Things are recovering quite well from their fimmings, there is this little KC lady that had been drooped, it seems these runner up autos are flowering MUCH quicker than the previous autos currently in flower, the small little lady is giving it her all, everything is swingin'. I will be transplanting all of the Blackberries into larger pots probably next week :partyboy: On a more serious note, I found 2 worms today, I was looking through some of the leaflets and I saw something had been munching holes in the leaves, I immediately began scouring the area for the little buggers, since they're green because they're filled with all that chlorophyll (unless they've been munching trichome ridden ones, they look golden), so they blend in and its hard to see them, I got my handy-dandy ice pick and went to town. This was the fastest little worm I'd ever seen, the thing immediately sprinted towards the leaf edge and popped off a silk line and traversed down a leaf-layer or two, it was so fast I lost site of him, I had to take a small break and ponder. I realized there could not be only 1 worm, it is very unlikely when one egg hatches that there is only one, success is in numbers for a species, anyhow I looked and looked and finally I saw this worm stucking up off a leaf, a different one, I picked it up and it and fell to the ground out of my fingers. Low and behold it fell onto the other worm that I was looking for on the dirt! I squished both of them with the same sandal. :party: So I'd call today a victory in my book, the big fast worm I was after was in the process of putting up a silk bed in the airy pheno sub-cola, I am just so very lucky this was only a looper and not a borer. The loopers saliva does not cause mold as the borers saliva does. The KC's have responded well to their new bat guano, and will get another nice dose of it this weekend, hopefully with this I can get the airy pheno to tighten up as much as she can, I can tell she really wants to fill in, and the Sativa in her is really making them take a long time to finish their flowers properly. Although there is plenty of medicine on the plants if I were to harvest now, they are just not ready for proper vaping, as you can see with the some of the flowers there is still a lot of progress to be made. I think things are going according to schedule for the most part:thumb:
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:Namaste:
 
your plants look great! you should give em all a feeding and see what happens :thumb:

I love how that one girl is stacking her flowers.
 
:surf:ed In to see this! Great looking pictures Lester! A garden of beauty. I'm glad you not only got the one worm, but was able to get the other one also! You're very vigilant and determined to keep your garden as pest free as possible!
 
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