Another arrow in the quiver for sure. I kind of take what I get since it's hard for me to control humidity and temps, but for those that can it sounds promising.
Stunger's Organic Soil Stealth Balcony: Landrace Mulanje & Other Sativas
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marcus611a
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Miss Krissi is a beast!
Cide Hamete Benengeli
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The balcony is on the first floor.
It is away from the street, but when the neighbours have visitors who gather outside their door talking when leaving the people are only 20 feet or so from the plants. I had a close call last grow, I went to got out on the balcony to check the girls when at the last second before I opened the bi-fold doors I noticed 3 dudes on the neighbour's roof treating it for moss. They were so close to seeing, but as they were more concerned with keeping their footing on the pitched roof, so I got away with it. I thought at the time it would have made a great photo, 3 workman earnestly carrying out their jobs while a pound and half of buds was just a few feet from them in the open air! The balcony rail planter boxes tend to give a distracted visual from any the buds that peeking above or thru.(...)
He, he, he...
....Well, imagine the scene, when the municipal gardeners went to prune this large Canary Islands palm tree that grows on a sidewalk on a public street, and when the lifting platform raised them to the top, they discovered my friend "Capi" behind his wall in flip flops and underpants sitting on a beach chair surrounded by the strange giant tomato plants that grow every year in the small garden of his humble patio...
Palm tree without pruning
Pruned palm tree
¡ Salud !
That’s pretty damn impressive!!! Wow!!He, he, he...
....Well, imagine the scene, when the municipal gardeners went to prune this large Canary Islands palm tree that grows on a sidewalk on a public street, and when the lifting platform raised them to the top, they discovered my friend "Capi" behind his wall in flip flops and underpants sitting on a beach chair surrounded by the strange giant tomato plants that grow every year in the small garden of his humble patio...
Palm tree without pruning
Pruned palm tree
¡ Salud !
That Tropical sun sure grows some beautiful plants. I always thought that the Florida sun would do the same although it’s not completely Tropical. CLHe, he, he...
....Well, imagine the scene, when the municipal gardeners went to prune this large Canary Islands palm tree that grows on a sidewalk on a public street, and when the lifting platform raised them to the top, they discovered my friend "Capi" behind his wall in flip flops and underpants sitting on a beach chair surrounded by the strange giant tomato plants that grow every year in the small garden of his humble patio...
Palm tree without pruning
Pruned palm tree
¡ Salud !
Florida sun could be a lot worse! It works pretty well…That Tropical sun sure grows some beautiful plants. I always thought that the Florida sun would do the same although it’s not completely Tropical. CL
Is that where you grow? My X-Wife is in St.Pete I was thinking about sending her some seeds. CL
This might be a stupid question but how can you grow outdoors with a photo if the sunlight is 12/12? How does it not go into flowering? CL
You grow auto's.This might be a stupid question but how can you grow outdoors with a photo if the sunlight is 12/12? How does it not go into flowering? CL
I’m in Bonita Springs, just south of St Pete. I veg at either 24/0 or 20/4 (if I share the veg tent with an auto) under LED. For the flip to 12/12 I put them outside to live and they flower in the natural 12/12 of outside.This might be a stupid question but how can you grow outdoors with a photo if the sunlight is 12/12? How does it not go into flowering? CL
Gotcha, you threw me off with your GJ title Winter Outdoors Grow. I drove a truck in Florida I delivered to every KMart from Central Fl. to the Keys. CL
Hey Jon I was wondering do you have any problems with bud rot or mold with the humidity? CL
Damn I miss Mad Bch I used to fish for Snook @ John’s Pass and get fresh of the boats Grouper sandwiches @ Dockside Dave’s. Picked up beaucoup females @ Gator’s bar +grill on the Pass. Great times! lol CL
Cide Hamete Benengeli
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That Tropical sun sure grows some beautiful plants. I always thought that the Florida sun would do the same although it’s not completely Tropical. CL
Oh, this is very far from the tropics; much more than Florida... This is approximately 39° North, very far from the sea, and between 700 and 900 meters above its level.
Hey @CaptainLucky - the first time I tried it here it was late winter when I started and the grow went well into the spring. It gets much more humid at that point, and yes, I wouldn’t exactly say I had consistent issues but there were some. The denser buds I had suffered a little. This grow began a while ago and the last palant is up. It’s only humid overnight now and even that’s not too bad. I’m hoping it won’t be an issue this time.Hey Jon I was wondering do you have any problems with bud rot or mold with the humidity? CL
Cide Hamete Benengeli
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Update - testing out some 16 day old immature Mulanje seeds - will they pop??
Greetings 420 enthusiasts! Earlier in this season's grow I had a lovely Mulanje which I managed to completely ruin. It was 1 of 4 balcony girls that I selectively pollinated on the 7th March. The other 3 have all done well, but the poor Mulanje met an early demise from suspected excess top dressing, altho I also suspect that I may have over watered it also. At the end of it's life I gave it a 150L flush as desperate attempt to restore it, it didn't, but it was a somewhat funny thing to be doing on my first day of having covid, but still, I had to try and save her. It didn't work, and after 3 more days of looking more dead than alive I chopped her, that was on the 23rd March, just 16 days later. So will her 16 day old seeds be viable? They are not dark, they have no nice stripes, they look pretty sad and pale to what we would prefer to see.
5 random seeds from a deteriorating and chopped Mulanje that was pollinated 16 days earlier
A fellow grower from my island in the sea, @Jungle Joseph, recently commented on a 'white' seed of his that he was wondering if it would sprout. His comment prompted me to realise that I have a heap of white immature Mulanje seeds that I can test out.
So, I soaked them for about 18 hours in water with about 20% by volume of 6% H2O2 (I have used both less and more before with no noticeable adverse difference)
After 1 day
After 2 days
After 3 days - 2 have sprouted!!
So who would have picked it? 16 day old seeds and 2 sprouted already after 3 days, maybe another 1 or 2 more will do so too? I must say, I wasn't very confident, so I am a bit surprised. Now I just need to consider what I'm going to do with the sprouts??
<edit> It is the evening of the 3rd day here, and I now notice a 3rd seed has sprouted, so for the record...
<further edit> Camera is recharged, 4th sprout showing by the end of the day!
Thanks for dropping in!
Well, this year 2022, a curious thing happened to me (at least I had never seen it, and I thought it would only be possible in the hottest and most humid areas): I have a hybrid of two pure sativas (King Congo: Congo Point Noire x South African Ciskei) that after 2 months without care or supervision, developed a few male flowers on a pair of small buds (about the size of a thumb) from which they grow isolated on the lower and shady branches, near the stem. major; some nearby buds have pollinated a little bit, and this past December 7th I found that some seeds were germinating inside their buds...
Greetings from, I think, your exact antipodes.
Thanks for the info and good luck. CL
Cide Hamete Benengeli
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Hey, Sir!
Surely you are the Tangwena that I know... How is everything going in your Southern Hemisphere? Health good? Fishing well? Are you growing any weeds? I don't ask you about the cobs, because I'm sure you still have luxury, heh.
Say hello for me when you talk to my adoptive cousin Hombre del Monte, and another warm greeting to you, with the best wishes for health and luck.
The only plants that consistently hermied on me were from a batch of seeds of unnamed wild African sativas. Might be a thing with those.
Bummer Bro. CL