I saw that you found the info while I was typing up my comments about your earlier question. I am running an after the grow journal so I have the photos that were taken over the next couple of days. After I do some cropping and resizing of the rest of the photos I will start posting them in chronological order and continuing with the story.
I was somewhat surprised at what happened at the end.
Love this topic: It combines stealth needs for outdoor growing with the issue of what to do to take the edge off a sudden bite of frost. A useful discussion for growers of late-flowering sativas.
Amen. I didn't see a frost warning, but I checked the local weather every day this season. In the last week of October, we started a sudden decline from temps in the high 60s F down into the mid- and lower 30s. The temperatures have been consistently hovering between 30 and 40 F ever since. It happens every year at some point, but some years are kinder and gentler and more gradual than others and this year was neither kind nor gentle.
I guess a fan moving the air to prevent frost is a good short-term immediate solution. For the night of a predicted frost, you need to take the edge off the biting cold. But what if you need to keep the plant alive and flowering for several more weeks? Is there a solution other than bringing her into a warmer space? Preventing frost is an immediate goal, not a long-term one for the last month of flowering.
The Arjan's Haze #1 (known to be a late-flowering strain) was already completely enclosed in a glass greenhouse on November 2 (she had been grown "outdoors" in a 3-sided plastic lean-to since mid-May wiith 9 hours of direct sun all summer long). But since the steep drop in early November, even the glass greenhouse offers no warmth on overcast days. So I installed a heater in the greenhouse for her and she is doing pretty well, even when it freezes outside it is in the mid-60s F inside. On sunny days the temperature in there rises suddenly into the low- and even mid-80s F and I try to reduce the temperature inside to a more late-flowering-friendly level around 70 F.
As seen below, AH#1 obviously needs to flower as long as she can into November. The first 2 photos, taken November 1, show she had, finally, started flowering (as late as October 1 she had no pistils). But wow what a long ways to go still.
Here the first two photos taken November 1:
This close-up was taken yesterday.
So hey, late-flowering sativa-growers, please give me your experience: Do I have any hope of her getting ripe within 10 days or so? Has she "entered the window" in your experience? How much longer do you think she needs? Not exactly looking forward to the electric bill, but after all the effort of growing her all summer I am not giving up until I can at least sample a ripe bud of Arjan's Haze #1.
Cheers and thanks!
Emeraldo
... I already have the answer to your question.
I dropped the "fat" because some people might get upset and I already cause enough trouble on the internet. Just ask my wife.
I really think so. That was one of the surprises. How healthy the buds stayed, actually how healthy the plants stayed the whole time while the average temperatures for day and night continued to drop. Several minutes of reading a few results of a web search told me that there should not be any real problem with frost. I extrapolated that to light snows not being a problem.
I just found one. So far, any way.Seeds?
Overripe, maybe. These two Papayas were half of a seed planting run of 4 seeds. All 4 germinated and produced healthy small plants. I kept them growing in the basement room. Eventually 2 of them started to show pistils and after a couple of weeks they were definitely pre-flowering on a regular basis. By then I had cut a few clones off of each of the 4. I took the two plants outside and put them in an area near where the photos were taken. I had been invited to bring a couple plants up to a medical grow about 30 miles north in exchange for helping out in prepping the fenced in grow area.I'm not trying to jump too far ahead in your story, but aren't the plants now overripe? THC will deteriorate if a ripe plant is left unharvested too long, as you must know. Why have you waited a month after the plants were ready? Is there some special reason? This is a suspenseful story...
