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**SoOrbudgal** · 10-01-2023, 11:41 AM

Good Sunday morning ya'll it's a cool 40f at my place this morning. Weather says in the 70s for today so these are my last 3 outdoor that need somemore time. These sit under the patio cover i can't fit them in the small greenhouse now because i moved all my pots with succulents in it and i'm storing the used 10-15gal pots still with soil in there. I plan on using some of the old soil for next year but most will go in my raised garden beds in the spring. What a good summer grow so far for me. Thought we'd seen the last of sunshine do to all the rain we just had but looks like this week we'll still be having sun. I'm done moving these into the direct sun so these get maybe 4hrs where there at. My back is feeling the lifting of those terra cotta pots so are my fingers and hands from trimming 4 of the plants saturday an this morning. Taking it easy today go to a farmers market later. I'm not seeing any mold nor bud rot and so i'll maybe harvest the pretty purple one Tuesday but the last 2 green ones need at least 2wks LOL

**Franklin** · 10-01-2023, 10:34 PM

Well I brought the small volunteer plant inside about a week ago to avoid rot but saw a bit of it on there today so chopped the whole thing. Also saw rod on my outdoor plant today so chopped that one as well. The one I brought inside was basically done so I'm happy with that, but the one outside was pretty much still all white pistols. Maybe I'll just turn it into hash or something I don't know. I got to tell you, the smell on both of these is pretty amazing, the volunteer one is just like fresh sliced oranges, beats you over the head with it. I think next year I'm going to stick to auto flowers for my outside grow, this is just too much heartbreak.

**homegrown** · 10-02-2023, 10:53 PM

Yikes- feel like I'm flirting with disaster but the girls need more time. Unseasonably warm temps right now. Start the week in the 80s and we'll be in the low 50s by the weekend. Not much rain to speak of, just the normal pests...WPM and swarms of fruit flies. I actually have ladybugs flying to my plants...eating gooey fruit flies i assume. The plant in the middle is the re-veg girl. I dont think i have enough time to get things back in step. She is back to flowering but the main cola and a few upper colas have stretched out and started a bunch of new flowers with fluffy white pistils. Another month maybe? May have to finish in the garage.

**Ckbrew** · 10-03-2023, 01:36 PM

The final days are 83* in October. Two more days of sun then the rain returns. That will be it for these. Winter is coming. There are so many acorns falling from the trees the ground is littered with them. If you look close you can see them on the ground. The neighbor has a steel roof that gets pelted. Sounds like fireworks. The last sun of the season...

A close up of mold on the main stem. I coat it with 34% peroxide on a q-tip daily. It is burning the stem bad but idc, only has to last a few more days, yeah- a few more days.

**changeofpace2014** · 10-05-2023, 06:48 AM

(s.c x c.c.k x b.b.) cross at harvest and a b.b.

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**90Gizmo** · 10-05-2023, 01:58 PM

Harvesting. I've got 3 pounds (wet) so far not counting the trim and popcorn. Not a great yield but or was a very weird summer. Stuff I've previewed had been very good.

**Smallgrow** · 10-05-2023, 06:33 PM

Over the last few years I’ve gotten in pretty deep with this hobby, I’m totally addicted to growing.

I have a small but nice 4x3’x80” tent , with lots of bells and whistles.
A dedicated dry tent with “lung room”,
and a separate nursery space ….I’m lucky.

but this is where I officially go off the deep end.
I just built a greenhouse on my roof 😆

Weathers been great, it’s a bumper year,
but with forecast of 40-80 mm (1.5-3”) of rain over the next 5 days I had to do something, right?

The bud shot is one of the slower girls. She and her buddy will be last, and they defiantly need time still.

**Rwise** · 10-06-2023, 08:08 AM

The pic is 2 days old, 50* this morning, 40* predicted for in the morning, I could get my first frost! I am going to take the chance that I will stay just above the frost point. By the time I want to take this girl down the drying room should be ready for her to hang in. The ladder is so I can take care of the top of the plant, I have been just pulling it over to check it, but she is quit brittle at this point and I dont want to break her over. Just had about 2" of rain, hoping for dry for a couple of weeks now, them maybe chop chop!
The 8 ball kush I left all the larf on is still being hit by bud worms, and so far they are leaving this Colombian Purple alone. With fewer buds its easier to find the worms and kill them.
Harvest had been so good this year I may not grow anything next year, maybe a Freakshow or 2 just for fun.

**homegrown** · 10-06-2023, 11:36 PM

The next few weeks have highs in the low 50's and nights in the low 40's and rain. So i checked the buds with my scope and all 3 look pretty ripe. Even the re-veg girl. Should i keep them out till the rain starts or just cull them now? whatchall think?

**Ckbrew** · 10-08-2023, 12:51 PM

Throwing in the towel, defeat achieved.

I fought the rot and the rot won. I even have not watered in an effort to dry them out. It just wasn't going to happen. The rot is one with these. Additionally WPM has set in and is covering the plants by the hour. There are about 20% of the small buds that do not have some sort of infection. If 80% is infected, that means that I can't see the other 20% yet but it is probably there. What is there is small and airy. The tall plants lost about 40% to rot pruning and the short one about 60%. Not worth the effort of cutting, trimming, drying and curing.

Anyway, part of this experiment was to see if there was a difference in yield by not topping, topping, and manifolding. The test was a bit skewed because the manifolded plant is about 5 weeks older than the other two. The best result was topping once.

This is why I have decided that outdoor growing where I am is just not practical. If I was going to attempt it in the future, I would light deprive the plants to flip to bloom much earlier than what nature would do. That would require moving the plants twice a day for the duration of bloom.

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**SoOrbudgal** · 10-08-2023, 03:14 PM

Yes it's time to call it over with. Last few days of sun helped tighten up an ripen up best they could. These are my final 2 and the biggest unknown strains from old bag seed. I've seen some stem rot like the other growers have now so i'm just taking the largest cola buds to hang the rest i'm giving away probley close to a pound. Told the person they will have to deal with all the trimming and drying but i'll cut the branches. I can't describe how oily an sticky whatever these are. It would make perfect stuff for " smashing " which i'm pretty sure they wanna do that LOL. I'm burnt out of growing for now. Had a real good season but i feel the change in the seasons and the need to wrap up Croptober.

Until next outdoor season i'm done growing for this year, not sure but i don't think i will need to grow even indoor for awhile. I'll be here at GWE checking in but not growing. Thanks to all who took on this challenge of growing outdoors. I'm looking forward to the cure on all these different strains. See ya all soon, stay safe and well. Yep these are sticky buds

**SoOrbudgal** · 10-10-2023, 07:58 AM

LOL I don't think so Franklin This is my first time saying i'm burnt out on growing, harvesting and especially trimming OMG 3 sets of scissors i went through and 1 1/2 bottles of ISO 70%. I'm clipping branches today and putting them into brown paper bags for giveaway. It's been a journey doing it on my own. I learned not to do so much ever again, i got lucky this season.

**Smallgrow** · 10-12-2023, 06:36 AM

Sorry to hear about all you folks with rot and mould problems, it seems to be a boom or bust kind of year.

Me and the roof girls are still fighting the fight. I found two buds so far on two of four plants with rot but they were small and contained(and got removed quickly).
Otherwise, they are okay. We had a tonne of rain but the roof did it’s job now weather looks to be clearing but temps and low so hopefully they can still do their thing.
I expect a halloween harvest if I can make it 🥶

**homegrown** · 10-14-2023, 01:13 AM

I surrendered....nature was not my friend this year. Lost half the main cola on Gusher to bud rot

and trimmed off almost all of the lower buds on all 3 plants...nothing but bugs,wpm and yuck. White widow and Sour diesel(smells really nice, kinda fruity) had nice main colas.....and clean too! Maybe 3/4 lb of bud when its dry. Trimming was tough on scissors...had to clean them constantly and i had 4 in my arsenal.

**Rwise** · 10-14-2023, 08:28 AM

I cut down the largest part of the Colombian purple, looked around and found these, time to go walk about here on the farm!

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