2023 Outdoor Plants Only Show & Tell

[SoOrbudgal]

Gawwwd i feel ya with the motivation crap. Don't feel bad about the solos. My outdoor ones are not as great growing like in past years, I guess i'm glad now that i got abit carried away as many as i grew cause they are so far wayyyy under performing. I'm gonna hit them with 20-20-20 NPK water solulable organic stuff a fellow grower gave me a baggie of. Maybe it will kick start them or maybe kill them LOL just kidding.

[SoOrbudgal]

Geeze GreenState what a sheety grow season already cold in the a.m. Yes mine are getting slowed also do to extreme heat an windy. I think frankly now that i OVER watered all of them in the last month. Mine look like crap compared to Bowhunterwoody plants. I too picked up from a friend some Mendo ferts. I was given a baggie of 20-20-20 read all the goodies on the 40# sack it's organic crap. He said 1 teaspoon per gallon of water yes it's dry mix carmel colored. I'm gonna give it a go tomorrow morning. I've always been to dang cautious feeding high amounts of NPK but what the heck mine are loosing leaf to yellowing daily.

[90Gizmo]

I'm training all three plants onto the net now. An working on recovering from deficiencies. Top dressing with slow drippers are a non starter, maybe sprayers solve that problem. I've compared the buds to typical and I guess about 4+ weeks into bud. Expect 10 weeks so I'm running out of summer. Having a heat tolerant strain during the heat wave was nice but now I'll h have to have pot warmers before this grow is over.

[johnb1963]

Hello gal, I appreciate the kind words. It's been 90 to 100 degrees for the month. It did cool down last weekend as the storm rolled through. I moved the girls under my covered patio to keep them out of the rain. Going to to be 90 again next week. I don't keep them on the concrete. They sit on a rod iron stand which is mostly all open on the bottom, so they get plenty of air underneath. You can see it on the first pic. I'll post again as as progress.

[GreenState]

Looking good! Both your's and Ckbrew 's plants are looking far more vigorous than mine.
My plants never really recovered from my time away on vacation. Also believe this is the time of year where small containers become problematic. Still keeping my fingers crossed and hoping for at least moderate production. Have decided to feed them 1/2 grow/1/2 flower nutes for the next few weeks. Only positive news is my slow poke plant has finally decided to flower, maybe it will surprise me.
47 degrees here this AM

[Ckbrew]

The outdoor grow is progressing. Flowers appeared a week or two ago. The way they are now, if they were tent plants I would want them to go 6 or 7 more weeks. By that time it will be way to cold for plants outside, and it will be very wet every night. Like that is any different this year. I am contemplating putting the manifolded plant back inside since the other plants are finished. Idk if I really want to do that. I would be bringing the bugs inside the area that I try and keep as sterile as possible.



And then there are the outdoor solos. Not much left of these. Total root lock. This season is winding down. No motivation to save them...

[Bowhunterwoody]

Well we've had a few days of sun. Plants are doing ok. Starting to yellow at the bottom pretty quick for this stage of flower. Might need to bump the N on the next feed. Two gallons each every other day feeding every other watering when I actually have too. Seems like it rains every day or two with inches of rain. Still no wpm. 🤞

[Bowhunterwoody]

Glad to here you made out ok. Crazy weather all over this year.

[crucialbunny]

The sun is out and it's a gorgeous day. Gave the girls a once over in the wake of Hillary and zero damage. Never had winds
over 18mph in my neck of the woods. Kinda disappointed in this years outdoor grow. Plants are really healthy but they just
didn't reach the typical size of previous grows. Last year the Freaks hit well over 8 feet and this year it's more like 4. I'm also
experiencing a much earlier flower. One of my 3 GSC is already in full bud now. My Purple Punch is the only plant that seems
on schedule. All I can figure is that all the May gray and June gloom we had here in So Cal disrupted the normal pattern. The
smaller sized plants combined with having my OG Kush turn out to be a him will definitely impact my yield this season. The
screen house is doing its job nicely and I haven't found a single insect or bird poo on them. While the netting was up I decided
to give them all a feeding of banana/kelp/molasses tea. They're looking a bit shaggy so later today I plan giving some haircuts.

[SoOrbudgal]

Hello johnb1963 I've done nearly the same with all of mine except for the Freak Show strain. Same here hot hot and smoky on some days. It's feeling alittle like fall here in so. oregon in the mornings. Weather is slightly cooling only in the low 90's now. The work you've done will in my opinion greatly help the out come an health of the plant. I think she looks very good for such a small pot even better than mine in the 15gal plastic. I'm going to buy some 5gal fabric all i got is 3gal fabric. You've given great care and it shows. Did you get much rain an wind? Sure looks good if you did. Having cement is a furnice on hot days, you may want to set her in a shallow box with soil so that it doesn't reflect heat on bottom. My pots sit on my dead lawn LOL

[johnb1963]

Hello my friends,
was trying to grow a small plant outdoors, but here in socal its tough because its to damm hot. Sleepy joe is not to sleepy she just keeps growing. I have topped every branch and even lollipoped some of the lower branches. She's in a 5 gal. Fabric pot an 5 feet tall, and with at least another month to go I'm stressing about root issues. With this heat she's drinking 1 gallon a day. Wish me luck!

[Bluey]

..... and they appeared to be going really well. This is why I have had enough of growing these wonderful plants outdoors. Shit happens you cannot do anything about and the last 4 years the weather has been adverse to successful grows.

Next it will be global spidermite or some other plagues, hold on, climate change is here!

[Going2fast]

Beach freaks are flowering. Lost a bastard and most of the other. Friend in Florida had his do the same thing. Started flowering late June, began reveg then just keeled over. Me thinks bastards aren't good candidates for clones.

[90Gizmo]

Strawberry Cough claims such traits as well as being heat tolerant. But to hear Kushman talk about SC I think it's also stronger than a locomotive and able to leap tall building in a single bound as well.

[WolfMansBrother]

Ckbrew & @Rwise

I notice resistance to mold as a selling feature in the marketing copy on various sites - This one particularly caught my attention:

https://therealseedcompany.com/product/kalamata-red-heirloom-landrace-cannabis-seeds/

And I asked ChatGPT - -its training dataset must have contained references to similar. Confirmation bias? It offered up a list of strains. Frisian Duck sounded promising. Along with Durban Poison & Northern Lights.

Too bad such a strain is just wishful thinking...