2023 Outdoor Plants Only Show & Tell

[SoOrbudgal]

Did you read my reply on your post #42? Yes once they begin to flower they will need darkness for at least 12hrs. If you don't they will revert back to vegging and grow will get F-up they will quit flowering and start making leaf where there are buds forming it's a real mess to deal with it's happened to me several times in the past. Your cover must of been blocking out the suns rays and the plants thought hey it's time to find a boyfriend and began to flower looking for pollen. Look at your sunrise and sunset length of hours for your town. You may get by without the cover if daylight where your at is less than 14hrs where your plants sit. Less than that they could get confused and revert back. Ya get me?

 

[SoOrbudgal]

This is what it will look like when a plant changes back from flower to vegitation it was do to placing them outdoors at the wrong time, too early not long enough sunlight.

 

[Bowhunterwoody]

Happy 4th everyone.The sunset is still going. No rot yet. She needs some damn sun. So do the two photos. They're getting lanky reaching for light. The sunset is on day 79 but has a while to go. She's almost all milky but looks like she needs a couple weeks. Still drinking normally too. Raining again today. Dew pts in the 70s. Guess pretty much everyone country wide has some weather challenges these days. Some things seem to like this weather.

 

[Rwise]

Weather cant make up its mind, hot and dry or cool and wet, heres pics from this morning. Pic 1 is the 8 Ball kush, she's coming along nicely pic 2 is the Colombian purple, pics 3 4 5 is my own cross tween Berryfreak and Santa Marta Colombian Gold (getting fragrant) last pic is another pair of my crosses (must have lost the auto attribute) the girl on the left is flowering fair now and needs some yellowing leaves removed. They should not be flowering yet as my days are still over 14 hours, I have found a few bud worms while doing the grasshopper inspections (any hopper caught is divided), a few other bugs as well, but so far only 1 bore worm found.

 

[SoOrbudgal]

Happy 4th back to ya. 100f here today it's scary dry. Listening to weather in the east says thunder storms and rain, bad for weed great for the other stuff. I just got done watering everything think i'm gonna drag the photos into a shady spot for afternoon. These black plastic pots take xtra care when it's this hot. These autos are giving me a fit outside slowww go for some reason. I'm really thinking about bringing them indoors in a tent/light just to quit my torture of seeing such slow progress. I will do it once this last OG kush is finished up in the tent.

 

[Rwise]

The Scarlet Grapes filled 3 Quart jars.

 

[SoOrbudgal]

Well you got bushy trees this year. I was reading that the purple strains are more resistant to that HLVD scientists have found. Not that you got it just a bit of info. Man you all got some wild weather going we don't see any rain in sight. I kinda hope flower starts in a few weeks here and be done by late Sept. wishful thinking. I'm going to move my 4 outdoor autos indoors when that 80+ day old OG gets cut. I'm frustraited by the slowness of them taking too long. No bugs or worms yet around mine but i do see them little moths now and then so it's coming. No grasshoppers either.

 

[Going2fast]

She is purdy. I see clematis and bleeding heart. What's the red flower?

 

[Bowhunterwoody]

That's an Astilbe. And some strawberries that got away from me all around it. That part of the garden seems to be doing fine with this shitty weather.

 

[crucialbunny]

This seasons plants all have just hit the 36 inch mark. The Freaks are caught up
with the GSC's, Vanilla Frosting, and Purple Punch now and looking happy. Had
to yank my one and only OG Kush when it was determined that she was in fact a he.
It's been nearly perfect growing weather here in S. California the past few weeks.
Morning overcast followed by sunny skies in the afternoon. A bit cramped under the
netting but I've been diligent at trimming to get the light in there.

 

[90Gizmo]

The girls grew another inch or two overnight. Almost afraid of the next few days as we are expecting full sun for a change. They'll have two feet of headroom once I get them off the shelves. After that or sooner I'll have to start bending them. Gave them grow plus 1/4 flower nutes today.

Up potted my tomatoes. These are funny ones I've never grown. One red, one yellow and one bicolor. The nursery told me they were all slicing tomatoes so I'm hopeful of a new sandwich experience. They are a bit ratty now so I hope they have some veg left in them to get bigger.

Glad I googled before I divided the lavender. I read they have a single woody main root that dies if split. I've starting to read and look for instructions much more that I did when younger, so far with good effect.

 

[Bluey]

Coming along nicely Giz.
Will you put those into the middle of the grow area to give you more headroom for them and access to both sides or is it more important that you can walk down the middle and not hit your head on the steel frame of bolts holding it together?

 

[Rwise]

Scarlet Sunset, 2 quarts

 

[Rwise]

Lookin good!

 

[Rwise]

Nice, and much room to grow!

 

[90Gizmo]

Bluey - The nuts are 2" over my head and are six feet off the ground. I'm going to try putting the center of the plant six inches or a foot to the right of center. The ceiling is practically the same height there and that will give me more room to work on the other side to. I'll get by this year and grow smaller plants next year.

 

[90Gizmo]

Rwise - Thank you! I'm having a lot of fun with this. I won't get enough veggies to make a big deal but we've grown a lot of spices and I look forward that next year. This is a 3+3 state so I never needed that much room but the 15' was on sale for $10 USD more than the 10' so it seemed like a good idea at the time.

 

[Bluey]

They look like they are well into their stretch so you might get lucky and not have them grow through the roof in there final resting place; but the cold nights and hot days might stuff that theory up.
Is that white tank your nute tank?

 

[90Gizmo]

Bluey ... white tank. Probably not even plain water (which was what I was thinking.) That's my fermentation vessel and I'm going to put that back were it belongs. For now I'm mixing one-offs with hose water in the orange bucket and not worrying about letting the water set 24 hours or whatever. I'll get something opaque when I'm ready for unattended watering.

 

[90Gizmo]

​​​​​​I got my plants off of the shelf and now they have a bit of headroom. And room for me to train them if needed. There's also room to get between them to reach the new shelf for my smaller plants.

Just barely, pistals are starting to appear at a few nodes. New growth are appearing at the same nodes so maybe that means some big colas will form?

Looks like I have a day off from plant emergencies to work on electrical. The new 4000 CFM fan is in and doing be a great job keeping inside temps close to outside temps. About 2 to 4 degrees so far vs 10 to 15 degrees with the little box fan.