Spring '17

sandhill larry

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So you've grown some of them before as a spring crop. Do you notice them being stretchier or more leafy because of the day length getting longer? I'm guessing you're probably in USDA Zone 9 to pull off the spring crop? Lots of questions, thanks for sharing.
Never done this before, so I don't know if the weather will let me or not. They are stretching pretty good though.

I'm right near Interstate 10 as far as location. Pretty far north in Florida. The locals call this area LA for Lower Alabama.
 

sandhill larry

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Never done this before, so I don't know if the weather will let me or not. They are stretching pretty good though.

I'm right near Interstate 10 as far as location. Pretty far north in Florida. The locals call this area LA for Lower Alabama.
I made seeds from full season plants of Bag Seed Testers 1 &2 and from my Jack Carlos Cross strain last year. This past fall was where my info is coming from on those.
 

sandhill larry

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The STL is in a wet, bog like location, so it doesn't get as cold. Here is the Tray Jumper I planted for Sister. It looked pretty rough. All the rest are in a similar location, so they might have got touched up some. I didn't get the chance to check on them. I have at least ten days without cold, so I hope they will be a little tougher by the time I get more cold.

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sandhill larry

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Just wondering.... Why did you plant so early?
I'm trying my first Spring crop. You veg the young plants for a month or so, then set them out with enough time {I hope} to finish flowering before the nights get too short, and they start to re-veg. Most do it further south or under a greenhouse, but I'm rolling the dice. The upside is not as many bugs, shorter growing season, so less carrying water, and not having folks thinking about anyone crazy enough to be growing dope this time of the year. The down side is frost and about the most you hope to harvest is an ounce or so per plant. But all it is costing me is time and money. I hope to get some good crosses out of it too.
 

sandhill larry

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They better be done by mid May, or they'll reveg.
I don't think I have that long on the Jack Carlos Cross crosses. They were the last to flower, so they should be the first to re-veg. Early to mid April is about as far as I can take them. The Big & Stinky X CP1's should be a week or so later, and the BST1's , 2's and their crosses {Hurricane Head, Little Sister, etc...} should be another week behind them. All the new strains would just be a guess.
 
I'm trying my first Spring crop. You veg the young plants for a month or so, then set them out with enough time {I hope} to finish flowering before the nights get too short, and they start to re-veg. Most do it further south or under a greenhouse, but I'm rolling the dice. The upside is not as many bugs, shorter growing season, so less carrying water, and not having folks thinking about anyone crazy enough to be growing dope this time of the year. The down side is frost and about the most you hope to harvest is an ounce or so per plant. But all it is costing me is time and money. I hope to get some good crosses out of it too.
Hey man its me again.... The spot I was going to grow in was on the side of a field by a hidden lake and I was going to blend the plants in with ferns and stuff untill I realized it sometimes gets mowed once a year and I've seen helicopters in the area.... .... Well my question is.... How much sun do the plants actually need... Cause my next option is to plant in the swamp in an elevated platform eliminating people and when the summer floods come the plants will be safe.... But there are lots of trees around and I'm wondering if my plan will work.... How much sun do they really need..... And direct sun? Let me know what y'all think
 

ttystikk

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Hey man its me again.... The spot I was going to grow in was on the side of a field by a hidden lake and I was going to blend the plants in with ferns and stuff untill I realized it sometimes gets mowed once a year and I've seen helicopters in the area.... .... Well my question is.... How much sun do the plants actually need... Cause my next option is to plant in the swamp in an elevated platform eliminating people and when the summer floods come the plants will be safe.... But there are lots of trees around and I'm wondering if my plan will work.... How much sun do they really need..... And direct sun? Let me know what y'all think
I've heard of people growing it in trees.
 
I have a few tree stands myself a 10 gallon smart sack will produce between a 1/2 & 3/4 LB
WOW that is genious....!!! Hmmm very interesting man I freaking love that idea dude.... Hmmm very interesting I am learning alot! 2 more things.... When flowering and the bud actually growing.... How much does it smell??? Like is it a really really noticible pugnent smell.... Where people may go exploring for it.... Or is it very mild if any? And my other question is when elevated how is the moisture of the soil?? Does gravity pull more water out of it???
 

MrRoboto

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You would need to water pretty regularly I would imagine. The pot would be exposed on all sides for evaporation. The hanging baskets on my porch need watering once a day during some stretches of summer.

Smell is probably going to be pretty pungent. Being elevated in a tree may reduce that, I don't know, but I've done some checking on this type of thing. The drawback for me was the fact you either need to rig up a way to pump water up the tree to the pot or a pulley system to lower the pot so you can water on the ground. Because of those problems it didn't seem "stealth" to me, so I scratched the idea of tree growing.

Best of luck though. If you figure it out, give me an update.
 
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