Popped 65 seeds April 8,put under a Spider Farmer LED w/heat mats,really good germ rate,wanted to plant outside today but this week weather not inspiring me.also just saw the MFKN ground hog eating sunflower seeds for my feathered friends,delayed planting for next weekend as i'll get better growth under the light also have my habanero spray just made in case that ground hog gets interested,I love dogs/cats,most animals in general but hate FKN rodents they are destructive across the board and this ground hog seems to show up earlier ev. year,usually planted by now but these seedlings will be the biggest I've transplanted and I'm becoming a fan of starting things later as experience tells me what good is having plants out in cloudy/cold/shitty weather.We are almost there,good luck everybody.
2024 Massachusetts Outdoor Growers
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True story - about a year after I got this bitch sent over from Germany as a 9 week old pup, I was over at the neighbors having a beer. Guy says hey have you met the woodchucks? I said nope. Guy says they come right up on the lawn within ten feet of our elderly Portuguese Water Dog, no fear at all. I said yeah I dunno if they’d get the same reception in my yard…
A few days later my male German Shepherd starting barking his head off by the back door. Went to see what the commotion was.
It was then I met one of the woodchucks - she was eating it.
She’d stripped the skin off of the ribs, gobbled down the kidneys, liver and all the meat on one rack of ribs. She had blood dripping down her muzzle and was snarling at my male because she didn’t want to share. Fought me like a tiger when I tried to take it from her, too.
A week later I looked out the window and did a double-take when I saw her prancing with the second woodchuck hanging limply from her mouth.
Damn that bitch could hunt. Three time proven manstopper too. Lasted until she was 13 1/2, when her esophagus stopped working. Survived twice as long as the diagnosis said she would. Bitch hadn’t been able to keep any food down for ten days when I made the call to the vet. Tough as nails right to the end, walked a mile in the forest the day before she got the needles. In this pic she was 11, it was 93 out and we’d been playing ball for about a half hour -
A few days later my male German Shepherd starting barking his head off by the back door. Went to see what the commotion was.
It was then I met one of the woodchucks - she was eating it.
She’d stripped the skin off of the ribs, gobbled down the kidneys, liver and all the meat on one rack of ribs. She had blood dripping down her muzzle and was snarling at my male because she didn’t want to share. Fought me like a tiger when I tried to take it from her, too.
A week later I looked out the window and did a double-take when I saw her prancing with the second woodchuck hanging limply from her mouth.
Damn that bitch could hunt. Three time proven manstopper too. Lasted until she was 13 1/2, when her esophagus stopped working. Survived twice as long as the diagnosis said she would. Bitch hadn’t been able to keep any food down for ten days when I made the call to the vet. Tough as nails right to the end, walked a mile in the forest the day before she got the needles. In this pic she was 11, it was 93 out and we’d been playing ball for about a half hour -
stealthfader508
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@p59teitel @CCGNZ ... That's a beautiful dog, I'd hate to have her locked onto my forearm... but the way a loyal dog will protect a backyard always makes me proud. My two labs are all bark no bite so I employ a swifter way of dealing with thieving garden pests ... it arrives at about 1200 feet per second, and lands right behind the ear.
Had a big day today in the greenhouse, it was moving day... Everything got potted up into 3 gal bags. I used a mix of 70% compost/recycled soil, 15% fresh peat moss, 15% aged pine bark and a big scoop each wheel barrow of ground stone dust and plant-tone.
Tonight is their first night under the stars.... after a few hours of lights on. I rigged up painter lights to extend daylight to 10:40pm, to match the light schedule they've been on indoors (17on/7off). I'll dial this back over the next few weeks to land at 8:24pm which is sunset on 6/21 (summer solstice)... by 6/1 all will be in their final spots and I'll lose the lights.
I've identified 3 certain males so far, and left them in 1 gals for now. There's one super vigorous one that I really like so far (JW13) ... so I'll keep a close eye on how that one flowers indoors, but so far that's my keeper.
Indoors I moved all the clones up to the top shelf under the COBs. I stuck them on 4/12 and most look like they're ready to begin putting on new growth, and most likely have roots. I'll leave them under 17/7 for a few more days and flip them to flower on Wednesday (5/1).
Had a big day today in the greenhouse, it was moving day... Everything got potted up into 3 gal bags. I used a mix of 70% compost/recycled soil, 15% fresh peat moss, 15% aged pine bark and a big scoop each wheel barrow of ground stone dust and plant-tone.
Tonight is their first night under the stars.... after a few hours of lights on. I rigged up painter lights to extend daylight to 10:40pm, to match the light schedule they've been on indoors (17on/7off). I'll dial this back over the next few weeks to land at 8:24pm which is sunset on 6/21 (summer solstice)... by 6/1 all will be in their final spots and I'll lose the lights.
I've identified 3 certain males so far, and left them in 1 gals for now. There's one super vigorous one that I really like so far (JW13) ... so I'll keep a close eye on how that one flowers indoors, but so far that's my keeper.
Indoors I moved all the clones up to the top shelf under the COBs. I stuck them on 4/12 and most look like they're ready to begin putting on new growth, and most likely have roots. I'll leave them under 17/7 for a few more days and flip them to flower on Wednesday (5/1).
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It's been six nights outside and the plants have responded much better than I expected. I figured they would take some time to bounce back from being transplanted and going outside on the same day.... but they all took off right away. So much so that I pulled each one up onto the workbench and pruned them back hard, taking 3-6" off the top of each and removed any unnecessary growing shoots. The next few weeks are really important to build a good strong lower stem structure with good balance. I also super crop the lower limbs extensively, but i don't typically bend the limbs over... I'm just creating callouses up and down the limb... it really helps them to support themselves later with minimal trellising, if any at all.
The gas lantern technique is working as expected so far. I haven't seen any indications of premature flowering on any of them. The lights come on at 7pm and go off at 10:40 (natural sunset is about 7:45 right now)... tomorrow it'll be a week so I'll begin shutting the lights off at 10pm and then back them off by 30 mins every 7 days for the next couple weeks. After next week the supplemental lighting is probably unnecessary but I'll stick to the plan to avoid any shock from a big change in night hours they receive.
I also finally set up the drip irrigation zone to the vegetable beds. I've never used drip in the past and can't believe what a complete game changer this is going to be, why didn't I do this years ago? I'm using a wifi water controller so once it's dialed in it just runs and I can control it from anywhere... technology is just fkn incredible, I'm running drip everywhere on my property.
The gas lantern technique is working as expected so far. I haven't seen any indications of premature flowering on any of them. The lights come on at 7pm and go off at 10:40 (natural sunset is about 7:45 right now)... tomorrow it'll be a week so I'll begin shutting the lights off at 10pm and then back them off by 30 mins every 7 days for the next couple weeks. After next week the supplemental lighting is probably unnecessary but I'll stick to the plan to avoid any shock from a big change in night hours they receive.
I also finally set up the drip irrigation zone to the vegetable beds. I've never used drip in the past and can't believe what a complete game changer this is going to be, why didn't I do this years ago? I'm using a wifi water controller so once it's dialed in it just runs and I can control it from anywhere... technology is just fkn incredible, I'm running drip everywhere on my property.
Hey bro !!! what thing cover your greenhouse it? PE poly? because i want to buy some...and i want to ask... how much is block the sun. i scare its will block the sun to much and the bud will suffer and lack yield and potency?
stealthfader508
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It's 6 mil greenhouse plastic. It doesn't block out any sun. They do sell different shades of opacity if youre looking for some shading though... I would recommend some shading if you're in a super hot location to help keep the temps down.
Everything top notch on your end bro,I've been at this since 80's and the paranoia combined w/ over plant count still has me in stealth/gorilla mode,my boss at the golf course(young kid in his early 30's) just got 2 20 liter drums of Fish Shit if I'd have known that I wouldn't have bought 2 bottles,20 liters are $799 at Amazon,1st time I've seen it used on the golf course in 25 yrs.,maybe 50 lbs. drums of Recharge are next LOL.
That G. Shephard is awesome,one of the smartest breeds out there,I also have a powerful pellet gun when humane practice doesn't work as a last resort as I haven't had a dog since I lost my beloved Doby.
Plants starting to take off in the last week. Seeing some septoria so pulled a bunch of spotted lower leaves and sprayed with copper sulfate, hopefully the dry weather the next few days will help too. Bugs also doing some damage, will hit with Azamax spray later today, always a challenge…
Hope everyone’s garden is doing well. The Karakoram landraces had massive growth over the past month, 4 of them are taller than any previous plants have been at this time. I was hoping not to have crazy tall plants like last year but who knows -
The Tashqurghan are doing well too -
Ended up with a male and female Chitrali, the male produced flowers earlier than anything I’ve had before, I topped it a couple days ago to collect pollen -
Still getting some small amounts of Septoria on a couple of plants, but it’s nothing like it was last year. Starting to see caterpillars so some B.t. will be in order soon. They are nitrogen whores and are getting top-dressed cow manure and worm castings every couple of weeks, in addition to Pete’s Perfect Piss Potion added to waterings. Hope the weather continues this perfect pattern of warm sunny days followed by some soaking thunderstorms.
The Tashqurghan are doing well too -
Ended up with a male and female Chitrali, the male produced flowers earlier than anything I’ve had before, I topped it a couple days ago to collect pollen -
Still getting some small amounts of Septoria on a couple of plants, but it’s nothing like it was last year. Starting to see caterpillars so some B.t. will be in order soon. They are nitrogen whores and are getting top-dressed cow manure and worm castings every couple of weeks, in addition to Pete’s Perfect Piss Potion added to waterings. Hope the weather continues this perfect pattern of warm sunny days followed by some soaking thunderstorms.
stealthfader508
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Looking great @p59teitel !! Those will be 15' tall by september.
I have all kinds of shit going on... i still have some in 2 gallon bags I need to get uppotted or in the ground. I have 4 plants outside in raised beds going au naturale. They're absolute giants and should end up visible from space ( i hope the google earth satellite gets a new shot this summer because it'll definitely be visible) ...
one of the plants in the greenhouse started flowering a few weeks ago and just kept going... not sure what it's thinking but it looks like it has no plans of reverting and is flowering all the way through... it could be done by august 15th at this pace.
I'm just now starting to chop the clones I flowered indoors beginning 5/1 .. these are clones of everything I have going outside this year and I open pollinated them all with the 3 strongest males I had this year... from all these seeds I'll choose the 3-5 best females, mix all the seeds together in a predetermined ratio by weight, and that'll be my 2024 seed mix.
Happy 4th of July everyone!!! .... USA
I have all kinds of shit going on... i still have some in 2 gallon bags I need to get uppotted or in the ground. I have 4 plants outside in raised beds going au naturale. They're absolute giants and should end up visible from space ( i hope the google earth satellite gets a new shot this summer because it'll definitely be visible) ...
one of the plants in the greenhouse started flowering a few weeks ago and just kept going... not sure what it's thinking but it looks like it has no plans of reverting and is flowering all the way through... it could be done by august 15th at this pace.
I'm just now starting to chop the clones I flowered indoors beginning 5/1 .. these are clones of everything I have going outside this year and I open pollinated them all with the 3 strongest males I had this year... from all these seeds I'll choose the 3-5 best females, mix all the seeds together in a predetermined ratio by weight, and that'll be my 2024 seed mix.
Happy 4th of July everyone!!! .... USA
I've finally learned to focus more on strain selection, as I work on finding leaf septoria resistant genetics. Had one plant do exceptionally well against it last year and am running a couple of its daughters this summer. I have always made seeds outdoors, and indoors, and had a couple of pollen chucks turn out pretty good! It is very rewarding when that happens, maybe my one small contribution to the evolution of cannabis genetics! I'm in Oklahoma, but selection is as important here as in
Mass..
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Another Mass grower. This is my first time growing in 30 years! I got two plants from a friend at work. The first is #14(Blueberry indica and Night nurse) and Blueberry muffin being grown outside in my 30 year old compost pile.
