Aussie Growers Thread

[Grumpy Old Dreamer]

and daylight hours don't need to fall to 12 in nature

I suppose if you take off the "twilight" hours when it is officially daylight but the amount of light wouldn't be much good for the plants, it does shorten the day quite a bit.
In Brisbane we never actually get more than 14 hours "official" daylight and the further north you go, the lower the maximum daylight hours.

I have found the "less than 14 hours daylight" to be very useful, once I trigger flowering in a plant (or a whole bunch of clones) they will not reveg and can be grown outdoors as small, easily concealed plants.

 

[Chunky]

I suppose if you take off the "twilight" hours when it is officially daylight but the amount of light wouldn't be much good for the plants, it does shorten the day quite a bit.
In Brisbane we never actually get more than 14 hours "official" daylight and the further north you go, the lower the maximum daylight hours.

I have found the "less than 14 hours daylight" to be very useful, once I trigger flowering in a plant (or a whole bunch of clones) they will not reveg and can be grown outdoors as small, easily concealed plants.

I live in brissy too I found the low daylight hours helpful.

 

[LeeroySlim]

I suppose if you take off the "twilight" hours when it is officially daylight but the amount of light wouldn't be much good for the plants, it does shorten the day quite a bit.
In Brisbane we never actually get more than 14 hours "official" daylight and the further north you go, the lower the maximum daylight hours.

I have found the "less than 14 hours daylight" to be very useful, once I trigger flowering in a plant (or a whole bunch of clones) they will not reveg and can be grown outdoors as small, easily concealed plants.

Just so i understood what u were daying, you can pretty much flower all year round as long as u trigger flowering indoor?

 

[MasterHemp]

Just so i understood what u were daying, you can pretty much flower all year round as long as u trigger flowering indoor?

hey leeroy not too sure who it was, i think it was skiz, who was growing outdoors during winter and his crop turned out pretty decent he said, seedlings dont have a chance in winter though so it's a must to start indoors and then take them out once they can take a flogging

 

[LeeroySlim]

hey leeroy not too sure who it was, i think it was skiz, who was growing outdoors during winter and his crop turned out pretty decent he said, seedlings dont have a chance in winter though so it's a must to start indoors and then take them out once they can take a flogging

Yeah i did that also with awesome results, vegged mine to 6ft and then put them in a sealed greenhouse in 30gal coco grow bags with Co2. they went nuts in there, cant wait to see how a proper indoor grow goes. but i think what Grumpy was saying caz it never gets to 14hours of daylight he can flower all year round even in November December if its triggered first indoor.

 

[Grumpy Old Dreamer]

Yes, that's right. 14 hours of daylight is not enough to put the plants back into vegging. so once you trigger flowering they can be put outside whatever the month ... and they will continue flowering.
Just keep a mother plant and take continuous clones.
Once they are rooted and have grown a few extra nodes, top them and trigger flowering and let them grow outdoors as small inconspicuous bud machines. If they never get more than 50 to 60cm in height you have to be very unlucky for anyone to notice them.

 

[smallclosetgrowr]

thought id post up some pics im bored...this is 3 plants in a 50l dwc "bagseed" they are looking super healthy i cant wait only 5-6 more weeks till harvest.

 

[smallclosetgrowr]

i built this green house today it only costed me $120 for materials , ill be putting the door on 2morrow. i bought it for other reasons besides growing weed but i will be growing some weed in it + you cant see thru the film so i should be rite. SCG

 

[LeeroySlim]

thats awesome, if you had an 8 week flowering strain and u hit 12/12 for a week indoor then put them out, you could have 7 grows a year. you probably wouldnt even no what frost is.

Yes, that's right. 14 hours of daylight is not enough to put the plants back into vegging. so once you trigger flowering they can be put outside whatever the month ... and they will continue flowering.
Just keep a mother plant and take continuous clones.
Once they are rooted and have grown a few extra nodes, top them and trigger flowering and let them grow outdoors as small inconspicuous bud machines. If they never get more than 50 to 60cm in height you have to be very unlucky for anyone to notice them.

 

[Grumpy Old Dreamer]

If you have a healthy mother plant that you can clone each week, there is nothing stopping you having 52 grows a year - you don't need to let one finish before you start the next.

Lots and lots of small female plants.

Just use a GPS and a digital camera (for precise location) and scatter plants throughout the bush, if 50% survive you are going to have plenty of bud. Don't even visit the plants until the expected flowering period is up, that way you leave no tracks and the small plants should not be discovered by dope hunters. What usually screws guerilla grows are the tracks that you leave that stand out like "dog's balls" to experienced hunters.

 

[Grumpy Old Dreamer]

i built this green house today it only costed me $120 for materials , ill be putting the door on 2morrow. i bought it for other reasons besides growing weed but i will be growing some weed in it + you cant see thru the film so i should be rite. SCG

Nice greenhouse.
Are the arcs made from 1 inch water pipe by any chance - I once saw a pipe bender on eBay that allowed you to bend pipes to a preset radius that was specifically meant to build those greenhouses (or shadehouses), unfortunately I don't have the land to place one or I would have bought the bender.

 

[smallclosetgrowr]

i have no clue if there water pipes , i just bought them 2nd hand off someone who had used them for a greenhouse also

 

[flwrpwr]

Great job with that greenhouse scg, inspired me to try and build something similar.....at least in part for my organic veges this year!

Your move to Michigan sounds like a dream come true eza, was it hard work getting in?I realise it'd be a lot easier with a US citizen for a wife but I'm quite keen to move to the US for medicinal purposes!

 

[steve6green]

If you have a healthy mother plant that you can clone each week, there is nothing stopping you having 52 grows a year - you don't need to let one finish before you start the next.

Lots and lots of small female plants.

Just use a GPS and a digital camera (for precise location) and scatter plants throughout the bush, if 50% survive you are going to have plenty of bud. Don't even visit the plants until the expected flowering period is up, that way you leave no tracks and the small plants should not be discovered by dope hunters. What usually screws guerilla grows are the tracks that you leave that stand out like "dog's balls" to experienced hunters.

ive found plants by following little goat trails (when i was younger) what ive found is your more likely to get ripped off if you go back and constantly water your plants the track gets beaten down so much as grumpy od said sticks out like the proverbial. pots are the biggest giveaway. i used green garbage bins one year but an ex friend ripped me off 6 plants the day before i was gonna pull them... such as life in guerilla growing

 

[steve6green]

scg you wouldnt be able to post the material list for your greenhouse? looks pretty sweet would like to build one in my backyard too... for tommies tho not ganja have too many people snooping around. on another note ive got my seeds together and am about to start hydro again ive got coco and hydraton last time i didnt mix my coco into the hydraton what would you guys recommend? got cheese and himalaya gold to play with and 50m of panda plastic 1 1000w 1 400w 1 250w HP sodiums

 

[smallclosetgrowr]

are u in melbourne steve? its pretty easy to build all u need is some wooden rails how ever many u need at what length u want +greenhouse film+ 8 steel poles that go into the ground for foundation then 4 of the curved bars that slide in.if your in vic and wanna by some curved bars for your green house pm me , hes sells them $20 a bar

 

[Rusty Crutch]

Pot is illegal but cosmetic companies are allowed to put known cancer causing ingredients in stuff we use every day. Fluoride may cause cancer and other diseases but at least our skulls will still have nice white teef. It makes you wonder how many people actually died from cancer 100+ years ago before all this shit was around.
HOW SAFE IS YOUR BATHROOM?

 

[Grumpy Old Dreamer]

HOW SAFE IS YOUR BATHROOM

I have a 14 year old daughter - my bathroom is a fucking death trap!

 

[skiz1989]

Pot is illegal but cosmetic companies are allowed to put known cancer causing ingredients in stuff we use every day. Fluoride may cause cancer and other diseases but at least our skulls will still have nice white teef. It makes you wonder how many people actually died from cancer 100+ years ago before all this shit was around.
HOW SAFE IS YOUR BATHROOM?

Dude we could fill up several pages with all the things worse than weed but at the end of the day i think it comes down to pressure by the large power players. Alcohol, tobacco and pharmaceutics. If your high you no longer have a need to drink as lets face it drinking is relaxing but weed is 10x more soothing with MUCH better side effects when you come down. If you had a choice to smoke weed tobacco would take a dive as lets face it weed shits on tobacco lol. Now to Pharmaceuticals. Weed is an untaped market so to speak for the vast medical benifits it can bring. If someone was able to legalize it and buy the rights to all its products it would leave the competition in shit creek.

While the examples above are only the tip of the iceberg i suggest you watch a doco called "how weed won the west". Pretty interesting and explains the examples above in more detail. I still like to think Aus will EVENTUALLY open up on its stance to weed but i predict its still another year or two away at LEAST.

 

[LeeroySlim]

are u in melbourne steve? its pretty easy to build all u need is some wooden rails how ever many u need at what length u want +greenhouse film+ 8 steel poles that go into the ground for foundation then 4 of the curved bars that slide in.if your in vic and wanna by some curved bars for your green house pm me , hes sells them $20 a bar

is that greenhouse material 100% stealth, also does it make it hotter inside or keep it cooler?