Michigan Growers Tell Your Plans for This Year

its gorgeous outside in metro detroit =)

Word hope all survived the frost....

Im not liking this rain. When I bought my seeds from the attitude it said this strain is mold resistent but after doing some research im finding out that its not. I should have known that anything thats crossed with northern lights wouldnt be.
Ive been doing alot of reading on dr.greenthumbs iranian g13. Ive pretty much decided thats the strain I will be doing next year. It sounds like the ultimate strain for our climate thats not a auto flower.

James
Iranian G13 is a quick finisher ,It is a bit leafy so be prepared to do a lot of trimming

Green Dave said:

James
Iranian G13 is a quick finisher ,It is a bit leafy so be prepared to do a lot of trimming

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the worst kind, i swear.

I like the quick finishing part. Is the yeild and potencey as good as they claim?

Potencey is there but yeild not quite as big as claimed but good this could be my end as my girls havent got the attention on a regular basis
as they grow 3 hours from where I live I will be making a effert to do better next year

hey guys sorry to chime in late on the hic conversation.. i have been wondering if he wasnt in a car accident. the news i get is from tc and the news he has is gr im sure. nobodys brought that up yet just in hospital.. i dont know wish i woukld have hooked up with him before this. im only 30 mins from him.. we talked about a bar in newago. maybe tomorrow ill check it out, ill try to make time. but im sure he doesnt go by hic there.. maybe. worried bout him.. never met anybody from here and it seems to be a looss when ya lose someone. i hope ur ok hic...

Green Dave said:

Potencey is there but yeild not quite as big as claimed but good this could be my end as my girls havent got the attention on a regular basis
as they grow 3 hours from where I live I will be making a effert to do better next year

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have you grown doctor greenthumbs pure g13 or any of his other strains?

In honor of HIC, thats his tastey chronic ass Critical Mass

James
I have
The Dope
Iranian G13
and G13
All GREAT
The Dope is Sweet and strong
IRG13 is strong not much taste
G13 Stinks to High Heaven and will kick your ASS
Hope that helps
GD

That helps green dave. Im basically just looking for a solid strain that wont have me as stressed over wether it will finish in time next year.

On a side note. I was in the area and decided to stop and see how my little backup plot of four plants was doing today. I got within about 50 feet of the first one when I noticed something was off. Someone was out trimming the lower branches off of the pine and oak trees around my plants. I could actually see where they started to trim the tree that one of my plants was tucked up against. It looks like they stopped working right where they discovered the dope. Theres no way in hell they didnt see it.
I took a real hard look around from where I was standing to see if there was a game camera on any of the trees and once I was sure there wasnt got the hell out of there.
It had to have been either the owner of the property or the next door neighbor. Im sure neither would call the cops but the owner would probably try and catch me in the act. I knew it was a little risky planting there but it was convenient and I needed a place to put the last of my clones.
I wont be going back there until my other plants are done and when I do it will be at night. Hopefully there still there.

For the Early Finish I would deffinitly go with the Iranian G13 ,The Dope and G13 take a while longer

I just weighed up my dried autoflowering Easyryders (auto ak47 x lowryder #2). I got just over 4.5 oz from 3 plants. I grew them in 5 gallon buckets with Ocean Forest soil. I used technaflora's recipe for success feeding schedule. I used veg nutes until It started flowering then full strength flower nutes the rest of the cycle. The plants finished at around 3' tall.

I started them from seed on may 29th and harvested them on august 16th. They were in the middle of a field and in direct sunlight all day.

it was my first successful outdoor grow.

I'll try to post some pics of the plants before I chopped them. I just have to find my camera.

The seven day forcast shows rain everyday. Do any of you guys use sprays to prevent mold? I have at least two weeks left to finish

Just keep my fingers crossed

james42 said:

The seven day forcast shows rain everyday. Do any of you guys use sprays to prevent mold? I have at least two weeks left to finish

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Picked up some garden safe neem oil extract last night from Lowes for $10. It is concentrated and says to add a couple tsp per gallon of water or something like that. My buds have just gotten rolling and don't really have any density to them yet. I was using the neem oil that they sell at Meijer for $10.99. That stuff you spray on directly. You only get a couple of applications per bottle though. Going to give them a good spray this weekend. I had the wife cover them lightly last night to help with the rain. Not sure if that is a good or bad thing though. She did give them each a good shake first.

I am going to pick up some 3/4" PVC this week and make a couple of arches to keep the drop cloth from touching the plant tops and give it some breathing room at night. I already have the tent poles in the ground. Figure I could slide the PVC over them to make the arch. I can then just drape the drop cloth over it. If the rain really starts picking up I was thinking about making it a canopy with some plastic. I would only protect the top couple of feet. That way the plants still get fresh air and maybe it will reduce some of the moisture. That would stay on at all times I would cover over that when we have chance of frost.

I was using Safer 3 in 1 spray, but stopped because I wasn't sure if it worked and it smelled like crap. I'm not sure how to avoid mold. I've heard that it helps to keep plants covered from the rain, but I already found a small patch of mold in my plant that has been in the greenhouse all year and never gotten wet, so who knows. Also morning dew gets the outdoor plants pretty wet everyday, rain or no rain. So the goal is to keep your plants as dry as possible, but keep air flowing, pretty hard to do outside, good luck.

As long as the mold doesn't get out of control, just toss or make hash out of any affected bud at the end of the year. And cut any rotten buds off your plant as you find them.

I guess ill just keep my fingers crossed. Im not even really sure what it looks like but im sure ill know it when I see it.