The Great Outdoors

I've changed my plan so many times, it made no sense to keep updating this thread... Looking back there are a few things worth noting -- I'm not going to do any breeding this summer. All the seeds I have are from new sources and are either variations on strains or completely new strains to me, so I'm going to grow them for one round before I decide which ones to breed. All breeding will happen indoors next winter, way simpler and much more control.

I grow for a med patient who has been using high THC cannabis to help with the mental side of pain management. She had tried a high CBD vape before, but didn't really get anything from it. I gave her some CBD edibles the other day (that I picked up at a dispensary) and she said they really helped! Kind of last minute, we decided to grow some high CBD strains this summer that I'll make into tinctures. I lucked into some seeds (a freebie with my order) and picked up a couple of clones, to get some into the lineup. Seeds get started tomorrow, and the season begins.

The CBD plants and one other will fit into the light dep space, I'll put another pair out in the open. They are OGS seeds, this is the "O" in OGS. Each year I've had one plant out in the open that I've been able to harvest significant amounts from, so hopefully we'll get something from them. Then of course there will be a handful of autos in the garden, so we'll have other things to try. Should be a good season.

That is a good idea to give the new strains a twirl before breeding. I took a chance on some of the strains in my Spring crop, and made a few seeds. But a full season grow would give me more info and more choices. On a couple of three strains, I only had one male or one female. The only choice was to use them or not.

Glad you were nimble enough to make the changes in time for the summer grow. Good luck.

Thanks @sandhill larry , hopefully this will be a good year. I used to strive for quantity, now I'd be happy with an easy grow with a handful of happy plants that finish well.

The seeds are wet, the plan is in place but (still) written in pencil. The final photos line-up is: (CBD) Cannatonic, Cheri's Gift, (THC) Willamette Valley Pineapple, Dream Catcher, Amnesia Hashplant. Should be a good mix. Plus a bunch of autos will be out there. I have no expectations, but high hopes for those.

...and then it changed again. The CEO and I had a come to Jesus talk, and decided that freedom to travel this summer was more important than the crop. Who'd a thunk. So, all that talk and planning, and no light deprivation is going to happen this year.

My outdoor just got so small and simple, I don't imagine it deserves its own thread... it's just a handful of photos, a half dozen autos, and a couple of CBD plants I'll try to run in a tent in the garage (long flower time, wouldn't finish outside). Yawn. Maybe more exciting stuff will happen next year.

Humanrob said:

...and then it changed again. The CEO and I had a come to Jesus talk, and decided that freedom to travel this summer was more important than the crop. Who'd a thunk. So, all that talk and planning, and no light deprivation is going to happen this year.

My outdoor just got so small and simple, I don't imagine it deserves its own thread... it's just a handful of photos, a half dozen autos, and a couple of CBD plants I'll try to run in a tent in the garage (long flower time, wouldn't finish outside). Yawn. Maybe more exciting stuff will happen next year.

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Light dep is as bad as a bunch of milk cows. Unless you have someone you really trust, you are going to be there twice a day. At least with light dep, they do finish. Milk cows just go on forever.

Humanrob said:

...and then it changed again. The CEO and I had a come to Jesus talk, and decided that freedom to travel this summer was more important than the crop. Who'd a thunk. So, all that talk and planning, and no light deprivation is going to happen this year.

My outdoor just got so small and simple, I don't imagine it deserves its own thread... it's just a handful of photos, a half dozen autos, and a couple of CBD plants I'll try to run in a tent in the garage (long flower time, wouldn't finish outside). Yawn. Maybe more exciting stuff will happen next year.

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Hi, @Humanrob , wish you well on your summer travels. Auto's hopefully work out well for you.

oragrow said:

Hi, @Humanrob , wish you well on your summer travels. Auto's hopefully work out well for you.

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Thanks oragrow. As always its been a learning curve. I experimented with putting 1 gallon plastic bottles over them to protect them and warm up the soil, and then we had some early out of the ordinary 90º days and I almost cooked them. The plastic bottles were part of an experiment with putting the seeds right into Rapid Rooters directly into the ground, and 3 out of 4 of those didn't make it (one looked like it was stepped on by a cat and was then swarmed by ants, one was there one day and gone the next, one just never popped). So now I'm sprouting some more under lights inside, and I'll put them out when they are a bigger. I still want to try some autos in the ground. The three autos I put in various pots are all doing well so far. I'll figure out a system one of these days.

Humanrob said:

Thanks oragrow. As always its been a learning curve. I experimented with putting 1 gallon plastic bottles over them to protect them and warm up the soil, and then we had some early out of the ordinary 90º days and I almost cooked them. The plastic bottles were part of an experiment with putting the seeds right into Rapid Rooters directly into the ground, and 3 out of 4 of those didn't make it (one looked like it was stepped on by a cat and was then swarmed by ants, one was there one day and gone the next, one just never popped). So now I'm sprouting some more under lights inside, and I'll put them out when they are a bigger. I still want to try some autos in the ground. The three autos I put in various pots are all doing well so far. I'll figure out a system one of these days.

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Hi Humanrob, Good ol milk jugs work for hot caps, have you considered row cover for the plants. I'm in the process of building a hoop house, hopefully I can get it finished in Aug. Funding is a challenge.

oragrow said:

Hi Humanrob, Good ol milk jugs work for hot caps, have you considered row cover for the plants. I'm in the process of building a hoop house, hopefully I can get it finished in Aug. Funding is a challenge.

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I think I've considered everything... lol. Last year I built a structure that was open at the bottom, held a scrog screen, and covered over the top -- looked like a covered wagon (that was disassembles after the season and most of the wood repurposed). It was built like a tank because it can get very windy here in the fall. That worked really well at keeping most rain off of the plants while still allowing a LOT of air circulation. I had a fan under it, and at the very end of the season, even ran an HPS in there for additional light after the sun had sunk too far to the south.



This is my third outdoor, and both previous years I've had plants that I minimally trained, sprayed very little or not at all, and never covered. In both cases they finished well. I'm starting to wonder if all the outdoor scrogging I've done hasn't stressed the plants and made them more mold susceptible? Or its just pure luck, and the ones I've grown open just happened to be resistant strains.

Here's an LSD that went o'natural...


This year I'm leaning heavily on OGS's breeding, and "the plan" (as if that's ever what actually happens) is to leave them all uncovered and see how they do.

You were rocking the Conestoga look. Pretty cool.

Do people cover their plants even after keeping them during inside during the veg state, then taking them out? or just let them grow outside and keep them free from spider mites and such?

matt142857 said:

Do people cover their plants even after keeping them during inside during the veg state, then taking them out? or just let them grow outside and keep them free from spider mites and such?

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These guys are in the PNW. Rain is what they are trying to keep off. Some cover and some don't. Each has pros and cons.

Is your lsd you have had experience with from barneys farm?

The LSD seeds I got were from Hermetic Genetics. They came in a sealed can like cat food (after pulling the ring lid off the can, it even came with a plastic lid to close it back up), and the seeds were still on the buds. It was kind of cool, we got some bud sample to smoke, and they guaranteed "7-10 viable seeds", and we probably got closer to 20.

I purchased mine from barneys farm , do you know the parent genetics? Also if you have any samples left? Im currently doing 2 lsd and 2 peyote cookies but the lsd is finishing so nice in comparison to the peyote cookies]

It would be cool to see the difference in the lsd if they had the same parents, im in pdx area so i figure similar climates

Oregonchild said:

I purchased mine from barneys farm , do you know the parent genetics? Also if you have any samples left? Im currently doing 2 lsd and 2 peyote cookies but the lsd is finishing so nice in comparison to the peyote cookies]

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The parents are Mazar I Sharif x Skunk #1
It was grown last summer, there is nothing left.

There are so many variables between grows that the comparison might reflect more about our grow styles and experience than the beans themselves. I've grown the same strain twice in different circumstances and had different outcomes. It seems like a nice solid strain though, if it's done right.