First timer in northeast

[xcellent4200]

Happy growing everyone. This is my first year and this site has been extremely helpful. Thx to all who share their knowledge an experience.

It's my first time. Got the seeds from various mids that dropped to the bottom of a drawer. Don't know the date planted approx apr. Had 8 down to 3.

The smallest (3.5' far left) started flowering weeks ago while the larger(5') an far(4). Started about 1 week ago. My guess is due to the other 2 being smothered by the tomatoes. Which were planted as camouflage an grew much taller then expected. Thus I have dozens of tomatoes and I hate tomatoes. But the red tomatoes make the garden less conspicuous from afar.

Here are some pics any tips or advice would be greatly appreciated.

 

[johnmac240]

Looks good what are you feeding them for nutes

 

[northeastmarco]

They look happy and healthy .give them some bloom food and watch for mold after mid Sept depending where you are in New England.

 

[xcellent4200]

The garden state I'm in. I'm not using anything for fertilizer except for my lawn clipping I spread around roots to keep weeds away. These are from today And after reading about cloning I'd thought I'd try it I cut this off the big one 9 days ago. It still alive. It was cut while the plant just begun flowering so I don't know what will happen wit it. It was more of an experiment.

 

[OneToyStory]

First attempt at growing myself and curious about the challenges that October will likely bring to an outdoor New England grow. I can't tell from pics but are those in pots or directly in ground?

 

[xcellent4200]

Directly in ground. I pruned the large leaves that seemed to be blocking light to flowers. That's seemed to jump the flowering a bit. Still unsure about harvesting an drying. But the info is on here. The big one has purple stems.

Why give my money to cartels or gangs that promote violence when I can grow if for free in my own backyard. Just like those tomatoes I'll never eat.

 

[RuggedTrees]

Ahhhh! Defoliation is not ok!

Common to what most believe cutting perfectly healthy leaves off your baby just slows growth. Leaves are used to absorb sun, the only time you should pull them is when they're dead and yellow.

If you wanna increase light penetration to the plant try Low Stress Training. Slowly work your plant over by bending the main stem. You'll notice your lower shoots almost immediately increase in growth because light is hitting the base and main stem of the plant like it normally would never get.

Goodluck!

 

[dirtpower]

I agree! keep your leaves until they yellow!

 

[kdanna12]

Even if you have massive amounts of fan leaves?

 

[dirtpower]

Even if you have massive amounts of fan leaves?

Yes! a few if you know what your doing...but most noobs over do it...and you can't put them back on

 

[getawaymountain]

fan leaves are like solar panels to plants leave them there until yellow

 

[kdanna12]

Ok thank you