fantasyNugs93
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Hey guys, So Ive got my first outdoor grow going right now. Ive got 9 plants... maybe 10(ill explain in about the older one) and i was just looking to get some other opinions on how they're doing, when to cut them, when to start flushing or anything else really.
A bit of a background
I started out at 13 seedlings and one plant that was about 400-450 days old that survived in my room from last year
a few of my friends helped me carry it down to where i was going to plant it and we put it in the ground. drove a t post beside it and slid a 10' PVC pipe over the t post and finally secured it in 3 spots with just some ripped t shirt pieces we had on hand for rags as a temporary support( which became permanent out of sheer laziness.) when we planted it we put the stem/roots about 2.5' down thus covering about 2' of the stem in soil, ensured it was well watered as we back filled to the root bed and hoped for the best. it had some pretty bad shock from carrying it as far as we did and the trans plant with the top 1' or so above the last point that was secured drooping down pretty bad, the next day it it was in more of a sideways s shape, and within 3 days was standing upright again with only a slight curve the way it was leaning. so with the roots and about 2' of stem completely in the soil the plant stood at around 5' tall now.
A quick visual of the area this was planted in
I live on the top of a hill, have a large valley in my back yard at the bottom of which we've got a nice flat area there's a built pond from a natural river and the soil is 4' deep of the blackest soil you've ever seen. sitting on top of clay. i planted the plant 3/4 of the way down of the man made hill/wall supporting the pond. we've recently put in another pond as well a bit further down to try and dry the area up a bit, as it is often flooded and was swampy(why i planted 1/4 of the way up the hill not on the base) but this other pond directed most of that moisture to the south side of the valley basin creating more of a stream rather than a 20' wide swampy area. this in conjunction with us clearing the area led it to grow grass in that area the last 2 years instead of weeds and snake weed. (which is what was there growing and dying for 15-20 years undisturbed) so i was not worried about the roots being too deep and not getting enough water.
This plant grew absolutely insanely, it had very nice steady growth, the bottom branches were coming out at about 7' long from the bottom( i didn't give it any silica so some got too heavy before it was even flowering and were starting to come off. but i wasn't too concerned because they weren't coming out of the plant on an angle it was more horizontal because they had to grow out first, and i was going to trim them when i transplanted to begin with but didn't. so i accounted it to that.
near the end of august this plant was just getting to the top of the PVC pipe at 10' tall for most of its growth tips. i negligently didn't secure the new 5' of growth or anything higher up and we got a bad storm( tornado hit about 5km south of me) and it ended up breaking the main stem right down about 1 foot above my last secured point. this put a lot of weight on the branches it fell on, which caused them to basically all get puled half out. putting weight on the next one causing it to come down too, I'm assuming in a probably spiral type pattern ha ha.
I attempted my best to fix the top and re attach most of the branches with tape, did an okay job, went and checked 2 days later but the top and 2 other branches that got half pulled were dead.
the rest of my supports dropped back down and were resting on each other again. only two branches remained standing. but even though they were down they were still clearly alive and tips were growing back to the light as opposed to the 3 dying parts. this plant was in early flower( pre buds) which seemed about 3 or 4 weeks behind the others (im assuming because of age) which is why i say maybe 10 plants, because i haven't been back down to check on this one since, i quit giving it nutes and whatnot, its in a completely separate location from my other plants so i don't see it when i check them and just kinda decided to leave it and if it grows any cool, if not whatever. even if its shitty i can use it for concentrates. this was more a fun experiment so i wasn't really too upset.
A bit of a background
I started out at 13 seedlings and one plant that was about 400-450 days old that survived in my room from last year
about the old one...
Skip to next title unless you're interested. its kinda a side bar
I didn't put it outside because it seemed to start too slow and wouldn't have had enough time to finish anything really worth it i didn't think, i wanted to preserve the genetics of it but had no setup for an indoor grow, or knowledge yet to clone it. so what i did was kept it alive in my bedroom with a 7 watt LED bulb for the first 6 months and i stepped up to a 23 watt CFL later on. I kept it in veg the entire time without a timer or anything just turning the light on each day. i missed a few but it didn't seem to affect it much at all, didn't Herme, or attempt to start flowering. come may 24 (planting time where i live) it was if i remember correctly 7'4" with essentially only a stalk and some fan leaves in a 12" pot i believe(i stuck the cord of the light between the fingers of some of the leaves and that was enough to support it.) it had very minimal wind. a light fan in the last two months when i remembered.Skip to next title unless you're interested. its kinda a side bar
a few of my friends helped me carry it down to where i was going to plant it and we put it in the ground. drove a t post beside it and slid a 10' PVC pipe over the t post and finally secured it in 3 spots with just some ripped t shirt pieces we had on hand for rags as a temporary support( which became permanent out of sheer laziness.) when we planted it we put the stem/roots about 2.5' down thus covering about 2' of the stem in soil, ensured it was well watered as we back filled to the root bed and hoped for the best. it had some pretty bad shock from carrying it as far as we did and the trans plant with the top 1' or so above the last point that was secured drooping down pretty bad, the next day it it was in more of a sideways s shape, and within 3 days was standing upright again with only a slight curve the way it was leaning. so with the roots and about 2' of stem completely in the soil the plant stood at around 5' tall now.
A quick visual of the area this was planted in
I live on the top of a hill, have a large valley in my back yard at the bottom of which we've got a nice flat area there's a built pond from a natural river and the soil is 4' deep of the blackest soil you've ever seen. sitting on top of clay. i planted the plant 3/4 of the way down of the man made hill/wall supporting the pond. we've recently put in another pond as well a bit further down to try and dry the area up a bit, as it is often flooded and was swampy(why i planted 1/4 of the way up the hill not on the base) but this other pond directed most of that moisture to the south side of the valley basin creating more of a stream rather than a 20' wide swampy area. this in conjunction with us clearing the area led it to grow grass in that area the last 2 years instead of weeds and snake weed. (which is what was there growing and dying for 15-20 years undisturbed) so i was not worried about the roots being too deep and not getting enough water.
This plant grew absolutely insanely, it had very nice steady growth, the bottom branches were coming out at about 7' long from the bottom( i didn't give it any silica so some got too heavy before it was even flowering and were starting to come off. but i wasn't too concerned because they weren't coming out of the plant on an angle it was more horizontal because they had to grow out first, and i was going to trim them when i transplanted to begin with but didn't. so i accounted it to that.
near the end of august this plant was just getting to the top of the PVC pipe at 10' tall for most of its growth tips. i negligently didn't secure the new 5' of growth or anything higher up and we got a bad storm( tornado hit about 5km south of me) and it ended up breaking the main stem right down about 1 foot above my last secured point. this put a lot of weight on the branches it fell on, which caused them to basically all get puled half out. putting weight on the next one causing it to come down too, I'm assuming in a probably spiral type pattern ha ha.
I attempted my best to fix the top and re attach most of the branches with tape, did an okay job, went and checked 2 days later but the top and 2 other branches that got half pulled were dead.
the rest of my supports dropped back down and were resting on each other again. only two branches remained standing. but even though they were down they were still clearly alive and tips were growing back to the light as opposed to the 3 dying parts. this plant was in early flower( pre buds) which seemed about 3 or 4 weeks behind the others (im assuming because of age) which is why i say maybe 10 plants, because i haven't been back down to check on this one since, i quit giving it nutes and whatnot, its in a completely separate location from my other plants so i don't see it when i check them and just kinda decided to leave it and if it grows any cool, if not whatever. even if its shitty i can use it for concentrates. this was more a fun experiment so i wasn't really too upset.
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