Lets See Your Outside Plants

Buds420grow

Buds420grow

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MustGro said:
We're getting close to the flip where I live in Eastern Canada. I've got 4 plants in homemade containers. They're 4 feet in diameter, 2 feet high and made from hardware cloth, and I wrapped burlap around them to keep the sun from heating them up too much. I've got some fence posts and 4 foot high cattle fence that I put up when they get a bit wider. This is the third year for me outside and I'm organic, mostly because it's easier than mixing nutes for them and cheaper. I've gotten hit by hurricanes both times that I was outside before so that's never a good way to finish them. I almost didn't bother this year just because I know that I'm gonna get smoked again BUT I'd feel pretty bad if by some miracle we didn't and everyone else got a good harvest in.
Bungee cords are a life saver in the wind.
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Getting to be a lot of nice plants in this thread and that’s great. Guess I’ll put a little update in here. Pretty wet and windy on the east coast so I watered (no nutes) once in July and once in August so far. Their roots are into the ground so they can find some themselves. I put up the fencing on two of the plants. The other two need a bit more diameter on them yet. 5 posts each and about 10 feet of cattle fence held on with zip ties. I leave an opening on the North side and I try to get the fence up high enough so I can still get to the plant under it. Last year I zip tied the branches to the fencing but that was a mistake. Big wind will rip the branches through the tie unless they’re tight and if they’re tight they could gird the branch. I’m trying it without this year. I have some flat square sections of fence that I’ll put on top for a roof to support the center branches.
I lollipopped one of them pretty well. It keeps the p.mildew down and makes the branch less of a sail in the wind. The inside foliage will yellow and die from a lack of sun anyway. Still have to get to the others.
I did a couple of zip tie repairs but I should mention that you can’t leave them on for more than a week or maybe 10 days without moving them a little. You leave that tie in the same place too long and it’ll gird the plant and kill the limb and you wasted your time and effort. I’m gonna take some advice from @petert and use Gorilla Glue to seal up that gap, otherwise there’ll be earwigs living and shitting in there.
There’s supposed to be some wind next week and I’m kinda worried. Not much cover from the wind in my backyard and they blow around pretty good in a medium wind. Can’t wait for hurricane season….
Still never got around to spraying with milk and water though, but I will.
I bought 2 pounds of red clover to use as a cover crop over the winter but I‘m wondering if I should plant it now. Getting tired of weeding the planters and the cover crop should out-compete the weeds but I’m not sure if it’s best to have the clover using up nutes while the pot is growing. I don’t thInk the clover will take much and it adds nitrogen until it goes to flower So I’m leaning toward planting it this weekend. Anyone else use cover crops and have an opinion on when to plant it.
 

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ooof-da said:
I’m a newbie but slowly learning how to tend these plants and identify the issues. here is a N CA plant from clone. same plant just one at dusk which is cool looking to me.
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Great plants, they have real nice buds for August. Those bamboo poles are a good idea.
 
Budderton

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This one's not about yield or looks, it's about the will to live. My only outdoor plant ( that I just recently learned I had) growing under the covered porch, in straight sand, under a pine tree. It only gets a couple hrs of light under there in the late afternoon. I've never watered it. Probably from when I was l cleaning seeds from a chuck, on the porch, end of June, judging from the size. I wish it was male.

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MustGro

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Budderton said:
This one's not about yield or looks. I wish it was male.
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You don’t hear that very often. You after pollen? Can’t you get pollen from a female plant? There used to be a product called stamen it, I wonder if it’s still around. I know rhodelization will work with some. I had a Cindy 99 pop stamens when I let the plant go extra long. People use colloidal silver too but I‘m not up on that.
 
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MustGro said:
You don’t hear that very often. You after pollen? Can’t you get pollen from a female plant? There used to be a product called stamen it, I wonder if it’s still around. I know rhodelization will work with some. I had a Cindy 99 pop stamens when I let the plant go extra long. People use colloidal silver too but I‘m not up on that.
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Yah, I've got fem spray and colloidal silver I use indoors. I won't use the rodelization tech. Just not into it enough to want to crawl around under there too often. If it where male, I'd throw a pollen bag over it and be done. A good hardy , drought resistant male that works outdoors is a nice fine imo. I've got several males I keep but none are proven to work outside where I live. I'll just watch and see what it does.:D
 
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ooof-da

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MustGro said:
Great plants, they have real nice buds for August. Those bamboo poles are a good idea.
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thanks!
MustGro said:
Great plants, they have real nice buds for August. Those bamboo poles are a good idea.
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thanks MG! I try and improve one or two things every year. The wind here is intense and w/o staking they get trashed…but staked they seem to love it!

This is by far my best plant to date. Hope she fattens up
 
ooof-da

ooof-da

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MustGro said:
Getting to be a lot of nice plants in this thread and that’s great. Guess I’ll put a little update in here. Pretty wet and windy on the east coast so I watered (no nutes) once in July and once in August so far. Their roots are into the ground so they can find some themselves. I put up the fencing on two of the plants. The other two need a bit more diameter on them yet. 5 posts each and about 10 feet of cattle fence held on with zip ties. I leave an opening on the North side and I try to get the fence up high enough so I can still get to the plant under it. Last year I zip tied the branches to the fencing but that was a mistake. Big wind will rip the branches through the tie unless they’re tight and if they’re tight they could gird the branch. I’m trying it without this year. I have some flat square sections of fence that I’ll put on top for a roof to support the center branches.
I lollipopped one of them pretty well. It keeps the p.mildew down and makes the branch less of a sail in the wind. The inside foliage will yellow and die from a lack of sun anyway. Still have to get to the others.
I did a couple of zip tie repairs but I should mention that you can’t leave them on for more than a week or maybe 10 days without moving them a little. You leave that tie in the same place too long and it’ll gird the plant and kill the limb and you wasted your time and effort. I’m gonna take some advice from @petert and use Gorilla Glue to seal up that gap, otherwise there’ll be earwigs living and shitting in there.
There’s supposed to be some wind next week and I’m kinda worried. Not much cover from the wind in my backyard and they blow around pretty good in a medium wind. Can’t wait for hurricane season….
Still never got around to spraying with milk and water though, but I will.
I bought 2 pounds of red clover to use as a cover crop over the winter but I‘m wondering if I should plant it now. Getting tired of weeding the planters and the cover crop should out-compete the weeds but I’m not sure if it’s best to have the clover using up nutes while the pot is growing. I don’t thInk the clover will take much and it adds nitrogen until it goes to flower So I’m leaning toward planting it this weekend. Anyone else use cover crops and have an opinion on when to plant it.
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You have a nice big open spot there! They look great. So you do not have fabric bottoms in those grow pots…they are exposed to the ground underneath?

I have not tried cover crops but will watch for replies on what that does for ya.
 
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