Oregon Outdoor 2022

[petert]

I’ve still got snow on the ground from the Christmas snow, also got nearly 3’ of snow New Years Weekend! But I’m thinking about spring!

Got my seeds seeds from Hembra because I’m giving up on asshats I don’t know selling me shit clones that are mostly likely not even the strain advertised.

Going all Humboldt Seed Company Fems. Blueberry Muffin (has always been a winner)
Apple Blossom (newer strain)
Pistachio ( looks really nice)

I’ll probably pop seeds early-mid March indoors and move them to my greenhouse in early-mid April.

I had a massive Blueberry Muffin and a really great producing She Devil from Oregon Green Seed.
I picked up 3 Wedding cake and 3 Purple Punch from a guy I didn’t know. They didn’t look great, but I thoughti could bring them back. They all hermied on me!

 

[petert]

Would be interested in hearing when everyone pops their seeds for outdoor growing?

 

[Herb & Suds]

I see a reveg in your future without additional lighting that early in the spring

 

[eddy600]

I pop my seeds April first in my greenhouse in northern Los Angeles county, never any reveg. I also pop them indoors with a bit better success rate with the light set to the May first amount of daylight hours.

 

[petert]

I see a reveg in your future without additional lighting that early in the spring

I’ve got power in my greenhouse. So I usually have them on a timer to go on 2-3 hours before sunrise and a little after sundown. Get them at least 16-17 hours and then slowly dial it back before going out in May.

 

[paintnick]

I pop mine now ish indoor and veg em and shape em and then put them outside in the cold frame mid April ish, then they go into their final pots outdoor mid May. Im in So OR, people do it all different ways but typically pop em monitor em indoors and get em outside into the green house or outdoor pots shortly after.

 

[petert]

Germinated my seeds about two weeks ago. Seedlings have put the second set of leaves on. Wasn’t thinking of putting them in the greenhouse until April. I’ve got heat and supplemental light in the greenhouse, think I should wait or throw them out there next week?

 

[xtsho]

Just started some seeds for the outdoor grow. I'll be growing my Durbistan IBL and a Durbistan+Sinai cross. I might toss an auto out in the yard just because I have some seeds and it might be nice to harvest something in August. Although I've never been impressed with any of the autos I've grown. The rest of my auto seeds I'm giving to a friend. I have some ruderalis so if I want auto's I can make my own.

I'm thinking about doing SIPs this year as I have a couple dozen buckets laying around and some PVC.

Good luck to all with their outdoor grows.

 

[Humanrob]

I’ve still got snow on the ground from the Christmas snow, also got nearly 3’ of snow New Years Weekend! But I’m thinking about spring!

Got my seeds seeds from Hembra because I’m giving up on asshats I don’t know selling me shit clones that are mostly likely not even the strain advertised.

Going all Humboldt Seed Company Fems. Blueberry Muffin (has always been a winner)
Apple Blossom (newer strain)
Pistachio ( looks really nice)

I’ll probably pop seeds early-mid March indoors and move them to my greenhouse in early-mid April.

I had a massive Blueberry Muffin and a really great producing She Devil from Oregon Green Seed.
I picked up 3 Wedding cake and 3 Purple Punch from a guy I didn’t know. They didn’t look great, but I thoughti could bring them back. They all hermied on me!

Wow, you really like to plan ahead, started this thread back in January!

I'll start germinating second week in May. This year I think I'll stagger them, sort of hedge my bets on how the weather plays out this summer/fall. Still running autos, so that said, I should be done by the end of August, that's fall for me.

I've found that the trees on the east side of my property have been growing in the years I've lived here, and morning sun reaches the garden later and later, currently doesn't hit the plants until about noon. That makes it hard for morning dew to cook off, and come September anything still flowering has to be very mold resistant or it's in trouble. To that end I'm also prepared to finish some in the garage if they're still going that late. Mobility is another reason I'm going all small plants in pots again this year.

We don't need that much, we've never run low in the years I've been growing. In the beginning I over-produced, it was wasteful. I've reigned that in and gotten more efficient. I still slightly over-shoot to cover missteps and bad luck, but the whole scale of things is much smaller, indoors and outdoors.

 

[petert]

Wow, you really like to plan ahead, started this thread back in January!

I'll start germinating second week in May. This year I think I'll stagger them, sort of hedge my bets on how the weather plays out this summer/fall. Still running autos, so that said, I should be done by the end of August, that's fall for me.

I've found that the trees on the east side of my property have been growing in the years I've lived here, and morning sun reaches the garden later and later, currently doesn't hit the plants until about noon. That makes it hard for morning dew to cook off, and come September anything still flowering has to be very mold resistant or it's in trouble. To that end I'm also prepared to finish some in the garage if they're still going that late. Mobility is another reason I'm going all small plants in pots again this year.

We don't need that much, we've never run low in the years I've been growing. In the beginning I over-produced, it was wasteful. I've reigned that in and gotten more efficient. I still slightly over-shoot to cover missteps and bad luck, but the whole scale of things is much smaller, indoors and outdoors.

Haha. Yeah.. I think I got too anxious! I’ve got 20 beauties that are ready to be transplanted out of the one gallon containers.
I don’t over produce because I give a lot away. I’ll grow 4-5 of these plants and give the others to friends and sell 4-5 to help pay for the seeds.
I’m going to push the planting date and be putting mine out sometime after 8-9th of May.
I lucked out at my new place. Great southern exposure from 8 AM until at least 7 PM

 

[Humanrob]

I lucked out at my new place. Great southern exposure from 8 AM until at least 7 PM

Damn I'm jealous!!! A half dozen years ago we took down two trees on the southwest corner of our lot and created more direct afternoon exposure, but the trees on the east and west of us aren't ours. Our sun is all or nothing, and it's full from about noon to 6 or 7 pm depending on the month, and that's it. That's another reason I've had to switch to autos, as we get into September and the sun gets lower in the sky, it cuts my light shorter. By October I'm getting 4-5 hours of direct sunlight, that's hard to finish in, especially when it's cool and wet.

So far it still works, and I've seen people grow decent plants with even less light than we get. Hopefully this will be a good year, no record breaking heat waves, no big fires and smoke, just a good summer.

 

[Humanrob]

I'm thinking about doing SIPs this year as I have a couple dozen buckets laying around and some PVC.

I'll be curious to see if you try SIPs outdoors. Have you used them before (indoors or out)?

A few years back I was using them indoors, and tried them outside one year. What I found at the time was that it had no advantages over growing them in the ground, which has hands down been the best way to grow in terms of production output and ease of care for me. The only reason to move to any kind of pot for me is to have the option of mobility, and I found that my big outdoor SIPs became too heavy to move, so they lost any advantage.

That's just my experience though, things are different all over. We have really good native soil here that we have augmented for years, and so far have lucked out, no voles or other root eating critters to make growing in the ground a problem.

 

[xtsho]

I'll be curious to see if you try SIPs outdoors. Have you used them before (indoors or out)?

A few years back I was using them indoors, and tried them outside one year. What I found at the time was that it had no advantages over growing them in the ground, which has hands down been the best way to grow in terms of production output and ease of care for me. The only reason to move to any kind of pot for me is to have the option of mobility, and I found that my big outdoor SIPs became too heavy to move, so they lost any advantage.

That's just my experience though, things are different all over. We have really good native soil here that we have augmented for years, and so far have lucked out, no voles or other root eating critters to make growing in the ground a problem.

I would just plant in the ground but I need the ability to move the plants. I don't want my plants out on display when people come over. Not all my friends smoke weed.

I'll probably skip the sips and just go with 3 gallon pots of soil. A bag of Black Gold Natural and Organic soil will fill 4 3 gallon pots for under $20.

 

[graying.geek]

I have a couple of Dutch Treat clones that I'll probably have to cover in order to finish, and also decided to pop the Seawarp regs that were gifted to me a couple years ago. They're alleged to have originated from Reeferman and to finish by the end of Sept, so we'll see -- assuming I get a couple girls from the 8 seeds that germed; damn I hate regs.



At some point it would be worthwhile to put together a community list of strains that have done well here in the Willy Valley. Trying to assess flowering time from breeder marketing data is absurd and frustrating.

 

[Sir Napsalot]

Chernobyl, Blackcherry Cheesecake, and Mob Boss have all done well for me in 15gal pots here near Eugene
I've also grown Cherry Pie, Lamb's Breath, GG#4, GG#12, HDF ,and Blackcherry Soda, of which the GG12 was my favorite and my primary smoke for a year- my SIL liked the GG4 because it made her sleep

 

[Humanrob]

I'm doing some spring cleaning, and I have a roll (24'x50' I believe) of *never used* black/white light deprivation plastic, if anyone wants it. It's a few years old, it was stored in a garden shed and looks like new. I'm in NE Multnomah County, if interested PM me and we can arrange a time for you to pick it up. Yup, it's free.

 

[graying.geek]

Chernobyl, Blackcherry Cheesecake, and Mob Boss have all done well for me in 15gal pots here near Eugene
I've also grown Cherry Pie, Lamb's Breath, GG#4, GG#12, HDF ,and Blackcherry Soda, of which the GG12 was my favorite and my primary smoke for a year- my SIL liked the GG4 because it made her sleep

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I recall you finish your girls under cover well into Oct. I'm looking for something that will truly finish with a few amber trichomes by mid- to late Sept.

Lately, I've been trying to identify "super" autos that have a 90+ day germ to finish timeline. Amnesia Hashplant from OGS *appears* to be one, and I've procured a packet to feminize for next summer, but I'm not aware of other strains. Anyone else know of any strains you'd classify as "super auto?"

 

[Humanrob]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I recall you finish your girls under cover well into Oct. I'm looking for something that will truly finish with a few amber trichomes by mid- to late Sept.

Lately, I've been trying to identify "super" autos that have a 90+ day germ to finish timeline. Amnesia Hashplant from OGS *appears* to be one, and I've procured a packet to feminize for next summer, but I'm not aware of other strains. Anyone else know of any strains you'd classify as "super auto?"

I've been growing autos for a few years, and I'm still not sure what defines a "super auto"?

In the handful of years I've been growing autos outdoors, when I plant in the ground usually one plant in the group will take off. One year my biggest was 11oz (Mephisto/Walter White), one year it was 1.5lbs (Blueberry)! Neither were advertised as Super Autos. The other Blueberries in the same seed pack were more "normal" 3-5oz plants.

I'm curious to see how much they can stabilize the photo 'size' genes into auto-flowering plants. There's just so much to take into account. The 11oz WW was huge for my garden, but the buds tasted flat and we ended out processing it. It seems really challenging to have it all (size, flavor, potency, quick harvest...) -- and stabilize the strain -- when there are so many genetic factors at play.

 

[Sir Napsalot]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I recall you finish your girls under cover well into Oct. I'm looking for something that will truly finish with a few amber trichomes by mid- to late Sept.

I have a raincover attached to the eaves on the side of the garage I can move my plants under in case of rain, but I don't finish them under cover unless it's necessary. I usually harvest mid-October but have run as late as Halloween

 

[petert]

I have a couple of Dutch Treat clones that I'll probably have to cover in order to finish, and also decided to pop the Seawarp regs that were gifted to me a couple years ago. They're alleged to have originated from Reeferman and to finish by the end of Sept, so we'll see -- assuming I get a couple girls from the 8 seeds that germed; damn I hate regs.

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At some point it would be worthwhile to put together a community list of strains that have done well here in the Willy Valley. Trying to assess flowering time from breeder marketing data is absurd and frustrating.

Strains that have finished 9/15- 10/7 are Oregon Diesel, Mango Diesel, Blueberry Muffin (HSC strain) She Devil (OGS), Amnesia Hashplant (OGS).
I haven’t seen Oregon Diesel around much lately. Really good smoke but a PITA to trim