My last ditch effort plants

brasmith

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This grower friend of mine turned to meth:roll::wall: and started offing all his supplies and neglected seedlings. I was the first one he called and it ended up being my lucky day.

I scored a 1000 watt switchable ballast and bulb for 100 bucks and an 1/8 and got 6 very sad seedlings that were about 6 weeks old at the time. When I brought them home 3 weeks ago I transplanted them and put em in the veg room for about 2 weeks with no change at all. So a week ago I decided to quit messin with em a put them outside as a last half assed effort just to see what would happen.

They like it out there and I have done nothing special. I have given them nasty cali water with ph above 8 and mixed old coco from male plants into existing dirt, which leads me to a question.....why can out door plants be so much more resiliant to ph matters than indoor plants?

One reason I ask this is because the ol' grower accross the street has grown outdoors for years and has never done anything to his soil or ph and always has massive unhindered growth......what the hell is up with the whole ph thing indoors versus outdoors?
 

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maximus316

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sometimes these ladies can take up too 2 months to recover from shock and revert back to veggin, especially if they we not in the greatest health to start out with...
 
freddiemoney

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The plants I grow outside are always more resilient against everything. They don't even look like the same strain as their indoor clones half the time. Feed them with tepid water from a dirty beaver pond lined with pine needles and they'll suck it up and ask for more. The sun, the moon and fresh wide-open air
have always been my (simplified) reason for it.
 
cbtwohundread

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go0d question i knew nothing of ph til i moved indo0rs bout a month or 2 ago.,.,.,outdo0r plants must get a abumdance of things they need outdo0rs.,.,while indo0rs we are mother nature and as we know we cant do her job better than her,lol,.,.,
 
brasmith

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So these little late to start plants are really taking off after they have been outdoors for about the last week and a 1/2. I really have no idea what the preious did to them but it was not good. I am just glad I could save em. I;m not too concerned about the ph thing anymore. Afterall they are performing now and that is really all I wanted them to do. I just hope it isn;t too late in the season. But as far as I can see they will be getting to throw out some pre flowers soon. They'll probably be bonzai plants. Supposedly they are the purps but that will show after a while. The guy could have been full of shit.

Let me know what you think.

I also threw in a couple of other pics of the garden and another plant I am growing indoors and outdoors when it is too hot for the 1000 watter.

Also, I started to germinate 16 hi-jacks woohoo can't wait to see the babies. I'll actually do my very first grow journal for these.
 

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brasmith

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Well today I noticed that the little strugglers started to look a bit strange right on the top where new growth should be so I got nearly inside the plants w/ a 30x microscope and found little hairs starting on 3 of them. The hairs are white near the plant and pink on the tips. I understand why they are flowering already but I thought they would at least get more than 2-3 nodes on them. Guess they will be bonzai plants, but that is okay.

I'll post some pics in the morning. I'll have to practice with the camera to get that close up, it's a good one. :sleep::bigjoint:
 
brasmith

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So the little girls are doing good outside. First couple of hairs showed about a week ago and now they are begining to form into small nugs. They are still dinky but they are stinky.

:peace:bongsmilie
Let me know what ya'll think

eager for ya to take a look and comment.

Any one of you RIUers ever have plans that were struggling til you did something drastic??

Any input is welcome......
Tahnks guys, Brasmith

The last pic if from another outdoor plant, just throwin the pic in
 

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brasmith

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freddiemoney said:
The plants I grow outside are always more resilient against everything. They don't even look like the same strain as their indoor clones half the time. Feed them with tepid water from a dirty beaver pond lined with pine needles and they'll suck it up and ask for more. The sun, the moon and fresh wide-open air
have always been my (simplified) reason for it.
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Ya these seem like they can handle anything now that they are thriving. One of the dogs (Miles) always pisses on the little one down into the soil and it has bigger tiny nugs than the others do, lol. That damn dog is sneaky, makes sure I'm not looking and then lifts his leg.

Between all the co2 and the sun they must build better immune systems than indoor.

Thanks for the input
 
brasmith

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cbtwohundread said:
go0d question i knew nothing of ph til i moved indo0rs bout a month or 2 ago.,.,.,outdo0r plants must get a abumdance of things they need outdo0rs.,.,while indo0rs we are mother nature and as we know we cant do her job better than her,lol,.,.,
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Yea it sure doesn't seem like they can be tricked into thinking they are outdoors so easily. The mother is a brilliant woman :shock: and she can't be tricked either.

I've always been fairly vigilant about ph and the plants because I have always grown indoors, however, outdoors vigilance isn't so crucial.

thanks for the comment.....check the new pics. Have fun
 
4led2head0

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wow they look great..
howd they look before this post?
and to maybe answer your question the reason why plant are so much more resiliant to out door grows is because for tens of thousands of years they have just been growing by mother nature, with no artificial light, in-organic nutes and soils.
 
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