Round Three - 10 Pound Minimum Outdoor 2011

[Corbat420]

sorry, maybe i misspoke. I'm at around 41º latitude and unless you get lucky with a really dry or warm fall, bud rot and frosts set in mid september, so you're lucky to get them to go til Oct. 10th if that(unless you have a greenhouse). I know that they're hardy plants but once the weather starts getting to the 30's at night, they really slow thier metabolism and growth down (I'm sure your're aware being from canada). we don't get 12/12 til around beginning of august, and even though my plants last year showed sex by now, some didn't start flowering til august, and they didn't have enough time to properly bulk up and really fill out. Fast flowering strains up here are a must, but if your going bag seed or running plants leaning more sativa in terms of flowering times, its hard to get them to mature fully. I don't know where you are located alex, but i'm just speaking in terms of where i'm from. Not trying to rain on anyones parade or anything, but its gonna be very difficult to get 10lbs out of there. i'd love to see you prove me wrong.

i live in a rain shadow. i live closer to the 50'th (47º north) but because of the rain shadow created by the mountains i harvest usually at the beginning of October.....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain_shadow

and bud rot doesnt set in unless you let your buds get to wet. go down in the dew of the morning and dry the buds off.... this will stop bud rot from forming for a few extra weeks......

Fast flowering strains up here are a must

thats the reason fast flowering strains were made.... its YOUR bad if you plant a sativa and cant harvest it.... its YOUR bad you didnt get the right seeds......... and as far as that goes.... look up the matanuska thunder strain.... it grows WILD in ALASKA.

 

[farmer2424]

Dude, if your buds are dense and it rains for a day or two, you can't just go out and take a hair dryer to your buds, or just shake the water off. And if you think that that strain grows wild in Alaska, thats just retarded.

 

[farmer2424]

and my plants weren't sativa at all. the breeders gave a harvest date of mid- late september

 

[andsmokeit]

hey great grow im hoping you get every gram of ten lbs. good luck. fuck the haters

 

[hammer21]

The plants in the soybean field look like the farmer sprayed round up.........They spray round up on soy beans when they get a foot or more tall and even spray again in the summer. Weeds really clog up the shakers and screens on the combine. (Bad spot)

 

[aznight]

yea 10 pounds is pushing it no?

If your able to get 10 from those, i should be able to get at least 5 pounds from my 7 plants that range from 4-7 feet. and still growing.

Hope both of our crops turn out well brother, keep up the good work

 

[alexonfire]

Thank you all who support me.
Thanks for the info on the soy I had no idea. I revisited them last night to make sure that they werent all dead. There is some new growth but they are definitely not going to produce anything much, really i was just hoping for seeds. I guess never again, at least it was a try.

 

[hammer21]

Next year when that farmer plants corn (they rotate crops) Do not plant anything until the corn is at least knee high or taller because they come back threw and spray round up. If those plants are still showing life get them out of there they will not make threw round 2........

 

[CONNISSUER]

Ay Alex, Big Props to yu ukno.. yu be doin it yo. It take alot to make up ur mind and say "this time um goin to go big or nothin at all," well idk how it is for you but for me it'll tak alot. I know all of thos trees yu got ther is gotta be a hell of alot of work. I hope Yu get all that yu can from those trees yo. rep+

 

[alexonfire]

Im going to risk the plants in the soy field because they are autos and they already are in the middle of their bud cycle. Lesson learned
Thanks hammer and connissuer

More pictures coming!

 

[wamedical]

yeah you either poured your solution on the plants to water? or they got sprayed Be careful checking out that spot make sure you look for the farmer or his helpers when approaching them

 

[tristynhawk]

and my plants weren't sativa at all. the breeders gave a harvest date of mid- late september

breeders lie.

 

[farmer2424]

breeders lie.

this is true

 

[Hemp4Victory]

breeders lie.

this is true

This is VERY true.

 

[CONNISSUER]

We WANT PICS!

 

[alexonfire]

Here ya go!

They still havent showed sex so I will go visit later next week. They have shown that they are mature enough with the non parallel branching on top.

Garden #2



Garden 2.1



Big Devils (autos)



My 2 clones (the boss from garden #1) in plain bottle water after about 3 weeks.

 

[farmer2424]

Lookin nice and green, its sweet seeing buds already, should be a nice having an early harvest. Thats a cool pic of the clone roots.

 

[0Pacific0Northwest0]

Hey I have been watching this thread since it was first put up I was one of the first 10 people to see it. I have been rooting for your 10 pounds the whole time and still hope you get it. You have a very respectable garden, plants a tad stretched but hey its outdoors dam clouds. I have been wondering a few things more and more so I thought i would ask. Are you still expecting 10 pounds? If not what is you new expected yield? How many do you have now? How big are they on average?

 

[alexonfire]

Thanks for following pacificNW.

Good question, I believe I still can get 10 pounds but I also believe that there are many factors that will be an issue regarding final weight that are completely out of my control. Someone stumbling across my garden and weather are biggest.

I have a total of 51 plants outdoors as of right now. The biggest being at Garden #1
at 6 feet tall, the boss at 7. Mind you those pictures are almost a month since I visited them last.
Garden #2 are all mango except 1 and they are all 5 feet tall with massive leaves. Plants at 2.1 are 4 feet tall and the 2 Big devil autos are 1.5 feet tall and the other is 2.
My auto assassins in the soy field are very stunted because of the round up that the farmer used so they range between 6 inches and 12.

I will get more pictures next week.

 

[0Pacific0Northwest0]

If your mango plants are of any decent size you will more than likely top 10+ pounds they are a real heavy yeilder. I was looking to run with them this year and last but fail both times. I grew it the year before that indoor and out and was more than happy with yeild but deffin not the stongest around.also have u pulled males yet or are they colone only gardens?