Got an outdoor crop this year? Lets see what ya got!
ChemicalGrapes is a strain that I made a few years ago. I had an amazing (91chem x (ecsd x og)), which was a clone that a friend from western mass gave me. The taste went from a sour lemon taste on inhale, to a chemy diesel taste on exhale. At the same time, I was growing TGA querkle which I really loved the taste of. Out of 5 pack of querkle seeds, I ended up with 1 female and 4 males. One of the males smelled incredible, like grape koolaid or grape jellybeans. Even in veg, he was a stinky bastard. The other trait that I liked about the male was that he had pretty good structure (thick stems & didn't stretch to much like most males). I pollinated the chem clone and have f1 seeds that I have been running, looking for something nice to try and stabilize. So far, so good......
The sour d pheno, I would say a few more weeks atleast. She hasn't really started swelling yet. But the OG pheno seams to be a little quicker. She started flowering the same time but is already starting to swell. And the trich's on the OG girl are just insane........
Kudos also Matt
They look great !
If you start you seedlings april1st, give them two months indoors, then put them out June 1st you will be looking good. Just keep them from getting root bound and I'd keep them under HID's if you can. IMHO putting them out early/mid may sometimes works but its usually wet, cold, the slugs are really bad, and the time change can throw things into flower ( try to match your indoor light schedule indoor with the outdoor light schdeule when you first put them out). At that point in the season unless you have a greenhouse or something to throw them in, they'll put on more growth and will be healthier kept indoors until the drier warmer weather. Mid-september is pushing it for many strains, because they usually don't start flowering til around Aug. 15-20th. Getting mold resistant and fast flowering strains is key. The cold nights lately slow them down a bit, but they can take a frost. Plants in the ground generally take frosts better than plants in pots, but unless its a real hard frost for more than just a few hours the plants usually bounce right back. Yields outdoor could def. be greater than indoors, but its all about how far you can take them into flower. I've had and have seen plants that would've been easy pounders indoors, but then wet wether set in and had to take them long before their time. There are so many factors that play into your yield (pot size, amount of direct light, soil type, weather, ect.) it's hard to say what you can yield under the sun. Outdoors, you just gotta take what you can get for the most part. A greenhouse or large hoophouse can give you a few extra weeks on your season though. Just my take on the whole outdoor thing in Maine. peace fellow Mainers, enjoy the beautiful dayKudos also Matt
Question from a intermediate indoor grower .... I am thinking of the possibility of doing an outdoor grow in 2013. I know I have a lot of reading about it this winter, but .... (1) I take that the season must be somewhat like tomatoes (memorial day to plant) and then mid-September for harvest? (2) What about the cold temps at night here in Maine ... would not that have an effect on your plants? (3) In your opinion, are the yields per plant (greater, lower, same) as an indoor grow?
Thanks in advance for your help
The MaineYankee
Nice buddy's man just word to the wise I have gone a swamp grow and right around now bud rot became and issue wi th all that moisture in the air with those dense nuggs you may have the same problem just a heads up to keep a keen eye out
