BigGuyTok'n's Outdoor Grow 2008

[[BionicChronic]]

fuckin nice homeboi! lookin good.

 

[BigGuyTok'n]

Hey thanks for the comments guys.
I took these pics of the outside girls last night when I went up to check for storm damage.
They all weathered the storms great! I only had one (K5) that even had anything noticable happen to her. And all that happened was that she laid off to the side a bit, but was still standing and growing just fine. So I just left her where she is and repositioned the fencing around her to accomodate.
Everybody is looking great.
The lowryders are forming buds quite nicely, the WR's are growing well, and K1 is a monster, even the wild one is looking good.
Oh yeah the ditch has been mowed and I didn't have to do it, the county came by and did it for me.
After I took these pics I sprayed them all with the neem extract again, because they are still getting chewed on by some sort of bug and I'm sure all the rain washed off the last spraying.
I managed to get two more sites preped (bought more fencing) and transplanted WR3 and LR2 outside.
That leaves me with just LR3 and the 2 Black Rose's inside at the moment. And with luck and a bit more work they will go out today too, even though I'd prefer to keep the frosty LR3 inside. I did promise my GF that this would be an outside crop.

 

[BigGuyTok'n]

Well I went and did it.......I transplanted the last three plants outside today. The two Black Rose's and LR3 all got new homes outside today.
I really was apprehensive on putting LR3 out as she has such a beautiful sugar coating and hope she doesn't lose it. But I discovered were all seriously rootbound anyway.
According to what I read of the Heath's Black Rose strain, they have not been tested outdoors yet, as far as I know. So I might be making history here or they might freak out and die, but I'm, of course, hoping for the prior.
I've noticed that my markers for the plants have been fading and getting hard to read. So I made myself a rough layout map of where each plant is while the tags are stil ledgible and now that they are all out and in their set locations.

 

[[BionicChronic]]

damn. making history is what im talkin about. i hope they dont go into shock of outdoors=[ oppps

 

[BigGuyTok'n]

damn. making history is what im talkin about. i hope they dont go into shock of outdoors=[ oppps

Hey I'm thinking positive here, History....Not Freak out and go into shock, Not !!

 

[[BionicChronic]]

man you know what your doing. trust me. that plants gonna grow up and be a beast. maybe more powerfull outdoors.=] got some new pics up too=]

 

[thegigglepimp]

Looking excellent mate! Keep up the good work, wish i could have as many plants as you on the go at once!!!!

 

[forestgreen]

Just checking in for the first time. Everything looks great!

Can you post a reminder of how old your girls are? I'm wondering if mine will be able to weather the storms by her third week...

 

[PceNluV]

hey big guy lookin and soundin good as usual brotha haven't stopped in for a while so thought i would drop a line, my babies are in the long dark period then we start flowering as of tonight when the lights come on around 6, thats awesome about the ditch bein mowed less to worry about for sure, your ladies are gonna be beasts...peace out bro

 

[mastakoosh]

nice lush plants. i am thinking about some type of autoflowering plants soon too.

 

[BigGuyTok'n]

man you know what your doing. trust me. that plants gonna grow up and be a beast. maybe more powerfull outdoors.=] got some new pics up too=]

Thanks man, I know some but the rest I'm learning as I go.

Looking excellent mate! Keep up the good work, wish i could have as many plants as you on the go at once!!!!

Yeah, I never expected them all to make it this far, but I know all 5 LR's are female and the BR's are feminized seeds, and at least one WR has shown preflowers. So great luck so far with the M-F ratio for sure. If all these make it to harvest I may have a problem finding someway/someplace to dry them. Oh the drama...

Just checking in for the first time. Everything looks great!

Can you post a reminder of how old your girls are? I'm wondering if mine will be able to weather the storms by her third week...

One White Rhino is a survivor from the first batch (March 12th) and the rest are second run from about the first of April. The Lowryder#2's were germinated on April 7th and I'm expecting them to take at least another 3 weeks to finish.
Due to starting as early as I did with our cold weather here mine got a good start (1-2 months) inside before moving out.

hey big guy lookin and soundin good as usual brotha haven't stopped in for a while so thought i would drop a line, my babies are in the long dark period then we start flowering as of tonight when the lights come on around 6, thats awesome about the ditch bein mowed less to worry about for sure, your ladies are gonna be beasts...peace out bro

Thanks for stopping by again PceNluv.
Good luck with the flowering.
I sure do miss being able to just walk downstairs and check on my babies, but it was definately time for them to move out.
Now if I can just figure out what keeps chewing on them.....grasshoppers (I have seen a lot of small ones on them lately)?

 

[[BionicChronic]]

its allways good to learn while the grow is goin on. so the next one will be perfect=] goodluck man.

 

[BigGuyTok'n]

We're in the middle of another thunderstorm with tornado warnings (been Really Wet lately), but I managed to get out and check on the ladies today and snap some pics. So that's why they are all wet in this set of pics, because it started coming down again while I was out there taking pics and checking on them.
They all seem to be doing really well.
The BR's are filling out even more and turning a much darker green.
WR1 is getting into another growth spurt.
WR5 has grown probably six inches taller since moving out there.
WR6 is getting to be an even bigger bush.
WR4 is trying to imitate K1 by turning into a tree.
The LR's are all budding up nicely with LR3 looking and smelling sweet as ever, even outside. Even though Lowryder#2's are only supposed to take 8-9 weeks total, they are at 9 1/2 weeks now. I figure they won't be ready until more like 13-15 weeks, but I'm still happy with them just the same. They'll still be finished long before any of the others.
The Kahuna's are doing great with K1 in the lead for first to turn into a tree (2 1/2-3 ft. tall now).
Enjoy the pics.

 

[Corso312]

lookin real nice ...hope ya dont get too much bad weather.... flooding killed most of my ladies last week stay high n dry bigtokn and good luck

 

[BigGuyTok'n]

lookin real nice ...hope ya dont get too much bad weather.... flooding killed most of my ladies last week stay high n dry bigtokn and good luck

Shit, that really sucks, Im' sorry to hear that Corso.
Yeah the flooding has hit a lot of the local areas here really bad.
The town that I work in has several roads closed down and a lot of new lakes.
It hasn't really hurt my ladies much though as they are on top of a hill even higher than the area our house is at. I hate our long steep driveway in the winter, but with these storms and rain it sure is nice to be on high ground right now.
Best of luck with recovering, maybe you could still run a crop of an auto-flowering strain. Hell if I could I'd give you the 4 LowRyder#2 seeds that I have left but the darn things wouldn't quite work the same through this scanner.
Hang in there man !

 

[nowstopwhining]

Well you were off to a pretty rough start and I was a little skeptical at first......

but man let me tell you im really impressed! Your girls are doing lovely...youve got an awesome variety....and everything seems to be going smoothly.

Good job man I love it when shit works out! Youd better believe im gonna be checking back frequently.

 

[Corso312]

yeah well live n learn.. i knew i would fuck up so i planted like 65 plants and after floods and insects and one of my dogs stepped on 3 (fat fuck crushed em instantly) i think floods made a buch turn male..is this possible ?i still have a dozen or so healthy females so all is still good so far a friend of mine told me that lake in wisconsin dells is gone and dried up... with all this rain and your ladies on a hill i bet u get some monsters good luck and i love lookin at your pics so healthy lookin...did your homemade spray work good to get rid of bugs?

 

[nowstopwhining]

yeah well live n learn.. i knew i would fuck up so i planted like 65 plants and after floods and insects and one of my dogs stepped on 3 (fat fuck crushed em instantly) i think floods made a buch turn male..is this possible ?i still have a dozen or so healthy females so all is still good so far a friend of mine told me that lake in wisconsin dells is gone and dried up... with all this rain and your ladies on a hill i bet u get some monsters good luck and i love lookin at your pics so healthy lookin...did your homemade spray work good to get rid of bugs?

I personally belive high levels of stress will give you more males along with more hermies.

When I first started I was getting about 50% females now im getting about 70% females.

Hey Do you guys know where Lake Geneva is...Ive got a lot of family there and I go there all the time!

 

[Corso312]

friend of mine has cottage there i love up there nice area... i was gonna go fishin there this weekend but i am sick strep throat so i am chillin at home for next couple days and hopefully get up there next weekend

 

[BigGuyTok'n]

Well you were off to a pretty rough start and I was a little skeptical at first......

but man let me tell you im really impressed! Your girls are doing lovely...youve got an awesome variety....and everything seems to be going smoothly.

Good job man I love it when shit works out! Youd better believe im gonna be checking back frequently.

It was a pretty rough start, lost all of em except 1 White Rhino.
I would've been lost without yours and a few others here on RIU's helpful advise.
Glad to have you stopping in anytime NSW.

yeah well live n learn.. i knew i would fuck up so i planted like 65 plants and after floods and insects and one of my dogs stepped on 3 (fat fuck crushed em instantly) i think floods made a buch turn male..is this possible ?i still have a dozen or so healthy females so all is still good so far a friend of mine told me that lake in wisconsin dells is gone and dried up... with all this rain and your ladies on a hill i bet u get some monsters good luck and i love lookin at your pics so healthy lookin...did your homemade spray work good to get rid of bugs?

Glad to hear you didn't lose them all Corso, and damn dogs always trying to be close and helpful.
The dam at the Dells (and a few others) overflowed and the water made itself a new path around it, so....... a lot of flooding in the area.
The spray seemed to help some, but I think the latest problem is frickin grasshoppers, little bitty frickin leaf-chewing damn grasshoppers......any ideas?

I personally belive high levels of stress will give you more males along with more hermies.

When I first started I was getting about 50% females now im getting about 70% females.

Hey Do you guys know where Lake Geneva is...Ive got a lot of family there and I go there all the time!

I beleive the stress does play a major factor in the M-F ratio, but I al;so beleive that the cooler temps that these babies had played a factor in getting more females as well. But I could be wrong too, and so far I'm just getting lucky (knock wood), whatever it is, so far so good.
I grew up down in the southeast corner of the state and as a kid we used to go out and get in trouble out in Lake Geneva. Very nice area, great muskie fishing around there, at least it used to be the place for the factory fishing derby's.

friend of mine has cottage there i love up there nice area... i was gonna go fishin there this weekend but i am sick strep throat so i am chillin at home for next couple days and hopefully get up there next weekend

First, get some echinacea, chicken soup, and some rest to kick-ass on the strep throat, then go fishing, thats the ticket. The freeway and the alternate routes have a butt-load of traffic from all the closures , that you wouldn't want to be driving on them right now anyway, at least around by us. I haven't seen that bad of gridlock since I-10 when I commuted for work in So-Cal.