2020 MASSACHUSETTS outdoor grow Thread!

I'm really glad I cut the big tops and smaller plants yesterday. I'll let the lower branches fill out a bit and use the fluff for hash and butter mostly. I use a rolling wash. cut, dry, cure, final trim and store system that suits my needs. I do this one day a week from early harvest to make sure I get something till its gone. That way I also won't freak out with too much to do and can enjoy the harvest stress free its a hobby after all.
 

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doug mirabelli

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Fock man I’m so discouraged by outdoor growing. I thought this was the year I’d have all my bases covered but nope. Caterpillars are breaking and entering. I saw a stem of one of my critical colas turning black, had to chop a huge cola. With my drying room not set up yet, I just tossed it in the freezer. Maybe try to dry it at a later time or just press it for oil. Fuck boys I’m Getting preparing to cut 2 of them earlier than I’d like, but I do believe they’re in the window. Got the fans straight at em while they’re leaned over. Just hoping for no rot accumulation while I prep the room in the next few days
 
This. Dispensary bud can be so hit or miss, and DAMN SURE not as good as homegrown, even early homegrown and that’s a sad sad commentary on dispensary quality control considering what they charge lol.
Its like comparing hot house tomatoes to sun ripened off the vine tomatoes. Especially here in mass the dispensary weed is garbage they don't have the experience of the Cali commercial growers yet and honestly treat it as a business and not an agricultural product.
 

natureboygrower

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Big plants are fun to look at, but smaller, squatted, lst'd/trained plants are a lot less stressful during times like this. Weather like this in the fall is why I moved predominantly indoors
 

dsmer

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Its like comparing hot house tomatoes to sun ripened off the vine tomatoes. Especially here in mass the dispensary weed is garbage they don't have the experience of the Cali commercial growers yet and honestly treat it as a business and not an agricultural product.
The cannabis business here is strictly commercial. All about mass production and profits they don’t care about quality. It’s really too bad. No way a small mom and pop grower can produce a quality product and sell it legally to make a living
 
The cannabis business here is strictly commercial. All about mass production and profits they don’t care about quality. It’s really too bad. No way a small mom and pop grower can produce a quality product and sell it legally to make a living
Why weren't local farmer's given a chance to grow in their greenhouses or fields? Given a chance to make good money. Guarantee you the quality would have been unsurpassed.
 

dsmer

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Why weren't local farmer's given a chance to grow in their greenhouses or fields? Given a chance to make good money. Guarantee you the quality would have been unsurpassed.
I tried passing a zoning bylaw change in my town that would allow this but was overwhelming denied when voted on. Too many old timer folks that though the world was gonna end if god forbid it grew outside in a field
 

moonman33

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Remember folks. These are the events that happen that you learn from. Weather happens, there’s nothing you can do about it. If you can learn from it and prepare better it makes you a better grower. You either give up or get better. That being said I have some work to do when I get home lol
That's a quitters attitude. I'm working on a rapidly developed weather machine. Hoping to have it out for spring of 2021
 

moonman33

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I tried passing a zoning bylaw change in my town that would allow this but was overwhelming denied when voted on. Too many old timer folks that though the world was gonna end if god forbid it grew outside in a field
NO outdoor growing here. Our personal sure, but no commercial. We are a farming community, more cows than people... The farmers are the ones that vote though and they didn't want it. That's their right and I don't really want big money in the town either.
 

dsmer

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NO outdoor growing here. Our personal sure, but no commercial. We are a farming community, more cows than people... The farmers are the ones that vote though and they didn't want it. That's their right and I don't really want big money in the town either.
The farmers in my town actually did want it because all of the farmland was being bought up and developed for housing. There’s just no money in corn etc especially on small farms. People were screaming at me at meetings telling me how crime rates were gonna go way up if a “pot farm” was allowed here. It was stereotypical reefer madness hysteria
 

moonman33

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The farmers in my town actually did want it because all of the farmland was being bought up and developed for housing. There’s just no money in corn etc especially on small farms. People were screaming at me at meetings telling me how crime rates were gonna go way up if a “pot farm” was allowed here. It was stereotypical reefer madness hysteria
yeah, our farmers are mostly 60+ it isn't a hip young place. But a surprising amount that voted no, grow and smoke. Go figure.
 

bigunyun

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Seems like the girls really started maturing fast the past few days. Chopped the AK47 and White Gold today... the Sour Diesel was lagging a bit and needs another week it seems. First grow and these were 8 ft plants but had a lot of issues. Slugs, hurricane damage, wet weather conspired and I moved them indoors for shelter a few weeks ago. The AK hermied and caught it late and it pretty much everything looks like seeds. The WG has some seeds, too, but only on one side of the plant. The Sour Diesel was farthest away and I don't see any seeds on that at all. I'll definitely plan to plant a few of those seeds indoors this winter. Battled some PM late when it got humid but gave some aspirin, a spray of milk and cranked the dehumidifier and fans and it didn't progress. Something turned a few buds brown, but doesn't really look like bud rot... not sure what it is... anyway can't wait to try some of this!
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Trainwreckertonville

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Ive found it’s best to run double or tripple cages and that usually lends enough support to prevent any damage. All limbs are pulled down through the cage and the interior is cleaned out.
 

matty-berk

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I don’t remove branches at all; it’s not a thing in my world; I have not encountered mold down there and more limbs = more harvest weight, which in my case is ounces and ounces worth.
but if you cut the buds that are like thumb nail size then youre plant will devote much more energy into youre bigger buds
 

matty-berk

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Went old fashioned and wrapped jute twine around branches - to support stakes - and back again to shore up my tall SFV OG(?) bag-seed mystery hybrid. It’s bud purpled during the last cold spell, and it smells kind of garlic-esque or like cheese or something???? Very odd! Some pistils starting to turn brown, so definitely my latest one - hopefully before end of October.


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Below is another shot of my K.C. brains T.N.R.
I was gonna chop(I did hang 2 limbs that’s broke off in rain yesterday) but I’m going wait another week.
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Garden shot: yep I used my tiki torches as stakes - mans gotta do what a mans gotta do!
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that second pic looks so sick! what strain is that?
 

Warfox

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Fock man I’m so discouraged by outdoor growing. I thought this was the year I’d have all my bases covered but nope. Caterpillars are breaking and entering. I saw a stem of one of my critical colas turning black, had to chop a huge cola. With my drying room not set up yet, I just tossed it in the freezer. Maybe try to dry it at a later time or just press it for oil. Fuck boys I’m Getting preparing to cut 2 of them earlier than I’d like, but I do believe they’re in the window. Got the fans straight at em while they’re leaned over. Just hoping for no rot accumulation while I prep the room in the next few days
I have had success with simply pulling or trimming off the affected single bud from the stem and spraying the site with H202 etc; It hasn’t been my experience that it spreads after that to other buds on the stem.
 

stealthfader508

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it looks like today is the annual Catastrophe Day on the mass outdoor thread ... I guess 9/30 isn't all that bad though, I remember years past when it rained for a week straight in mid-September and it was over... what sucks the most is when it's 80 degrees and sahara dry for the next few weeks and you can only wonder what could have been ... it's crazy how no matter how much attention you pay to your plants, it can all go south overnight

I found a few small spots of rot in the fat indica's (MOB & Mango Cream) today so I started pulling a few myself ... in my experience once it starts it doesn't stop so I expect to be trimming for the next 5 weeks straight

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dsmer

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it looks like today is the annual Catastrophe Day on the mass outdoor thread ... I guess 9/30 isn't all that bad though, I remember years past when it rained for a week straight in mid-September and it was over... what sucks the most is when it's 80 degrees and sahara dry for the next few weeks and you can only wonder what could have been ... it's crazy how no matter how much attention you pay to your plants, it can all go south overnight

I found a few small spots of rot in the fat indica's (MOB & Mango Cream) today so I started pulling a few myself ... in my experience once it starts it doesn't stop so I expect to be trimming for the next 5 weeks straight

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ya that sucks. I hear ya though, these things literally happen over night and can ruin everything very quickly
 
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