Amazed at how much cold cannabis plants can take!
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Autodoctor
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you think it will make it to ripeness though in feb
Lizard0420
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Run it
drsaltzman
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Nice.
Pure Indicas can tolerate some harsh conditions.
Pure Indicas can tolerate some harsh conditions.
GanjaJack
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It'll turn purple in the winter.
(update: err, I should say, consistent 20 degree temp changes during winter from cold at night to hot during daytime can trigger the purps to come out.)....
As they do in my basement.. =) During summer they won't turn so much, but winter time man, the basement has a 20 degree temp drop at night and when the lights come on it brings it up to about 70... so from 50 - 70 in DWC. Plants turn AMAZING colors.
(update: err, I should say, consistent 20 degree temp changes during winter from cold at night to hot during daytime can trigger the purps to come out.)....
As they do in my basement.. =) During summer they won't turn so much, but winter time man, the basement has a 20 degree temp drop at night and when the lights come on it brings it up to about 70... so from 50 - 70 in DWC. Plants turn AMAZING colors.
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injinji
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I'm in NW Florida and I grow every winter. I do lose a few plants to cold every year, but it's worth it to me to have them out there when no one is looking. Frost can hurt young tender plants, but once they are hardened off to the weather, it has to get down to the low 20's to do much damage.
How does your harvesting cycle work when you grow like that? When do you plant them and when doe you harvest them? What strains do well for you when you do that?
injinji
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I pop seeds every moon cycle from October through January. Any later and they won't make it before reveg. May is the usual reveg time. Bud do not get as hard since the sun is so weak. Most years there are always a few too early/too late sprouts. I will clip the buds off them and let them reveg. Some make it through the summer, but not a high percentage. (although two of my veg buddy's reveg plants kicked ass as full season's this year)
I have so many strains I just pop whatever sounds interesting. This year I'm doing a lot of my Ass Cheese (cindy's blue cheese X donkey kong) crosses. Ass cheese blues, ass cheese blues boggle, sleepy ass, sleepy ass blues, blueberry my ass, etc, etc. But since it takes longer for Sativa strains, I stay away from those in the winter.
I use winter for seed making. The plants don't get as big, so not as much danger of getting found.
So, it is just about seed making, then?
injinji
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For the most part. And just because the law and the thieves are not looking in the winter. I can do a lot of different strains and not have too much of any one.
If you are really wanting yield, it won't be worth your time. Pre Hurricane Micheal when I could veg with lights until about knee high you could expect about an ounce per plant. (if you veg to about waist high, 3 to 4 ounces is the norm) I lost all my growing infrastructure in the hurricane and have had an ad hoc approach since. If I have the nerve to run the gas lantern for a few weeks, it increases yield. But a lot of the time I put them out at one month old, and you can expect about a quarter to a half ounce off those.
And what I meant about the Sativa's not being a good spring crop strain is they tend to be the last to flower in the fall, which means they will be the first to reveg in the spring. They are great for my full seasons here, where it rains just about every day in June and July, and about three quarters of the days in August. Early flowering strains have serious rot issues here. (my longest day of the year is 14 hours 7 minutes, so anything used to Oregon light hours blooms in early summer when it's raining everyday. I need to get some more f's in my best strains so they get acclimated to my length of day.