Best cold climate strains

Cuttdogg7

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Hello y'all.
I am a grower from south-central Alaska climates can be harsh here i usually have to start off my season covering plants every night and finishing under greenhouses and Hi tunnels. If you are from Alaska, Canada, Russia, Sweden, Norway and or other places that are cold wet climates such as the graph I posted below, let's hear your input on strains you've used and had success with. I am very interested in hearing from anyone who has used BC bud depot I'm looking at doing my orders for next year through them.
 

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Below are the pics of some of the stuff I'm growing this year. I could not get the strains that I wanted so I went with my second choice Northern lights auto's which were planted about three weeks ago from seed.I also planted Master Kush which were started indoors two months ago climatized on the porch for a week and then put out into the garden about 1 1/2 weeks ago. I also posted a graph of the temperature for the past two months to help y'all understand my growing conditions. The seeds I started with I do not believe they came from hardened outdoor plants so it will be interesting to see what happens this year but I will keep you informed.
 

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MjMama

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Master Kush should be a good choice. It stays pretty warm in the summer here, but I have messed around with some winter grows, outside, and in a toolshed where it gets pretty cold. Ive found Headband and Alien OG to be tough strains for the cold. The Headband I had outdoors in February in near freezing temps and it survived and flowered for me. The Alien Og did well in my cold tool shed over the winter and got some beautiful colors. It handled the cold better than any other strain I ran this winter.
 
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MjMama said:
Master Kush should be a good choice. It stays pretty warm in the summer here, but I have messed around with some winter grows, outside, and in a toolshed where it gets pretty cold. Ive found Headband and Alien OG to be tough strains for the cold. The Headband I had outdoors in February in near freezing temps and it survived and flowered for me. The Alien Og did well in my cold tool shed over the winter and got some beautiful colors. It handled the cold better than any other strain I ran this winter.
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Thanks for the info MJMam, i'm starting to like this site I actually get responses.
 
Cuttdogg7

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I just purchased some og Kush
image.jpg They shipped today should be in the ground in a little over a week, should get an August harvest out of them. I made a boo boo with my Northern lights autos, first time growing autos and I didn't know that you were not supposed to transplant them so the OG Kush is coming in to be the savior...
 
Rob Roy

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If you can get ahold of the iranian as getaway mentioned.in the post above, do it. If you can't try Early Grizzly and keep selecting for the earliest of the early. "Friends" harvested one in late July last year after a couple years of playing with them. Good luck.
 
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Rob Roy said:
If you can get ahold of the iranian as getaway mentioned.in the post above, do it. If you can't try Early Grizzly and keep selecting for the earliest of the early. "Friends" harvested one in late July last year after a couple years of playing with them. Good luck.
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Thank you Rob and get away for that information on those seeds I researched a little bit on both of them and if I can get them through this year I will definitely be putting them in the garden next year
 
burner89

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Frost warning tonight in my neck of the woods. Potted plants will go in a shed, but I've got 3 in the ground, that i just topped 2 of yesterday.
How early do you need your plants to finish? I grew a Special Kush #1 from Royal Queen and she was done by the end of september. Good smoke, great yield and cheap seed. There was at least 1 frost while she was flowering.
I grew 6 different strains from 4 different breeders and this is the only strain I am growing again.I am also trying her sister Special Queen #1 which has similar characteristics. Only negative is they grow 10ft tall, which isn't good for me. Those are the 2 I topped yesterday and plan to top once a week for the month of June. The special kush did everything first last year, sprouted first, grew the fastest, preflowered first, flowered first and finished first and the biggest in 15G root pouch. Also blew over a bunch of times lol, so is in the ground this year. Only potted plants are autos.
A couple of lite frosts at the end of the season isn't really an issue imo as long as the next day is sunny. Usually it is because a clear nite is usually what brings an early frost.
How long are your days right now?
 
Cuttdogg7

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burner89 said:
Frost warning tonight in my neck of the woods. Potted plants will go in a shed, but I've got 3 in the ground, that i just topped 2 of yesterday.
How early do you need your plants to finish? I grew a Special Kush #1 from Royal Queen and she was done by the end of september. Good smoke, great yield and cheap seed. There was at least 1 frost while she was flowering.
I grew 6 different strains from 4 different breeders and this is the only strain I am growing again.I am also trying her sister Special Queen #1 which has similar characteristics. Only negative is they grow 10ft tall, which isn't good for me. Those are the 2 I topped yesterday and plan to top once a week for the month of June. The special kush did everything first last year, sprouted first, grew the fastest, preflowered first, flowered first and finished first and the biggest in 15G root pouch. Also blew over a bunch of times lol, so is in the ground this year. Only potted plants are autos.
A couple of lite frosts at the end of the season isn't really an issue imo as long as the next day is sunny. Usually it is because a clear nite is usually what brings an early frost.
How long are your days right now?
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Today sunrises at 4:50am & sunset is about 11:20pm and it only gets truly dark for about an hour or two.
This is a little trick I use early in the season to protect new plants from Frost, maybe it will help you. I build wire cages and then wrap them with saran wrap that I can cover the plants with at night.
image.jpg It is a very simple fix.
What sort of the yields were you able to get off that special Kush.
And I want to see some pictures of this queen #1 as the season progresses, that sounds like a very interesting plant.
 
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burner89

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I got 8 zips in a 15G Root Pouch in the woods with cheap nutes. Very little mold but i chopped a week early to be safe (Sept 19).
That amount of daylight you have is gonna be tough though.I like your frost cages, looks like they'd work great!
I will keep you up to date with the kush and queen as the season goes on, I also have a Pinapple Chunk that hasn't looked good from day one. My expectations are low for this plant as the seed was a freebie from Barny's Farm and doesn't look nearly as healthy as the kush and queen.

Here's a couple pics of last years kush, coulda went longer but we have very high humidity and heavy dews every nite.
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Cuttdogg7

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burner89 said:
I got 8 zips in a 15G Root Pouch in the woods with cheap nutes. Very little mold but i chopped a week early to be safe (Sept 19).
That amount of daylight you have is gonna be tough though.I like your frost cages, looks like they'd work great!
I will keep you up to date with the kush and queen as the season goes on, I also have a Pinapple Chunk that hasn't looked good from day one. My expectations are low for this plant as the seed was a freebie from Barny's Farm and doesn't look nearly as healthy as the kush and queen.

Here's a couple pics of last years kush, coulda went longer but we have very high humidity and heavy dews every nite.
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Where I'm growing now I have no choice but to finish under a green house because of our light cycles.
I could cover to block the light starting the third week of August to begin an early flowering but I have to do that for an entire four weeks in order for it to work out and sometimes I'm not around so it's just not feasible to do.
 
Cuttdogg7

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image.jpg Hello y'all.
well I just got home from being at work for three weeks and my northern lights autos had spider mites real bad. The person taking care of them did not notice. I think one of them is completely stunted because of it. The other ones I think Will be okay though. I gave them a complete neem oil spray down yesterday.
 
Cuttdogg7

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image.jpg On a better note the master Kush are proving to be a fantastic cold-weather strain. They have been growing in a temperature range between 40°F and 60°F and this is what they are looking like.
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Cuttdogg7

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image.jpg image.jpg Under trimming. i'm also putting on the first inner cages and bending all the limbs down today.
It's 80 freaking degrees out right now and I am just not used to this kind of hot weather but the plants are loving it I'm literally watching them grow. I did a top dressing yesterday with worm Poo, bat guano, kelp meal, Bloodmeal, bonemeal and and then soaked the soil with a compost tea this morning.
 
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Cuttdogg7

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Transplanted the nirvana Mistry seeds last night from the 1 gallon pots to the 5 gallon pots.
I've never gotten any Mistry seeds that turned out this goodimage.jpg
 
Cuttdogg7

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I planted the OG Kush autos from Nirvana seeds today, I will keep you guys updated with the progress.
 
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Here are some of the problems I've been having in the garden.
With the northern lights autos I had problems with spider mites to begin with which were easy to get rid of but since I got rid of the spider mites I've been fighting other bugs on a daily basis spiders building a nest underneath the leaves other bugs eating on the leaves and it's been a battle every day.

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The next photos are one of The Mistry seeds that has a problem I have not seen before maybe you guys can help me with this one.
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I have not had any problems at all with the master Kush.
 
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