Lurking No More....I want to share my first outdoor season with everybody.

The Big One
The stems on the plant above began to turn red....


The Afghan is starting to frost up.






Haha The runt of the group. I've neglected this plant all summer.

big babys!!! i just had a question, are u telling me that by starting seedlings in water bottles it develops better branches

mhz said:

@BcDigger
Here's what I did: I grew out the plant until it was a foot and half tall in a small pot, and then I placed the root ball at the bottom of the bucket, burry a foot of the stripped stalk, so that a good 6 inches of plant is sticking out of the dirt. I observed that doing it this way establishing the plant, making a sturdy stalk and large 5 gallon root mass. Once weather is permitting, and that six inches grows two feet, you gotta get that large root mass two to three feet in the ground (where roots belong.)

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Holy MOLYYYYYYY that is Brilliant!!!!!!! It's like ****SUPER.Mainlining!!!!!***** I can't wait for next season now to try that out!!!!!!! Wicked COOL Awesome!!!!!!

@xxMissxx I hope the technique proves itself next season.

Nuggs from the afghan.




I failed to proved enough support for the plant, and it's leaning a whole lot. lol


The sativa plant just finished it's first week in flower.




Beginning of flower buttons.





The plant has a shit ton of flower sites....

Sweet!

More bud porn incoming!

I'm still around. haha

Harvested...

mhz said:

Harvested...

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Do you have any pics you can share of that big ol' bushy sativa all budded up before the harvest?

@mhz I notice in one of your pics you have been using the maxigro from general hydroponics....im using the same right now and only just upped it to the max recommended dose but only once a week...can you tell me how often and how strong you used the maxigrow please?

Yeah, I have a few. Next year I will provide better support for them. The rain caused the branches to lean, and I've been struggling with bud flop. Next year, I plan on caging them.


Sativa Buds.






@ruby fruit : I only used that stuff twice, because my plants began to bloom when I got it, but I went 5 tablespoons in 20 liters of water.

cheers for the reply mate...I got mine early so they have had 3 weekly feeds now and I got the bloom for flowering stage already everything else is all organic

Noobie. Kinda said:

big babys!!! i just had a question, are u telling me that by starting seedlings in water bottles it develops better branches

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If I recall correctly. .it helps them stretch. . The long neck is buried and produces a huge root mass.....This is one of my favorite threads...

@ruby fruit , I don't see the problem with having a synthetic fertilizer cheat day. I'd give my prized pony steroids. lol

Precisely, @mr sunshine . My objective is to grow a huge root mass. I've found that the roots themselves become woody...aka they become meaty (say you are sawing a branch, the meat is what you are sawing into...) Sorry, I don't have photos of the girthy roots at the moment. I do have photos of next year's crop.

These are my F2 sativa/indica hybrids I created. They express a variety of phenotypes explained by the reproductive cycle of angiosperms. So far I have five plants, and only three which I am interested in. The two on the left are the rejects of the group...Early in there development they demonstrated retardation in the structure of their leaves.


The plant in front of the lantern has weird leave patterns as shown below.

It must be destroyed...
In the first picture you can see that the two plants given addition soil grew tall and a thicker stem, the photo below shows the difference in size. The plant on the left is taller....


The best growing specimen from this group...



This plant had a deformed leaf, and I believe it shouldn't be kept for breeding purposes...I'm depriving it of water. hah


man, I need to clean my work bench....lol I'm probably going to use these for a mid summer light dep. grow.

Oh yeah, I'm getting two distinct scents...

Sativa Bud from a year old plant: tastes and smells like pine.

Nice. My sativa is only like 4-5 months old. She's ripening up now. Love sativas but hate the trim.

haha I've had it drying for three weeks now, and I still haven't gotten around to trimming it just yet. I ought to get it done asap.

Insane grow. The Afghan looks great and its inspiring seeing those Sativa's as i have a patch of em at 2 months now.

@blazin ZA , I guess I'm doing something right...
What strain are you running? Indo? or Outdo?

Swazi Landrace mostly for the first run outdoor . It`s a 2-6 meter growing high yielding sativa that fills up with red hairs, it looks very similar to yours and also is very piney although the phenotype im looking for is nice and fruity almost like pineapples. I also got one plant that looks very afghan that i planted off of one seed in an indoor section. I recently got some bubbelicious seeds from Spain as they have a similar climate to us here in South Africa. I also got some Transkei plants in veg , this is a short about 1-2 meter growing sativa however the major difference between it and the swazi is it only takes 8 weeks to flower as opposed to swazi`s 9-12 weeks. The main objective i want to achieve this season is crossing bubblelicious with the transkei .Here`s a link to my grow need some advice on what to do next.