My Outdoor Garden-2010

I could put them outdoors, in the cage, but since I have room, I'll keep them in the greenhouses until I finish pollinating my desired crosses, and freeze more pollen for further crosses in August.We've had light frosts as recently as last week. Late for this area. Some potato plants show slight damage

Temperatures reach 100 degrees in the greenhouses, on sunny days, even when outdoor highs are in the 50s. Regardless of what others say, I believe Cannabis loves heat, as long as the humidity stays low. I've recorded high temps above 130 degrees regularly in the greenhouses in the Summer, with no ill effects. Good design, and big fans, coupled with low humidity make this possible.

The bottom foot of the East, South and West walls is screened vent, while the North side has three vents at the top, creating a natural air flow, augmented by a large fan in each greenhouse. Each fan acts an exhaust fan, directed at the center vent which isn't equipped with a temperature controlled opener, as the fans, located at each upper corner on the North side are.

The design is my own, and its success extremely good.

I'll try to post some pix, in hopes that others will benefit.

I would enjoy seeing some pics very much! Trying to picture it in my head right now.

Here's a few pix of one greenhouse. The other is identical.

8' x 12' and 7 to 8 feet high. Oriented to the compass, facing due South. The door is on the North side.

The fabric is Solexx. Steel studs. Vent screen small enough to keep snails out. Upper vents are unscreened to allow access to beneficial insects, like ladybugs, and praying mantises.

The fan replaces the air about twice a minute at the lowest setting.

2" x 12" lumber provides the walls for the raised bed.

Four to six plants will pack the entire greenhouse with buds.

Questions?

veggiegardener said:

Here's a few pix of one greenhouse. The other is identical.

8' x 12' and 7 to 8 feet high. Oriented to the compass, facing due South. The door is on the North side.

The fabric is Solexx. Steel studs. Vent screen small enough to keep snails out. Upper vents are unscreened to allow access to beneficial insects, like ladybugs, and praying mantises.

The fan replaces the air about twice a minute at the lowest setting.

2" x 12" lumber provides the walls for the raised bed.

Four to six plants will pack the entire greenhouse with buds.

Questions?

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A few pix from last Fall.

The last picture is a Neville's Haze that had purple, almost black calyxes. It was the last plant I harvested in '09.

Hey VG, heard you put a journal up for this years grow on RIU had to come and check it out

Great start as usual mate, loving the strains and am particulary intrested in the Afghan Kush.

Have you grown her before, any thoughts??

Im going to grow 1 Kali Mist and 1 Afghan Kush outdoors this year

Great so far man,you have so many sucsellfull grow's lol.

I am starting off my 20 ladie's in a few week's then putting em out in may at about 2 foot tall.

Wise420 said:

Hey VG, heard you put a journal up for this years grow on RIU had to come and check it out

Great start as usual mate, loving the strains and am particulary intrested in the Afghan Kush.

Have you grown her before, any thoughts??

Im going to grow 1 Kali Mist and 1 Afghan Kush outdoors this year

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Welcome!

The Afghani is very good.

All I have left is a cross of Afghani Kush x Super Silver Haze/New York City Diesel.

Occasionally I get unlucky. Never got an Afghani male from my original stock of seeds, in three separate grows.

josh b said:

Great so far man,you have so many sucsellfull grow's lol.

I am starting off my 20 ladie's in a few week's then putting em out in may at about 2 foot tall.

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Sounds like a plan!

I like putting large plants out, as well.

Probably about April 20th.

A few shots of boys and girls, as well as pix featuring young cabbage and broccoli plants.

Orange tags can be seen on branches that have been pollinated.

Hey VG, just had a question for you as a fellow cali grower. Im lacking in a greenhouse, and wont be able to get one for this year. My clones are on day 3 outside, they are very small only around 4 inches maybe 5 apiece. I noticed your girls are all pretty far into flowering, are you going to harvest them, or just let them revert to veg? Im worried about my babies jumping into flower early, and if they do, do I need to worry about them not going back into veg?

they are Green Grack x Querkle, a 75% sativa strain. thanks much

We're right at the split on whether a plant will begin to flower, if placed outside.

If possible, placing a light to shine weakly on your babies for a couple hours after sunset will insure that they don't get serious about flowering. A porch light, fifty feet away would be strong enough, if there are no obstructions.

Yes, I'll harvest all the buds about a week after I see revegging beginning. Because so many buds are seeded, we usually remove the seed and then make butter from the pot. If we're unfamiliar with a particular strain, we'll sample the best buds. If a particular plant seems especially attractive, I'll pollinate it in August, with pollen frozen in the Spring..

In my experience, sativa, and sativa dominant crosses tend to reveg easily, while pure indicas are more difficult.(Of maybe twenty pure indicas, in the last ten years, only two failed to reveg.)

Hope this helps!

veggiegardener said:

We're right at the split on whether a plant will begin to flower, if placed outside.

If possible, placing a light to shine weakly on your babies for a couple hours after sunset will insure that they don't get serious about flowering. A porch light, fifty feet away would be strong enough, if there are no obstructions.

Yes, I'll harvest all the buds about a week after I see revegging beginning. Because so many buds are seeded, we usually remove the seed and then make butter from the pot. If we're unfamiliar with a particular strain, we'll sample the best buds. If a particular plant seems especially attractive, I'll pollinate it in August, with pollen frozen in the Spring..

In my experience, sativa, and sativa dominant crosses tend to reveg easily, while pure indicas are more difficult.(Of maybe twenty pure indicas, in the last ten years, only two failed to reveg.)

Hope this helps!

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Thanks much, Ive started pulling them inside my workshop under 8' flourescents for a couple hours after dark, their about 8 feet below the lights. thats a genius method for breeding as well thanks for sharing! +rep BUMP

I thought they were already in the ground. You should be able to leave them out after April 15th, roughly.

nice job veggiegardner, you got it goin on, cool cat too

drewsb420 said:

nice job veggiegardner, you got it goin on, cool cat too

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Fuzzy and I thank you.

I've always though "Fuzzy" was a great name for a stoner's cat.

He prefers catnip.

A LOT of catnip!

LOL

haha fuzzy's dope

cool cat for sure.

To push things along a bit, I put a 65 watt CFL in the greenhouse with the female plants.

This light will shine from 5AM to 7AM to extend the day length to about 14 hours.

The pollinated flowers will finish baking the seeds, but new flowers will stop appearing in a week or two.

Pix to come...

Hey there VG! Happy Friday bud.

Got a question for you...

I am thinking about taking some plants around to another part of the yard... far away... to harvest for seeds (when the time is right of course). I have always grown sensi, so I don't know much about when to harvest the seeds?

I know the male matures faster... so he would pollinate a super young female? She then will focus on producing seeds, correct? How do I know when the seeds are good and ripe?

Thanks very much for this thread. I have already learned a lot.

RPsmoke420 said:

Hey there VG! Happy Friday bud.

Got a question for you...

I am thinking about taking some plants around to another part of the yard... far away... to harvest for seeds (when the time is right of course). I have always grown sensi, so I don't know much about when to harvest the seeds?

I know the male matures faster... so he would pollinate a super young female? She then will focus on producing seeds, correct? How do I know when the seeds are good and ripe?

Thanks very much for this thread. I have already learned a lot.

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I need to know a few things, before I start spouting off.

How mature are your males and females?

Have you ever seen how males develop and release pollen?

How many strains do you have, and have you selected which crosses you want to make?

Labeling is VERY important. Be sure to include dates.

Since I have everything I need, I'll probably do a short tutorial on my breeding methods, this afternoon.

Most strains require 4-5 weeks to finish seed maturation.

When trying to judge seed maturity, look closely at the seed pods(calyxes). When seeds are near maturity, many calyxes will split to show a sliver of the seed, inside. With a 10x loupe, you should be able to see the seed's color. Shiny brown, mottled or black coloring indicates a mature seed.

Pollinate lightly. Fewer seeds mean bigger, more vigorous seeds, as a rule.

More, later.