A relatively good week in the garden. The girls are not growing as fast as they could because we have a real shortage of water here. The river has been bone dry for at least three weeks and I have to go quite far to fill the water tanks. It is very energy and time consuming. Therefore I end up giving enough water for them to survive but not enough for them to truly expand their roots and grow bigger. It is suppose to rain tomorrow and after tomorrow, but they've been announcing rain for three weeks without a single drop so we will see!
If I had to choose a favorite thus far, it would be the freezeland. I like its growth structure and it clearly requires less water than the other strains to stay healthy. I don't know if it will be my favorite smoke tho, time will tell!
They should start flowering in about 12-14 days. I plan on letting them grow until then and do one last big defoliation right before flower. I am currently making fremented fruit juice following the korean natural farming method to use for my flowering fertilizer. I used that last year and enjoyed the result, plus it is organic and way cheaper than if I was to use bottled nutrients.
Thanks to everyone who's following!
Hi fellow gardener,
I've just found your diary, It will be very nice to follow as Freezeland is not common these days, at least for me.
Used to be the best stuff back in late 90's where I in Quebec. It's a fantastic strain I remember how sticky and smelly it was... a true delight with intense pine smell with some touch of orange in some phenotype.
@sativaman, Happy to hear that you enjoyed the NL x BB...I don't know much about this strain and decided to grow it mostly because it is suppose to be ready for chop early in the season. And yeah the freezeland I get is from clone only. I might do the project of making seeds with it next year, I know that would make a few people happy!
@OldNorth, I wish I've kept some seeds as well. I will also keep an eye on your NL X Big Bud .. good memories around this strain too ! I wish you a great season!
@sativaman, Yes it is a wonderfull strain...perfectly suited for my northern climate. I am lucky enough to have an old friend who also love the freezeland and has been keeping the genetic for 25 years +.
I actually have two pheno of freezeland in the field. One of them we call crypto-freeze. It tends to produce the most of the two but it usually takes an extra week and a half to be fully ripe. If you harvest bedore full maturity, the smell is lacking massively. Depending on the weather here, the extra week and a half can be a little bit of a pain.
The second one is bubbleberry freeze. As the name says, it is suppose to be a cross of freezeland, bubblegum and blueberry, Doesn't yield as much but is ready a little sooner, around september 23-26th ususally.
@simps, It's an organic bloom fertilizer made using the korea natural farming method. Pretty simple to make. You take a bunch of fruits like banana, apple, and mango that you cut in pieces and mix with equal weight of fruits to sugar. You mix all of this and let it sit for about 14 days for the fermentation process to occur. You end up with a black liquid that is rich phosphorus in potassium. You mix it in with your water to a ratio of 1:1000 in early flower and 1:500 in the later stage. Look "fermented fruit juice knf" on google and you will get a bunch of results if you want to learn more.