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I live where there is very long and very hot and humid summers. I have never grown outside, but I would like to start! So im going through my seed bank and growing a wide veriety to see if any of the genetics I have can handle the 100+ temps and high humidity of the Gulf Coast! If anyone has any advice, please feel free to share! Started with a 12 hour soak in distilled water. I then moved my seeds to paper towels, where I let them sit for 36 hours. I then moved them to solo cups filled with 50/50 coco and perlite. I then filled the center of cup with 1"x1" of just coco. I then placed seeds, tap root down, into the pure coco, covered, and waited for them to break the surface!
Unfortunately the weather outside is just to hot and wet this year and I seem to keep messing up!:-/ So i decided to move them inside. they are doing great inside, and are really starting to take off!! I transplanted them into 1 gal fabric pots once they started to look better, and they seem to have really enjoyed that too. They are too light of a green for my liking... Im trying not to do anything drastic to them, but ive slowing started to feed them nutrients.
So i brought all the girls indoor for 2 weeks to let them get their roots down during these hot times! Probably will give them another week or two inside, then I will probably move them back outside
Once my girls started to put off horizontal shoots, I moved them back outside! Ive started to do some low stress training, in an attempt to even out my canopy. The "feels like" temps have been getting into the 120s! But surprisingly enough all the plants are doing great! A few leaves have been lost to pesky grasshoppers... I am spraying with pyrethrins, but need to change it up for something to better deal with grasshoppers... Unfortunately i'm growing out in the middle of a pasture, so they may be tough to do... lol
The Bubba Island Kush apparently does much better indoors... im probably still going to move her outside, but I figured id give her a little longer inside...
This week wasnt the best, but i seem to have got everything back on track for now. had some black spots appear all over my plants over night... then in 24 hours they turned white/tan. Not sure what it was, but it seems to have stopped. it happened right after a day with a bunch of rain, so that could have contributed. It happened to all my plants (8 different strains) so idk what it was. But they are growing great again and seem to have only slowed a little.
I also transplanted one of my Quebec Blue girls into a 5 gal fabric bag. The scientist wanna be in me just kinda wants to see what the final difference of the plants between 1 gal and 5 gal. The rest I will probably keep in 1 gal bags. I will probably move all my plants inside in the later stages of flower, so I am trying to keep my plants on an overall smaller scale.
Sandero
