Frisian Dew Amsterdam

After a rather wet juli and august in which I lost one of my autoflowers, the glueberry, my 2 frisian dews started flowering in the last days of august, the bigger plant a couple of days ahead of the other, just had a week of sunny summerweather with temperatures around 25 degrees. Flowers are growing very rapidly, plants are well over 3 meters high, and the biggest one allready shows milky white hair. Because they are abit close to eachother I pulled them a bit apart with a piece of hempwire to astick in the ground. Hardly done anything, this year water comes falling abundantly from the sky. Soil was very sandy, but during last years I have gradually added marine clay from apark on the edge of Amsterdam, and some benthonite clay in the form of cat litter, so the soil can hold on to water and nutrients, so even with no rain I don't have to do anything, last week I have been weeding the rest of the garden after some weeks of neglect, and dumped everything around those plants which will probably feed my plants next year. Feed the earthworms and they will feed my plants. A week ago I allso put some diluted urine over the plant matter heap, after reading about this subject in someone elses growth diary. My neighbours who grow on their balconies are astonished by the height of my hemp trees. I will try to add some photo's tomorrow and write a bit more about my soil preparation year round, its all about the worms! Edit 3 days later Yesterday was overcast and had some small showers, today there is some sunlight, so that my Fryske famkes can fotosynthesise perfectly. the plants are allso very solid, in 2018 I had big bud, which grew equally well, but the plants were very brittle, maybe an idea to crossbread with a textile producing hemp. At the moment the plants are unsupported, there is no wind in the forecast the coming week is two cloudy days, after which drry weather, around 20 celcius, and increasingly sunny. The grapes are ripening now, which is normal, but alot later than in previous years because of a late start in spring. The cold and dark spring has allso reduced the yield of my automatic plants, growing very slow but still flowering soon. Summer was, apart from june, a summer like back inthe eighties, I spent about a sixpack of beer weekly for slugtrapping, and hundreds of these naked mollusks have ended up as nitrogen for my plants, but still a day I forgot to buy them beer, they climbed in my plants eating the youngest leafes at the tip of the plants, seriously slowing down growth. Not that i haveto complain about the size of my biggest plant, but still, Next year I will carpetbomb with slugpellets, especially because weed is not even themost preyed upon plant, I can forget about sunflowers and courgettes /zuccini peppers etc. Something about my two frisian dews makes me wonder, seedsisters do not seem to be clones, there seems to be a difference of at least a week in the developement of the flowers and I would have thought that the later one would catch up now that the daylength isdecreasing 4 minutes everyday. but not. Yesterday night I saw that i accidentally had switched on the light outsidemy kithen door, but i doubt if that makes any difference, because in the garden it is less than the full moon. It would off course be a good idea to produce sexhormones by putting a trashbag over the plants, but hell, thw plant is well over 3 meters high! Same problem with humidity and rain, I cannot practically coverthem with transparent plastic, Way too high... For the difference of timing between my two plants, there isa sunny side to it! A famous dutch filosopher sais that every downside has its advantage, and this means that Ido not have to trim everything at once! and maybe october will show some Indian summer,

Last week the weather was changeable average calm september weather, partially cloudy, daytemperatures just below 20 C reasonable amount of sun. The biggest plant shows steady flower growth and the smaller one is definitely in the flowering stage by now. I have not watered the plants, I did something for ferilizing though. Because Someone said that guano was a good idea for flowering, and I am financially broke till next monday I took a pigeons nest which was hanging below the balcony of my upstair neighbour and spread it around my plants Maybe I should have put it in a bucket of water an pour it around the plants, but there was rain in the forecast which turned out to fall elsewhere., and I had a very old dried out mixture of feline manure and kitchen scrapes which probanly lost itsnitrogen over the years. (Cats fertilize my garden anyway, they love freshly tilled soil as bathroom) No water required this week, just watered my little apple trees, at one and ahalf meter from the plants. Around the plants I have spread a layer of grass from my lawn and theresult of weeding mainly ground'ivy or whatever it isnamed in english, wookering all over my garden. even trying to take over my lawn.. Now I wonder if it´s a god or a bad idea to create acompost pile around the feet of my plants, because of all the moulds and funghi. I do not know of the funghi involved in compostization of dead plantsare the same as the funghus responsible for toprot. The reason I put all this plantmatter round the plants is improving the soil for thegrowth of 2022, because it is the sunnyest spot. I am concidering to buy a liquid PK booster next monday, but for now I want to let the decaying plant matter dry abit to prevent it to close off the ground from oxygen. It is stille very wet, but now, with sunny weather I expect it to dry quickly, fermenting in the same time. Guess the plants are sucking buckets of water from below this compostating matter. I am under the impression that the pantsare still growing taller, while flowering, but I can´t really tell, but what I can telll is the groth of flowers, especially on sunny days. One thing i find very pleasant of thisstrain is its physical strength, plants are not supported, the big one is leaning some 25 degrees for the loer part growing straight up again half way, in contrary to the big bud I had three years ago, which snapped all with every gust of wind, even the smallone on the balcony of a friend.Update 18 september. Rakelet rematerialized!!! This is a lovely day!, I found back a garden utensil that had been lost for weeks, cannot find translation so I will call it a rakelet, or handrake. Sometimes I can get completely discouraged because of things hiding themselves away, ¨Las cosas tienen vida propia¨ ¨Things have a life of their own¨ Found some courage, thanks to beautifull sunny weather, harvested the last dozen of garlicks, the only vegetable I have grown succesfully , this season has been terrible slugwise, they were eating out of the top of my frisian famkes, when they were well beyond a meter high! Garlick does not repell my slugs at all, I have seen them even climbing it, probably on the lookout for plants they like better. I slightly rearranged my plants apart by pulling strings attached to iron bars in the ground. man! They look even more impressing! For growth these plants can handle a rather rainy summer. I have trimmed my cherry tree a bit, to allow the lowering sun to reach the lower half of my plants, and weeded a bit more of my garden, collecting even more usefull compost for 2022. I am considering not tilling the soil in my hemp corner, and applying nutrients either by just spreading them on top of it or by boring holes and filling them with dried animal shit pellets, this way preserving most of the worm tunnels. 19 September. Weather has been sunny for the time of year, I see the buds swelling rapidly, but harvest end september as has been mentioned for this strain is impossible. Hope the Frisian Dew does what they promise, autumn can be very nasty, and even if this strain is said to be waterproof, when weather is cold and dark grey, buds won't ripe. Next year I think I will cover them up somewhere around the endof august.

September 24 Fed them last monday with a potassium fertilizer (vinasse) and bonemeal, after doing so I found out I found out it was way more per square meter than prescribed, made a calculation error between spoons and cups, yesterday I removed the top three centimeters of soil after seeing a couple of leafs with burned tips, and noticing that a coloration difference between the veins appeared, good lesson, next year, if any additional nutrients for flowering, I will start earlyer, and gradual, weighing the nutrients before adding. Did some watering after the feading but I noticed that the ton of clay and the benthonite clay from cat litter are working well, the sandier parts of the garden are bone dry, and the parts with added clay seem to hold water very well! The main reason for adding clay and cat litter was to keep nutrients longer in the garden. Today I accidentally snapped the top meter of the maincola😢( I have to stand on a chair and bend her down to inspect the top and with my phone in the other hand I was being clumsy in a ghust of wind I rightened it with a bamboo stick and tape, I can't notice the difference from my kitchen window, 😀 Very curious what she is going to do. What I see is that the pistils are rapidly colouring, but still hardly any trichomes, way less than I seem to remember from previous years. I am very curious what the top of my plant looks like when I come back, see if the buds above the crack are developing differently, and my wishfull thinking says that maybe she is going to roduce loads of THC after this traumatic experience. Weather forecasts are nothing special for the time of year, rather average, and no really bad nor really good weather forecasted. Air humidity will be rather high, but I hope this strain is as mo(u)ld resistant as promised.!! (edit 22h38)

2 october: I have been away for 6 days, weather has been rainy and windy. Coming back after 6 days buds had swollen substantially, wind has not damaged the plants at all, reparation of the top of the plant (after breaking it by clumsiness) has worked out well. Hoping for sunshine, it is oktober. Frisian Dew isdoing fine this far, no sign of mould, even after a rainy week. keeping fingers crossed for next week. I am very happy with this strain so far, even after terrible rainy and windy week there is no damage at all. 22 hours: The new weather forecast says that after two weeks of wind and rain the Azores anticyclone is going to spread out over western Europe during next week, hopefully this will result in sunny weather as predicted, in this time of year this can allso mean fogg, but at the moment things are looking positive, temperatures going up to 19 C next friday! 5 October: I had mentioned that the plants had survived rain and wind, but sunday night the big one came a bit loose from the soaked ground, had rightened her up privisorily, and improved the situation today. I have pushed two u shaped pieces of rebar in the ground and connected the plants to those Irons with sisal rope. just before the next wave of rain and wind is coming over. In spite of awfull weather buds are clearly fattening up and a lot more solid than in previous years. Weather improvement is predicted from tomorrow in the afternoon, sun is going to shine in the weekend! so my hopes are high. Thismorning I ordered a simple microscope, to look at the trichomes.

My smartphone hasgiven the gost, wich is Dutch for saying it is dead, so no pictures of my harvest. One plant is harvested, and it was quite a task trimming because of the sheer amount it took me several days.. Last week I bought a trichometer, amagnifying glass to observe the trichomes. and while the pistils were allready getting purple brownish, trichomes appeared late andwere christal clear 10 days ago, though this changed rapidly. Tuesday 5th october I spotted one bud with mould, and removed it, and dried the surroundings of this bud in the microwave at 100 watts. Does not give a perfectly balanced aromatic weed, but saves me a trip to the coffeeshop. It was bit difficult to decide when to harvest, beacause trichomes apeared late. While harvesting I discovered some moulded spots, but...No disastruous destruction, just small patches of about one centimeter, at about a foot from the tips of the cola's. No disaster at all, guess there were about 10 of these patches over the entire plant, maybe I have lost some 2 percent due to mould, no tragedy like entire cola's rotting away overnight, which happened to one of my autoflowers last summer. Trimming was quite a job, because of the size of the plant. Very funny was it to see that the top branch which I had snapped while standing on a ladder, and repaired with bamboo andgoosetape, had healed wonderfully. I have theimpression that this Frisian Dew is a lot harder to cut than other strains in previos years, very tough and fibrous. I have put the heating at 21.5 degrees, just tolerable for myself, and enough to reduce humidity to prevent mould the first days of dying. The second plant will be harvested one of these days. I have absolutely no Idea how much weight there will be, but I guess somewhere between one pound and a kilogram, probably enough to avoid the famous Amsterdam Coffeeshops, apart from buying a gram of Dutch-Moroccan hashish every once in a month. Smoke review will follow, but I have allready tried a bit, and it knocked me out because I am not used to smoking in daytime. I found out my lady has had a secret affair maybe a distant lover, more seeds than in the previous years, can be anything, people put seedsfrom bought weed between the flowers on their balcony, and let it bloom, regardles of sex.