BEAST(!!!) Cookies Gelato - Outdoor

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What can I say......? I've made all the possible mistakes that usually I commit in 5 years: wrong soil (too pre-fertilized, too compact, too acidic), wrong lights, direct sunlight burns. In addition, just before my rescue transplant attempt, my brand new kitten ate almost the whole plant. Anyway, transplant success, the seedlings has survived the night. This is my curse of gelato's strain, I have never been able to grow a gelato, never.

She's not died, a great result. Now she's adapting to new soil, next week will be transplanted into the ground.

Now she's growing well, fully recovered, placed 24h outside. Very hot climate.

Nice weather, 90 F . Transplanted today. I've added extra peat to low ph at 6.7, homemade worm humus, VigorPlant Full and perlite. Drainage layer at 40 cm depth. I was thinking of moving forward by 15 days, instead I'm a month late. Fuck. Plants are small, I think I'll let them grow as they want. Bye

All is going fine.

She's having fun and has passed the first heat wave without issues. I hope that her company will be a girl too, it's a cross between a femele Morroccan landrace and a Lebanese "black gold" pollen made by myself. Let's see

Cookie's Gelato is a gorgeous plant now. Temperatures and humidity were high during this week (93°F/70%). Cookies, designed for indoor growing, shows mild signs of heat stress while her sister, a cross between two savage landraces, don't care a fuck about heat wave. Genetics.

Summer Solstice Perfect weather this week, Cookies is grown a lot and now shows giant fan leaves. LTS started with a little of difficulties because of very short internode length. From today the worse heat wave of european history will put a strain on my Cookies for 15 days at least, must be very careful she don't like heat. Watered with rain or Ph controlled water. Plants start to smell. OT Maleb is in alternate grow, very little time to preflowering. I bet she is a girl.

106 °F today and still these girls thrive while I got very low blood pressure and remains to me only the strength to water them, peppers and tomatoes. Cookies Gelato is very happy and in a such way is adapting herself to extreme heat and still maintains a very short internode length with very thick branches. MALEB is a girl. Borned from regular seed is a cross between a male lebanese "Black Gold" landrace and a female morroccan landrace. Lebanese seeds came from Majdaloun where a great friend of mine has served in a peacekeeping mission. Morroccan's came from Issaguen in the Rif. Both landraces at that latitudes show semi-automatic behaviour where are planted in early april and finish their short cycles in mid-august. My latitude is higher and usually photodependants start to preflower at 14.30 hours of light on July 15. Maleb starts to preflower on June 27 at 15.05 hours of light. A great result more than any "fast version" around. Her savages genetics are very clear, simply she don't care a fuck about heat and critters avoid her. When temps will go down I'll take some cuttings trying to obtain some feminized seeds from them, under HPS Cheers Bros

Hello Gromigos, well, I've lost the count of days with hell hell temps, always around 95°F. Cookie is starting to stretch but internode length is incredibly short. This pheno is perfect for indoor growing in a large pot, a single but great plant. I've trained to low main bud obtaining an homogeneous canopy. Now branches are full formed and fat. Incredibly hybrid vigour. No need for fertilization, maybe 1-2 shoots later, in blooming. I'm watering them every other day with 2 gallons each, little by little, trying to avoid past's run mistakes.

Perfect weather. This girl is a monster, she has gained more than 40 centimetres in 1 week and now (without LTS) will be 6 fts tall. Strong smell of burned cookies and caramel, very uncommon at this stage. My first consideration is that Fast Version strains are far behind respect to standard feminized ones.

I have lost control of these plants, on the other hand, with all this sun they could only become trees. Now are 6 ft tall. That's all.

7.21 ft tall, sturdy branches in the final days of preflowering. Absolutely no defoliation or fertilization, the soil provides for all nutritional needs, for now. Maleb is in flowering, very early girl.

Today: 14.18 hours of light 100.4 °F 58%Rh 1 million of mosquitos I've spent this hot week training these two plants trying to keep them the lower as possible since the two main buds have reached the roof (7.87 ft tall). Cookies Gelato is about 9.50 ft tall. I've applied white plastic net all around the pergola to give them some shade in order to slow down the metabolism. These plants are giant and there is no more space to move around. Asparagus stalks are well formed so this is, hopefully, the last preflowering week. Cookies is hungry and some bottom fan leaves start to show chlorosis but the top/mid canopy is plenty of natural nitrogen. During these last weeks I've watered them with 4-5 gallons each, leaving the soil to dry for 2/3 days, they seem to love this scheme. Also, the fact of not having pluck away even a leaf made these plants big and extremely vigorous. Tomorrow I will create a roof with clear plastic rolls as the nighttime humidity begins to increase and some summer thunderstorms are on the horizon.

First stigma has appeared. I can't manage this monster. Maleb is in full blossoming. I can't imagine what would have happened if I had given her the fertilizers

Gone to the sea

All is going over my expectations, greenhouse is fulfilled by weed, no room to move into. Maleb is full bloom and stinks of strawberry. I've broken my phone so pics are a little crappy. Still no nutes and defo

Unfortunately also this year the plants show symptoms of fusarium oxysporum. Maleb is affected only on one side branch while cookies is affected on main bud. Usually my plants are only partially affected by fusarium, I hope this time will be the same. I hoed and cleaned the ground. I'll use tricoderma and mycorrize ASAP.

Cookies is sick, less than half branches are suffering. Anyway, fusarium seems to be slowed by application of hydrosoluble mix of tricoderma/mycorrizzae/bacteriae. Of course I'm avoiding any possible stress such as defoliation or fertilisation or overwatering. With cookies time is not on my side, the illness is always faster than maturation, so if I'll be really lucky if I'll harvest half plant. It's a sin because she would have easily yielded 4 pounds of buds. Maleb too is sick of fusarium but this has happened 2 weeks from harvest so the loss is insignificant. 1 week left, maybe two pounds of buds. if I have an abundant yeld anyway it is only because the plants are planted directly in full soil and only portions of roots are affected. Weather is pretty good and it will remains so for 10 days.

Cookies is still sick. I've cropped some of the most suffering branches, I dissected them and I haven't found any vessel's damages so until I have the possibility to dissect the crown I can exclude Fusarium. The alternative is roots damages by fungus gnat maggots so I've applied a hydrogen peroxide at 3% 1:4 solution to sterilise the soil. This helped a lot, cookies looks better and is restarting to drink again. I've started to crop Maleb, amazing and huge plant with enormous and fat buds. I think the harvest will be around 800 grams.

Despite being sick Cookies is still a strong and hardy plant. Watered again with hydrogen peroxide solution. I'm a little disappointed as this plant is maturing with super fast rate, weather will be good for all the week long so I think she will be ready in 7 days, two weeks before the minimum indicated by the breeder. This is not the first time that plants here mature earlier than indicated. Also Cookies reacts to illness anticipating the ripening. This enormous plant, if she had been in good health she would have yielded as much as 3 pounds of bud. Since it is partially unable to assimilate nutrients from the roots, however she continued to ripen well because she has had so many huge leaves from which to draw nutrients. Therefore friends, never defoliate a plant outdoors in the open ground. Never

Cookies is almost ready and despite her illness is really a beauty with those purple colors and orange pistils. I've cropped 3 minor branches and the buds quality is superb, heavy like lead. At the end the whole plant is suffering (except 3 magnificient colas) but 3 liters of hydrogen peroxide and tricoderma have saved the harvest. After each application plant has started to drink again and to suck the last nutrients from leaves. Luckily weather has been pretty good but cold until today, while a great rain storm is hitting my town right now. Cookies is really an hardy plant and shows total resistance to mold, until now. Despite this plant don't stinks too much (this is a great PRO) rubbing the buds let the smell explodes. A mix of berries/balsamic pine and a bittery taste of diesel and burned cookies. Just amazing. Also her first testers say this strain is VERY potent.

SUMMARY Wet trimmed and dried for 9/11 days Total dry weight 867 grams 24 grams of bubble hash Sprouted April 19 Flowering on August 10 Harvested October 2 & 4 Flowering days 55 Start to flower by 14.27 hours of light Total 165 days of outdoor cultivation PROS Vigorous (Unexpected) short flowering time Premium buds Homogeneous ripening Great yeld Smell and taste are superbe Heat and pests resistant Extremely mold resistant Easy to trim CONS She stretches a lot (200/250 %)