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1️⃣9️⃣ April 21, 2023
Yeah, I know. I got lazy. Read my other diaries for more info. She was neglected for a week, got transplanted into coco, and has been frequently fertigated for 3 days. Not yellow anymore, but also not perking up yet. She was one of two of my plants that didn't like me very much this past week. I'ma try to get back on her good side, mkay?
That's it for this week. As always, thanks for stopping by, and don't be afraid to reach out if you have any questions!
2️⃣3️⃣ April 25, 2023
Today is the first day her tent is no longer flowering any photoperiods. I will be gradually increasing her daylight hours back up to around 18 over the next week or two. After that, the tent will function as a perpetual auto grow from mid-veg until harvest, with initial veging in my other tent. Hopefully no more lighting mistakes when everything is constant and matched up with both of my tents. At some point, this plant will be going outdoors to finish.
2️⃣4️⃣ April 26, 2023
She is up to 13h of light after a couple days of incrementing the daylight hours. She seems to be improving, branching out and stacking up a couple more nodes since her drought correction.
2️⃣5️⃣ April 27, 2023
She seems to be fully recovered from the drought now, drinking lots of water and looking healthy. She also tripled her height in the last week, up to 9 inches tall, so I think we're good :)
Day 61:
This is now an outdoor diary.
Day 63:
Still have to mulch this girl like I did the others...I'm lagging behind. Took a picture anyway. Guessing game to whoever wants to play: can you guess what plant the round-leafed one in the upper right is? Winner gets a storm of likes or something :)
Day 64:
2 shots of today. Some of my plants were overexposed from the sunshine we had today, so went around the yard again!
Day 65:
Outdoor growing is so fun. Except when nature takes a dump on you. Today I wake up to the biggest gob of white bird dung ever to hit my plants. The top most leaf, bouncing off every leaf under it. Every node has at least 1 leaf with white stuff on it, so let me clean that up, and I'll be back tomorrow with a picture.
Edit: Thunderstorm starting now and lasting a couple days. Here I go run around my yard with a camera like a lunatic, bird poop or not!
Day 66:
I think I'll let this one grow untrained from now on and see what happens.
Day 68:
Still didn't mulch her yet. It's been wet with thunderstorms for a couple days.
Day 69:
She's in the weakest spot in my yard, and wasn't really happy with how unsymmetrical and weird looking she's growing from the first topping. I ended up topping on of her middle budsites to even it out with the other side.
This plant sort of caught me off guard if I'm being honest. She was this short squat thing for weeks indoor, and I didn't pay attention to her enough outdoors when she stretched out a lot. She should have had a few more toppings by now, but hey, we'll take what we can get.
Day 71:
She is 34in tall today.
Maxing out yesterday, we have been gradually increasing her nutrients over the last week, now that summer weather is here, she is well-adjusted to the outdoors, and she has recovered from all of the topping and pruning I've been giving her. We should start to see her take on a fuller volume in the coming weeks, which, I may run out of room for and might have to get creative. She has plenty of time to grow before we even start flowering -- about 2 to 2 1/2 months before the stretch begins.
I will mulch her later today finally.
Day 73:
Sorry, but it is back to storming pretty constantly around here (see image). I'll get proper images as soon as weather permits! On the plus side, I haven't had to manually water in a long time. :)
Day 78:
Welcome to week 12! This plant is very low maintenance. I give her fertilizer every 7-10 days, and the weather has been doing the rest lately. Summer starts this week, so we have a long time to go yet.
Day 79:
I didn't spend much time outside today as I was getting quite dizzy from the heat wave, only enough time to get a quick height measurement: 38in tall
Edit: Back at dusk for some pictures!
Day 82:
It's 91F today and she's loving it!
Day 83:
At least 10 days of pretty major thunderstorms here. It's never been like this before. Well, I'll try to get out and take pictures over the next couple of weeks when it isn't pouring. For now, here's what she looks like at 40in tall now.
Day 100:
Defoliated the bottom yesterday. She's getting tall!
Day 103:
She liked the bottom pruning I did and is really veging now. I say let her climb for the sky. This plant is also the longest flowering plant I have in my garden, with a very late season harvest - 2 or weeks longer than any of my other diaries. Let's hope she pulls all the way through to the finish line with a monster harvest!
Day 106
Very thin volume on this plant, but very healthy looking - my healthiest plant in the garden. I'm very excited to see what she does in flower, which will start in about 1 month.
Day 108
She's doing great. By the way I should probably mention this now, since I just thought of it again: if you look at all the pictures of her, you'll notice that her fan leaves are never praying to the sun- they always look droopy. This is the case even when she is perfectly happy with lots of sunshine, and has nothing to do with the severe weather we've been having, as she posed for me the same way while taking care of her for weeks indoor.
I'm very happy with the genetics here so far, not having even seen her bloom yet. Out of 20 plants in my outdoor garden, she was the easiest to take care of so far. The bugs even leave her alone, unlike the other 19 plants. That is something to say. :)
We should start to see her bloom in approximately 6 weeks if she responds to the seasonal photoperiodic drift anything like our previous outdoor grows.
Day 113:
Well, mother nature decided to dump water on us almost non-stop for more than a month straight, but, the last 4 days we have had beautiful weather: sunny and hot with light showers here and there. However, before this nice weather, the week before, the rain was so bad that our area had severe flooding (not my property), and my whole garden got waterlogged. This plant and all my others stopped showing signs of growth for about a week. When this nice weather hit though, my garden started to REALLY stretch. This plant looks like it even wants to flower very soon. I'm wondering if the slow stretch is starting a bit early this year. Maybe, but we're still at more than 14.5h of daylight. In any case, sit back and enjoy the show because she is about to show us some sativa sky crawling power me thinks.
Day 116:
It's a girl!
Day 117:
I found a weird-looking leaf on her today. One of the leaflets was connected to the stem twice, LOL. I recorded a small video.
Day 134:
Cleaned up some of her lower middle where sun wasn't shining. I don't like to touch outdoor plants when they're flowering, but I have been doing a few leaves and twigs here and there as to not overwhelm her.
She's covered in hedgehogs everywhere, with quite a few bud sites stretching into tall colas. It looks like she is going to be a big producer, and I'd actually like it if they were golf balls instead of one large bud, because she is a later finisher, and it gets rainy again in the fall.
Day 140:
I'm impressed, and she is starting to smell sweet.
Day 147:
The buds are huge for her age (just look at my other flowering outdoor diaries). Frosty too. And...she stinks like...pure candy! I'm continually amazed by this strain.
Day 154:
A lot happened this week.
The other day I went out to prune off the 4 or 5 old leaves that I do every day. A few leaves in (and high as can be) I thought something was off about her. I stepped back, and noticed every cola was growing sideways. The tree fell over! She got too top heavy and partially derooted herself, leaning at about 45 degrees. There were a few low larfy branches that were touching the ground, and my whole goal this grow was to keep her as high off the ground as possible to prevent mold. So, I lopped those branches off and hung them to dry.
I quick dried 1 bud so I could inspect the bud quality. I am not happy. I found an almost fully mature seed. I am hoping this is an isolated case and we're not fully pollinated here, but we have had an absurdly abnormal amount of bees in the area this year, so that would be the reason why. There are no male flowers or 'bananas' on any of the buds. Oh well, outdoor growing is always a crap shoot. I'm sure we'll get something from her in any case.
You are probably here because this diary won 1st place in the 2023 Seedsman Outdoor Competition. I have a few things to say about that.
This plant fell over, its roots damaged and died, before it could be harvested. It was my own foolish fault, only tying it off to the fence it was growing next to. All my stakes and fencing were being used for other large bushes at the time.
I did not deserve this win. I didn't succeed in growing an outdoor cannabis crop. I took a few nice pictures, and that I suppose was all they (the contest organizers) were looking for. I spent a good two hours today looking over many many diaries that were entered into this contest, and there are some incredible entries, most of which belong above this one. Congratulations to everyone else. Some of you really have a talent for outdoor. I've been doing it for a long time, but it's just a hobby on a small scale, trying to make medicine for me and my dad.
This is the first contest I even placed in. I was surprised when I found out I won. It just doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. I wish I could share my winnings with some other great entry growers from the contest. There are so many growers on this site that inspire me, and I am still trying to learn some of their expert techniques. I've come a long way, still not to where I need to be, but getting better. Thanks for all the support to everyone that pushed me to keep improving and not to give up!
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So, unfortunately this plant died last week, but I never got a chance to updating it.
She actually got destroyed by two causes.
First, her largest cola started to die. The leaves on it turned yellow on the first day. On the second day, nearly all of the bud had bud rot on it, and new colas were starting to decay. The reason was not mold this time. It was butterflies. Yes, stupid butterflies killed my plant. Butterflies lay eggs at the end of summer, and bud worms, aka caterpillars hatch. They eat leaves, stems, and buds without stopping. This damage opens them up to infection to bacteria and fungus. And that's that.
After chopping all of the damage off and locating the little pests that caused the damage, the very next day the weather from Hurricane Lee ripped her out of the ground.
End of diary.
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