It took me 3 1/2 to 4 hours to remove all of the fan leaves without taking a break and it takes awhile to actually harvest the plants but im not doing that until the temperature is almost 0 °C at night and there probably isn't going to be alot of good sizes to trim by hand because alot of it is very small. It isn't a very high yield if I only want the sizes that can be hand trimmed and thats mostly because its a flower that is meant to be displayed based on its size and not the function. The sizes are so small that if they were 1lb plants at the most indoors, these probably couldn't be higher than a 1/4 of that amount. The autoflower plant that looked like it was a large size but was not dense in comparison to an indoor grown plant only yielded 0.9 ounces of good size flower and 0.1 ounces of really small size. If you think about how expensive the coco would of been, the nutrients and the amount of time spent, there heirloom tomato plants or they were at one point if you consider that you can grow alot more veggies and fruit than cannabis if they can use it and thats why it was a good idea, but it might be more work than one person wants to do because your all of sudden lifting and not carrying lighter items.
There were difficulties photographing with cloudy conditions with the camera, it did take a better photo with sunlight shining on the plants.
The next day I cleaned up all of the fan leaves and that took me awhile and it does look better with them cleaned up, it might be a better idea to put them in buckets as your working on them but this time I didn't.
I found some mold on one of the Alien OG branches and inside I found seeds but they were not completely finished so im going to move them into a warmer space to finish but i'll photograph them again at harvest and then move them, im not sure if they'll germinate.
The weather forecast was saying a few extra days before it freezes but now its for snowfall with above 0 °C temperatures but im not sure they can survive that and ive got seeds to finish so it is looking like im going to be harvesting these around 56 days of flower instead of 60+ days.
@Todzilla,yhea you can pull the rebar with lawn staples probably I like using rock, you can hold the rebar in with a lawn staple if its not in super deep but I could probably hammer it in as deep as the container, I think that for photography purposes the rock explains the plant, its like the sands of time unfolding before you, you can't explain why something so large is so small yet so many times larger.
@blackskaarj1,I use lawn staples in rocky hard soil and it works for stabilization quite well. The staples are the lowest cost and easiest to install.
I also have used bamboo, stakes, and rebar. They all work for wind.
You just gotta get it done.
@Todzilla,no you can't use lawn staples you need to take a piece of rebar hammer it into the ground and then put a long piece in and your likely to either hit up against another rock or it'll work or not at all.
Hey, you can get a magnifying glass app for your phone that works good enough to see trichomes. No need for a loupe or physical magnifier. Can get good bud pics easily, even using an old phone.
What an nice outdoor grow so far - good job and well done 🤝 never did outdoor myself.
Happy Growing & cant wait for your upcoming weeks 🌱
Cheers, Bud Boutique 👩🌾
I did feel that not having any structures or roads in the way of the plants as they grow is better visually, the material that the plants are up against affects how you feel about them. Its better than landscaping that you would normally see, its better. I do encounter alot of wildlife though, its definitely there to see. Its my experience vs your idea of what is supposed to be enjoyable and that means I couldn't imagine it being a good idea for August and September because of the fire season but that is what im looking at.