Colombian Jack (outdoor)

Doing pretty good. She goes outside next week.

Now that the weather is nice, we transplanted these two outdoors! We have 1 more growing indoor, in a 5 gallon pot.

These have been outdoor for more than a week now, and are doing just fine, despite the looks. We usually plant seedlings directly into the ground like this, and the result for the first few weeks is that they get bitten by small grass insects due to being to low to the ground, and get a little yellow because of that too. It's not ever a problem though, and I think it always makes my outdoor plants stronger. In a couple weeks, these plants should look a vibrant green with no leaf damage. I'm looking forward to seeing these explode under the power of the sun!

We've had some horrible rainy weather this week, and they aren't doing too good, as can be seen. In addition, some animal dug up the other one, and I'm not sure if it will make it after replanting it. We'll let them go and see...

I don't have high hopes for this one. Maybe a bad phenotype, maybe my wrong-doing. Who knows? I am not upset as I have another phenotype growing in a pot outdoors, at about 2 feet tall. I don't kill plants because I've learned anything can happen during the transition to bloom. So we'll just ride this one out, despite her terrible looks. I have the space anyway, so there is no need to cull it.

This week was pretty rough for all of my gardens, indoor and outdoor. We had a heat wave in the triple digits (Fahrenheit) all week, with humidity, at times, over 90% outdoors. However, this little plant seemed to not be phased by it. I mean, it's a runt and hasn't grown much, but this week it seems to be a little greener and hanging in there better. All we did this week, besides add plenty of water, was defoliate its two first true leaves that were close to the soil line.

Week 7 of vegetation is complete. What a tiny plant she is. She started out with stunted growth since birth but she is starting to look better this week, finally. She might actually grow up to be a decent plant, as there is still plenty of time left for her to flourish.

For this runt entering the 9th week of vegetation, she looks better, but smaller than most plants on their 3rd week. We have to remember though, that this plant was just a duplicate seed I sowed as a backup for the much larger version growing in another diary, and we were going to toss this one, but decided to let nature run its course. Well, nature is still being nature and whatever it brings to this plant is better than throwing it away before getting to see it grow up. Time keeps on ticking...

This runt hasn't done much all summer, but here it is for shits and giggles anyway.

Ok, so this plant is finally starting to grow. I'll take it :)

She's definitely more respectable lately. The shorter days are pushing her to grow a bit more now. I don't really have anything else to say about this one, haha.

So, back when I started this grow, I sowed 3 seeds and was going to keep 1 to grow indoor. The indoor one I decided to keep was forced to be placed outside, I think because of a failing light I have since replaced. I have a bad memory. That "indoor" plant has been outdoor in a 5-gallon fabric pot ever since. The two that were not as strong growing were going to be killed, but, I don't really like killing plants, so I also put them both outside, except transplanted in the earth. So, we have 3 plants of this cultivar growing outdoors. The strong one that I kept in the fabric pot is in another diary of mine still growing. The other 2 plants that were transplanted outdoors was this diary. Soon after being placed outside, one of these two plants was dug up by a rodent, and laying on the ground completely up-rooted. I haven't been showing it off for a long time, because for a few weeks, I wasn't sure if it would make it after re-transplanting it. To be honest, I didn't know if the other one would either, as both of these plants grew very slowly. This week is different. I took a picture of both of them side by side, making both runts part of this diary once again. The plant on the left is the one I have been documenting for a while. The one on the right is the one that was dug up by a rodent, and was growing slower for a long time. We can see from the image that the one that was dug up (the one on the right) is now slightly larger than the one on the left. We can also see that both appear to be very similar in appearance and growth rate. We have here two runts that more or less grew equivalently, while another plant of the same cultivar in another diary decided to reach for the sky from the very start. Pretty interesting. Check out the other Colombian Jack diary if you're curious about the other one, which has a weird mutation called "fasciation", where the stem grows flat like celery, with a lot of extra nodes and foliation. It will also produce an elongated cola that will look pretty strange when it begins flowering. But that's for the other diary. These 2 plants are robust, coming from weeks of nothing, to pretty nice looking plants at this point. The only problem is they are growing rather close together, which is my fault due to space issues this year. I'm not worried though, as last year I grew 3 Kannabia Kiss plants in the same transplant hole, and was rewarded with one of my largest outdoor harvests ever, with them never competing over each other and growing as one. It was pretty nice. We'll see what happens this year.

These 2 plants are really starting to grow now. I guess they just needed shorter days to come alive. Another couple of weeks and they should start putting out flowers.

Welcome to the start of flowering for these two little ones. I didn't pay atention to any of my outdoor plants this week except to take pictures on the last day. Nearly all of them are flowering now.

These 2 plants are doing quite well, and look like pretty homogeneous genotypes. It's actually pretty comical going back just a few weeks in this diary to see how small they were compared to now, and for so long.

These plants are doing fine.

I haven't had a chance to go outside to check on my plants in a few weeks, but after doing so this week, I had to chop them all early. They were getting some powdery mildew on lower leaves, and the rest of the leaves were depleted of color, drooping, and falling off (not senescence), telling me the soil and very little rain this year was not ideal. It's okay though. This was the last year I intended to do photoperiods outdoors. Actually, last year was, marking 20 years, but my indoor game was not down yet. So 21 years it is. I will still be doing some autoflowers outdoor next year, as they are the only ones that do good in my climate -- it gets very cold too early, and I don't have the patience to do any light deprivation techniques. Additionally, it is always close to 100% humidity in mid-late summer, which is far from ideal. I didn't take any pictures before the harvest out of disappointment, but if any of the bud turns out to be decent after drying, I'll update this harvest report. The picture below is from a few weeks ago.