Sherbet Queen Auto 1st Outdoor Grow

LarfSnarf Started from seed in hydrogen peroxide/water solution. Moved to hydroponic herb grower to sprout. Once the tap root exited the bottom of the sponge, I transplanted it to a cup and continued it’s growth indoors under the hydro herb garden light for 1 week and did it’s final transplant into a 3gal cloth pot outdoors. I used soil from my tomato garden that has been outside with sticks and grass compost for 1 year. It tested at 7.0 ph on the dot everywhere I checked. I’m doing this as an experiment basically. I added perlite to the soil for increased drainage. It’s been really hot this summer and Im just using water from the hose and rain. This will be a control test. Unfertilized, non-pampered with reverse osmosis water. I just want to see how weed grows naturally basically. No training, no topping, no fuss. Join me if you’re interested in seeing what we get!

LarfSnarf Vigorous growth! Everything looks strong and healthy.

LarfSnarf Unbelievable growth! This lady loves the sun! Pre flower has started! I’m shocked by the vertical growth. So much different from my 1 indoor grow.

LarfSnarf Flower started and another 6in of growth! I hope it bushes out a little bit? As this is my first outdoor grow, it’s all new to me and I’ve seen some outdoor plants look like a tall single stalk housing all the flowers. That’s what mine looks like now but I don’t know how it will grow. It appears that some pests have taken a liking to some of the leaves, hopefully that won’t inhibit growth too much. I will need to put a new tall stake in the pot to help secure it to the ground since stretch is going to continue and I don’t want to compromise it.

LarfSnarf Not much vertical growth this week. She’s filling out a little bit. All flowers look great and trichomes have started. The color of the plant looks fantastic and no more pests eating away. Such a fun grow! I hope the good results continue throughout!

LarfSnarf Buds are coming along nicely! Noticed wpm (white powdery mildew) on a couple leaves and mites. I used growers ally after wetting a paper towel and wiping off. I treated the specific leaves and then gave a one spray mist all over. I don’t want to use it again bc even though it’s organic and used on medical cannabis, I don’t want my flower tasting like rosemary and thyme. Still over a month out from harvest I imagine, which is plenty of time to get that flavor out. Even though growing cannabis outdoors is much easier, controlling all of the pests or environmental factors is definitely much harder. I remain impressed and optimistic about everything.

LarfSnarf The white powdery mildew was taken care of nicely and no recurrence since treated. The plant is fattening up and chugging along nicely. It is exhibiting some deficiencies of spotting on some leaves and areas bugs have eaten. Im surprised at how well it is doing. I hope all future outdoor grows are this easy.

LarfSnarf Found a bunch of hard things on the flower this week. I thought they were bugs but it was poop from a fat Caterpillar! It ravaged an entire bud and branch. I had some random tomato plants sprout from the ground from tomatoes that fell last year and grew really well so I left them and set my cannabis adjacent and touching one of them. Bad idea lol. It served as a highway to my plant for the bugs. I have moved it a little so that it’s no longer touching and haven’t noticed anymore caterpillars. As easy as this grow outdoors has been, the uncontrollable factors are frustrating. The other thing I’ve noticed is that auto flowers produce airy buds no matter what. I’ll be switching to photoperiods for the fall/winter grow.

LarfSnarf I decided to harvest because it’s been very hot and it was fox-tailing and the trichomes were cloudy with some amber. If you didn’t follow along, this plant was not fertilized and I used well prepared soil that I grew my tomatoes in last year. The soil had sticks, leaves and grass composting for 1 year and read as a perfect 7.0 ph. The plant exhibited only minor deficiencies with a little spotting on some leaves. I tackled white powdery mildew fast and discovered a fat caterpillar that ravaged some buds and two entire branches eaten through. I did some light defoliation after I chopped it and hung it whole in my tent. Im not expecting too much weight from the trimmed harvest, maybe 1.5-2 oz. This was an excellent experiment and will happily do it again next year. I’ll update the journal with final weight and pics of these airy buds in a couple weeks.