Outdoor Germany 24 - Northrine Westfalia

——— Week 2 ——— ——— Day 11 ——— Plants are growing great for the circumstances. Night temperature is between 10-15 Celsius. The temperature during the day is between 17 and 26 Celsius since I planted them outside. Weather forecast tells similar Data. I don’t know if they are to young to tell if they are big enough for their age. If not, then it is definitely a lack of light (between 0 and 8 hours of direct sunlight - not counting in UV ray). I am considering not to HST any of them if this is the case, hopefully they will grow bigger and stronger. If I do so I don’t think they have enough time to heal themselves. I will decide it when the point comes. Somehow I got the feeling that next summer or during a winter project if I can manage it (indoor then), I will run seeds from another seedsbank! Maybe 2fastbuds or Dutch Passion. —— Day 12 ——— Big decisions had to be made…. The wind is blewing 50-70km/h here … nearly killed all plants in front of me!!!! Had to do something … Took action with wires and bamboo sticks…. I think I killed one white widdow :( do you think it will survive? I tried to burry it with soil and gave attachment with some other wires …. All other plants are wired too to a bamboo stick … I would take them off tomorrow and cut the wires out, don’t know what do do … Asked a grow questions … Didn’t think something like this would hit me .. just insane!!!!! If they survive this, nothing can stop them! P.S. - Decided to plant a backup White Widdow into a soil plug... (Germination started 06.07 @ 21:35pm) But I still hope that the White Widdow will survive ..... FUN FACT: - This seedling (i maybe killed) was upside down sprouting(!!!!!!!) It was the first thing I ever saw while growing the first time from seed .... I read a lot and looked up things ... Decided that it was a root.. And yeah it was a root ... It was my little baby I saved directly, but will I save it now? I don't know .... Hopefully yes... —— Day 13 ——— It was dry the day, temperature about 24 Celsius… they grew!! The injured WW looked okayish. —— Day 14 ——— It was a dry day about 24 Celsius, nothing happened. Didn’t water them… The injured WW looked okayish

—— Week 3 ——- —- Day 15 —- It was a sunny day finally!!! 33 Celsius… Full sun the whole day and … The girls exploded!!! I watered them (about 1,5-2l for two plants - plain tapwater), the soil was in the above dry and not very moisture about 5cm in it. The injured WW looks like she is gonna make it, but her seedling leaves are somehow now weird from that point on… It is like you can tell she had not a good time while healing herself from the damage… —- Day 16 —- Today the weather was kinda meh. Every now and then full rain .. and I mean like 5l/m2 rain for some minutes… then sun to the fullest… humidity is exploding. But at the end of the day they all look happy! But when I see them now … Just wow how they explode… I smelled on the biggest NL in the full sun .. and yeah it already smells like ganja hehe Hopefully I will get more sunny days that they get bigger and bigger! — Day 17 — It was a warm day, mixed: cloudy and sunshine .. about 25-26 Celsius. Didn’t water the majority, just the last NL. Took away one clip from the injured WW .. her seedling leaves don’t look good, but otherwise she is growing and looking more healthy and recovered. Threw a bit more soil on her, until the seedling leaves, it looks funny but at least she is recovering!!! The plants are growing bigger and quicker then I thought for this climate this summer here! Wow! I wanted to make HST on them, but I don’t think I should do it at this point, the summer doesn’t really turn so I won’t stop the growth of them for several days - this decision maybe the best when I think about that I waited until the last spot for this first grow. But maybe I will decide otherwise, the point has only nearly come for one of the baby’s, so I got still time to decide! I consider giving them next time I water them nutritions for the veg. Stage in a low dosage. — Day 18 — Heavy rain, heavy rain, heavy rain + a lot of wind. This summer really is the most annoying until now since I am a kid growing up here! I don’t think I will do any kind of HST, there is just not enough sun here this summer, they wouldn’t recover. It was the initial plan but the weather is kinda annoying. — Day 19 — Finally no rain, a bit sunshine at the end of the day. Weather forecast tells about 24 Celsius for the whole week without rain, hallelujah! Finally! I readjusted new garden wires to each plant, boy they smell when you touch them as Defense mechanism it’s insane!!!! I noticed that the injured WW „lost“ its seedling leaves (they are brown and dead) but otherwise it looks recovered. I don’t expect a lot of it, killed another backup seedling because of her recovery :/ I am sad that I didn’t grew any cbd/cbg seeds… Let’s see if I gonna run something indoor, thanks on this point to all comments what to get!!! Took pictures from the side this time! They are so big now for all that circumstances they were in it was all suboptimal… just wow! — Day 20 — It was a lovely warm day with about 28 Celsius, rain in the night so I didn’t water them. They are growing nicely. — Day 21 — It was a mixed day, again rainy and cloudy with a lot of wind. Some sun exposed itself. Some of the plants revealed their pistons :) They are about to enter flowering stage I guess hehe, As I can tell from what I saw, they are all females. I noticed that some of the fanleaves have like cuts in them, my wife and I saw some bird going on there watching out for worms in the soil, maybe they tried to pick the leaves or the wind did the little damage to them? I checked for diseases or similar, there is nothing to see.. So it’s obvious that it’s either from the wind and the wires I attached or from birds.

—— Week 4——- —- Day 22 —- Finally it was a summer day. 29 Celsius, a lot of sunshine. Didn’t water them soil is still moist! —- Day 23 —- Finally another summer day. 30 Celsius, a lot of sunshine too!! Didn’t water them soil is still moist! —- Day 24 —- And another summer day WOW!!!! Finally a strike .. 31 Celsius, they exploded the last three days and got their pistons. As far as I can tell they are all females :) Didn’t water them still the soil is moist!!! But thinking about feeding them the first Nutritions tomorrow :) Uploaded finally new pictures, bounded them again and new to the bamboo sticks. Today greater bamboo sticks arrived which I will attach tomorrow!! :) The girls started smelling !! Hmmmmm :-) —- Day 25 —- Hot hot summer day 35 Celsius, the girls exploded!!!!!! Thought I would have time to attach new bamboo sticks but from sudden it began to be stormy with clouds and even thunders!!! It began to rain too… Hopefully they will survive… What they all survived so far is insane… How can I dare to kill them when it will be time to harvest :( —- Day 26 —- It was a cloudy but warm day, but it began horrifying with a lot of rain. Now it’s dry and will stay hopefully dry two days! Applied neem oil today to all plants, 2mL diluted in 1L of water. Sprayed them all covered (upper and down side of the leaves, stem and the above soil). Went with yellow stickers too, why not? Hopefully they will do well with the neem oil. I don’t rly like the smell of it but don’t either hate it. Let’s see if I can get rid of those sucking little creatures -.-* ….. Will apply it as mentioned from Mastergrowers, this week three times and not again. Let’s hope the best for the girls .. They don’t look happy today after the stormy night and the rainfalls, but guess every plant has some down days right? —- Day 27 —- It was a warm day, 60-70% humidity, about 25 Celsius. Didn’t water them. In the morning I already saw they looked much happier after I sprayed the neem oil! All leaves where standing upright. Insane how they recovered! —- Day 28 —- Forecast is telling some slightly rain in the morning, afterwards the whole day will be about 25 Celsius….. Since they are growing I only watered them once due to the rainfalls etc. Have to make sure that I bind them today to bigger and new bamboo sticks, didn’t had time so far.. As I can tell in the morning now from a first look they exploded!!!!! I wonder if I should water them with nutritions? Didn’t gave them so far anything. They don’t show signs of missing nutritions or nutrition lockout. So it should be a sign that the drainage works well as I think… But gonna look to give them at least some nutritions if possible and needed. But as mentioned there is some lechuza pond down in the soil, maybe this is already enough? I think yes…. The forecast tells rain every 3 days now for nearly two weeks in a row.. Dang! Did everything I mentioned in the morning and dang I snapped two leaves off (one on each plant) one was the first branch the other the last, hopefully it will heal okayish! I will redesign my binding of the plants at the weekend, I bought the pot with the original „holder“ that you can bind plants to it. Last time I used wired, it cutted some leaves through the wind and was even “choking” one plant, lesson learned! They got a second coat of neem oil today. Last time I will spray it in two days! The yellow traps caught a lot of curious insects, doing the job well I guess!

—-— Week 5 ——- —- Day 29 —- Weather forecast looks like cloudy with 23 Celsius. It’s morning here and the leaves of all plants stand uprise like a 1 !!! Insane how they like the neem oil, you can tell the difference, it is like they are saying „thanks for the little medicine“… Insane!!!! I am curious how much they will produce in flowering stage and how much they will still grow in flowering! They are smelling now noticable, touched them yesterday to adjust them, couldn’t get rid of the smell, even after several handwashing’s it still smelled, just insane! Even sometimes when the wind is forwarding straight to my main living room I can smell them when I sit down there. It is still my first grow and then directly outdoor. As I can tell so far, the partnership between the same strain and batches of the seeds works great!!! —- Day 30 —- Didn’t water them until now (just once and that wasn’t necessary either). It was a cloudy/sunny day .. about 25 Celsius… Didn’t look after them from near, just from my living room.. Looks like they stretched again, on the weekend I plan to tie them again, they just grow so fast in height it’s insane… There should be more sun but however… The weather forecast tells that when they are all in mid-/endflower stage, there will be a lot of sun and about 30 Celsius for a longer period. —- Day 31 —- Rain in the morning, about 24 Celsius will be today, humidity here is insane, nobody likes it even the plants do not. It’s just to much and to long. However, looks like I never have to water them if this goes on like this! Incredible how quick they all grow!!!! —- Day 32 —- It was a cloudy day about 24 Celsius … They grew even more… —- Day 33 —- It was a rainy / cloudy day .. A bit of rain not to much .. About 23 Celsius. I can see now some flowers… —- Day 34 —- It was again a rainy and cloudy day, some plants developed flowers. The plants start to smell noticable! Well let’s hope my neighbours like it, otherwise… I don’t like the bbq smell of them daily too hehe Bet they won’t show up to me to tell me this :) —- Day 35 —- Was a sunny day. Mild 25 Celsius. Wanted to bind them again, but didn’t had time. Uploaded finally new pictures of the plants. :) Tomorrow the plan is to rebind them all. Shook them a bit.. They are flexible and stable so I don’t worry that much!

—-— Week 6 ——- —- Day 36 —- It was a hot and sunny day :-) All plants look great, they are still growing!!! Didn’t water them today, might water them tomorrow in the morning.. another 30 Celsius day is awaited tomorrow so I will prepare them a bit :-) Went to them and shook them all - DANG THEY SMELL :-) ….. My fingers smell so much even after washing them I can’t get of those terpenes… controlled the soil, looks still okayish, not dry as hell, a bit moist maybe at around 4-5 cm in … but not that much hmmmmmm Maybe I should water them just minimal in the morning and feed them the first time in the evening tomorrow! Fun fact: my wife hang up my t-shirts outside that they dry faster, now my t-shirts smell like ganja :-) -— Day 37 —- Watered them all about 2-3 Liters of water (tap water standing the whole night outside) in the morning, just to give them enough for today. Will watch out after the day (Forecast telling 31 Celsius with full sun the whole day!) if they need more. If yes I will give them the first feed with nutritions (in lowest quantity), otherwise I will wait till tomorrow! The forecast looks good, so far it tells about 25-32 Celsius when they are mostly in ~ mid bloom. It’s insane how you have to watch out for the forecast when growing outdoors and you pretty much don’t have control over certain factors. But it’s somehow amusing! —- Day 38 —- Decided to not water them again the other day, it rained for 2-3 hours and it was about 25 Celsius … Pretty rough day tho… Good that I didn’t water them again. Next watering they will get a feed. —- Day 39 —- Today I wanted to check them up and tie them finally again (didn’t had time sadly) .. But sadly weather forecast is telling that rain will start from 1 pm to 9 pm … So yeah, not very cool with 26 Celsius around -.-* … but maybe the weather forecast turns out not right - so let’s see what happens!! Some of them show flowers everywhere around, I can even see them from the distance, it’s fascinating!!! —- Day 40 —- Rain, rain, rain and rain -.-* 22-25 Celsius the whole day. Really annoying weather…. The girls don’t look very happy today, they crave the sun! At least indirect light!! They show more and more flowers everywhere! —- Day 41 —- Lovely to watch them in the sun bathing, with a bit wind! 26 Celsius today but a bit high humidity in the morning! They are all healthy and nothing concerning is happening to them, inspected them all today! Looks like the neem oil did it thing! Tomorrow in the morning or evening they will get their first feed from me in minimal Dosis :-)… I will let the pictures speak, I am so happy about how they are turning out for outdoor and my first grow! Should I do something? If you think yes, let me know in the comments! —- Day 42 —— Rain in the night and in the the morning … turned out to be a 22 Celsius day with quite chilly and refreshing wind. They lady’s enjoy it somehow! Flowers forming bigger!!! Let’s see how long it will take until they grew full developed buds!

——- Week 7 ——- —- Day 43 —- Sunny hot day with 28 Celsius. Didn’t water them. They look great, flowers are developing more and more! Excited what this week will bring. So far no feed and no watering. —- Day 44 —- A hot and sunny day with 30 Celsius. Gonna feed them finally today in the evening! They look stunning and developed great for the circumstances! Weather forecast tells 2 weeks with nearly no rain! Thinking about harvesting 50% of them earlier and 50% when the time is right. What do you guys think? Can I do it like that? I don’t need/want the full potency of the plants and want to save some fan leaves for tea! Feel free to let me know in the comments, I would appreciate it! :) —- Day 45 —- Cloudy day with 25 Celsius. No rain in sight. Didn’t feed them yesterday, will give them a bit water now in the morning. It doesn’t seem that they need any nutritions, looks like the new soil + longtime nutrition is doing its job. I will watch out today detailed for nutrition lacks. If they show any signs I will give them feed. The Northern Light develops buds slowly and nicely!!!! Looks fantastic to watch it develop itself! —- Day 46 —- Expected 26 Celsius day with wind with about 40-50km/h speed. They should be all attached enough I don’t think that they can even snap now from kinda winds like these. The cannape of every plant became so thick it’s insane!!!! I am preparing slowly for the harvest. Ordered glasses and will order bovedas for curing. Only thing I worry about is drying, gonna post a community question for this one!! The second Jack Herer is still not in flower hmm… I bounded all plants to bigger new bamboo sticks. They seem to like it! —- Day 47 —- Sunny day with 27 Celsius - full sunbath for the girls! They are developing great, I am checking everyday for any issues or similar. Nothing accured! I am still curious about the second Jack Herer, it still didnt went into flower. Let's see when it will show up! —- Day 48 —- It was a sunny hot day with 29 Celsius around with a bit of a chill wind. Perfect conditions for development! Didn’t do anything so far beside watching out for disease or similar. They look stunning! —- Day 49 —- Watered them early in the morning with tap water that stood about a day outside. It is the fourth time I watered them.. Insane! They start to smell very differently, I like the smell of all of them. But my favorite is the Jack Herer for sure! Thinking about chopping some of them (about 50%) down soon, maybe another 2-3 weeks or so. Will handle it „oldschool“ without looking out for trichomes. Will just let my feeling decide and the look of the hairs and the plant itself in general. Problem I got is: it can rain in 2-4 weeks for longer periods and hmmm that would not be good! The forecast tells one day rain in 2-5 days. I will see how this effects the girls and decide then how and when to chop them off. Will be interesting to see how the maybe „ripe“ harvested plants will be compared to fully matured already CBN producing plants. All that just if the circumstances allow it. Otherwise it will be chop chop for all of them. I get it slowly why some people don’t like outdoor growing … :D But somehow I find it interesting and exciting… All the work from the plants can be gone in like 3 days…. It’s hilarious but somehow it stays exciting like that!! It will be a very hot day with expected 35 Celsius today… WOW! I am interested how they will look today in the evening! ::::: ——— EDIT LAST DAY WEEK 7———:::::: When I wanted to water them I saw some kind of yellowish leaves in the bottom (the oldest ones) some had signs of nutrition deficiency. Gave them all about 2,5-3 L tap water with diluted fertilizer (1mL per L from Bio Flowering Booster Pack from RQS - all together 3mL per L .. it is PK 3-5, NPK 1-0-0 and NPK 1-0-3 - they call it „thicker flowers“, „bigger flowers“ and „sweeter flowers“). Diluted it in 10L and gave 4 drops of their „SuperVit“ into it. It is a complex of Amino Acids and Vitamins (suggested was 1 drop per 4,5L but somehow I overdosed it). I snapped of some of the lower Leaves with my fingers (about 5 leaves from all 6 plants). Dang thanks god I saw it (wrote the daylie diarie before I watered them). Hopefully I didn’t overdo it, but guess this will be the only feed they need (maybe another one?) until flushing starts. I „flushed“ them nearly with the solution, gave them a bit water before that but then I saw what is happening while accidentally snapping of a little fanleave (kept it and is drying now, it looks great!). What do you guys think, did I do the right thing? Feel free to comment! :)

——- Week 8 ——- —- Day 50 —- It will be a hot sunny day today with 33 Celsius .. but somehow forecast is telling there will be a bit rain midday (just short). This summer is really meh! Looks like the girls liked the nutritions a lot, they stood upright yesterday like a 1 and you can tell by watching them that they are happy! I might have to harvest the plants earlier, maybe I got two weeks left and then a period of rain will start (about 3-4 days in a row). During that time the forecast tells about 2 days with rain in that two weeks…. I am a bit concerned. I will try to push it out, but once I reach end week 9 I think I will have to harvest them or lose everything to bud rot. Humidity here is always a problem so there will be problems after that kinda rain for sure. I am wondering what will happen in those days that are left … :) They look stunning and develop very nice for all the circumstances they where from beginning (one plant nearly killed by me, all young and in harsh conditions like heavy rain, very strong winds and even hail) but they all survived!!! Lack of sunlight here this summer did cause problems of growth for sure, but so far I am happy for my first grow and that pointed out directly outdoor. P.S.: Currently I am investing time to find a drying solution and watching out for tents too! ;) —- Day 51 —- Today the weather was about 25 Celsius, just passive Sun. It rained in the night. Dang the girls start to smell really strong! They are growing and developing the buds nice. I think i finally found a solution for drying. I will dry it in my garden house. Humidity there was now about 67% with 25 Celsius. But this can change when direct sun hits. Anyway will do it there! It is not ideal but not as high humidity as I thought. It is even dark there and I got plenty of room. I am considering getting an IP44 certified fan to get air moving around there! Still thinking about wet trimming or dry the whole plants. I got time so I don’t mind waiting, if everything works out I will first try them at the end of December so it is no deal for me to wait. Somewhere I read drying the whole plant in higher humidity is not recommended, others tell that’s the way to go… It is all a bit confusing! I can dry them in a rack too… I really don’t know what is the ideal way to go with this conditions. —- Day 52 —- Took pictures of Day 52 into the journal! Sadly the second Jack Herer still is not flowering :( I don’t think she will make it… But let’s see! Temperature was about 28 Celsius today. Not the whole day the sun shined but it was okay! Weather forecast doesn’t look very good sadly! Let’s see what will happen!!! —- Day 53—- Weather will be 25 Celsius today. Tomorrow it will rain. Made a decision based on the community opinions: Will try to finish my grow outdoor! The second Jack Herer will be chopped of by me (it still isn’t flowering). Will dry the plants leaves for tea. Gave them water in the morning (tap water standing about 30hours outside). —- Day 54 —- Woke up, saw rain. My heart cried when I saw the plants. All I saw is rot, rot and rot… INSTANTLY: Decided to buy a grow light with same delivery. Found VIPARSPECTRA XS3000 Pro … Only light that would fit my 4x2 grow needs (I posted the pictures in the diary)… I am so excited to see it running but gonna do work first in the garage to hang it up safely haha… Gonna buy a circuit breaker for the light and safety (there is already one in the circuit but gonna hang another one on it). Wahhhh lets see what will happen. I am hyped! Will keep the diary with new pictures up 2 date as soon as I am done (today or tomorrow). Question is will I start another quick growth before the winter hits ? Hmmmm should be enough time before temperatures drop! UPDATE DAY 54: All developing buds are soaked with rain. The plants overall are wet. Shaked them gently! Glad I decided to get a light and move them today!! There will be more rain in the night and the further days with not potent sun anyway. I am 99% sure they would rot all away in this conditions! Hopefully it didn’t start yet :/ LAST UPDATE DAY 54 Prepared everything the whole day, plants took place in the garage… Then I saw the light … Meh! I don’t like stuff that isn’t IP Certified in my garage (not even the driver)! I don’t even think it is a good sign if a Producer makes a symbol of „life in danger“ on the manual.. What the hell? Only minimal requirements for safety given, the light will go back and very very very sadly this was it for my first run mainly! They will get cut down tomorrow or the day after and dryed. My wife couldn’t handle the smell anymore and me neither (my whole house started smelling). But now I know it can take place in my garage .. :) To my suspect… three plants already have a lot of milky trichomes… Checked them with a 50x micro. Let's see what will turn out at least.. Gonna look up for another run soon, but gonna check out a higher certified and high quality light which is as safe as possible! Feel free to make suggestions in the comments or the question asked if you read this :-) But I still got something going on for the Diarie! *TADA* My ace: the 3rd NL ;) the last survivor… it has a nice spot at the end of my garden. Gonna update! At the end of the day, something is better then nothing I guess… :) I tried everything to safe this run but something is against it! Who knows for what this is good for!!!!! —- Day 55 —- Looking up for a new grow light!! Will start a late (how to call it) indoor / outdoor grow .. It's halfway into my garage which is always on one side half opened.... Lets call it hybrid grow! ;D If I start today with Autos they should finish nearly mid November So far I saw Lumatek with the ATS 300W Pro or ATS 200W Pro ... I like their concept so far! Even the website and that you can look up all certfificates etc. is an incredible + for myself to have trust in the electronics I am operating. They aren't cheap for sure but as I would call out directly, most safest grow lights I found so far but f.e. the next Dimension (their Zeus 465W Pro) is nearly trippeling in the price! Dang! Still looking after other Producers with at least Class 1 IP65 certification, LVD certification with a real CE Certification not the "Chinese Export" one .. ;) Will decide today and then I will order one light (but I am 90% sure it will be a Lumatek). So well if I start the order, new seeds will go in and a new diarie will be born! Thinking about beginning soon to cut down the girls. I will dry what they so far made in a meshnet. Bought one with six towers, should be plenty of space to do the job. They will dry in my garage - Humidity yesterday there was 45-55 % while I was working there and preparing everything! Temperature a bit on the higher side with 25-26°C but this will be a banger for me while growing there. It safes a lot of warmth there and the heavy summer days here are anyway gone for this year!!! There will be only rain and cloudy days mostly with some kinda sunny days. Wanted to dry in my Gardenhouse, but now it is full because of the emergency situation I tried to handle and get a decent grow space made up in my garage as fast as possible .... Which I actually did and handled but ...... ;/ It was a good decision I made yesterday, the lights weren't trustworthy (that's just my opinion!) - not even the internet site of the producer was online, neither could I look up the light I bought on their site .. Overall absolutly no go for me! But beside that - It is raining today here as hell, they would have begin to rot 100%. Yesterday it rained the whole night and in the morning, all underdevolped/premature buds were soaked full of rain .. During the day at least they mostly dried up... The last survivor standing under a little shed is doing good, she is the prettiest plant I got anyway (didn't share pictures of it a long time because I tried to handle the jungle first). Will update the Diarie with her and with the drying of the young jungle plants! Overall so far it was a good first experience growing. I love to do it and to read and watch a lot about it. I got hooked up to growing I guess..... 😝