SoCal Light Dep Black Cherry Gelato

This is an outdoor light depravation run on 3 Black cherry gelato. These were clones on May 5 and vegged for a while both in and out. June 21 is my start date to flower (?) with a 36hr dark period. I’m running this outdoor light dep grow side by side with my indoor garage grow. Each strain and site is set up to finish over 4 week period (Aug -1 through Sep 1). After they’re all finished I’ll post an average per strain in both the indoor and outdoor sites. That is, if I finish…. ____________________________ This week we switched nutrient lines across all Grow’s from a General Hydroponics line to Jacks RO, reducing my nutrient mixing by over half. So far I’m quite impressed with the workability and predictive nature (ie ppm/ec and ph) of the solution. My plants seem to love it. As we are outside we’re dealing with pests and constantly changing environmental conditions. Coupled with stuffing large plants and a small closet make this grow more difficult than usual. I have all the exposure to the pests from the outside, coupled with the indoor high humidity environment of a closet – this is a breeding room for problems. But we’re chugging along. Big buds are starting to develop, purples are showing up…hairs are getting long - all great signs. The plants look and smell beautiful- pictures just don’t do these beauties justice. This week the pests arrived in coordination with the bud development. Spider mites and caterpillar larva showed up this week and that put fear in my heart . We dealt with them with 3 days of scouting. We’re good outside on pests so far. Lots of work ahead. ETA last week of August or first week of September. Best of luck on your grow. Check out my purple push pops inside grow- it’s amazing. Check out my Black cherry gelato indoor