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Week 2 started - I let them slowly grow under my 50watts LED panel so that they hopefully have a height of about 30-40 cm when I get them outside in May.
I currently use a 25watts heating mat to keep the roots warm.
Topped and already recovered.
Going to use lower wattage for the next weeks to prevent explosive growth - I don't want to set them outside when they are already 1m high... :)
I've topped my plants another time.
It may look a bit rough because they are not big enough for a next topping but I have to let them short in height.
Gonna transplant them outside in May.
Last 2 weeks indoor and I have to prepare my spot this week.
The sun is already out and no lower temperature than 7 degrees Celsius is ahead.
I hope they don't explode when I set them outside and stay under 4meters... :D
Stay tuned
I thinned them out one last time before setting them outside.
In 2 weeks I get them out into the woods - They will get so freaking huge till September.
Due to the weather conditions here in my country I am forced to postpone the day for setting them out.
New planned date for starting the guerilla action is 10th of April.
Stay tuned.
First Guerilla-week!
I am so excited and now it was time to set them out!
I prepared my spot out in the woods and added 150 liters of new fresh quality-soil for my 4 plants so they can built a massive root system.
These plants are gonna be so huge - again, the strain promises an average height of around 4 meters per plant.
The temperatures here in my country are around 15-18°C and after a bit of raining it will be sunny and warm again.
The sun comes out at 5:30 and sunset sets in at 20:30 -so 15hours of light for my plants.
Stay tuned for awesome guerilla grow action! :)
2nd outdoor week and my plants love their spot.
For now they should have bulit a solid root system in the soil which I brought there.
They grew a little and I think they will explode in height in about 3-4 weeks.
Here we had a few rainy days last weeks and there will also be some next week.
They are doing well on my spot.
I checked them only once a week since they are outside and give them approximately 1.5L of water + nutrients because the weather here is still rainy.
I added wooden sticks to support their stem for rough weather like wind and storm.
Veg week 14 for my Crimea Blue girls...
They now must have built a root system in their outdoor environment, because I only have to water them once a week.
They have not produced pre flowers yet, so this plants are gonna be really freakin huge, I promise :)
Really happy about last week.
They got very little first pre flowers, but I don't think they will be really flowering this fast.
They gained a little height and the smell increased a little bit.
Vegetative week 17 just started for the Crimea Blue ladies.
They got into a big storm last week but didn't got damaged at all. My spot is such a blessing, especially for the safety reason :)
They got a little taller but mostly they got bushier.
They grew a little bit but mostly in they got bushier.
I am curious if they will grow in height again or completely stopped their growth.
I hope for a massive flower-initiate growth boost like indoor plants do.
I want those 2m+ trees :D
They looked thirsty on my weekly visit at my spot.
They got a lot of sun last week paired with a heavy rain storm last night - so they looked a bit like they had a rough night.
After taking the pictures I pulled out the yellow leaves and removed insects from the plants.
They got thicker and bushier.
No real height deference since last week but their overall look changed a little bit.
They look super healthy and doesn't have any bugs or pests.
They are ahead a very hot week out there.
I going to water them twice this week for preventing drying out.
The roots are so strong at this point of the grow and the plant is growing and growing.
It rained 2times this week, so I haven't watered them much this week.
Not much changes to last week but they stay green and healthy.
Their roots are now really big and start to wooden.
I couldn't come to my spot for 2 weeks so I was surprised how good they handled the weather and water condition in this time span.
They are much bigger and now they will start flowering soon because of the stretch they did the past 2 weeks.
I started to feed them lightly with bloom nutrients.
Also first flower week for my Crimea Blue plant!
They got fed flower nutrients last week and got a bit more of it this week. Additional they got a bit of root juice to strengthen up those roots before the height strech totally kicks in.
They look healthy and after watering them they looked up to the sun within 10-15min. So I have nothing to worry about.
Next time I am going to water them I will add a bit longer Bambus sticks to support the big plants' stem.
Week 28 for my crimea blue plants.
They perform well and reacted good to switching from veg into bloom.
The buds got a lot bigger and now they have go get sticky.
Stay tuned.
Wow, flower week 30 for the Crimea Blue plants.
For my first photoperiod guerilla grow ever they perform very well. I thought that at this time of my grow the plants would be half as high and flowering would never go so smoothly.
All plants are approximately 1.85 meters in height and are really bushy to the sides.
The flowers started to get frosty and the smell got stronger.
Kickass.
I'm pretty sure you'll get really large plants there. Even with just 60cm space for some plants I grew (with all kinds of random stuff growing around them too), some of them reached almost 4m.
Dunno if this is relevant to you, but I'd think about gradually adding more soil, like mounding the plants too, so that the existing horizontal roots are a bit more protected, some can die off and new ones can get generated in the added soil.
Best of luck.
@BigBomber,
Well, I wouldn't say more soil is *needed*, but I think it makes the plants grow better/more effectively (if you use nice decent soil or mulch/debris, at least) and it's really simple/cheap to do if you can do it (obviously you can't with pots), although a bit of effort.
In terms of timing, just gradually, a little bit now and then, not like heaps and heaps of soil constantly, but maybe a few centimeters every 2-4 weeks or roughly the equivalent of that. It's not exactly a precise science. Sometimes more, sometimes less, depending on regularity and conditions I guess.
The reason I suggest that (other than having done it and it seems to work well, extra cold protection, extra microbes, extra nutrients, etc) is because of this image of cannabis roots, from a large plant:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis
You'll notice the vast majority of the root mass is actually near the surface and horizontal. I assume the vertical roots are more for water uptake or harder to find minerals.
I also gotta tell you, there are SOME drawbacks to having massive plants. My plants aren't THAT large, but they're still difficult/annoying to manage and inspect. I would seriously consider fimming in general in the future to restrict height without too much loss, if there's available space, since it's very little one-time stress on the plant.
But ideally, you wouldn't have to, if you can manage that shit, don't bother with the stress/training (except for helping out the plants).
Height should not be a problem at my spot :) but the higher the plants are the more difficult is the inspection that's right...Maybe I am gonna do some height control to them when they start to grow more in the first flowering weeks.Thanks man, gonna read sth. about that
Oh yeah dude, somehow forgot to mention this even though I mentioned it on my diary. But I was reading about this stuff called beta-cyclocitrical, related to carotenoids, it's like a root growth hormone found in many plants, apparently.
But anyway: https://phys.org/news/2019-05-hormone-root-growth-agricultural-tool.html
Might be useful or worth checking it, for future reference.
For the ghetto-method inclined, I would almost wager you could just use some plants/fruits/vegetables high in beta-carotene as feed, or in a tea, to get some of those effects.
Edit: So I checked it out a LITTLE bit, kinda hard to find good info on that, but I was quickly drawn to paprika, especially bright yellow and orange paprika. It might really be as simple as using something like paprika as feed...
BigBomber
