2020 Outdoor Grow

Day 1-7 (May 1st - May 7th) (Day 1) Just germinated all my photoperiod plants for outdoor this year. I should start by saying I’m in a horrible climate for growing weed outdoors (zone 3b) but I’m pretty confident I can pull some good weight this year if I stay on top of things. Quality will probably be subpar in terms of density and smell ect. but I’m using some decent genetics for some of the photos and will certainly get some heavy trich production. I’m starting all photos indoors from feminized seed in my mini greenhouse using peat pellets under a small cfl reptile light and some afternoon window sun. They will be transferred to solo cups or nursery pots in a week or two until they are ready to be moved into the greenhouse outside early-mid May. I will be using promix HP, sea soil, miracle gro marine compost and Destiny Organics soil as a base. I’m feeding a mix of Nature’s pride and Gaia green organic dry amendments along with some rock dusts, foliar sprays and teas ect. I will be light deping the first wave on July 1st depending on and the second will be on July 15th. Autoflowers will be started as soon as it warms up outside and will go from peat pellets directly into a fabric raised garden bed with 8 16 gallon cells, 2 per cell. For pest control I will be using method1 PPS, 3-2-4 insect frass and EM1 microbe inoculant frequently throughout veg and early flower as I had an aphid problem last year that will be coming back unless I use some preventatives. I might also order some beneficial insects like lady bugs and hyposasis miles if I see an infestation arising. I will be using un-phd city tap water that sits around 200ppms Photoperiod: Slurricane F1 x5 (10g pots) Blackberry breath #2 pheno x3 (5g pots) Blackberry breath #1 pheno x1 (5g pots) Purple tuna bag seed x1 (3g pots) The white OG x1 (3g pots) Badazz OG cheese x1 (3g pots) Blueberry x1 (3g pots) Jack Herer x1 (3g pots) Autoflower: Grapefruit x10 (16g cells) Gelato 33 x12 (16g cells) Doctor Seedsman CBD x3 (3g pots) Exodus cheese x3 (3g pots) I will also be running some clones I took from my indoor grow that were mislabeled. I don’t expect these to take because I took them at week 2 of flower but I’ve still heard of it working. —————————————————— (Day 3) Just had a super close call. Temps soared to 104 degrees all afternoon and it killed nearly all my tomato seedlings. Luckily most of the weed seeds haven’t even broken the surface yet. A few of the slurricanes might be stunted from that but it’s too early to tell. I’m leaving my green house door open all day and putting the fluorescent on a light timer to only run at night. (Day 5) Most have sprouted now. I have a feeling the ones not sprouting won’t. One of the slurricanes is definitely a dud and one of the others looks severely deformed. Looks like all the seedsmans except The White OG are duds or fried in the heat. I am officially done with direct planting seeds. From now on I am just doing the soak and paper towel method. Especially when using pricey genetics like Archive. (Day 7) I’m starting to see roots sticking out of the bottom of the peat pellets. I’m not in any hurry to transplant so I’ll get to it over the next week. I’m some having trouble keeping my environment right. It either gets too cold or too hot, especially when the sun starts beaming through. I also lack an intake/outtake in my little greenhouse here.

Day 7-14 (May 7th - May 14th) (Day 8) Man these things are growing slow. I can’t really complain as I’m using a single 20w fluorescent bulb under 50+ seedlings but still. I need more direct sun I guess. (Day 9) It’s now warm enough most days to start leaving them on the deck in full sun as the window just isn’t cutting it. (Day 11) Plants are all looking healthy and have stretched just to where I like it. Growth is definitely slow but that’s fine for now. (Day 12) I’m going to transplant everything into solo cups today. I’m using a 4:1 ratio of promix to sea soil. The roots are looking a little off color but I’m sure that’s just from being stuck in peat pellets. (Day 13) I’m seeing some deformations on some of the leaves. Hopefully it’s just from the lack of light. Today is going to be nice out so I’ll make sure they get some full sun outside. (Day 14) Forgot pictures this week. Nothing really too see yet anyway

Day 14-21 (May 14th - May 21st) (Day 14) Transplant went well. I’ll wait a few days for recovery then start to harden them off. They’ve been acclimated to the sun pretty well so far from the window but the cold night temps will be stressful. (Day 16) It’s going to be nice out tonight so I’m going to leave the girls outside. (Day 19) I’ve been leaving the plants out all day for the last 3 days and they’re looking great. Better than my tomatoes anyway. Stems look like they’re thickening up too. I’m going to start the autoflowers for this season. I’m soaking them in shot glasses this time. I’m sick of direct sowing and losing plants. I find the soak + paper towel method is by far the most efficient and quick too. I don’t think I’ve ever had a seed not germinate using that method. Direct sowing seems to kill about 1 in 8 of my seedlings. So I’m going to wait until the tap root is about an inch long and will bury them flat, a half inch deep directly into my raised beds/containers. I will keep them moist by hand once or twice a day until they’re looking established. (Day 20) Just had a big rain storm and I let them take it on the chin until it got worse. All seem fine and better for it. (Day 21) All auto flower seeds are just barely poking out. Tomorrow or the next day I’m going to sow all of the grapefruits and g33’s directly into the raised bed. I’m worried that the soil mix in the beds is too strong for such a young plant and I don’t want to risk killing all of them at once. Even promix alone can be hot for seedlings. Pests and cold weather are another two things to worry about outside too. The beds were amended with quarter strength feedings of 4-4-4 Gaia Green all purpose, 3-2-4 insect frass, 1-0-3 kelp meal, 3-0-3 alfalfa meal, glacial rock dust, rock dust blend and oyster shell flour. I mix the amendments into the compost and then mix the compost with the promix directly in the raised bed by hand. I’m just going to dig out a hole in the bed and fill it with pure promix so it doesn’t get any early nute burn. The dr seedsman and exodus cheese are being directly sowed into 3 gallon fabric pots with a pure promix divot in the middle. A friend of mine just gifted me some Thugpug genetics ‘Meatbreath’ bagseed from an amazing cut. This is definitely worth growing this summer so I’m gonna pop them and get them into solo cups ASAP.

Day 21-28 (May 21st - May 28th) (Day 22) I got all of the autoflowers on standby ready for their respective homes. I’m going to plant tomorrow after I see a bit more root. (Day 23) Grapefruit and g33 are in my raised beds and should pop out over the next few days. I’ve been reading up on companion planting with weed and I’m going to put a marigold, chives and dill plant in with each plant/cell in the bed. Hopefully this will help keep aphids away this season. I amended my containers for the Dr.seedsman and exodus cheese and got them planted as well. These seeds are looking fat and healthy. Healthier than the grapefruits and g33s. Meatbreath seeds are poking out. I’m going to throw them into some unamended promix hp. I hate using this stuff to start seeds in because of how high the PPMs are and how corse the perlite is but it still beats peat pellets imo. I need an actual seed starting mix or just some coco. Oh well. Unfortunately all my seeds are sprouted and in dirt already. (Day 24) Big fuck up today. I forgot to water the cheeses and dr. seedsmans after transplant and they got almost a full day of dry soil. These things may not recover honestly. I guess we’ll see over the next few days. Slurricanes are looking happy as shit. Purple tuna is leading everything in growth. Some family members and friends want a few plants so I’m going to gift TWOG and my blackberry breath bag seeds. I’ve run bbb twice already. I’m also running TWOG right now and am not too impressed. Also not trying to risk a herm outdoors. Day (28) What a nerve wracking week. I didn’t think the plants in the raised bed were going to come up but here they are. All 16/16. Some were looking super iffy too. 2 of the Dr. Seedsman’s and 2 of the cheeses didn’t make it because of my fuck up earlier in the week. One of the extra grapefruits I just threw into the empty amended cheese smart pot. Not a great start but not the worst either. Hopefully they’re not too stunted because I hear that can make or break autoflowers. Oh well. Slurricanes, meat breath and tunas are all looking good. I keep forgetting to take pictures but there is not a whole lot to see yet anyway.

Day 28-35 (May 28th - June 4th) (Day 29) My rooted blackberry #3 clone looks like it’s finally starting to reveg. It’s starting to stretch it’s internodes but no new growth yet. Nearly all 9 are pushing roots now. What a waste of time taking clones in flower! Won’t ever do that again. Grapefruit #1 has a twin! I thought it was just an odd formation on the taproot but two seedlings are pushing out. I wonder if it will be genetically identical. It’s definitely slower growing than the other one so who knows. I will try to train them apart when the time comes. (Day 30) I think the EC/PPMs are too high on nearly every plant including my veggies. The promix is actually really hot for a “blank” medium coming in at 1800. Adding compost and amendments to that is probably raising it to 2500+ at least. It should self balance the more I water it but I know for a fact I can get better growth by leaching the soil around each plant. Next time I use promix for anything, I’m going to prewash it like coco coir and add a dash of oyster shell flour for pH and calcium. (Day 32) Purple tuna is now big enough to start lst on now. I’m going to wait a little while for the slurricanes. (Day 33) One of the grapefruits has a twin that actually popped... I’m going to leave it and see how she turns out (Day 35) I’m going to prune off the lower leaves on each plant. I was going to lst Purple tuna but it’s so vigorous I may as well just top/mainline it. Autoflowers are looking established and should be taking off this week. I wonder if this will give them enough time to veg into decent sized plants before they flower. I won’t be topping or even doing lst. My goal is 22 big spear colas from each plant. I’m going to get all my rooted clones into 1.7 gallon pots over the next week or so.

Day 35-42 (June 4th - June 11th) (Day 36) After it stops raining I’m going to amend some 2 gallon pots and get some of these clones planted. Tuna recovered nicely from topping. The wind keeps impaling the slurricane leaves on the mini garden stakes. If everything goes to plan, I will be transplanting all the slurricanes and tunas into 5 gallon fabric pots on the 21st. If they recover nicely I will flip them on the 30th. (Day 37) It’s looking like I fucked these autos up pretty bad with the hot soil mix and low night temps. It was a dumb idea to sow directly into amended soil. I guess I’ll just leave them and see if they can push through the nutes. The 4 meatbreaths I’m going to transplant into 3 gallon smart pots in a few days. They won’t be transplanted into their final containers until the 10th of next month. (Day 39) God I wish this rain would fuck off soon. I want to get some of these clones transplanted but can’t in the rain. Forecast says sun for the next few days then more goddamn rain. None of these plants are liking these low night temps. It’s currently 6 degrees (42f) which is guaranteed stunting. Zone 3 problems..... I honestly should have waited a little bit before planting the autos too. (Day 41) Weather finally let up. Got all of these clones and meatbreath’s in their new homes and looking happy. (Day 42) The gelato 33 autos are definitely doing better than all the rest for some reason. Grapefruit, Dr seedsman and exodus cheese haven’t even pushed their second set of leaves yet. Their containers are definitely too hot for seedlings but I will just leave them and hope they recover. Maybe the gelatos are just heavier feeders. Next year I’m going to establish the autos in coco before I put them outside. Or just start them outside in coco and transplant.

Day 42-49 (June 11th - June 18th) (Day 43) I need to work on my early veg times. Things are just too slow in the seedling stage. Next round I will use a coco/Destiny blend for the better aeration and lower EC. Even with my indoor plants. I notice plants started in coco root way faster. Not just with weed either. All plants seem to like it better. Coco is far superior to peat imo. (Day 44) I’m pruning off the lower branches on my rooted blackberry clone. It’s cool to see it’s weird reveged structure. Lots of the fan leaves have trichomes on them. (Day 45) Something really weird is happening to Grapefruit #3. The leaves are browning and starting to gnarl. It could be an insect of some sort as it’s the only plant looking like that. (Day 47) It just hailed super badly and the leaves on some of the plants are pretty damaged. In my neighboring town the hail caused multimillions in damage so we got lucky here. I’m going to spray some method 1 pps prevention spray today to help keep pests at bay. I will try to do it in overcast or shade. I’m seeing what looks like thrip damage but there is no way they can survive the cold nights here. Dog shit in my yard is attracting flies which then land on plants spreading god knows what. (Day 48) Autos are still really stunted. I wasn’t able to find out how big they will get so I will just wait and see. I would guess they’re in their flowering stretch because their growth is unusually fast right now. I will probably just end up with 6-10 inch ornamental plants for autos. Definitely should have started them around mid summer in coco then transplanted. Time is of the essence with autos it seems. (Day 49) Photoperiod plants are looking really happy but growth is stunted from the cold and lack of light. I was hoping for bigger plants by now. A lot of growth can happen in 2 weeks so we’ll see. I’m definitely not transplanting on the 21st but the sooner I do it the better. The bbb clones are struggling hard to root but I can see new growth on them starting to push out. My clones are taking a really long time to establish. Every plant here, I don’t care how stunted, must be flipped by July 15th.

Day 49-56 (June 18th - 25th) (Day 51) Slurricanes and tuna are doing excellent despite their hail damaged leaves. I’m seeing good growth and decent dry downs. One of them looks like it’s been ravaged by pests but I still can’t find any evidence or signs of a pest. I’m suspecting caterpillars so I’m going to grab some BTK killer and also some all purpose insecticide sometime this week if I have time. The clones are all really lagging so they won’t be flipped until July 15th at least. I’m still not seeing normal growth on any of them yet. It’s still quite gnarled and twisted. (Day 52) The slurricane and tuna roots are starting to poke through the bottom of my pots. This is usually from underwatering, a thick soil or a hot root zone. I’m going to give everything except for the autos a good watering with some runoff. I am going to start incorporating 5mm sand into all of my soil mixes to help make the soil more loamy and give it some better drainage. I will also top dress every container and bed plant I have. (Day 53) I was at a local department store today and I was shocked to see pallets of Destiny dark matter soil selling for 60% off! I bought 10 bags for a hundred bucks. At any hydro store that would have costed me 250 at least. I might go grab more because it looks like no one is buying it for 60% off even. (Day 54) I’m going to be harvesting both of my indoor crops today and tomorrow or the next day I am going to be reusing the soil-coco blend for the slurricanes. I’m first going to till it, add a gallon of sea compost, a gallon of Destiny soil and a few cups of 5mm sand per container. I will use the excess for 5 gal pots. I will be amending with: 5 tablespoons of nature’s pride bloom 4 tablespoons of kelp meal 2 tablespoons of Gaia green AP 2 tablespoons of glacial rock dust 2 tablespoons of oyster shell flour 2 tablespoons of alfalfa meal 1 tablespoon of rock dust blend 1/4 teaspoon of langbeinite (Day 56) The autos are really making a comeback now. I was under the impression that I was working against the clock and they would start flowering after 3-5 weeks. I guess if they’re stunted from the cold they will delay flowering. I don’t see any pistils or signs of flowering yet so I don’t think they’ve officially started flowering yet I didn’t get a chance to do my transplant this week or pest control. I will get to it ASAP because my photos are drinking almost a liter a day