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The girls took a walk outside this week, and decided to stay.
It was overcast and a bit cooler, so it was a great time to transplant. I hardened them off over about 2 days, giving them morning sun and bringing them back indoors in the afternoon when it gets hotter. When I transplanted, I again added mycorrhizae in the planting hole and watered with trichoderma fungus. I'm growing in used organic living soil so I'm trying to innoculate all the medium I use - especially in these early stages. With the intense heat that kind of springs out at you here, I'm going to feed a few times along the grow with silicon plus, a product that helps prevent environmental stress and helps recovery if it happens. This is a great product for outdoor growers, because together with trichoderma, it can help against stuff like powdery mildew as well. Gotta fight that one proactively! If you're feeding with a silicon product, it helps to add that to your water first, then your other nutrients. If you add all the nutes first, they coagulate and make it difficult to stir together.
Gave them their first feeds, using Biobizz again alongside other organic nutrients. Feeding microbes once a week. Great to see that the weird leaf warping/curling only affected the first leaves of the Glue Gelato and Daiquiri Lime. They are good to go!
I planted some red clover for a living mulch. Clover is also nitrogen fixing to an extent, but I believe that is only truly beneficial when the plant is decomposing. Also - it takes available nitrogen from the soil if it is present first, before adding it back in - so I wouldn't rely on these as a nitrogen solution as companion plants. They're pretty and they will prevent my soil surface from drying out, that's my main reasons. They will however probably benefit the next grow, since the dead clover will be worked back into the soil adding some organic matter - like a green manure.
For the chilli heads, I've had some great harvests on some phenomenal peppers (see images for names of varieties) . My garden is a colourful, fiery playground right now! 🔥🔥🔥🔥
@Darkdarktime, hey there - it's a Magic-Flight Launch Box, one of the OG vaporizers. Handy little thing, gets some amazing hits if you know how! The silver thing is an unwrapped NiMH battery. By inserting it into the device it shorts out the mesh and delivers an impressive instant vape. I've had the thing for years. You can check them out at www.magic-flight.com
@SonomaSungrown, hey there. Yes my next week is a harvest week. I'll update this diary soon just been real busy. I find growing outdoors, the times they suggest are often more appropriate for indoors and take a bit longer for us, but I've had a few strains that were really fast outdoors - check out my Fast Buds Bubblegum diary I recently did, that was really quick!
@BioBuds, thanks - I've had good results from Dutch Passion's autos outdoors, check out my Think Different diary, I was able to cross the 100g mark - that was a wonderful sativa dominant smoke as well!
Epokwan good to see you on here again
The riots were mental bud, shit got real very quickly for us also
Happy to see you made it through and back in action
@Riveting, eish bro sounds like a story and a half! Also got caught off guard with supplies, had to queue at Checkers from 4am (needed baby supplies) and only got outta there about 1pm and once inside it was a mad show of panic buying inside...
We must be in the same province, stay safe buddy - I feel like everything is volatile at the moment.
@Epokwan, Yeah still feels like a movie set gone wrong
Flip it was hairy... We had to drive up to my farmer friends to go get meat/eggs/milk (with fuel I siphoned from a friends boat)
I was caught with my pants down on Monday (normal shopping day)
Great diary. I have one of these on the go but am a bit confused with it. Outdoor SW UK, 9ltr airpot in compost. May up to most of July have been below avg tmp and above avg rainfall. I germinated 28th March so now into 17th wk! 3rd wk of july was heatwave so let it carry on to give a last boost. Weather is now avg again but have had significant number of new pistiles appear. Triches are predominantly cloudy, only spotted 1 amber so far. I was gonna take down today but now think i should wait another week. I read there are phenos that take a bit longer but not this much. Would love to hear what others think. Cheers
@justabinky, the small pot and extreme defoliation may have stressed her out, autos can be super sensitive. Either way it sounds like you're close to getting high off your own supply. Nice to find another MFLB enthusiast! Most people who try it out don't like it because it doesn't seem to give off much vape, it takes practice to get big long warm draws, but once you get it right - oh man!
@Epokwan, thanks for the reply, it's pretty mad. During veg I did lst and at each node left only the side shoot that was growing in the direction i wanted. I have 5 colas, 1 is a bit smaller. Was quite brutal and defoliated all lower early in flower. My intention to keep small and discreet, the plant looks pretty nice, distorted twisted stem almost like a scaled up bonsai. I've been bringing indoors last week when it rains, had bad time with mould my last grow a few years back, I'm paying close attention and she looks in good shape despite being such a long finisher. I reckon I'll give her another 5-7 days, because the small pot may have stifled development really interested what yeild is, be happy whatever though, smells amazing, last few weeks. Thanks again for sharing your grow, and thoughts. Btw, big up the magic flight, all ive used since i gave up smoking almost 10 years ago
@justabinky, hey thanks for stopping by. 17 weeks seems way too long, even for outdoors. If there's no signs of mold or rot and she seems healthy enough, go ahead and push her a bit. Being sativa dominant, harvesting with less amber is also okay. Whatever you decide, it will be a great smoke. All the best for your harvest!