ezygzy

Hey guys, been awhile since i posted after my 3 bigger plants got swiped but I just wanted to post some pics of my last surviving plant and see if anyone had any advice how to beef her up alittle before flowering starts Sept 3rd where I live.

She's outdoors, on the other side of town than where my other ones got stolen from so she's relatively save and nobody knows about her except the landowner, who is family so its cool. The only issue is the ground is rock hard and dry, and I don't have a car to drive over here and water her through the week. when I planted her I dug out about 16 inches of the native soil and threw good rich black dirt in the hole but it dries out quick too.

I was thinking it was a male all along, by the way its growing. Its stretching quite a bit with no branching, but today i checked and sure enough its a girl. Shes got pinkish purple stripes all over her merristem.

Is there anyway I can thicken her stem up? I've been feeding her once a weekend, but this weekend I mixed alittle Epsoma 10-10-10 in with the dirt around her and threw a pinch of epsom salts in the water, because some leaves were taco-ing. This is all I got to look forward to harvest-wise for outside this year. Its a shame.

I hope she gives me atleast a quarter of bud but is looking doubtful. She's about 10,11 inches tall and starting to alternate nodes so i hope she packs on atleast 100% size during the flowering stretch. She just never grew like her sister who was very branchy and I topped so it had 4 large branches and stems looked just like this ones', with the pink and purple mixed all through them.

New growth on her stem is neon green its pretty cool. This one is VERY sativa dominant. Sister was more 50/50 with tight internode space. I might even move this one inside when my lights are set up, still figuring out what I'm gonna do..

Thanks for any tips guys.

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bluebloodletter

I hope that's not how you confirmed the gender, the middle pic is too blurry for me to confirm it.

Anyhow, the purple stems are a sign she wants more P, so move to a more balanced food, or add some bloom. She's going to need water, and a lot of it, but you might be surprised at how much may be available, those roots will grow as deep as they need to. If you still think she's going to need more than is available, you'll have to construct a reservoir of some sort.

craveshop

Looks good

if it looks hungry, little guano, worm castings, organics.

cover the dirt around the plant with loose crushed leaves, dry shrub, fruit peels , grass clippings, it makes compost and mantains your soil moist.

And try to water it very well every week or so , but its a baby right now, so extreme watering isnt too much a factor.

weed is weeds, it'll grow anywhere, survive in any way.

If it gets stolen, there's public access, no landlord to bust , and the same location?, you just might be doing someone a favor.

Have fun Gorilla man!

-craveshop

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ezygzy

There are female preflowers on the top 2 nodes, its definitly a girl. sorry the pic is alil blurry, I was just bringing attention to the alternating nodes/ color of the stems.

As for the color, its just in these genes for the pink/ purple. This plant had a big sister who was mighty healthy and displayed the same thing. This one doesn't have the strawberry smell the other one had though, but it still smells good and has nice sugary crystals all over the stems.

I might even stay over on this side of town to keep her damp the next week or so, because she definitly does need more water. I must've poured about 10 16 oz. cups of water on the ground out by her today to moisten it up some. Wish I had more water crystals they worked nice for my bigger plants this year, the ones that got stolen.

Anyway, thanks blueblood and craveshop! appreciate the advice.

Its so small noway is it gonna attract any attention by LEO. They'd buzz right past this one, and even if they saw it they'd laugh and keep going. The ones that were stolen were in my backyard where I'm currently living. I'm moving in 2 weeks I just got a new house and its being remodeled at the moment. Its gonna be my first house living by myself and you know what that means!!!

As for where its at, its just close family(very close), who owns some land and isn't ignorant about medical MJ. They know all too well about how I choose to smoke for my severe back problems and anxiety instead of intoxicate myself with harsh manmade pharmaceuticals which have worse side effects than the reason i am perscribed them. Wish the government would understand this as well, but they dont as of yet in the state I reside in

The land owner wishes they could still smoke, used to back in the hippy days of the 60's-70s, but there are random drug tests assigned with the occupation of the landowner and they can't risk it. If they get called up they have exactly 30 minutes to report to the nearest hospital or else its automatically marked positive. And of course if this plant IS ever spotted, the landowner had no knowledge of its presence

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craveshop

If those are recent pictures, I'm guessing harvest wont be for another 3 months , give or take. IMO, you'll still have to keep your fingers cross that it doesn't grow an adams apple and manly hand leaves. Make you want to stomp it out.

Your house will be an advantage to upgrading your performance of growing the best kind . Taking you to a whole new other level.

I'll be keep my mind crossed for you
Best of luck!

craveshop-

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outdoors

I'm curious about when this plant was put outdoors???

You could water the plant once a week with a couple of gallons of water each week.

Create a little dam all the way around the plant, about 3 feet in diameter to keep the water close to the plant.
Use a mulch of any kind about 3-6" thick to help maintain the soil temp and reduce drying the soil.

This is basicaly what crave suggested.....

When you water the plant each week, add fertilizer to the water. Use a balanced fert like the 10-10-10 until the plant is into flowering, then reduce the nitrogen you're giving her.

Best of luck to you.
Peace-
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ezygzy

She was born about July 1st. These 2 seeds were the only seeds I got in a nice big heavy bag of some of the best bud I've ever smoked in my life. Purple THICK nuggets covered with crystals. My best friend got it for CHEAP, but I got it for free cause it was my best friend. Next day I wanted more but it was all gone. I was ready to pay top dollar if need be, after I smoked some of it but it disappeared as quickly as it appeared. The buds were unreal huge. My half oz. was like 3 buds. Honest to God I have smoked some one hit wonders, but this stuff took 2 hits and you in freakin' ORBIT you were so high for HOURS upon HOURS. Delightful. Anyway onto her story..

I found a pic from 7/3 in my outdoors grow journal and she just unfurled her first set of leaves. It was an immature looking seed and I didn't think that it would do much of anything. There is a pic from 7/3 of another plant in my grow journal I was loading onto here that night and I noticed something green in the dirt below this plant, down in the soil and I suspect she was only there for a day or 2. Transplanted her the next day into a starter cup, as she was in the shade of the larger plant I took the pic of in the first place.

Her sister was very squat and super branchy. Very vigorous. This was just well...a runt. she has a very unstable leaf system going on and still does. Why? I have no idea, none of the others did this.

At first she made one true leaf on one side, and a webbed 2 bladed leaflet on the other side, then it went to something like three bladed webbed, mutated looking leaves on both sides, then the next node had only one single bladed true leaf on one side and a 2 bladed leaflet on the other. she gets all day light and always has since about July 4th, she's just weak and frail compared to her big sister.

Now she just spit out 2 seven bladed leaflets and the newest leaves on the upcoming nodes are back down to 6 on one side and 5 on the other. Very very unstable her whole life. That'd be sweet if she mutated out and just made a solid stick of bud!! GIANT MUTANT BUD!

I gave her lots of attention and water this past week and she put on 3 nodes in 3 days while I stayed across town where she lives. She's got pistils showing out of her preflowers now as well. Before I just used a magnifying glass to identify the hook shaped female preflowers attached directly to the nodespace, as opposed to the club shaped male preflowers which are on the little stalks away from the nodespace.

I sprinkled a pinch of Epsoma 10-10-10 around her and also I hit her with some epsom salts and she's got more growth on her budsites down her merristem. She's looking alot better this week now that I actually gave her attention. When I took the latest pics she had just two faint leaves coming out of the nodes. Back on track for a couple tasty lil nuggets I hope!

Pic 1 is her sister the day she got stolen . Call me crazy but now that I'm reading up on White Rhino since I purchased some beans, the leaf pattern from this girl looks VERY similar to Rhino leaves. It had purple and pink tints to the stems too maybe it was a pink Rhino pheno? She had a berry scent to her though, mostly reminded me of strawberries but the younger one does not have this trait. Nor any of the other good ones big sis had except for her pink and purple stems along with neon green budsites.

Damn I miss her sister's sweet scent and I wonder if she's still alive out there somewhere... I dunno, its kinda like a child getting abducted which is pretty much what happened. Think about these plants all the time 'cause I grew em and babied them.

Only got ONE MALE out of 6 total plants outside this year and one unknown, which was heavy sativa dom and growing like a snail so I plucked it.

Pic 2 is her baby picture displaying the webbed 3 bladed leaflets and the new growth coming in as 1 bladed leaflet and a 2 bladed leaflet on the other side. Wierdo.

I'll take a couple new pics tomorrow when I'm out that way. Going out that way late tonight actually but I won't make it to the spot until tomorrow.

Peace and thanks guys for your ideas, I think she's gonna be ok from now on.

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ezygzy

Here is how she's lookin as of today, much better.

She's also starting to flower. Preflowers have long pistils everywhere!

I also besides the epsoma plantfood put a dog patty (composted and old) around her base as well. She thickened up about 50% her original thickness.

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craveshop

What if the chemical of the smoke is mutated as well.

I've heard of Mutating the seeds with some chemical that causes the plants DNA to mutate. Most seeds wont sprout for that reason. And when they do, its not recommended to smoke the first grow, that the chemical may as well be in the plant.

Heck, Your new Nick name will then be "Blinky", like the fish from the Simpsons.

I hope I'm wrong, so just be careful.

Hope everything turns out alright.

Best of Luck!

the crave -

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ezygzy

I really doubt that any chemicals were used to mutate her, her sister never showed any mutations whatsoever so I'm pretty sure It'll be safe smoking. I think she was just destined to be a runt, plain and simple.

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