Group Thread: Outdoors 2008

[Trancerdancer33]

Originally Posted by discingolfer

Last night I shoveled another 5" of snow, this morning went out to throw the ball for the dog again, and had to shovel off the back deck. Hadn't done this in like a week and a half and there's almost 14+ inches of snow. We haven't had this much snow (total for season) in at least 6 years, we've had more this year than the last 4 years combined.

Things are quite a bit nicer out west, summer is already here it feels like!

[xyz]

Originally Posted by outdoors

Hey xyz - Is that your normal way of rooting cuttings?

Peace- OD

Hey OD.

No, I just didn't have room to air-layer or snip and stick. They are the result of my mom needing a trim.

I put them in the window-they look nice there

I will be taking clones from my mom at several different times in different mediums so I will be ready with a lot of choice when planting time comes.

One of my new smoking buddies is like a lumberjack so my shade issues will be going away at no cost or risk to me-this is a very good thing

He and a mutual friend are always wanting to give money for bud, but I having none of that. I will let them chop down my tree and fix my car though. They can't figure out why I give them some great bud but wont take money.

I tell them it's a karma thing, don't want an imballance in the Ganjasphere. They look at me funny while they take another hit.
(Besides, Maggy would get pissed)

[vburton517]

Hey Everyone!

I'm back with the 1st outdoor grow of early spring to come! I have had a indoor garden, since November, harvested end of last month. I have/had a blueberry haze. I'm now working with her 2 month old clone and she's about 5ft tall and just had to go outside. I put her outside during the day temps around 60-65 daily in Ga. At nite I put her in the basement w/temps staying around 55-58 degrees covered with a black garbage bag for insulation during the nite. She's very strong and healthy and doesn't seem to mind being outside. Temps here rise rapidly in the morning. I'm hoping all goes well, I'll get some pic's up tomorrow. She just went outside on Saturday when temps reach 70. Perfect time to get her aclimated to outdoors. From here it should go smoothly, she just got too big to stay indoors till next month. I figured with a good regimen, with out/day & in nite, she'll be just fine. I'll keep you all posted.... I'm glad to be back! Oh, by the way, my indoor female yeilded 7 ounces and it took me 3 days to harvest her. It was a stinky affair.

[CRAZYTRAIN]

Things in the greenhouse are moving along slowly........boy these plants go to flower so much quicker indoors.
Question for you greenhouse experts out there. I've noticed that at night in the greenhouse that it never gets really dark.. I can see in there pretty well. It seems as if the roof catches the light or something.
Has this been a problem for your plants?

[vburton517]

OMG! Why did I wake up this morning to find my princess, damn near dead. She'd been outside for a couple of cold nites, and I think I killed her. I brought her inside and put her back on 24/7 floro's hopefully she revaps from this tramatic experience. Lord knows I'm trully distraught over her dimise,Will she comeback? Will she make it for a couple more weeks in the house before its back outside, Please advise if anyone had a plant reach death's doorstep and come back. How long will it take and do I have a shot in the dark, with her coming back healthy? IF anyone can answer any of my questions, it'll be greatly appreciated...

Dude, Your greenhouse looks good, let them do they're thing! if the lights penetrating them, you know shortly by them turning hermie on ya!

[shrubz]

heeeeey vburton. what do you consider cold..it was - 20 c here yesterday your in the south dammit :P I rescued a lil indy clone..wait till you see this thing lol. was in the cold too with lights off for almost a week. plus its in a small cup and was all root bound..looks so feeble I got it some space and a drink of liquid K and new dirt. I cant even load pics a puppy chewed the fuckin wire again. Ill get em loaded later. good to see your still growing.

[outdoors]

CrazyTrain... I've never had plants outside at this time of year before.
Although I've flowered in late Aug thru November and I've never seen
anything odd about the course of flowering.

I don't have any "city" lights to deal with either. My common sense
tells me that plants adapt to the darkness they grow in and maintain
the same photoperiod regardless of moonlight.

Sometimes, the full moon would seem to light up the greenhouse
and still I had no changes in the progression of flowering.

I hope this helps your concern.

How's your plant VBurton? Do you think it suffered from a frost?
It seems more likely it went dry??? tell all...

Shrubs, do you think it's gonna be the new monster outdoor plant?

All my cuttings have rooted and are producing new growth!
I've figured out I have way too many NightQueen clones and
now I think 4 GrapeKrush clones. The new cab is full!

I ended up putting the mother plants outside in the greenhouse
center raised bed just to see what would happen.







Here's what I think will happen, they will grow, get kinda big
and then start flowering for about 3 weeks and then they will
revert to veg.... making me very unhappy.

This ^^^^ is why I've never tried to get a spring harvest.
Now, the test is happening.

I hear ya CrazyTrain, it's slow outdoors... nothing like indoors.

The cement footings are in the trench, blocks tomorrow if it
doesn't rain. A longer process than I anticipated.

Peace- OD

[CRAZYTRAIN]

OD, what are your temps like these days??
Yo little mammas look good.

PS. Hey...you said no inline pics

[discingolfer]

I can tell winter is getting ready to break it's gray spell. I heard birds everyday now, and it's going to be mostly in the 40s next week. Yesterday I went for a walk and I spotted some things growing up out of the snow. Life seems to be returning to nature. I can't wait til it's always warm outside, and I can plant my babies.

[outdoors]

Originally Posted by CRAZYTRAIN

OD, what are your temps like these days??
Yo little mammas look good.

PS. Hey...you said no inline pics

It's true Crazytrain.... I had already uploaded these pics to my GJ and so I am pulling them from there rather than uploading more pics.

I'm under the assumption that this requires less bandwidth but I'm not positive about that. That's my explanation.

My temps are in the low to mid 40's at night and low to mid 60's during the day. Inside the gh is a different story in terms of daytime temps but I haven't checked them yet. My guess is that it goes into the 70's to low 80's in there.

Peace and good growing...

OD