Group Thread: Outdoors 2008

[bobbooty]

yep they are going in the same outdoor setup, no late start this time. i plan to LST the shit out of these.

[shrubz]

I forsee a somewhat controlled mini pot jungle there I usually plant later due to limited space..now as late as mid/late july but I still seem to run outa' space in my back yard spot. Im gona plant fewer this time, one maybe 2 and start them early as I can and lst also. Im just a lil concerned about too early and having them start flowering on me.

[outdoors]

Originally Posted by shrubz

I forsee a somewhat controlled mini pot jungle there I usually plant later due to limited space..now as late as mid/late july but I still seem to run outa' space in my back yard spot. Im gona plant fewer this time, one maybe 2 and start them early as I can and lst also. Im just a lil concerned about too early and having them start flowering on me.

Good plan shrubz, I'm with ya.

Get started inside as early as you want but don't put out until late April first of May to avoid a reveg situation later in the season.

Peace- OD

[Stone]

Looking good everyone...
I had amazing success with germing that I'm hoping is due to a few additions so that I can continue the trend.
I initially bagged all my seeds with banana peels and paper towels seperating them from the moisture in an effort to increase fems (thanks BC). Well I got a little lazy and forgot to change out the bananas and paper towels for a few days, which lead to a few of the seeds sprouting. What was much worse, though, was a good amount also started to grow mold around the shells - some more than others.
This obviously freaked me out, so I immediately set them to soak in an effort to both kill the mold and put them through my regular 12-24 hr soak before going to Oasis cubes.
My soak recipe was:
Age Old Liquid seaweed 2tsp/G
GH Diamond Nectar (fulvic acid) 2tsp/G
SuperThrive ~1/10tsp/G
Folic Acid 1mg/L
H2O2 2tblsp/G - ~4 tblsp/G (depending on amountof mold)
PH'd with Citric Acid

Placed submerged in this solution for 12-24+ hrs in open glass containers on a heat mat with no temp control.
Way more H2O2 than I usually use, but it really did the trick! Not 1 lost! (PS I did add about 15 drops per container to the ones that had high mold and had'nt yet popped as the original H2O2 evaporated)
The Banana bagging procedure as well as the folic acid were new to me, as well as the high H2O2.
They absolutely loved this soak, as I had over 85% crack in the solution, a good amount even completely shedding thier shells.
All went into Oasis cubes moistened with same soak except only 1tblsp/G H2O2 in it.
They were placed under 6 23w cfl's @ 6500k. Temps kept between 72-80 with humidity at ~50%.
I'll post up some pics when thier is something to see, and we'll see what kind off germ rates my new potion provides.
Happy Growing,
Stone

[Clone]

Recently got some texada timewarp f5 beans, thinking of starting them within the next few days. I already have a couple dozen toddlers (about 1.5 months old) from seed produced accidentally last year. Gonna keep 8 females from the 50 er so candidates and put them outside. Still have roughly 2 months before putting them outside, so lots of time to sex and select the best phenotypes.

If i germ the texada seeds right now they should get 4 or 5 sets of leaves before its time to put them outside. Not enough time to sex them. I'm thinking of making a seperate garden for these young texada using 1 gal. pots initially. After about 2 weeks outside in the 1 gal pots I will cut clones from each texada plant and root them indoors. Once rooted, the clones will go to the flowering chamber until they show sex. When the male clones show up, the corresponding plant outside will be massacred, leaving only the females. The females will then be transplanted out of the 1 gallon pots and into the ground or into a larger pot.

[tripps]

Originally Posted by Clone

Recently got some texada timewarp f5 beans, thinking of starting them within the next few days. I already have a couple dozen toddlers (about 1.5 months old) from seed produced accidentally last year. Gonna keep 8 females from the 50 er so candidates and put them outside. Still have roughly 2 months before putting them outside, so lots of time to sex and select the best phenotypes.

If i germ the texada seeds right now they should get 4 or 5 sets of leaves before its time to put them outside. Not enough time to sex them. I'm thinking of making a seperate garden for these young texada using 1 gal. pots initially. After about 2 weeks outside in the 1 gal pots I will cut clones from each texada plant and root them indoors. Once rooted, the clones will go to the flowering chamber until they show sex. When the male clones show up, the corresponding plant outside will be massacred, leaving only the females. The females will then be transplanted out of the 1 gallon pots and into the ground or into a larger pot.

The TT's show really fast, you might be surprised. I did what you describe, only indoors, the parents showed before the clones ever did.

[CRAZYTRAIN]

It's great to see so much energy in here!!! Keep it up guys!

This is what's going on at my place. I'm still waiting for those ladies in the greenhouse to finish. I've got the 8 in the hydro tray and the 4 in the ground. I think It'll be another 3 weeks. What do you think?

[CRAZYTRAIN]

I'm getting a bit of budrot on a few of my plants. I don't want to cut them yet as the trics have not turned amber, so I cut off the moldy buds and kept growing.

[Indica_fatbud]

Hey crazy train i didnt see a fan venting air from outside the green house, if u have a fan flushing new air through the green house it will help keep the bud rot at bay.

[outdoors]

A fan will help.... you need some good air exchange or at least circulation.

I hope you can give those plants another couple of weeks CT.

I am faced with more plants than I want. I have about 16 female clones off my 2 clones I kept last September. That was all an experiment without a real intention to plant these particular clones this season.

Now I have them but since I only have one shot a year I want to try other strains too so I've got another 30-40 plants from sprouts to seedlings to 6" tall babies.

Peace-
OD