dreamweaver

Hi Everyone. This is my first forum message on any ganja related site. I sure would appreciate your input. I actually look out at Texada island. I'm on the sunshine coast of British Columbia and I can tell you from driving along the logging roads that there are a lot of people that grow the ganja up here! You can count the in routes as you drive along the logging roads if you know what to look for.

In fact that would explain why there's a vintage car show each summer with over 300 vintage cars fully restored. Just love going to those shows and wanted to do my own outdoor show next summer.

So I wanted to start doing some research by asking if anyone out there has had any success with growing texada pinewarp outside and if you did, can I ask you how much of a yield you got and what kind of work did you do for the soil? By that I mean did you hike out lumber and construct a big ass planter for those massive yields - did you hike out the soil and mushroom manure? Did you just dig a hole and stick the clone in the ground knowing that there's pine needles everywhere which effects the ph of the soil?

For those really big yields, one would think that the plant had access to a lot of soil. How much soil is my question. Does anyone ever use bear shit as fertilizer? I've found a lot of it where I hike and I have heard that plant growth does exceptionally well when it is included in the soil mix. Has anyone ever tried?

Finally, can I trim outdoors and dry it in a small shack that I build or do I have to hump it all home to prevent mould during the drying process?

Your insight and experience would be most welcome.

Thanks very much for your forthcoming comments.

Have a great evening.

Dreamweaver

EZMark

OLA dreamweaver

Welcome to the GardensCure

I am not familiar with that strain, It sounds like a locally bread cross.
Maybe someone else here will have more info for you.

PS I edited your title spelling after reading your post.

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Im not from your area so Im mainly guessing.

Texada TIMEwarp is a very popular outdoor strain. Read nothing but good things about it. Im sure the same will go for your pinewarp. Like EZ said, it sounds like a cross some locals did.

Its best to dry inside if possible. I know Canada already has a short grow season. Mold is a huge problem late season. I wouldnt want to risk it personally.

Almost any fertilizer in the correct npk values will work fine. Outdoors you want to stay away from things that may attract animals. Im sure you have a lot of bears and deer. They will go after a bunch of different fertilizers. As will plenty smaller animals.

Bat guano and kelp meal are my preffered outdoor nutrients. Earthworm castings are good too. Compost...Liquid nutrients work as well.

When planting outside in the ground I always like to use pro mix. I know you can get it because its made in Canada. Sunshine mix is basically the same thing and works well to.

I wouldnt suggest planting into dirt with pine needles everywhere. Instead, get some grow bags or even trash bags. Make sure holes are in the bottom of them. Dig your hole, put bag in, fill bag with soil. Pine trees grow in acidic soil. All those pine needles just make it more acidic. pot doesnt like acidic soil at all. Ive always had the worst plants growing around pine trees, but a bag of soil solves that.

Lucky27

Pinewarp is a local BC strain just like Timewarp. It's a cross of Pineberry and Texada Timewarp. Purple tendancies good for outdoor. Had it once it didn't burn very clean but
that's probably just how it's grown. Never grown it myself.

Timewarp a very piney strain as it is not sure why it would need to be anymore
piney.

I know true TT is one of those strains that many say doesn't exist anymore.

According to local lore it exists only in the hands of an older eccentric grower from Texada.

dreamweaver

Hey guys...

Thanks very much for your comments. Very much appreciated. I was out hiking today in the BC forests on the sunshine coast. Bear shit and pine needles everywhere. And lots of moisture. I have been growing just a small number of the kootenay mountain seed company - white widow - grizzly strain, and they're ready now! (Sept. 5th!!!) I planted them on June first but the company suggests planting as early as March 21, which I believe to be completely nuts. Its still winter conditions in BC at that time of year. Maybe May 1 - I can see that.

Anyhow, I found that the white widow-grizzly had zero mould problems up to sept. 5th, they're fully in bud now. I hiked out soil and only used small pots because getting seeds was my mission this summer as I was running low on them. But I have some good bud here too. It grows very early so the ganja bandits won't even be out looking for your grow sites while you're trimming.

Has anyone got any suggestions about trimming and drying outdoors? Can it be done safely without mould coming into the picture?

Many thanks everyone!

Dreamweaver

stoney-trees

Drying outside is all up to the weather man. Of course you can trim outside.

If its damp, raining, freezing I wouldnt want to dry outside at all.

dreamweaver

Thanks for your reply Stoney-Trees.

I've done small amounts of trimming outdoors before. What I'm worried about is what happens if you grow say a dozen or so massive plants and you have no place to dry them indoors. Should I make a shed or something out in the forest and dry them in that? That's what I'm getting at.

Can the buds dry in a shed out in the forest or would the forest air attract the mold? I guess you have to be in the BC forests to understand my question as it's sunny one minute and pouring rain the next. To do the drying successfully out there would I need a generator, a dehumidifier, some fans? Should I be there staying out in the forests for days and nights until the drying is all said and done?

Has anybody ever actually done that sort of thing? If so, I'd love to hear about it.

Thanks very much.

stoney-trees

A dehumidifier would allow you to dry outside if the room is enclosed enough.

What are you afraid about drying inside for?

Weather is the same here in october. Thats why I dont suggest doing it outside. Every night its cold and damp. Sometimes can hit freezing in the middle of the night.

kawliga

Stoney is quite correct....why risk your final step after a successful harvest?

I tried drying before outside....waste of time and effort....you need and want very controlled conditions to do it right.

Cut your plants in to manageable pieces and pack into double wrapped garbage bags and take them home for cleaning and drying....

K.

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This is my 3rd year growing TT in NY State, good yield, potent, real early finisher, one pheno last year was done by Sept 12. This year I'm growing a cross , my fastest TT crossed with a White Russian male, on track for mid September, real happy with it. This TT is an F-5 crossed back to the clone only mother,not familiar with the Pinewarp, though. Could use a little more mold resistance, but nothing is perfect, I guess.

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