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Plants look good. Very healthy, stretching a little perhaps, but overall very good.
One of my Master Kush plants looks like it got eaten for lunch. It's still growing however, so who knows. Maybe i'll get some buds from it.
Here are pics of the MK MG patch.
Pics of the LR2 / Thai Stick patch. First few are LR2 buds, the rest are TS.
Finally, the plants i topped. I decided to top one of each strain i have to see how they respond. I chose the plant that had the most nodes (4 or 5) and i cut off just the growing top. First is the TS, then the MK, then the MG.
Tell me what you guys think!
lookin good!!!!
WT
looks good i would get some of that liquid fence before somthing else decides to sample your plants and the earth taking her share. but you can up your chances with clones.
did you try the fim?
sweet auto flower huh how does that work? does start to flower after 3 weeks regardless of season? or just matures faster and if so is there any other abnormalities in its growth cycle?
sorry was stoned am stoned when i wrote solstice thing but it was fragmental. first day of flower is about a month after solstice which is a difference of thirty minutes and at decline of a minute a day and also a change in light spectrum and the longest is only about 15 hours where i live so 14 1/2 it switches over pretty muchso its i little more complicted. sorry i made it sound like the plant gas a watch.
I did not do FIM, i just topped. FIM would be cutting off some of the top growing shoot but not all of it. I cut it all off!Quote:
Originally Posted by phatsesh101
Auto-flowering strains tend to be in the Cannabis Ruderalis branch of marijuana (Ruderalis is the same type of classification as Indica or Sativa, just much less common). Auto-flowering plants flower after a certain amount of time regardless of the light cycle.
In the case of LR2, they start flowering at the end of the third week from germination and they are finished 8-9 weeks after germinating. They basically skip the vegetative growth stage and go strait from seedling to flowering. Consequently, they are smaller so they produce less (anywhere from 15-38g per plant), but i'll have some tasty buds to smoke long before the Kush and Mango and Thai Stick are done!
Hopefully everything will work out. I'm most worried about bud mold. The dew in the morning is very heavy where my patch is, and i could see this producing mold.
Any suggestions on keeping my buds from molding?
Peace!
Looks like it could have been a rabbit that ate your plant. I have problems with that too. The plant should be fine, and once they get big you shouldn't have to worry about it that much.
Every thing else is looking pretty good. As for the mold....the strain is the only way to really control it. I live near where you are and don't really have that much of a problem with it. If you see it pic it off so that it will not spread, and try to harvest before it rains.
I have experience with battling mold and bud rot. If you're going to grow outdoors in a wet climate, you need to concern yourself with what variety you are growing. In general sativas are more desired for outdoors because it's common for indicas to have dense buds, while sativas tend to be more loose and fluffy. Dense buds and moisture do not mix. It's a sure recipe for bud rot. The dense buds hold in moisture, and if conditions are good the bud can actually grow around the moisture before it has a chance to dry.Quote:
Originally Posted by dgsgandalf
In the Pacific Northwest it starts pouring rain 2 or 3 weeks before harvest time. It is very common for me to have to harvest early or loose most the crop to rot. If it rains for a few hours and then is dry for a few there is no problem. It's those times when it rains for days straight that the bud starts rotting. When it's not raining I also get heavy dew. In my experience this is nothing to worry about. Heavy dew comes on days with heavy sun, and the dew is quickly dried out.
I've thought about all kinds of things I could rig up to let in light and air flow, while keeping the rain out. I gave up on that, and decided the best thing to do for my outdoor dense-bud plants is to plant them under a tree. You have to make a choice. You can plant them in full sun and they will develop to the best of their ability, and most likely they will develop bud rot before harvest time. This might be OK, since it's nice to have both clear trichome and amber trichome weed around. (Earlier harvests mean more clear trichomes and a more clear high.) The other choice is to plant them under a tree, and they will yield less and stretch more, and be more likely to break due to lack of sunshine, but you'll be more likely to let them be until the desired harvest time.
I've also thought of spraying an antifungal each day it rains, but then of course I would be adding more moisture, and it probably would get washed off anyway before it has a chance to do any good.
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thanks.
Hey hollisterkid55, welcome.