Quote Originally Posted by Opie Yutts
Well, I guess if you don't expect much, you won't get disappointed much. Your plants are looking real nice, maybe a little stretchy from all the shade, but that's part of growing in the great outdoors. Mine do that too, when I try to get them out of the rain and under a tree. When you plant outdoors, you should realize that there will be a certain amount of loss. Sometimes you don't loose much, but sometimes you do. There are lots of bugs, diseases and herbivores that you just can't control like you can indoors.

All in all, wow, what a difference from the beginning of this thread. Nice, real nice. Congrats, you'll soon be able to enjoy the fruits of your labor.

A quick word of advice or 2. If it starts raining, check daily for bud rot, especially on any varieties that tend to have tight, dense buds. It would be better to harvest early, than let bud rot begin to spread. If you get it, don't smoke it, very bad for you. Also, now that your plants are getting tall they are also getting heavy around the buds. Especially if it rains, and probably even if it doesn't, some of the heavier buds may break at the stems' weak point if they are not somehow supported. If I get a real big bud going, before the rains come I want to be sure to tie it up to a neighboring bush, steel spike, or something else.

Did I say "nice"?

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Aspergillus fumigatus

In order to kill microorganisms, especially mold, occasionally found in low-quality cannabis, the scientists "Levitz and Diamond (1991) suggested baking marijuana in home ovens at 150 °C [302 °F], for five minutes before smoking. Oven treatment killed conidia of A. fumigatus, A. flavus and A. niger, and did not degrade the active component of marijuana, tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)." ---- Medical cannabis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia