Outdoors in Manitoba schedule

[michaelpeg]

and sorry about the TRYING TO GET ATTENTION!!! lol i just figured most people knew the answers here is my plant info.

DESCRIPTION :


This delicious variety with BIG fat sticky buds and sweety caramel flavour is our favorit after dinner smoke.
Caramelicious has been bred for the last 15 years with great success and happyness.
This indica/sativa hybride is crossed back and selected on her sweety taste and great yield.

A beautifull plant loads of crystals sweety taste and a happy high. This plant is easy to grow - good for beginners.

PLANT INFORMATION :
Quantity : 10 seeds
Type : Indica/sativa
Climate : indoor
Yield : 450 gram / m2
Height : 35 - 65 cm Flowering period : 8 - 9 weeks
Harvest : Early september
Stoned or High : Happy High
THC level : good 17 - 20%
Grow Difficulty : good for beginners

[stinkyattic]

Now look up your first frost date.
This is how I would deal with a long-flowering variety that far north:
Grow indoors until late July.
Give 4 days of complete darkness the last week in July.
Put outdoors August first. The plant should be kick-started into flowering.
Or pick a more appropriate outdoor Canadian strain... Mighty Mite is probably the one you want up north.

[michaelpeg]

lets say i was to buy some Mighty Mite, since it is canadian bred is that saying i should be able to start em outside and they will finish? and september 22 - 26 is aproximately the first frost

[stinkyattic]

lets say i was to buy some Mighty Mite, since it is canadian bred is that saying i should be able to start em outside and they will finish?

You need to do a lot of reading. Mighty Mite is good for very far north because it flowers on anything less than about 20 hours of light, according to several growers posting on other cannabis forums. Google 'mighty mite'. This means it starts flowering, and therefore finishes, earlier than varieties that flower on 13 hours or less.

[michaelpeg]

thank you very much stinky i guess i will be growing mighty mite, im just wondering how you learned so much about growing. did you go to college or something? if you dont mind me asking

[stinkyattic]

I went to college in the field of environmental sciences, specifically fisheries management. It was a hard-science degree (BS not BA) and required a LOT of biology/botany/forestry/ecology/org&evo bio/chemistry classes. One of my jobs during college was working at a big commercial hydroponic greenhouse growing food crops. I didn't even smoke back then and thought it was funny that pot plants kept miraculously appearing in among the veggies, lol. I've always enjoyed gardening though. Skip forward several years and you find me in a soul-sucking indoor job. Gardening is a major way for me to stay sane, lol.
The trick to growing far north is finding hardy, localized strains. Even autoflower lines start to make sense when you get past a certain latitude. Have you ever heard of 'Manitoba Poison'? Might be worht looking into as I believe it is meant to live up there. Double check that it is indeed an outdoor strain. You need an OUTDOOR line developed for early harvest.

[michaelpeg]

hmm no never heard of manitoba poison i will look into it right now and it is good to have such a smarty pants around

[michaelpeg]

well there seems to be a couple "manitoba" plants alrighty i guess i will get some of these instead of mighty mite thanks so much thats all i need to know for this subject.

[michaelpeg]

im going to get a little off topic because i feel i have been starting wayyy to many threads and im sure there are people that dont like that.I want to ask you when is the best time to plant outdoors, on websites they tell me when i should be harvesting such as early september for manitoba poison, what start date does this correspond to? how do they know when i will be able to harvest? Do you think i should start it indoors first? i know you all think i should read up on everything more but i dont find google NEARLY as effective as this site as you guys have first hand experience. sorry

[stinkyattic]

I'm going to move that last to 'outdoor' and get you going in the outdoor section.
How early you start depends more on how much space you have and how big you want your plants to get, and also if you are planning to set out unsexed plants or sexed clones.
If you want to set out sexed clones, you have to start right away and dedicate some indoor space to the project.
I would say that the LATEST you want to set out seedlings would be about July 1, and by then they should have ~5 nodes and be smal vegging plants. Which means planting seeds June 1 at the latest if you are starting outdoors.