Midwest outdoor grow log (starting in mid August) tips?

[altectech]

Update: Day 11

Hey guys, haven't made an update for awhile. Was moving and had to transfer plants. I now currently have them in a more secure location as advised from someone who posted and put them on a window sill.

Cup 6 is looking very nice! Cup 7 and 8 have been damage from before and have had a very slow start in life but are doing well for the amount of stress they have gone through. Cup 1 is my baby, a result of correcting all the previous mistakes in all the other seeds. As you can see, Cup 1 is almost surpassing cup 7 and 8 and its almost a week younger than them.

Cup 1 is the strain Onyx. The others are all Burmese Kush.

All other cups have died during transport and/or other unforeseen reasons.

All the plants seem to be taking the nutes fairly well. I've already fed them with fertilizer three times now. I may have partially burned cup 8 though. Well here's how they look now:

[Stomper420]

Hmm, they are cute. Keep at it. Youll get something out of it if nothing else, youll learn something:thumbsup:

[altectech]

Hello everyone! Sorry haven't been keeping up to date, been busy.
Day 41:
I just took some pictures and they look very nice as of today.

The larger burmese kush has already grown to a whopping 9 inches with just over a month since being planted into the ground. The onyx is at 5 inches after 4 weeks planted in ground. The other two burmese kush I've determined to have a clear root damage that was suffered during germination. The plant has managed to work with this setback and is just growing very.... small.

Even though the smaller burmese kush are already on their 5th set of leaves, they are about 4 inches tall and very thin.

I've been using Big Bloom on the plants 2-3 a week at a 6tsp/gal concentration. I think I will keep at it with this fertilizer as not only does it make a noticable difference, the plants should be going into flowering soon as it is already fall.

Also, side note, the larger burmese kush was damaged slightly due to emergency moving and I had to trim off a partial leaf on the top, is that ok? Also, I accidentally overbent the stem towards the bottom awhile ago and caused it to make a tiny hole that leaked water. The plant seems to have compensated for this and grew around it but still has a tiny brown hole where it originally was.

I also topped the plant about a week ago, I did it poorly as I took too much off but it is now giving the desired result and branching. Not sure if the reason why it took so long is because I chopped too much off or because the stem was ruptured during the same time?

I plan on moving these babies outside in a REAL container later this week.


Pictures:

(For some reason I can't upload pictures, keeps saying error, although I meet the parameters to upload the file in jpeg format...)

[altectech]

Sorry that's day 31 I meant in my previous post, not 41

[altectech]

So after examining my Onyx today, I noticed little white hairs coming out from the top internode of the plant!!! SUCCESS!!! In less than a month already enter pre-flowering. My burmese kush is still growing and though a week older than the Onyx, it has still not entered pre-flowering yet, but should be soon. I REALLY need to transplant these guys, way too big for these tiny cups! I'm so sorry but the site will not let me upload pictures, I've tried resizing, renaming, even using a dif account, nothing is working. I'm not sure but I'll keep trying. I took nice pics of these hairs though! More updates as they come

[colinzx6]

Hey man keep up the good work. I would just upload the pictures to like tinypic and then just put on the link! Me and some friends at college were bored so we started some plants yesterday. I got a bunch of bag seeds so not a big deal if we dont get anything.

Im starting mine inside on a window ledge. I'm doing this as an experiment also but going to do everything i can on maximizing the yield.

Im planning on following the LST to the model as well. I have a plant going back home and ill try to put a picture up of it. Its just random bag seed. It came from mids which makes me wonder how it came out like this. I can vouch and say that we only checked it like maybe once a week if that just because its hidden and didnt want to give away the spot.

Anyway keep up with the log and maybe ill start one



This is a zoomed in picture because we didnt LST or nothing so it just shot straight up and was luckily a female. Alot of the stems and such are purple!

[mikey2000c]

hey altectech i also have a plant i started on the 1st of august to prove a point to my room mate. would love to see those pics you have for day 31 get them up!! all the best

Mikey

[altectech]

So I just took these pics today and I'm using tinypic now.

The shorter onyx plant is flowering at 4 locations now, and the larger burmese kush has begun to have asymmetrical branching, but still no sign of sexing. Funny, because the onyx has already begun flowering and it is still symmetrical branching. Just odd I guess.

The other two stunted ones I won't focus on in pics, but they are still growing... slowly but surely they grow... Can't wait to see it in flowering (or even its yield haha)

I'm still fertilizing these guys every other day, but I've heard to fertilize more frequently when in small containers, I'm still kind of stuck with these small containers, and even if I did move them into larger containers at this point, would it even matter considering they've already begun flowering? I'm using half cup per gallon of water concentration of big bloom every day now. I want these to finish quickly as it will get too cold in late october so I'm guessing 3-4 weeks of flowering time should be enough for such small plants?

And I'm going to leave them inside on the window sill until harvest as at this point I feel like it would be too cold outside, and the product will probably be nicer if left inside where it is warmer and less pests.


Also, the big burmese kush is on day 38 in soil, the smaller onyx is day 32 in soil.

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[l3igHazeToker]

nice bro, the two big ones look good, cant wait to see em in buddin stage, or even when there taller, nice plantz good look wit em bro

[GetThisOrDie]

You should transplant into a bigger container asap.

Alot of windows now have special coatings and film on them to reflect alot of energy back out. The natural sun would be best. They need at least 6-8 hours of direct sunlight to yield something decent.

Hope you can work something out with them!