Shov Summer '13 Outdoor

[Shovelhandle]

well, there were lots of trucks going in and out by my plants so I took one of the Euros in. I brought in the Shit yesterday so I now have two plants harvested. I thought I'd take a chance with half a crop staying out. The plant I took in yesterday weighs a good 20 #. I put the other Euro plant lower to the ground, it's really not visible unless you go looking for it now.

[growdemon]

definetly amazing. pretty damn cool, maybe they got thier own cash crop somewhere

[Slinger1]

Shovelhandle, Great post. As I am new (this my first year), I enjoyed reading your progression through the growing season with photos and strains included. Nice responses as well. Thanks!

[Shovelhandle]

tks, slinger

here's some photos of my successful outdoor stealth grow, again.
two plants left. both knocked down horizontal. NL x Sk.
Check it out. but, don't show up here and check it out...)

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[Shovelhandle]

Again, photos of neighbors and from roadside view... Neighbors are great. We catch up on the news in one of our driveways once every year or two. Except the neighbors I've never met.
The sun is just on the Euro plant and it is still pretty stealth.

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[EvilCartman]

The sun is just on the Euro plant and it is still pretty stealth.

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That's great, breaking up that tell-tale profile works wonders, eh? The lush green in the foreground helps, too!
What do you use to keep 'em down?

[Shovelhandle]

thank you
if the ground is wet just firmly step on the truck. if it's dry and you can't wet it put down a stake and tie it down a little at a time.

[Shovelhandle]

The weather forecast says cool weather for a few days and cool temps for the foreseeable future. So I took in the remaining Euro and NL x Sk. I have the Shit in jars and the other Euro is limbed and trimmed. The Euro is wicked sticky.

[catbuds]

So all your outdoor is harvested now, am I right? We still haven't had a frost yet. Having foggy nights a lot though. Nice high humidity. Perfect conditions for bud mould for thoes with late budding plants. Dont know why some of the guys around here keep insisting on growing those varities. There's so many nice earlier strains they could go with. I say leave those late varieties to those who live in zones 8-10 & quit stressing every time you hear the word FROST! I'm really curious about your outdoor european, especially now that you're telling us how sticky it is. My outdoor growing conditions are far from perfect. To hide my grow, it has to be out where its partially wooded, gets morning & evening shade with dappled sun mid afternoon. Most of the indicas I grow don't mind going sunless most of the day, as long as the light is bright & they get a little sun. How would the europeans do with that kind of light? Now that the the thieving brothers are in jail, I'm looking for something bigger & beefier than the short bushy indica hybrids I've been going with the last 15 yrs or so. The ones I keep in nursery pots (1-1 1/2gal pots), I can grow in full sun, just hidden among flowers (&spearmint) with similar leaves....but anything I grow big would have to be out under the trees. I think I posted that the brothers stole the last of my seed stock, so since I'll be starting over from scratch, thought I'd try new strains. Since I've already decided my winter indoor strains, now I'm thinking about next springs outdoor grow. Remember I posted I haven't changed my strains in around 25-30 years, so I could use your advice here. Hoping your european will do in partial shade, little sun. What do you think?~~~PEACE!~~~

[Shovelhandle]

This strain came to me with zero information other than it's probably from Skunk. Great, the other two strains I grew this year were 100% skunk and 50/50 skunk and they bear no resemblances to each other. This is the first Euro Outdoor grow for me and I did start them late. I put them in the ground as a couple of day old seedlings and they all made it to maturity (three males, two females). They did get maximum sunlight though. The other two strains got half days of direct sunlight. The Euro looks like they will outweigh the others by quite a bit.