Outdoor grow in Southeast Michigan 2024

[cpurola]

There’re going to be beasts you’re green thumb!!

I'm a-feared for the flower stretch. I keep chopping their tops, and they keep sending up new ones. Aakkkk.

 

[Stokes]

Goddamn i missed alot. Coming along great dude

 

[cpurola]

Yea im leearning some lessons the hard way with seed grown plants in ground outdoors. And honestly, it looks like your biggest plant (tallest anyway) is in those extras

You got me curious, so I measured and YES, Skystone is 6 1/2 feet tall. I did top the extras once. Doesn't seem to have slowed her down.
I am a little concerned about the dieing fan leaves, just along the main stalk. And she's not flowering yet.
Am I just being a nervous nelly again?

Just chillin'

 

[Like2Grow]

I often get a couple yellow leaves which is different than getting lots. Don't sweat a few yellows. Plants are lookin' good. At 6.5 ft. before flowering you have a beast on your hands. The way your arm is extended I thought maybe it was 9 ft. tall ;-).

My Granddaddy Purple Ultraviolet isn't showing gender yet but is getting interesting. The stems are starting to grow flat and wide which often turns into a triploid plant. I snapped the top of one of the stems accidently and the plant "bleeds". I hope it turns out to be a girl and starts flowering soon.

You got me curious, so I measured and YES, Skystone is 6 1/2 feet tall. I did top the extras once. Doesn't seem to have slowed her down.
I am a little concerned about the dieing fan leaves, just along the main stalk. And she's not flowering yet.
Am I just being a nervous nelly again?

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[cpurola]

I often get a couple yellow leaves which is different than getting lots. Don't sweat a few yellows. Plants are lookin' good. At 6.5 ft. before flowering you have a beast on your hands. The way your arm is extended I thought maybe it was 9 ft. tall ;-).

My Granddaddy Purple Ultraviolet isn't showing gender yet but is getting interesting. The stems are starting to grow flat and wide which often turns into a triploid plant. I snapped the top of one of the stems accidently and the plant "bleeds". I hope it turns out to be a girl and starts flowering soon.

How old is your Granddaddy Purple? Don't they usually show sex at close to 2 months? That would be tragic to care for it this long if it's a male.
And thanks for the info. about your leaves. Guess I'm looking for problems that aren't there... yet. LOL

 

[Otto Bonn]

Great thread @cpurola !, I'm living vicariously through your grow.
I gotta be honest though, I saw so many outdoor growers in northern climes stressed to all hell in late Fall trying to finish. I'd be a nervous wreck!
You're going to need a tobacco barn come October!

 

[Like2Grow]

How old is your Granddaddy Purple? Don't they usually show sex at close to 2 months? That would be tragic to care for it this long if it's a male.
And thanks for the info. about your leaves. Guess I'm looking for problems that aren't there... yet. LOL

GDP got started end of March. It's the Ultraviolet version too which is GDP crossed with Frostberry. I would have expected to know gender by now if the Frostberry had much to do with it.

 

[cpurola]

Great thread @cpurola !, I'm living vicariously through your grow.
I gotta be honest though, I saw so many outdoor growers in northern climes stressed to all hell in late Fall trying to finish. I'd be a nervous wreck!
You're going to need a tobacco barn come October!

Thanks Otto. Outdoor is one battle after another, after another, but at the end of it all there's always some for us. (enough, really)

 

[PlumberSoCal2]

Thanks Otto. Outdoor is one battle after another, after another, but at the end of it all there's always some for us. (enough, really)

If it were easy everyone would be doing it. Only the strong survive. You're killing it

 

[cpurola]

If it were easy everyone would be doing it. Only the strong survive. You're killing it

We'll see. The real tests are coming.

 

[Captspaulding]

Thanks Otto. Outdoor is one battle after another, after another, but at the end of it all there's always some for us. (enough, really)

Shit the monsters you grow, gotta have a dang ol bulldozer for harvest

 

[cpurola]

Did the morning walk-around and found this.
Then squished it.

 

[Oldchucky]

Now you have to find its eggs! L O L!

 

[cpurola]

I also found these all over my plants. Looked them up and 'tho they don't consume much, as a sucking insect I'm more concerned with disease being transfered. Google search told me it's a Neurocolpus Nubilus (Clouded Plant Bug).

 

[Oldchucky]

I thought you were spraying! Growing in Michigan! They are lining up to mess with you!

 

[cpurola]

I thought you were spraying! Growing in Michigan! They are lining up to mess with you!

Spraying gingerly. I'm trying to preserve the task force nature assigned to contain these critters, so I have to show some restraint. Not easy.
I found a dead worm on a leaf, but the plant next to it had a live one. And it's supposed to rain (scattered) just about every day.

 

[Oldchucky]

Dealing with that stuff this early in the year can be an expensive and time, consuming ordeal! Fight the good fight, sister!

 

[Thatoneguyyouknow_]

I also found these all over my plants. Looked them up and 'tho they don't consume much, as a sucking insect I'm more concerned with disease being transfered. Google search told me it's a Neurocolpus Nubilus (Clouded Plant Bug).

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i keep finding little critter here im not familiar with. Several i havent been able to even ID. Twra told me theres more undiscovered insect species up in the warm mountains then there are discovered.

I found a spider that looked like a slow hairless clumsy tarantula recently. Was damn near as big. Thing was so docile i was able to just pick it up and move it out into the woods. Took me forever to ID it because i didnt take a picture. Figured it wouldn't be hard. Very very unique spider.

Turns out it's something called a Pine Rockland Trapdoor spider, and ha a very nasty bite. Same family as some of the most venomous spiders on earth.

Coolest part, is it's a species that wasn't discovered until 2018, wasn't confirmed until 2021. And it's only been found near rocky pine barrens in florida. Nowhere else. If i find another ima put him in a tank and call twra, and tell em i found it somewhere that isnt my property


Not my picture, but yea these aren't only in florida. Giant hornets aren't only in the PNW old-growth either. theyre 100% in the Appalachian old growth too. These look straight insidious, but aren't even the slightest bit defensive or aggressive turns out. They're like 4 inches across too. Very slow and lumbering. She was just walking across my driveway. No clue how these have been "undiscovered" so long. Theres a rare, small species of tarantula around here too, thaught it was one of those at first. The bug life up here is insane.

 

[Oldchucky]

What a Pair of mandibles! Looks like it could walk on them! Would like to see Cpurrrr tackle a bunch of those!

 

[cpurola]

FYI, if you reuse old potting soil, make sure you break it down so you can see what's in it.
So, I dumped out some old fabric pots I had 'stored' outside for a couple of years. I wanted to use the potting soil to fill up my patio Autos' pots.
Surprise, surprise, damn japanese beetle grubs had infested it, so I removed the hated critters. (In a red Solo cup.)