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Outdoor grow in Southeast Michigan 2024

No, the broken branch is probably from her crawling in there on her belly, pushing branches aside, like a gorilla to look at the lower stalk!πŸ˜‚πŸ’
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Thank you so much everyone for your help. I think I'm going to try the peppermint oil and see if that works. We have some from another critter adventure. πŸ˜‰ And I really hope clearing the underbrush makes it less hospitable.
BTW, I found this on the LAX in the 12. Makes me think it's in sympathy for her sis. πŸ™

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I don’t know of any way of saving them once they eat all the way around it! Now you have to figure out how to keep it from happening to other plants! Like, maybe slitting some PVC or something similar and putting it around. I’ve heard of people wadding a bunch of aluminum foil around the bottom but I don’t know for sure how well it works. Maybe something like chicken wire with real small holes! Back in the day, we use victor rat traps a couple under every plant! But I don’t know if that’s feasible for you.
1/4" chik wire. Cut and make a rectangle, and wire tie it around the stalks several inches out.

Should only take one good size roll to do a bunch of plants. make as tall as you need.

It's my go to anyway. I don't put plants in ground outside without them. Even once the plants outgrow them I leave them there usually just to be safe.

If you cut in the middle of the little squares and put the pokey ends up, it'll even keep deer from munching on them when they're tiny. It'll stab their chin. Can hold them into the ground with landscape fabric pins

Dirt cheap super effective and reusable. Field mice ate all my clones one year a long time ago. Never again.
 

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You know, I went to change clothes and thought, 'why do I smell weed?' LOL
You change your clothes LOL just kiddin🀣 i don't sometimes and i get those " looks " if i make a quick run to the store. I've had one fella walk past me twice cause i noticed him the first time LOL i gave him the side eyeπŸ’β€β™€οΈ
 
You know, I went to change clothes and thought, 'why do I smell weed?' LOL
Thats gonna be a real interesting thing for me come fall. There's an entrance to a trailer park about 250 yards down the mountain (the way the crow flies) from the edge of the hedge line that makes the privacy shield for my plants.

While im cutting buds down, since the trailer park is immediately due northeast and downhill, every person thats outside at that trailer park is going to smell fresh cannabis flower while im making cuts, or on windy dry days in later flower, almost guaranteed lmao. Most of them down there prob dont even realize there's a house on this driveway though (really it looks like a fire access road up the mountain , and honestly, past my property, thats exactly what my driveway becomes lol. And conveniently placed at the mouth of the road are Parks Service No trespassing signs.

I do still sort of expect some dumb kids or tweekers to follow their nose up here during harvest though. Now im not calling everyone in a trailer park a dumb kid or a tweeker, but there is a significant per capita bump that goes on that is undeniable.

Im banking on them being far enough away that smell's direction of origin cant be determined. It'll just be a smell in the air, and it will be assumed by most down there, that someone must be growing in their trailer i would think.
 
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Thats gonna be a real interesting thing for me come fall. There's an entrance to a trailer park about 250 yards down the mountain (the way the crow flies) from the edge of the hedge line that makes the privacy shield for my plants.

I'm in town and a block from the cop shop :-) Up to 4 plants is legal in Ontario.

I put some of my favorite support for plants up today. I weave bamboo stakes through 42 inch high fence and push them in the ground. Once the stakes are in yarn ties branches out to the fence. It restricts plant movement well in heavy wind.

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Blood Milk and Sky will be a trim jail special !

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Thats gonna be a real interesting thing for me come fall. There's an entrance to a trailer park about 250 yards down the mountain (the way the crow flies) from the edge of the hedge line that makes the privacy shield for my plants.

While im cutting buds down, since the trailer park is immediately due northeast and downhill, every person thats outside at that trailer park is going to smell fresh cannabis flower while im making cuts, or on windy dry days in later flower, almost guaranteed lmao. Most of them down there prob dont even realize there's a house on this driveway though (really it looks like a fire access road up the mountain , and honestly, past my property, thats exactly what my driveway becomes lol. And conveniently placed at the mouth of the road are Parks Service No trespassing signs.

I do still sort of expect some dumb kids or tweekers to follow their nose up here during harvest though. Now im not calling everyone in a trailer park a dumb kid or a tweeker, but there is a significant per capita bump that goes on that is undeniable.

Im banking on them being far enough away that smell's direction of origin cant be determined. It'll just be a smell in the air, and it will be assumed by most down there, that someone must be growing in their trailer i would think.
Yes during harvest times is when the " zombies " come out. I get what your saying, we got that mess here too. It could be too far for them creepers to walk to your place LOL.
 
I'm in town and a block from the cop shop :-) Up to 4 plants is legal in Ontario.

I put some of my favorite support for plants up today. I weave bamboo stakes through 42 inch high fence and push them in the ground. Once the stakes are in yarn ties branches out to the fence. It restricts plant movement well in heavy wind.

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Blood Milk and Sky will be a trim jail special !

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That looks great, can you weave the braches through those openings?
 
That looks great, can you weave the braches through those openings?

If I'd put the fences up earlier I could have played lots since the openings are 4 inches square. I don't need lower or more spread out than I can get now though.
 
I'm going to need a step by step instruction manual to get mine trimmed. Never had to deal with this before. Mine is doing well and thankfully not getting taller.
She grows like my old columbian land race did.

It probably wont be as much a pain to trim as it looks growing pre-flower lol. Can mostly confirm that for ya. It vry well could still be a nightmare, but my plants in past that grew like that turned out easier then youd expect
 
Don't get too nervous bout her yet. In addition to beain easy to trim, she was the most powdery mildew and rot resistant flower i ever put outside in KC too. I just never had the length of season to finish her out there either. Rarely had to spray her for bugs, neve had to spray her for fungi.

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Finish (this was pulled a bit early at 13 weeks though 0.o. failed DWC run) :
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Actually turned out to be one of the easiest trims ive ever had to do. Did 2 pounds alone in a day.


Your Blood Milk & Sky is definitely growing in the sativa landrace/wild hemp fashion tbh. What's it's lineage if you know? im very curious.
 
Your Blood Milk & Sky is definitely growing in the sativa landrace/wild hemp fashion tbh. What's it's lineage if you know? im very curious.
 
Thats a bizarrely sativa dominant plant for an OG lol. I think there was a little bit of landrace or more likely wild hemp breeding going on intentionally with that one tbh. (not a bad thing either when done right, i can explain lol)

The trait to produce THC from cbd is a recessive one. If you cross a drug strain lineage into a fast flowering north american wild hemp strain that doesnt posess it, the genetic trait passes on, but is not expressed. It's still there though, so if you take those plants and cross them back into the original drug strain, you will pass on a lot of those fast flowering wild north American hemp traits, as well as sativa dominant character into a % of the offspring, and fairly potent drug strains of cannabis that produce little to no CBD and a high thc content but carry on some hemp genetics is usually the result. You just have to hunt the phenos to choose.

Commercial growers in the midwest. At least back in KC would do this to make more outdoor and cold friendly plants with a more sativa character to the high that you could grow outdoors and actually finish.

If you were to do this with something like a stabilized 30% OG indica strain, you could probably end up with a stable, fast flowering, sativa in expression, suitable for much colder climates plant in many of the offspring. You just want to find a high resin/terp content wild cultivar of hemp from the colder regions to do this with. Because of how many unlabeled seeds i have, this may very well be what my mystery sativa is, or one of the first gen more useless ones. Could be some old haze cross though too, idk lmao. I had commercial friends giving me seeds that played with wild hemp genetics and crosses a lot. And you cant grow outdoors in KC without some wild hemp giving you seeds either anyway.



"Coffee kush and cookie dough" is how i would describe an old dutch kush i LOVED year and years ago. Now i want blood milk and sky.
 
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Don't get too nervous bout her yet. In addition to beain easy to trim, she was the most powdery mildew and rot resistant flower i ever put outside in KC too. I just never had the length of season to finish her out there either. Rarely had to spray her for bugs, neve had to spray her for fungi.

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Finish (this was pulled a bit early at 13 weeks though 0.o. failed DWC run) :
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Actually turned out to be one of the easiest trims ive ever had to do. Did 2 pounds alone in a day.


Your Blood Milk & Sky is definitely growing in the sativa landrace/wild hemp fashion tbh. What's it's lineage if you know? im very curious.

Beauty Bud !!!

Lineage on Blood Milk and Sky - Blood Milk and Sky link with a little background on breeding.
 
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