Virginia Growers Thread - Everything VA

[Budtirement]

I'm a Northern Va grower. I got my tent setup and started 4 bag seeds in April, 2021, right out of the gate. Out of those 4 plants, 3 were male. So, there's that.
Things are better now. Growing Bubba Kush fems inside and outside. Inside has started to flower. Outside looks like she's considering it.

 

[abcdefghii]

Maybe it's just the difference in strains?

That's what I figure, unfortunately I am not even sure what the strains are of 4 of the plants I have. One that never really grew much, but has always looked pretty healthy is a "Back to the Future 2" it looks good and bushy, but never really grew a whole lot. Another I know is a "Planet of the Grapes" which is growing nicely.

The other 4 I have, no clue. One of them is small and full of flowers already, the other 3 are beginning to flower, but still growing upwards, cool to see them nearing 48" tall when I put them in the ground at about 6" tall. If you look at some previous posts of mine there are some pics of the plants.

Started trying to think about how I am going to cure them at harvest time, putting them in the house is a definite no no, but I do have a detached garage I can use. However, it is not climate controlled so keeping temperature and humidity correct will be challenging. Tempted to start trying to clear an area in there to erect a temporary drying space. Any tips? Having them grow nicely so far makes me worried that harvest / curing is where I will screw up! I wonder if a couple of these could work:

https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/barn-star-dual-sided-walk-in-greenhouse-hdz30501-1422961?store=1114&cid=Google-Local&utm_medium=Google&utm_source=Local&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwnqK1BhBvEiwAi7o0XwMk_z7N81HV_tWmq81YbmY7qrdEepjWoUZn3orVsn72aaSWEO0aNRoC_20QAvD_BwE

I'd bet I could cut one side of each and use duct tape to combine them into a single unit, add a dehumidifier and if needed a small fan. Or in fact, something like this unit to combine temp and humidity control into a single unit:

Amazon.com

Ideally I could find something smaller than that

 

[Budtirement]

Not sure if this post is endurable but the facts in Virginia are plain as day.

There was a law approved by the democrat controlled Virginia legislature to set up retail sales this year;

Recreational Marijuana Regime Passes Virginia General Assembly

On February 28, the Virginia General Assembly passed House Bill No. 698, which would legalize sales of recreational marijuana at retail in the

www.regulatoryoversight.com

But it was vetoed by Gov Youngkin employing tired old Nixon era excuses;

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/28/virginia-governor-vetoes-marijuana-bill-00149638

One party supports our freedom, the other wants to arrest us. Vote accordingly or suffer.

 

[fishmon]

SW VA here. Just finished trashing an outdoor auto with mold/rot throughout. No preventative measures at all except for a fan to try combatting humidity. Maybe all the fan did was push humidity into the bud. Mostly I do indoor though.

 

[Budtirement]

SW VA here. Just finished trashing an outdoor auto with mold/rot throughout. No preventative measures at all except for a fan to try combatting humidity. Maybe all the fan did was push humidity into the bud. Mostly I do indoor though.

Sorry to hear that. We do get the humidity in Va tho don't we.

I had spots on the buds last year. When I investigated there were little caterpillars so I did an emergency harvest and salvaged about 50% on that plant.
This year I've got Lost Coast Plant Therapy to try. It says it is very versatile and negates several insects and molds so I'm hoping I can defeat that kind of issue if it turns up this year.

 

[fishmon]

Hope all your grows are flourishing!

Is it too late to start an autoflower for an outside grow?
I'm in N. VA.

Should be able to squeeze in an auto. Late September/ early October harvest probably.

 

[fishmon]

Sorry to hear that. We do get the humidity in Va tho don't we.

I had spots on the buds last year. When I investigated there were little caterpillars so I did an emergency harvest and salvaged about 50% on that plant.
This year I've got Lost Coast Plant Therapy to try. It says it is very versatile and negates several insects and molds so I'm hoping I can defeat that kind of issue if it turns up this year.

Still time for another crack at it. Maybe I'll try a different auto strain or two and hope for smaller bud structure. Got a few different strains from some random pollen chuckers in the fridge.

 

[Budtirement]

Daylight in Northern Virginia is down to 14 hours 10 minutes today and she's starting to respond.

 

[fishmon]

Oh yeah. It's on now. Here's wishing all the best down the stretch.

 

[Budtirement]

Indoors it's First Frost. Had to practice patience by redirecting my expectation into some other venue. Sorry for the wiggles. I need a steady cam.

 

[abcdefghii]

Daylight in Northern Virginia is down to 14 hours 10 minutes today and she's starting to respond.

My taller plant (I assume they are photos) are all in a similar phase, kind of neat watching them grow and now start to flower. Taller plants in this image:

The smaller one in front, not sure what strain that is exactly, but it is in full on flower mode:

I think (I have no idea, guessing) that it still has a couple weeks to go though before I harvest that one.

 

[spadedace]

Ayeee my VA community!!! I've been looking for y'all lol. So I'ma start right off the bat here. I live on the boarder of Virginia and North Carolina in cana. I've been around growing since a child but this is my first grow on my own actually doing the work. I got three royal gorilla mothers that are out right now starting to flower, recently I was learning about the pH levels and got mixed up thinking alkalinity was to little of a pH level an acidic was high so I went and got espoma lime ph up anf gave it to them and their ph went THREW THE ROOF!! And they're extremely droopy at the moment. my pH up and down bottles just came in today and I now know the difference between alkalinity and acidic now lol but how much ph down per gallon of water should i use in a serious situation like this??!! Further questions I have, it's very humid here and I start every plant in my room which from a seed goes great but a clone before it roots wilts really bad and gets moldy. I cut the mold off and took them out of the humidity domes, put em in dirt and they grew like gold; how do i avoid the whole mold thing to begin with?? It also worries me for when Im gonna have to dry my plants. I read a bunch of tips such as charts that explained in certain humidity percentages the ways to differently trim them and for the humidity percentages here it said to fully trim the buds and stems off and dry them individually on their net since leafs an stems carry moisture. Which I planned on doing. But is there any tips that have worked for any of y'all personally??! My hvac is set to 72°f got my windows closed an vents open. at the moment I have a plant in veg about two months old that's a clone under a grow flourecent doing great, then I have a tray of clones in the humidity dome under blue and red full spectrum grow lights cause I heard it was a better color mix for them but they keep getting moldy!! and no roots are coming out of the rockwool yet when vegetable seeds i started a week after them already have roots. Advice?????

 

[Budtirement]

Welcome fellow Virginian.

, it's very humid here and I start every plant in my room which from a seed goes great but a clone before it roots wilts really bad and gets moldy. I cut the mold off and took them out of the humidity domes, put em in dirt and they grew like gold; how do i avoid the whole mold thing to begin with??

Have you tried starting the clones without the dome? If the room is that humid you may not need it. Or perhaps a few small holes to get some ventilation.

As far as the pH/lime issue I don't know what to tell you. If the pH is extraordinarily high they will not be able to absorb nutrients and they will have a hard time of it. Perhaps, if they are in pots, try to flush that stuff out of there with properly pH'ed water. Then pH everything to 6.5 before you add it to your pots.

If you are growing photoperiod plants outside then you probably won't be harvesting them until mid-September or early October so the weather might be considerably different by then.

 

[fishmon]

Ayeee my VA community!!! I've been looking for y'all lol. So I'ma start right off the bat here. I live on the boarder of Virginia and North Carolina in cana. I've been around growing since a child but this is my first grow on my own actually doing the work. I got three royal gorilla mothers that are out right now starting to flower, recently I was learning about the pH levels and got mixed up thinking alkalinity was to little of a pH level an acidic was high so I went and got espoma lime ph up anf gave it to them and their ph went THREW THE ROOF!! And they're extremely droopy at the moment. my pH up and down bottles just came in today and I now know the difference between alkalinity and acidic now lol but how much ph down per gallon of water should i use in a serious situation like this??!! Further questions I have, it's very humid here and I start every plant in my room which from a seed goes great but a clone before it roots wilts really bad and gets moldy. I cut the mold off and took them out of the humidity domes, put em in dirt and they grew like gold; how do i avoid the whole mold thing to begin with?? It also worries me for when Im gonna have to dry my plants. I read a bunch of tips such as charts that explained in certain humidity percentages the ways to differently trim them and for the humidity percentages here it said to fully trim the buds and stems off and dry them individually on their net since leafs an stems carry moisture. Which I planned on doing. But is there any tips that have worked for any of y'all personally??! My hvac is set to 72°f got my windows closed an vents open. at the moment I have a plant in veg about two months old that's a clone under a grow flourecent doing great, then I have a tray of clones in the humidity dome under blue and red full spectrum grow lights cause I heard it was a better color mix for them but they keep getting moldy!! and no roots are coming out of the rockwool yet when vegetable seeds i started a week after them already have roots. Advice?????

I'm no expert but have done a few clones. Only done in rock wool once. Probably my doing but they got a green algae although they rooted. They then went into my first dwc attempt which ended in failure due to root issues. I've used a diy bubble cloner with success but no noticeable advantage over any other process (time wise). I've stabbed cuttings directly into potting mix with success. I now have settled into using root riot cubes (sort of a degradeable sponge material). In all cases I've used humidity domes. Rooting tends to always take about 2 weeks. The only exception was a monster clone that took over 3 weeks. I use rooting hormones (I've heard some use pure honey and swearby it). I do the 45 stem cut and trim about 1/2 the surface area of the leaves. I soak cubes in a clonex seedling food (some growers use mild nutrient solutions) ph'ed to low 6's, squeeze out 1/2 or so of the solution, put in a suitable sized starter cell, mist foliage with clonex solution daily and under 24 hrs of low light. They can't really process much light with no roots. I place the starter cells in shot glasses for added stability with some solution in the bottom. I think a heat mat helps on low temp. I think high humidity is helpful. Occasionally the cube needs a few spritzes as it dries. No matter what I've tried, it's usually a 2 week ordeal before multiple roots are exiting the cube.There are tons of variations on the process. This works for me 100% so far.

 

[ccoki]

Cannabis doesn't like wet feet but these don't technically have feet yet so be very mindful of excess water! Or youre just rotting out that stem.

Medium just moist enough to support the clone from drying out.... then if you use the dome....just spray the sides of the dome. Make sure after the first day just go ahead and open the vents and start introducing a light airflow to them. If it's too much, adjust vents and so on....Try not to let water collect at the bottom, and stuff like that.

Oh and... sanitize everything. Be extra with it. Cut clone at an angle and scrape it a little bit, if you use rooting hormone it goes on then, and then the rest is history pretty much.

You'll be alright !!! keep at it.

 

[spadedace]

I'm no expert but have done a few clones. Only done in rock wool once. Probably my doing but they got a green algae although they rooted. They then went into my first dwc attempt which ended in failure due to root issues. I've used a diy bubble cloner with success but no noticeable advantage over any other process (time wise). I've stabbed cuttings directly into potting mix with success. I now have settled into using root riot cubes (sort of a degradeable sponge material). In all cases I've used humidity domes. Rooting tends to always take about 2 weeks. The only exception was a monster clone that took over 3 weeks. I use rooting hormones (I've heard some use pure honey and swearby it). I do the 45 stem cut and trim about 1/2 the surface area of the leaves. I soak cubes in a clonex seedling food (some growers use mild nutrient solutions) ph'ed to low 6's, squeeze out 1/2 or so of the solution, put in a suitable sized starter cell, mist foliage with clonex solution daily and under 24 hrs of low light. They can't really process much light with no roots. I place the starter cells in shot glasses for added stability with some solution in the bottom. I think a heat mat helps on low temp. I think high humidity is helpful. Occasionally the cube needs a few spritzes as it dries. No matter what I've tried, it's usually a 2 week ordeal before multiple roots are exiting the cube.There are tons of variations on the process. This works for me 100% so far.

The green algae is because the drainage. If they don't drain right the green starts out here. It happened to me when I didn't take the bottom off my flower pots. But I just got pH solution so I'll be able to soak em with a little rooting hormone and use the dome for bout three days then take it off slowly. Usually what happens is I cut the mold off take em and put em in dirt and they'll grow so I feel like it's the humidity in the dome or something.

 

[spadedace]

Cannabis doesn't like wet feet but these don't technically have feet yet so be very mindful of excess water! Or youre just rotting out that stem.

Medium just moist enough to support the clone from drying out.... then if you use the dome....just spray the sides of the dome. Make sure after the first day just go ahead and open the vents and start introducing a light airflow to them. If it's too much, adjust vents and so on....Try not to let water collect at the bottom, and stuff like that.

Oh and... sanitize everything. Be extra with it. Cut clone at an angle and scrape it a little bit, if you use rooting hormone it goes on then, and then the rest is history pretty much.

You'll be alright !!! keep at it.will do thank you!!

 

[abcdefghii]

Cannabis doesn't like wet feet but these don't technically have feet yet so be very mindful of excess water! Or youre just rotting out that stem.

I started a separate thread about this, but since I am sure a lot of us in this thread are in the same boat (hopefully, not literally) are any of you planning to cover your outdoor plants with the expected rainfall from tropical storm Debby? I have an auto that is I think getting closer to harvest time and do not want it to get so wet it rots, my 5 photos are in early stages of flowering, so maybe OK.

They are planted on a slight grade, so should not end up in any standing water, but the concern is real.

I was thinking of maybe using some cheap PVC sheet (paint drop cloth type of thing) that is clear for sunlight, but should be protection against the worst of the rain. I'd still need to watch them as I could see it going from dumping rain to crazy humid, especially under a plastic sheet, in the blink of an eye.

 

[spadedace]

I started a separate thread about this, but since I am sure a lot of us in this thread are in the same boat (hopefully, not literally) are any of you planning to cover your outdoor plants with the expected rainfall from tropical storm Debby? I have an auto that is I think getting closer to harvest time and do not want it to get so wet it rots, my 5 photos are in early stages of flowering, so maybe OK.

They are planted on a slight grade, so should not end up in any standing water, but the concern is real.

I was thinking of maybe using some cheap PVC sheet (paint drop cloth type of thing) that is clear for sunlight, but should be protection against the worst of the rain. I'd still need to watch them as I could see it going from dumping rain to crazy humid, especially under a plastic sheet, in the blink of an eye.

I thought a lot about this before I put mine in the ground cause the dirt around here is nothing but clay so even little rain sits in there. I made a little drainage system out of PVC from the bottom of their holes out the side of the decline they were on and it's surprisingly worked great!

 

[abcdefghii]

Ooh I like that idea of a drainage system, I'll have to remember that for next year. Mine are in a pseudo raised bed, the bed is on the clay but I had filled it with organic soil, but I may go ahead and drill a few holes through the wood frame later to aid with drainage.

In the meantime I used some scrap lumber leftover from other projects to make an A-frame, going to pick up some plastic sheeting later and install that and it should keep the worst of the rain off.