Let's see your 2024 outdoor grow!!

[Rooke]

Yup. Showed balls last Friday, over six feet tall, and looked like a female up until “pop”!

Some of the plants I chopped were from fem seed packs I bought that were showing to be females no ? Then all of a sudden they started growing balls no lights were they are but seems likely they came from a hermie so I guess that’s what I’d attribute it to. Sad but true they’re not bulletproof. I’ve grown quit a few regs outdoors but I often have 6 seeds of the same strain grow out to 5 males and 1 female my dice don’t come out 50/50 ever it’s either that or the females are still in the pack dunno but I’ll experiment with them next season perhaps

 

[Rooke]

Not 6.5 footers but they don’t have any balls

Watch the closely buddy

 

[RootFarmer]

S1 seeds?

 

[Novaracer69]

Some of the plants I chopped were from fem seed packs I bought that were showing to be females no ? Then all of a sudden they started growing balls no lights were they are but seems likely they came from a hermie so I guess that’s what I’d attribute it to. Sad but true they’re not bulletproof. I’ve grown quit a few regs outdoors but I often have 6 seeds of the same strain grow out to 5 males and 1 female my dice don’t come out 50/50 ever it’s either that or the females are still in the pack dunno but I’ll experiment with them next season perhaps

Another reason to make your own feminized seed. And you have so many you get to pop hundreds and select for vigor or structure. Kill the rest or give them away. I have a tent full of crosses growing to see what I have. And next year those selections will go outside

 

[Novaracer69]

I will say most of the time I am starting with regs. In the tent i am a horrible plant dad i can't tell you how many times i have forgotten to water

 

[Rooke]

Another reason to make your own feminized seed. And you have so many you get to pop hundreds and select for vigor or structure. Kill the rest or give them away. I have a tent full of crosses growing to see what I have. And next year those selections will go outside

Perhaps one day I’ll try to make my own it’s just that I have sooooo many store bought seeds that I’ve accumulated over the past 2 years hundreds of them I’m a hoarder’s seed paradise with no end in site

 

[Rooke]

S1 seeds?

I don’t have many s1 seeds from previous grows I’ve tried to grow them in the past but some were hermied males so I gave up on growing them years ago cuz it’s a waste of money and time I would gladly give them away rather than search for a keeper and just to add I’ve never taken clones just too much on my plate already

 

[Jimmie]

Friends plants, all good on the island!

 

[Rooke]

View attachment 2244819Friends plants, all good on the island!

Strength in numbers!!

 

[RootFarmer]

Cool just curious because it sounds like it could have possibly been one. I'm always wondering whether its a real S1 via meticulous breeding or simply an unintended self pollinated hemie that they are just try to make a quick buck off of while they can. My Blueberry Cupcakes are S1s and one of them has shown 3 different mutations. They are stretchy, internode spacing is less than desirable and the overall structure isn't super sturdy like my other plants. It doesn't really strike me as a rigorously pheno hunted plant. On the upside it strikes me as an easily trainable plant. The branches are very bendy. Some of the lower side branches even look like they could have been trained. They grow straight out. No curvature at all. They seem to respond well to FIMMING also. They bush out nicely but the internode spacing has me questioning my final yield on those.

 

[maxxpipe]

Big roots ?

 

[Novaracer69]

Please research silica supplements. How it is beneficial to marijuana and specifically how it assists the plants in to building up strong defences making it better able to resist PM and other nasties.

Silica is one of those elements that is not in abundance in soils that are favorable to growing. The small amounts it does contain get used up by the plants quickly.

I don't recall seeing it in abundance in most of the the typical fertilizers so a supplement is the next option.

I was tuned in to silicate by a fellow gardener 7 or 8 years ago when I was having issues with PM. I haven't seen mildew since I began using it. When before it was popping up here and there every second or 3rd grow. I seen enough to believe in its benefits.

" Spider mites or powdery mildew can overtake your garden quickly. If you use silica, however, this chance decreases. The reason being that silica increases plant tissue. This means pests will have a harder time easting the tissue and doing real damage ".

The usual maintenance always applies, and keeping things like PH in check and so on. Healthy plants are fighting plants and it all does its part to help.

Trust me is doesn't matter I use silica in the forum of DE and rice hulls and if necessary I will use liquid silica as a foliar and a soil drench. I don't use a ph pin ever why this is soil with real life in it. No reason at all hell I don't filter my water either. My plants have body guards in the forum of 6 dragon flies
As far as PM goes I have found that natural will fill a void. If there's no good bacteria protecting the plant it will.be consumed.

 

[EternalSun]

The “mystery” plant that popped up in the middle of my pathway. Rather than cut it down immediately, I decided to experiment and “super prune” it, leaving just the tops. Been in flower for about a week now. And is about 10-11 feet. Definitely sativa. Too tall to get a canopy pic, haha. I always wanted to grow a fishing pole…

 

[EternalSun]

Bad news. This morning I took out an lsd due to powdery mildew. I’ve been doctoring it for about a week. Three days ago many leaves dropped (stressed), and been losing leaves daily. I’ve battled PM before and been successful (those plants were further along), I know how much work it is, and unfortunately I’d rather not. Also the limbs were fragile, breaking off so easily. With PM on the stem too.
I have been reading posts about diatomaceous earth, and the use of silica.
How is the DE used? Is it sprinkled on the soil surrounding the plant?
And looking for silica recommendations. I was looking at

General Hydroponics Armor Si…​

 

[Bigalmoby]

That’s sucks sorry

 

[Oldchucky]

Heya Chuck were they fem seeds?

Regulars! Landrace, and frosted Altoids!

 

[Galgrows]

Bad news. This morning I took out an lsd due to powdery mildew. I’ve been doctoring it for about a week. Three days ago many leaves dropped (stressed), and been losing leaves daily. I’ve battled PM before and been successful (those plants were further along), I know how much work it is, and unfortunately I’d rather not. Also the limbs were fragile, breaking off so easily. With PM on the stem too.
I have been reading posts about diatomaceous earth, and the use of silica.
How is the DE used? Is it sprinkled on the soil surrounding the plant?
And looking for silica recommendations. I was looking at

General Hydroponics Armor Si…​

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Yes DE is used on the top of soil never heard it used for PM though

 

[EternalSun]

Yes DE is used on the top of soil never heard it used for PM though

Thank you. I’ve never used it for this, but had a bag here, so I sprinkled it around them. Tomorrow is supposed to be a rainy day.

 

[Novaracer69]

Bad news. This morning I took out an lsd due to powdery mildew. I’ve been doctoring it for about a week. Three days ago many leaves dropped (stressed), and been losing leaves daily. I’ve battled PM before and been successful (those plants were further along), I know how much work it is, and unfortunately I’d rather not. Also the limbs were fragile, breaking off so easily. With PM on the stem too.
I have been reading posts about diatomaceous earth, and the use of silica.
How is the DE used? Is it sprinkled on the soil surrounding the plant?
And looking for silica recommendations. I was looking at

General Hydroponics Armor Si…​

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Silica is not what their making it out to be it OK but labs, compost tea's are more effective than silica

 

[Thatoneguyyouknow_]

Trust me is doesn't matter I use silica in the forum of DE and rice hulls and if necessary I will use liquid silica as a foliar and a soil drench. I don't use a ph pin ever why this is soil with real life in it. No reason at all hell I don't filter my water either. My plants have body guards in the forum of 6 dragon flies
As far as PM goes I have found that natural will fill a void. If there's no good bacteria protecting the plant it will.be consumed.

Even me, the pH guy. I don't bother ph'ing my feed water into healthy thriving earth. Even with my well water at like 8.5ph lmao. Saw some soil alkalinity signs like a month ago and threw down a little soil acidifier. Back to business as usual.

If you're planting in ground there's no real benefit to using excessive silica (in most healthy souls) in my experience until many seasons into growing in the same spot.

Bad news. This morning I took out an lsd due to powdery mildew. I’ve been doctoring it for about a week. Three days ago many leaves dropped (stressed), and been losing leaves daily. I’ve battled PM before and been successful (those plants were further along), I know how much work it is, and unfortunately I’d rather not. Also the limbs were fragile, breaking off so easily. With PM on the stem too.
I have been reading posts about diatomaceous earth, and the use of silica.
How is the DE used? Is it sprinkled on the soil surrounding the plant?
And looking for silica recommendations. I was looking at

General Hydroponics Armor Si…​

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There's a growers ally product with citric acid as the active ingredient that will get rid of PM in a couple treatments. Often one. Have used it and made.my own several times and have yet to have it fail. Is what the facility in KC I worked at used in their greenhouses. They bought it by the rain barrel sized container lmao.

Carefully applied, and only when necessary in the right conditions, can even prevent bud rot lol.

Your in Michigan right? Lower.pinensula? If your soil is healthy, you have plenty of bioavailable silica in your soil already almost guaranteed. Really only worth it after several years in same spot

Ime excessively applying silica definitely strengthens stems, it definitely makes resin heads have thicker tougher shells and reflect more light. But in my experience it does little to nothing for potency/resin content, and it's application for PM works simply because potassium silicate is alkaline. Baking soda or potassium bicarbonate mixed very lightly into a foliar, and then rinsed off lightly once dry will also kill pm (usually, I prefer citric acid personally)

Using excessive silica, can actually cause a slow build up of potassium in the clays and shales of the soil (which are also a convenient source of naturally bioavailable silica already) that will begin leaching back out and alkalizing the top soil after several repeated years in the same spot. Silica dioxide over potassium silicate (armor si) can avoid this as it's an acidic bioavailable form of silica.

On a completely unrelated subject.

Oh no! Here it comes!