Let's see your 2024 outdoor grow!!

[Bullmark69]

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.

Do you use silica throughout the entire grow?? For some reason, I was advised to stop the silica once the plants began flowering…….the sad part is I can’t remember who told me this.

 

[Rooke]

I use mega crop 2 part fertilizer which has silica in it throughout the entire grow up until the last 2 weeks then just water for the flush hope this helps!!!

 

[Rooke]

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.


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!

Heya buddy nice plants you have there your going to have lots of scissor time. I’m just wondering if you have had plants hermie on you after a full moon? My plants are all female now and some of them are not showing full flowering yet but close I sure hope they don’t herm on me they are 4 months from seed now and stretching like crazy my fast flowering sativa’s are packing on some nice bud they’re Desert Skunk from Khalifa Genetics it’s my first go on fast Sativa’s so far so good peace bro

 

[Oldchucky]

Almost looks like the spit and image of last year except for the color! Beginning to look like rooke Has developed a style! Ha ha!

 

[cbrians]

Coming along, might actually get some smoke from these

Three showing they’re flowering, one is way farther along, and one is taking its time lol

 

[Rooke]

I love watching the stretch one more fast Sativa Aladdin Kush on the right side of pic2

 

[cbrians]

itty bitty baby blueberry x big devil autos

 

[Rooke]

Sturdy looking babies!!!!

 

[cbrians]

Sturdy looking babies!!!!

as long as they stay girls they can do no wrong

 

[Oldchucky]

What is it with you Cibrian? You seem to be obsessed with sex!

 

[cbrians]

What is it with you Cibrian? You seem to be obsessed with sex!

certified sex addict sir

 

[Rooke]

Almost looks like the spit and image of last year except for the color! Beginning to look like rooke Has developed a style! Ha ha!

Birds of a feather

 

[Galgrows]

Heya buddy nice plants you have there your going to have lots of scissor time. I’m just wondering if you have had plants hermie on you after a full moon? My plants are all female now and some of them are not showing full flowering yet but close I sure hope they don’t herm on me they are 4 months from seed now and stretching like crazy my fast flowering sativa’s are packing on some nice bud they’re Desert Skunk from Khalifa Genetics it’s my first go on fast Sativa’s so far so good peace bro

Great looking Sativas Rooke i may go F1 next summer i'm looking around but more in the Indica direction.

 

[Rooke]

Great looking Sativas Rooke i may go F1 next summer i'm looking around but more in the Indica direction.

Thank you, much appreciated sure know how much you love this plant it shows

 

[durbin92810]

It's that time again, thc farmers!! What bomb ass strains are you running for the 2024??!! I got a bunch this year!! I like the old schools, so got lots of them, and a few modern hybrids!!
D.j. short blueberry
Reeferman Santa marta gold
Black domina from sensi
Balkh afgani from kalifa
bodhi aca gold x (burmese x afgani)
Blue bonnet x Louis o.g. (riot seeds)
G.D.P. x ice cream cake
sour diesel (reeferman)
Super lemon haze x bog sour bubble
Purple punch (freebie)
Purple urkle x fire o.g. View attachment 2158663
LETS GROW!!!

Love seeing all the pictures of what people have going on. Here's a closer up of my big girl. Flowering is coming along nicely.

 

[GEEK]

This was a few weeks ago. Have since topped. Near to far~ Northern Lights x2, Pink Kush, Acapulco Gold & Wedding Cake x2.
How's all the gender reveals going?
No hermies here!

 

[Novaracer69]

Heya buddy nice plants you have there your going to have lots of scissor time. I’m just wondering if you have had plants hermie on you after a full moon? My plants are all female now and some of them are not showing full flowering yet but close I sure hope they don’t herm on me they are 4 months from seed now and stretching like crazy my fast flowering sativa’s are packing on some nice bud they’re Desert Skunk from Khalifa Genetics it’s my first go on fast Sativa’s so far so good peace bro

I am no expert but if something herms outdoor in my case has been decorative porch led light. Now I make sure at night they are in the dark. In my humble opinion outside of light issues I would point to the genetics. Natural moon light shouldn't bother it.

 

[Smokey0418]

Bing Breath is beginning to flower.

 

[Jimmie]

Been away for 3 days for anniversary, now away for surf trip for 2 more days. Everything looking good. OG getting gacky and smelly’ .full speed ahead!

 

[oldskul]

Love growing outdoors the skies the limit. This is one of 28 I have this year and we have about 9-10 weeks of the grow season to go,flower time. This Black Widow was started in the ground outside in late April from feminized seeds from ILGM, no germination, planted straight in the ground. I've been growing for 50+ years and Ive noticed all seeds started straight out in the ground grow more resilient, stronger, bigger and disease and pest resistant plants period. No matter what strain it is.This Black Widow shows a extremely healthy plant that has surpassed the parameters set for how big an Indica plant grows and with just an occasional toss of nutrients here and there when she looks sad and picks her right up. Today is August 17, Pic is August 8th, and she stands 10ft. 6 inches and is 5 ft 5 inches wide with over 2 months left to grow. The Purple Haze had started budding out a week ago at 8 ft 7 inches Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia.