Hope you don't see any budworms this year! Ah early flowers just means an earlier harvest, which sometimes isn't bad. Especially being in Ontario you might end up seeing bud rot if your area is humid with lots of morning dew in october. Getting to harvest earlier means your bud not seeing as much chance to mold!
For me I did a weekly application of
neem oil and while I always have bugs on my plants the damage done by them has thankfully been pretty minimal. Now that I am being buds on a couple plants I will stop the
neem oil treatments for them and am not sure for any other preventative measure for pests during flowering.
If you were referring to my plants rather than Rooke's (mine were the only pics before your posting so I am thinking this) then I water as per needed. I know this is kind of vague but like every other gardener will tell you, you really have to understand your plant and the medium youre growing in to know when to water. These plants are planted in amended soil in about 3'x3'x3' holes in clay ground. Since there is clay all around, i know the water doesn't drain well and that my plants would drink most of the water given to them rather than it draining out into the surrounding earth. When I first planted them outside in these spots, I began with watering weekly at 3-6 gallons for a watering. Then as the plants grew and their roots filled the whole hole, then I had began giving them more.
For example its been quite hot recently and at this point these plants are drinking a fuck ton; I am watering twice a week where each plant gets about 12 gallons each time and usually get one good rain in as well. So going through about 220-250 gallons a week now. To check if I need to water I pull back some mulch and dig into the earth. Some people just stick a finger in which makes sense when using only a pot. Since Im in the clay soil I know there could still be a puddle of water still sitting at the bottom of the nice soil (in the spring when the holes were open and it would rain it, each hole would fill up with water and take weeks for the water to drain out into the clay). So I use a hand shovel to dig about 6 inches or so in to check if the soil is still moist. Seeing if the dirt clumps into a ball or just breaks apart when a handful is squeezed also helps.
For my nutrients I run half of the recommended dose of each nutrient every other watering.
and if you actually meant Rooke's plants then my bad!
Thank you so much! I am so excited for september / october to come rolling around!
No problem man, always encourage a nice conversation with everyone. Plus nice to hear from fellow ontario growers.
Hopefully you can get rid of everything before flowering! Sometimes i do feel like some bugs look so friendly, and that is one of them. Im sure they do more harm than good when it comes to weed plants though.
Stupid little update: a cousin of mine was taking a look at my plants while I was inspecting them and he came across a branch I had super cropped as it was pinched over. Ends up lifting this branch up and down, moving it like its own elbow during a bicep curl, while asking me "hey man why is your branch like this???". As Im like "dont fucking do that!" the branch snaps off clean at the bend. I ended up trying to graft the branch right back on because it was a nice one, but dont think the graft is going to take since its been too sunny and I couldn't be bothered to go ahead and set up a shade tent over the little area.
Shitty cause it was a nice branch, but thankfully theres a million more colas on that plant (kabul express). Goes to show, don't let people who don't know much about growing go ahead and start fondling your plants.