OUTDOOR growing at 39° of the northern hemisphere.

[CideHameteBenengeli]

Kind regards.

I will try to keep track of my crops here. In between updates of my cultivation this 2022, I might show summaries of other years' cultivations.
I grow outdoors, no greenhouse, at about 39° N and about 2950 feet (900 metres) altitude.
I try to grow as "organic" as possible. As fertiliser, I collect horse, sheep or goat manure from the field, and sometimes bat guano from rocky caves or caves. Sometimes a cannabis-oriented fertiliser company will give me a sample of their products to try out.
As for pests, I only use neem, diatomaceous earth and BT.

My favourite strains, both to consume and to grow, are usually long flowering sativa landrace hybrids.

Once introduced, I will try in my next post to upload pictures...

 

[Aqua Man]

Kind regards.

I will try to keep track of my crops here. In between updates of my cultivation this 2022, I might show summaries of other years' cultivations.
I grow outdoors, no greenhouse, at about 39° N and about 2950 feet (900 metres) altitude.
I try to grow as "organic" as possible. As fertiliser, I collect horse, sheep or goat manure from the field, and sometimes bat guano from rocky caves or caves. Sometimes a cannabis-oriented fertiliser company will give me a sample of their products to try out.
As for pests, I only use neem, diatomaceous earth and BT.

My favourite strains, both to consume and to grow, are usually long flowering sativa landrace hybrids.

Once introduced, I will try in my next post to upload pictures...

Welcome to the farm

 

[CideHameteBenengeli]

This year I germinated 4 seeds inside my house, in the light of the windows.

15-MAY-2022
This year the summer has come early, and by that date it was 104°/ 40°C maximum in the shade in my area.

Flash Back (Flo x White Widow; Sweet Seeds):

King Congo (Congo Point Noire x South African Ciskei Highlands; Tropical Seed Company):

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[CideHameteBenengeli]

19-MAY-2022

Zamaldélica fem (Zamal x Golden Tiger, being Golden Tiger: Thai x Malawi; Asociación de Cultivadores Españoles).
Rather than cracking open the outer shell, bursting it open:

 

[CideHameteBenengeli]

When the seedlings are big enough, I always transplant them outdoors in the soil outside an old puppy kennel, which has been converted into a small vegetable garden. It will be about 23 feet/7 metres long by 8 feet/2'5 metres wide.
It is only covered with bird netting.

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[CideHameteBenengeli]

24-June-2022

The last one: MadMac's (O.Haze x Ultra Early Love Potion/Silver Bubble) (MadMac/Proseeds):

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[CideHameteBenengeli]

By then, the other 3 plants, born between 15 and 19 May, were already transplanted in "The Dogs' House". The King Congo had even shown its female pre-flowers since 15-June.
This is what "The Dogs' House" looked like on 19-June-2022; from the proximity below, to the distance above, Flash Back (Sweet Seeds), King Congo (Tropical Seeds Company) and Zamaldélica (Asociación de Cultivadores Españoles). 109'5°F/43°C in the shade of maximum, and minimum environmental humidities of 10%....:

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[CideHameteBenengeli]

19-June-2022.

King Congo (Congo Point Noire X South African Ciskei; Tropical Seeds Company; born 15-May).
She has already shown herself to be a female some day ago. Once again, she is not only the fastest pure sativa I grow to show sex, but she has once again beaten even indica/sativa hybrids harvested in last September. I have her (the King Congo), moreover, in the hole that suffers more the Sun, because it has already demonstrated me its hardness to my type of burning and dry summer heat:

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[CideHameteBenengeli]

19-June-2022

Flash Back (Flo X White Widow; Sweet Seeds; born 15-May); in the most protected hole from Sun (by far, both by the shade of the low wall of "La Perrera" itself, and by the shade of a mulberry tree and a acebuche (wild olive tree), from outside "The Dogs' House"):

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[CideHameteBenengeli]

19-June-2022.

Zamaldélica fem (Zamal x Golden Tiger; born 19-May; A.C.E.):

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[CideHameteBenengeli]

19-June-2022

The countryside around "The Dogs' House" is very dry, and looks like the African savannah:

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[CideHameteBenengeli]

24-June-2022

The last one: MadMac's (O.Haze x Ultra Early Love Potion/Silver Bubble) (MadMac/Proseeds):

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29-June-2022

With the last rays of sun, I transplanted it to mother earth in "La Perrera", and sprayed it with diatomaceous earth dissolved in water with potassium soap.
Once released from the shell, it has quickly taken on a very healthy appearance with large initial leaves:

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[CideHameteBenengeli]

1-July-2022

Flash Back (Flo X White Widow; Sweet Seeds; born 15-May).

I have cut off the lower two nodes (origin of 4 twigs that barely protruded from the stem) (the small walls of The Dogs' House shade the lower part of the plants) and I continue with the diatomaceous earth, because from the ground up to a metre high, the old kennel is a cloud of small young grasshoppers:

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[CideHameteBenengeli]

1-July-2022

King Congo (Congo Point Noire X South African Ciskei; Tropical Seeds Company; born 15-May).

Showed female preflowers within a month of hatching (the other two coeval varieties, not yet).
It is the tallest of the 3 coeval plants, and by far the most branched.
Here, I have cut 4 lower nodes, so it lacks the 8 lower twigs:

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[CideHameteBenengeli]

19-July-2022.

Zamaldélica fem (Zamal x Golden Tiger; born 19-May; A.C.E.):

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[CideHameteBenengeli]

9-July-2022

Come on, this morning, before the sun gets tighter, I invite you to a walk around my surroundings... Put on your Panamanian or Cordovan hat, or your baseball cap, and take your water bottle. The ganja is provided by me.
We left from about 2950 feet/800 meters high, in the middle of the dehesa/savana, following the now extinct bed of a stream: that explains the presence of reedbeds (more of 6'5 feet/2 metres of high) in such a dry environment:

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[CideHameteBenengeli]

9-July-2022
...We continue ascending and following the bed of the dry stream. A grove of towering eucalyptus trees, like the reedbeds, takes advantage of the underground humidity, and breaks the traditional appearance of the dehesa/savanna. This Australian invader came from our extreme NorthWest, where it was introduced for the timber industry. Here, it is very harmful. While the survival strategy of native trees is to be as resistant as possible to heat and forest fires, that of eucalyptus is the opposite: they attract fire and quickly burn themselves and their surroundings, to eliminate all competition for the development of seeds and seedlings. survivor. Likewise, the local trees enrich the soil to attract other vegetation that shades their surroundings and attracts humidity, while the eucalyptus acidify and desertify everything around them:

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[CideHameteBenengeli]

9-July-2022
...In a nearby fence, in the shade of nearby eucalyptus trees, I find this group: I think they are youngs of the P.R.E. race, Lusitanos, and/or their mestizos. Of horses type P.R.E. and Hispano-Arabs, served the wild Mustangs of the USA:

We say goodbye to them, and continue ascending...

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[CideHameteBenengeli]

9-July-2022
...We ascend a few tens of meters more, and we arrive at a small dry pool several tens of meters long by a dozen wide by a little less than 7 feet/2 meters of deep; time ago it was completely filled with water, and the source of the dry stream whose course we have followed. Here, the local vegetation competes with the Australian:

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[CideHameteBenengeli]

9-July-2022
... We leave behind the humidity of the dry riverbed, the dehesa/savanna once again dominates the landscape...:

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