So have been working on my raised bed for some time actually 2 years now to get the herd and humus and all of the other goodies ready for an outdoor run. Strains that I am playing with for this experiment are
"Cornbread Bubba" by
@Nspecta of CSI
" Jack Herer" From a dear friend absolute fire pheno
" Sour Larry Pebbles" courtesy of my family in WA state
" RBS which is some mystery bag seed my son sent me from PA
the reason I call this an experiment is, well cause it is. I have been hamstringed into thinking you could not grow good cannabis in a arid desert enviro and have always had to do outdoor grows in AZ up in the north country where the temps and enviro are more suitable for the parameters we are told we need to maintain to have superior cannabis. I am attempting to dispell all the myths that to have excellent herb it has to be done indoors and pampered.
If all goes well I will be able to start growing outdoors without the long treks up north and do so locally here in the brutal AZ desert. So far all looks like it just may work.
The beans were planted on Aug 3 they crowned the soil on 8/5 2 days all 10 beanz popped planted directly in soil outside. The temps the day they broke ground were a 98 d F humidity that day was around 20%
The following day which would be day 2 of breaking soil on 8/6 temps hit a blistering 106 however the monsoon had moved in and Rh was double at 45% . So far so good.
Day 3 the 7th temps 109
Day 4 the 8th temps 110
Today the 9th day 5 temps 97
Projected temps for the balance of August will run from highs 90's to 105, 106 110
For anyone that has ever lived here you know that the plants will be in for a hell of a ride as temps dont drop below triple digits until mid Oct.
Right now they are in solo cups as evidenced by the pics I will post at the end of the thread. The only precaution I have taken during the initial germination and sprouting is I put all the solo cups in tubs and have kept about a 1/2 " of ph adjusted water so the starts can draw water from the bottom keeping the soil wet/moist up thru the top of the soil column. I will plant them in their home in another couple of days and will use some supplemental lighting to keep them in veg for approx 6 weeks at which time I will stop the supp lights and allow the plants to begin flowering as the day length will be just about right at this time. The length of day currently is 13 hrs 33 min by the time another 6 weeks gets by us the photo-period will initiate flowering.
Some may ask why are you doing this and the answer is simple. Cost savings due to the extreme cooling bills I have in summer and I have been shutting down my grows during the summers here due to that fact. Also I think we have all been told so many times that we need to keep perfect temps, RH and all sorts of other parameters to grow quality cannabis and I am not convinced this is always true. So I am taking our beloved plant to the extreme to see the results. I hope some of you will join my on my journey as this could be a game changer for me and possibly others as well.
Here are the pics. The tub with 4 in it are the Cornbread and the tub with 6 are the 2 bagseed from my boy the 2 JH and the 2 Sour Larry Pebbles from WA. From what I am seeing this very well could be a success. But I have a lot more extreme temps and pests that may very well be my undoing. Proof of the pudding will be come harvest I guess. Thanks for checking this Cannabis Ironwoman event!!!
@rmoltis wanted to follow along so heres a shout out as he was the bagseed donor and wanted me to post up in his bagseed thread and thought I would do a separate thread and not clutter up his. All you gotta do
@rmoltis is set your user panel to watch this thread and you will get an alert when I do updates.
Plants look pretty healthy considering what they are enduring. please send me good grow karma and positive energy thruout this endeavor. Will keep a journal as it goes.
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