How does my outdoor trellis look?

FresnoFarmer

FresnoFarmer

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You could probably wait another week or two. The bigger the buds are the more difficult it will be getting the net on though.
 
TerrapinBlazin

TerrapinBlazin

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Yeah that’s what I was thinking. I’m still hoping that the canopy will even out a bit but I’m not sure if the shorter branches will stretch anymore. I’ll get one on there before the buds start getting bigger though.
 
TerrapinBlazin

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Here’s a pic from a few minutes ago. I just top dressed them with some bone meal and hit them with a small amount of magnesium fortified guano. More pistils are showing up every day on the blue mystic but the aurora is still vegetative. That aurora might go into November.
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TerrapinBlazin

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Thought I’d drop in with another update. They’re starting to form some really nice spears and the light penetration is better than I thought. One pheno is already getting resin glands way up the flower bract leaves and the preflower calyxes got huge. Even looks like there are some resin glands on the stems.

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TerrapinBlazin

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I wish I could get a better pic with my phone, but this is the nicest spear on the whole trellis. This looks like it will be solid bud all the way to the tip. I just loved the way it was starting to catch the morning sunlight.

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TerrapinBlazin

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ganga gurl420 said:
Wow...coming along nicely. She is really starting to stack
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That particular blue mystic pheno has been really impressive. Even the plant I grew indoors under totally insufficient lighting produced two nice fat main colas that got super frosty. I know that under ideal conditions she is going to reward me. I’ve decided to retire the other pheno because she isn’t as frosty or as heavy, and way more sativa leaning. I’ve got a lot of strains I need to work through and I don’t want to keep more than one pheno unless they’re really different and really special. I’m doing a big indoor pheno hunt over the winter so that next year I can do a trellis like this for each pheno. I’ll put them out immediately after the last frost and they’ll get huge, especially since I’ll be working with some heavy yielding sativa dominant hybrids like blue dream, tangie, and candy kush.
 
ganga gurl420

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TerrapinBlazin said:
That particular blue mystic pheno has been really impressive. Even the plant I grew indoors under totally insufficient lighting produced two nice fat main colas that got super frosty. I know that under ideal conditions she is going to reward me. I’ve decided to retire the other pheno because she isn’t as frosty or as heavy, and way more sativa leaning. I’ve got a lot of strains I need to work through and I don’t want to keep more than one pheno unless they’re really different and really special. I’m doing a big indoor pheno hunt over the winter so that next year I can do a trellis like this for each pheno. I’ll put them out immediately after the last frost and they’ll get huge, especially since I’ll be working with some heavy yielding sativa dominant hybrids like blue dream, tangie, and candy kush.
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Oh the fun of the pheno hunt lol. I just crossed jelly pie and a particularly sticky stinky blue dream and will be trying to find the "one" to grow and trellis myself next season. Hopefully I will get lucky the first round but if not I will back cross to the jelly pie.
You are doing great...good luck to you hon
 
TerrapinBlazin

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Thanks. I haven’t decided how I’m going to approach the inevitable breeding project yet — if I should look for the perfect male and hit all my best clones with it, if I should get some colloidal silver and cross some of my females, or both. I’m not going to get too deep into that until I can figure out how to prevent unwanted pollination. Probably a little grow tent on the other side of my house with low light just for producing small flowers and a few seeds. I dunno. I grow mushrooms too, although I’m on hiatus from that at the moment, and I know how easy it is for a tiny airborne particle to wreak havoc on your grow.
 
ganga gurl420

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TerrapinBlazin said:
Thanks. I haven’t decided how I’m going to approach the inevitable breeding project yet — if I should look for the perfect male and hit all my best clones with it, if I should get some colloidal silver and cross some of my females, or both. I’m not going to get too deep into that until I can figure out how to prevent unwanted pollination. Probably a little grow tent on the other side of my house with low light just for producing small flowers and a few seeds. I dunno. I grow mushrooms too, although I’m on hiatus from that at the moment, and I know how easy it is for a tiny airborne particle to wreak havoc on your grow.
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I stopped growing shrooms a few yrs ago but this was a couple shots of my last downloadfile-2.jpeg downloadfile-3 (1).jpeg
 
TerrapinBlazin

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Hell yeah. I took a break because I was losing too many tubs to trich. I think this it’s because I couldn’t keep my tubs far enough away from my flowhood and my spawn kept getting jacked. I also think I should start running my bags for 6 hours instead of 4 in the autoclave. I did good with it for a while but about a year ago I took a trip to Denver and when I got home 8 tubs were totally covered in trich. That’s about the same time I started getting interested in weed again so I decided it was time for a switch. If I can figure out a new place to set up my autoclave and flowhood I would love to start growing edibles and exotic psilocybes outdoors and just not do cubes anymore.
 
TerrapinBlazin

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I had this spot in my back yard under a shrub where I would bury all my spent and contaminated substrates and these would pop all summer long as long as I hosed everything down. I may experiment more with this in the future.
 
ganga gurl420

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TerrapinBlazin said:
I had this spot in my back yard under a shrub where I would bury all my spent and contaminated substrates and these would pop all summer long as long as I hosed everything down. I may experiment more with this in the future.
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Yeaj I did that once... people said they were more potent grown outdoors too
 
TerrapinBlazin

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So the support netting came in and I put it on. I think it will really help with all the spears along the edges of the trellis that look primed to fall over once the buds get heavier.

I’m good on my feeding regimen. I’ll do a few more bone meal top dressings and guano feedings and cut off the nutes in about 2-3 weeks.

Should I start cutting off fan leaves at any point? Is it true that this mix of stress and increased light penetration boosts resin production? I know there’s quite a lot of strategy involved, but I don’t want to do anything that could have a negative impact. The sickly-sweet blueberry smell was very intense when I put the netting on and the buds are not very big yet. This is kind of a low odor strain so I want to do everything I can to help it produce maximum terpenes.
 
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