2021 Massachusetts Outdoor Growers

Warfox said:
I always mix in dolomite lime at beginning of season and top dress Epsom salt after a month or so for Mg* + Sulfur. I Mix in Langbeinite into topsoil after first few weeks of flower for the K and sulfur.

I don’t have any hard evidence of efficacy, but I do believe that it makes my plants more hardy and supposed to aid terpenes they say.

I do 100% notice that my plant’s leaves’ turn a shade of blue-green after the epsom/Langbeinite applications, which I think is pretty cool.
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Interesting, I know sulfur is used to turn rhododendron/azalea flowers blue. It seems like a slow release of K, Mg and S through weeks 3-9 is pretty perfect. Thanks for the info!
 
p59teitel said:
Everything here came through the storm just fine, only thing that came off the plants were yellow and shriveled fan leaves. Chopped the remnants of both male Tirah as I’ve collected enough pollen to fool around with, so it’s just the girls going forward. Saw a caterpillar yesterday and another today so I hit them with B.t. Last year I started with B.t. in early July and there have been many moths and butterflies around this year as well, but I’m just not seeing many of their spawn on these plants. Really my only concern is they need to pick up the flowering pace so I’m not out worrying about frosts in November, lol - they have to be at least three weeks behind my Hawaiian Hashbud X Balkhi cross at the far left. Which I’m happy is throwing out the same lime Margarita smells, as did the two little windowsill plants from this past winter that produced very tasty smoke with nice medicinal effects but not so overwhelming that it precludes daytime use.

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I’ve enjoyed watching your land race grows. I do believe that I will grow some out myself next season: specifically his Lebanese, and the Afghan 90. I bet Lebanese bubble hash will be freakin amazing haha.

I really wish I could get my hands on some old school Mexican brick seeds as well; it really was a good soaring high, and I can only imagine what it would be like properly grown out. My old Mexican seeds from 20 years ago have been duds unfortunately.
 
Warfox said:
I’ve enjoyed watching your land race grows. I do believe that I will grow some out myself next season: specifically his Lebanese, and the Afghan 90. I bet Lebanese bubble hash will be freakin amazing haha.

I really wish I could get my hands on some old school Mexican brick seeds as well; it really was a good soaring high, and I can only imagine what it would be like properly grown out. My old Mexican seeds from 20 years ago have been duds unfortunately.
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Thanks. The Lebanese does sound fun - and maybe more manageable in scale than these friggin Tirah Trees lol. I just dry sifted some of the cured Waziri I grew last year for the first time and pressed it, and it’s great. I’ll try the cured Balkhi from last year after that’s gone. And then start wondering what I’m gonna do with however many pounds I could get off these trees, time to get Robert Clarke’s Hashish! Off the bookshelf and review traditional bulk sifting processes.

I really enjoy the landraces as I think they do come closer to the stuff we had back in the day from Mexico, Colombia, Jamaica, Thailand and so on, not to mention the hash…a lot of the modern hybrids just make me muddled, not happy, and happy is what I want.
 
yup bugs suck glad the jap beetles seem to have split a week or so ago. Funny I don’t see more people talking/complaining about them here but I get them bad some years. It’s been hard keeping treatments on long enough and apparently they don’t mind flying in the rain lol well anyway here’s an update nothing special bud wise yet. We’ll see I guess. Some of you guys are definitely looking a couple weeks ahead of me. Don’t be to hard on me about bug dam lol and if you notice anything these aging novice eyes don’t let me know good luck crew4CD10586-371D-4BB0-A1EE-48A1A7A70C62.jpegE6794897-9D25-413C-B0A3-2EEC9C55AFD2.jpeg
 
bam0813 said:
yup bugs suck glad the jap beetles seem to have split a week or so ago. Funny I don’t see more people talking/complaining about them here but I get them bad some years. It’s been hard keeping treatments on long enough and apparently they don’t mind flying in the rain lol well anyway here’s an update nothing special bud wise yet. We’ll see I guess. Some of you guys are definitely looking a couple weeks ahead of me. Don’t be to hard on me about bug dam lol and if you notice anything these aging novice eyes don’t let me know good luck crewView attachment 4976960View attachment 4976963
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I might be stating the obvious but japanese beetles are just lawn grubs all growed up... lol (they used to tear up my Japanese maples when they were small, so I had to get a handle) Your lawn looks mostly pretty green around your ladies to me but maybe applying some Bayer 24 hr grub killer down late May b4 you plant might help. Caveat is that if your neighbors are the grub carriers... Ain’t much you can do about that unfortunately. They’ll still invade your space when they mature and fly the friendly skies to your space.
 
Poco56 said:
I might be stating the obvious but japanese beetles are just lawn grubs all growed up... lol (they used to tear up my Japanese maples when they were small, so I had to get a handle) Your lawn looks mostly pretty green around your ladies to me but maybe applying some Bayer 24 hr grub killer down late May b4 you plant might help. Caveat is that if your neighbors are the grub carriers... Ain’t much you can do about that unfortunately. They’ll still invade your space when they mature and fly the friendly skies to your space.
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That’s kinda the case. I definitely haven’t been as vigilant with the “lawn” lol thanks for the compliment but it’s really just a bunch of weed lol. I put traps around the property but not too close to what I’m trying to protect. Usually it’s sufficient for my girls and they find something else they prefer to much on instead as we know this year is crazy wet and I think had trouble with applications overall. My neighbors could be contributing some I guess . None of them grow anything that I’m aware of any way
 
bam0813 said:
Fuck boys, we got a bloomin onion lol. Everything else is good. Most of you know this is too. I seriously thinking about just bracing her up with t poles , blasting it with the bt/ fungicide and saying F it lol . She hasn’t skipped a beat it appears, no wilting whatsoever me neither haha. View attachment 4978286View attachment 4978287View attachment 4978288 Everything else is unscathed
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Damn... that’s a stout trunk too. Wrap her up and stay the course! I got no less than 8 bamboo stakes in each pot but I was still praying to the wind gods not to wreak havoc. In this case... prayers answered! Good luck with her!
 
7” of rain here on the SouthCoast, thunderstorms and tornado warnings oh my. A few branches on the Tirah got a little twisted but no real damage.

Balkhi X Hawaiian Hashbud really picking up the pace, thing smells like a lime Margarita creamsicle -

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