3rd outdoor grow (Ontario)

Growing24/7

Growing24/7

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15 gallon pots are nice

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for size reference the person crouching down is 6 feet tall. But on a serious note, what have i got myself into this year.. They're not even flowering yet
 
CanadianJim

CanadianJim

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At least two of those look sativa dominant, so the height is about right for this point in the year, that size pots. They should be starting their stretch soon, if they haven't already. My 5'6" indica has started hers.
 
Growing24/7

Growing24/7

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CanadianJim said:
At least two of those look sativa dominant, so the height is about right for this point in the year, that size pots. They should be starting their stretch soon, if they haven't already. My 5'6" indica has started hers.
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Around here flower always started in august from my experience, some strains would start the beginning of august or end of july while others took until mid august to start around here.

The strains from left to right came from a northern lights x big bud, 8 ball, and nuken.

The nothern lights x big bud, and 8 ball came from one of my buddies medical grows which had a lot of other random weird strains around it, maybe a chance they could have even cross pollinated? I'm guessing not because it took about 3-4 ounces to find a damn seed in that stuff but i'm not experienced enough in the genetics field to judge if they had a chance to cross polinate as females.

The one
 
CanadianJim

CanadianJim

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I'm pretty close to lake Ontario here, so pretty far south. I was surprised that my girl started her stretch so soon, but a lot of the guys around here are seeing their plants start to flower early this year. Just a weird year for growing all around.
 
Growing24/7

Growing24/7

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CanadianJim said:
I'm pretty close to lake Ontario here, so pretty far south. I was surprised that my girl started her stretch so soon, but a lot of the guys around here are seeing their plants start to flower early this year. Just a weird year for growing all around.
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I'm pretty close to ya! My 8 ball started flowering early because i kept it in a 1 gallon pot for way too long before i transferred her over to the 15 gallon. Seemed to do very well re vegging once i got it in the big pot though!

The nuken and northern lights are both mature and just show prehairs, no signs of flower being on right now though.
 
CanadianJim

CanadianJim

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The tallest one looks like she may have started her stretch, right at the top there. But if this is your third grow in this area I'll bow to your experience. This is my first outdoor grow, and I stuck one girl right in the ground, and the other I've been bringing indoors at night, started her flowering June 15th. She just burst right in to flower, grew pistils during the stretch.
 
Growing24/7

Growing24/7

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CanadianJim said:
The tallest one looks like she may have started her stretch, right at the top there. But if this is your third grow in this area I'll bow to your experience. This is my first outdoor grow, and I stuck one girl right in the ground, and the other I've been bringing indoors at night, started her flowering June 15th. She just burst right in to flower, grew pistils during the stretch.
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Thanks, i love gardening and growing is my life now. Lots of research was put to work and i finally have some experience on my hands. Was just out watering the nuken (the small one to the right) and looking at how beautiful all the leaves on the plant look. No deficiencies, no bugs lol. I had spidermites last year, that was brutal!


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The northern lights has some huuuge leaves compared to the nuken pic here though, i'll have to take a pic of that another day if you guys want, people say i have mitts for hands lol.
 
Growing24/7

Growing24/7

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Medium: Promix HP (Peatmoss, perlite, lime and mycorrhizae added)
Nutes: Advanced nutes micro, grow, bloom ph perfect
PH of feed: 5.5-6.0
Foiler spray: Neem oil and insecticidal soap given twice, once 2 months ago and the second was applied a few days ago.

Tips: I always make sure i de-chlorinate my tap water for atleast 24+ hours outside before feeding. I feed everytime i water and use less than 1/4 to 1/8 of the nutes depending on how old the plants are. I find less is more sometimes because burn will only slow you down, feed little by little and look at your plants. Always water the pots until there is 5-20% runoff

I have yet to feed them more than 320ppm of nutes, usually stick with 100-200 ppm for most waters and do less or more if needed (My tap water is 70 ppm and is not included, so 320ppm of nutes would be more like 390 ppm for me using my tapwater if i used the meter)
 
CanadianJim

CanadianJim

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Growing24/7 said:
Medium: Promix HP (Peatmoss, perlite, lime and mycorrhizae added)
Nutes: Advanced nutes micro, grow, bloom ph perfect
PH of feed: 5.5-6.0
Foiler spray: Neem oil and insecticidal soap given twice, once 2 months ago and the second was applied a few days ago.

Tips: I always make sure i de-chlorinate my tap water for atleast 24+ hours outside before feeding. I feed everytime i water and use less than 1/4 to 1/8 of the nutes depending on how old the plants are. I find less is more sometimes because burn will only slow you down, feed little by little and look at your plants. Always water the pots until there is 5-20% runoff

I have yet to feed them more than 320ppm of nutes, usually stick with 100-200 ppm for most waters and do less or more if needed (My tap water is 70 ppm and is not included, so 320ppm of nutes would be more like 390 ppm for me using my tapwater if i used the meter)
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You don't really need to dechlorinate tap water, especially here in Ontario. My years of growing hot peppers, and my indoor grows have convinced me of that. No difference in growth between plants given rain water, and those given tap water.
 
Growing24/7

Growing24/7

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CanadianJim said:
You don't really need to dechlorinate tap water, especially here in Ontario. My years of growing hot peppers, and my indoor grows have convinced me of that. No difference in growth between plants given rain water, and those given tap water.
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I use plain tap water for my tomatoes and peppers and they're doing great lol, the tap water here has 70 ppm which is considered pretty good. I got into the habit of using dechlorinated water just for my weed because i heard it might affect the microbial life. I put a lot more effort into my weed plants thats for sure
 
CanadianJim

CanadianJim

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I heard that too, but nobody could cite a source. It hasn't harmed my plants, and using dechlorinated obviously hasn't harmed yours, so hey, to each their own.
 
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chadfly111

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Around here flower always started in august from my experience, some strains would start the beginning of august or end of july while others took until mid august to start around here.
i am with you....im guessing your lat is 44-45n?
 
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