GlassJoe's Outdo' Gro' Summer 2021

Woke up a little late when I had planned to take pictures, so the light was not ideal for the shots I've usually been taking. Nonetheless, the plants are doing well, and moving along as usual.

I first started noticing flowering around the 11th of July on some plants, but their flowering behavior has not been uniform, and some plants like the Apple Blossom clearly transitioned later to flowering. I'm not in a rush and will ultimately harvest based on the look of the buds and trichomes, but I like to keep track of how things are progressing.

For the plants which transitioned earliest, this would be day 30 of flower, and the rest are anywhere from a week to two weeks behind it, which would put them anywhere from day 16-23 of flower. Pictures taken saturday, day ~27 of flower for the plants furthest along.

Garlic Budder & Blueberry Muffin

Garlic Budder Buds:


Jelly Rancher clone in the foreground of pic#1

Cloned Garlic Budder:


Cloned Garlic Budder Buds:

I need to take a better shot of the 3 Jellies & Apple Blossom because the lighting was bad when I tried this weekend but here's a top-down shot of the buds on the Jelly Rancher:

So I have some better shots of the other plants today. Here's the area with the jellies and apple blossom, which transitioned to flower a little later than the others.


Apple Blossom bud:


Topped Jelly from clone

Untopped jelly from clone:

Blueberry muffin:

But the star of the show is still the garlic Budder, which looks like quite the stacker:

And is starting to put some nice trichomes on the sugar leaves:

I'm excited to see how much it ends up being; it started transitioning to flower almost 40 days ago, so I was counting today at around 32 days, but it's supposed to run until mid to late October ordinarily. We'll see where it ends up!

I had a massive branch breakage on the front of the blueberry muffin while at work; I tied it back, wetted the site of the breakage, sealed it with petroleum jelly the way you would seal a graft on a grapevine or a tree, and supported it with a tomato cage. We'll see if it dies, but it would be a big disappointment ‍

GlassJoe said:

I had a massive branch breakage on the front of the blueberry muffin while at work; I tied it back, wetted the site of the breakage, sealed it with petroleum jelly the way you would seal a graft on a grapevine or a tree, and supported it with a tomato cage. We'll see if it dies, but it would be a big disappointment ‍

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I imagine it’ll be ok. Mine break all the time. I find as long as they don’t wilt then it’ll be good.
I’m wondering how big your plants are going to get since they seem to be in grow bags in the soil? Won’t that limit the root growth? They do look great though.

MustGro said:

I imagine it’ll be ok. Mine break all the time. I find as long as they don’t wilt then it’ll be good.
I’m wondering how big your plants are going to get since they seem to be in grow bags in the soil? Won’t that limit the root growth? They do look great though.

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These plants are significantly smaller than they could be just because they were a second grow for the summer, but It's entirely possible to grow monsters this way in my experience. A full-season grow would be closer to the size people expect from outdoor plants. I've definitely had plants I had to bend over at the top because they were approaching 7 feet tall and I didn't want it to be right in my neighbors' faces.

I imagine going directly into the ground would help, but the roots do grow pretty freely through the bag. There are both the older roots that lignify as well as the soft white fine-tipped roots that are throughout the soil surrounding the bag, and when the bags get dug up at the end of the season they're very well rooted generally.

I do it mostly out of convenience; the lip of the bag serves as a berm when feeding/watering, it keeps me from having to take them out of the bags to transplant them, and I surround the bags on all side with high-porosity mix to make it easier for the roots to grow through.

Grassroots also uses really thick felt for their pots and triple stitches the hems, so this is the 5th time or so that the bags have been buried, dug up, washed and reused.

Show off, Lol. Really nice grow man.

Obepawn said:

Show off, Lol. Really nice grow man.

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Thanks, man! I like the direction my grows have been moving in but in a lot of ways I'm a newbie and a hobbyist. There are lots of ways to grow great cannabis and I just try to figure out what works with the setup I have.

Never tried outdoor grows. I’ve always been afraid pest will destroy my hard work, if that happened I’d kill every fucking bug in the neighborhood. Lol Good job though man.

Took photos this morning, and the Garlic budder continues to impress. The clone I put into the ground has developed a ton in a month; here it is on July 18th:


And again today on the 21st of August (34 days apart)

Here's a close shot of the buds; it's got some nice frosty sugar leaves for mid-late august.


The big garlic Budder is doing awesome as well, and the blueberry muffin branch has not died, which is always a plus.

The colas look like they're stacking pretty well; I'm hopeful for a good yield:

The blueberry muffin buds look nice as well, so I'm hopeful I won't lose the branch.

More on the others later this weekend

Yeah they look real nice. I’m jealous of your buds; I‘m 3 to 4 weeks behind you. Did you say this is your second run this season?

MustGro said:

Yeah they look real nice. I’m jealous of your buds; I‘m 3 to 4 weeks behind you. Did you say this is your second run this season?

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Yes, I had my first batch start flowering around April, so I made a light deprivation tent out of PVC and the two sided white/black "panda" plastic and finished them.

I had to start from cuttings and fresh seeds around the beginning of may, with the Apple blossom starting around the beginning of June. The blueberry muffin, one garlic Budder, and 3/5 jellies are clones; the blueberry muffin is a clone of the same plant I flowered earlier in the summer.

These plants started transitioning to flower in mid to late July, which is early for our area. The apple blossom held out and I don't think it started flowering until the beginning of August which would be more normal.

Man, so it's been a while since I posted, but I've been taking photos. I could do some time lapses but I'll jump to the present.

Here are the Garlic Budder and Blueberry muffin, very much in full flower.


BBM colas:

Garlic budder colas:

The apple blossom completely obscures the jelly rancher in the back from this angle:

AB buds:

Here are closer shots of the JRs next to the Apple Blossom; this is the topped clone:


This is the untopped clone:


And this is the mother (which I foolishly allowed to get rootbound before putting into the ground):


And here is the Garlic Budder clone by the greenhouse: