Maine 2021

Seawood said:

Regalia help? Was gonna try some this year but couldn’t get my hands on any. Curious of the effects on reducing botrytis and PM.

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Regalia seems to help more with PM, but the LalStop application really seems to keep Botrytis from spreading.

Botrysis had been very minimal, only a couple spots and it hardly spread, never into the bud, just some surface rot.
Only one bud (top right) was consumed, never spread beyond. Freaky considering how it usually goes.

Seawood said:

Anyone chopping yet? Mother Nature forced my hand and I started yesterday. Would love to have given the two I started cutting another week to finish but they were in the window and the bud rot was getting out of control. My other two will be in the window next week and I’ll try to limp them a bit longer, weather/rot dependant.View attachment 4999054

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Nice looking bud there.

I started harvesting the Cherry Wine this week. Weather has been tough lately, the Chinook Haze is showing new spots of budrot every morning now, that may need to be the next to go. I think it's just about ready anyway. The Copper Chem is doing well, thinking I'll harvest that next weekend. Nights are starting to get down in the forties now, which should hasten things along.

Havent even thought about chopping mine as they started to flower like 5 weeks late. Probably not even going to get a harvest this year.

DCcan said:

Regalia seems to help more with PM, but the LalStop application really seems to keep Botrytis from spreading.

Botrysis had been very minimal, only a couple spots and it hardly spread, never into the bud, just some surface rot.
Only one bud (top right) was consumed, never spread beyond. Freaky considering how it usually goes.

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Nice I'll have to look into LalStop for next year. How often are you spraying it?

sirtalis said:

Nice I'll have to look into LalStop for next year. How often are you spraying it?

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Best time to inoculate the soil is feb/mar, it will thrive long before anything else, eating other dormant pathogens.
Germinated with it, transplant root drench, beginning flower foliar, late flower foliar when the humidity set in.

Alternated with Botanigard for bugs.

Cut, washed and hung everything today, it's done enough with 3 more days of mist and rain coming.
This morning was crisp and dry, trichomes had mostly turned and weather was turning.

Got my butter supply cooked, big stash of frozen for hash wash, and about a pound of tops for smoking
This stuff is a breeze to trim and hang, really low maintenance.

My wife hates pot, but she already misses the ornamental.

Nice, seems like you made the right call.

I forget, which county you in?

Sounds like things are turning sunny and nice again here as of Wednesday but uncertain how much actual moisture we'll get before then. Certainly be generally overcast. Will just have to call it day by day. Only real rot I've seen is on the Chinook Haze, today I removed another 3 flowers. Seeing a few amber trichs but not many, probably will plump up more if I wait but I'm probably just getting into the harvest window now. Will see if I can limp into next weekend with it, then chop for sure.

Copper Chem is about ready--she can barely hold herself up with all the weight. This week or next weekend.

Cherry wines are doing great, waiting on a few stragglers to ripen up but a bunch hanging now. Lots and lots of trim work in the weeks ahead.

Took down one of the Copper Chems before dawn this morning. Was looking pretty ripe when I inspected yesterday. Terpenes were off the charts, super lemony and spicy/earthy. Trichomes looked mostly cloudy with a few starting to turn amber. I think I'll let the second Copper Chem go another week, it's a little less ripe and I'm curious to compare effects if I let a few more trichs go amber. Sounds like a nice week shaping up weather-wise. Decided to leave the Chinook Haze for now even though every day I'm removing spots of budrot. I've just about filled up a large ziplock bag so it's starting to take a toll. But I think it could use a few more days.

Hang in there everyone, almost home.

Looks nice.

Sevenleaves said:

Looks nice.

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Thanks, wish I could attach the fragrance to this thread...out of this world. This amazing lemon zest/piney/woodspice scent without any skunkiness or other rank odors.

Yours all down now? I know you said you had some OD still ripening that was giving you fits.

This year I was just using up those leftover Greenpoint seeds but really need to find a strain that finishes early and is mold resistant. I've been careful/diligent/lucky with botrytis but it just seems like pushing into October in Maine outdoors is just asking for problems. That wet stretch last week was brutal. Forecast looks good through the weekend though so I'm going to ride out the week--got 1 more Copper Chem, the Chinook Haze, and a handful of Cherry Wines still chugging along.

I have a pack of copper chem from a few years back. I think ill try them outside next summer. Looks great!

NewEnglandFarmer said:

Thanks, wish I could attach the fragrance to this thread...out of this world. This amazing lemon zest/piney/woodspice scent without any skunkiness or other rank odors.

Yours all down now? I know you said you had some OD still ripening that was giving you fits.

This year I was just using up those leftover Greenpoint seeds but really need to find a strain that finishes early and is mold resistant. I've been careful/diligent/lucky with botrytis but it just seems like pushing into October in Maine outdoors is just asking for problems. That wet stretch last week was brutal. Forecast looks good through the weekend though so I'm going to ride out the week--got 1 more Copper Chem, the Chinook Haze, and a handful of Cherry Wines still chugging along.

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Im in the same boat, along mid-coast. I have two Original Skunk #1 going but had to snip off a couple of buds. I am hoping that this upcoming stretch of sunny weather will coincide with chop date, trikes are half clear, half cloudy. Been pulling them into garage at night.

These are my 2 Original Skunk #1 mentioned above

I’m down to one…Medical Seeds Channel+. Still a ways to go. Weather is holding so I’ll ride this one as long as I can. Two more weeks would be good.

Lost almost a whole plant to mold…I refused to chop it early. It was an Attitude Barney’s Wedding Cake freebie and was a piece of crap. Worst plant I’ve ever grown. I added a pic of one of the buds…leaf growing out of leaf. Smells like my lawnmower. Awful.

Yield was good on the first two that are now curing….18 and 22 oz dried and I lost quite a bit on both due to mold. Bud in the pic is Sugar Black Rose. Beautiful plant. I’d run that one again.

Way to make the best of the challenges and overcome adversity. Nice looking buds there--seem very compact. Is that an indica-dominant strain?

Gorgeous Indian summer day here now--probably will push seventy (F) this afternoon. Days getting short but the plants are soaking up some nice October rays right now. Knock on wood they say the next precip. won't be till next week but this time of year anything's possible. Going to turn chilly on Friday, I may water the remaining gals Friday and pile a bunch of mulch over the root zone just in case.

The Chinook Haze looks just about ready:

Yes, everything I ran was Indica Dom this year. Breeder harvest times were mid-late September. They were pretty close except the Channel+ which will go 3+ weeks longer than breeder schedule. I top my plants a lot to create more branching and smaller buds/colas. Really seems to help with the botrytis but creates more trimming.

Already have my seeds ordered for next year! Looking forward to the next run.

Full season plants were a total bust for me this yr, still cranking the depos some candy train be ready end of the month this will be my last season running full season plants, Iam going full depo.

Sorry about the poor results this year. Botrytis?

But glad you got yourself a little system down. Trick those plants into blooming at height of summer!

NewEnglandFarmer said:

Sorry about the poor results this year. Botrytis?

But glad you got yourself a little system down. Trick those plants into blooming at height of summer!

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Ya to much time an sweat for mids. need good hard flowers around here for the market iam also mothballing all my single end bulbs going full led.

I’m shocked there’s still any market with legalization. Anyone cash cropping here needs quads in order to move bud for a reasonable profit. Market is completely saturated….especially this time of year.

Thumper, you moving to indoor or are those just for seedling/early veg until they go outside? Love the light dep but it would have to be some type of automated system to work for me.