My First Brazilian Grow

To start.. Anyone feel free to post here!!

Been quite some time since this project started for me. The initial attempt did not go so swimmingly. All 5 plants that I tried starting at my friends home turned into a salad for the insects the first day that they came up. Since the season is backwards down here it became too late to start again. Well on my return trip to the states I had Attitude seeds send about 40-50 seeds to my parents house awaiting for my arrival. hehe.. how they would have loved a visit from the police... ROFLMAO!! Oh was it also fun getting off the plane and having my luggage be the only one pulled for inspection by customs in Rio. I was carrying so much crap for my home in there and they were so confused by it all that they just let me through..whew!

So since it was early for my real plants (Greenhouse Sativa fem 10 pack, Kiwi seeds Mt. Cook) I also bought 10 lowriders that have non-hybridized genetics to allow me to make seeds. Well back to my friends house in the jungle... Now I also bought those little tomato starter discs and made a nice mix of soil with vermiculite, lime, nutrients, hummus etc… the scientist side of me loves this part. Since there is a language barrier for me and my buddy I gave it all to him ready to go... and started the seeds in the discs. Here in Brasil he never saw the discs so he was horrified to start them without me. Well slow start but all good so far.

3 weeks later I stopped by his place and saw the babies all growing and almost killed him. He lives in the freakin jungle but was paranoid anyway, so he had them growing inside his window and they were stretching like hell. A good slap across the face transcends language barriers, I guess, and I had to explain to the person that has more plants than you can imagine, the importance of direct sunlight. OK so I propped these babies up and hoped for the best… since this post has been devoid of pics I’ll save the week later results for a few days

So as I loved hearing as a child… tune in later.. same bat time.. same bat channel!!!!!!!!!

Oh and I have been real careful posting here so my wife doesn't see. She might figure out why I am really looking at farmland every weekend.

shortly I begin the monsters, waiting for the days to begin lengthening (June 23rd here)

Those girls need more light man, they are stretching.

Well one week later and a week of getting them out from behind a window and into the actual sun and the little ones are doing much better. I arrived and saw one was very clearly male and another I was fairly certain was male, so I yanked the first immediately and the later a couple of hours (and inspections) later and am now left with the 3 little girls at the top of the photo. Happy with the color and insect resistance which is encouraging for the “real” grow about to begin. Oh and Thursday I probably go to contract on a very nice sized farm just outside of Rio with no shortage of hidden grow areas. This will get very interesting!! More pictures to follow after this coming weekends visit.
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Well one thing I learned about lowryder is if you are going to grow them outside they need to be grown in the hottest time of the year when the sun is at its absolute strongest since their lifecycle is so short and will need as much photosynthesis as possible. Very happy with the insect resistance and overall crystallization. Looks like just a bit longer before I can pull them and give it a nice taste test.

Shortly the winter will be over down here and will give these another try in full sun. Of course my big Sativas will be started just a bit earlier in order to let them veg for as many months as possible.