On the edge

2023 outdoor-hoophouse grow started.

50°north, 600 m above see level, hot dry summers and wet autumns. It´s on the edge of succesfull outdoor growing possibility, I gues.

Normal garden soil, improved with dryed chicken shit yesterday.

Seeds: Ethos-Grandpa´s stash feminized 2x, another one freebie-Strawbery from THC seeds spanish seedbank, autos from Dutch passion-Blueberry, Cinderella Jack, Skywalker Haze and Mokum´s Tulip (freebee) still waiting in fridge. Their time will come about half of may.

Seeds germinated about 20 th of march, now growing indoor under 200W led lights until half of may. Then going into the hoophouse.

Toped once, desired shape is a "palmeta", inspired by fruit trees, because hoophouse is 2x3 m and can hold only 2 plants. When about 1 m high, light dep is gonna take part.



Palmeta.


Anyone feel free for asking if interested.

Late May update.


Autos, 3 days old.


Strawberry.


Grandpas stash.



No issues.

Strawberry on left, Grandpas stash on right. Autos in pots, stuned growth because of overwattreing by my mother, when I was on holliday. Now doing well. Keeping them low and not-dense because but rot like to hit hard when flowering. Light deprivation to come about 7th of july.

Wish it was legal here so i could grow in complete different manner. Even Germans will have legal recreational growing sooner, what a shame...

Cindarela Jack is first one to show pistils, height about 30 cm. Wish it was two weeks later. There will be at least something to taste, but not much. Still learning how to grow theese little buggers.

Oter plants are doing well, no bugs, health problems or defficiency signs.

Autos Out for flowering.


Ready for light dep.

you should get some fish blood n bone meal to top dress with and seaweed meal, seaweed will provide your plqant with all the micronutrients and trace eliments the plant will need, just sprinkle a good hand full and scatter around the plants, then you can rake it in to the top soil, watering from above will get to the plants, roots should do the rest

go go kid said:

you should get some fish blood n bone meal to top dress with and seaweed meal, seaweed will provide your plqant with all the micronutrients and trace eliments the plant will need, just sprinkle a good hand full and scatter around the plants, then you can rake it in to the top soil, watering from above will get to the plants, roots should do the rest

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Using fishmix and lignohumat (humidic acids) for veg, and liquid fertilizer with more K for flowering. Compost and chicken shit for soil preparation. Soil is not my problem, botrytis will...

Three weeks of light dep tomorow..

Strawberry on left, grandpa´s stash on right.






Autos, some branches broken by wind, thats outdoor, i have something to taste. I like these little fuckers, much less work with them, no light dep...






Cindarela jack.



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SH


And what a lovely weather this year. Sunny almost everyday but not to hot, about 30°C, strong winds as usual.

husita said:

Autos Out for flowering.
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Ready for light dep.
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Looks cool! Do u have to put that plastic on for every night or just for a while so they start flowering?

tuksu6000 said:

Looks cool! Do u have to put that plastic on for every night or just for a while so they start flowering?

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Doing it everyday, because im at home anyway. But when in full flower, in about week, I´ll stop, humidity gets to high and mold is my biggest issue.

husita said:

Doing it everyday, because im at home anyway. But when in full flower, in about week, I´ll stop, humidity gets to high and mold is my biggest issue.

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I see. Nice setup

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Nice setup

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Thanks.
Well, it´s cheap and easy, but hoophouse is too small and just one plant would be too risky. It´s still ilegal growing here, so doing it this "hobby" way, but don´t need much to smoke, i still have a lot of giveaways.

No more light deping, but another secret technique to go:

no increased yield using seimen, help | Page 53 | Rollitup

Just (mostly) for me:

Next year try Engo fertilizer! 20-10-20

and calcium nitrate (Ledek Vápenatý)

Engo Engo hnojivo izbové zelené rastliny | MALL.SK

Hnojiva na rostliny | AGRO Ledek vápenatý 3 kg | Specialista na hnojiva Zafido (ehnojiva.cz)

I like the technique and your progress here. I'm very interested to see how it turns out for you. Good luck!

ttystikk said:

I like the technique and your progress here. I'm very interested to see how it turns out for you. Good luck!

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Thank you, I´ll send new pictures tomorow.

Weather turned crap, its raining every day for about week. Night and morning humidity 90-100%. I´m moving autos inside when raining, want to harvest them and of august if possible. Have to buy two clip ventilators tomorow and put them into hoophose. Also need to do some leaves triming and spray and water with pythium oligandrum-gave me two more weeks of flowering time last year. Looking good so far but still long way to go and hard times about to come.

4 week flowering.

Strong winds tonight stripped film off the hoophouse. Fixed it, plants seem untouched. Strong storms coming.

Deffinitely quit light-dep after 4 weeks, 5:28 sunrise, 20:31 sundown, hope its not gonna re-veg.

husita said:

Strong winds tonight stripped film off the hoophouse. Fixed it, plants seem untouched. Strong storms coming.

Deffinitely quit light-dep after 4 weeks, 5:28 sunrise, 20:31 sundown, hope its not gonna re-veg.

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Rule of thumb I've gone by is 10.5 hours of darkness, minimum. You're definitely pushing the envelope yet.

ttystikk said:

Rule of thumb I've gone by is 10.5 hours of darkness, minimum. You're definitely pushing the envelope yet.

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I know, it commonly starts flowering begining of september on its own here.

Lets see.