Hello everyone, finding my way around quite nicely. Im an old fart that still rolls my own, a lost art among the youth of today! I have looked at a few grow threads and I must say you all are on the right track! I switched to outdoor this year and been having a blast! I have about 10 years of indoor growing under my belt but my kids are now too old for that also we moved here last year from a northern state, so I am giving outdoor a go.
I live in the middle/eastern part of the U.S. now and have had great weather for outdoor. My girls just passed 3 months and this week started pre-flowering/flowering, had to pull 16 males out of 30 and the 14 ladys that are left are doing great. Im not use to the high'th of outdoor plants, indoor are short and fat, well I made them that way. My tallest plant outdoor, 6'4" but it was a male and I had to pull it, I even waited an extra two days just to make sure it was male, no luck! What a sad moment, but better then having buds with 80% seeds, so its gone.
Im using a strain that has been grown here for at 20 years+, at least thats what I was told. They have been breeding this for years, well growing it and not weeding out the males and selling everyone heavily seeded bags, I smoked it all last winter so I know what im going to get, without seeds this time. Its a sticky oldschool type bud, its hard to explain but the tast and smell takes me back to 1978, it truly does. Its bright green with alot of purple hairs, mine wont have the seeds though.
Most of my girls have alot of purple showing in the leaf stalks and have the real pointy thin leaves, one has 11 points! But I do have 3 that are showing diffrently, they are bright green no purple showing, they are more bush like and are at least a foot shorter then all the rest, they have rounded fat leaves. I may have just got ahold of a few seeds that where difrent but they all came from the same main dude! He said its a family Strain, yeh right! The seeds were huge, bigger then any seed i have seen, and I have seen alot, even ordered overseas seeds before. He said these were his growing stock of seeds that come from a plant he grew just for seeds. Anyhow, how much, if any of that is true, I will never know! Any insight? Is that possible, I know nothing about outdoor so it my be.
But im looking forward to a great harvest and lots of pictures for you! Im avalible to help also. You have a nice forum here, heck I wish I would have found this place years ago, I could have saved myself all the trial and error growing over the years. Oh well I found it now and already have picked up on some great ideas.
Thanks for having me!
For hi Thinker, I always used a fan blowing on my plants to make there stems stronger, they have to fight the wind so they grow stronger stems. Watch putting those stems in the soil too far, it can cause them to rot! The light you have, is it only an 18" floresent? If so, its much too little light to grow anything that will produce. You need to step it up, read the recomedations here at this forum, they have good advice about lights!
Good luck!
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