Western Washington Outdoor Grow

Greetings and salutations fellow botanists and agricultural enthusiasts!
Harvest season is about here for my first grow ever, and my results are shocking to all who gaze upon my plant's majesty.

I never thought I would enjoy cultivating marijuana as much as I do. I have learned so much from reading these blogs, watching videos, and getting input from the ever present peanut gallary of local self proclaimed connoisseurs. My plant is doing incredible and I have only heard of folklore of plants that have looked anything like mine. I am super excited to share my final product with my local enthusiests.
I will be using this blog to describe the process I used to achieve the results, and hopefully will illicit some healthy discussion on developing BEST PRACTICES FOR GROWING IN WESTERN WASHINGTON.

...and yes... the fan leaf is 17 inches wide!!

Here's what I did this year:

Seeds:
Got seeds from a friend who claimed they were femenized white widow and my friend reports getting low to moderate yields the previous year.
Germination:
Put 6 seeds in a zip lock bag tucked in a wet paper towel for 5 days. Got roots from 5 of 6 seeds, put in potting soil outside. Lost 2 seedlings to a rain storm.
Planted remaining in my garden 3 feet apart.
Soil/medium:
(The big secret...)
My garden acts like a pet cemetery and home for the occassional opossom that gets too close to my chicken coupe. In addition, I added my top secret weapon...

...chicken manure! I planted right next to my chicken coupe, and put buckets of fresh chicken manure in the holes I dug out.

Pruning:
From a young plant, I took the "suckers" off of the first 3 leaf/branches coming off the young main stalk. The plant stalled its growth as it rooted and then grew these insane gigantic fan leaves that no one had seen before, and a stalk as thick as a soup can! I then topped and topped and watched the plant split and split. As the plant was attempting to grow 20 feet tall, I tied it down to grow horizontally across my garden keeping under the 6 foot fence line so to grow descretely.

The colas and buds look like nothing I have ever seen before. Smells incredible, but more notably producing gigantic thick dense budding colas that just keep getting bigger!

It is now the second week of October, and she is still lush green with no signs of wanting to shed any fan leaves.

Plant looks great and you are in the same boat most of us in the Pacific NW are. Meaning ya need a week or two to reach maturity. Chopping early sucks for me no matter what, you just get robbed of their potential. But you gotta do what have to do. Keep an eye on the trichs and watch for issues PM, botrytis are the big ones. I grew a WW fem in my GH a few seasons back, she didn't finish until Nov. 23. Note... finish times can be all over the board with different phenos of the same strain.