Outdoor Zone 4 2025

braxat420 First week of my second outdoor grow. The first was a disaster, so here's hoping this one is better. We're finally past the last frost date (hopefully) so I've moved my starts outside and planted my germinated autos. The Strawberry Cheesecake Autos are just now germinating so those will go outside soon. The Apple Fritter has just popped above the soil yesterday and hasn't died yet. Zebra Stripe I have in a 10 gallon pot. This guy survived an ice storm where we didn't have power for 11 days so it got very stunted. This is just kind of a hope it bounces back thing. The Banana Jealousy I have high hopes for. The last one I grew had really sandy trichomes so I'm looking forward to making hash. It's also the only seedling that doesn't looked fucked up lol. Sour Lemon Dropz has been dropped in the ground. It looked funky at first but it's kind of stabled out. Mac1 x Candyland looks really messed up, but it has looked like this every time I've grown it. Eventually it mellows out. I probably should have kept this in the tent, but I got excited and transplanted it today anyway. Earlier this week I fertilized about 100 square feet with Dr. Earth tomato fertilizer and laid compost down on top today.

braxat420 It's been super nice all week, leading into storms and possible frost this weekend 😬 I added a Magic Candy Mountain OG to the outdoor garden from my indoor tent. It was running way too hot inside, so she got the boot. The Apple Fritter Auto is for sure stunted, not much progress over a week. The Strawberry Cheesecake Autos have popped, I hope this weekend doesn't stunt them too. Sour Lemon Dropz has normalized in the leaf growth, looking really good on sunny days and kind of droopy on cloudy days like today. Everything else is doing great! Well, I guess the Mac 1 x Candyland is still a runt and deformed, but it's getting bigger so I have hope.

braxat420 It's been a cold week up north. Everything is super stunted to the point where I'm starting new auto flower seeds to put out next week. The Zebra Stripe is looking right sad, hopefully it can bounce back. Everything else is looking good, or at least stable. The Mac 1 x Candyland is finally looking kind of normal. Here's hoping for more sun and warmth this coming week.

braxat420 There's been better weather this week. Still kind of chilly, but sunny. Next week should be in the 80's so I'm hoping to see some explosive growth. The Zebra Stripe looked like it was going to die, so I pulled it from its pot and tossed it into a pile of grass clippings. Of course it righted itself and started growing again. I'm just going to leave it and see how it does. Mac1 is getting stronger, but it still has a weird growth pattern and it's still pretty tiny. The sour Lemon Dropz and the Banana Jealousy are the biggest and healthiest at the moment of the ones in ground. Magic Candy Mountain is also loving the outdoors. I can't super tell, but it looks significantly better and bigger than last week.

braxat420 I popped a couple more Banana Jealousy just as an experiment. Everything else seems to be doing great. Even the Zebra Stripe is going strong. I added a shovel full of compost to it so it has some food. Good weather this week.

braxat420 There hasn't been a lot of sun this week, but the temps are up so all of the girls are stretching. Not much else to say.

braxat420 I bent some stems on the Magic Candy Mountain and defoliated the Sour Lemon Dropz and Banana Jealousy. I fed a dose of 4-4-4 mixed with a little feather meal. Next feed will be bloom nutrients. I'm happy with the growth and vigor, but next year I'm definitely going to start them earlier than I did so they can get larger.

braxat420 Great weather this week. Rain, but not too much, sun but not too hot. There's been explosive growth all around. The Strawberry Cheesecake Auto still isn't showing pre-flowers so I'm guessing it's going to get pretty big before long. I started three more auto seeds to stagger harvests a little bit.

braxat420 The Strawberry Cheesecake Auto is starting to show pre-flowers, so I added some bloom nutrients. Earlier in the week I top dressed with some diatomaceous earth and worm castings on all the girls. Great growth this week. I regret not topping the three in the ground, I was listening to someone on a podcast that probably didn't know what they were talking about. I do want to see how tall they will get, though. Another Strawberry Cheesecake Auto popped today as well Edit- the plants have attracted a couple of spider guardians, the white one on the strawberry cheesecake, the yellow appropriately on the sour lemon dropz. V exciting.

braxat420 Great growth this week. I think the Magic Candy Mountain is starting to flower and stretch. I fed some Gaia Green power bloom just in the 30 gallon pot.

braxat420 I bent some branches on the Mac 1 to try and spread out the canopy, but I think it was mostly due to a lack of impulse control. I fed some PPP to the Mac 1, Banana Jealousy, and the Sour Lemon Dropz at the recommended rate of over a 1/4lb per plant. I figure by the time they are ready to flower the nutes will be all broken down and ready to be eaten. The Strawberry Cheesecake Auto is doing well. Still no smell yet, which isn't totally winning me over to the side of autoflowers, but it's looking good for week two or three of flower.

braxat420 Pretty low-key week. I did a defol on the strawberry cheesecake and it's finally getting a good smell to it. The subsequent autos I've planted are doing okay. One got stunted right off the rip but the other seems healthy. All of the photos are over five feet tall, which is cool to see. No nutrients this week. It has been super humid this week and I noticed a spot of pm on the Magic Candy Mountain, a true bummer. We will see if it progresses. I'm going to try to get a greenhouse cover over the garden to protect from rain toward the end of the season.

braxat420 It's been a cooler week. Cool and humid makes for mold so I've been on the lookout. Nothing else, but I've turned off the sprinklers for the rest of the season to eliminate overhead water. The Strawberry Cheesecake Auto smells pretty good at the end of this week. It's starting to chunk up, too, again making me worry about mold and rot.

braxat420 Another good week! Lots of sun and heat. No flowers yet on the photoperiods, but the auto is looking close to being done already. I'll give it another week or two, but it's looking good.

braxat420 It's the end of week one of flower! Well, what I'm calling week one. Lil flowers are on all the plants now. My corn is just filthy with some kind of aphid or something so I treated them and the weed plants with some Dr Zymes. I'm gonna water in some Stash Blend today and call it good. Defoliated moving into flower.

braxat420 Good week, a little overcast. There was rain at night, sun during the day most days. The flowers are forming nicely, they are the biggest on the Zebra Stripe. I fed with a healthy dose of some expired Rooted Leaf nutes I had on hand to give them a lil boost going into full flower. I'll probably feed the same strength once a week to use up the bottles, unless I see some signs I should stop. Here's hoping for another warm week!

braxat420 I was gone for about a week, so I was real hands off lol. Things look good in flower for the photos, the strawberry cheesecake auto got some bud rot on the main cola :(

braxat420 Autumn moved in fast! I don't know why I was expecting it to stay warm longer. It's also been raining all week. Several branches fell off the Sour Lemon Dropz from their own weight and some strong winds. It's about half the size it was before, but that's probably a good thing in the long run. No nutrients this week because of the constant rain.

braxat420 Harvesting the Strawberry Cheesecake Auto, it looks pretty ripe and there's some bud rot on the top cola so I think it's time. Took her down, bucked her, and then hung her up in my grow tent. I will update later on the dry weight and smoke report once dried.