Outdoor grow

BarrieGrower Looking ahead to my first outdoor grow. Being in Ontario the season is short, so, going to start these four Critical + 2.0 indoors then move them outside. Soaked them in tap water for 24 hours in the dark. Planted them in peat pucks in a dollar store seed doom. They sprouted up in three days. Planted them riggt away in 500 ml styrofoam cups with my home brew soil mix. The soul mix is two parts top soul, one part worm casings, half part coco, half part peat and half part perlite. I will veg for four to eight weeks, which is all dependent on the weather. The weather is funny in Canada, never consistent. I won't train at all and hope to grow trees. Probally wishful thinking as I Ontario is a short season. Thanks for looking, Cheers.

BarrieGrower Week went well and plants look ok. The first couple of weeks I am always nervous. Have a bit of leaf curl, probably due to not ph'ng the water. Had this before and went away by it self, so I am hoping for the best. Started to add a low dose of nutrients and the plans are liking them. I think the whole nutrient thing is a bit of mad science, this will take awhile to figure out and look forward to learning it. I will pot up in another week to 3 gln containers and keep them in those hopefully untill planting outdoors. Really impressed and appreciative from all the help and advice I have received from other growers. Thanks for looking, Cheers

BarrieGrower They are definitely past the gawky seedling stage and stocks are thicking up. Nodes keep growing and coming alone good. Potted up to 3 gln containers and plan on keeping them in these until they go outdoors. I am hoping to get them planted outside at six weeks. Did the repotting mid week, roots looked good and abundant. Seems to me that any time between 2 and three weeks is a good time and prior to being root bound. Increased the nutrients a bit, see good growth and they are responding well. No training on these plants, going to let them grow naturally. Thanks for looking in.

BarrieGrower Plants grew great, at the eighth node now. Kinda funny not topping or applying LST, Haha. Only watering 300ml every other day. They seem to be responding well by showing good growth. Weather still sucks and had frost again this morning too. Was hoping not to pot up again before planting outside. If that is the biggest problem I'm doing great. Thanks for looking. Cheers

BarrieGrower Been leaving the plants alone for the best part. Just trimed the bottom few leaves and leaves as they won't amount to anything. They keep growing and getting higher and bushier. Looking good. Not sure what tp expect as I topped amd mainlined before. Added a seaweed foiler spray two times a week, it was an impulse thing. We will see where that goes. Also added a bit of molasses, again seemed like a good idea. Watching the weather and Saturday is going to be outdoor planting day. Going to be happy to see them in the ground. It will be all up to mother nature after that as I won't get much time to get up there to look in on them. They will be a few hours away. I will dig 3 x 3 holes and mix a bit of composted sheep manure in with the soil. Then I will cross my fingers and hope for the best, haha. Thanks for looking

BarrieGrower The weather is not too bad so midweek I planted them outside. I have to tell you I was a bit surprised to still see snow on the sides of the road on the drive in. Dug 3 x 3 pits put sheeps manure in the bottom and planted the plants. When I dug the holes the soul was not as nice as I thought, crap, I should have brought some topsoil. All up to mother nature now.

BarrieGrower No update this week as I was not able to get out to see the plants. The weather has not neen the greatest, lows at night just 7 degrees Celsius. Hope all is well. Thanks for looking

BarrieGrower Another week and no update, have not been able to get out to see the plants. Hoping to get time to see them soon. Temperatures are getting a bit warmer during the day and not soo cold at night. Thats a good thing. I'm sure they are fine and the weather has just slowed the growth right down. Thanks for looking.

BarrieGrower Another week went by and did not get out to see the plants, not good. The weather this week was much better, sunny and really warm temperatures. At home my backyard garden took off this week, hope my plants are doing the same. Rain has been regular, maybe a bit too regular for me. That should help with watering though. Thanks for looking.

BarrieGrower Another week and no update, been busy and it is a long drive to check the plants. I wll go see them on the long weekend for sure. Weather has been good, hot, sunny amd a bit of rain. Where I planted them the grass grows long, hoping all is well. Thanks for looking

BarrieGrower Finally got up to see the plants. All in all they are doing good. They have had absolutely no care, watering or nutrition for the last five weeks. I can smell the plants when I get closer, I love the smell. Two are short and two have grown straight up with no real side branches. The leaves are light green and some yellow. I think outdoor plants need to be topped too. Mental note for next time. Topped off the the plants with some ammended top soil and fed them. Hopefully that will give them some nutrition for the weeks to come. Weather has been great and next week is going to be good too. Its been fairly warm with just the right anout of rain. Hopefully that keeps up. Thanks for looking.

BarrieGrower Been warmer this week with day time highs 26 to 32 deg. Celcius. Next week is the same. Happy days. Noticed two plants do not get full sun all day long. They miss a couple hours in the morning. Funny and interesting thing is those two are doing the best. Watered them once during the week as there was no rain and I fertilized them last. Did not think I should fertilizer twice in a row and no water in between. I used lake water and did not PH the water or nutrient mix. I figure the soil will do that. Thinking back I probably should have as it is an easy step. I gave them another round of nutrients and this amounted to +16 litres of mix per plant. Wanted to give a good amount and figure it will go into the ground and be used later on. Had some good growth over the last six day. The two bigger ones grew another four inches to a total hight of 43" and 36". Was wondering, given there is another month or so of veg left, should I top the plant. I have to say it feels funny not topping the plant. Any advice is greatly appreciated. Hope to get out to see them next week and give another round of nutrients....and maybe top.....? Thanks for looking.

BarrieGrower Well got ready to go see the pmants and packed everything up, beer...check, dubbies...check, bug spray....check, munchies.....check. set out and drove three hpurs beforw realizing I forgot the nutrients, the bluetooth speaker and something else. Can't remner what else I forgot, guess that's the problem, Hahaha. No big deal, life goes on. I was surprised to find this was a big week. Plants are coming around, showing good growth and side branches growingout. Happy days. The taller plants are now 53", 43", 35" and 26". All look good and no lighter nutrient deficient leaves. Gan leaves are gettting big and stalks are thick. Really impressed witj tje progress. The down side is I found a pollen sack on the biggest plant. Not impressed at all, not sure if this is heat stress as it has been in the high 30's with high humidity. To tell you, that in itself is surprising, it has been freakishly hot. That is far from normal. I will check for more next time up. It is calling for hot weather for the next bit. Great for me, seems like it is not so great for the plants. Being it has bewn really hot I gave them a good watering, five gallons to each plant. Should hold them over. A 50 50 chance I go next week, if not the week after for sure. Thanks for looking.

BarrieGrower Did not get out to see the plants this week, kinda disappointed. I will get up next week though. Hope all is well.

BarrieGrower Day 100. First update of week 15 Veg. Plants are doing great, growing and filling out. Starting to smell great. One plant and it had to be the biggest, got a smack down from local wildlife. It was probably a deer, at least I hope so. I think if it was a bear it would have shredded the whole plant. Two weeks ago on my way in I did see a bear then. The last two weeks have been hot and humid, temps steady every day 30 to 32 degrees during the day and mid 20's at night. Some Some days were high as 38 degrees. Can't believe we are getting this in Northern Ontario. I have to say it's all good, I love the hot weather. The heat did not seem to bother the plants at all. Plants are now 36", 42", 54" and the beaten up one is 59" on a slant. Kinda like the leaning tower of weed. Haha. I took some advise and pinched all the tops of the plants. With another four weeks of veg left, should be good. I will update this this week again towards the end of the week. Day 103. Plants looking like they are filling out. I measured them and they grew a bit the last three days. A bit surprised seeing I topped them. Plants are 38", 44", 58" and the beaten up one is 61". The second hightest looks the best. Fed them another round of nutrients, figured that would be fine seeing it is soil and I won't be back for a couple of weeks. Cheers!

BarrieGrower Was busy and was not able to get up to check on the plants. Will be up next week for sure.

BarrieGrower The weather has continued to be hot and now it is cooling at night. Lows have been 11 degrees. Plants were fine and getting bushy and a bit taller. The sizes are as follows; #4 the shortest is still the shortest at 49", next is #3 at 53" and the second tallest #2 is now the tallest and biggest at 69" and the biggest before #1 (which took the beatdown) is 67". All look good. #1 is starting to bud out and looks like it has been budding for over a week. Happy days! All smell strong and great. I can smell them from my car. Love it. The rest do not look like they are budding yet. I guess they may be shorty behind. Fed the one in bud bloom nutes and the others got veg nutes. I will be back in two weeks and may adjust at that time. The three plants all look nice and bushy with lots of branches. Hopefully good producers. The other will be limited. Hope weather holds up. Cheers.

BarrieGrower As soon as I got out of my car I could smell the sweet smell of sensi. At first glance they look good, taller and bushier. Still some more growth, a bit taller and bushier maybe the streach. Buds are really building on the first plant and the other are just starting. They look three weeks behind the first one. The sizes are as follows; #4 is still the shortest at 53", next is #3 and tied with #1 now at 67" and #2 is still the tallest and biggest at 75.5". All look good. Happy days! Fed them and this tine added a new nutrient. I actually have added this to all my grows, this is Silicate. I read some good articles on this and it intrigued me. Would love to know everyone's thoughts on this. Weather is changing, a bit of rain and cooling off. Hopefully not too much rain. Thanks for looking and happy growing. Cheer!

BarrieGrower I went up to check on the plants and give them some love and forgot to take pictures. I guess I was a little offsides. Plants are doing great, one is close to harvest and the others are a good month behind. The smell is strong. Theu did not get any taller, the streach was over. Looking at the weather, there was a frost warning last night. They are fairly close to the lake, hope they made out ok. I will go up this weekend to see. Cheers

BarrieGrower Plants look like they are doing great and not bothered by the colder weather yet. This last week was cooler and a couple of rain days. One plant is close to harvest, maybe a week or two left. The buds are really stacking up and looking frosty with cloudy trics. The others look like a month behind. Did a defoliation and still looked like I did nothing. I just wanted to get air through so they dry, just worried about mold. Fed the three plants with nutes and stopped the silicate. The third plan I did not give it nutes or water as it rained last night. The ground it wet ant it looks fine. This plant has nice rich green leaves and great buds. Next week is calling for great weather sunny and 25 degrees. Hope it holds out until all the plants are harvested. Cheers.

BarrieGrower Weather was great this week, warm and sunny. One plant was ready and got the chop and is hanging now. The other three are probally a month behind. Kinda funny they are finishing so far apart. The only difference l can see is a bit of shade. Would never have thought. That partridge was back, must be my Cannabis guard bird haha. I uploaded a video of it, kinda funny. The weather is turning, next week is cooler and rain almost every day. I hope the last three make it to the end. Cheers

BarrieGrower Did not get up to see the plants this week, been watching the weather though. The weather was fine, next week looks a bit cooler and three day of rain, not great. First plant was hung a week and trimmed the first oz and a half. Looks like I may get five or six off this plant. The trimmed buds look fine. They were squished bringing them back. In my wisdom I bagged it inside five bags to avoid the smell and complaints driving back and that happened. Well I did not get any complaints though. Trimming is a bit of a chore now, oh well. Won't do that again. Buds look good and all is well. I may try to get up next week to see them. Cheers.