Recent content by stilgar11

Feel free to offer whatever info and experience you have that think would be helpful. Learning from someone else's experience is always better than gaining experience via my own mistakes. Such input is always appreciated. The plants will stay where they are for this grow. They are too big...

I like the idea of the dog kennel. It's able to be locked and I could keep it in my backyard and position it to receive the most sun. Only problem is on the side of the house with the southern exposure (where I grew these plants for 8 weeks before moving them to the deck) it's a narrow part of...

I'm sure you are probably right. I keep posting questions because my growing experience never seems to jive with the stuff I read on-line. In this case, I keep reading that the yellowing of some lower primary fan leaves is expected, but at this early stage of flowering / cola development the...

Thanks Juan Carlos, Improvise and Madsdad4ever, I appreciate the feedback on everything. Improvise, you left out one thing about the parasol idea.....gotta make sure it's well anchored! I put up a beach umbrella and a fan this morning (it was supposed to be 102 degrees today) and they worked...

Didn't think of an umbrella. Sometimes it's the most obvious answer you look right past. Another frequent message you hear in this forum is that you can never give your plants too much sun. Maybe that's why the idea of shape didn't occur to me. I actually did put a fan out there with the...

Two double dream and one Girl Scout cookies strain. The patio can get very hot and warm summer days. All plants grown in smart pots .

I have three outdoor plants, located on a deck built above my garage. I've covered the railing on the two sides with ground cloth mostly intended as a windbreak, but also to be discreet. I keep them low enough to where my two neighbors can't see any part of the plants. Albeit, in a month or...

Yeah, during my previous grow (my first) I was using four 150 watt HPS lights for my three 4' plants. Towards the end of the veg period cold temps (nights consistently in the low 40's) became an issue. So out went the floor heater. I knew a grow tent would solve my problem, but the cost would...

In my area the length of the day peaks on June 22nd at 14hr 46min. (My clones will be about 4 weeks old then.) Keep in mind comparing indoor growing schedules to outdoor growing schedules is kinda comparing apples to oranges. Outdoor plants will begin to flower long before the days become 12...

I didn't buy my clones until almost the end of the planting season here in California (April thru May). (Purchased them on May 28.) I had planned to veg my plants under lights in my garage for three or four weeks until they were more sturdy. I'd then acclimate the plants to outdoor growing...

Hi folks, we have a newbie here trying to get through his first grow. I'm on week 12 of flowering. Along the way I made a number of errors that caused my plants to develop slowly. But I think I'm on the homeward stretch now, just monitoring the trichomes waiting for them all to turn cloudy with...

Thanks again for the advice and encouragement. 12 full weeks flowering now. I'm checking trichomes every other day. I was getting frustrated because I couldn't tell the difference between cloudy and clear trichomes, especially when viewed from above, they all seem cloudy...but when viewed from...

Yeah, depending on what the trichomes indicate on the lower buds, that was my plan, to harvest the top, lower the lights and give the lower buds some time to grow a bit more. If the trichomes look the same on the lower buds as the upper buds, then I'll just harvest it all as is. You are right...

Nope, haven't sampled anything. Call it an OCD thing, but I'm not going to sample anything until it has been dried and cured. I just feel like I'm somehow cheating by nuking them dry. It's stupid, but yeah, seriously OCD sometimes. I will try making hash from the trimmings though. Never done...