3 Outdoor Jacks & 1 Hash Passion

[roaring lion]

there's some pretty strong science that supports the influence of the moon over plants and their physiology. for very little extra effort, bathing water in the moonlight is fun and makes it interesting...my mind works best like a parachute...when it is open! happy weekend and happy birthday woodstock!

 

[roaring lion]

so here's Alice after 5 days of being moved into her new fabric 10 gallon

and Sindy looks just as sad in her new home...

i might have jinxed it the other day when i said you couldn't even tell they got transplanted. original root mass from their previous pots haven't really "bonded" together. the original mass was just slightly smaller than the diameter of the fabric pot. i normally like to make an imprint of the existing pot in the new pot with the soil all around but this wasn't possible in the fabric pot. i'm not in panic mode yet, but it's close. i suspect the roots from the plants have met the new soil but haven't been able to set themselves into it and make a happy home...the soil is still moist in the fabric pots and i don't want to overwater them, but at this stage i think more water is better than less...

the good news is Bertha and Althea are doing just fine...

 

[roaring lion]

future home of the ladies...

 

[Canuckush]

Nice, will it be tall enough? I gave a Durban Poison plant to a friend during the spring, he's chopped it twice, dug down twice to keep up with the height in his greenhouse, at 7 feet now and could have be about 10, and he still has the flowering stretch to go through!
I'd love to have a large greenhouse for outdoor plants!

 

[greenjeans]

Should be cozy in there!!! Keep us up to date.

 

[roaring lion]

Nice, will it be tall enough? I gave a Durban Poison plant to a friend during the spring, he's chopped it twice, dug down twice to keep up with the height in his greenhouse, at 7 feet now and could have be about 10, and he still has the flowering stretch to go through!
I'd love to have a large greenhouse for outdoor plants!

yes, plenty tall. i've had the girls tied down since sometime in June! thanks for checking in!

 

[irie lion]

Hey Lion my friend, have Sindy and Alice stood to attention yet?
Nice looking frame for the greenhouse! I’m looking forward to see it once it’s done.

 

[roaring lion]

Irie,
yeah bro, Alice and Sindy have returned to normal form. i'm just a bit reactive and need to settle down with some herb...
i'll cover the frame with some poly in the next couple days and move it into place...
thanks for checking in!
"go tell the world Rastafari is a conqueror"

 

[roaring lion]

after the lengthy and healthy delicious rainfall subsided this morning, i discovered the deer had nibbled off 5 growing tips on Athena, hashish plant...which was a motivating factor to move the ladies into their home

 

[roaring lion]

so i hastily moved a few things around in my yard and set up a kind of "temporary permanent" place for my new "grow tent". i wish i had one of them fancy ones like i've seen all over these threads but this 12x10 little hillbilly special is gonna be alright, dyn-o-mite

 

[Canuckush]

That crazy ass deer!



Hope they lay off the rest!

 

[roaring lion]

and then took it up another level to this situation ...

it's pretty much deerproof now...nevermind them little bugs during the grow, you gotta worry about the large ungulates in the outddor game! you've gotta work with mother nature in this outdoor world...she can be all kinds of forces...god bless her...

once the colder nights approach, i'll cover this whole hillbilly special up with some poly and finish them off in here. i haven't told my neighbour that i cut the fence in my yard down to use as the deer fence for the ladies but i'm sure they'll figure it out...

overall the ladies have morphed into their new fabric pots i'd say, but they still need time to "bond" from old soil mass to new softer material...it's still "handle with care" as any jerky movements will just damage new root establishment/growth but i'm optimistic they survived the transplant. even Bertha and Athena got pulled and soil added to their containers and repotted just to gain 4 or 5 inches of root growth/movement.cautiously hopeful things are trending in the right direction...the long flowering period of sativas has me a little worried but overall, i feel irie...

 

[Canuckush]

"overall, i feel irie..."

"Trodding through creation in a Irie meditation" ~ Bob Marley

 

[greenjeans]

Hey - get workboots on !!!!!

 

[roaring lion]

here's the little culprits right here in broad daylight...

glad i caged up me ladies from mom and the kids.

good thing my son was there to whisper them away.

i've heard about seaweed as a means to provide some essential minerals, so i picked this stuff up today and gave the girls a taste at 2/3 recommended dosage. it calls for 15 mL/Litre, so i gave 40 mL to 4 L and let each lady have 1 litre before bed. we had a torrential rain last evening/morning with a real good soakin' from 2 am to 5 am. it was something else. the ladies got some rainwater from heaven and it then turned out to be a stellar day...22-25 degrees C with blue skies, gentle breeze. a real beauty.

here's what we're all most interested in...

 

[roaring lion]

forget to add this one earlier...this was the best part of the day yesterday. eliminated a length of hose by hooking this pex into the mix. end is hooked up to a hose bib comntrolled by a ball valve and there is that side nozzle to fill jugs, mix nutrients. having water with a shut off in the greenhouse is a bonus...

 

[roaring lion]

hard to believe it was this chilly yesterday morning when the mid day temps hit 25 C.

 

[irie lion]

Hey brother lion, looks like you've been busy! Damn dears lol Your plants are looking great and looks like they're well protected now. Good to see those pistils slowly pushing, can't wait to see some flowers!

 

[roaring lion]

was inspired by greenlizard and decided to give athena a haircut this morning. met her in the "outdoor grow tent". lots of ventilation at this point, soon to change in the next week or two as i find more scabs and ghetto looking scraps from around the yard to use as a cover. ...

fairly drastic looking, only because it happened all at once...

if i converted an area in my crawlspace to a clone room, i'd have a pile of clones to keep me going. maybe i should quit my job and started doing this full time...

 

[roaring lion]

mule deer relentless

through my "deer proof" fence!

buried behind all my carefully placed piles of material meant to keep them deer at bay...

i'm going to get way more hillbilly and wrap the whole mess in chicken wire so they can't poke their heads through the top layer of fence