Mr Teddy Grows Indoors & Out In 2015

[Teddy Edwards]

If you can't get blood meal, collect pee from your neighbors (Or use your own) and dilute that 1 to 10 with water

I'm with daTenshi. I cannot tell you how many ways that is never going to happen.

High Teddy, thanks for the help in my signature. I followed your first outdoor grow then your first indoor grow but some how I missed your indoor/outdoor grow.............Subscribed.

RSOlier. Take a seat in the shade. You're just in time for the fireworks.

NUGS AND BUGS

Today Greece goes to the polls for the third time this year. Tsipras, the socialist-marxist PM has lost confidence after going back on what he said he'd never do and signed a debt agreement with those economic Nazis, the Germans. Although round here, not many people are bothering to vote and the holiday home Athenians have all come back, treating it as a short break. Fact is, and everybody knows it, it doesn't matter who wins. New austerity measures come in next week anyway.

Down the road from us there's a memorial by a cliff to the 43 men from the village that the Nazis forced over at gunpoint, in a bid to break the local resistance. It didn't of course. The local men, living in the forests around the mountain, were as famously brave as the fighters on Crete. You can forgive but you can't forget that. Walking there last week I found a couple of German families letting their kids climb up and play football against the stone cross. My, it was wonderful to use some traditional English words again.

When they had gone, Teddy cocked his leg against it. Of such dilemmas is life made.

Which is all a long way round of saying that it will nice to have some means of medicating against austerity in the near future.

And, my, I believe we will. A few snaps of my favourites during today's Bug Patrol. (I've got a badge and everything).

The great, Grape Ape. Healthy as hell. Filling in nicely.

These are what the caterpillars, grey and black striped no bigger than my little fingernail, love. Aurora Ultras and the AU Confidential. They love their California girls. Two or three off each plant today.
AU:

AUC:

Her lower fans are something:

This is my equivalent of Lester's ice pick. It's for picking the lobster meat out of the claws. Pre-austerity, of course.

And if you look very closely, you might spot Desfran in the back bed.

There's no way I can reach to inspect that top cola. It'll be a surprise.

Take care, everybody.

Pip Pip! Mr Teddy x

 

[Bapple]

K

My, it was wonderful to use some traditional English words again.

And if you look very closely, you might spot Desfran in the back bed.

x

LOL traditional English words......

That Desfran looks Majestic Mr Teddy

Hope you and Mrs T are having a restful Sunday

 

[SweetSue]

I'm all about organic, but something about that makes me go ewww

Think logistically for guys it would be easier to make it happen without being totally grossed out

I'm thinking of pee like the body's way of flushing out bad things and feeding that to the ladies then smoking it is just not something I can do willingly ... then again what about manure?! Also my 100% organic nutes totally smell like animal poop but guess I didn't have the "pleasure" of collecting it myself, so out of sight out of mind!

Funny how the brain works

I hear you, but then the frugal cultivator kicked in and outvoted me. Rico's uncomfortably right here.

And did you catch the fabulous pedicure in the backyard camping picture? Popcicle toes.

Good grief PeeJay. One should only be permitted so much comedic brilliance in a week's time, don't you think? Hahaha!

This one had me running for the Ladies' room rather than make an impromptu donation to the cause. Shipping costs would have been ridiculous anyway.

When they had gone, Teddy cocked his leg against it. Of such dilemmas is life made.

There's no way I can reach to inspect that top cola. It'll be a surprise.

Take care, everybody.

Pip Pip! Mr Teddy x

Well said Mr. Teddy. About the lovely surprise cola - the sweet mystery of life, eh?

Always a pleasure Mr. Teddy, and my best to the lovely wife. Now I can get on with my day with a new happy tune to hum.

 

[PeeJay]

I'm going to forego glib comments and sardonic humor this week and just

Like most of us who have plants outdoors or in greenhouses in the Northern Hemisphere the impending equinox may make you want to shout at the plants, "hurry up and finish already!" You may even feel tossing a few traditional English words in their direction will help... It won't be long now.

 

[Teddy Edwards]

everybody.

APRES LE DELUGE
Well you saw Grape Ape at her best yesterday. Last night we had an unexpected storm. Judging from the wheelbarrow, there was a couple of inches of rain. And this was how I found Grape Ape:

The centre stem has truly split. Bit of string and tape and bamboo later:

And storms are forecast all week. It's that nervous time of the year again.

 

[Bapple]

Hello Mr Teddy!

Poor Grape ape, storms round the Med don't mess about.....we've had storm forecasts since Thursday, but nothing has happened except some drizzle this morning.

As you said - nervous time of year for growers.

Wishing you a great week and may the storms passover at least till mid October.

 

[Radogast]

regardez "Apres le deluge"

Pauvre plante

 

[PeeJay]

That first-aid job looked top-notch. My need to know the results far outweigh my need to know the outcome of the elections. I could Google that. I tried a search for "how is Mr. Teddy's Grape Ape doing?" The search engine kindly directed me right back here where there's been no news.

The next result down was "Top 21 Worst Cartoon Characters Of All Time - HecklerSpray"

It held little relevance.

 

[Radogast]

That first-aid job looked top-notch. My need to know the results far outweigh my need to know the outcome of the elections. I could Google that. I tried a search for "how is Mr. Teddy's Grape Ape doing?" The search engine kindly directed me right back here where there's been no news.

The next result down was "Top 21 Worst Cartoon Characters Of All Time - HecklerSpray"

It held little relevance.

 

[CCOiler]

 

[Lembatoast]

Oh my goodness, you must be heart broken, it seems like that was your Pride and Joy, Mr. T I'm so sorry that really, really, sucks. Don't let it bring you down buddy,

 

[Teddy Edwards]

Playmates. Hope the sun is shining in your gardens. It's not here.

Hello Mr Teddy!

Poor Grape ape, storms round the Med don't mess about.....we've had storm forecasts since Thursday, but nothing has happened except some drizzle this morning.

As you said - nervous time of year for growers.

Wishing you a great week and may the storms passover at least till mid October.

Bapple. Weather update below. May old Helios smile on your patch of the Mediterranean.

regardez "Apres le deluge"

Pauvre plante

C'est vrais, mon petit chou-chou.

That first-aid job looked top-notch. My need to know the results far outweigh my need to know the outcome of the elections. I could Google that. I tried a search for "how is Mr. Teddy's Grape Ape doing?" The search engine kindly directed me right back here where there's been no news.

The next result down was "Top 21 Worst Cartoon Characters Of All Time - HecklerSpray"

It held little relevance.

Note to self - Improve SEO for 'Mr Teddy'.

She's good, thanks, PJ. Well, the split stem, cracked through as if hit by a lightening bolt, bound and bambooed, is still feeding two of the heavy colas, which show no signs of having been sliced from chops to crutch.

Oh my goodness, you must be heart broken, it seems like that was your Pride and Joy, Mr. T I'm so sorry that really, really, sucks. Don't let it bring you down buddy,

Master. You may recall that when I first arrived at your temple many years ago for my training, you said to me:

"If you can deal with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same.."

And she's fine now. Except for...

WEATHER REPORT
Apart from a couple of hours of sun on Wednesday, the sound of the week has been constant, heavy, interminable
rain, relieved only by daily, full-on thunderstorms. Most of the time we are also shrounded inside cloud. The roads run red with the local clay soil and a local port has lost its harbour, collapsed into the sea with a few dozen cars.

It's really, really wet.

The twice daily Bug & Rot Patrol found one of Dark Star's main colas black within. Immediately covered with a plastic bag, the rest of the plant was harvested together with its neighbour, a beautifully sparkly KC45, for safety.

I feel like a proper farmer, moaning about the weather. But really, this is too much, and it's forcast to continue all next week. I could just about harvest the two big Sour Diesels now, but Grape Ape, the Auroa Ultras and the wonderful, purple-leaved AU Confidential all need another week or two, easily. Plus most of the smaller ones, Afghanis, SAGEs, a big KC45 also need to run into October. As for the big old girl, Desfran in the back bed, well, she's a sativa of course. Oh Lordy.

I guess the question to you experienced outdoor-types is: If they remain free of bugs and bud rot, in the sort of weather pictured below are they likely to mature further, moving from clear to cloudy, or is this mist and constant rain and humiidity in the 80s going to stop development, albeit temporarily?

Here's the garden today (pictures taken from indoors) as the clouds rose up to us from the valleys below, like smoke in slow, suspended skiens. There's Grape Ape, beneath leaden skies:

And Desfran in the mist:

Time to pop on the So'Wester and go check them again.

Pip Pip! Mr Teddy x

 

[PeeJay]

Teddy, the plants will continue to mature even in cool damp conditions. The dearth of bright sunlight and cool temperatures will slow down their metabolism. They will mature at a more leisurely pace.

You've seen rot in the DarkStar, so you know what to look for and should chart a course of hyper-vigilance and probably harvest plants at the first sign of it. Alternately, you can try to surgically remove rotten spots but if you do that watch closely in case it rears it's ugly head again.

That rot forms a mycelial mat that will launch spores by the millions when mature. The rot can spread quickly.

Hang in there!

 

[PeeJay]

Also Teddy, Anything that comes in contact with the rot, scissors, hands, manicuring surfaces, etc. should be disinfected with rubbing alcohol or something similar. You don't want those things becoming spore vectors.

 

[Bapple]

Hello Mr Teddy!

Wow, it sounds like Blighty...... Still no rain here thank goodness.

Lots of great pointers there from Peejay....

Enjoy the weekend and regards to Mrs T

 

[SweetSue]

Sending warm and dry thoughts, and, if possible, protective intention thoughts against the dreaded rot. For all the challenge of an outdoor grow I'm assuming the end product makes it worth the risk? I know the thrill of letting one grow the way they're intended would count for much in the equation. I suppose you get just as addicted to growing outdoors as you do to growing at all.

We're all pulling for you, Mr. Teddy.

 

[Lady Cannafan]

"Give the guy some relief" vibes being sent your way Lord Teddy.

What a year this has been for outdoor grows.....

 

[PeeJay]

One other thought, Teddy. Tuberculosis used to spread like mad too. Not everyone got it. Killing a person because someone next to them got the disease would be... Premature. There are going to be some survivors and some fatalities.

Desfran in particular has a structure fine tuned for a wet fall.

 

[Radogast]

C'est vrais, mon petit chou-chou.

Did you just call me a HAIR SCRUNCHIE ! Thank you! That is so CUTE!

chouchou - Wiktionary

 

[SweetSue]

C'est vrais, mon petit chou-chou.

Did you just call me a HAIR SCRUNCHIE ! Thank you! That is so CUTE!

chouchou - Wiktionary

Oh joy - hearty laughter coupled with language development. Nice neighborhood.