Space Grow 2022: Skywalker OG, Romulan, Jack The Ripper & DV

[Melville Hobbes]

Okay, I forgot to top Jacinda, and I'm kinda happy I did. I'm thinking I'll try to clone the tops when I take them. It didn't work this winter, but I really didn't do that one right, and it wasn't kept in the right conditions. I'll change that this time if I do it. I may change my mind in the next few days.

As you can see, the breeze wasn't cooperating when I took the pics, lol.

Lucille Skywalker

Jacinda the Ripper

Commander Donatra - she has 9 finger leaves, and the next ones may be 11 by the looks of it!

Ebony

Growing outdoors looks likes such a blast!

Looking forward, Mel.

It is! I've always loved how they react when they start to go out under the sun!

I love watching plants hands up and smiling at the sun!

Same here! They're right by the patio umbrella and chairs, one of my favourite places to relax in the summer!

 

[Melville Hobbes]

Spent the day moving furniture and had a bit of an unplanned nap before I could upload these

Lucille Skywalker

Jacinda the Ripper

Commander Donatra seems to have had a bit more sun than she wanted yesterday, and has a sunburn on one leaf. You can see it peeking out at the top left.

Ebony has decided to skip 5 finger leaves altogether

Hope you're all having a great day!

 

[InTheShed]

They look terrific!

 

[Melville Hobbes]

Ebony is really exploding now that she's getting outdoors every day. She's now as tall as Lucille and Donatra, and her fan leaves are getting pretty damn big, especially for a plant as young as she is. It'll be interesting to see how they are in a few weeks.

Lucille Skywaker

Jacinda the Ripper

Commander Donatra

Ebony

They look terrific!

Thanks Shed!

 

[Carmen Ray]

Ebony is really exploding now that she's getting outdoors every day.

I was going to say! She's a freak They all are looking very happy. Sun glorious sun!

 

[Melville Hobbes]

Got the girls out a little earlier today. Donatra and Lucille were a little thirsty, so we're getting close to uppot time. I'll be shifting Donatra into a 30 litre (7 gallon) fabric pot, and Lucille will be growing in the ground. But we still have about a week to go before that happens. I don't really have space for a 30L inside, and I'd like it to be consistently in the double digits at night.

Lucille Skywalker

Jacinda the Ripper

Commander Donatra

Ebony

I was going to say! She's a freak They all are looking very happy. Sun glorious sun!

It's pretty crazy to be this bright and warm already! Feeling like Summer out there!

 

[Grand Daddy Black]

Got the girls out a little earlier today. Donatra and Lucille were a little thirsty, so we're getting close to uppot time. I'll be shifting Donatra into a 30 litre (7 gallon) fabric pot, and Lucille will be growing in the ground. But we still have about a week to go before that happens. I don't really have space for a 30L inside, and I'd like it to be consistently in the double digits at night.

Lucille Skywalker

Jacinda the Ripper

Commander Donatra

Ebony

It's pretty crazy to be this bright and warm already! Feeling like Summer out there!

Looking nice, Mel!

 

[Trala]

Omg they have EXPLODED with growth!

I love how happy they look in the sun

 

[TwelveCoffee]

Just caught up my man our temps to be around the same in the Halton area? You may have told me before and I probably forgot my memory sucks

 

[Melville Hobbes]

We're going to have a bunch of rain here starting tomorrow night, but the girls are getting their first night outdoors tonight. I'll be topping them this evening, and Lucille and Donatra are scheduled for an uppot after the brief cold spot Tuesday and Wednesday nights.
Ebony is already showing pistils somehow, and combined with her fast growth that worries me a bit. It just may be the ruderalis genes, so I'll wait it out a bit. I'm hoping that they didn't screw up and send me an auto. We'll see.

Lucille Skywalker

Jacinda the Ripper

Commander Donatra

Ebony

By the way, does anyone know what would happen to a mouse if it ate Slug-B-Gone? Little bastard chewed a hole in the top of the bag and ate it all. Just a bunch of mouse shit in there!

Looking nice, Mel!

Thanks GDB!

Omg they have EXPLODED with growth!

I love how happy they look in the sun

This is why I love growing outdoors!

Just caught up my man our temps to be around the same in the Halton area? You may have told me before and I probably forgot my memory sucks

I didn't see the notification for this until right before I started this post.
Hamilton here! So yeah, temps should be pretty much the same.

 

[TwelveCoffee]

We're going to have a bunch of rain here starting tomorrow night, but the girls are getting their first night outdoors tonight. I'll be topping them this evening, and Lucille and Donatra are scheduled for an uppot after the brief cold spot Tuesday and Wednesday nights.
Ebony is already showing pistils somehow, and combined with her fast growth that worries me a bit. It just may be the ruderalis genes, so I'll wait it out a bit. I'm hoping that they didn't screw up and send me an auto. We'll see.

Lucille Skywalker

Jacinda the Ripper

Commander Donatra

Ebony

By the way, does anyone know what would happen to a mouse if it ate Slug-B-Gone? Little bastard chewed a hole in the top of the bag and ate it all. Just a bunch of mouse shit in there!


Thanks GDB!

This is why I love growing outdoors!

I didn't see the notification for this until right before I started this post.
Hamilton here! So yeah, temps should be pretty much the same.

Awesome man do you bring them inside for rain? I was looking at the weather this morning and I was like ffs I don’t want to deal with flooding!

I’m going to be starting work in Stoney Creek probably mid next week by starting I really mean just going back to the company.

The girls are looking mint my friend can’t wait to see more so I’m subbing lol

 

[Melville Hobbes]

Awesome man do you bring them inside for rain? I was looking at the weather this morning and I was like ffs I don’t want to deal with flooding!

I’m going to be starting work in Stoney Creek probably mid next week by starting I really mean just going back to the company.

The girls are looking mint my friend can’t wait to see more so I’m subbing lol

Thanks!
I'll be bringing them in for the thunderstorms tomorrow night, and the single digit nights Tuesday and Wednesday nights since they're still pretty young, but after that they'll be in 30 litre fabric pots, and supported by their training, so I won't be so worried about wind and rain until flower. If I've done everything right by that point I might be able to cover them for the worst weather.
Well, at least it'll be a familiar environment, right? Sucks to have to change your schedule, but it's better than being out of work.

 

[TwelveCoffee]

Thanks!
I'll be bringing them in for the thunderstorms tomorrow night, and the single digit nights Tuesday and Wednesday nights since they're still pretty young, but after that they'll be in 30 litre fabric pots, and supported by their training, so I won't be so worried about wind and rain until flower. If I've done everything right by that point I might be able to cover them for the worst weather.
Well, at least it'll be a familiar environment, right? Sucks to have to change your schedule, but it's better than being out of work.

Ya man did it for my son as much as I’m upset that I gave up a job I really did enjoy it’s for the better for now I can always go back.

Ya think tomorrow night or afternoon I’ll rig my light so I can sit the plants on the glass was to much of a PITA to get them out of how I was doing it before. I know this is your journal but when should I consider putting my photo in a 10 gal? Transplanted her into a 5 last week I think

 

[Melville Hobbes]

Ya man did it for my son as much as I’m upset that I gave up a job I really did enjoy it’s for the better for now I can always go back.

Ya think tomorrow night or afternoon I’ll rig my light so I can sit the plants on the glass was to much of a PITA to get them out of how I was doing it before. I know this is your journal but when should I consider putting my photo in a 10 gal? Transplanted her into a 5 last week I think

When she needs to be watered every day. Then you'll know the roots have filled the available space. Fabric pots won't let them get rootbound though, at least not in our growing season, so you have some breathing room. I would think late June to early July would be a good time. Let's her get her roots into the new soil before she shifts to flower.

 

[TwelveCoffee]

When she needs to be watered every day. Then you'll know the roots have filled the available space. Fabric pots won't let them get rootbound though, at least not in our growing season, so you have some breathing room. I would think late June to early July would be a good time. Let's her get her roots into the new soil before she shifts to flower.

Awesome thank you can’t wait to try them lol but it’ll be a while cause after harvest wanted to cure for as long as possible.

 

[Melville Hobbes]

So, you'll notice I didn't top them last night. I did do it today, and I uppotted Ebony, Jacinda, and Donatra. Lucille will be going into the ground, and I want to get past Wednesday night. It'll be pretty cool out there that night.

Lucille Skywalker

Jacinda the Ripper

Commander Donatra

Ebony

Lucille and Donatra after topping

Jacinda after topping

I put those tops into glasses of water, and I'm giving them to one of my neighbours so he can root them. I topped Ebony, but forgot to take a pic of her after. Her top was a bit too small to try to clone as the others had more nodes than she did. Now they all have the same. The first nodes on the others had tiny underdeveloped side branches, but Ebony's first node has fully developed ones, so I left hers alone, and removed the others.
I also started training, and that will be the next post.

 

[Melville Hobbes]

Since I'm a little tired I forgot that I have a pic or two from uppotting, so they'll be here too.

These are both Jacinda

I decided to use Jacinda for the training pics because her open structure makes things a little easier to see.
First step is to make the Carhooks (a creation of @Carcass ). I used to wait a little longer to start training the top branches so that I could just attach them straight to the dowel/rod (which will come up when I continue training them into shape, not today), but after @Trala introduced me to them I realized they could be used to get started a bit earlier

The next step is to pull the top two branches down with the hooks. If you spin the pot 180 degrees after putting the fist one in, you would e putting the second hook in the same way as the first, so they actually end up on opposite sides of the branches.

Step 3, do the same thing with the next set of branches.

As you may notice, I screwed up here. I fixed it later, but as usual, I did it by moving 3 of them, instead of just one, lol.

You want these hooks as close to the stem as possible, so it is protected from being torqued in the next steps.

Step 4 is to bend the next set of branches against the skewer holding the Carhook above, and to place another hook holding the branch so that it will be growing up into an open space afterwards.

And continue doing so with all the remaining branches

And that is how I begin training my plants.

And here is a pic from above.

If there's anything you're not clear on, or if you would like me to upload a pic or two edited to highlight a step just let me know. If you would like to see a step in more detail I will be training Lucille on Thursday morning, and I will be training Jacinda sometime around then too (I've already done Donatra).

If you have any questions just let me know.

 

[TwelveCoffee]

Since I'm a little tired I forgot that I have a pic or two from uppotting, so they'll be here too.

These are both Jacinda

I decided to use Jacinda for the training pics because her open structure makes things a little easier to see.
First step is to make the Carhooks (a creation of @Carcass ). I used to wait a little longer to start training the top branches so that I could just attach them straight to the dowel/rod (which will come up when I continue training them into shape, not today), but after @Trala introduced me to them I realized they could be used to get started a bit earlier

The next step is to pull the top two branches down with the hooks. If you spin the pot 180 degrees after putting the fist one in, you would e putting the second hook in the same way as the first, so they actually end up on opposite sides of the branches.

Step 3, do the same thing with the next set of branches.

As you may notice, I screwed up here. I fixed it later, but as usual, I did it by moving 3 of them, instead of just one, lol.

You want these hooks as close to the stem as possible, so it is protected from being torqued in the next steps.

Step 4 is to bend the next set of branches against the skewer holding the Carhook above, and to place another hook holding the branch so that it will be growing up into an open space afterwards.

And continue doing so with all the remaining branches

And that is how I begin training my plants.

And here is a pic from above.

If there's anything you're not clear on, or if you would like me to upload a pic or two edited to highlight a step just let me know. If you would like to see a step in more detail I will be training Lucille on Thursday morning, and I will be training Jacinda sometime around then too (I've already done Donatra).

If you have any questions just let me know.

Wow that’s a lot of roots there the girls are looking good I think when I train mine I’m going to use some 36 awg wire that I have laying around from my vaping days

 

[Melville Hobbes]

Wow that’s a lot of roots there the girls are looking good I think when I train mine I’m going to use some 36 awg wire that I have laying around from my vaping days

Are you thinking of using it to tie branches down, or to make hooks?
@Stunger had some issues with wire cutting into branches when he did LST on his balcony grow this summer (our winter). I'll see if I can find the post to link it. Here we go, post #120.

Stunger's Organic Soil Stealth Balcony: Landrace Mulanje & Other Sativas

Yep. About to hit stretch here in SA. The pure sativa are getting massive already and will likely double or triple in the next month and a half. We get smashed with wind here too. They get to 100km/h at times. Found strapping them down on to a net like a scrog works the best and the plants...

www.420magazine.com

 

[Carmen Ray]

Great job Mel. I can see exactly what you are doing there. Would soldering wire work? That's nice and bendy isn't it? What should I ask for at the hardware store?