Growing Weed with Mama

MjMama

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Sativa highbred? It has nice ridges and looks very strong.
I think she will be a pretty balanced strain. It's hard for me to pinpoint either parent as being more indica or sativa. I like hybrid strains best anyway. Good strong growth and satisfying high. Sativas aren't relaxing enough and pure Indicas can too flat by themselves.
 

ruby fruit

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I think she will be a pretty balanced strain. It's hard for me to pinpoint either parent as being more indica or sativa. I like hybrid strains best anyway. Good strong growth and satisfying high. Sativas aren't relaxing enough and pure Indicas can too flat by themselves.
the best hydrid ive smoked that was pretty balanced was from a fem seed...I get that buzz when if im busy and have a smoke I stay busy but mellow lol kinda hard to explain but stoners will understand
 

wilddog

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I think she will be a pretty balanced strain. It's hard for me to pinpoint either parent as being more indica or sativa. I like hybrid strains best anyway. Good strong growth and satisfying high. Sativas aren't relaxing enough and pure Indicas can too flat by themselves.
I agree with you fully, most of the time I like a good balance of the two.
 

BigYellowCob

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Hi MjMama,
Your plants look amazing!
I've got a quick question for you. What are the primary pest concerns during flower in the Sac area? I normally grow inside, but had a couple extra plants I didn't have room to grow inside so I potted them up in 7 gal smart pots in mid-July and they are about 3 ft tall now and beginning to flower. No trees like you've got, but I hope to get a couple oz's off each. I've never grown mj outdoors, so I'm not sure what to watch out for. I have some spinosad I can spray them with if necessary. Are bud worms the problem to watch for, or is it mites or something else? Aside from a little leaf miner damage on bottom fan leaves, they've been pretty much damage free with no spraying so far. I've even got a couple spiders patrolling the plants, which I think has helped keep away the bad bugs. I just don't want to get blindsided by some infestation in mid-flower.
I set my expectations low for the outdoor plants so if something bad does happen to them I won't be too upset, but I'm trying to learn as I go too.

Thanks and happy growing!

BYC
 

MjMama

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This one was easy to grow but if you get pest you can be sure she will be the first infected , the yield also was very good a lot of nuggets but instead of the golf ball size they are the more the size of a tennis ball im sure she will make happy
The mites have good taste. They always go for the darkest plants in the garden.
 

MjMama

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Hi MjMama,
Your plants look amazing!
I've got a quick question for you. What are the primary pest concerns during flower in the Sac area? I normally grow inside, but had a couple extra plants I didn't have room to grow inside so I potted them up in 7 gal smart pots in mid-July and they are about 3 ft tall now and beginning to flower. No trees like you've got, but I hope to get a couple oz's off each. I've never grown mj outdoors, so I'm not sure what to watch out for. I have some spinosad I can spray them with if necessary. Are bud worms the problem to watch for, or is it mites or something else? Aside from a little leaf miner damage on bottom fan leaves, they've been pretty much damage free with no spraying so far. I've even got a couple spiders patrolling the plants, which I think has helped keep away the bad bugs. I just don't want to get blindsided by some infestation in mid-flower.
I set my expectations low for the outdoor plants so if something bad does happen to them I won't be too upset, but I'm trying to learn as I go too.

Thanks and happy growing!

BYC
Definitely the bud worms. You will see pure white butterflies buzzing around during the day and those are the ones I have issues with. Maybe moths at night too but I see the white butterflies all the time in this area. They leave small translucent yellow/white eggs on the leaves and buds so if you can keep an eye out for them and destroy them before they hatch it helps a lot.

If you see any spot that looks like the pistils have been munched on, or if there is any damage to the buds at all. If a sugar leaf starts dying or you see a patch of mold, peak inside the bud to check for worms. They will be eating away inside the bud and you won't even know they are there until they have fucked up an entire top and eaten their way out. It's brutal. I would spray Spinosad and or BT weekly. The BT is special for budworms. Also look for bug poop in the buds and on the leaves. Find the poop and you can track the worms down quick.


In my experience with how dry it is here, spraying weekly won't cause mold, it's the worms that cause mold. Once it gets humid late in flower and the rains come, anywhere a worm was will start to mold up from the bacteria in their poop and from the damage they did to the plant. So basically spraying weekly will lower your risk of mold.
 

Joedank

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Notice the double ridges on some of this leaf? It's something I'm seeing a lot of this year on all my strains, and I don't recall ever seeing it before. Not all the leafs have this. Just the most mature ones. Anyone.....
some might call that leaf crepeing and as a sign of to much "n" but it looks hella cool to me

momma your deadheaD LOOKS AWSOME!!
 
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