Well Helloooooooooooo!

Glad I found this community!

I'm a first season med grower and I'm looking for some good old fashioned advise for my second season. I've seen these questions asked before but I'm hoping someone will give me a little more specific advice for my location.

Right now I'm growing totally outdoor in semi-urban Portland Oregon. A fellow med grower gave me two Skunk#1 clones and four Trinity clones. I put them in 100 gallon grow bags mid June. Love those grow bags! I've been following the FOXFARM schedule and it seems to be working well. My girls are about five feet high and have just started to flower.

My first season has gone OK. Major problems so far have been a few spider mites and a couple branches broke off from me being rough and too much weight. I'm expecting this first season to not be too fruitful. Still a great learning experience. Like a lot of you, I'm sure, I'm really looking forward to my second season and want to get started on the right foot.

Next season, I'd like to start indoor from seed, wait till they are three or four feet high, then move the ladies outside mid June to finish them off. I've been reading that that technique has worked well around Oregon. Considering the weather.

I guess I have a couple of questions then.

Can you folks suggest a perfect strain for my location and proposed technique? I'm interested in these "early" strains. I'm I far enough North to worry about that? Early Girl, Early Misty? How about White Widow, Big Bud, or Trinity? Of course I'm looking for large yields and good smoke.

What do you all think about the indoor then outdoor technique? When should I sprout the seeds?

Anyone in the Portland area have another suggestion?

well i live in the wilamette vally i am using greenhouse seed company

big bang and great white

you can start in oregon mid may and try an be done by october 10th

if you start from seed then start first of feduary and you will have 4 ft plants to put outside in mid may early june

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Oregon grow 09
grand daddy purple and the slappy with a couple thunderfucks to boot

Thanks OHG.

That is exactly the info I was looking for. Something from someone local who knows the climate. I'll look into Big Bang and Great White.

Any other suggestions out there? Thanks!

I also live in the valley and start my plants indoors in March and then move them out in May depending on the weather we are having. The only plant I grow on your list is Big Bud and it does wonderfully for me. Do you happen to know when we will happen to have 12/12 days of sunlight? I am tired of taking my 4 footers in and out everyday!

There is a few mold resistant strains out there from greenhouse I think one is ams or amg somethin like that. Definetly look into something along those line. I've had mold on at least one plant almost every year. An autoflower would be good too. I hate the moisture here lol. Not to say u can't do a normal strain. I was doin purple erkel and afgjooey and like I said it was usually only one or two plants.

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DIYgrow:http://www.rollitup.org/grow-journal...ml#post3356573 i put a little jim beam in my res and next thing you know there is a male plant beating on a female and 2 clones were fucking

get a fucking clue!!!!!!

i'm just south of you in the valley. Hope it is going good for you. Do you have any pics??? Check out my thread!!!

I'm a cardholder in portland too, and I need some new strains wink wink.

I would suggest if you do have a place for it that you veg plants 7' tall indoors _all_ winter_ long until it's time they can go outside. I wish I could grow outside, neighbors all too close.

I have bulbs/ballasts to trade for clones of good strains btw...

Mods it's all legal so don't have a cow ok?

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When you'll suck on just about anything~think Bukkake.

I am also in the Valley and a card holder. I got this strain at the card holders meeting. It had G-13 on the cup. I also have another strain that I do not know the name off. Here is a shot of them as few days ago. Just in the first stages of full flower. The plant on the left is still preflower and stretching. All three of these plants are about a 8" taller and bigger for this pic was a few days ago. Got to love that stretch.

I also use the fox farms ferts and soil.

That heat wave we just had was great. My plants sucked up all that sun. Perfect conditions this year.

I planted these on May 24th. There were 12" tall healthy plants topped to have 4 main shoots. Grow Big was the only food they got. They now get Big Bloom and Tiger Bloom.





Here is a shot from 7-7-09