Anyone have late harvesting experience??

Howdy folks,

Been posting around the forums and on another forum where I am a member and been trying to reach out for some answers with not much luck.

I am currently running an outdoor grow, have a bunch of girls ready to be chopped right now.

I am located in south eastern Ky, we usually have mild weather up until December. I did say usually and according to the national weather service this years fall will be very mild with record breaking temps.

Here is the deal. I have 32 girls in 20 gallon grow bags, been vegging since mid June under 2000 watts of hps, 24hr veg. As you would assume, they are very large, extremely bushy and as mature as ever.

I am transferring them all outdoors today. Everyone of them to flower out. 60 days from now will be December 9th. The strains I am running are Getaway Mountain Genetics, Poison Warp, Island Afghani, R-2 and a few Church x Poison Warps. He breeds disease and weather resistant strains and is well known here on RIU.

What are my chances of getting these girls to a large, hefty, healthy harvest? I am sure I will be dealing with a few frosts. I have frost protection blankets on hand, seaweed (kelp) juice to help with resistance and also going to be ordering a spray called "Anti-Stress 2000" which is a polymer coating well reviewed and highly rated to help with frosts and freezes. If I end up needing to apply it I will make sure and do so timing it right, for the next recommended time to re apply so that way it will be wore off.

Regardless these girls are going out and i'm hoping I will have a heavy harvest of around 10 to 15 lbs.

Any experience or advice?? Thanks!

Here are some photos of the plants.

Hmm, as temps drop at night. The more cooler the roots get, the more they will slow down. Cold to roots will also block different nutrients from being up-taken. Coloring increasing is telling you the roots are getting cold and effecting the plant....

I used to move them into a heat controlled garage and then move them out into the sun......Moved them with the sun as shade is not good in cooler weather.

Keeping those roots above 60 will give you the best turnaround.

Pic 3 says to me. It was getting plenty of N early. Now she looks like it wants some more.

Did we lower it at the flip and increase the P/K?

I would run a higher N and maybe only 2points higher P/K and sup the K with K sulfate at 1/4tsp a gallon or a bit less. You could make a 6% K sulfate by adding 447 grams of K sulfate to a gallon of water. I also add 1.5 tsp of DARK brown sugar to that mix.... Then 10 ml per gallon for that. Stop use in the last 2 weeks.....

Good luck.

I agree with Dr. Who, keeping you root temp stable is going to be your biggest concern. Next would be the amount of direct sunlight they need for optimal production. I do winter grows in a barn with the temps on the heater to come on at 60 degrees and I can tell you from experience that there is a big difference in production from plants grown at 60 degrees and those grown in the 70's.

Thanks guys for the replies.

I plan on insulating the pots with a layer of bubble wrap, then straw, then camo burlap wrapped around that.

No need for the brown sugar as they get plenty of earth juice catalyst and a little molasses which has all the carbs and microbe food they need.

I have not flipped, I have only had them under 24 hour veg till today. Today they all went outside to their permanent locations. They were fed a mix of Earth Juice Sea Blast Grow, Earth juice Sea Blast Bloom, SeaGrow Bloom, Earth Juice Catalyst and Real Growers Recharge during initial transfer to the outdoors.

I can only hope for the best!

jarvild said:

I agree with Dr. Who, keeping you root temp stable is going to be your biggest concern. Next would be the amount of direct sunlight they need for optimal production. I do winter grows in a barn with the temps on the heater to come on at 60 degrees and I can tell you from experience that there is a big difference in production from plants grown at 60 degrees and those grown in the 70's.

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They will get direct sunlight all day long from sunrise to night fall. And my plan is to insulate the bags very well. Nice bud pics too btw, seen them over on the "2 liter bottle" post haha!

I have a thread in Outdoor Growing over on icmag if you guys wanna check it out. Have a couple actually, but one specifically for this grow.

psychadelibud said:

They will get direct sunlight all day long from sunrise to night fall. And my plan is to insulate the bags very well. Nice bud pics too btw, seen them over on the "2 liter bottle" post haha!

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You must be on top of the mountain then. I drive through SE Kentucky all the time on my way to Bristol, TN.

Yeah, I get direct sunlight all day long. Morning to evening. I go to Bristol every now and again myself.

psychadelibud said:

Yeah, I get direct sunlight all day long. Morning to evening. I go to Bristol every now and again myself.

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My wife's and her family are from there.

jarvild said:

I agree with Dr. Who, keeping you root temp stable is going to be your biggest concern. Next would be the amount of direct sunlight they need for optimal production. I do winter grows in a barn with the temps on the heater to come on at 60 degrees and I can tell you from experience that there is a big difference in production from plants grown at 60 degrees and those grown in the 70's.

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jarvild said:

My wife's and her family are from there.

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Oh fuck nuts! Sorry you guys. I had a different formula in my head!

The actual ratio for a 6% solution of K sulfate would be 227 g per gallon!

My bad! You all got that now? 227 grams per.....

A polymer spray?
Youre going to spray plastic on your buds?
Wtf?