Open Show & Tell , Outdoors 2013

Mohican said:

It is better to harvest outside when the trichs are still clear. The sun and UV will break down the THC very quickly otherwise. I waited on some buds last year and they were not as good as the early bud.

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They were harvested early, earlier than almost everyone in this thread(almost 3 weeks ago)...felt guilty I finished ahead of everyone.

And here's the kicker, all of my indoors are supplemented with natural light year-round through non-UV block glass...so I ran the outdoors the same amount of flowering days b/c I was advised not to run them late. The smell is the same, but outdoor does not even smell as strong as the indoor.

Weird...makes great kief though...

jbrown3 said:

i have a male that i want to take the pollen from and hit couple of the females with it but i dont know if i can get pollen before its too late

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pollinating will be most successful if you hit everything between week 2 and 4 depending on how fast they flower. I hit a 9 week strain in week 3 and pulled 550 beans off a 3 foot plant in 7 gallons.

found mold in my 4 ft plant for the third time for a total of like 45 grams weight weight loss. not to bad
but 3 strikes and its out of the ground lol. had like 20% amber so it was there anyway no biggy . so first plant
harvest ill take some pics. she smells delicious and is super sticky

Well I did it I Harvested my Girl Scout Cookie..
End results.

thanks everyone for the replies! cant wait now, sunshine daydream x silver mountain

Was the GSC a clone dirtsurfer?.......

these look ready to put in a glass of water?

doublejj said:

Was the GSC a clone dirtsurfer?.......

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Yes I got in late June

dirtsurfr said:

Yes I got in late June

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You didn't happen to take a clone of her?.....

No I'm bad I was just talking to my son wondering how far into flower I could go and still get a clone and keeping it thru the winter
Then some one said mites and the conversation ended..
I have 2-3' of the stalk still in the ground out there...

jbrown they look super close for natural pollination, don't know about ripening in a cup, but I'd say yes.

Greetings All!! I haven't been on here in a while. Like everyone else, I've been busy and with harvest just now, today, over for me, I thought I'd check in. I went back through the last 3 pages checking to see how everyone is doing. Y'all have got some GREAT gardens out there!! Here's what I had at the end of August (seems I didn't take any whole-garden shots in September!) This is right before the storm that took out an entire Sour Kush:


As you can see, I was already losing a lot of sun. The sun has dropped behind the trees at the top of my ridge and the plants were getting a couple of hours of sun in the morning and about3 1/2 hours in the afternoon. We took all of the tops and the heavy buds on Sept. 15 because the rain started that weekend. We were afraid wind and weight would break them. We took most everything else the weekend of the 28th; it was SO wet up here!! We got a little mold our first year growing (2011) and were afraid we'd get it if we left them out any longer. We felt we were harvesting too early. Everything seemed behind schedule. It was a rough summer, weather-wise, up here on my hill. So, we decided to experiment (how else are we going to learn to do this the way the big boys do?!) and left most of the small buds and a few medium-sized ones to see what happened if we left them out for a while. We left this much:


All of the Royal Cheese, White Rhino and Sour Kush had been taken down. What's in the pic is the Blue Dream and Kerala Krush. Here's what the buds looked like when I took them down today:


That's Blue Dream on the left, Kerala Krush on the right. Krush, in particular, is slow to finish where I live. She's Indian and doesn't like Oregon, apparently. It was 27 degrees when I got up at 7am and rain is supposed to be around for the next couple of days so I took it all in today. I filled up my drying room again!! There was a lot more out there than I thought

So, manicure, manicure, manicure!! I'll be doing this all damned winter. I don't have giant buds like I've seen on here, but I've got some nice ones to admire while I do it:



So far, only the Blue Dream and the Royal Cheese have dried and cured enough to test drive. We did good!!

Happy Harvest, everyone.

How does the GSC smell? They look beautiful!

Mohican said:

How does the GSC smell? They look beautiful!

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Citrus, Sweet, followed by an earthy smell??
I'd have to get straight to really tell LOL!

lovely day today, sunny and warm

I think it is time to harvest these dirty plants:

Eeeek! I DO have a September pic, taken right before we took the tops off due to weather:


The second pic is Sept. 15 after we took the tops off. The Blue Dream and Kerala were still over the top of the fence

My whole house has that sweet Blue Dream smell, like a flower garden. It even over-powers the Cheese, which is pretty damned stinky

I took some clones of the Kerala Krush, the White Rhino and Royal Cheese earlier this summer just as they were going into full bloom, around August 10. I played with clones last year just to see if I could do it (yes, I could so I gave them all away) and found out that as long as the plants aren't stacking, it's easy to get clones. The Royal Cheese is just as happy as a clam and growing great guns. Kerala and Rhino are not so happy--poor little Rhino has been trying to bloom since I rooted her and she's only 8 inches tall, the bitch!! I seem to have convinced her that she should grow, not bloom, as I'm finally seeing new leaves without trichomes on them. Kerala is not a good choice for indoor growing--at least not for my little rinky-dink operation out in the greenhouse, so I'm going to dispose of her or give her away. I'm going to find an indoor grow thread and see if I can't get me a tiny little harvest in the dead of winter. Any suggestions?

And I'm already cruising the seed banks for some new exotics to play with next year. No more Indian stuff but the UK and Dutch plants I grew from seed were awesome. We love our Blue Dream, though, so we'll put half of next year's garden to Blue Dream and play with weird stuff for the rest

Y'all on this thread and this site have been a great help for me two years in a row, now. I can't believe that I can actually grow plentiful, powerful cannabis right in my own yard! Amazing! And I'm completely legal!! I just wave at the airplanes as they fly over I'm hooked on RIU and am so thankful to all of you that willingly share your expertise and knowledge with us.

Y'all rock

Sativa girls just starting to flower:


Holy Smoke Mulanje Gold #1:








HS Malawi Gold x Mozambique Poison:






Mulanje Gold #2







Holy Smoke Mulanje Gold Bubblegum x HS Mozambique Poison (light deprivation):












Cheers,
Mo

Jazzman's Gal said:

Eeeek! I DO have a September pic, taken right before we took the tops off due to weather:
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The second pic is Sept. 15 after we took the tops off. The Blue Dream and Kerala were still over the top of the fence

My whole house has that sweet Blue Dream smell, like a flower garden. It even over-powers the Cheese, which is pretty damned stinky

I took some clones of the Kerala Krush, the White Rhino and Royal Cheese earlier this summer just as they were going into full bloom, around August 10. I played with clones last year just to see if I could do it (yes, I could so I gave them all away) and found out that as long as the plants aren't stacking, it's easy to get clones. The Royal Cheese is just as happy as a clam and growing great guns. Kerala and Rhino are not so happy--poor little Rhino has been trying to bloom since I rooted her and she's only 8 inches tall, the bitch!! I seem to have convinced her that she should grow, not bloom, as I'm finally seeing new leaves without trichomes on them. Kerala is not a good choice for indoor growing--at least not for my little rinky-dink operation out in the greenhouse, so I'm going to dispose of her or give her away. I'm going to find an indoor grow thread and see if I can't get me a tiny little harvest in the dead of winter. Any suggestions?

And I'm already cruising the seed banks for some new exotics to play with next year. No more Indian stuff but the UK and Dutch plants I grew from seed were awesome. We love our Blue Dream, though, so we'll put half of next year's garden to Blue Dream and play with weird stuff for the rest

Y'all on this thread and this site have been a great help for me two years in a row, now. I can't believe that I can actually grow plentiful, powerful cannabis right in my own yard! Amazing! And I'm completely legal!! I just wave at the airplanes as they fly over I'm hooked on RIU and am so thankful to all of you that willingly share your expertise and knowledge with us.

Y'all rock

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Tons of info on the Indoor forum! The Grow Journals are also good reads....most seem to be indoor journals. Nice job with the garden!! I had a rough go this summer as well. Mother nature threw some nasty curve balls my way but we got through it....Although I will admit..I feel like I need a vacation right about now. I AM VERY TIRED!!!!!