Edwardo's Front Range Alley Garden

Better late than never I guess.

Decided to try an outdoor grow this summer following my first indoor grow harvested in March 2018. I'm growing from seeds that were collected from the self pollination of some of the indoor crop.

Ended up getting 2 different varieties ( going to avoid trying too use and technical jargon, since I would probably use it wrong anywho) a taller, lankier, later flowering sativa type and a relatively shorter and earlier flowering indica leaning. I'm using 5 gallon fabric pots with ffof (fox farm ocean forest) straight, with an inch or 2 of bark on top of soil. Did not use an nutrients during veg and first few weeks of flower. Added 10-15ml/ gallon of Tiger Bloom when the plant started cannibalizing.

Sprayed neem oil shortly after pre flowers after a light aphid presence was seen. Released ladybugs twice and green lacewing eggs once, seems to be helping as I am finding less than 20 aphids on inspection.

Pictures were taken last week, might take more pics later today.

The alley I'm growing in is 3.5' at the widest and is orientated almost perfectly to follow the arc of the sun. It's pretty hard to see and after covering the top with chain link fencing should be pretty safe(ish) from potential rippers

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Good job!

Nice plants. Hope they smoke as good as they look.

Look great! Bet they smell good to

Very nice!

BrewersToker said:

Very nice!

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fishwhistle1 said:

Look great! Bet they smell good to

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ltecato said:

Nice plants. Hope they smoke as good as they look.

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Dmannn said:

Good job!

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Thanks all!

They do smell perfectly stinky, not sure what to call it.

they look like northern lights i grew years ago. Very Nice !!!

3B ID said:

they look like northern lights i grew years ago. Very Nice !!!

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Who knows! These girls are the result of me growing out some dispensary bagseed that went sideways, sacks and bananas. Genetics might be unstable but I think seeds produced this way are generally female. Just picked out 8 of the juiciest looking seeds and the 6 that were selected from those ended up female.

I did an experimental grow with some seeds a friend said came from his "females". I suspect they were hermie though.
Anyway, popped 12 seeds in May. They are in maybe week 4 or 5 of flower? My best guess anyway
All 12 are looking female with no signs of nanners yet.
It doesn't make sense to me that they are all female. There should be some male tendencies there given the odds that they are hermies?
My friend said he always has mostly female pants with the seeds that come from them. Weird, huh?
Took this pic Aug. 10th. They are about 6 to a little under 7 feet tall.

Capn-Crunch said:

I did an experimental grow with some seeds a friend said came from his "females". I suspect they were hermie though.
Anyway, popped 12 seeds in May. They are in maybe week 4 or 5 of flower? My best guess anyway
All 12 are looking female with no signs of nanners yet.
It doesn't make sense to me that they are all female. There should be some male tendencies there given the odds that they are hermies?
My friend said he always has mostly female pants with the seeds that come from them. Weird, huh?
Took this pic Aug. 10th. They are about 6 to a little under 7 feet tall.

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Hell yeah, most genetics came from some dank land-race strains at some point. I've got some seeds from a seedbank, just didn't want my first indoor and outdoor experiences to have the extra pressure of being expensive seeds.

I know the seeds produced from the pollination of a male pollen sack on a female plant produces a seed with only female genetics. I'm pretty sure that is one of the two ways to produce feminized seeds, the other being colloidal silver. I just assumed doing the way i did can produce unstable plants that have a tenedcy to stress out and throw nanners.

This go around i have not spotted any sacks or bananas, wooohooo! and none of the plants turned male either. Had both those things happen last grow.

my understanding was that hermies ALWAYS produced female seeds. I also think your idea of starting on something not so spendy in gens is a great idea.

3B ID said:

my understanding was that hermies ALWAYS produced female seeds. I also think your idea of starting on something not so spendy in gens is a great idea.

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I suppose I was referring to the danger of unstable genetics leading to further hermie and banana throwers. to me that's not really female. I would rather have a straight up male in my grow, that way it can be easily identified, than a female shooting bananas or sacks.

UPDATE:

Took pictures this morning. Everything is progressing quite well, the sativa dom. plants are starting to stack on and catch up the earlier flowering indica dom. plants. Probably won't do another feed unless the weather turns and extends the ripening. It's interesting that there are three distinct terpine profiles going on with these 5 plants, not surprising they follow after their respective parents (my first indoor grow).

My guess is another couple weeks. A couple might finish earlier. It's getting harder to predict, i don't have much experience to draw from and the rapid advance of amber trichome's has slowed considerably. Guess I'll just have to wait till they are done to know how long to take them next go around.

You should post your pictures as thumbnails rather than full size because it's causing your post to load very slowly because of the large pictures. Just a suggestion. Good looking plants. Have a good one!

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Capn-Crunch said:

You should post your pictures as thumbnails rather than full size because it's causing your post to load very slowly because of the large pictures. Just a suggestion. Good looking plants. Have a good one!

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Hmm, didnt think of that. I don't mind waiting to load to look at imbedded pics, easier to zoom in, which I like to do . I'm also kinda used to using large files after posting to my diary over on growdiaries(com).

Thanks for the suggestion.

Guess there is a timeout for editing posts. Oh well.

Looks really tasty good job!!

fishwhistle1 said:

Looks really tasty good job!!

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Thank you