Maine Outdoor 2020 (first timer)

Seawood said:

Here’s your bug...Net-Winged Beetle. No threat to your plants.
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Good call on the bug, thanks.

That's a lot of eggs--yikes! Good catch. I've been doing daily exams for that kind of thing here, but there's a lot of leaves now.

I'll follow your advice and not do anymore thinning, just remove yellowing foliage. Haven't seen any of that for about a week now though.

How are your sativas coming? Any action yet?

Just starting to flower. They’re at least a week later than last year. All I can do is pray for good weather into October. It’s all in god’s hands now...lol.

For a first time grow your plants are looking great. Some strains seem to be entering from pre flower to flower. Within another week you’ll see more flower production and definitely some stretch in height.
Seems like you’ve trimmed up the lower sections nicely to help with air flow. For this grow I’d continue to let them grow into each other, maybe tie them back if anything but cutting off main branches won’t help the end product much. Within the next 2 weeks your plants will focus on cell formation, stems and flower begin to bulk up. Foliation height will stunt eventually. Nitrogen is still recommended all the way up until you flush, after pre flower and a week or so into flowering you can switch over to bloom supplements. Nitrogen is still used but in a lot less of a dose. Phosphorus helps with metabolism and energy transfer from photosynthesis so the more your plants can obtain the more efficient the energy collected will be. Potassium helps transport water and nutrition and is necessary to develop ridgid/quality plants. Also aids in sugar development. If you can afford a bloom booster they do help. Products like cannazym help clean out your medium and let your roots breath/recycle dead material. Well worth the investment. At the end of the day it is a weed overall but the more you can nurture anything the better off it’ll be. Invest in some quality trimming scissors as well looks like you’ll be busy by mid October. Good luck!

Agreed on the first time grow! Doing awesome.

I limped and struggled my first run. Spider mites, aphids, mealybugs, powdery mildew, nute burn, serious ca/mg deficiencies, soil issues, pots way too small, overwatering, underwatering, almost killed them with pyrethrin, hurricane damage, lost 25% to mold. Jarred too early and more mold and to top it off, the cops showed up at my house for an unrelated matter about 3/4 the way through flower...I almost had an aneurism when I saw them pull into the driveway. Figured I got ratted out and was going downtown. Stress....my god the stress!

In my defence, I had never grown anything up to that point except a beard and a peanut plant when I was 9 and that plant lasted about a week....so just making it to the finish line with my pot was a major accomplishment. Lol

ryeguy said:

Within another week you’ll see more flower production and definitely some stretch in height

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Gulp...I'm already pushing 9 feet. How much bigger these monsters going to get?

Seawood said:

Agreed on the first time grow! Doing awesome.

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Thanks, appreciate that. I chalk a lot of it up to luck and organic methods...if the soil is healthy that really helps. Plus I've been pretty "attentive" (I call it "helicopter gardening").

Seawood said:

the cops showed up at my house for an unrelated matter about 3/4 the way through flower...I almost had an aneurism when I saw them pull into the driveway. Figured I got ratted out and was going downtown. Stress....my god the stress!

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Holy Trichomes, just thinking about that makes my stomach hurt! Reminds me of a good friend in college who grew indoors in Colorado back in the eighties. Had a few unpaid speeding tickets, a cop showed up unannounced at his door to serve a warrant, noticed a distinctive odor, and next thing you know he's in a world of hurt. He never did time but it was a real nightmare and cost a whole lot of money.

NewEnglandFarmer said:

Gulp...I'm already pushing 9 feet. How much bigger these monsters going to get?

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I hear what your saying, I am in the same situation with a couple, one over 9 and another right behind it, just staring to truly flower. Hopefully it's a calm fall.

Getting our first soaking rain right now since week of July 4. Plants should be very happy.

During my daily inspection this morning came across a leaf on the Orange Blossom Special with some strange spotting. This seems to be an isolated case--nothing like this elsewhere on that plant or any of the others. I guess I'm not too worried, but does anyone know what this might be from?


We had another quick but heavy afternoon shower today--another quarter inch on top of yesterday's inch. All the plants around here are loving it, plus the lawn (or what's left of the lawn--much of it went dormant weeks ago).

Last night I topdressed each plant with 1/2C each of fish bone meal and kelp meal, plus a little fresh compost. Probably take a couple weeks for that to break down but should help provide some extra phosphorus and calcium in September and October. I'll continue to do compost teas weekly or so with phosphorus and potassium-heavy nutrients added.

Been over a week since I did that first bT application, haven't seen a single caterpillar since until today when I saw 1 very tiny one. Will aim to do another application tomorrow late afternoon.

Flowers on the Tomahawk and Cherry Wine continue to develop slowly but surely, still just seeing enlarged pistils on the Copper Chem, Chinook Haze, and Orange Blossom Special. Hopefully everything will be in obvious flower by next week.

Hope everyone's doing well.

Strange looking leaf. No clue but I don’t sweat the one-off single leaf anomalies. Probably isolated bug damage. Pluck it and keep an eye...if it starts spreading then you need to look deeper into it, obviously.

Seawood said:

Strange looking leaf. No clue but I don’t sweat the one-off single leaf anomalies. Probably isolated bug damage. Pluck it and keep an eye...if it starts spreading then you need to look deeper into it, obviously.

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I was thinking bug also. Will keep a lookout for any more.

How's it going up there? It's feeling rather fall-like here this week, cool nights. Supposed to heat up again this weekend though.

Leafhoppers do that kind of leaf damage. I had the same thing.

NewEnglandFarmer said:

I was thinking bug also. Will keep a lookout for any more.

How's it going up there? It's feeling rather fall-like here this week, cool nights. Supposed to heat up again this weekend though.

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All good here. Weather has cooled a bit which is nice. My plants that I moved to a different location are not looking great. Extensive yellowing and generally not happy. Can’t figure it out other than maybe some water stress the first couple weeks after I moved them. My only concern now is weather...fingers crossed for no hurricanes.

I wish we would get more rain here in Eliot Maine area. Today's rain wasn't much

The midcoast seems to have gotten most of the rain this week. Definitely helped temporarily but if we don't get more we'll be right back in drought conditions here. I have a sugar maple on the property that looks like it's already starting to turn--pretty sure it's drought stress. Not good.

Getting uneasy with the late flowering on some of my plants--the Chinook Haze especially is taking its sweet time, not seeing much flower action yet, and not much on the Orange Blossom Special either. If these don't get rolling soon I'll be harvesting at Thanksgiving time!

10 hours 15 minutes of darkness last night according to NOAA.

I've had slow girls in Wisconsin. Considering your time of darkness, you are right on the edge of some major changes. Your harvest window is what it is outdoors. I have been chopping in Wisconsin in November. A couple frosts do wonders!!

NewEnglandFarmer said:

The midcoast seems to have gotten most of the rain this week. Definitely helped temporarily but if we don't get more we'll be right back in drought conditions here. I have a sugar maple on the property that looks like it's already starting to turn--pretty sure it's drought stress. Not good.

Getting uneasy with the late flowering on some of my plants--the Chinook Haze especially is taking its sweet time, not seeing much flower action yet, and not much on the Orange Blossom Special either. If these don't get rolling soon I'll be harvesting at Thanksgiving time!

10 hours 15 minutes of darkness last night according to NOAA.

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If your still around the first of next yr i will gift you some seeds that will be done in sept. The latest i have chopped plants is oct 25 got a nice warm fall that one yr,No F ing way can you grow in maine in nov with out heated green house with lighting, There is not enough sun light.

BrewersToker said:

I've had slow girls in Wisconsin. Considering your time of darkness, you are right on the edge of some major changes. Your harvest window is what it is outdoors. I have been chopping in Wisconsin in November. A couple frosts do wonders!!

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Here in maine the frost comes mid late sept by early nov it blizzard time LOL Got down to 45 last night its coming

Don't get me wrong, we can get a blizzard here in November too.

I would love some lower overnight temps here. It would really trigger the girl to move it!!

thumper60 said:

If your still around the first of next yr i will gift you some seeds that will be done in sept. The latest i have chopped plants is oct 25 got a nice warm fall that one yr,No F ing way can you grow in maine in nov with out heated green house with lighting, There is not enough sun light.

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@NewEnglandFarmer nice job on your first grow man ... looks like you're getting a lot of good advice around here ... not sure if anyone mentioned this yet, but now that you're heading into flower, air flow is critical ... I'd suggest getting a fan out there to move as much air around the plants as possible, especially at night and in the morning... you want to dry that morning dew off the plants asap, especially if it's an overcast day without much sun ... HD and Lowes carry all weather fans for about $75 and they'd be a good investment. You could also just use cheap $20 box fans as well... you might only get a season out of it, but it's cheaper than a bottle of fungicide

@thumper60 is right ... the chances of growing into Nov in Maine is extraordinarily unlikely ... most in the state have had several hard freezes by then..., and if the cold doesn't get them, the lack of adequate sunlight certainly will, regardless of whether it's fully flowered or not ... I'm not saying this to fart in your cereal... but if you need to make decisions down the road, protect the early finishers at all costs ... even if it means chopping a giant that'll never finish... chopping early lands you shitty mids every time