Meth addicts run wild all over the west coast, that's all tweekers do is steal .
Lol I remember the brain I have AR15 that should work fine.
A buddy of mine moved to the Medford area(great grower ), first day when he pulled up to move in,he rented a motel ,he went inside left his car and Uhaul trailer in front when he went inside to pay for his room he come back out and his whole rig was gone and all he seen was the back of the uhaul and some tweakers drove off with everything he owned. Welcome to Oregon , if I gave you a nickel bounty for every zombie you shot in the head you would be a millionaire in a week in Oregon and northern California. Yea, it's that bad.
Dam that sucks about your friend.
I would leave them. They should be fine. As long as it’s not pouring down rain.
I'm committed; my plants are already rooted in the garden. Unless temps look to fall much below 40'F I'd leave yours where they are also.
I like those answers, they maintain my goal of the least work possible on this grow. Thanks guys -
I’ve been to 48 our our great states. Lived in three different states. Been in central Oregon since 72. You’d be hard pressed to find a more beautiful place to live!! Personally.. it’s just as good if not better than it used to be, lots and lots of changes in our small gorge town, but change is inevitable!
It is beautiful in Oregon, I have only been to one olace more beautiful in my opinion. Oregon was much more rural when i grew up there in the early 70s, you could hunt and fish and do about what you pleased to do , People where friendly and much more of a family and community then.
Thanx, @Humanrob. Starting seedlings indoors is a generally accepted practice for us NW veggie gardners, but it's nice to see such a clear and dramatic difference. My girls were started indoors from seed on April 1, planted outdoors in raised beds under a shaded greenhouse May 1, greenhouse removed on May 10, and the girls will be 5' tall on June 1. The extra veg time helps assuage the fact that I'm limited to ~5 hrs direct sunlight/day, but the constrained sunlight still only gives me ~4 oz / plant.
This is my 5th year growing outdoors in Oregon, and I'm definitely still learning. Along with the learning curve, my goals for my grow have changed from year to year. This one was supposed to be practically ornamental, med-wise I'm hoping we can make it a year on what I grew in last years indoor. That said, I'm a bit stunned by how badly this season's start was. They are literally struggling to put out their second set of mature leaves.
Yeah, been an odd spring. Big burst of sunny days, then overcast/rain for the past week, so everything has stalled out. Well see how they recover from the rains during the next week of semi-sun.
Since I have an efficient 2x4 hydro setup that more than fulfills my med needs, my outdoor is more a hobby grow; trying to find some early finishers for our climate with reasonable yield.: said:
Yeah, they were put under the greenhouse just before I left town for a week and the dappled light caused the sativas to stretch more than a foot during that time. With the greenhouse off they're starting to put on some foliage.: said:
There's only so much one can do to mitigate our less than ideal growing conditions. As long as I have my indoor grow for fall, winter, spring, I'm only willing to put in limited effort on my summer grow.: said:
While stumbling through my first outdoor in 2015, even with major mistakes and miscalculations I was blown away by their size and the quantity of harvest. I quickly had to learn how to make budder and tincture, just to find a way to store it all. The next summer the first signs of worms showed up, and that's been a battle ever since. Even with those critters, that second summer we had so much product I had to buy a chest freezer and learn how to make bubble hash. 2016 was my peak production, the next summer worms took down whole plants, and what they didn't eat rippers took a share of. I'm still making brownies from budder I made in 2015, and we're still smoking hash from the 2016 harvest.
What kind of worms are you fighting? My only issues outdoors has been keeping the spider mites under control during the summer, then avoiding bud rot in the fall. Once/wk spray down with diluted neem + sesame oil has kept both at bay, but, as yet, haven't had any worm problems.
They are commonly known as "budworms", but apparently there are a few types of moths that have the same M.O. because I've had worms in various colors and sizes. It's like so many destructive bugs, once they find you they come back in force. They lay their eggs on the highest parts of the plants (i.e. the best colas) around the pre-forming flowers. Then the bud grows around the eggs, eventually the worms hatch and eat their way out from the center, pooping along the way. The wetness of the poop almost guarantees bud rot as a side effect, and they often eat through the stem causing the whole end of the cola to die.
