Here are my outdoor Autoflowers at week 9 from sprouting. From L to R: Jack Herer, AK-47 and White Widow x 3 plants. While the mainland of Australia is on fire, where I am we are experiencing a cool summer with overcast and cloud & windy conditions. In the last 10 days we have received approx 70 mm of rain to boot. Temps are in the very low 20’s and even under 10’ deg C at nights, the lowest was 5.2’ deg C. Hell we are wearing jackets and jeans…
As well it was cool weather when I started these Autos. I am hoping for more sunshine to help finish these girls off. They still are 2-3 weeks from finishing. Each day the flowers are plumping up gradually and the smell, which has been completely absent, is now starting to come on.
At nights I put them into a partial greenhouse to protect them from wallaby’s.
Oh, this year for the first time I used Canna Terra Professional for 3 plants(JH, AK-47 & 1 x WW) straight out of the bag with no additives. It was an experiment that I will not try again. I grow in 3 gal’ grow bags and for whatever reason I had problems with watering.
Are there many growers on this forum who use Canna Pro? Are there any tricks to using the medium?
Anyway, Ive found its ok if I mix the Canna Pro with another medium + perlite + vermiculite to loosen up the mix.
I found Canna Pro on its own seemed to compress and suffocate the root system. And or I packed the medium to tightly into the bags therefore not allowing the product to be able to expand and breath. Its a learning curve. This is my 3rd yr growing Auto’s. I have another 5 just started, at 2 weeks. Ive got 3 of the new Auto crop in 5 gal bags just to see if the extra 2 gallons of medium makes any difference.
When these clouds clear I will attach some pictures in the sunshine.
Plants are looking really nice. I’m sure the weather will come around for you.
Sorry, I have to say I laughed out loud when I read the line below. In my wildest dreams I would never have come up with that statement. I’m sure outdoor growers in NA have to worry about white tail deer.
@Brandy I’m not currently growing outside but I have in the past. Never had a deer eat my girls. I think because I would literally mark the area (with my pee). Deer really hate the smell of humans, it spooks them. Are wallaby’s spooked by human smell or human in general?
Many years ago a wallaby was seen running down the road in our town. Seeing as we live way out in the bush in the middle of BC thats pretty bizarre! The person accidentally let the creature escape captivity. Why a person would want a wallaby as a prisoner is beyond me?
Deer absolutely would eat a crop of weed here right to the dirt in front of you here! They would laugh at you while they do it! We have a 10 foot high golf course net all the way around our veggie garden and a fully enclosed greenhouse. The smell attracts them and the leaves and fibre are perfect deer food. They dont even get high the little bastards!
I know a number of times I’d be out watering and hear them snorting (possibly in disgust of me lol). It’s a little unnerving to hear them huff out of the darkness just after sundown.
Also I’d pickup the ticks they left behind as well so I know they were close enough to eat my girls. maybe I was just lucky. I’m sure weight wise my deer look like chihuahuas compared to deer in the outback.
I believe and my hunting partners do also that they are trying to clear so of the scent from their nose so they can better pin point your location. When hunting you know your busted when you hear the snort. Definitely as ind you don’t want to hear when you are hunting.
When I’m bow hunting I have relieved myself on the tree I’m hunting out of 25 feet up before I got in my stand. I’ve had several deer walk right under my tree when I’ve done that.
Smell of man does absolutely nothin to scare deer here. All the farmers keep sicking dogs on the cougars, so their natural predators are few… its a double edged sword because the farmers are pissed off at the cougars for eating the odd lamb or calf but then get super upset because the deer bed down in their crops by the hundreds and flatten the crops! Well??? What do you thinks gonna happen ? Aint launchin rockets here?
I’d love to come out and teach them what to be afraid of but you need a registered guide. None of my in-laws are that interested and I’m frankly too cheep to pay the kind of money guides ask. My in-laws are in BC and they have some big deer in their area.
Bwwwaaahhahahaha… I thought you put them in the wife beaters for the photos… to be truly Australian… im assuming its to keep the sun off the black pots… man too funny…
looking great!
you have more then 2-3 weeks my friend… more like 4+…
Hi, Unless you are a professional “Roo Shooter”(dog food industry, skins & pest control) I’d say not. There is no sport(if I can use that word) in ‘hunting a wallaby’. Roo shooters hunt at night with bright spotlights(in general) and when you shine the light at say the kangaroo, they sit-up and look at the light, therefore I wouldn’t call it hunting. I used to shoot years ago when I lived in the outback, but not anymore. I prefer to let them live.
Also, its tough when you shoot a kangaroo, then find out it has a Joey(baby) in its pouch.
These days I prefer to live and let live. Even if they are pesky around my plants.
Last year, I left my plants outside full time and only lost a few bottom leaves here and there, no big deal. It just depends on how much feed is around to whether or not they will eat/destroy your crop.
I have never had them eat a whole marijuana plant. Im just not taking the chance with these Autos…
Hi there,
In my experience wallaby’s are not spooked or bothered by humans at all. We get visited most nights, my partner leaves out banana’s and other fruit for them. They come thru our yard regardless… On any given morning our roads are littered with roadkill. It would be better/healthier for them if they did keep their distance.
Yeah’ I was wondering when I’d get a comment on the ‘wife-beaters’. For what ever reason grow bags are made in multiple colours, but when I need them quick, all I can ever find to order is black fabric… so yes the singlets are to keep the sun at bay. And it does work, but looks dag!
They are really putting on some final growth…
I will post more pic’s soon. Last year my Auto AK-47’s went for approx 12 weeks.
I thought you put them in the wife beaters for the photos… to be truly Australian… im assuming its to keep the sun off the black pots… man too funny… 
