Well, my ladies are nowhere close to the size of your trees! It was a slow start here in the SE corner of Shenandoah Valley of Virginia at foothills of Blue Ridge Mountains due to unseasonably cold and wet weather the end of May and well into June. Once it finally warmed up the plants grown from fem seeds took off. This is my second grow, first for outdoors. Due to lack of suitable inground growing space where plants can not be seen from public roadways I have them in the self-contained Earthboxes, two plants per box on patio. Two Acapulco Gold in one and one each of Amnesia Haze and Bubblegum in the other.
@G_Man I hear ya! Thats why ( I would assume) that most of us are here growing our own,The dispensary @ least here were I live have there products taxed up the wazooo⌠Its B.S. to me⌠Id rather pay for all the extra expenses ie; Soil,nutes ,seeds etc etc and be able to regulate how and what goes into the crop I will be smokingâŚThe dispensary vs grow your own far exceeds what you will spend and give to them then what you will get out of your homegrown cropsâŚand by the way its fun! yea worrisome/stressful @ times and YES! VERY addictive but its worth the journeyâŚYou/ We will get better and better each time Trial and errorâŚ!
@Budz Yeah man I get it âŚBut Outdoors with its trials & tribulations will far exceed the âpoundageâ that one can get per cubic foot or yard then indoor⌠Yet I agree with you ( Ive had friends who grow both waysâŚ) That indoor you can get a yield every 3 months compared to outdoorsâŚOnce a seasonâŚso here lies the dilemma? You can conceivable grow more (weight wise) indoor because you can control the cycles,thus getting more poundage then outdoors yeah you are restricted by your indoor grow room ( unless you use the whole house lolâŚSomeone with acres of room outdoors to grow would smash that hands down with 8ft + plants etc.
Thatâs actually false. With current technology. And enough funds. I could completely destroy anything anyone grows outside. Because then I could raise the co2 levels back up twords what the plants evolved to take. Which is 4x more than currently in outdoor air. Itâs funny that you donât know about CO2⌠Using white lights on top and sides with uv bars and some IR diodes I could produce more ppfd than the brightest sunny day on the equatorâŚ
We are literally past the technology level where we can grow plants indoors like they grew outdoors 1000s of years ago. You canât do that outdoors anymore. Unless you have a time machine.
Oh and to contradict your main argument. You would have to buy land just like Iâd have to buy warehouses. My bonus advantage is that I donât have to plant three for every one I want. 1 for the deer, 1 for the theives, 1 for me. Trust. Ive helped with years of gurilla planting and harvests. But there was no regimine back then. Once the sprouts where planted someone came around once to top them all. Then to harvest at the end. That was the only attention the plants got. J had one plant on his property on the other side of a brush pile to gauge the entire crop of bag seed spread across three counties⌠because we now know that works so well. Lol. But it was Tennessee in the early 00âs near standing stone. They constantly flew them pesky pork choppers with IR cameras that would immediately give away a grow area if you visit it on the wrong day. Solution⌠donât visit. Lol
I do not have the patience for that at all. The only real way to compare the two is if youâre actually honest about veg time. Like some of these started in February. Not finished. In two days Iâll have my third harvest since February⌠2 out of one tent and one out of a separate.
Unless you donât believe me about them pork choppers. Which ir cameras can generally tell everysingle spot a human took a step in the past 24 hours. You can see by this map that itâs quite large and has ample water with tons of dense forest. Itâs the perfect gurilla grounds. But itâs still a state park.
This is actually where I lived at one point. Itâs not personal information because the road there is a U with houses all down it. Itâs in a U shape because the U literally goes around state forest grounds.
Oh. And the reason we can say three counties. Our favorite place was Waterloo falls. Which literally seperates three counties⌠lol. Meaning I could technically plant in three different counties in under 10 minutes. But I can still say we grew in 3 counties. Notice the highway here.
It is now August 28 and here in SE corner of Shenandoah Valley my girls are flowering, with lots of small forming buds. From what I am reading here is that most of you with outdoor grows are reporting your plants are in flowering stage.
For those of you who have planted non-autos from seed, are your plants that are at least 85 days old from seed now flowering? The reason I ask is I have a friend who planted seeds, origin/strain unknown, now over 100 days from seed, and planter in the ground. They sent me pics but they are a bit too blurry to definitively determine if they are males or females. I have sent them images of male and female plants as well as zoomed images of my girls showing what the early flowers look like and yet they still canât figure out what they have.
I would think that if other folks in our area along the Blue Ridge have non-auto flowering plants by now then my friendâs 100+ day old plants should also show some signs of flowering by now. Yes? No? Maybe?
Depending on where they live. But here in the Midwest the Autumnal Equinox isnât untill September 22. Meaning the day outside becomes 12/12. Some strains/phenos will initiate flower with as little as 10 hours of dark. Some are more stubborn, meaning they wonât initiate flower untill itâs closer to 12 hours of night. Which is the significance of the Equinox. @BlueMtns
Not Entirely Equal Day & Night
On the two equinoxes every year the Sun shines directly on the Equator and the length of day and night is nearly equal â but not exactly.
The September equinox marks the moment the Sun crosses the celestial equator â the imaginary line in the sky above the Earthâs equator â from north to south and vice versa in March
Normally I remove hyperlinks but those are acceptable under the tos.
Edit. Click the first hyperlink and scroll down for all zones date of equinox
I have the table but our plants are apparently on their on agenda.
A California Dream I started from ILGM fem seed on May 2, transplanted to 3-gal pot first of June and gifted to family member on July 3 transitioned into flowering stage a week before mine. Plant is located abt 30 miles east of our location in Albemarle County.
My friend just sent me two images of one of the plants. (The second plant shows no flowers or sacs.) When I zoom in the âflowersâ look more like small âpodsâ or âsacsâ.
Those pictures are male plants. Like not hermies. Full on male. Meaning the seeds werenât femenized or someone has astronomical bad luck. Since itâs not exactly impossible to get a male from a fem seed. But youâll most likely never see it happen in over 300 seeds.
Okay I was actually referring to the average backyard home grower not massed produced corporate facilities.
Yes that Is a really nice fat budded plant ! Indoor outdoor as long as we can smoke it⌠
