Just curious how far along your outdoor plants are at this stage of summer. My first outdoor plant, so kind of looking to compare. I’m in Missouri.
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Beautiful plant, glad to see another Missouri grower representing strong 
When was this plant started?
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That’s a beautiful lady! I shut outdoor down, unless I put out a couple of late autos. Too dang hot and haven’t had rain for weeks.
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True, no rain here in SW MO for a WHILE. We had like two days of rain a week or so ago where it rained like a portal to hell has opened but after that it’s been 95°+ and sunny as can be, super duper dry with no relief in sight. My gfs Lillies and Gladiolas didn’t make it 2 days after bloom even with regular waterings
@Dexterado how long has this beauty been in flower?
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Broke ground May 8. Thanks.
It started actual flower 5 days ago. That’s when it had what I considered budlets. This pic is 5 days ago. From what I read, I thought it was a little early for flower, which is why I was asking how others looked. Been watering 1 1/2 gallons a day.
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She’s looking real good for a plant that young. She is going into flower early, which is weird. Anything from consistent cloud cover to just an unseen shadow at a certain point of day can cause it, how much light do you say she sees a day?
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Between 11 and 12 of direct light. Days will be below 15 hours of light starting July 22.
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I’d say that’s probably enough to trigger the flower effect as soon as it reaches its maturity. I had a plant do the same thing indoors, except it’s a whole lot smaller than your outside grow. It has four main colas and like 12 total colas, so the buds are going to be packed on there. I’m about 4 weeks into flower and they’re already interconnected
She’s currently experiencing lockout because my high ass forgot to add pH up to her nute tea about a week ago
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Looking good nice plant .
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In NB 11 outside 1 photo is flowering, one of these, my only in a container. Others are buried none flowering 2 maybe would call pre-
These guys print some odd specs on their labels
It would have been a perfect year for an outdoor grow up here in Minnesota where I’m at. Almost no rain and low humidity….a very rare year.
Mine would’ve looked like that until i had to bring them indoors. I am really not enjoying growing in a tent as much as i would be if i could keep them outdoors. My neighbors are nebby. I have a beautiful 2nd story wrap around deck i built onto the back of my house back in 1993 when all my neighbors were cool. I knew them and they mined their own business. Times have changed for me here and not for the better. I have screwed up neighbors now. Next spring im going out and buying big tall bushes to plant around the perimeter off the deck so that they will block the veiw from all directions. They’ll need to be at least 2 story’s tall, 30 feet or so. Then i will be able to use the sunlight again and the rain. They grow so much better outside…
Those plants look beautiful by the way…
Really? If you skip the pH one time, it puts it in lock out? Just one time? How does this work?
I never did read up on the science of pH and plants. I guess i need to…
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I got 3 going here in Virginia they are in preflower stage
They in 10 gallon fabric pots giving 2 gallons of water every other day
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That does seem strange.
It will throw it off a bit usually if it’s just a tad off from its preferred 6-6.5 pH, but watering just once with something as low as a 4.5 pH is def enough to cause lockout. After that watering the leaves got really dark and waxy, and started to get the bronze splotches on the leaves. All just deficiency from improper pH, and it will correct over time with correct waterings and nutes. pH is incredibly important to learn, without it dialed in the plant isn’t able to uptake all of its vital nutes
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Beautiful looking plants man… i used to live in WV… it was beautiful there! I lived in between Palestine and Elizabeth. You made a right turn at Blue Goose Farm and went up about 3 miles until it turned into a dirt road and kept going for another 5 miles or so and way up there in the mountain was a red farm house with tons oe acers of bare land. The closet neighbor was a half a mile away! I was growing a 3 acre farm by myself and i was only 18 years old. God i miss those days!
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Yes! I have a plant doing this right now! I have a cheap pH meter. I couldn’t afford one this month! I just bought all these lights and stuff. I have to wait until the first week of August until i can get a good Apera Grow Pro series water and soil pH pen meter! I want the Gro-Pro series because i can check the actual soil pH instead of checking it in the run off but with this meter i can check both! Its expensive like $186.00 expensive. I looked at the Blulab water and soil pen meter also. That one has a replaceable sheath over the element. So im not sure but im set on the Apera Gro-Pro series. Its the green one they make. Im killing my plants slowly because i dint have an accurate meter yet. The one i have is off about .50 or so. I check my tap water though and its reading that correctly. Its always been 7.9 pH
So, i dont know but i get pretty worked up when i mess with my plants. I get nervous and start rushing myself because i want to get them back in the tent. So i probably forgot to pH the water for it once. Thats why i was asking. Glad your giving me some insight. Thank you!
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