A necessary tool for better harvesting.
The pictures do excite me, I confess.
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Wicked red in some trics. Or red is cast through the tric… Either way. World stops for coffee
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I have started seeing the red, appear in multiple buds, which could be a positive indication that maturity is taking place.
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Off island trip today for some soils. Warrior for seedling, FFOF, and some “California Gold” (coco & mix). Need to change and freshen some soils as the clones grow (past remain alive stage).
3-Gal bags in ready and got enough soil for the winter.
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Four clones given better dirt (re-potted).
These have not grown since getting tent time, a week ago.
Suspect local dirt used, not good.
Trip to Mt Vernon Grow store, yesterday, mix 1 bag Warrior, 1 bag FFOF, and one bag California Gold (coco mix). Definitely more porous soil now.
Filled and moved back into tent.
Monsoon season has started in Seattle.
Outdoor grow in danger of too wet issues.
Good growing to all.
@WaPNWGrower did you cause the 4.3 earthquake in Bangor? How you doing?
Coming to Whidbey, soon?
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Yep, it’s time to get testing. Time to see who can take the wet and who cannot. Then we pick the winners for this years winter seed run on the reveg. 
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Being DDD with 68 years of water times, I could hope to see web feet on my plants.
I agree, leaving them outdoors and seeing who can swim, will prove important.
Tent is full with the outdoor produced clones, from the spring grow reveging.
Unbelievable.
Found just 2 buds with brown mold, last week.
Watching closely, but can’t see in this rain.
5th plant re-planted today. 2 were change soil, 1-up size and 2 freed from clone dome farm.
She got moved and staked out
Lawn summer brown, departing in this monsoon.
@noddykitty1 question, winter grow plans?
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I plan to pollinate the winners of this winters soak fest. Leave them all out till they die. Then the clones inside get pollinated and revegged. Remember, I keep male clone winners too. I pop more seeds (half of next years grow) of stuff I banked or crossed. Then I give away seeds by the handful around Valentine’s Day. After all the winter reveg plant seeds are plucked, right before spring planting.
It’s crazy, every year I seem to get back more gift buds than I can ever hope to consume. So I find less and less a need to harvest except the one or two best each year. I am growing more for traits than buds. Well one trait really, it makes selection easy. Wet/Mold resistance. Hope that makes sense?
It’s like the plant is more fun to me to breed into seeds, I cannot explain it. Somehow the good karma seems to go around. What I mean is I probably give away 2,000 seeds every year to local gromies and never charged a cent…
I also never ask for buds. The universe seems to work out this way.
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Taking the rain ha. These are all jillybean x blue dream F1 seeds. So far no mold.
Dave the pretty one farthest along you gifted me had to come down. It got mold on a lower branch. But the smallest one is still kicking and well. And the seed I found in your bag seed is amazing. The diverdave beast as I call it. Remember, that was popped august 1st. It’s grown really fast, no mold yet. 42” tall and fist sized big buds.
Reveg gift plant smallest still chugging the rain
The one the only diverdavebeast
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Seeds came from ILGM WW,SSH,MW, and GL and the outdoor orgy , summer 2022.
My indoor big plant is in the window for 4-6 more weeks. The lower clones get the floor of the tent. Most are in 3-gal bags with better soil, than outdoor yard soil.
The outdoor plants need more time to come to prime.
Wind, rain, fog dampness, and not enough sunlight, is the outdoor grow.
I like your idea, leave alone and see who resists the mold.
Agree with the love of grow, I love clones for give-away.
I do have some pollen from the Valentine Male.
I plan to drop some seeds Nov and see what happens.
Lights love cooler temps.
Thanks for the assistance and support.
More available for trade (payback for your generosity), soon.
Don’t want to sound vain, but
looks awesome!
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My tent is full.
This C-1 Clone is two months 12/12 in tent. That’s the top half
the others in development.
Rains have me considering wearing floatation life preservers.
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HLG Sale 25% off
Today, on the outdoor bud
from the trimmed cola
Not the best bud, but not got mold, yet.
Rain lately makes me think no need to wash the bud.
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Hung some outdoor small branches, without wash or any fan leaf trim.
Been hanging a week and now seeing signs of bud rot.
Normally, I trim all fan leaves when cutting for hang routine.
Learned I prefer fan leaf trim upon cutting, before hang, after bud washing.
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@noddykitty1, or any outdoor grower in the Seattle area weather RAIN.
after recent rains (and coming rains), the outdoor fresh flowering colas, have no white pistils (no brown either). Is that due to not enough sunlight or too much rain/fog?
Clearly not mature and not pollenated. Sad sunlight these days.
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Cleared out the hanging junk with rot.
Did some “High Crown Thin” in the tent today.
Trimmed the fan leaves and made smaller hanging
Last hanging, moved to dry bin with Burping in progress or making progress.
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What affect will bud rot have on the plants left till dead?
One fourth of the outdoor grow has bud rot (and deemed eviction and termination required, after 7 days of rain, clouds, fog, and no real sunlight). The “Sun” grown outdoor has gone bad. The "No’ Sunlight direct, group has winds to contend with. Looking for rot hourly if some daylight is available.
Fortunately, I have the outdoor calendar marked for 2024 outdoor growing.
Yard re-shaping in progress, budget and body slows progress.
Thank you and Forum for introducing me to re-veging…
Although the DisneyW trip was painful ($ and terminated outdoor or continuous growing), it saved my plants (who required early harvest to hit calendar required dates). They are all (who’s counting) reveged, some much better than others. They are beautiful but adolescent, immature at this date and without scuba gear, they are doomed (if outdoors in the PNW Fall rain season).
Some has been cut, hung, and smoking if dry (want to test/taste).
Indoor grow has clones from WW, GL, MauiW, SSH (Hienz 57).
Next grow I will concentrate on known genetics vs habitat and process growing.
I stocked ILGM seeds when on-sale.
Thank you.
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Hey Dave, I do a pretty similar routine to you at sounds like. I check them once in the morning and once at night. As the weather gets this way, and the nights are cold. Even on the sunny days because the morning dew is worse on the sunny morning days. It tends to be colder. Luckily for me, I don’t have to fight the wind so much. Kind of down in a valley.
When I see a spot of mold I like to cut off that whole branch. And toss it. I have too many plants to f*** with them. The most important part to me is documenting the strains (tags) and all conditions down in my grow log. I like to log what the days weather was like, where the mold was on the plant, and how infested it was. What I mean, sometimes you just get a little speck on the lower closer to the soil, or the whole top cola is molded over. I look at those differently. If the top cola molds over first on a plant, it’s always a fail the next year over for me. Trash discard failed the test. Ruthless we are not saving bunnies.
Moving forward, I plan to use a more permanent greenhouse. I had my footings poured from the summer before. I Just didn’t come up with enough funds this years past summer to buy the framing wood. Super high on my priority list. Marginal mold resistant strains I think would be better for me, but then I’m torn because I like to look for the most mold resistant. I’m afraid I would compromise. Really it’s all about makin Seeds in the winter. That’s how I plan to use the greenhouse the most, Bustin out the pollen.
And to keep my citrus and banana trees happy. But that’s another story.
Awesome.
Let me know when you need boarders or tenants.
The “Morning” Dew, aint leaving til 4PM, these days.
Thankfully the 30MPH winds dry off the leaves.
On a good note,
Summer 2023 Clone Dome Parolee #10.
PNW weather forcast = rain, till June.
Had to move this clone from clone farm as it is under water, today.
She has new FFHF soil (I saw a few roots), is in flower, and tonight will become an indoor tent resident. I snipped the big fan leaves, watered FFHF DRY soil.
Good Growing to you, All.
Just spit out my coffee. Too funny.
The good news, no summer water restrictions…