Thought I’d put up some pics of the plants this year. Last year I got some of @Urban_Legends Mazarilla auto fems in one of the auctions just in time to plant some outside and really like how they turned out.
Just two last year. The middle one is a Dragon Tongue I think and not much happening there. Took all the fan leaves off just before taking this pic and chopping the next day. 32" tall and got 6oz off each.
This year I prepped a raised bed with about half garden dirt, 2 - 107L bales of Promix HP and a same sized bale of peat moss plus a bunch of other organic inputs. Only did half the 16’ long bed so have a 4x8x1.5’deep bed for these 5 girls.
They’ve grown a lot since then and week before last had a nasty thunderstorm that broke 4 branches off the plants so had to come up with a windbreak. Drove a couple of 8ft steel snow fence poles in 10’ apart and first used snow fencing wrapped twice around them but it was cutting off the light a couple hours early so a new plan was needed.
Sheep fencing for support and some nice new greenhouse plastic my wife bought with her garlic money. Tied the fencing to the poles with baling wire and the plastic to the fencing with fold-back paper clips so it will be easy to roll up the plastic and save it for next year.
Really strong winds come from the west/southwest across over a mile of open fields most of the year. Every other direction has some protection from the woods around the property. The fencing was long enough to leave a lot of overhang to protect from the southwest and a bit on the other side too.
Watered them with 3 jugs of RO but needed a lot more so picked up a new 50’ soaker hose and just let it trickle for 4 hours until the moisture probe said Wet any place I stuck it 7" down. I’m concerned about using our tap water as the emergency pressure tank I installed when the original blew out is all rusty inside and could cause an excess of iron so plan to rig a pump in the dugout to get the water right from there for all the gardening outside. That’ll be for next year but I want to get a small pump to suspend under the float for the water intake out there when I get the big airstone I need to install out there. Looks like back into the belly boat to get that done.
Both the small Maz on the left are from plant ‘A’ and the 3 taller are from plant ‘C’. Plant ‘B’ was the pollen donor last year to make the F1s.
Threat of hail the other night so found a use for that snow fencing. Set up the tomato cages to hold it up and draped it over doubled with a couple of re-bar posts to keep the back end anchored. Clear as a bell all night so went out at 3am and took it off Friday night. Need to rig a plastic roof over the plants before the weather starts turning cool and wet. Don’t need no budrot!
I also planted 7 of those CBD-Auto ‘Hemp’ I got from Sebring’s last shopping spree last year. Supposed to be regulars but all 7 are girls and little girls a that.
Anybody else grow any of them? Sprouted and planted the same time as the Mazarilla but very small. Smell really pretty tho and a couple grow funny with side branches taller than the main cola but a couple of the Maz did that too.
I’ve been spraying a small Mazarilla plant down in the grow room and tonight picking off some more ripe 'nanners for the 3rd time. Should have plenty of pollen to make seeds on the two other small ones and some buds on some of the outdoor ones. Just need a calm night to do the outdoor ones.
I want to dilute the pollen and wondering what’s best. White flour that’s been heated in a dry skillet or corn starch and does it need to be heated up first too?
