Not too early to sow at 43 north, right?

Interestingly… just found this as well…

It’s an auto, and it’s within 30 feet of the others. It appears to have popped in the last 10 days. I’m curious why the other 10, now 5, were germinating in Feb. I don’t understand the mechanisms of outdoors and cannabis seeds, but I’d love to know more if someone that knows the science wants to speak in what we’re seeing. :v:

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you can cut the bottom off a 1 gallon milk jug and use that to protect them if needed from the cold. i leave the cap on it makes their own little green house.

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i always built beds with wood and plastic but i like the idea of reusing jugs.

I used a small Rubbermaid garbage can the nights it dipped below 27, I knew they could handle 27, but low 20’s felt pushing it. In my head, that can right next to them is also deterimg animals :joy:

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It has also survived…

And those others, they’re starting to look like real plants! Seems to be one standout, one not far behind and all look damn good for the wretched weather they’ve been through

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Still kickin, the runt of the bunch struck me with a nice smell the other day and my head lept to the Sour D BX3 I grew. This one makes a lot of sense as I remember ripping a bud off a couple times while trying to yank a leaf off. It also had a lot of immature beans so only getting 10 beans from a bud or two is about right. Some diesel/chem vibes with the leaves and lanky structure as well. Lastly, the mom with the closest plant to this spot along with a couple others. The dead bubba and an auto that only gave me a dozen or so beans from an early pollination.

Something else interesting, I threw all my mixed beans from that run in a couple pots back in April. Still had very cold weather. The beans popped in stages, groups. I thought they were duds it took so long, at least a month for the first five, two more of them finally sprouting last week and looking like very different little seedlings from the rest. Is outdoor germination time strain specific?

Just struck me since it seemed like they were waiting for warmth when these things were sprouting in late February/early March. It’s also likely that the Sour D BX3 mom’s beans weren’t in the mix since I shucked the buds way later than these mixed beans were collected.

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So these are all still alive, three are still in the ground, two were cloned and chopped. I keep cutting them back and defoliating, they keep growing back strong, such nice genetics! Think about what they’ve been through having sprouted in later February. Several snows, lots of cold and rain, two heat waves, one brutally muggy…

I’m pretty certain they’re Sour D BX3 (TD) x Blue Pop (what I called the two keepers of BBM x VB), but could be the Sour D x SSH mom instead, but I’ve grown enough of those to have doubt.

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You’ve got some resilient grow

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FYI, the plants that popped up from the ground in February and March have been great. I also have cuts that were out outdoors that are make growing and doing well. Dream axis especially, ours the rooting, resilience and vigor champ of all my cuts, I have a 1” cut theft I put outside in March that is still going strong. Blueberry and BBM did great also. Almost every other plant that was sent outdoors around then is dead.

But, everything that was planted or moved outdoors when it had officially warmed up has done better and outgrown the early transplants and sprouts.

Better is relative… The plants that lived are remarkable, the ones featured here especially. I hadn’t sprayed a single IPM treatment until last week, and it was in the greenhouse.

One of those early autos is a blueberry by double grape that I’ve been smoking on that’s great. It smells like Chemmy vanilla cake batter :green_heart: Its nice to be harvesting outdoor stuff in july.

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