🕊 - Outdoor Growing Adventures With Your Friendly Neighbourhood Pigeonman - 2021/2022

[Pigeonman]

UPDATE

Things are going GREAT outside! The plants are very pleased with their bedding mix and it’s starting to show with their gains.

Today I use my “Majestic-as-Fuck” salad fork to till the upper layer of all the fabric pots. I do this weekly to ensure proper water penetration to avoid dry pockets. It also aerates this top layer and I only go deep enough as to avoid disturbing the surface rootlets too much if at all.

Additionally each plant got a little bit more love from me in the form of pellet top dressing! This was added around the base of each plant and then ended up getting tilled into the soil when I used said “Majestic-as-Fuck” salad fork to break-up the surface of each pot.

The photoperiod plants are bushing out and starting to stretch with the UK Cheese being the most blatant in this department. The Manitoba Poison is also doing as well but tossing on more of a “shaggy” vegetive growth versus the reaching for the sun of its sister from another mister.

Other than the top-dressing given today, due to the high nutrient content of their bedding mix I’ve only been giving them filtered water… and I am only using filtered water for now as there has not been enough rain to be able sustainably water them for free .

A friend is gifting me 2x more 55gallon water barrels later today so I HOPE TO HAVE A SURPLUS OF FREE WATER IN THE MONTHS TO COME

My decision to top-dress them today is primarily due to the notable difference in this particular UK Cheese clone from all the other’s I’ve grown before… and this difference started after the second application of BudBusterPro.

So as Bob suggested in his detailed paperwork:

“*When utilizing the BBP program, you should expect greater than normal nutrient demand, usually occurring from about mid veg through flower. Growers usually report *30-50% more nutes are necessary to maintain healthy plant colour.”

AND AS EXPECTED from Bob this is SPOT ON. With my indoor plants I am treating with BBP I increased the feed rate and their colours returned.

So my logic: PILE ON THE = MORE OUTDOOR GAINS!

Ultimatly I’m excited but also well aware I’m putting myself into a situation were i’ll probably have a series of the most-brutal trim jail sessions come this fall due to all this…

…ANYWAYS, back to the plants here is a wide shot of the photo period ladies.

Here is the Manitoba Poison:

The green coated metal posts are 6ft tall for size reference and are pushed into the soil to the base of the fabric pot.

And the infamous UK Cheese:

Vegging this clone from November of 2021 was a great idea lol. @Cannasaurusrex I hope your’s is both doing as well and also helping you with your healing heart.

Up next are the Auto Fems; all THC producers except for the 1x CBD producer. They also got a smaller dose of the top dressing and the same “Majestic-as-Fuck” salad fork treatment.

The cardboard is working very well keeping all the weeds down but I still need to take some time to pluck around the edges as they try their best lol.

Now for the close-ups where we can see the nodes stacking away in their 5 gallon fabric pots.

Creme de la Chem:

Dosi Walker:

Earth Lover CBD:

Fog Dog:

Gorilla Glue #4:

Man Bear Alien Pig:

Strawberry Shortcrack:

Trizzler F2:

Thanks for checking in! I’ll be tossing up more photo’s of other parts of the garden later on today when I update my indoors thread.

All the best to you, yours and your grows!!!

[noknees]

@Pigeonman

And the infamous UK Cheese:

haircuts?

@Pigeonman

Gorilla Glue #4:

what a tank!

[BudBusterPro]

Looking good Mr Pigeon!
Those outdoor girls will get greedy as your bud starts forming…watch your color and feed the beast!!!

[Pigeonman]

This freaking cat is sooooo loved by both of us now that Heathcliff basically has chosen to live here.

As an example here is Mrs. Pigeon sitting next to his cat-house keeping him warm in a dry-spot as it’s raining feeding him treats in between brushing him and letting him fall asleep in her lap.

[KanehB]

He’s getting spoiled and he loves it too!!

The love is definitely a two way street with Cats!

If they rub up against your legs it’s supposedly a sign of love too!?!?

[potpotpot]

That’s sweet as hell.
My very elderly neighbor has an outside cat, a tended stray really, that has bonded to her so much is crazy. The lady only really spends time outside with it in the summer, but that cat shows up at her house everyday, rain, snow, doesn’t matter, just to rub against her legs for a second while she puts out some water for it.

I have lived here for 5 years, that cat only this past weekend let me pet her for the first time.

[KanehB]

Everything you’ve said, makes me want to go hug my fur baby! 🥹

I had to process for a bit because, I had visions of my adopted grandma doing something like that; she spent ALL of the pandemic on her own!
I could totally see her doing something nice for a ”local stray” (maybe, maybe not a stray ) during the heat of the summer along it’s travelling route.

Keep interacting with him/her, slowly. Contact your local shelter if you’re concerned, Cats mouths are also incredibly bacteria ridden, you don’t want to get bit.

Keep an eye on Grandma too , as it sounds like you are; especially with all the extreme weather events we’ve had…and likely will continue to have (climate change is not a hoax) moving forward.

[Cannasaurusrex]

Here she is after giving up multiple clones The UK Cheese is loving her 25 gallon hme so far. She gets the full sun of the deck this year. @Pigeonman thanks again for this beauty.

[Pigeonman]

FUCK YEAH @Cannasaurusrex ! I’m so happy you were able to give it a great home.

For clarification if anyone was interested: Cannasaurusrex PM’d me about possibly getting a cut of the UK Cheese as we live about an hour away from each other.

My answer was a resounding yes as I had 2 cloning at the time and would have plenty of material to share when the time came. Turns out that both grew so well that after meditating on the subject and pulling runes the bones (literally as my runes are made of bone) it was decided that the second clone was intended for Cannasaurusrex.

Flash forward a few weeks and we met up like kids dealing drugs in a parking lot not far from where i live lol.

ON A NOTE FOR MY UK CHEESE + MANITOBA POISON: I just made up 4 gallons of EWC + molasses tea with bubbler so that I can dose all the goodness to my outdoor growing giants .

[Pigeonman]

Some garden photos for y’all from Mrs. Pigeon

Iris:

The rose arbour is filling in like crazy. The chicken poop + epsom salt treatment worked wonders:

And our pond is steadily getting nicer and nicer visually; the animals only care about their access to the water though lol

[Pigeonman]

I’ve started to train the Manitoba Poison again and it smells like a just-add-water “Powder-based Citrus Beverage” you’d love your mom for bringing along on the camping trip.

The UK Cheese has put on a lot of growth and will get spread out like the MP once I get more of them fancy gardening poles.

The missus and I also took the time this sundown to FINALLY crop the Rhubarb. It was so shit in May I didn’t do a 1st crop and after the last few days of wet weather we lucked out with this bounty!

Here’s it all with the leaves docked (the leaves are in the compost heap already as is tradition!).

For perspective this is the average size of each bundle.

This type of rhubarb needs to be peeled and chopped. We ended up with a few pounds of the stuff all said and done which is now in the freezer. 1/2 of this will be a gift to my Father

[Oldtimerunderground]

Whoah bro, the MP and UK Cheese goin all out veg mode now you’re gonna need a calculator to count the tops on those babies! Lol

Beautiful bounty on the rhubarb too looks like double what you got last year, and the colour so pretty man I can’t believe they’ve been growing there and been harvested for over 50 years.

[KanehB]

@Oldtimerunderground

they’ve been growing there and been harvested for over 50 years

Like sooooo Rhubarb!

They are awesome at growing!
I had some at my last place, that I had been gifted.
My Stepdad harvested the babies from his moms plants in Etobicoke, which she had planted and been harvesting since he was a teenager. I think he was in his late 60’s at the time! They grew like gangbusters for me. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to get any cuttings before I moved.

Also, pretty much anything/ fresh Rhubarb Pie & Iced Cream IMO is awesome!

[KanehB]

Everything is looking Aah-maze-ing!

Both of those plants are going to be Monsters by the end of the season!?!?!?

Lots of time to catch up on flicks you haven’t seen in a while, alas I don’t know if you’ll be able to set the entirety of each plant, right on the living room floor in front of you.

All that lovely Rhubarb too, !?!?
I have a seed wish list going, it just got added!
You and the Missus are doing wonderful with all your garden space.

Enjoy the rest of the weekend.

[Hydro921]

My wife has a wild wine making book and I thought about you.

[Pigeonman]

I’m a non drinker but do brew for the C02, to make mead for friends, and soon to make my own 160proof to keep the costs down on the FECO and RSO supplies so this is RaD @Hydro921 !

New option for friend and family + the missus

[Hydro921]

I’m a non drinker as well.
The wife is always cooking something up though

[Pigeonman]

@Pigeonman

I just made up 4 gallons of EWC + molasses tea with bubbler so that I can dose all the goodness to my outdoor growing giants

Here’s the bubbler and the tea. I put more deet’s on my indoor thread

Will take photo’s of the outdoor darlings later today as they continue to grow with the combo they’ve been getting!

[Pigeonman]

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First off I just gotta point out that this fucking cat kills me with how much he owns the yard now.

He was following me around like a dog this afternoon mewing away and being cute as fuck… but also a mighty lion / barn-cat on the prowl as you can see here in the background behind the photoperiod plants.

Luck would have it that I found out that an importer/distributor for hydroponic and garden supplies has a walk-in policy in the spring for some “common place items” they leave in their loading bay as an easy way to get some cash sales.

The main item I needed/wanted were some reusable poles which run anywhere from 4-6$ a piece depending on where you go in the city but a 15min drive north-east of me got them at $1.50 a unit for cash-monies no taxes so I got 20x 6" plastic coated aluminum garden poles to go along with the 5x I already got from a local Mom + Pop garden centre as I have a tradition of spending some money with them every year in support of what they do.

UK Cheese is on the left; with the Manitoba Poison on the right. Both now have 10x of the 6 foot posts surrounding them and both have been spread and clipped to them which is both for light stress training purposes and opens up the interior of the plant for better airflow without needing to pluck leaves for now.

The poles btw are super strong and very lightweight so I doubt I need to tie them together but may need to as the plants fill out. In addition to these poles, I am plucking any “sinker” leaves that are more yellow that green daily and to compensate for their hunger they both got a good dosing of that worm-tea brew I had bubbling the past few days.

UK Cheese:

It just KEEPS on getting bigger!

Manitoba Poison:

This thing can be smelled from 15 feet away . I keep thinking that someone spilt an “Arnold Palmer” up wind and I am craving the ice tea + lemonade combo SO MUCH now because of this things scent profile!

Other than that IT CONTINUES TO FILL WITH PISTOLS.

The AutoFems also got a dose of the EWC tea and I’m amazed at how each and every one of them are doing outdoors in comparison to my indoor test runs over the winter!

Indoors they all got 18/6 or 24/0 and the perfect conditions to grow with a steady feed matching their growth… but here outdoors they are getting at most 15h15min of sunlight and whatever the Gods throw at them and are STACKING better and growing more vigorously than ever!

Considering all the variables I’m going to have to just assume that this is further proof that BudBusterPro works as I’ve been overfeeding these ladies on purpose as suggested and it’s showing only the gains without any lockouts .

Up close in no particular order we can see what I’m excited about.

Man Bear Alien Pig:

Trizzler F2:

Strawberry Shortcrack:

Gorilla Glue #4:

Fog Dog:

Dosi Walker:

Creme de la Chem:

Earth Lover CBD:

On a side note as I end this update, this proud Papa was singing away VERY LOUDLY ABOVE MY HEAD as he watched his babies learn to fly as I took these images of my plant babies.

Cheers everyone and thanks for checking in! All the best to yours and your grows!

[Longtooth]

Weiner dogs rule