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

[Pigeonman]

WEEKLY UPDATE TIME!!

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Higher and Higher (Full)- Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp Soundtrack

Another week and we’re almost at the end of Round 1! It’s been very-very dry so watering has been more of a chore than I had hoped as my rain barrels are all dry

You can see in this group shot that things are finishing up and due to the heat in the day a little crispy.

The MOST ANNOYING part of the autos for me right now is waiting for at least 3-4 out of the set of 8 plants to be ready at one time to chop… this is because I plan on doing a bud-wash and if I’m gonna set-up all those buckets to do so I’d rather have it done twice versus a whole ordeal per plant as they get their shit together.

The Fog Dog is DONE; but I’m waiting another day or 2 for more frosting on these beauties before I cull and wash.

Creme de la Chem:

Dosi Walker:

Earth Lover CBD:

Fog Dog:

Strawberry Shortcrack:

Trizzler F2:

Gorilla Glue #4:

Man Bear Alien Pig:

The photoperiod plants are doing dandy as well with one doing what I was expecting and the other doing whatever the fuck it wants

The UK Cheese is doing what I expected; stretching perfectly but UNLIKE LAST YEAR this plant’s nodes are much tighter which I must account for by the months of applying @BudBusterPro !

I mean just look at these 's to be!

The Manitoba Poison is clearly the plant that is doing whatever the fuck it wants. It’s so far into flowering I don’t even understand what I going on but it’s just getting bigger and bigger as the weeks roll on!

This thing is why my yard STINKS of perfume flowers and fruit… but you’d need to know what you’re smelling to figure it out as it’s not in any form a “weed” smell.

I better not have to deal with bud rot with these things due to their already chod-e-ness as it’s only “supposed” to come down near Sept 1st…

It being so dry the land bound critters and the birds are very appreciative of the ponds we have going… but it’d be nice to have some for them to be refilled rather than me lugging water.

Gratefully though the duckweed is finally taking over which is lowering the transpiration and had decimated the algae that was plaguing it

The clawfoot bathtub pond is coming along as well. The papyrus in the small pots are rooted cuttings from a friend, the hyacinth is always a nice addition and the lily was a surprise find that survived overwintering in the big pond as a single tuber I found floating after it was knocked loose by the momma racoon washing her dinner!!!

I stuck it into it’s own pot, gave it a waterplant fertilizing pellet and then covered it all up in lava stone before submerging it slowly into it’s new summer home.

A neighbour chopped down a tree… so I got free edging for my most recent wood mulch addition!

My prized berries are coming along well and I hope next year to have a set in the ground for an even bigger harvest. The first year I grew these I ended up filling a 4x8’ bed with only 2x plants and hope to pull that off again.

I moved them from the Autos patch as they are now tall enough to impede the so they got their own space which gets full sun for the bulk of the day.

The Bay tree is coming back. Now that it’s got more growth on it I will re-pot it into a better nursery pot.

The Citrus trees that made it through the winter are all doing well.

Ruby Red Grapefruit:

White Grapefruit:

Makrut Lime & Calamondin Orange:

Calamondin Orange:

Back on the topic of berries! The missus and I shared the labour and as I have thick skin I picked all the Gooseberries and she plucked all the Rasps that were ripe. We ended up with just shy of 3lbs of berries between the two of us which I then turned into a jam.

Raspberries (black, red) & Tayberries:

Gooseberries:

All together in the pot:

Mashed and bubbling before sugar was added.

All done!

Thanks for checking in and all the best to you, yours and your grows!!

[Pigeonman]

The first 4 plants are down!

Dosi Walker:

Fog Dog:

Gorilla Glue #4:

Man Bear Alien Pig:

All plants with fan leaves removed:

While I was doing all this Heathcliff was “busy” guarding the yard under the bird feeders…

After I had cropped, washed and hung to drip-dry 2 out of the 4 plants he decided to get-up and come over to “help”…

Out of all the cannabis crops autos are one of my favourite as it’s SUPER GRATIFYING to wash and hang the entire plant rather than “deal” with a bunch of nugget laden branches (aka: ShishkaBUDS).

I only did a 3 bucket wash this time as I only wanted to clean off any natural outdoor residue accumulation and more importantly any construction dust from all the work being done in the neighbourhood this season.

Lemon/Baking Soda + Water → Water → Water

The first bucket looked gross, the second less so, the third not at all.

Yes my bathroom is nightmarishly pink… but it’s also highlighted with metallic gold so it’s far worse than you could expect.

It’s so intense that it surpassed the “too-much” scale and circled right around into the “acceptable”. There is also a pink bided which I have used to wash my feet once or twice.

Once they were done dripping I took them downstairs to hang and dry for the week in the medcab tent with a few fans to keep the air circulating.

No Flash:

With Flash:

To finish up this outdoors update, here are the second round outdoors.

I covered them up with shade netting for their transitioning-to-outdoors week. Going from a dimmed grow light to full July would be a fool’s move so they are getting the love deserved so they can grow and return the favour.

Double so am I glad I covered them up as it’s rained so much and so hard (FINALLY! ) overnight and this morning that I have 2x 55 gallon rain barrels FILLED… so the shade cloth is also acting as a rain barrier allowing water through but ensuring there is MUCH LESS of it and what does make it through is diffused or just a drip so the 2+ week old plants don’t get damaged

On a bonus note the rain has both topped off our pond and helped the Duck Weed WIN THE BATTLE WITH THE ALGAE!

Cheers everyone and thanks for stopping on by.

[lophophora.ca]

@Pigeonman

There is also a pink bided which I have used to wash my feet once or twice.

[Herrsquidward]

Are those Brandywine raspberries?

[Pigeonman]

@Herrsquidward

Brandywine raspberries?

I honestly don’t know. I planted the Black ones and the Tayberries but we’ve always had raspberry plants on the property and i don’t know their variety other than being an “early summer” producer.

[jessethestoner]

The manitoba poison seems to have been very close to auto flowering. You were barely able to keep it at bay and hold off flowering while it was inside, and it went full flower as soon as it was outside. just about time to stick a fork in it. it looks like to me.

I bet that if it is just some durban poison selections, they found a parent that was prone to autoflowering from root conditions or something. very cool stuff and it looks like you’ll get a nice yield. next time you’re out in the garden, could i see a close up to look at resin formation?

I hope it been good for you. the perfume and rot smells you got going seem pretty cool to me. And as many og’s know its awesome to see seeds from your collection grown out so well.

[Pigeonman]

@jessethestoner

next time you’re out in the garden, could i see a close up to look at resin formation

Will do! I’ll charge up the microscope camera.

@jessethestoner

I hope it been good for you

Oh a wild but fun ride for sure! Thanks again for the trade

[supershitfuck]

@Pigeonman

Because of the rain and cold snap I finally got to harvest the 1st crop of Rhubarb! This patch has been worked by my family since it was planted in 1967 after being dug up from it’s 1965 original home.

whoa! i sure do miss rhubarb, but we would just eat it dipped in sugar, what did you make in that pot?

[Pigeonman]

@supershitfuck

what did you make in that pot?

It’s called Rhubarb Kissel; the recipe I was taught was by my Vanaisa (Grandfather) and we usually serve it on COLD Cream of Wheat made with Milk, a small pat of butter, a little vanilla, a pinch of salt, and a dash of ground clove.

Here’s another version:

Rhubarb Fruit Soup aka Rhubarb Kissel Recipe

[KanehB]

@Pigeonman

Cream of Wheat

A favourite since childhood, and still a breakfast menu request around here frequently!

I don’t call it that though…Most recently I found out my mother had taken to calling it “Sissy Porridge”.

[Pigeonman]

We actually refer to it as “Wheat Pudding” but folks stare when I call it that.

SO. MUCH. IRON!

[KanehB]

@supershitfuck

but we would just eat it dipped in sugar,

That’s how I remember eating Rhubarb as a kid too, if we got any when it came our way. Usually ended up as Pie/Tart filling. My aunt Debbie would hoard in her freezer and only bring out at Christmas!

[Pigeonman]

Here’s the trick shots of the Manitoba Poison; taken yesterday evening after a wonderful amount of rain!

@jessethestoner you were spot on friend. Looks to me like a week or two before cropping time!
@CADMAN these were the trichs I mentioned when seeing yours on your thread.

[jessethestoner]

Thanks pigeon. The coverage looks great! Whats your plans for the harvest?

[Pigeonman]

@jessethestoner

plans for the harvest

I’ll dump a few gallons of water with FloraKleen into the fabric pot as soon as I start to see the first signs of amber as I’ll be checking trich’s daily now. During the days after I’ll dock fan-leaves as they fade hard and when the microscope shows me the money-shot I’ll remove every fan leaf without sugar the day prior to the cropping.

The AM next day I’ll crop the branches down into sizes “small” enough to ensure total coverage when submerged into a 5 gallon bucket as this is all gonna get a wash before hanging up to dry much like the autoflowers.

After the first time I washed outdoors I was so HORRIFIED with what got removed (dirt, dust, debris, insects, sprays, etc…) that I vowed to NEVER grow outdoor without washing the buds before the dry/cure.

3x 5 gallon buckets of water, one of them containing additionally 1 cup of lemon juice + 1 cup of Baking soda and some of your time is all it takes to have safe medicine later one.

[CADMAN]

Took them down last night.

[Pigeonman]

[KanehB]

Those are sooooo lovely!

I would totally second the drooling, if I weren’t trying to conserve fluids because of heat exhaustion!

[Pigeonman]

First round of dills cropped, cleaned and pickled!

[Foreigner]

Yeah but it’s only four (4!) pickles!