Hello all. I thought I’d share my outdoor grow this year. I’m late to getting this together, as I have way too many gardens indoor that I’ve been trying to manage (and document).
Note that, I haven’t given much attention to my outdoor garden this year. I planned on being done with outdoor a couple years ago, but my indoor gardens took a couple extra years to budget when I migrated to indoor 3 years ago. I usually grow about 20 monsters outdoor, but not this year. I have just a handful of not very great (in my opinion) plants this year. This is year 21 of growing outdoor for me, and the first year I’m just letting them grow without any maintenance, focusing more on indoor.
I grow mostly CBD-dominant varieties now for medical reasons, but I have 1 that isn’t that I’m growing for a family member. She is Monkey Grease by Kannabia Seed Company. She was sowed in December indoor, and kept in a cold room under minimum viable photosynthesis (60W of T5 LED bars) for 23 weeks. Around week 12 we took a lot of cuttings from her, and that was originally her only purpose, but I let her go for another 11 weeks under the low light, in the middle of my cold air conditioned lung room. She had perfectly healthy leaves up until week 21, when she just couldn’t take the environment anymore, and leaves started dying like crazy. It was still too cold, so I kept defoliating and feeding her, for another 2 weeks. When we transplanted her outdoors at the start of week 24, she wasn’t looking good at all, and to top it off, she had very wobbly branching, from no fan blowing on her in my lung room outside of the tents I usually grow in. I didn’t want to destroy her, so I placed her in the earth, put in some garden stake poles, and tied her branches to them with some garden wire. That was week 24, and it is now week 29, and I didn’t touch her in those 5 weeks. Here she is, at about 55 inches tall, and more than half a year old:
Here is another THC-dominant cultivar from Kannabia I have outdoors, but in a 5-gallon fabric pot. I didn’t transplant her because, well, like I said, I’m not giving much attention to outdoor this year, and I was lazy. She is a little more than 6 weeks old:
Here is a CBD-rich variety from Kannabia – Swiss Dream Rosé Auto CBD at 4 weeks old. We had a massive heat wave last week, and she got a little deformed from that, but should turn out decent:
And yet another CBD variety from Kannabia, Kama Kush, at 3 weeks old:
If you haven’t noticed the pattern yet, we’re doing all Kannabia genetics outdoor this year. Here’s the last one, Swiss Dream Auto CBD, at 5 weeks old. She started flowering about a week ago:
Anyway, that’s most of my outdoor plants. I do have some others, but they are runts and stressed from the heat, so not worth showing off. I’m not taking care of these plants, like I always do (or don’t?). We just let them grow organically, with a good soil. I’ll update this diary periodically in between my focus on indoor. Until then, see ya!