You’re doing an excellent job. Whatever you’re doing keep doing it. They obviously love it!
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Can you order some ladybugs? I think they are pretty cheap and you buy them by the thousand
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@Upstate
Thanks. Tall stretchy one is right!
There’s actually four plants in the raised bed. There’s a Mulanje to the left of the Oaxaca. There’s also two pine tar bastards, although it’s hard to find them in there. 
The one in the red bucket is a SuperSilverBanger haze.
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I have aphids on one of my Sudan plants and there were four different pairs of ladybugs doing it when I was looking at the plant today. The ladybug babies really play hell on the aphids. If you can get some ladybugs I think you’ll be a good shape. Are any on your plants yet?
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I had a couple of ladybugs, a couple of lacewings and a praying mantis. But i had a yellow warbler showed up and went to town. I thought it was eating the aphids, but now I’m wondering if it was eating the ladybugs and lacewings.
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Hell yes. I hope that works out for you. How much root space would a plant that size need, if you had to put it in a container?
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@Herrsquidward It’s hard to see it, but the Mulanje and the Oaxaca in the raised bed are separated by a green plastic tomato cage. The Oaxaca in the white bucket has about seven gallons of soil and was planted out a week after the one in the bed.
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From my understanding; Biochar is different than fireplace “charcoal” in that it’s made at a much lower temperature which results in a different type of material that is much more bioactive.
By mixing it in early, it will “charge up” as it brings in these available nutrients from the mix before planting to then releases them gradually into the soil during the growing period, reducing the need for supplements.
It will promote the retention of water and nutrients near the root system, thanks to its porous structure and as a bonus it also helps balance acidic soils.
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I’m jealous of that old silversides 
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They are looking great @Panamajock. How long they been in those pots?
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Hi @Old-Ron
They been in those pots since 26 th .July around 40 days = 5 weeks and 4 days.
They were transplanted after three weeks in small pots = total veg so far approx 9 weeks.
My plan is to veg for 11/12 weeks . Then flip…I probably re-pot to forever pots in the next couple of weeks.
I know the plants don’t like to much nutes…so I’m hoping the worm castings soil (local farmers market) will help once we get into flower
What you think?
I’m pleased so far…ye interesting plants
Regards
P J
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I believe that biochar is combusted in an anaerobic environment at higher temperature.
(Edited to reflect my recent research)
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" Biochar is a high-carbon, fine-grained residue that is produced via pyrolysis; it is the direct thermal decomposition of biomass in the absence of oxygen (preventing combustion), which produces a mixture of solids (the biochar proper), liquid (bio-oil), and gas (syngas) products."
Temperatures of 400–500 °C (673–773 K) produce more char
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I found that most fireplace fires burn between 500 and 1100 Fahrenheit (260c - 590c)
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I think I would go straight into the ground to grow such a big plant. Not because it couldn’t be done in a container, but because I wouldn’t have to water nearly as often or at all. I watered Sudan 2 times this summer and we have had a drought.
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What is your latitude again? I’ve had a couple of oaxaca plants revegging and they are still not in flower mode… Looks like you are several weeks ahead of me
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@Upstate I’m at 35N at 5000 feet elevation. The one in the bucket is a couple of weeks ahead of the one in the raised bed. Also, all of the Sativas except for the MDS are from sexually mature clones.
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Hard to believe but Old Silversides is pickable already. I don’t think I started flowering it until sometime in July. It doesn’t seem possible ,but I’m sure at the very earliest it was not flowering before June 21st, which would put me at Just over 10 weeks, Let’s say 11 weeks flowering. I remember I was thinking Miss Ridiculous went somewhere around 11 weeks too. There was a long vegetation Time with this Old Silversides and that certainly made a difference… But Miss Ridiculous was flowered from seed. I may have to reconsider my theories about fast flowering times and contamination always going hand in hand. Perhaps it is possible to pull faster plants out of a landrace?. Although in most cases the faster plants people choose out of sativa lines often have suspiciously chunky buds, and Old Silversides clearly does not…
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You must be in Colorado then? So we are 7 and a 1/2 degrees latitude different, which corresponds to 15 to 22 days difference in flowering onset.( 2-3 days difference per degree of Latitude …)You would think I would know where you live from seed trades, but I don’t pay attention to where people live in most cases… a Leftover symptom of
30 years of prohibition during my growing career… i see nothing…I know nothing😁
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