Whatever I want. The ground is prepped and there is a building on the north side for heat retention. I think I can make it til Halloween there. I’ll have to force flower starting mid July…and let them go natural Sept 1.
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If you can keep them somewhat restricted in height, I can show you the contraption I built around some flowering plants that got a real early, heavy snow storm. Worked like a charm!
After a couple of days I took them down and carried on as nothing had happened, lol. Let me dig those up…
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This is the day that I built them for… snow/cold. I was out checking on them and saw the bear headed my way, lol. He decided to go the other way. He was coming for the chickens in my next door neighbors back yard. But, he ate them all the two nights before, so he would have been disappointed, anyway. 
I’ll post the pics of how it was made. Super easy. Just need a few tarps, four foot high fencing, and some black water pipe. I put the fence up all around the plant and connect it, then take two pieces of the black water pipe and fit it into the fencing, making two half circles at 90º to each other. Then just wrap it all up and use cloths pins or anything you can figure out to hold the tarps down. Basically making an igloo shaped thing to keep them covered. Those two plants were 6 to 6 1/2 feet I suppose.
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This will give you an idea of what you can do if you get n early freeze/snow. I even used a trash can to cover a smaller plant that stay on it for a couple of days. You can see the buds were only just getting going. The plants were SSDD f2
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ha, it worked! 
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And they can handle those temps?
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I think it only got below freezing a night or two. It was early, like September. Sort of early for a snow here.
I wasn’t sure what I would get when I uncovered them all. I never even lost a leaf. I went on to finish the whole crop outside. It was just too early to pick, and I sure didn’t want to lose them at that size. 
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My last Tirah came down on November 18. It made it through two hard frosts around 27 degrees with no issue.
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Hella inspiring.
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I remember when you built that. I just couldn’t believe how well they came through the storm with that little bit of cover.
I think I will probably make a greenhouse off of the barn come fall time.
Buds will survive down to twenty five degrees or colder with many strains. Even tropical sativa plants can survive cold temps. , It is not the cold temperatures, but the frost that kills. Believe in or not, when you see frost on leaves at temperatures near 32, You are actually witnessing frost on billions of little corpses of micro life that inhabit your leaves. The Microlife feeze, and when they do, it damages your plant leaves. Spraying your plant with compost tea will displace bad bacteria and good bacteria colonize the leaf. These bacteria are more frost resistant and will give you an extra 2 degrees protection, down to about 30.
Below 30 and you must cover most plants to prevent damage. This isn’t always the case though.
When a plant freezes, the cells inside expand, and pop the cell. Very resistant plants often look like they are dehydrated When you go out and look at them in the morning. They are pushing any excess water from their leaves down into the roots, allowing room for the cells to expand without bursting.
See @p59teitel’s Tirah, looking all dehydrated. Great plant.
I’ve had a plant survive 16 degrees under some tree branches. That’s the lowest i’ve ever seen.
Oaxaca survives low 20’s and died at 19
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Thanks, that all makes sense. I got the idea from some friends up in the mountains and they live right at 9,000ft. elev. He told he was covering his plants and I drove up to see what he was up to. I had plenty of that old fencing and they had plenty of the water pipe I got from them. Then I used Panda film and an extra tarp on one. I was so glad he gave me the idea. I was about to throw in the towel with the forecast we were looking at, lol.
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Wasn’t that a Malawi or Colombian cross you covered?? Golden Wedding maybe? Was that it? I definitely remember thinking you were fighting a losing battle😁
Every small Victory like that shows others they can do the same. It Pushes the boundaries a little bit further for back yard growers. Gets people thinking…hey…I can do that.
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I saw a guy with a pretty good idea. He had a cheap thin stove pipe running through a hoop house in between his rows of plants.
He used a small chimney on the outside of the greenhouse and just burned scrap wood. The smoke came out of the pipe on the other end. So the only thing inside of the greenhouse was a hot ass pipe. With some disassembly you could plug and play for different seasons. Take out the pipe and put in fans for summer, take out the fans and rig up the pipe for winter. I was pretty impressed with his offgrid solution.
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Nice! I found one almost exactly like one! In TX (Big Bend NP) a bunch of years ago.
There’s no flint/obsidian/chert where I live, so finding stuff like this lying around was so cool!!
Harvested the Peshawar pheno after letting the lowest branches finish. I must say. Even the sucker shoots make nice buds. This one did throw male flowers til the end. I only see a few seeds came from it( pictured) so most pollen is sterile. Too bad about the herm issue. Massive trancelike head high. My favorite of all of them.
The others are really tasty. I had always heard that landrace plants from this region ( kush)are rough on the throat when smoked as ganja. Not true in this case. This is one of the tastier landraces I’ve tried, period, and it’s much tastier than Tashkurgan or Arghandhab Black Afghani
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The black plant, Miss Late to dinner and Miss Big leaves are looking like they will reveg, along with my 3 favorite males😁 I’m so happy!
Flavors are developing nicely. Lots of Pine. Delicious taste with most plants.
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ILAQAI NASAL. All seeds germinated. One was decapitated. One was a dud that died. One got damp off.
This one was too far gone to just dig out the dirt around the stem. I pinched the rotten portion off and replanted it. Will see soon if it will live.
This one was too far gone to just dig out the dirt around the stem. I pinched the rotten portion off and replanted it. Will see soon if it will live.
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Been searching for a good pine bud for a long time. Would you say that this is something out of the ordinary, regarding the pine terps or is it up there with the normal levels of pine you can find now a days?
Pz 
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Peshawar is all pine/mint/ fruit, but mostly Pine
This Tirah is Pine sometimes, but not every time, and the Pine is mixed with other flavors.
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Ah nice. Good to know 
Really looking forward to pop your peshawar reproduction 
Pz
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If anyone wants to re make AK-47, this is your Indica. Miss Late to Dinner tastes exactly like AK-47, which I just tried for the first time. She is more potent than the AK, though it came from a convenience store.
Unmistakable flavor. Ak has Tirah in it imo. Nearly certain
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