Outdoor Clyde outside - seed to jar in the woods

[Clyde Puffer]

Rivalfish, I think the general view with guerrilla growing is that plants are best grown in pots first then put outside when they have a few sets of leaves - this is something I just can't do at the moment, hence my experiments with the wee cloches. I wouldn't recommend my method if an alternative was available.

With photo strains you can sprout seeds in tiny pots - 6cm root trainers will do - and then put them outside and they will grow full size. Autos on the other hand are trickier as being in small pots can easily stunt them. I'd say minimum 500cl/16oz pots would be needed - the taller and narrower the better, so maybe paper or plastic disposable cups rather than horticultural pots - and maximum two-three weeks in the pots or they can get rootbound (that's when the problems start).

 

[Clyde Puffer]

Put some replacement Speedy Gonzales seeds in today - already sprouted as usual. The weather's getting kinder, so these ones might make it. The Purple Mazar's are doing fine and I now have three Super Cali Hazes up.

I also put out a few photos - a couple of Purple Maroc and some Midtjysk Pot. The Midtjysk is an acclimatised Danish strain with a bit of ruderalis in it, so I will use it for breeding if it grows well. It's an ambition of mine to develop a strain that will do well in Scotland left to it's own devices. It's not gonna be easy though... basically need something that will grow underwater in the dark.

I'll post some photos once things start getting more interesting. So far all my plants are just tiny seedlings and all still under their cloches.

 

[Eschatos]

...basically need something that will grow underwater in the dark...

:joint:

 

[User K]

Bro sounds like you need some Auto Frisian dew's.
http://www.dutch-passion.nl/en/news-and-development/AutoFrisian_Dew_!/

Work with them, and I'm sure you'll have a chance and getting a pheno that may be stable for Scotland. Try and get some strains that have Canadian or Russian Ruderelis in them, from such colder climates.

 

[Clyde Puffer]

Bro sounds like you need some Auto Frisian dew's.
http://www.dutch-passion.nl/en/news-and-development/AutoFrisian_Dew_!/

Work with them, and I'm sure you'll have a chance and getting a pheno that may be stable for Scotland. Try and get some strains that have Canadian or Russian Ruderelis in them, from such colder climates.

Yeh, I've seen those Frisian Dews, mate. They look the business. They're a bit pricey for me at the mo and I already had loads of seeds when they came out, so I'm running with what I've got this year. Next year I'll probably give them a whirl.

I've got some nice early photo strains out too, mostly Danish - Royal Nepal, Thyphoon, Danish Gold, Deep Passion, Arne's Hashplant and even one called the Scottish. The Midtjysk I mentioned earlier is supposed to be a tough bugger and has ruderalis in it. Some phenos autoflower, apparently. If I get one I'll use it for breeding with my toughest autos.

 

[The Dude]

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090401181447.htm

This is how I found out about epigentics.Then I saw seeds of Life is the only ones that seems to offer this method.pretty interesting though.

 

[Clyde Puffer]

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090401181447.htm

This is how I found out about epigentics.Then I saw seeds of Life is the only ones that seems to offer this method.pretty interesting though.

Cheers, Dude. Always good to learn something new. I think I have heard of this idea before but didn't know what it was called. I wonder if this theory helps to explain things like the original Cheese, which was a pheno of some type of skunk I think but also totally individual and no one could really explain it.

And thanks for stopping by...

 

[Clyde Puffer]

A couple of days ago I put 8 Kush von Stitch, 5 Sour Diesel Haze, 3 Auto Cheese and 1 Auto Amnesia in to tissue... Got a full house :dance:

Put them out under cloches today in the pouring rain. Just hope they survive.

The weather has been dreadful the past few days - I went to check on a nearby plot and four out of five cloches have been wiped out by flooding. Interesting that the one that was ok was the only one with my Snowryder x Blue Himalaya cross under it - 3 sprouts planted, three wee seedlings remaining.

So the tough guys to date are: Super Cali Haze, Purple Mazar and Snowryder x BH.

 

[DANK]

Sounds like you've got quite a setup in this forest

I'm just doing a first outdoor grow (also my first ever grow :cough.
At UK Lat 51 the temperature seems to have stunted them a bit though, I'm thinking maybe its not the temperature thats wrong if yours are fine though.

Anyways I'm subbed good luck with the grow <3

 

[Clyde Puffer]

No, I think it propably is the temperature, mate. Mine come up fairly fast but they grow vey slow after that. I thought I'd have taken the cloches off some by now and put cages over them, but they're still too small and that's two weeks for some of them. Compared to growing indoors the difference is profound. I'm guessing at least an extra two or three weeks on the finishing time for most of them.

From reading around, I've been expecting this. Many growers say put autos out in the first week in June to get the best out of them. I'll do that too, but I'm experimenting to see if there's a strain that will cope with being put out in April to provide a very early outdoor harvest. That would seem to be one of the main points of growing autos outdoors - to get some nice but while waiting for the early heavier cropping photoperiods.