Outdoor Photo verses Auto

[Truu]

Man I envy your location. You have done well man!

 

[Krug]

@Stonemaster...Not any more! But seriously mate, I couldn`t cos I`m not keen on heights...I like highs, but not heights!

 

[Purple Rain]

Stonemaster you'r right about CO2. Didn't even thougt about that. I were just trying to extend my growing season a little bit. Your spot is awesome. I bet you spend some time up there every visit just looking at the view. How about the river? Is it good for fishing?

 

[stonemaster]

Quick story purple rain. I put out a trot line in the river below the patch so that from the river I had a reason to hang out there. As I played with the trotline I was also watching my patch. So one day i am in the patch and saw a boat stop and begin taking my fish from my line! I could not shout, being where I was, so I never baited it again. What is a few fish anyway. But yes, there are many good fish in that river.

 

[stonemaster]

Day 53. The photos are finally gone and you can see the young photo bed in the back.Here is a shot showing the height of it next to me. The ghost train haze are the tall ones. They are mostly sativa and are getting a little leggy. My hands were to sticky to take many pics.

 

[Koose]

Day 53 ? I thought autos took longer to finish outside. I knew the photos would take less time when planting late but I am surprised the autos were so fast outside. Great grow and journal.

 

[stonemaster]

I was not clear. I took the old photos today. The young ones are at day 53 as are the autos. I just did not get any pics of them. They are doing fine but my hands were so sticky I stuck to the camera, so few pics. Great finger hash though.

 

[stonemaster]

I forgot, I did take a pic of the auto bed today. In the forground are the stunted ones while behind them you see the healthy ones. They are budding well as you can see. Here is where I was not clear koose, there were many older photos between the two competing ones. These are what I took today. This site is long and is devided onto 3 seprate beds, A,B and C. The new autos are in bed A while the new photos are in bed C. As you can see in one of the last pics, bed B is bare for the first time this year. My site is about 70 feet long and 3 feet wide.Roughly 200 sq. feet of bed. This year was a learning process for me learning the autos growth pattern. Next year I plan to start inside enough for beds A and B inside then move out the first of march, same as this year. Bed C will be sowed with a large number of seeds in jan.,planning on them knowing when to go as the season progresses. These will be allowed to fight among themselves for light and other resourses. I had one white widow auto fight and win herselve a place in the photo bed this year. It is her offspring I will let mother nature select the breeding members for me. If they live and THRIVE, they get bred. All other traits will be ignored for a few generations until this defect is fixed. I have many sites on the river that are so hard to climb to, I can not take young plants up or go in wet times. If I had auto seeds that could compete for their place in the world without a fulltime nurse (me), the number of places possable is huge. Remember, no one is crazy enough to grow on cliffs! I used to be crazy, but I am better now. But still crazy enough to grow where no man has grown before! They will probley only be able to find my body by the circling buzzards. If they eat me I bet they get a buzz!

 

[Koose]

The Incas grew on cliff sides and were also stone masters . But they had condors not buzzards. I have seen(on tv) the terraces they made but never thought about the heat sink effect until your journals.

So neither the autoflowers nor the photos are not ready at day 53 ?

I have seen photos flower in the spring when started under long light inside then put out side in the spring. More of a fluffy flower as they will go back to veg in a short time. A month to flower then veg.

 

[Koose]

Your proposed competition for the photos reminds me of two things. A great book,
THE ONE STRAW FARMER, and this deciduous herbaceous perennial strain from Doggies Nuts seed bank. http://www.autofloweringseeds.com/doggies-nuts-big-bad-john-autoflowering-seeds-2139