Live Stoner Chat The '25 Outdoor Auto-Photo Competition!
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The Dutch Passion LemonZ girls got their first taste of sunshine today. They've been in an 18x21 cabinet under a 65w LED board for 18 hours a day 'til now, so the lowers were mostly in the shade. It's 54°F today and windy, going down to 43 tonight, then supposed to have lows of 60°F most of the week. Did I jump the gun? I'd like them to veg until mid-summer, don't want to shock them into flower mode. I hope to up-pot them from 3-gallon to something bigger soon if possible.
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wow, still that gusty! ....well they sure will have stout bones to build on... 
Which cultivar are these Aunty, I forget?
They look great MC, primed for OD time -
That said, did you do any sort of hardening off for T's and Sun exposure? That's a pretty big dip and drastic light intensity change.... night T (40's) is bad, they will not be happy... Cold T's strongly affect nute uptake and transport too...
...and the sudden light hours drop from 18 to what, at your Lat'? I don't know this cultivar at all, how sensitive it is to sudden light changes and triggering bloom. A reveg' situation will suck, not telling how badly it may affect the real bloom down the road...
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Sea winds @Waira ..we are 10 minutes off the coast...so we have a constant west wind until August..when it stops..we swelter.
If you look at the pine trees at the beach you can see which way the wind blows...and how bloody strong...
...But that being said I think it is the constant wind that lets me grow in the winter without the pots going stagnant.
In summer the heat creates transpiration... movement of fluid and food through the plant..off season it is the wind....
...so they are out in it as soon as they can take it.Toughens them up......
They don't look badly done to...
.....All my seeds are 1 cross...BD X NL X KUSH...but......
....At F6-F7 my Dragon colours started rising....and the availability of finger dabs dropped off.....finger dabs Look as if they belong in the Whites.
So I BX'd F2-F3...mass germ when they were all white....in the hopes of hybriding a white line out of it...these are the ones in the pots now.
I also colour Only crossed the F7's....(they will be up next) and this is the one I want to hit with the Lavender outcross.....
Now do you Wish you never asked.....?.......
We're getting 14 hours of daylight here in Buffalo, NY today (latitude 43N). The drop from 18 hours of 65w to 14 hours of daylight sounds steep, but DLI certainly increased, so maybe that will keep me vegging. I'm new to outdoor growing, except in the tropics in the 1970's. Maybe i should start outdoor grows with a light schedule of 14/10 indoors.They look great MC, primed for OD time -
That said, did you do any sort of hardening off for T's and Sun exposure? That's a pretty big dip and drastic light intensity change.... night T (40's) is bad, they will not be happy... Cold T's strongly affect nute uptake and transport too...
...and the sudden light hours drop from 18 to what, at your Lat'? I don't know this cultivar at all, how sensitive it is to sudden light changes and triggering bloom. A reveg' situation will suck, not telling how badly it may affect the real bloom down the road...
How is greenhouse categorized?View attachment 1737716-- 30th Oct Final finish date, give or take....
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Spring has sprung!
~~~ Welcome to season 9 of this always amusing Competition ~~~
Same gig, same thrills chills and spills that's part of OD growing...
It's a more relaxed contest, and is always filled with lovely plants and buds....
The Comp' is open to anybody, with any genetics they wish, any grow method...
Breeder and product showcasing is welcome too!
Here are the ground rules:
-- Any genetics fly here, Auto or Photo.... Any start date, just be aware of the finish date
-- Entry Code must be included with the germ'/early seedling pics, and harvest pics, with this info please: [ 2025 OD auto/photo Comp; (name); (cultivar); start date/harvest date ]
-- No plant in this Comp' is eligible for any other Contest, and visa versa
-- Only participants wishing to be included in the Final Polls need to provide preferred weekly Updates....(3/month minimum)... fall off of this too much, too long and the contestant may be DQ'ed (fair is fair, ay?)
** Guerilla Growers are an exception; just post updates every 3 weeks and they still be in the Final Poll if they wish **
-- You can select up to 3 plants each for auto's and photo's for the duration of the Comp', in case they get eaten, ripped, destroyed, etc., BUT-->
-- You must name your Final entry plant 2 weeks before harvest (photo's), or 1 week before (autos), or the official Finish date at the latest...
-- Voting will consist of live bud/cola shots and dry nugg' shots (1 each) for both auto and photo' plants submitted for polling... So 4 polls total, live and dry auto, live and dry photo....
Winners determined same way as usual: the combined votes for the auto's and photo's live and dry will be tallied to determine the Auto winner and Photo' winner....
-- prizes TBD
-- It is acceptable for outdoor plants to be started indoor, as long as the vast majority of the plant's life is outdoor.
That's it, any questions/concerns just ask...
Good luck and fab' pheno's to one and all!!
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you know I'd really like to win this motherfuckerif it'z a house....and it'z painted green....ur in like flint
Maybe I'll get big sympathy vote for being Old
Anyway, after they start growing when do I declare the 3? I feel like I'm cheating to enter the gh girls. But OD plants usually don't fare as well as gh girls up here. Maybe one year in 10 od will really shine, not betting on it, but always growing with high hopes
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psst -> plain & simple, it'z all about the picz u take at the end
..............................but u didn't hear it from me 
all the rulez are in post #1 of this thread & will answer all ur ques'z
no, they don't say anything about greenhousez, but i already know & can tell u with confidence that greenhouse growz are ok ppp
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Oh yeah, I get this! The sea breeze is our savior too here, though no where near as hot...If you look at the pine trees at the beach you can see which way the wind blows...and how bloody strong...
But that being said I think it is the constant wind that lets me grow in the winter without the pots going stagnant.
In summer the heat creates transpiration... movement of fluid and food through the plant..off season it is the wind....
Wind forced tree shaping is amazing, the coastal cypresses here are world famous especially in the Pebble Beach coastline...
My grow place is at a friend's house, about 1 mile from the Bay. We see a lot of fog in Summer, Fall is warmest here in fact... RH% is always on the high side because of this, which keeps me from growing certain types of WLD's because they are weak against mold
BD = Blood Dragon?All my seeds are 1 cross...BD X NL X KUSH...but......
At F6-F7 my Dragon colours started rising....and the availability of finger dabs dropped off.....finger dabs Look as if they belong in the Whites.
So I BX'd F2-F3...mass germ when they were all white....in the hopes of hybriding a white line out of it...these are the ones in the pots now.
I also colour Only crossed the F7's....(they will be up next) and this is the one I want to hit with the Lavender outcross.....
Now do you Wish you never asked.....?.......
...I thought you had snagged some Deep Chunk? Though Lavender is also a fine fresh genetic breeze to this line
It certainly will bring the colors on!
I'm always interested in what ya cookin' Aunty
I'm not sure about this, but I think with phytochrome conversion it's not about intensity(DLI, etc.), it's about duration of darkness... That is, the rate of conversion isn't linked to light intensity per se, but how long the dark hours are and how much phytochrome gets converted to the dark form, which the levels of tell the plants it's time to get blooming...
It can be tricky, this process... So much depends on the cultivar, even pheno's, and especially if they are known fast (non-auto crossed) photo's and of course, any sort of auto/semi-auto lineage in them...
I'd ask @Antonio_DutchPassion for his insights on this cultivar and how trigger-happy she may be... Fingers crossed!
Trail mate, you are clear for take off!
We've had some GH grows in the past so you're good, besides, you're a special case all things considered.... (no, not that kind of "special") 
you know I'd really like to win this motherfucker
Anyway, after they start growing when do I declare the 3? I feel like I'm cheating to enter the gh girls. But OD plants usually don't fare as well as gh girls up here. Maybe one year in 10 od will really shine, not betting on it, but always growing with high hopes
LOL --- past repeat Champ @Kyote is in Canada, so there's that... And I know you can take excellent porn shots which in the Polls, is a big advantage! 
Declare your three (autos) after 2-3 weeks, just enough to be sure you have some contenders.... photo growers get a bit more time, but well before mid veg'. The point of getting three is to allow for some gone sideways-factors that can and does hit the occasional Comp' plant.
The whole entry code sign thing is just to make it "official", and discourage potential shady actors from trying to slip illicit plants into
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