Dutch Passion AutoMazar and Autoblueberry, Arctic Outdoor grow

[glocalgrower]

Ok, in this thread I will post my outdoor grow with the DP beans I got.
Nothing to report so far except that I've successfully germed a couple of the seeds that are now in the seedling stage awaiting to be transplanted outdoors. I'm still hesitating whether to do it earlier or later. We can have night frost even in the middle of june so the safest choice is to wait. Anyway, pics will come as soon as there is something to show. Seedlings aren't that hot. Basically I will grow on two (maybe three) different soils; cheap average supermarket soil, and one more expensive soil for proffessional growers, and the third kind would be to just simply use the soil on the spot mixed out with some kitchen compost ... not sure if I'll do this with my DP beans, since I've got other beans for such stunts!

 

[Red_bulls]

hello.
dont use cheap soil because the plants need lots of food, and the kitchen compost must be 2 months old at least.
the auto mazar will grow very big you need to have a good space.

 

[glocalgrower]

I'm using cheap soil for comparison. I've had good results with cheap soil before. The kitchen compost is over a year old (at the bottom of the pile)

 

[DutchPassionTony]

hello glocal.

If you can make a successful grow diary in the Arctic Circle you will become an internet legend! I wish you the best possible luck.

 

[potsnob]

Hey Glocal, any progress in your endeavor to grow under the arctic sun? Any Pictures yet?

 

[glocalgrower]

Soon, hopefully... There has been some changed circumstances however. Firstly, one of the sites I was planning on using showed out to be bad from a stealth perspective; too much activity in the area, which means some further scouting for me. Secondly, the one AutoBlueberry i sprouted in mid May has now recently started flowering, unfortunately it shows signs of hermaphroditism on at least one branch. I figure I might be able to overcome the problem by just cutting that branch of, what do you guys say? Anyway, its bad news. The second AB has just peeked above ground and will be planted outdoors as soon as it gets some structure.

The AutoMazars however are all doing good. Two are out in the woods, and four others on my windowsill vegging (they're planted at different dates so some are more ahead than others) and when I do the next check pics will hopefully be available. I'm keeping one seed from each pack for a later indoor grow.

 

[DutchPassionTony]

Hi glocal,

regarding the hermie AutoBB. If the plant growing location is a long walk it may be easier to take that branch off. If you are able to get to the plant reasonably regularly you may be able to remove any male flowers, and you may not see many of them. So far I haven't seen any horrendous hermie issues with auto's, so I hope you get lucky here.

And I hope you manage to succeed with the arctic grow! If is it safe we would all love to see photo's, this will be quite a unique grow !

 

[glocalgrower]

Ok, sorry for the delay folks. Don't have internet access where I'm living at, which slows things down a bit.

As far as the hermie is concerned I'm still keeping it indoors in my window. The plan was to keep it inside until it started budding, then transplant outdoors. Now I'm deciding to keep this one indoors for the whole cycle where I can monitor its development. It will be a simple windowsill grow, showing what these Autos can offer to people with limited resources, or lack of ambition. I pulled off the one pollen sack I did found, unfortunately my camera can't zoom enough to take pictures of it.



The pics show the AB to the left (black pot) and two auto mazars to the right, the bigger one being about a month old now and still no flowering, the smaller one is just about a week above ground. They will be planted outdoors soon ... I'm vegging them in the window but they've had some hours under a 300W CFL in the tent. However at the moment I'm growing some photos there on a 12/12 regimen so I figured the window is better offering almost 20hrs of light nowadays! Approximately 10+ hrs of direct sunlight.

As I said, two AM are already outdoors. One was planted out in late May, which is risky from a weather perspective, and the other just a week ago after some vegging on my windowsill. I believe the one that was put out in late May has had some tough and cold nights so I'm eager to check on it.

More details about the grow will follow in later posts, i e. soil details etc. Have to google the companies I guess since I threw away the packaging where the nutrient info is! I'm using four different kinds of soils ranging from cheap supermarket stuff to very rich professional gardening soil.

 

[glocalgrower]

Three more ladies ready for the woods soon hopefully, auto blueberry at the far left, the other two auto mazars:



What's interesting is how far ahead the AB is compared to the AM, even though they were planted at the same time in late June. I have the same bug problem with these as with the older AB (see the other thread).

Update on the ones outdoors will come when weather and various responsibilities permits me to go out on an excursion. So far I'm not expecting any big developments though. The summer has been weird, wet and cold, we've only had a handful of good summer days at around 25+ Celsius. Usually it gets good and dries up in late July to early August, and thats when I want the ladies to really start budding.

 

[potsnob]

I would love to see some outdoor pics!