Dutch Passion Green Ops 2014 - Fresian, Durban, Auto Durban, Auto White Widow and BAM

[Balarama]

May flowers
Sorry to hear about the photos flowering so soon, probably light period shock. Maybe they will shift back to veg if the weather turns better. Hopefully no hermies.

I have a good feeling about the BAMs.

Good luck with the weather

 

[maffro]

Nice one Bala cheers
All seeds split and have tails except the bams ! Bala hope you havent jinxed them . Have put 2 more in just incase, they will all go out on wednesday gotta boot load of 5 litre water bottles for cloches too.

 

[Balarama]

The best things take time

 

[maffro]

Time is what I got !!
The pesky BAM seeds eh ? the 2 new ones split an have little tails but the speed they go is very different to the other stains, the older ones still nothing doing.
Meanwhile up the mountains the whitewidows are on day 60 ish. One has finished up without flowering much, not suprising given the amount of sunshine weve not had.


No new white hairs at all and the calyxes have swelled up, ive didn't feed her this week and will chop her next week, should be dry by the time Brazil and Croatia kick off !


The other girl has bigger flowers and is still producing new hairs, fed her yesterday and she is going a nice shade of purple too.


Been trying to determine which of the photoperiods are Durban poisons, don't remember seeing preflowers this big on any fresians in the past ! Anyone ?

Hope this butterfly aint poppin any dopehead caterpillas out, will not be happy.

 

[maffro]

Well I smoked some of the under developed wwidowauto last night and it was strong ! Cut through the fresian stone easily and enhanced my experience of Chile vs Australia no end ! Cheers DP


May have speed dried it a little, not much smell compared to her sister but im thinking that 5 weeks of crap weather doesn't develop the plant enough, this girl was behind the other and might have been shaded a little too. Im happy to have some weed for the world cup though and this shows that outdoor auto growers can harvest something before July even in the UK.


The more voluptuous Whitewidowauto just in her second week of flush, no more hairs coming and the flowers swelling up. Some mould but it has been thundering a lot lately - more rainy days than sunny ones and some purpling up too



The fresians and durbans doing ok, one of the stunted fresians has been half eaten and all are flowering too.
The experimental autos are doing ok most are above ground but are going slowly, the bams are still not above ground with 2 more soaking as we speak.will try and get photos tomorrow.

 

[DutchPassionTony]

Hi Maf, I am keeping fingers crossed for some sunnier weather than you have been getting on the mountains. You should be able to count on some good weather in July/Aug and then things should really speed up.

With indoor growing, you effectively have 'midday sun' for 12 or 20 hours per day (depending on whether you are doing auto's or photo's)

With outdoor growing much depends on the country you are in. In northern europe it is often a case of choosing some genetic lines that you can rely on and hoping for some good weather as well.

In southern Spain, or Cali, by contrast, you could probably grow any of our 'indoor' collection in your back garden

Anyway, it's only June, plenty of time for the sun to sweep into Europe yet

 

[maffro]

Well ive worked out which are the Fresians and which are the Durbans now. The Durbans leafes are massive and are powering the upper branches out, the plants look like beasts compared to the others and the pre flower calyxes are an inch long on some nodes !


There are 2 Fresians behind this girl


Fresian Dew


The 2 stunted from nute burn have come to life, the Fresian on the left has had the bottom half munched but the Durban on the right is going boom now.


Auto Whitewidow came down today, may be dry for Glasto ?

was going to leave her till Monday but bits of mould have forced my hand

So there you have it the 1st wave of autos down and drying before the summer solstice!
Outdoors in the UK too Guerrilla style! 1st underdeveloped one pulled in a quarter of small buds but this girls flowers are much better and have the WW stink, should be close to an ounce just under probs.

 

[maffro]

Well its been a while since the last post but theres not much to report. The Fresians and Durbans are still in flowering limbo and havent grown much (atleast a foot shorter than last years) the 2 stunted ones are growing though.

Durban down the front, 2 fresians closest

Fresian

Durban

Fresian

Durban on the right Fresian left (the 2 stunted) This Durban seems to be flowering the most.
Mice (?) had been eating the branches so I put one into a pot as a cutting and it took ! Didn't last long though !

Moulded cut

The 2nd wave of autos has been a disaster ! I was splitting the seeds indoors then putting them straight out into 10 litre pots with seedling compost, some had a green cheap cloche and the Durban autos had 10 litre water bottle DIY mini greenhouses. atleast 50 % of the seeds didn't make it past little seedling stage and 25 % perished to insects or mice so im left with 4 plants which I don't expect more than a spliff from ! Sorry DP but I wasted a lot of seeds, I did pay for them though !!!

Durban Poisons

WWidow autos
I did mention somewhere in the outdoor section that I was going to try completely outdoors guerrilla autos this year but having seen the results and having to do more frequent trips to them I don't recommend it, think you need a tiptop grow room for the 1st 3 to 4 weeks and a nice garden for the next week before introducing them to the wild.

 

[Balarama]

So sorry to hear it, bad luck with the weather this year
I hope at least the photos turn out with something of good use. But it's really strange the early flowering and poor germ rates. I hope it was not a bad batch or something:dunno:
Sh*t happens sometimes.

Good luck with the durbans and FDs

 

[maffro]

Nah it wasnt the seeds as most split it was cos i didnt have a grow room it was putting them straight out. I suppose it was down to the weather and temps on the first days they went out, it was the only option i had. Id rather have gambled on the project than sat on the seeds till next year, theres always new and improved ones coming out too!
Cheers for stoppin by Bala good weather karma coming your way bro