Hello.
At first sorry for my english, if theres some mistakes than forgive me. English is not my first language.
So heres my story:
So i did guerilla grow for a first time last year at 55 degree latitude. Bought 22 seeds of which 12 matured.
Soilmix was:
Peat moss ~40%
Compost ~30%
Vermiculite ~20%
Worm castings ~10%
and abit limestone
Autoflower seeds:
Auto Ultimate
Think Different
Critical 47
Northern Lights
Photoperiod seeds (never matured):
Royal Medic
Nutrients used:
Advanced Nutrients 3 part PH perfect nutrients
CalMag+
Voodoo Juice (only once after planting)
Started seeds in late may on window sill couse spring was cold and rainy. All 22 germinated. Around week 2 weather turned warmer and planted them into woods couse it was too dangerous to keep them on sill.
My spots was in woods glade (no idea if i called it right). I mean place where trees are cut down and there are lot of small bushes, stumps, sticks. Pretty ugly place to even walk. And i had 4 places like that (around 500-1000m from each other).
MY FIRST MISTAKE.
From one side it was clever to plant in places like that but from other side it was nightmare to bring water in hot summer days. Abrassions etc.
It took me 2 days to plant 20 seedlings. 2 seedlings i left in 5 liter pots and didnt plant at all. When i came back after week i was unpleasantly surprised. Both my buckets was stolen (!). In the middle of f*cking nowhere someone stole my plants. Too good buckets wasnt near other plants. But that feeling someone watching me from bushes never left. Pure paranoia for the rest of the summer. And other suprise was deers somehow eaten 4 other plants. I cried like little child i though none of my plants ever will grow till buds.
MY SECOND AND THIRD MISTAKE.
No idea how but someone saw my pots, never ever will guerilla grow into pots again.
Deers. Yes they exists and they eats little seedlings. So much grass and little other plants around but they need my plants for sure.
Next day i returned with spray from some kind of animal blood and sprayed around all my plants and none of plants died from animals from that time.
Thats almost all and nothing unforseen happened for the rest of the summer. June wasnt sunny and was pretty cold, July was more warm and sunny but still with lot of cloudy days and August was really hot and sunny. Visited my plants once every or every other week for the rest of the summer. Put some PH Perfect line Advanced Nutrients in water when i watered (2ml/l) and CalMag.
Harvested some of plants around late August and beggining of September and was abit dissapointed, best harvest from plant was around 20 grams dried, all other were around 10-20 grams. Pretty sh*tty harvest. But for first time +- ok. Oh yes Royal Medic (my only photoperiod strain) i harvested around 20 october couse frost at nights started abit early this year. I never even tried it, harvested it far from being ready.
Best harvest was from Auto Ultimate but my favorite buds came from Think different. So sticky and solid.
OTHER MISTAKES.
Water taking spots. I tried to plant near water ditches but forgot ditches can dry out. And that happened, i had to bring water from alot more far distance and that wasnt fun at all.
Photoperiod seeds. Photoperiod strains started to flower at the end of the August and in October there are nights when temperatures are already around 0 degree celsius. So forget about photoperiod strains.
Mold. Yes one of my plant literaly got all over with mold couse i didnt saw it early. That was my biggest plant and if there wouldnt be mold i would get around 30 grams dried material. But after i removed all molded flowers i got only some 10 grams. All other plants were ok, little mold, maybe 5% maximum for some of them.
Had to group plants by flowering time. I mixed different strains in 1 spot so had to came to harvest 1 spot some 3 times.
So i learned some lessons. But i have to ask your opinion. Couse i will do guerilla grow this year too. And this time around 30 plants. So i already start to think about that.
Why i got so small dry material?
Was that soilmix fault?
After plants started to flower some of fan leaves turned yellow. Maybe some lack of nutrients? You can see pictures below.
Any ideas for strains that better addapts 55 degree latitude?
What would be better soilmix to use?
Have anyone used hydrogel water retainers? And do i need it?
What you think its better to plant all plants at one place or as i did?
What about nutrients? Was my tactics about Advanced Nutrients right? Or should i use powder nutrients better?
Should i first put seedlings under lights before planting them outside?
Ill post pictures maybe later of my last year plants that you can see but i didnt take alot of photos for security purposes.
Martins
At first sorry for my english, if theres some mistakes than forgive me. English is not my first language.
So heres my story:
So i did guerilla grow for a first time last year at 55 degree latitude. Bought 22 seeds of which 12 matured.
Soilmix was:
Peat moss ~40%
Compost ~30%
Vermiculite ~20%
Worm castings ~10%
and abit limestone
Autoflower seeds:
Auto Ultimate
Think Different
Critical 47
Northern Lights
Photoperiod seeds (never matured):
Royal Medic
Nutrients used:
Advanced Nutrients 3 part PH perfect nutrients
CalMag+
Voodoo Juice (only once after planting)
Started seeds in late may on window sill couse spring was cold and rainy. All 22 germinated. Around week 2 weather turned warmer and planted them into woods couse it was too dangerous to keep them on sill.
My spots was in woods glade (no idea if i called it right). I mean place where trees are cut down and there are lot of small bushes, stumps, sticks. Pretty ugly place to even walk. And i had 4 places like that (around 500-1000m from each other).
MY FIRST MISTAKE.
From one side it was clever to plant in places like that but from other side it was nightmare to bring water in hot summer days. Abrassions etc.
It took me 2 days to plant 20 seedlings. 2 seedlings i left in 5 liter pots and didnt plant at all. When i came back after week i was unpleasantly surprised. Both my buckets was stolen (!). In the middle of f*cking nowhere someone stole my plants. Too good buckets wasnt near other plants. But that feeling someone watching me from bushes never left. Pure paranoia for the rest of the summer. And other suprise was deers somehow eaten 4 other plants. I cried like little child i though none of my plants ever will grow till buds.
MY SECOND AND THIRD MISTAKE.
No idea how but someone saw my pots, never ever will guerilla grow into pots again.
Deers. Yes they exists and they eats little seedlings. So much grass and little other plants around but they need my plants for sure.
Next day i returned with spray from some kind of animal blood and sprayed around all my plants and none of plants died from animals from that time.
Thats almost all and nothing unforseen happened for the rest of the summer. June wasnt sunny and was pretty cold, July was more warm and sunny but still with lot of cloudy days and August was really hot and sunny. Visited my plants once every or every other week for the rest of the summer. Put some PH Perfect line Advanced Nutrients in water when i watered (2ml/l) and CalMag.
Harvested some of plants around late August and beggining of September and was abit dissapointed, best harvest from plant was around 20 grams dried, all other were around 10-20 grams. Pretty sh*tty harvest. But for first time +- ok. Oh yes Royal Medic (my only photoperiod strain) i harvested around 20 october couse frost at nights started abit early this year. I never even tried it, harvested it far from being ready.
Best harvest was from Auto Ultimate but my favorite buds came from Think different. So sticky and solid.
OTHER MISTAKES.
Water taking spots. I tried to plant near water ditches but forgot ditches can dry out. And that happened, i had to bring water from alot more far distance and that wasnt fun at all.
Photoperiod seeds. Photoperiod strains started to flower at the end of the August and in October there are nights when temperatures are already around 0 degree celsius. So forget about photoperiod strains.
Mold. Yes one of my plant literaly got all over with mold couse i didnt saw it early. That was my biggest plant and if there wouldnt be mold i would get around 30 grams dried material. But after i removed all molded flowers i got only some 10 grams. All other plants were ok, little mold, maybe 5% maximum for some of them.
Had to group plants by flowering time. I mixed different strains in 1 spot so had to came to harvest 1 spot some 3 times.
So i learned some lessons. But i have to ask your opinion. Couse i will do guerilla grow this year too. And this time around 30 plants. So i already start to think about that.
Why i got so small dry material?
Was that soilmix fault?
After plants started to flower some of fan leaves turned yellow. Maybe some lack of nutrients? You can see pictures below.
Any ideas for strains that better addapts 55 degree latitude?
What would be better soilmix to use?
Have anyone used hydrogel water retainers? And do i need it?
What you think its better to plant all plants at one place or as i did?
What about nutrients? Was my tactics about Advanced Nutrients right? Or should i use powder nutrients better?
Should i first put seedlings under lights before planting them outside?
Ill post pictures maybe later of my last year plants that you can see but i didnt take alot of photos for security purposes.
Martins
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