same as with a spade and fork, hitting a stone with a good swing from the spade isn't pleasant and it sounds like a gun going off. at least with the auger you can use the turning motion to turn the soil rather than slicling lumps up with the spade and trying to fork it over
good point but at least you can turn over round them. i suppose with a powered auger it wood be a problem but a hand powered one you have control. i'm a spade and fork man myself but i have used a hand auger and they are fine tools

well i'm finally all planted. the cuts and the mothers out and bedding in nicely. i've only checked on a few of the sites but everything seems to be going well. 1 plant has been damaged by bunnies, it seems to have dug under the cage and pulled the plant under. there is still growth so it'll come back in no time. all in all a decent start. if i can get half my plants home i'll be a very happy chappie indeed. its raining at the moment which i'm happy about as everything needed a good water to get going properly. should be a decent haulage come october

Heyup Munki,

When will the easy sativa start flowering because the blurb says mid July in holland. Expecting to harvest mid september? I want to grow some Sativas next year (or at least 95% sativa) so i'll be watching this plant with interest. Hope your mate is pulling his weight with the planting out!!

Wake

i can assure you he is . i'd say end september up here in the north. but i does fit its description very well i'd say

looking good munki, nice idea with taking the clones early! ive been trying to do a similiar idea but lsf has kicked me really hard in the plums and the clones just dont want to root

if you can get ahold of a bit of razor/barbed wire and wrap around the bases of the enclosures, it might stop those bunnies form getting in?

i've now used tent pegs to pin them down into the soil at the base aswell as the usual canes. i've also sunk them in to the ground by 75mm cheers for looking

best of luck Funki, heres hoping the nice summer forecast is right

i've decided to plant a few more plants out in june, i've cracked my last easy sativas, and passion fems and a few hash passion, biddy early,swiss mix regulars. i've found a few more nice spots and will be out digging very soon. what with everyone doing seed runs i thought i'd leave the regulars somwhere seperate to maybe produce some seeds/bud to see what happens myself this year.

your addicted mate .. GGA-------------------------------------------> ..

munki good to hear your prepared this year. cant wait to see everyones dairys this year. looks like its starting to get good. hope you get a bumper crop this year mate.

A man on a mission. Flying the flag for british GG's funki. Finding easy sativa in stock is a mission in itself

best of luck to you and your apprentice

With stock running low, we should all buy out beans around harvest time, thats when there's plenty of stock. Xmas beans anyone? Good luck Mr Munki, June is absolutely fine, 'specially with the decent summer we have forecast.

its not that mate there just back up. i've been out today and progress is very good in the main but i've lost 3 plants to slugs so they have to be replaced now so its not really gonna be extra plants just replacements. the mothers that went out early april are coming on a dream

Slugs and rabbits nasty little twats, ill be sorting mine 2morro.Good luck funki.

i would. tbh i've left the slug protection off till i could get the growth above the cages. then i could then strip the shoots inside the cage to get the protectors round if you know what i mean. its obviously not worked that way for the 3 that perished but its a drop in the ocean mate.

Sorry to hear of the loss but sounds like it all going to plan on the hole,and i no losing three wont hurt you to much as you bang them out like a council estate mother.

i use 6inch waste pipe with copper tape round them .. it means you use more tape but the pipe fits over them a treat when they are young

i'll have you know i do no such thing. but yeah really everythings goin well my mate

i may just try that cheers

a shot of one of the clone plots and a piccie of a mother plant thats not as pale as the picture makes it seem

Exellent looking plot and should be plenty more cuts to come off that mum,looks like your a wi bit ahead of me this year i see monsters come october.

tbh mate there is no more cuts to come off. the cuts were taken then the mothers re vegged and planted whilst the clones were rooting. i do have a few more plants to put out but they are straight from seed some femmed some regs. i had to plant the mothers out early as i needed the room in my veg box to bring the clones up to planting size.
nice to see you in here pal

i've found an infestation of sorts at 1 of the plots pictured, looks like black fly so i'm off out with some neem oil to try and sort the problem. the last batch of 15 fems and 10 reg seeds are coming on nicely. i reckon 2 weeks or so before they'll be hitting the ground. weathers good for veg up here at the moment bit of rain, bit of sun. over the next couple of weeks i'll be doing a big round trip with my ph tester and a few boxes of lime to keep every thing on the level.

A few boxes of lime?? Sheesh how big is the problem?

its not the problem thats big

How are the Easy Sativas doing? If I only grow one strain next year it'll be Easy Sat!

WB

heres a few pics of one of the soon to be much expanded mother sites. 3 mothers here, it was 4 until a rabbit dug under my cage and ripped the plant under to chew on. The cages are around 500mm high to give a perspective of size. the first is an easy sativa the second an unknown outdoor regular and the 3rd is also unknown outdoor regular but not the same strain. well i say unknown there either biddy early, guerrillas gusto or a swiss outdoor indica. i'm very happy with the growth so far here. the sun isn't really brilliant at this site late in the yr so i'll not be bending these down as the height will give me more light exposure come september

Looking good mate, really need to get myself into gear, got 8 two foot plants in the garden to go out to sites, if they don't go soon they'll be too big to move.

the second plant just doesn't seem to want to stop flowering. i sexed them before trying to reveg them and this one just doesn't want to change back , its kind of a bit of both veg and flower its covered in sugar and smells sexual. the others regs did the same to some extent but are now happily vegging again. i have suspicions this may be the biddy early as i've heard once they go they won't go back again properly. but we shall see

i'm off back there to plant another few seedlings i've been fetching up soon to replace the lost 1 and expand the site some.

Looking real good funkimunki. Your other diary's where truly inspiring.

tbh mate the one pictured is the first i've seen for a bit. the majority are cuts but i had 5 easy mothers 3 of which got planted out. i'm gonna be looking at another site later so i'll show you a piccie of 1 of my easy sativa cuts growing. but they have my vote. the most vigourous plant i've sprouted this yr. more indica looking than previous ones


cheers matey


get cracking mate or you'll be needing a very big bag
good luck with it

another easy sativa mother

Yours are looking ten times better than any of mine Thats huge

they been out for a while now mate, first week in april. i had twelve like that which were the mothers for my clones. i've put up piccies of around 5 of the mothers as i haven't seen the others for a while and i don't like to show all my hand so to speak . The clones are nowhere near that size but still very respectable for the time they been out.
i may not be able to cope with large numbers of plants but i can do big plants
good to see you having a nosey pal

They are big plants mate,it will be interesting to see how your season turns out,and your right about not showing your hand Its always best to play your cards close to your chest

That looks pretty Sativerish with the long thin leaves. Whats the high like from smoking Easy Sat is it uplifting and energetic? because i am known to fall alsleep at the most annoying times when baked.

Looking good anyway your girls have done you proud if you put em out 1st April if they dont revert back to Veg can you hash them or not?

Wake

That flowering one will turn out OK, I sexed mine for 10 days last year, early July to normal growth.

yes i could hash them. its a problem i've had before when planting so early but they change back ok in time as sticky says. its just the one that i'm talking about as i've seen pictures of sexed biddy early that have half flowered till flower time then gone on to fully finish anyways. its really not a problem.
the easy pictured does look more sat than some of the others. i had 5 mums 2 of which were much more sat than the others. i also find that the growth pattern can change drastically after a month or so from seed. so it can be deceptive with young plants from seed. yes the high is uplifting very good for a non landrace sativa, but thats only based on what i've grown. if there more indica this time the smoke'll differ too i should imagine but the one pictured is the same as i've grown before in looks and growth pattern

if it was any other strain i'd agree but this one could be an exception my friend. i've had the same thing with a few other strains as i give them long days under the light then out to short days in april so it does start to flower to an extent when i plant. but as i said to wake its not a problem either way to be honest i'd planned this plot to be back up or if we did well to use for hash making, as anyone who reads my hash thread will no i like to smoke the hash. a lot

hey hey .. the munki is truly striking back .. you can't keep a good man down .. all the best funki ..

They really are doing well,gonna be some big multiheaded monsters me thinks

I second that man, lovely stuff bruv

Take it easy

Magoo

i'm looking for a few the size of that mazar i saw you post up in the g house. nice to see you pal



heres hoping eh.

you set the bar my friend. now i'm gonna see if i can get anywhere near jumping it. yr efforts last yr were truly amazing i'm not gonna hold mi breath mind
good to see some old faces popping in today

Funki, your grows are as cunning as a fox man. Well documented and very strategic. We all wait with baited breath for your updates, especially come October... I'd never dreamed of converting outdoors, until seeing your grow in '06, now with my HPS, budbox, and RVK in the safe hands of a friend, you've converted me for good. Might even get a pal outdoors to help next season too.

i'll be honest mate the friend thing took a lot of thinking about for me. its a fight club thing if you get me. in the end security weighed very closely with the need for a extra pair of hands but its worked out so far. theres method behind the madness if you like and all will become clear later in the year i started messing with indoor strains outdoors around 6 yrs ago and have got more and more into outdoor proper. i don't grow indoors at all anymore and i used to grow quite a bit here and there. horses for courses innit.

Yeah I second that fight club theory especially after last years palaver when I thought I'd introduce a mate to the wonderful world of guerilla growing, that mofo bottled it even before things got interesting. So yeah, I agree Munki, stay solo. You only have yourself to blame if you f*ck up then.

If your properly equipped and growing anything less than 200 plants you dont need anyone,thats a fact,so why bother with extra mouths or exposure

looking fucking nice man! im off to the plot today to do some digging! damn! goodluck not that you need it looking at this