all was going well until about 5 days ago... noticed a slow down and went for a closer look... never seen so many white/greenfly... sprayed them a few times and the little bastards seem to have gone... but my plants look like shit.... they have made a beeline for the new growth and now the new growth is suffering...

got a month left of outdoor veg time, hopefully the will fully recover... il post some pics if theres enuf interest.

peace.

Hey CFL,

I've never seen as many green fly as this year before, wonder why there in such abundance ?!?!

ATB

Magoo

always interested in piccies

Get some Neem mate.....very effective stuff.............M.........>

yeh i hear u on the neem oil.. gotta visit the grow shop soon ( do B&Q stock it nowdays??) anyways, heres some pics...

the ones in the ground were the scragglers.. just planted them out 2 days ago, they have been 6ft away from the bigger ones and had no greenfly on them.... the ones in pots are in their second pots...

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You can just spray them with slightly soapy water every day.

yep soapy water, or a garlic and onion crush water solution is ok, also bug clear i think is fantastic, if u go for a 'systemic' then u can almost gaurnetee that they wont be back as well...
Personally after looking at your pics i think u will be ok m8, just let em continue and look forward to the rewards, afterall u still in veg state so plenty of recovery time left in them yet

my guess is the weather has been good for the bugs at the moment

just thought id update....

big big slowdown in vertical growth.. all new growth is tight nodes ... new leaf slowly forming.. i recon they will be fine within the next week..

bring on july

Wilders hot pepper wax,works for me,the human equivalent of being maced in the face with an OC spray,end of aphids/green fly

another update... pics later..

recovering well, only got some neem yesterday so was spraying with b&Q bug free.. it seemed to do the business on the bugs.. had to bamboo support them , average height 5 foot .. the scragglers in the ground are coming on nicely

Those sun flowers could be attracting a lot of little nasties. I always end up spraying my sunflowers once a week otherwise they end up being overwhelmed.

funny enough the ones near the sunflowers are clear.. its the potted ones that had the bugs.. all gone now and growing nicely

had to tie those fuckers down.... they are enjoying the sunshine!!

Hey Mr CFL

Lookin' the tits dude, they soon shot up love the training on them lil puppies very neat and tidy

ATB

Magoo

I used washing up liquid,vinegar and cooking oil diluted yesterday,today they`re all dead.

update...

plants doing real good now... 0ver 6 ft and they have been tied down twice already , maybe again soon.. also i got 40 cuttings off of these 2 weeks ago..

enjoy the pics..

Looking lush mate will be huge come end september Good on ya

Mr F

i hope so.. im sick of buying damp bud .. im going to make a bed and put the 40 cuts in as well .. fuck it.. if your gunna take a hit for 15 plants, might as well be 55..

Very nice recovery, but judging by that fence, and guessing it's a boundry between properties, you gonna have a whole load of worryin' to do yet!!

Try and find a spot outdoors in farmland next time...



Good Luck Mr!!

My sentiments entirely

if i took a photo of next doors garden, you would know that they never set foot in it the whole garden is basically a stingy nettle field (4-5ft high) the only one who goes in there is their dog.. and they never clean the shit up... also, next door never even open their curtains...

its an ideal spot..

re-potting today into 11 litre B&Q buckets.. gotta drill those fuckers out first... bet the neighbours wondered what the fik i was doing with 10 buckets and a big 120 litre bag of B&Q multi purp.. gotta tie the buggers down as well .. for the third time... every bit of growth is as thick as a pencil.. so im hoping for some nice fat buds .. going to bring these inside at the first signs of budrot ( last year was sept 23rd ) and give them some heat and air flow at night..

i might have to select 5 of the best cos these are going to be monsters by time flowering kicks in...

fuck its now thundering.....


il upload a few pics when ive repotted

peace

Hmmm maybe you live next door to one of those skunk factories.

Update... bare with me, im smoking " Haze "

so heres a few pics took today.. the ones in B&Q buckets (4 fems) were the shortest and stoutest of the original 9 ( was it 9?? i cant remember ) i pruned them back about 3 foot and ties the side branches down , i had too , they were getting silly .. they are about 5 ft tied down, one is higher and not tied down much cos i dont want to chance snapping another stem.. lost a nice plant to over bending

the 4 fems out of 5 that were in the ground amoungst the sunflowers are anout 4 ft high.. i topped them about 3 weeks ago and now i got 3 or 4 main stems rather than 1!! result!! one is a dwarf about hone third the size of the others..

i also got 7 small fems at under a foot.. been out for about 2 weeksish??.. got a couple of small males and 2 males finishing under flouro`s cos i wanna pollinate a few branches again this year

some pics (( like how i disguised the surrounding )

another few

Hi cocofibrelover,

Hope you don't mind me asking you a question?

Just wondered whether you cover your outdoor plants to ensure 12/12 cycle? I was just looking at your pics from last year and i have to say that look very good for an outdoor grow. I've got 2 thai plants outdoor, they have been going to 3 months and are only just starting to show signs for flowering.

Thanks

Bunty69

no mate, i dont cover them.. i think they start flowering when the daylight comes down to about 16 hours, looking at them i would say this is the first week of flower or just prior to that, they seem to have had a spurt in upward growth over the last week or so and the first few pre bud hairs are visible..

i knew a guy who grew thai for years in the late 90`s not an ideal outdoor plant , cos its genetics are from south of the equator , if i remember right it grows like a single stem and you dont get much side growth but the bud looks like a toilet brush on a stick ,also i think its a long flowerer ?? im sure someone will know but i think it could be 10-12 weeks. smokes good, heavy flavour a bit like the " grass " from back in the day and a little bit hashy.. but i never smoked cured so i imagine cured could be some special nice quality smoke. this dude was in his 60`s and he still had 1960`s genetics seeds... this guy was also the first person i know who was growing NYC Diesel .. ever had that?? that shit has an awesome taste!! and he only skinned up once in a blue moon...

Many thanks for your comments. I will leave as is and let nature take it's course. It more for fun, than anything else. We have a another crop of SK indoors. READY SOON!!!!!

I read an article on some site like theregister ages ago about a paedo who was caught because he had used a distortion tool to hide his face in pictures, but the police were able to reverse the distortion. I know we're hardly the kind of people that SOCA or whoever will be looking for, but technology and knowledge trickles down organisations.....

I'd say if you want to censor bits of pictures block stuff out completely, or crop the picture to only show the plants. I don't really think it's necessary to try and hide what the floor looks like, but obviously it's up to you if you think it is distinctive.

Just a paranoid thought mate

The plants are looking good. I like the way you've got them hidden behind sunflowers - I didn't even see the weed the first time I looked, and I even wondered why you'd posted a picture of sunflowers!

ATB

got som bio bizz nutes today.. so should improve the results!!

Was looking up the recipe to knock some up and thought of this thread



its quite appealing to me to "DIY"

i remember someone later saying they found two cloves more effective so i am going on the 3 small cloves route

just thought i would post a few male flower pics... passion no.1 showing some male purple.. im going to finish this one and pollinate a few select branches/bud sites on the best of the females..

il post some female shots in a bit.. they are starting to show some nice hairs etc..

Hey Mr CFL

Now thats what ya call aload of bolox, , your gonna get a lil breeding program going on, sounds a good idea considering how much they cost from the seed banks.

ATB

Magoo

yeh mate, gotta love those free seeds i tried last year but only did 1 bud site and got about 30 seeds. i think il get a few more this year .. i wanna get me some Orange Bud for next year wink wink

nice looking grow .. when did that male start to show you sign,s off sex ? . iv not sexed any off my grows yet in the uk

that male started showing around 2 weeks ago its a clone i took last month from a male i already chopped. , but had one in the ground that started to flower about 10 days before that maybe even earlier.

heres a couple of shots showing first signs of female flowers or buds ..

any pollen going spare ?

had to tie the ones in the ground down a bit, they were poking over next doors fence

heres some latest flowers..

photo update... they look like they are enjoying the bio bizz nutes and the dose of guano i gave them last week...

::Peace::

wow lookin gd cant wait to see them fill out

Nice |G| 7 more weeks to go...

Quick update ... just a few pics.. they are loving the sun and the bio bizz nutes .. this looks quite promising for some smoke to see me thru the winter! got 7 5-6 footers tied down all have multiple main branches after topping twice.

Roll on the end of next month..

have a good one guys

::Peace::

been 6 days so i thought id update... just had a windy morning and the lady`s took a battering but came thru.. enjoying the sunshine and showers and one dose of buddy boost along with bio bizz nutes..

looking a whole lot better than last year..

these are in the earth .. the ones in pots will say hello tomorrow .

ok so .. heres the ones in pots.. theres 4 there.. trimmed and pruned 3 times top and bottom before flowering..

im quite roll on last week in september

fingers crossed for everyone !!

Looking good fella,not long left now ATB

Man looks very nice

couldnt resist taking a pic...

Amongst The Sun Flower..