Yippeeeeee ! My seeds are up (first seeds in 12 mths).

Pics of my sprouted wee Satvias for outdoors during summer.


Ok amongst this lot this year are some "Purple Tai Satvia's". I'm hoping there is one here as it becomes pot luck for the seed I the got the seed all mixed up - don't ya hate that.

some more .............

I also have got 4 quick finishers (50/50 indica/Satvia) out basking in the sun. Problem is that this is abioout a month too early that I put them out to aclimatise and they are on edge of flowering (white pistals and tight budage formed. This means only 1 thing - they will go in with my Chrissy round and new bulb in a day or 2's time

very nice nit.... summer has struck today up in brizvegas , 28 today up to 36 for sat ....... jesus .... you grow on your own land ? or do ya place em in the sticks ?

Hi haverest fellow Ozy...........



No M8 I grow in Sydney City area in my back yard (plot). I have an old terrace place in CBD area + spare bedroom, which is my indoor grow room.

Unfortunatly although there is alot of land here in Oz I'm a city urban deweller. I just in the last few months joined Oz stoners. I see you frequent the site as well.



So are u in Brisbane M8 ??? I used to live there and was born in Ipswich, Qld. I left when I was 6 weeks old - very young.

Cya............................................

Hi NK

It's good to see you starting for the summer just as we're finishing here and they're four nice, tight wee plants you got going in for xmas

Potted the wee ones up into pots and placed under one huge haloigen in the sky

They are loving it - 28 - 30 & very bright

I got a difficult decission to make about these 50/50 hybrids which I put outdoors. The went out too early and now r in full flowering mode. I guess I have 2 choices with these 4 plants.

1) Put them indoors iwith my next 12/12 round. Obviously being 12" - 15" tall the yield will be down.
this is not such an issue as I have a grow just abgout to finnish.

2) Keep them outside and hope for a male Satvia (no doubt I will get one) from these "wee ones"


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SHIT ! BLOODY HELL FIRE

Mental note bring down smoke detector from GR - f4ire extingruished

I've potted 4 wee Tai Satvia's up into Coco & dirt.

One is racing alng and I am guessing it's a male I won't mind this at all as I have flowering quite close some of my indoor females.

I am planning on crossing a male (hopefully) He is the one closest in the pic [attachmentid=51439]



With this one of 3 I have now flowering outdoors [attachmentid=51440]


NK.

I had a 'potting -up' day yesterday- I love my little back garden this time of the year. The lemon tree which I savagely pruned a few weks ago is showing signs of new shoots. I've got to pick up some 'Citrofresh' and give it a spray. I eat lemons fresh off the tree or squeeze it out into some cold water & ice cubes.................A good refreshing natural drink.

In my visit I did my 1st 'early search; of my garden and found 1 wee sprout. They pop up every year. I am sure that the MJ plans find the perfect spot to germ. This I left in the ground where it wants to become (I'm hoping male). It is the 1st rising for mother earth.

Along with 4 others seedlings I did my usual & filled the 2" pots with Coco. Gave them a little drink. They were all well today, after looking sad after the potup. I have found it useful to pot up in the shade.

No names yet - not sure if I will give them names.

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I take cuts and force flower the cutings in a few weeks time. Pick the "best of the croud" then wait till the selected plants clones are ready................This all take alot of time (approx 10 weeks).

Just a quick update on my seedlings.

The grubs are a worry outdoors - no losses to date and this is my whole collection for this year + my indoor grows.

the "monster in the first large round pot is possibly a male (first up, racing ahead and beaten the snals to a height beyond reach)

The smaller sprouts in 2" square pots are about 1-2 weeks behind the others in larger round pots.

A somewhat boring time - especially when you have a crop eady to chop indoors.


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Yea a "summertime vision" is forming.................. Scrog

That's a better thing to do indoors where is faster.......... & my last Outdoor Scrog suffered a tragic unprevental natural disarster (a 50' Eucaliptus tree fell on the net)...........

I visited my backyard sprouts/plants. They have passed the germ phase and moving past 5 internodes (5-8 " tall). In the las few days .................. Lost the 'one' that poped up in the garden. evidence of the rouge cat (not mine -"he wouldn't")!

They are 'rocketing' and I've topped them. They looked a litle light on 'N' soz I bought some "o[z]-smocote' contolled release plant food - yep just looked at it - NPK = (15) : (5.2) : (10) Where they spoke in tablespoon I "re-converted" it to 'teaspoons' 1/2'ed he dose to a light 1/2 teaspoon per 6 mths. dam hope it's slow release.

It was small round pellets, all sparkly and colour coded -----trippy red/brown ones Green ones and little solid wite ones - looks the treat.... I've not got this for breakfast, but it looks .........

The weather has not been that kind to them yet. Bus each time the sun comes out and followiing 2 days after potting up they are moving out & up.. Won't have sexng materials (cuts) for a # of weeks, say 3-4 weeks.

OH ! it's for "Roses" & is 'superfeeder'



Yep Me's has grow it - an airy buded halicinagenic in the clouds, & trippy - not for insomniac's



Tknks h - Yep they may......be ........ like monsters



NK.

Well the weather has not been good - a little cloudy amd wet.

! day of sunshine and 35 deg cel then the next 18 & rain..............

I can't complain .............. this is a top view of my male (I hope). the only way I think this is that it was first up and the fastest grower.


top view a nice clean topping with 2 cola's ................[attachmentid=53161]






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The mother mate eagerly awaiting
(I thinks she is keen - he's a bit young)

very nice nit ..... can't wait for these to take off

Thanks h M8.

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I have 20Lt pots as the next & final pot on. I'll be gettng some compost (don't know the type yet) from 'Bunnings' this week. So, in 2 weeks I should have some better weather + decent mix with sunshine & 35 deg cel days.


I have topped these at the 4 - 5th internode. There is 6 plants in total (unsexed). I'll be taking cuts and rooting them soon (2 more weeks), putting them strait to 12/12 for sexing.





NK.

thats not fair, antipodeans talking about summer in november when we are all freezin our nads off
mind, i dont mind, all this cold air is perfect for venting into my grow room to keep the temps down from my 600hps and 400mh
those plants look well as a f***
top stuff you jammy sod

Thanks for the kind words hazylights - this last week has seen drizzle rain. It's weired how the UV is good for sprouting satvias

14 deg cel is like nice........ tomorrow looking @ 14 overnight 26 day Saturday. Sea temps 19 cel....... 21 c's what I like...........another week.

Pic 1 is of Mum & Dad taken on 20/11/05................[attachmentid=54473]


Pic 2 is of Group (7 in total 1 in large pot out of pic)

2 confirmed males & 2 Females in pic & single plant is female. At the front is a cut I just stuck in the compost & one wich want to creep along the ground....a good Scrog pheno cantidate if a female... .. with the poor cutting you never know if it will strike

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Last pic squeezed in was of the one picked correctly to be a male and awaiting mum


These don't like to be fed too much so I picked up some "Dynamic Lifter" (NPK 10:2:6) & some "Fish Emulsion" (NPK 9:2:6). I am yet to give these any nutes. I will await signs of them running low


NK.

A quick update: 3 males and 4 females (me thinks). Time will tell.

I have potted up into some cheapo compost got 'Osmocote', fish emulsion, & dynamic Lifter on standby - will be needed in 5 - 7 weeks for flowering I presume yet they don't mind being starved.




Group pic [attachmentid=55116]


Single Female [attachmentid=55117]



NK.

Nice garden you've got there. Lemon tree? Eucalyptus? Ah, get away you impoverished lot. Looks absolutely beautiful mate. Wish I was there. We've got cold and wet. Where I live (Manchester area) the weather is crap! To say the least. It gets freezing cold in the winter, but rains (hardly ever snows except on the higher ground where I don't live) and in the summer, it's generally cloudy but dry/wet. Sometimes the sun shines! (Well, it's not that bad, but... there are far nicer places in the world). (and worse, so I shouldn't complain). But how lucky you are to be growing those sativas outside in your back yard. Good luck with them, hope they turn out well.

The huge Eucalyptus has gone and the many birds didn't come this year. the weather has moved to full summer wth the next coupple of weeks being optimal growing time (veging). I picked up some "el chepo" potting mix ('Reliance' brand - Kmart/Woolworths for 3 bucks a bag). I know this is shit by the price and due to 2 weeks and a lot of rain it is terribly short of Nitrogen with yellowing of the lower leaves far to early.

Remmidy is to repot with in 4 max (if they dont survive well then earlier) weeks to a nice N healthy mix.

I don't have a clue what is availiable here in Oz. I've heard the brand name "Seals" or something like that.


How are the plants doing.

Well they are 2-3' ish tall (1 single cola untoppd & unsexed, 1 huge male, 1 infemale in 12/12, 2-3 females outdoors needing some better food (medium)2 other suspect plants. The one I picked as a male was spot on. I have had to back up the proposed mum with an altrnative as the selected mum has gone along time in full flower mode. Unfortunatly the the strain I selected for the mum dose not reveg well at all - next to impossible even with the big light in the sky for light.

I have identified most of the plants & taken 1 female to flower early upstairs and indoors for 12/12. I have also taken cuts from all plants. This is is were I stuffed up big time. I did not lable them

The pest problems outdoors has remitted somewhat with the onset of dry weather. 'Green grubs' were the major problem. Daily inspections helped remove them (not before they got heigh as a kite !) taking out 2 -3 large shade leaves in no time. Lucky the growth rate beat the snails so with those 2 competitors out of the way it was onwards and upwards at a phenominal rate. I estimate the growth to be about 2 sets of leaves per 24 hrs - 2" (Ideal Scrog plant). 1 set would be fully extended and opperational with the secnd almost out right behind it. Each ending up the size of my hand & fingers outstreatched.

I will have a new camera within 2 weeks so some better quality pics on my next post. I'll do some pics of the size of the leaves and the plants in about 2 weeks or so


NK.

Cheers all

Group pic - out basking in our glorious sunshine [attachmentid=56938]


The selected male (likely Dad) is romping ahead. 3 females are chugging, and I have a 4th in 12/12 atm. It's about Day 6 12/12 for her so another week and morelikely 2 weeks before she 'triggers'.

single mum [attachmentid=56939]

I have no access to get a decent compost...........the luxuary of getting JI #1,2, & 3

I have searched the garden centers, hardware stores, here & there - but to no avail.

So I going to have to make my own. I have worm juice, dynamic lifter (liquid) ferts, seasol & as a last resort some dreaded osmocote. as a base I have some blood & bone and today I grqabbed a coco brick and tommorrow I will get a 2xbags of "Coco - with neem"

Next week the females should all be pottted up into 25 Lt pots.

IDEA :
Now, out in my yard I have a rear wooden fence (Group pic rear wooden fence & some plants) wich gets light on it most of the day. It's a perfect place to put 1 female in a huge pot and a bit of trellis to train her along.

What do you think ?


NK.

Update day 16

Just introducing Male & female Tai satvia ...... the diffeence is obious.

the female avarage 4' male 7'


male & female together ............. [attachmentid=57050]

My 2nd round for 2006 cut and going outdoors to bask for 4 -6 weeks

Pic 2 is a grup shot. Yes there are some nice plants on the right sid out of view.
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They are my indoor strain of 50/50 Oz hybrids grtting in some nice sun. My room is busy on 12/12 with the net grow.

Cheers all

NK.

Hi all. . . . . the suns out.

I have decided to put a bit of 'trellis' up on the back fence to tie my girl up. The position gets very good light from 6am - 8pmish which is about the best I can get as the biulding is obstructing ligh on sunset.
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Male is on the left & the larger of the 3 pictured. The other 2 are females. I will be using the male to pollanate my indoor strain. The male is quite large pheno so may look at changing the donor depending on the characteistics such as height, health & amount of flowers.

Pic # 2 is of the female pictured above on the right. [attachmentid=57742]


Pic # 3 is of the male on it own by the trellis [attachmentid=57741]


Hope it's not to cold over there for you lot


NK.

gidday Nitram -they are some nice looking plants!! I LOVE the Thai hazes! What are the 50/50s?

And I'm envying your summer m8!!! , it's still winter over here in the West and my WW grow is a month behind. starting to warm up now tho - which reminds me how's the heatwave going???? And I hope there's no bushfires

anyway, keep the pics happening mate and hope they all go well

Heat wave was a beat up and there has been no fires

The outdoor Satvia's are a picture of health ....... I have them in 25 Lt pots & thats where there going to stay.

The compost I got was 'shit' so I have been adding Blood & Bone, 'dynamic Lifter - concentrate', fish shit (emulsion) & a teasppon of slow release 'osmocote'. It seems to have fixed the far to early N deficiency.

They are so nice and green. They are in for some real sun in the next 4 weeks.
the 'trellis ' work on my back fence is going to be a treat. I'm looking forward to it budding out.

Merry Christmas All


NK.

They lookin really nice mate and so does that bloody weather

Merry xmas to you and your plants mate

Owd

A bloody hot week comming up - Daily early morning watering.

They are packing on the height now and trying to reach the sun ( that would be one rather big dope plant wouldn't it)


This is the reserve Female [attachmentid=58330]


this is the Female on the trellis [attachmentid=58332]

This is (may be 'WAS') the male [attachmentid=58331]

I can see this was - I am saying "was" to be the male I had selecteed as the polland giver to cross with my 50/50 Oz Hybrid. . . . . I am thinking it has far too much streatch as in this 37 C day it is going sky wards @ a rate of 2" per day now - I only have the possibility of a selection of 1-2 other Males. I am uncertain of the sex at this point & susp2ect 1 of the 2 of being aa giant female. You wouldn't think that is a problem however @ 5 now with 8 - 9 weeks of veg to go I may chop the one in the pic. If it gets to 7' it's going as that is the height of my fence !

Well you may have heard that global warming is comming to Oz and a place near you.

44C on 1/1/06 - Heat was barly surviveable .........pure

1 Outdoor got fried and is attempting a comeback. . . . . . . most of the Tai girls coped real well.........unfortunatly/unfortunatly (depending on if you needed 3 males) the male was expendable.

He is fighting hard though ........ credit to his struggle for survival .. I know just how it feels that "fried skin, no moisture in or out, loss of breath (can't do osmosis , nor photosinthensis) - coke ...

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Keep you posted on my others ..................


NK.

Wow thats hot 44c , dont think my grow room's ever hit that

Good luck nit , apart from that they all look healthy & green

One hopes it dose not happen too often. Appaently it was the hottest day in 100 yrs.

Well, either I am too stoned qand have not posted in this for a while (Nitramkram Posted Jan 4 2006)

So what do we have now. 5 females now @ 3-4' and 2 males @ 4-5'

I have strapd 1 girl to a trellis [attachmentid=59831]

1 female on table [attachmentid=59830]

1 male [attachmentid=59832] Latest Group pic

One hopes it dose not happen too often. Appaently it was the hottest day in 100 yrs.

Well, either I am too stoned qand have not posted in this for a while (Nitramkram Posted Jan 4 2006)

So what do we have now. 5 females now @ 3-4' and 2 males @ 4-5'

I have strapd 1 girl to a trellis [attachmentid=59831]

1 female on table [attachmentid=59830] 1 male [attachmentid=59832]

More pics later on of progress.

The wheather has coold down to be real funguus weather he last week. 22-26 days some sunny periods which the 'trellis Girl' (& others) love. I am not complaining, my plants are veging nicely.

I noted on Oz stoners form peeps were complaning about there outdoor Indica strains springing into preflower mode following 4 -6 days of overcastweather. I had a few outside and they turned somewhat too.
I had them lined up for 12/12 any ways, so they were quite primed.

OK pics on 2 consecutive posts with the star next:

Both side by side : [attachmentid=60146]Male (polland giver)

Group pic 2 fems . Trellis girl & The male [attachmentid=60145]


The male is in 15-20 Lt pot and is a little root bound. I don't have any larger 25Lt pots (biggest in my selection) and putting it in the grownd is not an option (neibours don't want a tree - a green shade tree at that - up hangiing over the fence. They do a bit of entertaining !

Anyway the male is to gather polland from then I could do the Yoyo thing and tie it down and that should ger me several weeks (wheather depending).

Trellis Girl [attachmentid=60147] Male (polland giver) [attachmentid=60148]

NK.

well done mate! that'll show up the couch-lockers.

looking forward to see how your girl goes on the trellis. 6am-8pm direct sun? You can't get much better than that

keep up the pics mate

The sun is back out. The heat has been intense yet the Satvias handle it very well


[attachmentid=60840] The male is getting a little tall and the pot is far 2 small (20Lt)[attachmentid=60841]

Last pic is the 'group' less the one female on the table just out of shot.[attachmentid=60842]


NK.

[quote] sky ......well done mate! that'll show up the couch-lockers.

looking forward to see how your girl goes on the trellis. 6am-8pm direct sun? You can't get much better than thatquote]

Avaiable light hour dose not = lights on your plants ! Nine are in 80% direct light west facing

The only point is that my location is lacking 20% of light witch will mean an earlier finish !

Slight problems with security but hope it won't come to anything.

I won't mind a shortened finishing time tbh. (4 mths veg) is long enough.

Some New Veg growth on my "Trellis Girl" [attachmentid=61513]


NK.

Gday NK - you're spoilt m8 with your light. I'm stoked if i can get 6 hrs direct, 5 hrs scattered and 2 or so in shadow. (That's the only problem with ttrees!)

Whats the security prob m8 or cant u say?
(Dob-in or rip-off?)


Anyway you're 29C today (Sunday) so happy growing!


SKY

I got the impression of height (security prob) when i read throuhg it

Looking good N , how id love a bit O that Oz sunshine on my garden

good luck

I'm close to those times too. . . I am not that much closer to the equator than those on the other cioast.



Both being dobed in and riped off. Things will cool down I just need to watch out around finish time. Makes mental note and records it here @ UK420.com.

That it was a nice day.





That too Law M8 ..... as that's the best view (2 stories up on the bloody roof)..




It's great to wake up and sit out in the sun, coffee, bacon and eggs with toast amongst my plants.

Sometimes a beer (never spirits) but it depends on what day of the week which drink I have. The time too !



Thanks hazylights, Law & Skyhigh-64

The weather has been very good of late (last week or so). The plants are preparing tp bloom - the wasps have not attacked me yet. So everything is going according to some plan. I'll leave it in the hands of mother nature.


NK.

Hi all UK420 peeps. summer has bee just normal qwith intermittant sunny days followed by some overcast days lasting sometimes 2 -3 days.

Trellis Girl is in a spot of bother and a post in the roblem & diseases form follows later.

ok a pic of her with the giant male too...............[attachmentid=63328]

I don't have any larger pots left so I improvised using a milk create. . . . . . [attachmentid=63329]


All will be fine

Nice one Nitram

I know im always going to see something in your threads that will make me jelouse, Big healthy bushey outdoor plants sucking up all the sun they can

Hi nitram

mmm bacon n egg's amongst the girls nice

very 'normal'

Thanks pro lib & jom

NK.

A quick update on how the outdoor plants ar doing.

'Trellis girl' is recoverng slowly. some sorting out this next few weeks taking out the male wich are now starting to show themselves.


'Trellis Girl' [attachmentid=66017] [attachmentid=66018]

Other pics of the other females later. We have a weather change to Autum over the past 2 -3 days. The plants are moving into flower vmode very soon.


NK. .

Gday NK - glad your T girl is recovering - theyre lookin bloody good despite the crap weather (much better than mine which started pre-flowering about 2 weeks ago).

Still, autumn's warming up so maybe there'll be a great finish (will probably turn into a @#$# scorcher!)

BTW are you going to regenerate your male or is he going to that great herb garden in the sky?

cheers mate and good luck with the last (and best) part!

sky

My plants all turned this week. Wheather this side of the continent is ok - sunrise hours are going down rapidly and below 13 this week. It's amazing how quickly the plant responds.[attachmentid=66864]

Trellis Girl is just ok - a bit pissed off at the lower leaves. It could just be a characteristic of the strain. I sholdn't expect leaves to last forever outdoors.


I have picked up some "Add Bud" made by "Fast Way Aquarium & Hydidroponics". It's not the same as PK13/14 and can be usesd outdoors and in (hydroponics) at any stage. I am going to give it a whirl.

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That brown fence in the rear is 6'4" and just hiding my plants. It look like I have 5 females (including trellis Gril & Create girl) and 1 cloned male and a second no telling for some bloody reason. the fact it 7' has me thinking another male but it should have showed me by now. all the females are budding up



NK.

They are some of the best looking plants I've seen in a long time. I love growing outdoors, but our climate can't match yours. My parents were nearly £10 poms back inthe 60's if only...

The leaves look huge as well.

Hope you get the proper hot run in to harvest.

TM

You must be looking at otherplants if you think the leaves look "huge". they are in fact the thinest leaves you can get on a strain. They are an equatorial variety (strain) suited to hight intensity ultraviolet light, hence the thin foliage.

The buds are light and very airy weighing alot less that Indica strain buds. The heigh from the smoko is so different in that it is more cerribal rather than a full on body stone. I go a bit 'parranoid' when smoking it after summer and into winter.

Thanks for your coments TM. I don't quite know what you mean by "My parents were nearly £10 poms back inthe 60's if only..."


NK.

Unlike my indoor grow which I could tellyou what day what happens I can only guess they will take another 8 weeks or more. That's only a guess.


I think it was 5/1/2006 I germed. so about 16 weeks veging and then 10- 15 weeks 12/12.

I should have a good haul. I never grow for quantity. two reasons I do this mostly for.

1) the light is plentiful and free.

2) the stone is something worth waiing for.

thanks for dropping in hazy


NK.

From a seed to flower and on the mome streatch !

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NK.

Hi all you lot ..............


Well the plants have been doing well with out any feeds. They have been in full flower mode for the last week. It's rained every night and they have used aqlot of Nitrogen (N).

I have resisted feeding and watering this past week .......... the wheather is cooling down (temps 23 Max).


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They are geetting hungry & Fattening up [attachmentid=69354]


A Close up of a cola. [attachmentid=69356]

I am adding "Add Bud" from now on untill they finish some time in the next 8 weeks.


NK.

Looking good there N ..... how id love some of that Oz sunshine


good luck with it all