yay! Pistils! and lots of em!

[Astro84]

I'm excited to report that my first outdoor set of plants are thriving and look very well apart from some minor leaf burn on one of my potted plants from our recent heatwave in melbourne.

 

Every day i'm checking the tops of each stem and seeing several little white pistils increasing as each day passes, I'm excited as this is the fruits of my labour and never thought that I would be vey successful with this.

 

My ground plants are about 8 feet tall which i'm thrilled about! with somewhere between 10-20 pistils on each stem, i'll take some pics tomorrow.

 

since this is an outdoor grow how long should flowring take? at least 10 weeks?

[Burnz]

Nice, 8 feet cant wait to see the pics. Hope there nice stinky bushy beasts

[raven6]

could be anything from 8-14 weeks depending on the strain....looking forward to the pics.....wish my outdoor babies were 8 feet

[Astro84]

well they're not as thick and leafy as i would like them to be but here are some pics of my plants

 

Here is a shot showing the height of the plants, as y ou can see the garage roof line is about 8-9 foot high

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v338/timbo3185/grow/th_IMG_0127copy.jpg

 

here's a bigger view, not entirely noticable with photos, also there's a wee planty between my tomato's

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v338/timbo3185/grow/th_IMG_0128copy.jpg

 

wee planty

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v338/timbo3185/grow/th_IMG_0129copy.jpg

 

anyone got a diagnosis for this? only seems to be on the lower, older leaves

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v338/timbo3185/grow/th_IMG_0130copy.jpg

 

Close up of the Left bush, nice long thick stems although not very dense, i suppose it's the surrounding bushes blocking out light, still..I have about 2 months before I see some massive results, each stem looks like this with about 5 stems

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v338/timbo3185/grow/th_IMG_0136copy.jpg

 

baby pistils, only a couple on each tip but each day there's another one or more, hard to see, I tried to use Macro on my camera but it didn't like the positioning and it wouldn't focus on the right area of the images, some are a little blurry, I tried

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v338/timbo3185/grow/th_IMG_0136copy.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v338/timbo3185/grow/th_IMG_0138copy.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v338/timbo3185/grow/th_IMG_0138copy.jpg

 

Closer image of my second Big girl, sorry about the bright sky washing out the image, This one is doing nicely, slightly more pistils than the other one

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v338/timbo3185/grow/th_IMG_0137copy.jpg

 

pic of the tops

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v338/timbo3185/grow/th_IMG_0140copy.jpg

 

pic of the thick branches

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v338/timbo3185/grow/th_IMG_0141copy.jpg

 

fail attempt at taking pic of pistils

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v338/timbo3185/grow/th_IMG_0142copy.jpg

Edited January 21, 2010 by Astro84

[Astro84]

My largest potted plant

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v338/timbo3185/grow/th_IMG_0144copy.jpg

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v338/timbo3185/grow/th_IMG_0148copy.jpg

 

my slow growing clone, pity it's a male

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v338/timbo3185/grow/th_IMG_0132copy.jpg

 

other wee planty

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v338/timbo3185/grow/th_IMG_0131copy.jpg

 

This one I have grown horizontaly with some nice results

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v338/timbo3185/grow/th_IMG_0134copy.jpg

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v338/timbo3185/grow/th_IMG_0133copy.jpg

 

Now, is it a good time to top these plants to get their height approximately the same for each stem? I understand making them "think" that each stem is the highest stem will result in somewhat better yield? I would probably just leave them as they are, they seem to be doing quite well at the moment

[Astro84]

Just wanted to make a small update on my plants, 2 weeks into flowering and i've noticed that the lower stems are budding much more than the upper half of the bush, still they're doing well...should i top the plants? will that encourage pistil development?

 

piccies

 

 

this is another of my plants, it's a small one about 3-4 feet tall...not very big but budding is pretty thick and dense!

 

 

This is my flowering Male plant, i'll harvest some pollen for possibly next year and maybe look for a different location in the yard to grow just to compare results

 

 

I dont know if i'll be harvesting the big plants this month...could be march or even later, it just seems really slow.

 

been applying canna flores once a week...hopefully they burst with energy and fill those well prepared weight-bearing stems with ounces of bud!

[gothash]

This is my flowering Male plant, i'll harvest some pollen for possibly next year and maybe look for a different location in the yard to grow just to compare results

 

hope ya got a big yard, cause pollen can travel along away,

[Astro84]

i plan to cut the stems and let them dry out so i can collect the pollen, i'll prob do it this week, what would be the best storage method?