Missing the dream

I am of to Toronto for 6 or so months.........which means I may not be around for harvest :( I will be heading to "the patch" to throw some nutes at the girls (so I'll grab some pics!), but doubt I will be back when they get cut down. As it stands I'm expecting about 3/4lb per plant. There is one each of white widow from Planet Wax (clone) and a shishkaberry donated 2 years ago by a fellow grower. There are more widow on a "co op" program, but I've been told they are not doing well. I also have some shish with another "co op" , I will try to get pics f these for you they are gorgeous! Grown in large (20liter) pails outdoors they are about 5 1/2' tall and easily 5' round :)
There are also a few at a spot that got ruined by skunks. There is a Lowlife Blueberry, Barneys Vanilla Kush and a DNA Cheese.

Planning Ahead

Now is the time all outdoor growers begin to pray and cross their fingers. The dreaded "weedwalkers" will be out scouting everywhere to rip you off. I'm sure there are times we wish we could set lethal traps to catch these suckers! New and affordable cameras are available (and also used by law enforcement) which can monitor your patch.
The LowLife auto blueberry I have out looks of excellent quality, but minimum quantity :(.
The single Vanilla Kush I have out will survive and may provide a decent sample of things to come.
The farm still has a shish and a widow I expect to produce some excellent smoke with. Yield should be about a quarter pound each.
One of my "co-op" partners has done very well with the shish outdoors. Nine 6 footers should be about 1 1/2 to 2 pounds/plant.
Stay tuned :)

How Does Your Garden Grow

I'm getting mixed reviews from some of the growers I know. One would have thought this would be one of the best grow years in recent memory. Mother Nature seems to be providing a perfect season, sun, rain, sun and rain. From a personal point of view I have 2 small sites. One was planted very late, was subject to a lot of stress (animals) and I expect very little (watch for pics in the near future). The other site I planted one each of my white widow mothers and shishkaberry. That site appears to be doing very well, however as far as I have heard other growers crops are very small or spindly. I was fortunate enough to have formed a co op with another grower....supplying clones for a share of the crop. These girls are outdoors, but in 20 gallon pails and are receiving lots of TLC. Yields are expected to be in the 1 to 1 1/2 lbs per plant range (too bad there's only 9). Here are some pics of some of the plants that will become my next mothers, well except for 3. There are 3 "autoflower" varieties in the group. Flower Power from Barneys, Green O Matic from Greenhouse, and AK47 from Lowlife. Others in the pics include: Vanilla Kush (Barneys), Frisean Dew (Dutch Passion), Cheese (Dinafem), and Mamma Mia (Serious)

Mother Nature at work

Visited my garden spot recently. I had 13 seedlings planted, 2 auto blueberry, 2 flower power, 2 vanilla kush, 2 white widow, 2 shishkaberry, 2 auto AK47 and a Dew. Ten were DUG UP! Turns out skunks have a fancy for grow pucks, little bastards destroyed them. We have replanted a VK and a Dew, spread soap and dog hair around, and crossed our fingers.
On the lighter side I still have a couple on the "farm", and I have 2 growers I supplied clones to for a piece of the action. There is no way I'm expecting less than 3-5lbs this year.......keep checking the blog to follow my progress.

Seeds and more seeds

Since getting my account with Seedman I have been salivating over the thoughts of having a huge variety of the world's best weeds! So with great anticipation I placed my first order (over$300). Some were being sold others planted. I was anxious to try the autoflowers and especially Barneys Vanila Kush and Frisian Dew (Dutch Passion). I learned an expensive lesson. I used regular tap water to enlarge the pucks, turns out my tapwater sucks. Germination rates were greatly affected, so let that be a warning to all of you, spend a couple of bucks in making sure your water s balanced ;) We proved it was the water by planting new seeds, and my germination rates went from 50% to 100!
Next post you'll hear about my next problem..........hopefully I will save some of you money.

Been A Long Time

Haven't made the time to post in a while, sorry to all. I placed a few seed orders and have had a few lessons learned the hard way. Here are some of the "babies" you'll be hearing about. I decided to try autoflowers and purchased from Barneys Farm, LowLife and Greenhouse. Strains include Flower Power, AK47, Blueberry, and Green-O-Matic. Other varieties of feminized seeds I picked up are: Cheese, Vanilla Kush, Frisean Dew, and Mamma Mia. All are intended for the great outdoors, even though we are in mid July. I will do my best to keep everyone updated. All seeds are available through my website, in original packaging at www.BuzzOn.ca

Thanks Pokerstars!

Pokerstars has started their SCOOP tournaments, and you may remember I won entry through a bloggers freeroll. ell on May 2nd I joined 9632 others to compete for the prize pool of $2m. I believe I ended up 486th (top 5%!) which paid me $600, pretty good for a freeroll. Top prize was $280k....thanks PokerStars.