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Day 138 or thereabouts and the final entry for this grow. Both plants smoke up real well! Lab results attached for curiosity's sake. 10 ounces of nice, strong Girl Scout Cookie, which is about normal for the cropped plants I've been doing. 3 1/2 ounces of Gary Payton, lower THC but still dank...

Day 139 and forward I got crazy busy with a bunch of stuff going on and haven't had a chance to finish up this year's write up. I got my harvest in on September 21 and September 28. I was determined to make it a couple more weeks, but it rained all but about 3 days in September and you know...

Girl Scout Cookie

Day 129 Not much to report, but Fall is here and it's showing on the plants. Two GSC are filling out nicely with milky trichomes and leaves turning yellow and dying off. They're within 3-4 weeks of harvest. (Went 150 days last year, chopped October 5, and probably could have gone another...

Day 104 Comin' along... I've noticed a couple of hints of WPM, and given the time of year I figure I'll spray Agrowlyte twice a week for a while and see how it goes. This is the furthest into the season I've been in 4 years and not really having much of the stuff. Usually I've got the fan...

These black fabric "pots" I use are pretty forgiving. It seems almost impossible to over-water.

Day 95 As of August 1, I'm dropping Grow Big and adding Big Bloom. So every other day they're getting 1T / gal of Big Bloom and Buds and Blooms and 1t cal-mag / gal. I mix 2 gallons and split it among the three plants. People say Foxfarm nutes can run hot, but at this concentration and...

It seems early, but this strain started flowering around this time last year. It makes for a long flowering phase...hope I can keep that bud rot at bay until mid-October...

Day 88 Maybe it's been so hot for so long it's just keeping the bugs and WPM at bay - who knows. Other than the thrips or whatever infestation early on, no caterpillars, not many leaf hoppers. Maybe routine Spinosad and bT sprayings every Monday morning pretty much all season is the way to...

Day 74 All three plants are about 4' tall and thriving. Pre-flower for about a week now. They still have plenty of growing time / veg, but the twice-topped seems to have produced the shorter, bushier, more manageable plants I was hoping for. I'd say 15 of the most recent 20 days have been 100...

Good luck and happy smoking! Many days over 100 recently here in central VA. Plants of all types are having a hard go of it.

I've heard of thrips but don't think I've seen them or their damage before. What do you see that suggests thrips?

Day 61 Independence Day! Bugs, humidity, heat-- July in Central Virginia. I'll celebrate with the arrival of powdery mildew on one of the GSC. That's to be expected this time of year around here. I sprayed with half-strength Agrowlyte. Also a little weirdness on new growth. I would guess...

I don't have much experience with autos, but if those were photos, I'd wait.

Aphids always make me think of this old drawing from the New Yorker magazine. George Booth was great.

WPM is some hateful stuff. I've used Agrowlyte and something else...the stuff you get at brewing shops...Potassium Chloride or something...with decent results, but it's a constant battle. Since I'm a three-plant backyard grower I can pamper my garden and I blow a $25 fan from Amazon on them 24/7...

Day 45 I found a baby caterpillar and some little caterpillar poop balls (I guess that's what they are ), so started weekly spinosad and bT spray (mixed in a single sprayer) as of June 17. Plant color is good, thick stems...they seem healthy. I'll probably start gentle feeding and cal-mag this...

The keep the deer and bunnies of the seedlings, and a piece of plexiglas laid over the top helps protect from Spring storms beating the poor things up.

Day 35 Coming right along. I love the sunny, bug-free, low humidity, non-powdery white mildew days of Spring. Thinking compact plants might be an advantage come Aug-October when I'm battling storms and humidity, I decided to top a couple of times this year. Otherwise, come September when I'm...

Three weeks in. All the GSC are looking great. Two Gary Paytons are spindly but probably OK. None of the Critical Jack were good. One GSC and one Gary in the big pots are my keepers, and the others go to friends and family. Spread the wealth / spread the odds of success!