New Zealand outdoor thread 2013/14 (all kiwis post!)

[BCJohn]

Hey guys,
I was thinking about your discussion of bugs... Why not look at making a spray with nicotine as the active ingredient? Nicotinoid pesticides are very effective and used in big agriculture all the time. Too much actually, which might be why we are all loosing our honey bee populations but that is a different conversation. For spraying a single plant or grow is harmless to everything but the bugs eating our plants.

DIY:
- Go buy an organic cigar, with no additives.
- Cut it in half, keep half for later.
- Shred the half and place it in a jug of clean water. Let it steep over night.
- Strain it really well and pour into a spray bottle. Add a couple drops of liquid dish detergent as a surfactant.
- Go spray those bugs!!

You can make a litre or two with each half and it shouldn't take all that much to kill off any infestation. Add a bit of baking soda to change the ph and you can help prevent mold at the same time. Or use some milk in it to encourage LB bacteria to colonize your plants and prevent mold that way. There are lots of gardening tricks you can try without spend lots on commercial chemicals.

I've never tried any of these on MJ but they are used by vegetable and flower gardeners all over the world all the time. Talk to some of your local gardeners and they will have other ideas. The old timers always do.

Got to go check my recipe now that I wrote it out. I think I missed something.

 

[BCJohn]

Here is a long list of different plants you can play with when caring for your grow. Some of them are hard to get but some are also really easy. Just depends on what your local nurseries carry. Ask them and they might have a good alternative as well.

http://www.frenchgardening.com/tech.html?pid=3164873867231346

pyrethrum seeds are easy to get online. You could grow your own along with Marigolds and garlic as companion plants. Flowers protecting your flowers.

 

[eastcoastmo]

Oh ho ho just you wait mate Malawi's and Panama's still have til mid feb for vegging and not to mention the flower stretch...


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Put them out this morning. Guerilla is hard work!.

This is the start of an adventure

Fark man what an awesome spot, can ya feel the serenity ha ha ha. Hope you get some monster buds out there man!!

 

[eastcoastmo]

LOL!!! That is Celcius!!

Nice spot! That is what I was hoping to see. A beautiful location for some beautiful girls.
Very Nice. I really am looking forward to seeing how they do for ya. Should be interesting.

Fark thata cold man. We get -10 but thats about as cold as it gets. -30 would be good trout fishin weather though

 

[theexpress]

Fark thata cold man. We get -10 but thats about as cold as it gets. -30 would be good trout fishin weather though

its negative 13 in Chicago right now..... and negative 30 is not good trout fishing weather lol

 

[alexis66]

I will be coming back soon thanks for the great article.

 

[eastcoastmo]

its negative 13 in Chicago right now..... and negative 30 is not good trout fishing weather lol

Damn you can have that lol.

Mate ive been trout fishing in -21 here in Oz and it was unreal, bagged out 3 times over! Was bloody cold and hard to feel my hands and other body parts but we got a shit load of good fish

 

[BCJohn]

You are totally right Mo! Wait for it to be bright and F'king Cold!

That is how it's done here but then we don't have much choice. It is nice to be able to drive out on the ice with a mini cabin pulled behind. Fishing in a heated shack with a fridge and stove is how some people do it. Hardly feels like winter when you are fishing in a T-shirt.

I would trade it for NZ though. As much as I love living in Canada and being from here there are some really nice places in NZ. Canada is too large sometimes. Takes me 24 hrs of solid driving to go visit some of my family and forget about those friends on the East Coast! Canada is a massive place. I'm a proud Canadian but I have travelled more than enough to know that there are some really nice places in the world other than my own back yard. And my backyard is F'king Fantastic!

 

[crazykiwi420]

Sweet as mate, shel be out tomorrow. Well hopefully a "she" who knows at this stage, fingers crossed Thats true it still is pretty early, guess well have to wait and see. I bet a wide range of things will cross its path would be intresting to know how many haha

Went up and dug the hole today and took decent soil with me becasue damn its such crap soil just full of rocks. Spent bloody ages digging with a shitty small plastic garden tool (All I had) lol Good news is though the soil from the compost heep looks primo! Its composted straw and a plenty of decomposed vegetable scraps and weeds from the garden. Was covered in bugs and the odd worm Mixing that with soil from my garden which is good with no stones. Its silt type dirt from the old river a K or so away.

Your transplants are looking awesome, looks like some nice soil maybe slightly volcanic? And your panama looks daaaamn sexy lol Question: How often will they need watering provided here has been no rain?

Heres pics with the lighter for size

do you have any pics of it in the ground bro?. yeah praying mantises love weed plants and keep away spider mites and lady bugs are awesome too. Look for alternating internodes on the plant, my malawi mother indoor has alternating inter nodes with a few hairs now - I'll get an idea of how the weed is before outdoor harvest

Ah ha man you should of got a better spade, do you have any protection?. at least you have some good compost but you're keen taking it in that far lol, I have some fertilizer pellets for general use but will probably use potash for flower.

Thanks man, not too sure but the soil type is allophanic. A lot of variation in soil in NZ and even the BOP ha. The panama's are going to be sexy as hell if I get the red pheno! I'm still gonna be stoked with whatever phenos I get, I'd be over the moon if I got the green and red expressions with a red male

I also have a Taskenti cutting transplanted into a peat pot under the fluros. Going to put out the Panamas tomorrow morning, have rain crystals and fertiliser sussed

 

[crazykiwi420]

Mo - Thanks mate and I hope so too

BCjohn - that ice fishing sounds awesome mate, wish we could do that here!. Having a little shack with a stove would be awesome!

Man you guys are icemen, do you have your own igloos? Hotbox the igloos out I'm pretty sure the lowest recorded temp in Tauranga is -1 ha! sounds like a tropical island compared to you guys and we rarely go below 4 degrees in winter - we also had no frosts the whole year! hottest winter in 100 years for us.

Thank you to everyone else that has jumped onto this thread and taking the interest - I promise to see this thread out to the end with smoke report etc.

Cheers,
CK

 

[Letstrip]

BCJohn thanks for the tips on the organic ideas for bugs! If I encounter any more problems Ill defiantly have to consider these Your temps are insane Ive got some family friends who just landed in Canada and they live in Australia so its gone from hot to extremely cold for them they're not used to it hahah

 

[Letstrip]

do you have any pics of it in the ground bro?. yeah praying mantises love weed plants and keep away spider mites and lady bugs are awesome too. Look for alternating internodes on the plant, my malawi mother indoor has alternating inter nodes with a few hairs now - I'll get an idea of how the weed is before outdoor harvest

Ah ha man you should of got a better spade, do you have any protection?. at least you have some good compost but you're keen taking it in that far lol, I have some fertilizer pellets for general use but will probably use potash for flower.

Thanks man, not too sure but the soil type is allophanic. A lot of variation in soil in NZ and even the BOP ha. The panama's are going to be sexy as hell if I get the red pheno! I'm still gonna be stoked with whatever phenos I get, I'd be over the moon if I got the green and red expressions with a red male

I also have a Taskenti cutting transplanted into a peat pot under the fluros. Going to put out the Panamas tomorrow morning, have rain crystals and fertiliser sussed

Sure do mate! Got it in the ground on Tuesday was supposed to put some pics up last night but didn't get around to it. Oh wouldn't mind some of them praying on my plant
Oh you gotta tell us how that big indoor Malawi mumma goes!!! I bet potent as F...

Yeah I should have got a better spade but It means id have to walk it partially through a public place and I got a bit keen on the dirt I took it up the day before but seriously you should have seen how awful and rocky the dirt was so it was quite necessary lol Thats awesome soil man its just mostly silty river soil here which is really good but of course theirs plenty of utter crap soil to.

A red pheno would just top it of for ya, would love to see that! Anyway here is my plant its got mesh around it for protection. Gonna go up tomorrow and give it a water and cut some of the shading branches of the willows that are shading it a bit and just check it out. What a mission trying to the the plant there in one piece Certainly not the nicest looking spot but it will have to do haha

 

[BCJohn]

Hey LT,
look for one of the folding shovels sold for camping. They are solid metal and fold into a small case. Not as good as a full on spade but better than other things. There are also small gardening implements that might work for your ground.

 

[janicethewhite]

Got these two beautys, already been out for about a month, growth is so drastic each day its crazy. They are about 2 months old I think but I cant remember

 

[crazykiwi420]

Wassup Lt,

That's an all good spot and with a bit of trimming to let more sun in will definitely do, It's not like you're doing this as an operation lol. She better be a female for all the work you have put in, I'll send you some fem seeds for next years season - Panama x Malawi should be a good cross for your climate because the Panama red pheno should shorten the flower time down by a week and a half or so. Do you reckon you could harvest at the end of april down those ways? If not I'm still gonna make a Taskenti(pure indica) x Malawi f1.

Malawi was a bit tired and looked like it was going to die from the harsh uv rays but I drenched with some fresh water and chopped the tops out to relieve energy and shaded them with other plants to take away the intensity, one extreme to the next with the weather - absolutely stunning day today and was probably one of the hottest days in awhile. not too sure how much sun the malawis get but I know they get very early sun.


Panama
2 suspected red phenos with purple/red stripes at the bottom of each node.

The spot gets sun from about 9 in the morning(underestimation) till very late probably around 6-7 they will be getting the last of the light for the day.

Nicer soil around this side, almost didn't need the potting mix. Some of it is nearly black, must be some broken down native or something but it is very very rich!.

 

[dankdope]

CK looking good there, did your colloidal silver arrive? be interested to see how you get on, ive made a generator don't know if the ppms will be high enough to work though. geez with the climate you fellas have up there I would've had them out a month ago. I stuffed up and put mine out a tad early got snowed frosted and flooded but still going hard my wwxbb are a good 4 ft now. bloody possys got to my afghans and rhinos luckily they left a couple nodes so ive caged and theyre now starting to grow again.

 

[crazykiwi420]

jtw - what strain is that mate? looking good. Are you in NZ?

dd - yeah it arrived fast enough, do you know if there's anything you have to do to it? it's 50ppm. Yeah they could have been out earlier but sativas have plenty of veg time still ahead of them and I don't wont to have helicopters scoping the plants out either. Yeah I put mine out too early last year as well, it sucks when they go into flower and takes forever to reveg again.
Do your Afghans have purple/red hairs outdoors? at least your plants will have heaps of shoots in a month. My Malawi mother indoors has 16 shoots on 1 branch! and everytime I chop it back they just grow more branches - African genetics are insane

 

[Letstrip]

Hey LT,
look for one of the folding shovels sold for camping. They are solid metal and fold into a small case. Not as good as a full on spade but better than other things. There are also small gardening implements that might work for your ground.

Hey man cheers for the idea Ill defiantly get one for next years season awesome idea! Certainly would be a hell on alot better then what I used haha

 

[Letstrip]

Hey CK yeah that's what I thought not exactly and operation. Was going to trim today but damn far to hot for it. Got 26 degrees today and met service is predicting: 26 26 27 and 25 right up till Monday! Who knows though its always wrong. Yeah hope she is a girl, have put quite alot of work in Aw awesome man cheers id love some of those fem seeds!! Super keen to try them out. Harvest April yea should be able to or though I wouldn't like to say, Im not quite experienced enough to know yet lol Poor malawi's maybe they're still adjusting form the lights to the sun. Damn 9 till 7 what a mad spot and that soil looks bloody nice! Lucky lucky.

Checked mine today and looks like it took the transplant really well because when I arrived it was standing tall with its hands pointing to the sky. Go baby go grow grow grow lol Even though I only put it out on Tuesday the growth has been real good even in that short space of time so Im quite happy with that. Haven't seen anymore bugs on it and the damage that they done seems to be heeling I have noticed some rusty looking parts on the leaves though and at the tips. Its minor and not on all the leaves but just wondering if anyone knows what it could be? See the pic. Ill keep an eye on it for now. Heres a few pictures just to show ya how its looking since it was put in the ground:

Nice bit of growth. Rusty spotty looking bits?

 

[janicethewhite]

Taller one is dutch passion frisian dew and the other is dna kushberry

got them in 50 liter pots wish I started them now instead of back then haha gonna be really root bound but its ok, I think il be happy in the end anyway