Oregon growers

Yeah, I'm guessing we're all in the same area. Saturday starts the road back to sunlight

BlazinDucks said:

Yeah, I'm guessing we're all in the same area. Saturday starts the road back to sunlight

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These are the longest days of the year, shame to waste that behind clouds! I've got photos and autos out this year, all waiting on that full sunlight to get them going.

ktmac20 said:

Wow! How old are yours...looking large!

Here are my 2 outdoor babies at almost 5 weeks from first breaking ground as seedlings.

Oh...and the garden gnome too!

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Started in mid march, went outside about a month ago. All but 1 in 15s, transplanting into 65s monday.

You're looking good!

Looks like we all are setting pretty just waiting for that sun!

Also along with the sun, the Big River is opening up on Fri for Salmon and steelhead fishing! Will be spending my free time on the river!

Cheers

ktmac20 said:

Looks like we all are setting pretty just waiting for that sun!

Also along with the sun, the Big River is opening up on Fri for Salmon and steelhead fishing! Will be spending my free time on the river!

Cheers

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Columbia? I've been out to Bonneville a couple times over the past few weeks to hit the shad run. Always a blast.

Yes the Columbia! I have not fished for any shad...Want to eat what I catch!!!!

Will fish the Mouth of the Lewis, Bachelor Island, Caterpillar island, Davis bar....

ktmac20 said:

Yes the Columbia! I have not fished for any shad...Want to eat what I catch!!!!

Will fish the Mouth of the Lewis, Bachelor Island, Caterpillar island, Davis bar....

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I just catch and release normally. I love the catching part. Not a chance I'll ever eat em. Went with a few friends and they keep them for crab bait. We tallied up 96 as a group 2 weeks ago.

Yep...When the Shad are running they are easy picking!!!!

I didn't know there were Shad out here. I lived in NJ on the Delaware River for a while, and in Lambertville every year they had a Shad Festival. Hey, any excuse to celebrate. We didn't have Salmon there, I don't recall ever trying Shad though. Someone said it was very boney and not very good...

American Shad are in every big river system...Most use em for bait...Crab bait, oversized sturgeon bait...

Blazing was mentioning Bonneville and catching Shad up there...That is the "Shad Rack" area!

Humanrob said:

I didn't know there were Shad out here. I lived in NJ on the Delaware River for a while, and in Lambertville every year they had a Shad Festival. Hey, any excuse to celebrate. We didn't have Salmon there, I don't recall ever trying Shad though. Someone said it was very boney and not very good...

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Every year, late May early to mid June they run. Only hit around 500,000 through the dam this year. That's quite a bit less than normal. We went on a slow day. I started going around 4 years ago. I love it.

The only people I know that eat them are the Asians, and Russians. Slow cooker until the bones melt away pretty much.

My oregon diesel and white widow strains already started to flower!? We are mid june!!! I guess I'll wait to see what happens next

Weather looks like it finally is warming up some. Even my vegetable garden is suffering. Sure glad I built a bigger greenhouse this year.

Windy inn the willamette valley today. Had 2 that were blown over sideways (the plants not the pots) emergency temp trellis until they move up into 65s with good cages next week. Tomorrow's payday, picking up a yard of better urban dirt premium.

Houstini said:

Windy inn the willamette valley today. Had 2 that were blown over sideways (the plants not the pots) emergency temp trellis until they move up into 65s with good cages next week. Tomorrow's payday, picking up a yard of better urban dirt premium.

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What's your opinion on "better urbam dirt"?

I was going to go with their formula of premium in the bottom half of my container and standard on top half as they recommend but I then found "Down to Earth" organics out of Eugene. Their product was a little less costly.

ktmac20 said:

What's your opinion on "better urbam dirt"?

I was going to go with their formula of premium in the bottom half of my container and standard on top half as they recommend but I then found "Down to Earth" organics out of Eugene. Their product was a little less costly.

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It's good stuff, had to add some kelp, alfalfa and worm casting top dress as they are mostly root bound in their 15s. I'll leave enough head room to add more throughout the season.

I had plants in a mild mix early in their life and a 1" top dress of the premium, a bit of burning of the tips but nothing to slow them down.

So far so good, I'll be mixing with sunshine#4 when I transplant, maybe a bit of compost too as I don't want to dilute compost proportions in the mix

Just a sample. There is Chernobyl, 9 pound hammer , bubblegum and Cinex. Love Oregon. Couldn't get the rest of the greenhouse in this picture.

I've read (I think more than once) that because of all the overcast/rainy/dark weather we are having, that some people's plants are starting to show sex early. So I took a close look at mine, and some are. In my previous outdoor grows this hasn't happened until right around the first week of August. I'm hoping with the sun out now they'll slip back into veg without losing any time or getting any weird leaves...

Early sex, I think one of these is a girl, one might be a boy


Here are the full plants (each "plant" is actually a cluster of two or three)


this is one of the autos (Blue Mammoth)

Hmmm...ok brings up a question...I have started from seed this year...

My outdoor plants are in 50 gal raised beds...wouldnt outdoors show signs of sex about six weeks like indoor?

My indoor plants of the same strain as the outdoor are at 6 weeks/46 days and one if The Black is showing female. The rest I am guessing will start to show sometime this week.

I can assume The outdoor plants will show too?



Definite Indica pheno in the Original Blueberry



Not as distinct Indica with The Black



And a top node view on the Original Blueberry

Cheers

And my indoor tent plants...