How are things looking?

brogro said:
Was that left over winter? The finer roots broke off when pulled months later. You're a gardener, I'm always amazed at the small sized root ball of a 14 ft sunflower!
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Yeah I was super lazy. The auxiliary roots weren't very deep. Almost all of them were very top level. I'm a wanna be gardener, I don't study plants, I do my best and hope it all works out lol. If I had to guess these are desert plants based on the way the roots grew.
 
Well yall I'm officially approaching the end of smokable goods from this harvest and all I'll have left in a few months is grove bags of larf.

I did give a few handfuls here and there to friends but by and large I smoked it all myself.

I'm ready to plant again this coming summer 2025, but given the lesson I'm learning, I should have grown last year too. Thought I could get away with skipping one, ha.
 
Thurston said:
Grow indoor now?
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Ah maybe...? I dunno. If anything I need to plan on this summer's gardening to be smaller and better managed. I want to do more trimming this year, to shape my plants and keep them from becoming so large, maybe help with air flow in case the weather is a bit humid or rains a bunch. The room I did my drying in, has spent the last year becoming filled with machines and equipment for hobbies. The plants would need to share space with my resin printers.
 
Minnegrowta said:
If anything I need to plan on this summer's gardening to be smaller and better managed.
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I feel this entirely.

Gonna also bring down the plant count for next year so I’m not stretched so thin. Last summer I was away for a good chunk of July so plants got big and that’s no bueno. Being able to manage what’s growing out there is crucial. Especially if you add vegetables and other crops.

Will employ the little small pop up greenhouse for the yard to help set canopies and keep critters out during early stages. That’s the plan for this summer anyway.
 
deno said:
Some tips for growing outdoors in Minnesota...

1. Buy seeds that mature in 60-65 days max. That will put the plants into late October for harvest. Short the flower time gives you crap weed. These plants can take cold weather, even had snow on them one year, but they wont take low 20s. The farther you are north, the more critical this is. Northern climes have long summer days, which delay flowering.
2. Start the seeds indoors (under a shop light, in a south window), about 4-5 days before 4/20. I live west of Minneapolis. This is the most work of the entire operation. You've got to keep the seedlings in the sun whenever possible. That or get a good lamp. Its only a 4-5 week PITA though.
3. Plant outdoors after the last chance of frost, about mid-late may where I am. You have to harden the plants off, but if you were putting them in the sun on warm days they are prolly already there.
4. Plant 10 seeds. Statistically half will be female. but streaks occur. In fact, I like going 12. Its basically a flip of the coin. I only got three out of ten this year. My friend got 10 out of 10. I need two good plants for a years supply. Plant yield for cannabis planted in the ground is about 2-3 pounds per plant, if the plant is about 8-9 feet tall.

These plants were first planted in dixie cups on 4/15. This photo was taken on 7/23. Height is about 7' 3". I've been doing this outdoors since the 90s. These will start budding at the end of august - usually the last week, strain dependent of course.
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Old thread… Are you still here?
Just wondering what cultivars have worked well for you.
I’m another 2 hours north of you.
 
ElmerS said:
Thank you! Have you grown them before? I mean, are you pretty confident when the days shorten enough to stimulate flowering that they will finish before the freeze gets them?
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I haven't, but I did careful research and talked to a lot of people and picked these strains for durability in our area. They're doing alright. They got hit by eurasian hemp borers, so i had to prune a bit. They are still in veg though which is good.
I don't think I'd be worried about finishing before freeze, worry about them being too wet because harvest season overlaps with the fall rainy season... I've been more active to prune these plants, so they get more airflow. Early summer many of my flowers got hit hard with fungal issues like powdery mildew. It's good that the rain comes by and drenches the leaves to get any spores and problematic schmutz off them, it'll help you avoid bud rot.20250724_095829.jpg
 
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