Outoor Auto's and Cover Crops

[IMO]

I think the trick with autos is getting them off to a good start with decent light and temperature

[Greenfingers]

I think the trick with autos is getting them off to a good start with decent light and temperature

mine is in a tent at the moment on a 18/6 light schedule and being kept at 23c, looking okay

[Greenfingers]

Nice one , the other plants sounds good too. nanook keeps trying to grow chiilis but fails lol

chillies do well in a pollytunnel, i had kilos of them a few summers back, i was taking them into work to give away as i had 1000s of them.

[IMO]

Chillies can do remarkably well on a sunny window sill as well, I think I have 3 chilli plants 2 peppers and quite a few jalapeño seedlings.

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Chillies can do remarkably well on a sunny window sill as well, I think I have 3 chilli plants 2 peppers and quite a few jalapeño seedlings.

Well I may have to be putting a few around the house as I have so many plants lol Cayenne and Jalapeno.

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A bit of an update on this one.

The last remaining Blue Dream is doing well. I have been keeping it on the window sill still and leaving it out every now and again to get some more sunlight.



My 3 other autos are coming in the post tomorrow. Some heavy indicia strain. Hopefully they will do well outside.
Time to get some in the towels.

All my other plants are slowly coming along. I hope planting another 2 seeds soon will give my peppers and chilli time to catch up and give a good cover.

Happy growing and bring on some good weather

[q_indaloft2]

Hi there. I'm going out to clear and fence in my outside plot. I bought everything before the lockdown to do two rounds of 10-15 autos. I will try put video up on YouTube. Can't wait. Got 6 3inch tall getting going inside so they're bigger when they 1st go out. ThankQ. TkEZ

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Hi Growers.

Just another quick update.

Seeds came today. Got a promo Auto Critical Orange Punch (Orange Punch X Auto Kritical Bilbo.

So I have placed my promo and 1 banana blaze in the towels with a sprinkle of Great White.



Above I have placed the wet towels into some zip lock bags suggested by Keeno on one of the You Tube chats.





I will await for a tap root to start and then place them into some riot cubes from growth technology. A new method. i will place them under some domes in the window until they are big enough to pot straight into some pots.

I may order some slightly larger pots for these too......always better to pot up in bigger pots with auto's. Less re-potting the better.

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I've been a very busy and far too pre occupied with family to post here recently. I really need to catch up with Friday night hang outs too!

Unfortunately the promo seed Auto critical orange punch didn't survive. But the one Bananna Blaze did and she is doing OK, although I over watered and gave her what garderners call wet feet? She started getting chlorosis. Hence the 2 older fan leaves are discoloured. She has recovered now and has been hardening off on the window sill to outside.



She has XL or "super" in her genetics so she should have a little time to recover and veg through nicely before flowering starts.

The Blue dream however is coming along very nicely indeed. It has been almost a calander month since my last photo post and she has just exploded in growth. With lots of attention taking bugs off, manicuring a few lower leaves of leaf miners, she looks lovely.





The flowers are starting to produce now. Let's hope the weather holds up so I can get plenty of rays and photons over her, as she has stretched for the light a little.

The blue dream looks very much at home and the surrounding plants are actually attracting the bugs, so clearing the tomatoes and peppers off is much easier than on my blue dream happy days, although still some hard work keeping the bugs at bay;

A near by rose has been full of pests all year. Seeing our local birds use it to feed from i have been reluctant to use any spray or bug removing techniques. The birds seeming more scarce the other day so I preened and dead headed the rose back, cleaned bugs off and sprayed:

1L of water
1 tea spoon of baking soda (not powder!)
2 tea spoon of neem oil
Couple of drops of organic soap

I use this to spray any ornamental plants and surrounding ones in my greenhouse where they haven't flowered yet. It seems to deter them so I keep using it every day or so.

Thanks for reading.

Happy gardening everyone.

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A side by side comparison, 1 month of growing.