am i wasting my time ?

one toke bloke · 09-09-2008, 08:03 AM

am i wasting my time ?
i only put a few plants in the ground for a xmas treat !but the British weather has been so bad rain,rain and more rain all right for ducks not for my babes,they have started to bud but will they mature is another matter that is the question? does any one know how to stop the rain !does anyone no a anti-rain dance? i will do any thing (well almost)my babys are frisian dew it said it was mould resistant should i belive that?(we will see) i am doing every thing possable to bring them on ,top max,bat shit,ect,ect anything elise i could do,but one good thing is
i have not done any watering whats so ever!
thanks
one toke bloke

jangel · 09-09-2008, 08:14 AM

Hey One toke, I know how you feel. I have close to 25 plants outside and trying to flower. In Canada where I am I have had more rain in a month than typically we get in the whole summer. Hang on, and let them grow. I just pray we have a very late winter here. As long as it is not freezing you have a chance. You are not alone, and they look good. I figure I have nothing to lose, so I might as well keep going. I am contemplating bringing some inside if they do not improve, to finish flowering them. I will have to dig them up and not kill them, so I know what you are going through.

Peace

green_nobody · 09-09-2008, 12:23 PM

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Originally Posted by one toke bloke

am i wasting my time ?
i only put a few plants in the ground for a xmas treat !but the British weather has been so bad rain,rain and more rain all right for ducks not for my babes,they have started to bud but will they mature is another matter that is the question? does any one know how to stop the rain !does anyone no a anti-rain dance? i will do any thing (well almost)my babys are frisian dew it said it was mould resistant should i belive that?(we will see) i am doing every thing possible to bring them on ,top max,bat shit,ect,ect anything elise i could do,but one good thing is
i have not done any watering whats so ever!
thanks
one toke bloke

Buddy, i'm sitting in the same kind of weather here - if you grow in such humid weather it pays of to build a simple sun roof from slats and some fully transparent plastic foil. for your baby 3 x 4ft roof frame will be sufficient enough, maybe with a front cover so it doesn't blows the rain under the roof to keep the buds dry.
So this buys time and keeps the mold away from your plants buds. thing is with the low intensity of light in the autumn here you will face the trouble that it isn't enough to form solid big buds. This you can avoid next season by planting very early in spring, as soon as it is warm enough during the nights, and then in late summer you create an artificial early 12/12 state by covering you plant in something light prove as foil or cardboard box, or you just take it insides every evening and put it in a closet or down in the basement.

With an anti rain dance i can't help, I'm not a too big expert if it comes to dancing

Fman · 09-09-2008, 12:27 PM

If I had a garden that looked that nice I would NEVER give up.

green_nobody · 09-09-2008, 12:48 PM

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Originally Posted by jangel

Hey One toke, I know how you feel. I have close to 25 plants outside and trying to flower. In Canada where I am I have had more rain in a month than typically we get in the whole summer. Hang on, and let them grow. I just pray we have a very late winter here. As long as it is not freezing you have a chance. You are not alone, and they look good. I figure I have nothing to lose, so I might as well keep going. I am contemplating bringing some inside if they do not improve, to finish flowering them. I will have to dig them up and not kill them, so I know what you are going through.

Peace

same thing here jangel, you either have the "luck" to sit in a dry spot with not much rain at all (back in the Alberta i was more troubled about too little water then too much and sure feared an early winter). What i learned in the reason years is that a simple cover made from spats and some foil will take care of the rain problem for a few plants in the yard just fine. with you 25 plants that all not too tiny, from what i have seen last time in your outdoor thread, you might be better of to build a foil tunnel. those things can be bought prebuild at UFA, at least they used to have em, or be homemade from PVC pipes used for instaltion (1" dia.) and if take care it should be usable for several years. and those tunnels can function like a green house if the ends are closed off.

Or you go full scale and build a simple green house as this one

but maybe a tiny bit smaller that it doesn't get too much attention

that solves the weather problem just as well as winter problem as in the green house it stays longer warm, even if it getting chill out there.

hope you can use something of these solutions to solve your problem Jangel

there been also a greenhouse thread in the outdoor section posted by Shaman that hold various forms of greenhouse designs that all work. And a tip, start always with the roof construction and till the foil isn't on the roof you won't need to put up the side walls

green_nobody · 09-09-2008, 12:57 PM

hey, found a like with a tutorial on how to build a tunnel greenhouse with pictures and everything Constructing a Simple PVC High Tunnel

metric version of the tutorial:
Part I Site Planning and Construction

all taken from Hightunnels.org an agricultural site

one toke bloke · 09-09-2008, 01:26 PM

thanks for the replys guys just a little depressed over the rain,its nice to know others are in the same boat,(good to get it of my chest)got to go next client is in (what do i do for a living ?)

sentravapor · 09-09-2008, 02:01 PM

willing to try anything you say?? try calling in a favor to haarp! maybe they can give you a couple nice sunny days here and there... never know.

but with all seriousness in mind the anti-rain dance you are looking for requires a lot of practice and adult diapers so i doubt you want to go that far. good luck man sorry for being stupid lol first bowl of the day tends to do that to me.

jangel · 09-09-2008, 02:25 PM

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Originally Posted by one toke bloke

thanks for the replys guys just a little depressed over the rain,its nice to know others are in the same boat,(good to get it of my chest)got to go next client is in (what do i do for a living ?)

Are you a hairdresser? LOL!

What I am also thinking is if it gets too cold and my inside girls are finished flowering (2 more weeks!) I can just pot the best ones up, and shove them under my hps light to finish. It is all gravy then. I can easily delay the next batch I have inside to flower that are vegging now.

OR!!!!! get that 600 I want, bring them inside and veg under the 400 mh, put the outside ones under the 600, and see what I get.......hmmmmmm

....ya got me thinking now.....

sentravapor · 09-09-2008, 02:37 PM

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Originally Posted by one toke bloke

thanks for the replys guys just a little depressed over the rain,its nice to know others are in the same boat,(good to get it of my chest)got to go next client is in (what do i do for a living ?)

massage therapy!

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