Step through the looking portal to Wonderland

As @spaingaroo keenly noted in the comments to a previous post about my legal outdoor marijuana grow, my three girls are pretty crowded together. This is not ideal, but it is a function of the available space and light in my yard. My plants are already taking up most of the good real estate as far as light coverage and are situated in the only place that is not easily visible from the alley behind my garage. In the wet fall weather here you don't want your plants to be so crowded that leaves touch each other, it promotes powder mildew on the leaves and eventual bud rot. Since my last post I thinned out the plants considerably, harvesting a couple of ounces of the scraggly undergrowth and spreading out the larger branches with a spiderweb of fishing line like some kind of mad puppeteer preparing for a very hazy show.

The looking portal to Wonderland

The view from above - standing on top of the looking portal :) You can see some of the fishing line puppet strings catching the light. The Blue Widow is taking up the front left, Pit Boss front right, and the whole back section and sprawling out over the top of everything else as well is a Strawberry Cough plant that would be up to the eaves of the roof line if I had not bent it over and trained it out like an octopus

As we move into October the nights are growing colder here in Oregon and the deciduous foliage is responding with the usual beautiful degradation into autumnal reds, yellows and browns. My outdoor beauties are still in full flower; the trichome heads are still clear which is a surefire sign that they have not yet reached peak ripeness. The Blue Widow (Blueberry x White Widow Indica dominant hybrid) is the farthest along, with individual colas already in the 1/2oz to ounce range and quite a few red hairs despite the clear trichomes. The Blue Widow is also starting to display the coveted purple coloration as you will see below.

Blue Widow - Unleash the Purple!

Blue Widow closeup

Blue Widow cola - this bad girl is bigger around than my arm

Blue Widow cola - amazingly some of these colas don't even have any red hairs at all yet, so as big as this is already it has a long ways to go still!

Of the three strains that I am growing, the Pit Boss is the most potent by far. Even early harvest of the Pit Boss is ridiculously strong, almost a liquid high like your head has been immersed in water. I will get these tested when I have harvested the fully ripened nugs, and I am guessing high twenties to possibly even 30%+ THC content by weight for the Pit Boss. It doesn't form the densely packed colas like the Blue Widow, but what it lacks in huge shapely buds it more than makes up for with fighting spirit. This lady is a stone cold killer.

Pit Boss - beautiful but deadly

Pit Boss

Pit Boss

Pit Boss closeup

My Strawberry Cough is the farthest away from harvest. Strawberry Cough is a Sativa dominant hybrid and this particular plant is expressing a true classic Sativa phenotype. If I hadn't bent her over and spread her out she would be a Christmas tree of a plant sticking up to my roof line. She started budding almost a month after the other two and is only just now in the last few weeks starting to plump out and produce some capitate-stalked trichomes. I expect she will go into November before she is ready to put out for me. It is hard to get a shot of her buds now because there are still so many shade leaves sticking out of the colas. Here is the best Strawberry Cough bud shot I could get - this particular cola is farther along than the rest:

Thankful to live in a legal state

I am thankful to live in Oregon, a state which has finally legalized marijuana for recreational use. I can legally grow up to four plants (I have three beautiful girls). I hope to see the legalization movement continue to sweep across America regardless of the current political climate.

Hope you enjoyed your trip to Wonderland!

Much love - Carl