What are you running outdoor this season and why

curious what people are putting in the ground this year. been a wet spring here so im leaning toward stuff i know handles humidity. running og kush again like every year, cant help it. also dropping a couple blueberry plants i havent run in a while, see if the pheno i kept is still worth a damn. thinking about trying something new but honestly most of these trendy crosses just disappoint me outside. breeders test indoors, call it a day, then outdoor growers deal with mold and hermies. so im skeptical. what are you all running this year and what made you pick it. specifically curious if anyones had luck with anything newer outside in a humid climate.

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Expert Grower2d ago

Mostly an indoor guy so take this for what its worth, but i do run a few plants outside every summer as a side project. Denver gets those late-season monsoon swings that'll wreck anything susceptible, so i've had to be selective. Your point about breeders testing indoors and calling it done is accurate and genuinely underappreciated. Outdoor performance is a completely different animal, especially once you're dealing with late-summer humidity and temperature drops that compress your VPD range in ways no tent ever would. The one newer line i've had consistent luck with outside is anything leaning heavily on older Haze or Skunk genetics - not because they're trendy, but because those lines were selected for outdoor performance before indoor growing even dominated the market. They tend to have open bud structure that doesn't trap moisture the same way dense modern crosses do. Not exactly a hot tip in 2024 but it holds up. The Blueberry pheno hunt sounds worth running. That strain has a lot of variability and if you've got a keeper that already proved itself in your conditions, that's more reliable data than anything a new catalog drop is going to give you.

Experienced2d ago

The open bud structure point is real, but in my experience Haze-leaning stuff trades one problem for another out here -- the longer flower time means you're sitting in October trying to finish plants while the rain just will not quit. I've lost more late-finishing sativas to botrytis in the last two weeks of flower than I ever lost with dense-budded indicas that I hit with airflow management and timed harvests.