Orcas' Logs

Orcaman · Apr 17, 2016

Good Sunday everyone, It's been a dreary wet weekend here weather wise. Starting off with rain on Friday. Then turning to snow yesterday. At least we knew the storm was coming and I was able to cover my carrots and lettuce coming up. Plus a lot of the flowers that are in bloom on Thursday afternoon. I won't to able to uncover anything now in till at least Tuesday afternoon maybe Wednesday. Big snow in the mountains and not done yet!
This Morning before sunup.

Yesterday I finally cut this Blue OG on day 76 bloom. I'm not getting as nice of a fade finishing under this LED compared to HPS

A pretty nice sized main cola for a 24 inch tall plant in my opinion!

ShroomKing · Apr 17, 2016

Orcaman said:
Good Sunday everyone, It's been a dreary wet weekend here weather wise. Starting off with rain on Friday. Then turning to snow yesterday. At least we knew the storm was coming and I was able to cover my carrots and lettuce coming up. Plus a lot of the flowers that are in bloom on Thursday afternoon. I won't to able to uncover anything now in till at least Tuesday afternoon maybe Wednesday. Big snow in the mountains and not done yet!
This Morning before sunup.
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View attachment 591566 Yesterday I finally cut this Blue OG on day 76 bloom. I'm not getting as nice of a fade finishing under this LED compared to HPS
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A pretty nice sized main cola for a 24 inch tall plant in my opinion!
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That's a very nice bud imo!
Hope those lettuce survive.

Peace

Orcaman · Apr 17, 2016

ShroomKing said:
Hope those lettuce survive.

Hey my friend, The lettuce is nicely covered and doing great! It's a hardy leaf variety called Red Sails. A great cold crop. I always start my first run of outdoor lettuce the last week of March. I get three finished crops out of one barrel in a season. The same with carrots.

Orcaman · Apr 19, 2016

I was nice enough yesterday to uncover things outside after the weekend storm. Here is some of what I saved

Orcaman · Apr 21, 2016

A very sad day today to find out that Prince, A very great musician, and producer passed away for unknown reasons.
RIP, and here is a tribute song that I have always loved.

Underthesun · Apr 22, 2016

Bummer about Prince. Your yard and flowers look nice, man.

Orcaman · Apr 23, 2016

Thanks Underthesun, Its really nice to talk to another Coloradoan. From viewing your thread it looks like you are presiding right at 7 to 8 thousand feet. I lived a mile below Evergreen for 15 years on 14 acers right on bear creek. I really miss it now living in downtown Denver for the last four years because the property was sold.
Its been a pretty crazy week for me with my wife having a friend not seen in 30 years stay with us this week. My two highlights were having to walk home 8 miles from our shop to home on Thursday afternoon and this great bottle of wine they brought back for me after a tour of the local winery that does not sale retail. Now waiting for the right moment to pull the cork!

Here are the, well almost all girls. A shot of the nursery very busy right now and the way I like it.

The current bloomers starting with the youngest. First is Higgs Boson day one bloom.

Second is Jaffa Cake in her second run and thriving.

Third is Platinum Cookies x Blue Doggy Dog 23 days in bloom looking stellar in my eyes.

And last is this Landrace AK from World of Seeds. 63 days now and still mostly clear trich's. using LED. Under HPS she was finishing with nice amber at 55 days.

Picked up our Tomato's, Peppers, and Herb's today for planting in about two weeks.

Underthesun · Apr 24, 2016

Pretty close to that elevation, just under 7k. That sounds like a nice spot up there in Evergreen, but I'm sure the city has its perks too. Landrace AK looks killer! And those are some big pepper plants, mine are only like 1 inch tall right now, lol. Fun time of year.

Orcaman · Apr 29, 2016

Finally harvest day for my AK. 69 days now she finally has some amber trich's. Here are a few final images.

Underthesun · Apr 29, 2016

Man, nice work on that AK, Orcaman! It looks like its gonna lay you out.

ShroomKing · Apr 29, 2016

Man that AK came out very nice!

sixstring · Apr 29, 2016

yeah man nice work on the ak.hope she smokes as good as she looks orca.

JWB · Apr 29, 2016

Like it... all of e'm.

Minitiger · Apr 29, 2016

Nice grow!

Interesting to see that your plants are taking longer under LEDs. I have an Apache AT600 and it is freaking AWESOME. Very expensive but worth every penny. The 600 is the equivalent of a 1000 watt HID, but only draws 760 watts. And it runs extremely cool. I can put my hand on it even after it's been on for hours. Really nice light, I'm glad I bought it.

Sorry, I don't work for them or anything haha. Just letting you know that if you're in the market for another LED, you may wanna check them out. They make a an AT200, as well. Not sure what it's equivalent to, compared to an HID, but mine is really good. And it was designed specifically for growing weed, so, uh, bonus.

Anyway, yeah, really nice log. Those plants are looking very healthy!

Orcaman · Apr 30, 2016

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Orcaman · May 5, 2016

Yesterday was so nice out that I took the day off and cleaned and planted our veggie garden. My buddy @BudBogart inspired me to not wait in till this Saturday.

Check out this eco friendly soil that I bought at wallmart for $6.00 a bag to use for amendment.

Here is the backyard this morning.

Check out the size of this flower on this Brandywine heirloom tomato compared to the flowers from a super sweet 100. It should yield at least one pound tomato's.

BudBogart · May 5, 2016

Orcaman said:
Yesterday was so nice out that I took the day off and cleaned and planted our veggie garden. My buddy @BudBogart inspired me to not wait in till this Saturday.
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Check out this eco friendly soil that I bought at wallmart for $6.00 a bag to use for amendment.

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View attachment 597101 Here is the backyard this morning.
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Check out the size of this flower on this Brandywine heirloom tomato compared to the flowers from a super sweet 100. It should yield at least one pound tomato's.
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Thank you! I am certain that my wife wishes someone would inspire me!, lol. Our vegetable garden. Mini carrots seeded mid March to see if the compost had mellowed.

Orcaman · May 6, 2016

BudBogart said:
Thank you! I am certain that my wife wishes someone would inspire me!, lol. Our vegetable garden. Mini carrots seeded mid March to see if the compost had mellowed.

Actually, I need to again say "Thank You" to everyone that has given me support here! It really means a lot for the great frienships.:)
BudBogart, Your carrots look great. I love how far along they are compared to my baby carrots that were planted the last week of March. But have been through plenty of snow up in till this week.

Our lettuce planted the same day is right on track. They will be ready to start taking leaves in about ten more days.

Orcaman · May 9, 2016

Happy Monday morning, Hope everyone got spend some time with there moms yesterday. Unfortunately mine passed years ago. Here is a picture for her that I took yesterday morning thinking of her.

Here are some updates from the MJ garden starting with the nursery.
The gang!

Here are the current seedlings starting with this Rainbow Jones Fem 39 days old today.

Next is this Platinum Cookies x Blue Doggy Dogg 38 days old. Along with a revegging cutting of the same strain.

Next are these two Cherry Bomb Indica's looking great in my eyes 39 days old today. I was journaling these in the reeferman section up in till Saturday when there was a falling out between reeferman and our silent administrator. So I will continue to show them here now.