Reset And Restart Living Soil Grow

[cloudyhelads]

Veg is starting to rock and roll. Ipm Monday veg only this week was a splash of cpt, jacks spunosad with fresh aloe a couple drops of fish juice and a drop of oroboost. Yum. Water Tuesday and Wednesday, then microbe Thursday for both tents, with a couple drops of mammoth p and a couple drops of lab. Also some fresh aloe, a blob of molasses and a couple drops of fish juice. Double yum. The big old Afghan Kush does not want to finish up and end her reign as queen of the big bag, though the cog in front of her is a worthy rival. Everything frosty. Got my yellow card from flower caught in my hair. Ugh

 

[cloudyhelads]

Veg. Exotic genetics mystery seeds are beginning to take off. Iclones developing.

 

[cloudyhelads]

Veg is really looking like I’d like it to. 3 exotic genetics mystery beans doing their own thing

 

[Moshmen]

Yea Deke. Thanks for your interest. The thing that I add routinely is ground malted barley. About a pound every other week. I have done a full topdress with barley, kelp, neem, gypsum, azomite, alfalfa, 2x in the last year. Once when I set up and once when I was getting my tomatoes going with the same in the spring. Sometimes when I’m feeling like something needs a poke I will add a bit of liquid kelp to the water. I also have fish emulsion but just a couple drops per gal This fall I bought a small bottle of mammoth P and have been adding a few drops of that to waterings. Also I made lactobasillic (maybe) cheese water and have been adding a few drops of that. Basically, though I just feed the barley to the worms and they shit out cannabis food. Again, thanks for looking at my grow. Do you have something going I can see here?

Fuckin awesome man I love the natural set up ! Something to look forward to! Great info ima save ur thread

 

[cloudyhelads]

Yea Moshmen. Thanks for looking in. I feel like now I am dialing in veg and how to get thealthy plants with a smallish toot ball into the big bag where they can explode. The herb is so strong and dank. Wish I could send ya a bit of this Chocolate Chunk that has me drooling in my Cheerios.

 

[cloudyhelads]

The Afghan Kush that was dominating the bag came down. She’s monstrous. And is stinking up the place. The chem Og is ready to come down too. Hope I can hold her off a week to let the 1st dry.
Performed a pretty extensive leaf strip on two plants that I’m going to throw into the bag tonight. One is a WW one an AK. I also bought some barley today.
The last WW is curing up nicely.

 

[Deke]

Nice! I chopped 3 this week. Nowhere as big as yours though. Both my WW are on week 11 and need more time! Killing me!

 

[cloudyhelads]

Yea the WW certainly takes her time. Here I go transplanting to the big bag with my leaf strip experiments.

 

[cloudyhelads]

IPM Monday today. PFR-97 oroboost and fresh aloe juice. All of veg sprayed. I find the aloe is a great additive and prevents the oroboost from harming the leaves of the plants. I also add it to my water when soaking clones and when I water with liquid kelp. I keep two aloe plants in veg and they seem to keep up.
My IPM rotation is Gradevo, PFR-97, Spinosad. One of these gets applied every Monday am with the aloe and oroboost. I am trying to be proactive in veg and these three products appear harmless to plant and consumer when applied in this fashion.

 

[cloudyhelads]

Big bag with Cog the beast in front.
This most recent batch of chocolate chunk gets me high as a goat.

 

[cloudyhelads]

The Devils Lettuce

 

[cloudyhelads]

The big Cog is down and drying. Added a big ol’ Tropicana cookies to the bag. The last afghan peach was an even 3 oz with no larf weighed. Amazing frangrant herb. Anyway that bumps one up from the quart to the gallon and another from the solo to the quart. Will the circle be unbroken

 

[cloudyhelads]

Ipm this am. Grandevo+Oroboost+aloe+fish hydro.
My new weekly schedule for routine in garden
Mon Ipm. All veg on rotation Pfr-97, Grandevo, Spinosad, +? With above additives plain water as needed
Tues Trash. All trash out of grow area. Broom clean in grow area vac and wipe tents. Plain water as needed
Wed Microbes. Feeding Mammoth P, Lab, fish and kelp.
Thurs scissor work. Clean up all plants. Transplant as Required Wipe containers and tables. Plain water as needed
Friday infrastructure. Clean and maintain hvac and lighting Wipe off light lenses and clean filters. Adjust as required. Feed kelp.

This all goes down in the early am before work. I allow 30 min/day for these tasks. This is in an effort to get more organized and focused and to avoid time in my grow wondering what I should be doing. I want my grow to be more on point, cleaner, and less haphazardly managed.

On the weekends I will water with plain water as necessary. I sometimes have no time for the garden on weekends and other times I get a few hours in the evenings to putter. I’ll leave these times to discretionary projects and improvements.

 

[cloudyhelads]

Gave the veg tent a scrub this week.
Also my budget lazy Susan. Casters are screwed into upside down buckets and 4’ circle of plywood and foil Insul floats on them. Tent keeps it from getting away from you and it can hold a bit of weight. Buckets are from an experiment with “hydrosoil” technique from about 6 years ago. Oh the things I’ve tried. Everything got the bleach spray and a wipe. Veg is on point. Looking like a jungle. Going to try to stack up the big bag with some pruning and staking.
I have the amazing privilege of supplying my best friends mother with Cannabis while she battles cancer. I really have nowhere else to talk about this because my garden is still a secret garden. She is a real OG and long time cannabis user, but it has now become part of her self care and helps her withstand the awfulness of treatment.
In the past I have mourned other’s awfulness with a sad shrug and “nothing to be done”.
It’s hard to explain.
Praise Jah

 

[cloudyhelads]

Spinosad was the IPM this am. Added a new cog to the big bag which is quite full. Cog from a couple weeks ago was 3 oz yield. About what I’m averaging per plant for the cog, afghan kush, and Chocolate Chunk. The Ww yield is a little lower. Closer to 2oz/plant.

 

[cloudyhelads]

Mulched the big bag with 3lb of ground malted barley and barley straw. Things are well in the tents.

 

[cloudyhelads]

Portraits of youth.

 

[cloudyhelads]

The weird bean plant just keeps putting out purple flowers like it thinks it’s a cannabis plant. I have to admit I’ve not been keeping up my companion planting. I grow a little clover and then smother it down with the barley. I’m thinking about doing another major topdress soon. Maybe when the big bag turns 1! The frost keeps coming. After all we’re farming the here people. Happy whatever if anybody’s up reading.

 

[cloudyhelads]

Farming thc. Autocorrect

 

[cloudyhelads]

Love the perpetual grow. All phases of development from clone to smoke. I know I could get bigger yields if I did runs. The uneven canopy costs me. But the constant fuss of perpetual appeals to me over the run mentality. And besides I don’t think I could keep the smell of these strains contained in a full run. With perpetual it’s just one or two plants at a time stinking up the place. I cannot imagine what my home would smell like if I had 6 or 7 of these plants maturing at once.
Another thing I am noticing lately is how “up” and elated the smell of my garden makes me. I usually tend in the early am. Before I go to work. Believe it or not the thought of inhaling those trichs helps hoist me out of the rack. When I open the flower tent that has been under lights all night, the warmth and color and odor wakes me up better than any cup of coffee. Usually I pick a small sugar leaf off of the plant that is furthest along and examine it under the microscope. The terps from this tiny piece of herb gets my mind jazzed and makes me giddy.
No side affects. Just affects.