Rick Ratlin's World

[Mr.DreamBoat]

Keep on keeping on Rick!
Sorry to hear about your Grandad, I miss mine along with my mom passing unexpected a couple years ago. Shits tough but my kids are my light of day!
Love the thread!
Killer bud!

Mmmmm

 

[rick ratlin]

Here's some pics from January 27th. Sorry for the low quality, I thought I took some nice ones.
Stardawg day 72

Lemon Alien Dawg #2 day 57 I think

 

[rick ratlin]

Here's some of the things I use in my teas. The liquid gold is an old bottle. Great product, but I now collect my own liquid gold off my bokashi bucket.
I also use em-1, ewc, sometimes kelp, sea green, and I'm thinking about adding alfalfa next run. I rotate mixes every week

 

[rick ratlin]

Here's fresh current pics from today. Been watering only water with weekly tea waterings at 1 cup of tea per gallon. I also raised the lights last week. There must be a build up of nutes, cause I'm not getting very much fade, and the flowers are still putting out white hairs. I got a feeling that I'm gonna see a bunch of sterile bananas soon, so I'll probably be harvesting in 6 days.
Stardawg Day 80 getting real fat now

 

[rick ratlin]

Current Pics taken today
RoARgE #4 Day 65

Strawberry Mango Haze Day 65

1 Plant Strawberry Mango Haze #3 Day 65

Strawberry Mango Haze #4 Day 65

 

[rick ratlin]

Lemon Alien Dawg #1 Day 65

Lemon Alien Dawg #2 Day 65

LAD #2 lower nug

Oh, and here's a RoARgE pheno that I forgot about, its at Day 108, oops.

 

[rick ratlin]

Here's what we've got going in next. Rooted clones

Planted into 5.5"pots of pure coco, with hydroton on the bottom.

Here we are today, they are begging to get in those beds. They've been topped and most have 8-12 branches. Sitting under an Agromax 135watt led. It does a nice job over a 2x2 space, but I've had to have it about 3 feet over the canopy. Just feeding dynagro and microbe teas, with Heavy 16 foliar.

Here's some extras hanging under some t-5s

 

[rick ratlin]

If there is anyone out there that has popped some Alien Genetics seeds here, have you noticed any expressing the "ram horn" leaves? The 2 phenos of LAD expressed this, as did all of the Alien Rock Candy phenos I've grown. They are the only plants I've seen this happen on, though I don't have a ton of strains under my belt. And these plants were growing next to perfectly healthy plants.

Here's an old pic of an ARC in early flower(this one had the most extreme ram horns)

And the same plant finished. Fire ass weed. Just grows funny.

Here's another one, fan leaves curl down, and sugar leaves point up.

 

[rick ratlin]

Just an update, last harvest is about ready to trim, and the next round have been planted into the beds. I got some samples of Canna coco nutrients to try this run, might run them against heavy 16, not sure yet. I'll flip to flower pretty soon too. Pics to come, just been too busy to update. lots to talk about, 54% boveda packs, em-1, and other stuff.

 

[rick ratlin]

On another note, I got skunked on the Dead 50th anniversary shows in Chicago. I still haven't received a notice from my presale letter, I only asked for 1 ticket each night, and I got shafted by ticket master today, so It looks like its time to resort to begging. Anybody got extras, I'm looking, preferably for face value for karma sake. I got cash, and some sweet seeds not available anymore from Alien Genetics and Top Dawg. PM me

 

[Billyboat]

Very nice grow ya got there!

 

[rick ratlin]

Very nice grow ya got there!

Thanks @Billyboat I appreciate that. I looooove your build outs and grows, they are very inspiring. I'm still learning how to grow in coco, but things are looking up.