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curious Registered: 08/03/07 Posts: 13,864 |
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My seeds have germinated, the babies are soaking up the sunshine.
Today I'm going to prepare my fabric pots a bit, since I'll be getting clones this weekend...and I'll be digging & preparing some spots where I'll be planting a few in the ground. Not doing much really, just filling up the pots a bit more with soil and giving them a nice thick top layer of compost and a top dressing mix of shredded nettles & mallow & chickweed. Over the winter I let some "wild" grasses grow in them, then back in February I chopped the grass down and used it to cover the soil in the pots so there is some organic matter breaking down/keeping the biology in the soil going. I'm super stoked about using this compost I have going ! For almost a year now I've been putting all of my food scraps into compost (lots of scraps & bits from broccoli, asparagus, bell peppers, avocado skins, melon rinds, mango skins, apples, egg shells, pineapples, papaya, all of the stalks and some fan leaves from my plants last year, and several handfuls of grass/nettle clippings). I'm stoked to finally put it to use .Quote: That might be what they are...Looking at pics of the damage they cause, I had some of that going on but nothing anywhere as extreme as most pics online. What ever they were, they never caused much damage or any issues as far as I could see. Quote: I saw you post a bud from that plant in the dank thread, nice to see the plant it came off of. That plant looks so "chunky" . I didn't know it was an auto too, dang. -OM .
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curious Registered: 08/03/07 Posts: 13,864 |
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Quote: Yea, as far as autos go, Mephisto seems to have the fire dialed in for sure. Known about them for a little while now and everything I've heard about them and everything I've seen from them looks like some quality. If/when ever I get around to growing an auto, I def will be trying to get some Mephisto stuff. I mentioned it in the dank thread...but that plant is one of the best looking autos I've seen. -OM .
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curious Registered: 08/03/07 Posts: 13,864 |
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Quote: ![]() Same here, tho mid to late 2000s, haven't crossed paths with it since like 2009....It's one of my old favorites for sure. Quote: Here's some history about it>>> https://romulan-genetics.weebly. https://romulan-genetics.weebly. I remember it having quite a complex aroma. -OM .
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curious Registered: 08/03/07 Posts: 13,864 |
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Has anyone here ever used lights over their clones outdoors to keep them in veg & prevent early flowering when putting them outside "early" in the season?
I got some input on this subject from Ran-D, but just wondering if anyone else has done this and how you went about it? My basic plan is.... Either turning some lights on around 11pm to about 1am to interrupt the night/dark period. Or, turning some lights on around sunset and keeping them on for 3 hours or so to extend the day/light period. Then around June 1st I'll cut out the supplemental lighting and hope at that point they can ride it out past the summer solstice on their own with out flipping into flowering. Turning the lights on at sunset for a few hours into the night will be more convenient for me since I'm usually asleep before midnight, but I feel interrupting the night/dark cycle in the middle of the night/around midnight might be more effective at keeping them in veg/preventing flowering. ...or maybe there is no big difference between those two approaches .Quote: Is there something about using those lights that makes the plants require/consume a lot of magnesium and/or sulfur? I don't grow indoors, but just wondering why a high amount of mag & sulfur would need to be used with a certain type of light? -OM .
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curious Registered: 08/03/07 Posts: 13,864 |
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Quote: I think that might be what's going on with one of my clones. It is drooping and looking very sad, I honestly expect it to be dead by tonight or tomorrow morning. I don't know what's going on with it but I'm assuming too much moisture and too little air in the soil/root zone, along with maybe the soil being a little too rich/"hot" . I'm really not sure though .I've worked with clones the previous two years but they always already had some roots in soil...This is the first time I've worked with clones that only have roots in rock-wool and not already running into soil, also the first time I've worked with clones coming from indoors & under 24-hours or florescent light and not already outside under natural sunlight...So this is all a first for me, putting clones into soil and exposing them to the elements for the first time, temps have also been up into the 90s during the day and with super low humidity down in the teens so it's been a tough and dramatic transition for these clones. I hope they start looking better and start growing, it's been almost a week since I've had them and out of the 3 clones I have 2 are looking OK just like the day I got them, and other one is drooping and is basically limp (but still appears to be "alive"). I'm assuming they're just putting energy into developing roots at the moment that's why they don't appear to be "growing" or doing much....?.... Anyone have any advice for transitioning clones from indoors with 24h of florescent lights to the elements of the outdoors/natural sunlight, as well as keeping them in veg/preventing flowering...?... I'm going to be getting some more clones this week and don't want to screw it up. My basic plan is putting them into some solo cups with soil so their roots start to run into soil. During the day keeping them outdoors in the shade with small amounts of filtered sunlight, during the night keeping them underneath a flood light so they are still receiving 24 hours of light. Then after a week or two, once their roots start to run through the soil in the solo cups I'll transplant them directly into 30gal pots. Once they are transplanted into their final 30gal pots I'll stop giving them light all night long, I'll reduce it down to just a few hours in the evening/after sunset to extend the hours or light they receive or I'll give them a couple hours of light around midnight to interrupt the dark period. (I'm still not sure how I'm going to go about that) Then around late May I'll cut out the supplemental light entirely and hope they can ride it out past the summer solstice with out going into flowering. This summer might be my last grow for a year or two until I find another place to live so I'm really wanting to have a stellar grow this time around...Hoping things go alright. I hope I don't screw up these clones and hope they don't go into flowering early. -OM .
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curious Registered: 08/03/07 Posts: 13,864 |
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Trying to get a hold of some clones has been a major pain in the ass for me this year. The dude I normally get them from, for some reason his have been taking a long time to root. I've scoured CL and cannabis-vendor websites for clones locally...A lot of folks keep saying they're sold out and will have more available in 2+ weeks. Or I finally find and get in touch with someone that has a nice selection of strains available and I tell them what I want to purchase, then they reply back saying they require a minimum order of something like 50+ plants PER strain
(that has happened several times, I'm only looking for 6).Then I finally found someone locally that didn't have a minimum requirement and was willing to sell 5 of them...I drove 25 miles to meet up with them and kept in contact with them the entire time, then as soon as I let them know I had arrived at the meeting spot they ignored my calls/texts and never showed up. I planned my entire day around meeting up with them. My vehicle isn't running right now so I had to borrow a car and put in some fuel, the whole ordeal that day was just a giant waste of time/energy/$. Found another person with them locally, then the day I go to get them they say they're sold out. I know stores in my area have clones but they are expensive...I finally said "fuck it" and drove to a local weed store to get some clones. I didn't want to pay those prices but I knew the store had them and they had some strains/genetics I was interested in and it would be a simple and sure way to get a hold of some plants...I just wanted to get a hold of something to get things going & growing....Then once I get to the store they tell me my license is expired so I wasn't even allowed into the store (I didn't know it had expired already). It was so damn frustrating. Again, more time/energy/fuel/$ wasted.I've been trying to get some for over a month now...it has been such a fucking hassle. I finally managed to get a few yesterday though...So far what I have for this summer's grow is "Lemon Dosi" (Lemon Tree X Dosido), Dancing Flame (Blue Frost X Gorilla Princess), and "Permafrost" (Trainwreck X White Widow, or maybe the other way around, it's something along those lines). That's what I have at the moment...I want to get a few more and some more variety though. I'm going to try get a hold of some Wedding Cake, Kush Cake, and/or Gelato, and also would like an OG or a sour D of some sort and/or some Mendo breathe or a "breathe" strain . Just kinda venting and rambling about trying to get a few plants this year lol...I'm hoping to have plants transplanted into all of my pots within the next few weeks. If everything went to my plan I would have already had them in their final pots by now, I was wanting to get a proper early start this time around but time is already passing by. -OM .
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curious Registered: 08/03/07 Posts: 13,864 |
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Quote: What sort of mesh screen do you use? Is it similar to what LW was talking about and in the link he posted? And by "particulate", I'm assuming you mean a lot of dust? Or what do mean? "If you jar particulate and flower then well.." Then what?...What sort of impact does drying/curing/jarring buds with particulate (dust?) on them have? It can be quite dusty in my area at times (central northern-cali), lots of agriculture and stuff in the area that kicks up dust into the air. I've considered using a light & fine mesh screen to keep the plants as "dust" free as possible, as well as hoping it would come in handy at helping keep out some caterpillars and other pests to an extent. Just a general light weight layer of protection for the plants. I know sunlight is super intense light/energy, so I'm assuming there would not be any noticeable impact from the slight shading/filtering of sunlight that occurs from using a fine mesh material? -OM .
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curious Registered: 08/03/07 Posts: 13,864 |
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I think I finally have my official "line up" of strains/plants that I'm growing this year.
I was wanting to get somewhat of an early start this year but that didn't happen. I wanted to have clones in April and have them completely hardened off and ready to transplant into their large pots by pretty much now/late May....but trying to find clones has been a major hassle & pain in the ass for me this time around...Dealing with things like sellers requiring large minimum order of clones (like 20 to 50+ clones minimum, and I'm only looking for 5 to 10 at the very most), to clone sellers flaking on me and never showing up after I drove 20 to 30+ miles to meet with them, to finally getting my hands on some clones only for them to be super tiny and not vigorous at all, to several clones dying on me....I scoured craigslist and cannabis vendor websites everyday for the past month trying to find healthy clones somewhere within a 70 miles radius of me, and from people that don't require a large minimum order, and that has proven to be a major hassle. But I think my hunt is over, finally got a hold of some healthy cuts yesterday. So, as long as none die on me, my line up for this year will be.... Wedding Cake (I'm not sure if it's the "Cherry Pie X GSC" cross, or if it is the clone only pheno of Triangle Mints...) Mimosa (Clementine X Purple Punch) Permafrost (White Widow X Trainwreck)...or maybe the other way around, can't find much info) Extreme Cream (Extreme OG X Cookies & Cream) Lemon Dosi (Lemon Tree X Dosido) Dancing Flame (Blue Frost X Gorilla Princess) And I'm growing a few directly in the ground for my first time this year...All my plants in the ground are from seed, so I'm not sure if any of them are ladies yet. Lemon Wookie Glue (Lemon Wookie X Glue Bx2) And several from seeds I picked out of my own home grown herb the past couple years, not sure where the pollen came from or if the plants self pollinated...Seeds I picked out of Thin Mint, Tangieland, and Slymer. So...better late than never. And I am still starting a bit earlier than I have previous years but not nearly as early as I wanted to, I wanted to already have 12 to 18 inch plants by now and not clones that need to be hardened off. Not exactly the line up of strains I wanted either, but I am looking forward to the Permafrost and just seeing them all grow up in general...and getting to smell the essence of that mimosa in the mornings when it is flowering .... This is the most variety I've grown compared to previous years, happy about that too.Quote: Are you doing that with weed that has already been dried/cured since it came off the plant? I'm pretty sure the whole idea behind the cob curing/fermenting is doing it with herb that has not been dried/cured yet since it was harvested...as in herb that was harvested off the plant and has yet to be dried/cured in anyway. With that said tho....I can imagine even with weed that is already dried/cured that there will be some fermentation and some sort of "change" that happens. I've heard about the cob curing/fermenting method a few times over the years...I might try it with a little bit of my herb after harvest in the fall. I can imagine the fermentation might create some novel cannabinoids/active components that are not present in herb that is dried & cured the "normal" way. Fermentation of psychoactive plants in general seems to make for a slightly different feel/effects and/or creates a somewhat different spectrum of active components. -OM .
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curious Registered: 08/03/07 Posts: 13,864 |
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Quote: I don't know why so many sellers in my area require stupid high minimum orders. A lot require people to purchase 20 to 50 or more plants minimum, but people are only "allowed" to grow 6 plants at home. I don't get it. I'm assuming most of their clientele are those that do large/illegal grows .Stores in my area have clones for sale but they are crazy expensive, $25 to $50 or more for one tiny little plant that isn't even rooted yet. I'm trying to grow 6 plants and paying that much per plant/clone is way out of my budget. Outside of stores they typically only cost $6 to $10. But I'm basically back to square one since I made that last post. Out of the 4 clones I got the other day...One has died, and two others look like they're about to do the same. I really have no idea what the fuck is going on with them and why almost every clone I've bought this spring keeps dying. It is sooo fucking frustrating tho. Losing $ when I'm on a very tight budget and losing all this prime time to be growing plants outdoors. Living where I do, northern California, it should not be this difficult to get a hold of some healthy plants. I don't even know what to do at this point since everything I buy keeps on dying, I've already thrown away $100 on clones over the past month and almost all of them have died...I've never had problems like this before the past 3 years I've grown the plant. -OM .
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curious Registered: 08/03/07 Posts: 13,864 |
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So I think I may FINALLY have the plants that I'll be growing out this summer lol.
Like I've mentioned in some of my previous posts/rambles in this thread, I've had a real bad time with clones this spring. Tiny plants, plants with no vigor/taking for ever to root/grow, plants dying on me, clone sellers flaking on me and never showing up after driving a few dozen miles to meet with em', lots of frustrations...yadda yadda yadda...... But today I picked up some clones that the dude said are already acclimated to the sun and have roots in a bit of soil already, exactly what I've been looking for. So now it looks like the line up for my fabric pots will be..... -Wedding Cake (Triangle Kush X Animal Mints) -Permafrost (White widow X Trainwreck) -Sour Lemon Diesel (Sour D X Lemon Kush) -Vanilla Frosting (Humboldt Frost OG x Humboldt Gelato Bx3) -Garanimals (Grape Pie X Animal Cookies) -Capstone ( Super Lemon Dawg x [Cherry Pie x Orange Apricot] ) -Mirage (Lemon G X Dr. Hoffman) I'm looking forward to them all of course...but I'm looking forward to the "Permafrost" and the "Capstone" the most. Curious to see what the Vanilla Frosting is like too since it came from a massive pheno-hunt. I sure enjoy Wedding Cake too tho....And I really like me some lemon/pine/diesel of the Sour Lemon D lol . I wish I could have got an OG of sorts in the mix (Fire, Kosher, Larry, Tahoe, etc), but the Sour Lemon D should satisfy that itch a bit. So I think I am finally done hunting for clones/plants... I plan on transplanting em' directly into 30gal fabric pots this evening...A nice cool down into the 80s (it's like 107 out right now) and some partly cloudy skies next week will be perfect for their first week in their new homes. Quote: Dang! Quote: I concur!... So chunky .Quote: Are you the fella that grew some other auto from a while back?Sometime within the past few months I recall someone posting a pic of an auto that looked equally impressive as that plant, quite similar looking actually. Good job What sort of aroma/essence does it have? Similar to the typical cookies? -OM .
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curious Registered: 08/03/07 Posts: 13,864 |
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Quote: It does. I haven't had any of those classic strains in a long while. There isn't much info about this strain out there, but the genetics are said to be something along those lines...either WW X TW, or TW X WW...I've also heard it might be a WW X Northern lights cross...I've also heard it might have Kali mist in it...but most things I've read point towards it having WW & TW as its parents, or at the least it is composed of older/classic strains. I'll get an idea once it's growing out and flowering. I actually almost lost it...It was drooping badly a few days ago but it has since bounced back and is reaching for the light once again. The "Capstone" strain is said to have an apricot/stone fruit essence to it, I'm looking forward to smelling the fresh/live resin on that one. Quote: Yea it was you, those are the plants/pics I was thinking of. They all look great! And I forget that maybe not everyone has smelled/smoked any of the classic "Girl Scout Cookie" strains lol...But your description of the aroma is pretty similar to how I would describe the typical/classic cookies (strain) aroma. Sounds like the cookies smell to me....To me the classic cookie smell is a bit doughy/nutty, a little sweet, gassy, some pine and earth, some spice and with a distinct peppery note (with some cuts of cookies, the pepper note along with the dough in the essence makes me think of biscuits & gravy lol). I'm def going to have to get my hands on some of those auto-genetics. -OM .
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curious Registered: 08/03/07 Posts: 13,864 |
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Yesterday I realized one of my seed grown plants is "trifoliate" . Pushing out 3 leaves rather than the typical 2.
I topped em' a few days ago and didn't even notice when I topped it...but a few days after when the new growth at the nodes was reaching upwards I noticed there were 3 nodes/3 leaves going on there! It looks like the plant started out with the typical 2 nodes, but several nodes/branches up the stalk it switched to 3. It was from seed I pulled out of my own herb, it came from either Slymer or Thin Mint. Still not sure if it is a lady or a dude yet tho. Quote: I haven't had Bubblegum in a long while either....Or the classic Blueberry. I have a clone of "Strawberry Banana" at the moment, which is "Banana OG X Indiana Bubblegum" ....but I'm likely going to give that one to a friend since I'm over my limit. -OM .
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curious Registered: 08/03/07 Posts: 13,864 |
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Quote: Cool!... I didn't even notice the lil guy until I expanded the pic. I'm assuming it's "wild" and not a pet? lol Where abouts in the world do you live? Seems like a proper defense against pests lol. -OM .
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curious Registered: 08/03/07 Posts: 13,864 |
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Quote: Same here. I never understood why people add all the extra steps. Sometimes I'll let my seeds soak in some water overnight before I plop em' into some soil the next morning, but mostly I just sow em' directly into soil right from the start. Cannabis seed germinates easily and rapidly, I've never needed to do anything special to get them to pop open. Out of the 30 or so seeds that I've sowed over the past 3 years, I've only had like 2 seeds that didn't pop open (and they were some old bag seed), most of them do so within about 48 hours. I feel that the little tap root/hairs on the root coming out of a seed can become easily attached/meshed into the fibers of a paper towel and become damaged when the seed is removed from the paper towel, of course it's not a major issue since many people use the paper towel method but that is something that's always been on my mind. -OM .
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curious Registered: 08/03/07 Posts: 13,864 |
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Man, seed grow plants in the ground get so damn big so damn quickly lol.
![]() This is the first time I've put any plants in the ground. There are a lot of gophers around my place and I don't have the $ to put in wire/mesh in the ground to block gophers from the roots so I've been hesitant to do so the past few years and have just used fabric pots instead.... ...but about a month ago I put two of my seed plants in the ground (Lemon Wookie Glue) and those plants are already bigger than any other plant that I've grown before and we haven't even reached the solstice yet lol. They're already bigger than any of the plants that I've harvested the past few years and the season is just now starting to take off. If they turn out to be ladies and don't get chomped by gophers they'll be some pretty big plants, I actually hope one of them is a male because I planted them too close together (about 3ft apart) and would like to see one grow up to its fullest potential. The soil in my backyard seems to be quite fertile. I've already known this from gardening and growing other things in the ground the past few years. But I have not given these plants or the spot/soil they're planted in ANY sort of fertilizer/compost or ANYTHING at all yet and the plants are super lush and healthy and growing rapidly. Great to see em' growing like they are in some true "native" soil, they are happy plants with no deficiencies at all. Now just hoping they turn out to be ladies...one of them I'm pretty sure is, the other will take a few more days before I can see what's going on at the nodes. This makes me want to grow in the ground from now on, and from seed...It's crazy how vigorous & healthy & rapidly seed plants in the ground grow up compared to clones. Quote: I'm def going to be trying to get a hold of some of that dudes creations for my next grow. Even before I started to grow my own plants I've known about Bodhi for a while, that fella has a lot of strains/genetics I'd love to grow & smell & feel. Quote: I've been wondering about what to look for to ID over watering. To me, the way a plant looks when it is over-watered is similar to how a plant looks when it is under-watered...I've been wondering what are some things to look for to differentiate between the two? With plants that are established/rooted I've never really had a problem with over/under watering and if the plant has a slight droop/limpness to it it's easy for me to tell if it's over/under watered just simply by sticking my finger into the soil..... ....but with clones that are only in rockwool with roots just beginning to run into soil, I've had a terrible time this year knowing if they're too moist or too dry. I believe some of my clones died this spring because of being "over-watered" (a tiny spritz/few drops of water once or twice a week). It seems like the smallest amount of moisture is "too much" for them and they go limp and droop and then they're dead within a day or two. Should the rock-wool/soil for clones be mostly dry? Because anytime I tried to keep moisture in the rock-wool/soil they died...I never even really "watered" them, just gave them a few drops of water/spritz from a spray bottle. Since I'd given them so little water I was always wondering if they were dying because of too little or too much water, I couldn't figure out what was going on....I think it was because of too much tho, because one clone I decided to not water at all just to see how it responded and it didn't have much issues with drooping/going limp. Even tho the rock wool/soil felt bone dry for over a week, I basically never watered the thing. -OM .
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curious Registered: 08/03/07 Posts: 13,864 |
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Quote: On the topic of foliar sprays/feeds.... I'm curious what you like to use Ran-D?...as well as anyone else in the thread that does foliar feeds/sprays of any sort. Just wondering about some basic foliar "recipes" and regimens, how do ya'll go about? I haven't actually got into foliar much...I think the only thing I've used via foliar is some fresh aloe vera blended up with water. I know some folks claim aloe doesn't do anything, but a little while after an aloe foliar application my plants always look super lush and have a vibrant "glow" to them, the leaves look "plump", and the leaves stand up reaching for the sun/praying to the sun...Spraying plain ol' water on the plant doesn't quite do that so the aloe is doing something. Quote: Dude!... It's crazy how much these plants are loving & thriving in my backyard/native soil, especially considering I haven't supplemented the soil with anything at all, I mulched a layer with grass/mallow/nettle clippings from mowing the yard and that is all. I was thinking about all those points you made as well, the roots having as much space as they need to expand, the roots never get hot during those 100+ degree days, all the native microbes/bacteria the roots have access to, etc etc etc.... I can't wait to do a full proper grow with all my plants in the ground. Only thing is, when I get the chance to do that I might be living somewhere else that doesn't have "perfect" soil like I do right now....If I knew all my plants were safe from gophers I would have them all in the ground right now, but I don't want to take the chance of losing a plant/many ounces of herb. I trap & relocate (sometimes kill) like 5 or more gophers a year from my backyard but they're always around, bastards have been taking out my sunflowers over the past week...they'll come up to the surface right next to the stalk of the plant and then take a few bites out of the base of the stalk, then entire plant falls down and dies. It is so fucking annoying that they only take a few bites out of the plant, right at the base of the stalk, the entire plant falls over like a tree & dies. I despise gophers. They did the same thing to my pepper plants last year too, only taking a few small bites out of the base of the plant so it falls over and dies, if that happens to any of my cannabis plants I'll be super heated lol . I do love the soil around here tho. So much so that I've taken pictures of it when I've been digging/working the ground for the garden during the spring time lol, when it is soft like butter and has that perfect moisture/texture to it lol, I love it so much (and the smell)...It's a bit sandy/loamy and chock full of worms (during the springtime, anywhere in my yard that I dig into with a shovel will turn up a bunch of worms, like every square foot of the earth on the property is loaded with em'. If those plants are ladies and make it through the summer with out getting chomped by gophers I'm really looking forward to seeing how their aroma/flavor turns out, I'll get to experience the true "terroir" of my climate/soil. (Right now they smell amazing, just the plant/stalk itself has a very distinct diesel & skunk & sour lemon/pine smell). And if they do make it to harvest, I'll likely be using most of those plants for hashish. -OM .
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curious Registered: 08/03/07 Posts: 13,864 |
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Quote: Yea my plants love aloe...I usually chop up about a cup or two worth of fresh aloe and blend that up with 1/2 gal of water. I use it as both a foliar and a soil drench, about once every 7 to 10 days. I'm familiar with nettle and what it has to offer, I even drink some nettle tea myself during the springtime, I've just never used it via foliar....I've top dressed with shredded nettle and I've done some fermented "tea" that's used in the soil. Do you have a basic "rule of thumb" in regards to how much nettle you use when making a batch of "tea" to be used for foliar? I know with an "organic" approach #'s aren't so crucial, but just wondering about a reference point/roughly how much to use? I have a lot of nettle around my yard that I let grow so I can use it, same with mallow and other nutritious common "weeds"....I've heard about horsetail a lot over the years but haven't used it yet, I'll look into that one. I've actually never checked the pH of my water (or anything) and haven't run into any issues so I'm assuming it's pretty neutral, might get some pH papers or something cheap to check it/get an idea at some point this summer. Quote: Aloe def helps with hydrophobic soil...I've got a bit of that going on before in my fabric pots, certainly helps the water to run down into and through the soil. Do you have a "rule of thumb" in regards to how much nettle you use or any of those other plants you mention? How do you "prepare" your botanical foliar sprays? -OM .
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curious Registered: 08/03/07 Posts: 13,864 |
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This damn wind tho
.I fuckin' hate the wind. I love weather, I've always been a bit of a weather geek, but wind in particular is one atmospheric dynamic that I just can't stand lol...Unless I'm trying to fly a kite or unless it's raining and there's a storm happening, I hate the wind lol. Wind on a sunny day is one of the most annoying things ever for me lol. I've got some cardboard "shields"/tubes placed around my clones so they don't get thrashed around too much by the wind. One of my seed plants in the ground got knocked around a bit too much by the wind the past few days and is flopped over a bit. At first it looked like a gopher chomped the base of the plant, but I'm thinking the plant may have just ripped the roots a bit from being thrashed around in the wind so I have it being supported/held up at the moment. The days after some wind my plants usually look a bit extra vigorous and healthy from the work out, but it can be so annoying and damaging. I hate seeing plants being thrashed around in the wind. I'm going to be trying a solo cup light dep grow lol...I have like 10 plants that I started from seed in solo cups back in April. They are a bit root bound but they're still mostly healthy besides some mild deficiencies. They're still not showing their sex and I don't have anywhere to put em' and I'm over my limit at this point so I'm just going to flip them into flowering sometime in the next week or two after I get them looking a bit more lush. Not expecting much of anything, mostly doing it just for fun/hobby and as an experiment. Always something to learn. I've seen pics of some pretty good looking plants grown in solo cups (indoors tho)...tiny, but still dank looking. -OM .
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curious Registered: 08/03/07 Posts: 13,864 |
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Quote: I figured most folks don't really measure things out precisely when it comes to using nettles and other botanical teas and growing "organically" in general.... ...but I'm just trying to get a reference point or a rough idea of how much to use. If I'm going to use 1 gallon of water to make a foliar, how much nettle should I put into it? Should I use 1 gallon of nettles? 1/4 gallon?...1/2 gallon?...Just trying to get an idea of how much material you "grab and toss" into a tea? And how do you go about preparing a nettle foliar/tea? Do you just let it steep/soak over night in cold water? Or do you let it steep/soak for multiple days? Or do you boil it? Or do you ferment it? Etc etc..... Quote: Are you saying you use 1/3rd of green/botanical material and another 1/3rd of silica/bug castings/compost? Why is straw needed in a tea/foliar?...How much water would that be put into?....I'm just not really following or understanding what it is you're saying or trying to convey...?.... Can you elaborate or clarify? -OM .
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curious Registered: 08/03/07 Posts: 13,864 |
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Quote: I'm not looking for a specific recipe... All I'm wondering about is trying to get a basic rough idea or ball park figure for how much nettles one might use to make a foliar? Simple as that, that's all I'm wondering about. If I'm going to use a gallon of water to make a foliar....roughly how much nettles should I "grab and toss" into it? A cup worth? A handful? 1/2 gallon? Filled up to the brim? I know the amounts are not super crucial, but you and Ran-D mentioned ya'll use nettles so I'm just trying to get a rough idea of how much one might want to use in a foliar. And how one goes about "preparing" it. Example...I use aloe vera as a foliar...I'm not super precise on the amounts I use but I tend to use roughly around 1 to 2 cups of chopped & blended aloe to about 1/2 gallon of water. So for anyone in the thread that uses foliars and botanical teas, can you give me a rough figure for how much material you use or some ratios? I can dig around online and find out from other places, but figured I'd ask here since I'm curious how ya'll like to go about things and for the sake of discussion. -OM .
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! For almost a year now I've been putting all of my food scraps into compost (lots of scraps & bits from broccoli, asparagus, bell peppers, avocado skins, melon rinds, mango skins, apples, egg shells, pineapples, papaya, all of the stalks and some fan leaves from my plants last year, and several handfuls of grass/nettle clippings). I'm stoked to finally put it to use
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(that has happened several times, I'm only looking for 6).
.... This is the most variety I've grown compared to previous years, happy about that too.

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