The 13-13-13 guarantees they get nutes every time it rains, and the plants quite happy at the moment. The wife and I finally got around to separating out the runners our strawberries produced. Instead of fruiting, they threw out runners. Lots of them. Jesus… We started with maybe ten strawberry plants, and now we have more than fifty. Our biggest problem was finding places to put them. Our raspberries did the same. I got one raspberry bush in the bargain bin and nursed to back to health. Now it needs a tomato cage. If the plants fruit with even half the vigor they’ve been having lately, next year is going to be productive.
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Oh yeah, your doing the work now but you’ll be thanking yourselves for years. I got to get on that too, we have the wild stuff everywhere but Id like to plant some of those “thornless” variations of berries, the melons have got me thinking alot about more fruits instead of mostly all veggies, I mean, If we’re gonna put the time in, it might as well be really delicious? Oh well, next year, or from what your tellin me, two or three years, but hey, nothin but time…
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We also “adopted” a bunch of dewberries and they’re well established now. My mother-in-law has a few acres a few miles from here that has blueberries. Somebody planted some decades ago, and the birds spread seeds around quite a bit. There are quite a few of them, and we find new seedlings every year.
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I keep hearing about those dewberrys, gonna have to get me a cut…or name a strain “Dew Berrymore” or something 
Passed down blueberries sound legit! Im hopefully gonna have some more melons soon, but I still have no real way to know when their ripe?! All this fruit talk is making me hungry! Hope all is well, Im out for the night.
Heres one of the melons still going and if anyone wants some of these ‘suger baby’ seeds PM me…lol…Im sure their cheep and easy enough to come by, might be able to mix something else in for ya if ya want…
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LOL, savings seeds is a lifestyle. I’m so selfish and short-sided I just eat the seeds. Maybe I’m just weird, I thought everyone did that with watermelon. I’ve got some more on the vine to get to soon. Hopefully melon redemption is still on the horizon for me 
Agree with ya on fixing damage as it comes up. Like you, it seems everything that happens negative is the result of a few consecutive bad decisions on my end. I don’t get much time with the plants during the week, but I’ve already noticed there is pretty much nothing that could stop them at this point. I freaked out about the storm because shit was flying outside like I’d rarely ever seen, mixed with the down pour rain I thought we were about the get a tornado here. Luckily not. On the nutrients, I’ve been taking it slow with the feed because everything I read led me to that same conclusion. I like the organic ecosystem where the plant is self-sating, I just provide minor excesses and the ecology of the soil will take whatever the plant needs. I’m getting a bit more leaf yellowing than I’d like but it’s keeping the girls slim, I just pluck the yellow ones, and make sure to feed. But a tea twice a week is quite a bit of work, I can’t swing more than that. I’ve avoided top-dressing because I put those cooler mats on top of the soil, now they are bonded to the soil with mycellium. It’s really the three smaller plants in the 15 gallons that are doing that, maybe I’ll just remove it on the two hungriest, dress and replace the mat. I just didn’t want to disturb the beautiful eco system that got created there. I think the 30 gallon bags hold onto enough volume of tea that they make it the 3-4 days between feedings better - I’m putting about 3 gallons of tea into each of those, where only about 1.5 gallons even makes it into the 15 gallon containers. Maybe tomorrow I’ll experiment: 1 gets top dressed on top of the “mulch”, one I’ll remove the “mulch” then top dress and replace, and 1 will get left alone.
So your BBMxCK is acting like a “fast” variety? It’s pretty. I wonder if thats a fairly broad effect type, or if that is really manifested by partial inbreeding. The SAD Fast I grew is supposedly Black Domina Photo x Black Domina Auto, so there are already similar genes, I don’t know if that is different in terms of homogenity than say Banana Berry Muffin x Chemi Kiwi. I had briefly read about reversing one of my branches to make some seeds, but it sounds like it makes the plant unsuitable for smoking, which is a deal breaker for me, on this run anyway.
We’re the same in terms of staring at something and sometimes not seeing it. Our minds are incredibly complicated recognizing things in images or reality, I’m shocked it doesn’t happen more often. We are developing software trying to do the same things we do easily, and…it’s not easy. Your girls are big! Tomorrow I’ll post some trunk pics and bud shots on my thread, we’ll see how my wire trunk splice job looks to you guys, and if I need to do more there or not. 
My over-complicated machine is certainly more complicated than a cardboard box or closet that most people dry in. I let go of achieving the perfect temperature because it’s just been too hot for that, but on average I’m in the ballpark, that’s better than what it would be. In general, with the exception of this week and a different week in June, it’s so dry here if I hung stuff in my shed it’d be CRISPY by day 2. Like BONE DRY. It’s certainly an upgrade but it is what it is. My breaker-popping episode is probably going to be unnoticeable, but technically I’m sure I lost some terps. Come October, it’s going to be sitting at pretty ideal temperatures naturally (as designed, average day/night temps). As the season goes on, it’ll start working better.
I f*ck things up frequently enough that I don’t have time to be embarassed anymore. It is what it is, learn a lesson, share the lesson and try not to do it again. I had addiction problems when I was younger - it’s been a shade over 5 years of abstinence from alcohol now. The only way through it for me was being totally honest about everything. I had lied to cover my habits for SO LONG it was natural in every part of my life. I presented a false picture of myself, and I was ashamed of it. When I figured out that was what I did, I totally changed, which has been the hardest thing I’ve ever attempted/done (still not “done”). I am me now, and it’s liberating. It’s all I really have that matters. Funily enough, the humility made me stronger than I ever was before. And those mistakes I used to try to hide, people find my blatant honesty so strange, it’s an attractive quality. People are drawn to it, but only because it’s genuine.
Off-topic ramble mode: Thankful for the alcoholism and the change that it forced me to make. I was BAD, like ICU on a monthly basis detox bad. Hundreds of thousands in medical and tax debt, drinking to death. Literally that was my plan only 6 years ago. I actually thought that was reasonable, just drinking until I died one day soon. I made myself a shitload of mess to clean up, and it’s depressing sometimes, but I made it this far. I got honest, and am trying to stay honest: Be a good person to not feel like a bad person. Help other people for gratification. It’s been a tough road, but I made it. I’m alive, I have a beautiful family, I have incredible friends (here and face-to-face kinds), I’m successful in my career. What more could I ask for?
Cheers friend, glad your back is feeling better!
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Hey Field Effect, I was a drunk at 12 years old. Stayed smashed, hell had a bottle at school.
An older friend, told me, straight up, you will never see 16 if you keep this up.
He had this old corn cob pipe, he filled it something he called, weed and tiny chunk of hash, (I was totally ignorant to the stuff) . He worked down in Baltimore all week, then came back to the hills to his mom’s house for the weekends. He told me, he quit being a drunk with this stuffs help.
I took a few hits and threw up from coughing.
It took time, but I found myself, not seeking oblivion from alcohol.
Weed opened my mind, not like I knew that then.
I was probably on the spectrum as I’d hear, this statement every day, boy, are you stupid or what as I could I’d get caught in a day dream, and just go away, until someone would be shouting, shaking my shoulder, Boy, are you stupid or what and I’d snap out of it.
Trade schools back then was about getting problem kids away from the more studious students in regular high school, makes sense keep us reckless assholes from gen pop!
It was a tough place, and the violence of cutting metal and welding, grabbed my mind, I guess I was 13 then. By the end of the following year, I was in a work program, where during my 2 weeks of shop, I could work in industry, welding/cutting stuff!!
Anyway, with out walking my drunk path, I may have never been interested in CHANGE. I’ve fought the drinking urge all my life, still do, but I’ve lost the taste for it, and now, I control every aspect of it now.
Good on you for fighting for your independence!! That stuff, just fills my heart with joy, to read when a good persons fight works out for them!!
Best to you!! web
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Nice. I tried to grow some watermelon, but morning glories took over that spot. Yesterday, the wife and I went out to check out some passion fruit vines that took over an area not far from here. There were purple flowers everywhere and a few fruits, which we’ll be harvesting in a few weeks. Passion fruit is really tasty, like a mix of pineapple and orange. Some varieties of passion flower are purely ornamental, but these are not. Collecting various types of passion flower seeds has become a hobby like collecting various types of morning glories and basil. Cannabis will be legal (or at least decriminalized) here soon, and I’ll be collecting cannabis seeds the same way.
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Just loving the conversation today and soaking it in. Love yall. What a great start to the day! I cannot express how thankfull I am for the like-minded friends here. Such kindred spirits.
The beauty, in-between the madness…
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Out mowing, the dang John Deere is busted, so push mowing a two acre field and this tune says it all Right Now…(continues to mow, head bobbin…)
Listen to Right Here Right Now (feat. Eric Rachmany and Stick Figure) by Iration on #SoundCloud
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I couldn’t get it to work so I though would drop this right here!
Hope ya don’t mind.
Just wanted to get that Vibe Flowing’ 
Right Here Right Now feat. Eric Rachmany and Stick Figure (Official Video) | IRATION
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Thanks guys for the support and sharing some of your own stories. We are mixed bunch on here, definately some great people. Kinda funny to me where I meet people, and where you find the most genuine people. Richard Rohr mentions in a book that he finds the most spiritual people not in his church, but in the AA meeting basement (he’s a Franciscan Priest who writes pretty general spiritiual literature I have enjoyed). It’s really true. I’m happy for each of you to be on your own journeys and making progress, that’s all we can ask for. Like I’ve said, I’m not sure perfect exists so it’s all about making some better decisions than we used to. Change is a beautiful thing if you embrace it, but fuck me if it isn’t tough.
Cheers guys (not the drinking kind )!
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Ditto ^^^^^^^^^^^ 
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He’s must be admiring the balls on that male! How’s it going Dendro? Finally made it here and trying to figure out the site!
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Yeah bro! I appreciate this! Please, keep em coming! Love great music, need it! Thank you for riding the wave here and increasing the frequency, we’re full on vibrations now!
Ive been super busy yesterday and today, as usual so just really appreciative of all the love you guys bring and share so freely. Keeping us going, such positivity has been a blessing! I pray we are all doing well this morning.
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Heck yeah! You made it! Lol! Everything was hanging all out that day. Anything goes!
Doing great today…Whats up my dude! So glad you made it, welcome to the promised land! Its awesome you got here! Make yourself comfortable and let any of us know if you have any problems, there is an introduction thread that was helpful for me to quickly meet some extremely friendly and helpful people, the positivity here is contagious, be careful, you might start walking around with a cheesy grin like I do all day now, that is, if you already dont!
Feel free to post anything you like here, and definitely please come by to say hi here and there(everyday is nice though!) And once you get your thread going, let me know or add a link here?
I have to get some more work done right now but Ill be checking in and getting back to folks asap. Glad you made it brother, thanks for saying hi and dont be a stranger! Growing for sure! Cant wait to see what youve been up to and the future contributions you will make here.
Again, welcome!
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Cheers to you too brother! Kool-aid only! These conversations have been extremely helpful for me lately, I can relate with your feelings and experiences with alcoholism as well as my own addiction to almost every type of chemical there is to get addicted to. Its all the same to me in certain ways, yet some drugs, especially alcohol are extremely toxic and harmful if over indulged, as I have! The mental addiction side of it all is so similar whether it be drugs or sex or skydiving or social media lol. I guess we all just have to figure out how to best spend our time! Lately, the gardening, as you mentioned and most of us can relate, is the new positive energy as well as hanging out with yall and getting comfortable here. Though I would hope Im starting to turn my addictive tendencies into something more positive, I know I have alot to work on, too much sometimes, every day is a blessing and a new chance to make a change.
The last few years for me have been alot better than where I had been. I did alot of things I regret too, hell we all have, but I can relate with the hospitalizations and severe addiction, the major problems and impacts that has on our lives as well as our family and friends. Ive also had a blast of a life along the way, there are times when I have no regrets yet the pain I have caused others, the fact that my entertainment and fulfillment often times came at the expense of others, has become an excuse to continue the cycle. I haven’t had a drink in about two weeks now, I dont usually try to keep track but this last time was different, as I wrote in a previous post, one single drink caused my body to go into complete breakdown a few weeks ago, I used to be the guy who could drink everyone under the table and now I cant even have 1 drink! Literally. So Im getting real with myself and others these days. I know it will kill me if I continue, I wish I could prevent or convince others of the dangers yet I know I must work on my own issues first and that in the end we all make up our own minds, make our own decisions. I can only be supportive and truly loving of others. If anyone else wants to speak on this, please do.
Cannabis has helped tremendously, in so many ways, it always has its just insane how much it has been demonized! One of the last doctor’s visits I went to, a doctor told me, after I explained how much I had drank in my life and that I believed that to be the main cause of my illness, she just says, ‘untill we rule the weed out, that’s what I think it is.’ WTF!? And I haven’t been back since. Had the one mess up of one frickin drink but other than that, doing great! Especially with all the support here and from yourself. So much love and appreciation for everyone!
Gonna snap some new photos of the garden to post later, thanks again Field and friends, hope all is good.
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I think I’m getting this figured out a little. Thanks for the advice on how to navigate through here as it’s totally different then the other site. I just deleted my posts on Cannabis connection as no need for upvotes if I can’t even reply. Lol. Looks like only MS gets to post on his site now and that’s got to be a lonely place to be. I’m starting a new grow as I wasn’t happy with the Auto’s or the living soil experience as I found out from another grower that it supposedly needs larger containers then I use to be totally effective so I’m back to what worked in the past. Thanks again for the invite and advice. Ttyl. Happy Growing
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Hello All! Wow, what a trip, over the last couple of days, I have been on an emotional roller coaster and so has the garden. All is not well in a few areas, yet others are thriving! Pretty typical for me though, so we’re rolling with the punches. On the Garden, since I haven’t visited that part of life for awhile… Here are some photos, and then we’ll talk? Yall know I can take it, I hope, even better than I dish it, so please, any and all opinions are desired here, especially at this point of no return, I always knew I was in over my head but its time to act or lose it all.
Everything looks “ok” on the surface…
BUT…all is not well in paradise. For one, Ive been fighting thrips(i believe) on this big girl, as well as not knowing how to properly maintain her crazy growth, but the worst thing I did was have all that other growth so close because it has definitely spread a fairly bad case of some type of white “stuff”. We’ll call it PM but I sure as hell dont know what it actually is. Whatever it is, its gonna take the crop if I let it go. Here she is, still looking ok, but the mold, mildew, whateve it is, is there and Im going to do whatever it takes to help her.
The plan so far is to mix up some antibacterial dish soap, alittle more than what I usually put in sprays, so like two table spoons in a qt, with a whole cup of hydrogen peroxide and really soak her and the whole garden down, later tonight, then intermix with neem sprays for the pests every couple of days and see how she responds, even if the neem doesn’t help too much on the bugs, the plants seem to love it. I have already got rid of any overlapping areas but she is still pretty dense in some areas, I should have spread her out, I got carried away with how tall she was but thats another issue that I cant really do much about now, live and learn. It all kind of comes down to that. Live and learn, we can only do so much but it really helps to be honest when something isnt working. So in the future, Im gonna keep the cannabis separate, at least physically, I have no idea how I thought the typical mold from the vine type plants would not spread, I have tried to keep a clean area but its just impossible with everything all crammed in like I have. For now, Im waiting to pluck a few more tomatoes, pickles, melons, for we came this far right? And I did promise Momma those tomatoes and some things are just more important in life. As soon as I fulfill that duty, Im gonna go crazier than my man Chip goes on Demo Day lol and wipe out the whole area between the three cannabis plants. That should help with the mold, pests, as well as my other problem that Im trying to man up about. The short ass Ginger Grant just never grew very tall but of course the one in front of her did so Im wondering if I should just take her out? She also has got hit with the PM as she’s right on top of the watermelon and I let her get so bushy so that she had alot of areas that just weren’t getting enough light. I took out alot of skinny, hidden branches, thats when I noticed the mold and realized how bad things have got and that Im just making it worse by not doing something about it. Here is Ginger Grant after I took out all the areas that I felt weren’t even getting close to enough light, as Ive mentioned before, the whole garden doesn’t get full sun all day, maybe 10 hours or so of full light and a few more of partial shade, so with her behind the other plants for alot of the day, a few branches were just obviously not getting what they needed for sunlight but Im prepared to hear or see down the road that she would have been fine or that she still isnt getting enough light, Im that lost right now. Overwhelmed is probably the word. So Im really having doubts on this whole grow. Definitely just gonna let things happen and take it regardless and will keep it real with yall, because Im not out of this fight yet! I still have a plan of action, and if all is lost? Hey, it was fun, met some great folks, learned alot more of what not to do lol, and god willing, there is always indoor and next year to try again, and hopefully we’ve got a couple more eggs somewhere in this basket!
Ginger after some heavy defole…this is the side that gets the least light, so hit it heavy…
Here she is from the side that gets better light…
The Don Johnson is still a baller, still skinny, but starting to stack the fastest. Haven’t had much problems with her expect she grew so fast that she blocked out the ginger, and thats not her fault! She is so far very resistant to the problems the others are facing but I still wish I could do a few things different. Next year will be just single file at this spot and I am going to remove some more tree branches to increase the lighting, and maybe just one fem seed in each plot with lots of good training, but hey, we’re still here now, right? So we forge on…
Good or bad, Im sticking with you all here. I cant express how much I appreciate all of the love, support and interest that yall have given to me and the grow. I apologize if I let things get to my head and have derailed this train, yet I am a believer in Faith and Redemption, its not over till its over! As far as my personal/physical life goes, well, thats a work in progress too, Ive come a long way and I know that, a slip is just that, a slip. As with the garden issues, I need to get real with myself about what my current problems are and then form a plan, stick to it, if it doesn’t work, form a new plan. Be honest with others about what Im going through and be ready to take advice that Im not necessarily ready to hear because the longer we aviod the truth, the harder it is to repair the damage.
Since its been awhile, here are some of the usual ‘bonus photos’ from over the last couple of days…
Damn, Im still ‘spinning’ must not have uploaded something right, lets see…
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