This goes in a thick layer on all my outdoor (inground) veggies each year. They love it!
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@mainerJ @potpotpot don’t use that but I do love CoM and use their worm castings, Stonington Dry Mix fertilizer, and their Pacific whiting fish bone, I just got their Crab and Lobster shell instead of more DTE’ Pacific Dungeness Crab meal and it’s very different nice and coarse chips vs finely grained ground crab meal. I guess I basically do that sort of thing myself in my soil bins? The only compost that they’ve ever had added to them besides lots of EWC from a few different sources is Oly Fish Compost from Alaska, that stuff is crazy!
Outside in the yard we use municipal black mulch compost in large volumes (a couple yards a year) and we enriched our soil a few years ago with a truckload of composted soil mix from a local place that does a very good consistent product with test results. The farm I was working at got their composts besides the what we made on the farm from the Vermont Compost Company, they make a wide range of products that are pretty awesome and widely used by the organic farmers around here.
FEDCO carries their soils but not their fertilizer mixes since they make their own in house
Edit: lol whoops I got the Neptune’s Harvest shells this time, they are from Massachusetts
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What’s the smell like on the CoM fish bone meal? I have a box on deck for my next attempt at organic growing, is my wife going to make me sleep outside if I topdress with it indoors?
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Technically, if your wife has a problem with the smell, she should be the one sleeping outside 
Joke aside, I am curious about this as well. Starting indoor growing I have to minimize my stinky fertilizer ways 
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@potpotpot @FieldEffect its very low odor! It’s been steamed and ground like bone meal but I think it smells less. It’s a nice creamy white/golden color so not bleached or anything but the steam sterilization makes it just sort of dry fishy boney smelling, I like it actually. It smells like a human food grade product. It’s one of the least smelly things I use honestly, I don’t notice a funky decay smell with it like I do bone meal from cows even when it’s just as clean to start. If there’s anything I’m questioning using inside it’s Photosynthesis Plus, that PSB/PNSB smells exactly like an enhanced version of the swamp I grew up next to in late summer. Whew!
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Ahh good, that’s a relief haha. Didn’t want my house to smell like low tide haha.
And my wife is actually awesome with all the inconveniences of indoor growing. The only thing that has ever been an issue was when I had a bunch of garden starts in the living room and gave them all some garden tone. That smelled really horrible haha.
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Oh yeah for sure the Espoma -Tone products are awesome and also smell like hell, I use Tomato Tone when I reamend dirt but I’d never topdress with it indoors my god
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Some updates from the nug dungeon:
Vortex seed run just finished Week 9:
Plants from @catapult are looking sweet:
Cat Scratch Skunk
MM#31 reveg
JTR moms x2
Some Black Cherry Soda BX and Bay Breeze cuts that are soldiering on in plugs
And then a few seedlings that are ready to pot up to flowering size containers, mostly @dinopartychucks fems but another TGTB G-Unit fem in there too
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Ortega Mix buds, nice daytime hybrid smoke I definitely didn’t end up with the pure Ortega this time, too balanced and foxtaily:
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Thanks to @Stinky for today’s mail call, some Euro outdoor classics to try this year in New England and chuck onto/with:
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Very cool….hardy outdoor genetics! I have always wanted to run viking and the guerrilla gold.
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Ya! I love these lines they sound amazing and like some real throwback genetics to when cannabis had to adapt or die. It’s incredible what some of these Danish breeders and Canadians etc have done with a few decades of hybridizing landraces and acclimating them to new latitudes and elevations. Also the use of auto or semi-autoflower tendencies in the pre-automatic breeding era, this is really where that stuff comes from at least philosophically, all these breeders and chuckers selecting for the early flower or auto flower traits they found in Thai (Thaiphoon), Afghani (Viking), Lebanese (Leb27), Moroccan (Early Maroc), Swiss (Erdbeer/-purt) and Siberian ruderalis too (Mighty Mite/Guerilla Gold).
I’m trying to expand my collection of Northern OD heirlooms and acclimated landraces especially from Esbe, Bald Man Lala, Philosopher, ACE/RSC and the like. I can really see myself getting into using those hardy and vigorous genetics to both have easy plants for new growers with yard space I want to help out, and the potential of crossing those into our beloved modern selections of things to add toughness speed and raw weird cannabinoid and terp profiles.
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Hi @Dirt_Wizard, good to see the seeds made it to your end! Thanks for the mention 
Really hope you’ll take the lines further or make some nice crosses with them. Next summer I will pop a few of my leb27 x viking cross I made a few years back. I’ve seen many really nice phenos in my friends gardens from that cross.
Good luck my friend!
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Yes I will definitely be using and spreading these genetics besides trying to reproduce some more myself to have a stateside stash and another Fgen to return to you! Thanks for the chance at these, I have to send something back for you that’ll do well at 50N soon, I am happy we can all share these old and rugged genetics to bring health back to a tired gene pool of indoor only breeding
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I smell thrips, those little buggers!
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Man I’m fighting off thrips like a mofo right now! I went away for a week and made the mistake of putting down a very rich compost tea on everything in my dirty tents and came back to a nightmare of a lesson to learn about that. Currently cleaning and spraying daily and getting them under control but I’m gonna have to wash everything flowering right now very thoroughly uuuuuughhh.
I’m slowly winning the battle with BTI, PureCrop1, and Safer insecticidal soap, I gotta get some sticky tape up today in every tent and also hit them with a silica foliar
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Been dealing with those bastards myself, thought they were gone but nope, in my big room they are back AGAIN! Ffs, what’s the silica foliar for in relation to thrips. I’m using beneficials which are keeping the larva etc. at bay at soil level , but the ones up on the leaves not so much, think I’m just gonna try and come up with the stuff for JPS 1 and done as I know it works! I hate those little pricks
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My favorite beneficial bug for Thrips are the minute pirate bugs.
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Toughens up cell walls, like armor
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I thought maybe it had a special benefit I didn’t know about via thrips. I use silica regularly already, not sure if it helping at all with those little pricks though 
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