Dirt Wizard's Magic Wand Factory and Library Lounge

Dirt_Wizard · November 17, 2022, 6:13am

I do foliars more days than not in mid to late veg, then less often and more selectively during early flower. I’ve been feeding the girls AgSil and aloe some days, coconut water on others, and in between usually a water or weak PureCrop1 mist. As I flip to flower, I’m going to add in some occasional Epsom foliars alternating with Bloom Khaos from Nectar:

PureCrop1 is a product I got at my local grow store when I asked them for an all in one preventative IPM spray back when I started growing and bought my first tent from them. They said it was very popular with commercial growers because it tests completely clean up to the day of harvest and it has a zero OSHA exposure rating. It’s been great for me so far and I’m still on my first 16 oz bottle a few years later, very concentrated. I used it to knock out an infestation on my privet hedges this summer, and to keep my tomatoes nice and free from bugs and blight:

"Simplify your routine with a powerful insecticide, a potent fungicide, and a multi-faceted IPM addition, packed in one organic, plant-based formula.

Although it’s active ingredients are corn and soybean oil, PureCrop1 is not oil ; it’s a clever rearrangement of the colloidal micelle and their electrical charge.

The micelle measures between 1-4 nanometers and does all the work. When it comes to sap-sucking pests, unlike oils that act as a suffocant, the micelle is attracted to the bacteria in their gut. It will go through the cellular wall of the insect and disrupt the enzymes there.

PureCrop1 works against mold and mildew by membrane disruption. Thousands of micelle tear out a piece of the cell wall and cause the cells to leak out, effectively sterilizing the spore. The micelle also leaves a thin physical barrier that blocks the anchor site where mold and mildew would attach, preventing it from growing for up to ten days."

I think they really pump up from the daily moisturizing and food, and I’ve had next to no bug problems, fungus mites in my soil once or twice that got knocked out. Generally, I think the neem and karanja in my soil keeps the buggies out, and I’m lucky to have a dry, warm basement that’s pretty big free other than spider friends. I want to start making FPJ, in the further quest to feed my plants with minerals and other plants, but haven’t done it yet.

minitiger · November 17, 2022, 2:44am

Yeah, I’m gonna take advantage of that BAS sale, too. I think I’m just gonna buy the K silicate, though. And maybe some of that Gnarley Barley. I realized the other day that I’ve been using the same 7.8% (or whatever) homemade silica for like three years now haha, so I tossed it and grabbed my old bag of Agsil to make a new batch. It was just one gigantic clump of silicate haha. I’ve had that bag for at least seven years, though, so I’m not surprised.

I tried, like, hacking off some pieces, but it was useless haha. Shit was like a brick.

Dirt_Wizard · November 17, 2022, 2:46am

Mine bricked up but I just dissolve chunks in hot water, this new bag is going straight into a Mason jar. I’ve been dumb and not keeping my powders in jars, just the bags they come in with their crappy zippers

minitiger · November 17, 2022, 3:15am

Yeah, I thought about dissolving chunks, but at the same time, I was kinda like,”Just buy some new fucking silica already,” haha. For real, man, I’ve had that bag since my first grow ever, like seven years ago.

That’s a good idea. You put the bag itself into the mason jar or do you empty the bag into the jar?

Dirt_Wizard · November 17, 2022, 3:18am

Right? It’s so cheap I should probably toss the rest in a bucket and put it on the bushes outside.

I’m planning on splitting each bag of powder into two pint jars, so I can leave one closed and dry while I use the first. That way my second half will be fresh and uncaked I figure. Or I might just be lazy and dump it all in a quart, that’s probably enough difference from leaving open bags around.

Dirt_Wizard · November 17, 2022, 4:31pm

One of my particular passions is researching stuff, digging into archives and other places to find info otherwise unavailable. There’s two good threads here I try to contribute to regularly that I’d recommend for anyone looking to read about the history of modern cultivation and genetics:

@buckaroobonsai has a rare books and other grow guides etc thread that rocks, he’s a hell of a collector:

And then this one:

minitiger · November 17, 2022, 4:23pm

I love those old seed bank catalogs, gonna go through that thread in a little bit.

For some reason, when I clicked on the link you shared, it went immediately to questions about the increased use of the phrase “donkey dick” around 1984-85 haha. I can almost guarantee you the reason for the increased usage is because of John Holmes specifically and the (slightly) more open attitudes towards porn in general. ‘84/‘85 woulda been toward the end of Holmes’ career, but you figure after a good ten year run, he and his donkey dick woulda been firmly ingrained in (some of) the public consciousness, particularly writers/artists etc and any other sorta “fringe” people who shaped popular culture.

Also, I know that Donkey Dick was a nickname for Holmes that he really didn’t appreciate haha, but one that was used a lot in reference to him.

Anywayyyyyyy… haha.

Dirt_Wizard · November 17, 2022, 4:31pm

Hahaha I didn’t realize I posted a link to that response of mine, I’m gonna fix that now. I like your theory though! It makes sense

Dirt_Wizard · November 17, 2022, 4:40pm

“You sure about this, donkey dick?” asked Tracy McCourt, the gang’s wheelman.

“Hey, it’s cool,” said John Holmes, 36, the man with the plan. “I know Eddie. Nash loves me. He thinks I’m famous.”

John Holmes was famous, at least in some circles. What he was famous for was his penis."

minitiger · November 17, 2022, 4:58pm

Yeah, I love that article so much, read it probably a hundred times. I’ve got two books of collections of the author’s articles that he wrote (mostly for Rolling Stone), things I read when I was a kid because my mom had a subscription. Probably not stuff a twelve-year-old should be reading haha, but they were laying around, so I read them. Mike Sager’s a good writer, wrote about all kinds of shit that really captured my imagination as an adolescent and helped me be like,”Fuck this. I’m getting the fuck outta Tampa ASAP,” haha.

I miss the days when Rolling Stone had great writers…

minitiger · November 17, 2022, 5:12pm

Man, I was like,”Maybe I should grab another one of Sager’s collections,” just now and started looking around. I didn’t even realize he wrote that article “The Pope of Pot.” Not sure if you’ve ever read that one, but that was another one that I read when I was like thirteen that was just, like, mind-blowing haha. It was like,”Shit… Sometimes it takes me two days and four different connections to get a bag of weed in Tampa, but in NYC, they’re getting it delivered on bikes in thirty minutes! That’s it! I’m outta here when I turn eighteen!” hahaha…

Dirt_Wizard · November 17, 2022, 5:20pm

I’m gonna look it up! For me, it was finding this book in the library when I was seventeen, opened my eyes up to the scale and history of the relationship between humans and hemp or cannabis.

minitiger · November 17, 2022, 5:26pm

Here it is: Mary Ellen Mark

Reading that shit in Rolling Stone when I was a kid… Man… It really was like,”There’s a whole fucking world out there…” haha.

Dirt_Wizard · November 17, 2022, 5:28pm

Ohhhh that’s fuckin sick dude, thank you! I studied photojournalism and specifically street photography and photo essay stuff, she’s one of my favorites

minitiger · November 17, 2022, 5:45pm

Yeah, I guess she took the photos for that article. Although there’s only one posted with that article haha.

Dirt_Wizard · November 17, 2022, 8:26pm

Had to wash the saucers and pot elevators so I got the girls out for a photo shoot today, I’m contemplating stretch and considering turning them to 12/12 this weekend. On the one hand, I like growing trees, on the other, I don’t want to overwhelm my tent. I think I want them a little bigger still.

By the way, I love and recommend these elevators to everyone, I think they keep my roots happy and drained and they’re indestructible:

First up on the runway, Cinderella 99:

Next, Cindy Mix:

And now Smart Move:

Last, but definitely not least, Nigerian Sunshine x Apollo 11/13:

Dirt_Wizard · November 17, 2022, 11:59pm

New favorite academic paper title:

minitiger · November 18, 2022, 2:43am

I like how the “contemporary figures” strain names in that paper included Charlie Sheen haha. And named that one first! Totally forgot about that ol’ “Charlie Sheen OG.”

Those strains, like Sheen and Michael Phelps OG and Obama OG and whatever, seemed to me to be a similar thing to those old “planetary OG’s” I mentioned somewhere else: people just slapping names on shit and renaming them or whatever. Because it was like they all just showed up one day and disappeared just as quickly. I mean, what? Charlie Sheen goes on that insane “tiger blood” rant or whatever and like two weeks later, there’s Charlie Sheen OG in every dispensary? Michael Phelps gets caught hitting a bong and a week later there’s a Phelps OG? Gimme a break…

Sounds like an interesting study, though haha. I’m gonna read it all the way through later. I love Chocolope, so… haha!

Dirt_Wizard · November 27, 2022, 3:28am

Seeing as I went hard on the sativas this round, with an all-Jack Herer based selection (with added Nigerian and Thai), next time through I’m switching it up. Looking at the holes in my stash choices, after some contemplation I’ve figured out what the next flower run is going to be and pulled out the seeds to warm up before getting them wet tomorrow. It was a tough one, I’m starting to like themes that link the strains in a multi-strain grow together, and I spent some time brainstorming ways to link all four together in a chain of genetics, I’ll post some of those later as thought experiments.

In the end, practicality won. At the end of the day (couple days really) it was clear that the obvious need I have is for indicas, so half this one is going to be heavy hitters. The other absence in the stash is Diesels or Chems, other than that Black Lime Reserve x GSD tester I just did for Copa. One of those was pretty boring, the other one has rotten butter and diesel going on (not weed “diesel” actual diesel with the oily richness) and I miss that kind of tang.

So, the second flower lineup at the Magic Wand Factory this winter is going to be some combination of 4-6 of these seeds:

3x Bodhi Seeds/@Oldjoints - Blue Tara F3
3x Copa Genetics - Icy Grape
3x @Tonygreen 's Tortured Beans - Sowah Grapefruit
3x @LouDog420 - (4SD x Chem DD) x Sour Jack

Blue Tara is Bubbashine (Bubba Kush x Blue Moonshine) crossed to Snow Lotus (Afgooey x Blockhead X18-dom)

Icy Grape is Purple Zkittles (SMMJ cut) x 1996 Sensi Black Domina #1-4

Sowah Grapefruit is (New York Candy Orange x Gorilla Bubble) x Sowahh (Karma’s Sour Diesel BX4)

NYCO is New York City Diesel x Agent Orange by Dr P. of Catnip Seeds, the mom in Sowah Grapefruit is from @LouDog420 's selection after crossing Gorilla Bubble generations into the NYCO:

Tons of great photos from Tonygreen here:

4SD is Chemdog #4 x Sour Diesel IBL 2007 by Rez
Chem DD is the same but with the D
Sour Jack is Sour Diesel IBL x Jack Herer #22 by Karma

Big hopes for these diesels and Chems to make my eyes water in a few months! Who knows what I’ll think by the time I get there but for the last flower run this year I’m thinking two Durban hybrids and maybe some heirlooms. I have Dubba Bubba (Durban x pre '98 Bubba) from Hazeman and African Queen (Durban x C99) from FDM. Heirlooms could be any of the Overgrow seeds I’ve gotten in boxes that aren’t tropical sativas, maybe the NL5, Purple Urkle or Sour Bubble? Or maybe Sweet Tooth, ESB, or Ortega from FDM. Who knows where my head will be at by then.

LegsMahoney · November 18, 2022, 2:27pm

Sick lineup dude, and I can second the recommendation for those pot risers, use em myself!