Summertime, and the livin’ is easy 
The spring lights say goodbye satisfied and give way to the warm light of summer.
In the summertime, when the weather is high… You can stretch right up and touch the sky…
Summertime, and the livin’ is easy
In the summertime, when the weather is high… You can stretch right up and touch the sky…
Today the sky is so beautiful!
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3M ♔ Mom was a Queen II (The passion!)
Smoking sativa from dawn is cool 
The Queen Mother imposes her rules in my garden of joy.
The temperatures at this time of year are tinting the leaves a deep purple color; I’m expecting colorful buds just like last year. Meanwhile, the plant—showing an insatiable appetite for Bio Nutrients—has begun to cannibalize its largest leaves and those hidden from the light. It’s an act of generosity by the leaves, which yield their nutrients to the plant, and also an act of survival for the plant itself, creating light gaps in its foliage to help flower formation and more flowers!
This characteristic self-defoliation is something I assist by gently nudging some leaves that drop under their own weight. Then I gather up that batch of spent leaves, chop them with scissors, and add them to the mulch, in an exercise of self-sufficiency where I imitate the forest life cycle—where organic matter reaches its fullest expression: humus. In the meantime, there’ll be a transfer of nutrients and minerals, and a grand feast for the substrate’s microbiology, which will have plenty of food and an unbeatable habitat.
I want to remind you that from my crops I only discard the trunk and especially thick branches. Everything else—roots, thinner branches, leaves—I return to the substrate by adding them to the mulch. I recover this mulch after each growing season, and I’ve been doing so for the last four years. Over time, I’ve also added other materials—straw, wood shavings, fresh grass, etc.—all of which have been efficiently broken down by the native microbiology that I continuously inoculate through my various Bio Fertilizer formulations. This material, largely humified or in the process of decomposition, also carries a huge concentration of Mountain Microbiology, perfectly adapted and acclimated to my “joyful garden”—a loyal, microscopic team that protects me season after season from any kind of pathogens. I do not add external materials, because I had very bad experiences at the beginning.
This week I’ve completed the lighting change. I replaced the four lamps with a blue spectrum (450 nm) for four new ones with warmer spectrums and added red: 1800/2700/3000K + 660 nm. I also turned on two 60 cm LED bars that are placed vertically in two corners; they have 2100 K, 660 nm, and IR LEDs. At the same time, to light the third corner of the grow tent, I added three cheap LED bars totaling 33 W, with loads of red LEDs, and in the fourth corner, a panel featuring 3000 K + 660 nm LEDs. Lots of light and ventilation to get the best flowers… let’s play!
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3M ⛬ Panama Red (Resilience)
One week with flowering schedule, the plant completely grateful for my care and fully recovered from blockages and complexes, now it advances unstoppably fattening branches and trunk, also expanding enormous leaves to capture all the light that I give it… trust and patience have been the essential nutrients to bring forward this strain that I always wanted to grow!
The plant shares a home growing cabinet with another Thai landrace, both understand each other very well, live and grow in unison.
While the Panama Red is in the transition period to flowering, and in order to stop the vertical stretching and promote compaction, I have a blue COB (450nm) just above it together with the rest of the lamps, as soon as the plant stops stretching and enters pre-flowering, I will change this COB for another with a very orange spectrum of 1800K and the side panel, currently with white light of 7700K that serves very well as a complement to the blue COB, I will change it for another with warmer spectrums of 3000K with 660nm LEDs… all for the cause! 
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Plants are looking truly Majestic heading into 2025 @defharo
Another Symphonic performance. And from the balcony, easy to see that Your syncopation rules Growmie
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3M ॐ Thai Landrace (Proud) 
A beautiful starry canopy of budding flowers and a leaf mass with an extremely enviable density give me enough clues to say that it’s going to be an epic crop!
The plant lives with another landrace (Panama Red) in my home grow cabinet (60x40x125cm), both grow in unison, each respecting the other’s space.
Since I didn’t synchronize the change of time to flowering between both plants, to give a chance to Panama Red that had been growing with many problems, I still keep two lamps on Panama Red to stop the vertical stretching, since there is a difference of 10 days between both plants, but as soon as Panama Red’s stretching is over I will change the current 450nm and 7700K lamps (side) for 1800K ones and a 3000K + 660nm side panel… summer colors! 
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3M ▼ Afghani Landrace (Stoic) 
After a tortuous beginning, this native plant from Afghanistan, risen from the ashes and looking impeccable, is now moving towards its glory.
I think it has had its last stretch this week, and now the plant is completely focused on exchanging light energy for flowers!
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Yes @MissinBissin, this orchestral forest practices its music daily, to keep pace with the rhythm of the garden and form the great symphony of flowers. 
2025 in our hands! 
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Right now my plants are doing a Tooba solo lol lmao
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Yes, each plant goes its own way, the fault of the orchestra conductor, who smokes a lot and sometimes throws the melody out of sync.
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3M ♕ Royal X
A seed conceived at home and now cultivated in the warmth of the home! 
7 litre pot. Height: 57 cm.
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Santa makes alot of trash. That must really rile you . Considering how you reuse even the shed leaves. Whats your take on wild game? Have you given thought as a gardener. Cheers buddy
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Yes, my garden doesn’t generate trash, just like nature! I don’t get angry about those things anymore, I don’t participate in social events or artificial parties, I’m a rebellious consumer who doesn’t want to become bourgeois and at the same time I try to contribute with my actions.
As far back as I can remember, my father took me hunting, he was an enthusiast and he bragged a lot about his dogs and prey. I liked hunting days in the countryside, watching the dogs work and shooting a lot, because we hunted mainly small game, quail, partridges, hares, etc. At the same time, my father tried to make me like guns and he succeeded for a few years, I even won shooting prizes, but one day I realized the real reason for their existence, and I don’t like them anymore.
After my father’s death I got rid of all his weapons, I only keep an unused shotgun that belonged to my grandfather and was my favorite weapon.
I gave up hunting when I left my parents’ house at 18. I understand hunting for sustenance, not as a sport.
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The one you keep is a gun also.
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Yes, but the cannons are augered and the firing pins are welded, all done by the police, now it’s just a memory… macabre? 
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To what end ? Happy Holidays earth child.
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Remembering my grandfather and not forgetting what they are really for, there will never be a hunting trophy in my house again… but I am guilty! 
You live in a rural environment, don’t you have any weapons?
Wonderful! especially when my ultimate aspiration is to become humus
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Yes I do! 
I like homemade food.
Today my wife made a panettone, it came out horrible and it will end up in the trash Grrrrr 
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