Thanks for welcoming me to this site! This place is really awesome! I know I can be a giant pompous ass. Let me apologize now for all my future idiocracies.
I grow inside of a shed. I have to keep the door open to get a breeze through the shed so I call it indoor/ outdoor. I’m running old phlizon 600 watt cob LEDs. They seem to work well enough. Last summer we saw a stretch of 42 consecutive days over 100°. It was brutal I had one plant do well in the shed All gas og from HSC. Most of my other plants did pitiful from the excessive heat and very dry climate.
My friends call me Farmer. I live in the high desert in Southern New Mexico. I moved out here a couple years ago to start a recreational business. Unfortunately or fortunately the recreational business never started but I’m glad I ended in NM because I love it here. I’m still hopeful to figure a way to get something off the ground and have access to all kinds of amazing property but no extra funds to really do anything… It’s really a great culture here very laid back and friendly. I grew up in central Illinois and this culture reminds me of home.
So below are some pictures of black truffle from 808. I got the seeds for free from my local grow shop. I ended up with one nice male and one nice female. I thought it was two females because the male took so long to show sex. I took a bunch of clones of the male thinking it was a female lol. If anybody wants a clone of this black truffle dad hmu.
The last year or so I’ve been trying to do strictly organic gardening. Prior to that I was using Jacks 321 and organic together typically intermittently feeding organic then synthetic. About 8 months ago or so I got some tilapia fry off eBay and they have been my main provider of nutrients.
Otherwise I like to do ferments. I’ve got a 27 gallon tote that I randomly throw things into. It started out simply with some fish tank water and various cactus fruit fermenting and leaf mold. I just constantly add things to it like trim… This anaerobic ferment stinks awful but the plants seem to really like it. I normally will dilute it down about a half gallon to 5 gallons of water or so.
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Thank you very much @PonceDeLeon for inviting me to the site. I have browsed the website many times over the last 20 years or so but hadn’t really participated.
Ponce de Leon sent me some seeds.
LSg and LSg crosses !
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I would also like to give thanks to @BirD
I’m excited to see how these Whirlybirds and the skeet skeet x afghan.
One more shout out to @MG_Canna thanks for sending me the lost Canyon Pondo beans 
. Just put them in soil yesterday!
Below an image of my funky fertilizer. The other day I added some dog hair from giving my dog a haircut. I also added in some low pH water around 3.5ph and a handful of oyster shells. The ferment went off overnight and to my surprise was super active.
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Big thanks to you for getting them going. Looking forward to seeing what you can do with these. Don’t be afraid to let them go 11 or 12 weeks. The terps get strong and complex those last couple weeks. 
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Glad you’re here, buddy! Same deal with those LemonSourGlue and crosses, let them go 11-12 weeks if you can.
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Very cool! Do you keep the tilapia in large pool or? I’ve been thinking of starting some in a trashcan for a small aquaponic setup but takes a few bucks to get started. Look forward to updates. Did you collect the pollen from your male cuts?
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Welcome and best of luck with your projects! I too am in a very hot and dry climate and guessing I find the same challenges in Arizona. Coming from the midwest myself has been a real learning curve with outdoor.
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I wanted to do aquaponics for like 20 years before buying these fish. The thought of the expense of the hydroton held me back. My main filtration is a sand bed. Sandponics is similar to aquaponics but uses coarse sand as a media.
I started my fish in just a 5 gallon bucket then they went to a 27 gallon tote and then I found a 100 gallon aquarium second hand. I lost some fish from over feeding the first week and now I believe I have 19.
I collected a bit of pollen and plan on collecting a bunch more. I like the structure of this black truffle. Good branching and nice tight nugs.
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Very cool! Thank you for sharing your experience. Never thought about sand was going to use the cheaper but course lava rocks. Great idea!
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Have you guys experienced an unusual accelerated growth spurt after high stress training? This plant pictured was the smallest sad autoflower maybe three nodes and it started flowering. I bent it over to stress it a bit and the main stem snapped. The high stress it appears kept it in a veg state longer for it to blow up into this beautiful bush.
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If you decide to use sand concrete sand from your local concrete guy would probably suffice. Typically concrete sand is already washed free of carbonates and the correct particle size. However I’ve heard stories from friends around the world being burned by sand vendors so it’s important to really well test the sand before buying a truck load. A couple simple tests are like a jar test where you let it settle to see the sand silt and clay
layers. To test for carbonates put the sand in a dish and add vinegar and it shouldn’t bubble more than a couple seconds.
The big advantage of sand versus lava rock is that the bed will never have to be emptied and cleaned. It’s fascinating to me that no matter how much waste I put through the sand bed it never builds up and accumulates. The algae bacteria and fungus completely break down the waste.
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Great advice and tips!!! Really appreciate the info you provided and will definitely keep your info in mind as I move forward so thanks again for your time in info provided🍻
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Look at the LSG babygirls saying prayers 
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I won an auction yesterday with 150 6’ x 6’ hydroponic grow trays with nice stands in Lockhart TX. I got to figure out how the heck I’m going to pick these things up between now and Wednesday and transport them back to New Mexico 
. I’ve got an old international flatbed truck here but it’s got two stick shifts I don’t know how to drive the thing. It would probably take two large flatbed semis to transport these large things. Hmmmmm… Does Farmer always put the cart before the horse?
Some babies thanks too OG friends.
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Here’s the lineup of plants going from friends on here. These poor gals maybe a gentleman or two in there have been quite neglected. They were in the seedling tray too long and then shaded out by bigger plants stunted by the sun a few times… Good times are coming though I’ve been promising them.
I’ve been dealing with a little bit of white flies and I forget what this other bug is looks like a tiniest little roach. I was also dealing with leafhoppers but haven’t seen any of those lately. I’m fixing to take down the handful of plants that I’ve got flowering any day so I plan on hitting with pesticides to try to get this in check. I’ve got a little dr zymes but probably could use something else as well if anybody’s got any recommendations.
Below is my latest sand bed I’ve been trying to clean up this sand been a pain in the butt lot of clay silt in it. I’m super excited to set up a little duel root rig with sand probably pretty close spacing sea of green style in the 6x6 bed.
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Finally got this bed set up. Plants are looking good just flipped them a couple days ago. Plants are getting worm tea pretty frequently and occasionally root organics terp tea bloom. Slight magnesium deficiency but that seems to be an ongoing challenge for me.
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Looking good man! Which plants are which?
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Have a little bit of clawing leaves on a couple of these I guess I got a little carried away worm tea idk. Also a little bit of a magnesium deficiency so I think I’m going to foliar them with Epsom salt.
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Hey man, awesome! Thanks for the update on those! After drying my LSG 91, I was getting 8g-10g colas. I expect these to yield for you!
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Stacking nice in the sandbox…
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