Hi guys! I’m back from outer space! Got married last October and had my honeymoon in Italy. It’s been a big life change with a lot going on. Super distracted with life, lots of home repairs have been going on lately and I finally got to start my seeds today. It’s a late start, but it should be okay. I had zero time to plan my line-up so I kept it simple with some tried and trues and some new strains I had. Sifted through only my fem seeds and chose from there. Never had time to research anything new or place any seed orders. So I’m going with what I got.
I will only be using my 9 trellised spots inside the bug net this year. Zero container grows. I’m really simplifying. Last year was riddled with budrot (every single plant) mixed with my wedding and honeymoon in October, absolutely everything was harvested prematurely or lost to rot. I have purchased some garden Sulphur which I am gonna wet spray throughout the cannabis patch as soon as I can find a day with no wind. I have checked every day for a month and it has been too damn windy. That’s what you get when you live near the coast. I am gonna try spraying once strictly on the ground and surrounding areas of the grow patch and will do another spray on the plants once as well right before they flower. Hopefully this will kill any mold. I also realized that I have been very lax the last couple years and never did my aspirin foliars. Really certain they kept my plants healthier as I had less rot when I was doing them every 3 weeks in veg. I am going to do better this year.
I finally got to see an orthopedic surgeon about my knee issues and have slight relief now from cortisone, but will never be the same. Gardening is not something I will really be able to do in the ground much anymore and I can not kneel or bend my knees much to pull weeds, plant etc… So I have been focusing more on my container plants, huge succulent collection and my new found love of tropical houseplants. We built an 8x6 greenhouse in the backyard very recently where I will grow more tropical plants as dog knows I have no more room inside my small house.
Really missed everyone and my friends here! I hope you all are doing amazing and living your best lives!
So line-up this year is
Black Mamba (one of my faves from last year and one Dad had asked for)
Acapulco Gold (My girl in the desert made these Fems, her first time making seeds)
AJ Sour Diesel x Chem 91 (Humboldt Seeds)
Charging Rhino (Dr Ray)
Cafe Racer (Blimburn)
Gorilla Glue x Super Skunk ( @Pedro_Bann I believe)
Lemon Jeffrey
Mac (pulled early last year, really harsh, needs another go)
For those of you who have been with me before, I wanted to brag a bit and let you guys know that I just passed my 2 year anniversary for giving up Cigarettes. May 15th! Super proud of that accomplishment!
@navy66 Welcome to OG! So Cal Native here, close to LAX airport aka The South Bay. I probably had 38 years when I quit myself. Really can’t believe I let it go on for so long. Still think about smoking every single day, but won’t start back up cuz quitting sucked and I never want to do that again. Congrats to you on your year cig free! Cheers! Believe it or not, I still love the smell of fresh smoke and will trail behind someone in public just for a whiff and have no problem being around smokers. We just went to Las Vegas to visit my Mom for Mother’s Day and the stale smoke smell in the casinos was nothing short of disgusting. I don’t miss that nasty, dirty ashtray smell at all though. Everyone kept asking me if food tasted better when I quit and I had no idea what they were talking about until about a year passed. Wow! I get it now! My sniffer, while always pretty good is like a dog’s now too.
pfft shes taking guys we call all go back to ignoring her now … LOL jk Congratz and welcome back i know a few here missed you and were asking about you. nice to see another familiar screen name posting.
Woo! Glad your back and things sounding good! We were getting worried over here
Congrats on two years nicotine free!!
Sucks to hear on the budrot last year hopefully that sulfur and the aspirin foliars do the trick this time! New lineup sounds very interesting! Definitely some new things in there I’ve not seen
The gorilla glue X super skunk originally came from @slain and is a really nice producer and one of the strains that held up well against mould in my last Guerilla grow.
I just finished an outdoor grow (Sour Bubble X somethin’) at my new place in Tasmania.
I haven’t made a grow thread here (yet) but got some exciting stuff starting to happen indoors.
Both of you painted a wide smile on my face while having you back, special congrats to the lady for those great accomplishments, hope the intense marital life won’t put you on the nerves and back to tobacco , glad to see you back …
Just finished spraying down some garden sulfur in the cannabis patch. I ordered the stuff on Amazon and I don’t think they were supposed to sell it to me. Does anyone know why in the directions all the instructions say " Not in California" under ornamental or use on pretty much anything else in there? So weird. I sprayed the shit anyway. Obviously Cali has some fungus among us!
No sign of life on the seeds yet. I’m expecting them to start popping by the weekend.
So my new greenhouse, took us a few weeks to put it together it’s polycarbonite so a few steps up from the cheapest greenhouse but still a budget one. First of all, sheesh! gardening is complicated! It took me a few hours just to research greenhouses and shade cloth. You get a greenhouse and think “great, I can throw plants in there and they will stay warm and be sheltered”. No. It’s more complicated than that. Of course, you can’t just throw some plants in there and they grow. Suddenly you have to deal with temperatures, humidity levels, the proper shade you need depending on the specific types of plants you want to grow and your climate. Then there are 3 different types of shade cloths. sigh Well, I decided on Aluminet 60% shade cloth. Which should reflect sun, but also diffuse it by acting like mini mirrors that bounce the light around the inside and thereby reaching all the plants on the shelves even plants say on the back of the shelves. The aluminet will also cool my greenhouse by 10 to 15 degrees in Summer and increase it in winter by the same amount. It has manual windows in it too. All in all it should work perfectly for Southern Cali. I bought a little temp/humidity bluetooth thing that I can check by phone. It will let me know if it get too hot and I need to go out and open the windows or door. It’s crazy to me that they have these things for 8 bucks these days when simple calculators were expensive as a kid. Never thought I would be my grandma trying to program the VCR when I grew up! Anyway, I still haven’t figured out how to hang the shade cloth and the shelves still aren’t assembled. Until that is done I can’t move in to it. In the meantime, I am accumulating a shit load of tropical plants in the house. I’m ridiculous!
Has anyone played around in semi-hydro? I’ve used it for years, but only on my African Violets. Now I’ve been experimenting with LECA. I have put 2 orchids and a Hoya rope plant in it so far and am trying to prop a thanksgiving cactus (and failing) in it. It’s only been like a month on the oldest one, mini Australian dendrobium orchid. It looks like it’s kind of in shock still. Another phalaenopsis orchid was forming flowers when I put it in had no more main root, but had a bunch of air roots left only and it kept trucking. The flowers are about to open. I thought I had killed this plant and did a hail Mary into the LECA and it worked it seems. I had this plant for 15 years probably and I thought it was done for. So far, LECA seems hit or miss.
hopefully that sulfur and the aspirin foliars do the trick this time! New lineup sounds very interesting! Definitely some new things in there I’ve not seen 
I’ve been waiting for this season’s show.
for those great accomplishments, hope the intense marital life won’t put you on the nerves and back to tobacco 
, glad to see you back … 
