Oh shit, Easter is next weekend!! We went to wife’s sisters for an EARLY get together, and like the subterranean dweller I am, did NOT pick up on the EARLY part.
My apologies.
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The potato pots did pretty good. As it was spent ( used more than once) medium, a hand full of DrEarth nutes, and some petite potatoes from the bag the had sprouted some eyes.
I cut them in half, sprouted them and then planted the sprouts into the medium, hung a blurple over them, on 18/6 and started counting on 1/1/2022. Once I saw the flowers die back, and yes some other had started, so the date comes into play, to help you decide when to cull them.
I’d guess there are about 2-3 bags worth of spuds. Probably more than what we buy over that time frame.
So for me, and to get another, tinkering fool idea out of my noodle, it was well worth it. To the world of mass produced potatoes, these would cost way to much to grow out indoors over buying some.
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Sorry to Turbo post, but who does not like Dinosaur Vomit pic’s?
I had a spent painter tape container, laying with an old caramel James SeaIslepop, popcorn tub, from a vacation outing a few years ago.
I mutilated the tape container, cutting out the top, then covered that space with some screen, added chunks of bio char I made, then fastened that to the inside of the popcorn lid. Poked a few holes and under the sink it goes, waiting for us to fill it with scraps of vegtables, plate scraping left overs, whatever that breaks down.
It fills up in about a week. I then use an old dedicated hopper for my Vita Mix.
I add 2 cups of water to the hopper, and fill the hopper to about 2/3 full of veg matter, and then pulse the on/off switch, grinding bursts, and never more than a 7-8 seconds.
I then dump that slurry, into a bucket, and this time, I’m, adding it to a wire mesh compost area, I threw together last week.
So I cut the grass, bagged it, added that to the compost area, then I dump the DV on to that pile.
The DV, really starts the compost action very quickly.
In years past, when I would toss in the unprocessed food scraps, in the compost barrels, or the mesh areas, I could see how very slow the decomposition goes.
Crikeys, it could take weeks sometimes to see that disappear.
The DV slurry, when poured around the base of the ornamentals, that shit would super feed them in a few days!!
And, after a day or 2 you cannot find where I dumped the DV, it just dissipates, after looking like an area where drunk people hang out at.
I’ll be trying to grow and indoor cannabis with DV, as soon as I sort out some things.
I’ve read here, some folks are saying they add peels right into there pots, but I do not see how break down goes that fast, to provide goodies to the roots with cannabis finishing out 3-4 months.
Maybe dedicated beds?
IDK, but I’m intrigued, enough to figure it out. I will need much more bio char, got to make some this week.
Anyway, no pics, or it did not happen, LOL!
Have a blast everyone!
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The tray area, got some love, from my quick set up. The LED needed repositioned.
I removed the reservoir and tray, to clean them out back, and reload the area.
I’m going to lay some coco mat in the base of the tray.
I up potted 4 Amnesia Star’s to 3 gallon altered pots, filled with my organic mix, and start off with PH’d water, to flood and drain, with a week of veg time then the flip.
I’ll be using a cycle timer to run the pump 1 hour then off cycle for 4 hours.
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@webeblzr ? Why the coco mat on the floor of the tray ? For the root ? I’m guessing
I need to try flood and drain in coco sometime looks like fun
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Hey Papa!!
When I was cleaning out the reservoir, the pump has a filter bag around it. It clogged on me twice. So as I’m removing all the juice, the bottom had a good 1/2" of very fine silt like mud if you will.
It’s all the fine organic ingredients that wash down into the reservoir.
Now being the cheap gardener, that I am, I took that silt outdoors and top dressed all the ornamental plants bushes.
But in an effort to trap and hold that silt, I may (hope) get through a cycle, without a pump hiccup.
The roots are the second part of my madness, if silt is being caught, I added 3 holes per side, to each pot, to allow roots some escape, and they and clean the mat off for me. That’s a screech but it would be cool if it did.
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Great idea and a good use of the mud in the res 
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That’s like putting old soil under the soil bags to give the runoff a place to go and the roots a home it they go through the bag
I think it will act like a filter and clean the run off
Great job
OK, I PH’s 20 gallons of water, and let the system fly for a few days. Watching the water levels in the tray mostly. Seeing the growth, with dry pot surfaces, maybe a good way to keep the bugs beat back some.
Few random photos of the other flower areas:
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My wife and I went down to Virginia to an airbnb, my daughter found for us, as gift for dog sitting for her, as it was 420 friendly!!
We took almost all secondary roads from our house, down through Maryland and into Virginia. I’ve ridden all these roads on my crappy scooter, so I know them pretty well. A beautiful long country drive if you will, about 4.5 hours. Would have shaved off an hour plus, running the super slabs, but what a rat race driven drive it would be.
We got there on the 19th, and what a stunning place, a working farm, with a tiny house on it. A couple of hundred acres to wander on.
For 4/20, we started the day with wake and bake, and shrooms.
Pretty much ended the day that way also.
It was a good 4 days test for the replanted tray area. I’ve NEVER relied on wicking, to water my plants.
So, I poked all branches under the screen before we left on the 4/20 vacation.
Everything was fine upon returning.
All the Hyp3rids babies did fine, the tubs rocked on but are showing me some ph issues, I got to sort., and the 3 standing ladies (next door) in pots did fine as well.
The tent plants are really colorful and true stench wenches!! These I’m pushing way past my normal cutting time, going for more red trichome’s this time for each of the 3 ladies.
Time for my crappy photos!!
First was pics before we left. Then returning.
Some current snaps of the various areas.
Well there was loss, during our getaway, my tomatoes, I started in my basement, I had been hardening them off before I left, for about 2 weeks. My wife asked if I was going to let them out while gone. I opted to plant them into the one raised bed in the outdoor garden. It must have frosted one of the days, as they were toast when I got back!! I can live with that.
Best to you all!
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Sounds like a fun time
It’s always great to get away and relax
And a bonus with the plants doing well
Awesome bro
Paps
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Just a quick garden update, and planning my next moves.
Some snaps during the off hours, in the tubs, in station 2, as they are just about finished.
I do not get the reason why the MacV2 (left side) is showing me signs of PH swings I think… The only differences between them is left side is dripper fed, and right side I simply poked tee’s into the fed tube and they squirt a steady stream. When I check their solution values, they are exactly the same. Weird!
I’ll be removing the 3 almost finished ladies from in the tent, down the hall, to station 1, to finish out for about 2 weeks yet.
The tent, will be under go a metamorphosis, to be a 2 level, veg tent, like a ran a few years ago now. It worked excellent and I can boof them up quicker than the in the open air like I’m doing now.
the Hyp3rids/santero bean run, are doing well, and not much at all to see yet.
I am adding a my cycle timer to the tray grow in station 3, in 18/6 light schedule now, with strip lowers and flip tonight. The screen is full, and the wicking action, is a dream come true for me. As the roots are just now flowing from my added holes in the pots.
Pics taken in the dark this am. Enjoy!!
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Bro there’s always 1 that has to be special 
My oil spill x heri looks like hell yellow leaves burnt fingers an all but she’s also 64 days from flip I figure she’s finishing up so I’ll just leave her alone she may need 2 weeks yet
Paps
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Hey paps, man I wish I could understand the why to that!
I just saw that pics, you want moved, and did not reply, as you asked for the post to be moved.
Your work is just amazing man!
Thanks for stopping in!
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Well I’m calling the tubs done!
I was asked to show something to help give some perspective to the area.
Being a lazy ass, I still have my drywall square down there, instead of hanging where it should be in the pole building.
Last few snaps, solution is around 500-600 ppm’s, ph is way high, but oh well.
The stalks are HUGE for this run, and I’ll chalk that up to my learning curve to assimilate organics and salt ferts.
Good by, Mac V2 and Frosted Cheeks plants, and Hello to Mac V2 and Frosted Cheeks diamond laden buds!! They are just encrusted in snow!!
Best to everyone!!
Hope you enjoyed these rock hard nuggets. When I get to trimming I’ll snap a few then also.
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Just a quick break from growing my indoor favs, to some outdoor stuff, I’m working on.
My wife and I found Gardeners World, a British show, on Prime a few months ago. It must have been on for a long time now, but we just went to the first shows listed and started.
Out of all the flowers and trees, shrubs and grasses, I was most captured with their beds, and how deep and weed free they are.
A few shows in they talk about preparing a bed, working to soil, so weeding them becomes easier.
I know this is true as we are in our 3rd year of running a pair of raised beds, for vegetables.
When you see a wee growth, it pulls all the roots out when pulled up. Not so easy in unworked ground, roots break, and regrows.
The previous owner of this [property, had nice flower beds, once upon a time. They had been let go for many years as we bought the place. We just mowed everything down. But over the years bulbs would sprout up flowers, and I’d cut grass around them.
I dug them up this year, and decided to pick and area, and plant them. As I dug into the soil, it is full of dandelions, and other stuff, and soil is a bit clayish, and as I’m whining like a little girl about how much work this will be, the weed issue slams into my head and go full melt down, bitching about all the future weed pulling, when out of the blue, bell ringer idea.
A soil sifter.
So I make one. And the silly thing works amazingly well. It’s still a lot of work, but I’m getting down past the roots, into soil, full of worms, and sift all the rocks out, all the roots and bits. Roots and bits go back to be composted. Rocks and stones, go to my gardening supply storage area, for grit, pebbles, stones, brick, blocks are at.
Getting rained out this am, so I’m off to trimming jail, getting MacV2 and Frosted Cheeks prepared for canning, well sort of, jarring?
The free bulbs I dug up around the yard.
Being my first sifting experience, I really started this area off badly, with very poor planning. I’ll be moving the tophlax and lilac forward. Silly mistake.
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Are you adding any peat to it, or just using other natural ways to aerate? That’s a good idea with the sifter! I have plenty of the wire screen in a few sizes. And I have lots of natural weeds that would be great to separate from the soil and use them for FPJ. I haven’t started it yet but getting most of what I need to get started (KNF).
I have rocks, too. I’d like to do a good sift with my one and only compost pile. Time to start using some of these materials that were left here when I bought the house.
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Hey Gman, I’ll be working in some compost I made in a old barrel, and I have a bit in a compost unit that was given to me, a rolling it over type of composter. It was broken, and needed a bit of fixing up.
I also, threw a quick compost area up with some garden screen, this spring. Then instead of running the grass mower with the mulcher piece fit in it, I started bagging it, and forking the pile over, as it fills up.
I also dump dinosaur vomit into the grass pile, and man does that make it the pile heat up fast!!
This will not be ready for the bulb bed so some of my spent medium, large chunk perlite/coco husks may get worked in.
I’ve not used any type of weed killers here, we tried in VANE pulling weeds out, that is a fail of biblical proportions, using weed killers like Round Up, is as stupid to think your going to rid an area of weeds with it.
Dig, sift, separate weed from rock, , adamant some goodies, and return.
But guess what, your still getting some weeds, but these will grow from the top down, and when I pull a tiny few from the raised bed, all the root mass comes out along with the stalk.
The bulb area is soaked from 2 days of steady rain, almost filing my wheel barrow.
So I spent the last 2 days, cutting the tubs growth. The frosted cheeks, and mac V2. Looked like a tray of long stemmed roses!! Those 2 filled my drying screen fully!
Moving that sog screen, from them to the tray area, to double sog screen the new kids in the tray, Amnesia Star’s.
Im also getting ready to up pot the Hyp3rids/Santero sprouts. I’ll also be selecting some more of San’s offerings, just got to pick some out, Queen Bee, maybe on the list, I LOVE her. The Lemon Thai is also winking at me for some love. So WhoNose what I’ll crack open!!
Paps got me thinking about a long term relationship run also, I got to nose around in the bean bag and see what I got.
Anyway Gman, so much to do and so little time, and Thank you for stopping by!!
Have a blessed existence everyone!
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Hypro widow 13, flower power seedbank, this girl is maybe the most stunningly beautiful cannabis plant I ever grew out.
I can only think that Australian made beans, raised under and Australian crafted LED, grown in a mix of organics Dr. Earth, and my mixed medium.
While she was camping out in the tent, I would alternate between tea, water, tomato salt ferts, or a top drees with Dr. Earth ferts.
I removed her from the tent a week or so ago, to a dedicated flower area, where all the old girls’ hang out till culled.
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She is a looker wow stunning
The pic #2 is my favorite love the colors
At a closer look she is so frosty
And a true beastie of a lady
Looks like a good yielder !
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