feeling back to normal today! I’ll share one of the craziest stories from my days past. After this one episode my friend is like “man I found you on the floor with a pack of raw bacon, you were like eating it, so I called the ambulance” I was like “well some crazy shit can happen” meanwhile I don’t remember any of that. He could have told me anything at that point. That shit is nutty, to wake up and then wonder just what the fuck I did. All that crap takes a toll psychologically.
ok! And back to the crops! I have to plant the seedlings today so I’m chucking out the males! I should have calculated better and sprouted the new seedlings after I chucked out the males…but whatever.
The new seedlings are purple colored.
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Ahhh bloom is looking good. I got some minor stretch on the meat breath buds that are too close to the light. you can see that in the first photo.
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seedlings…the next iteration! I just have to dump a bit of solution in there and we’re off to the races. I predict fun! Can’t wait to sex these beasts! Male or female I’m happy to do some minor dissection, all in the name of WEIRD SCIENCE!
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oh yah, the secret to the seedlings surviving is make sure that
- the root touches the water
- the neoprene never touches the water.
LOL! Trust me on this, either condition will kill the plant.
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Hey, you know what I noticed? Health canada has dropped the warning on the cannabis label that says it’s going to make you go insane. Where it used to warn about schizophrenia, it just has a boilerplate warning about inhaling aromatic hydrocarbons from cannabis smoke. It’s like they heard what I said about reefer madness hah hah!
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you can clearly see signs of life in those seedlings. Eventually they’ll start growing in earnest.
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Lights came on not too long ago, so the meat breath plants haven’t woken the fuck up yet. They are lazy, I’ll give em that.
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I took a super crappy photo of the big meat breaths. I’ll post a better photo later! The big buds are really starting to buff up.
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forgot this is week one for the clones. I can expect to see roots from here to like day 16, sometime. The experimental clone is still alive, but it did get some damage to the tip of the leaf. That can be expected with the hell it went through.
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well! This grow diary has covered 365 days now! wheeeee!!! I’ll invite some parasites over for a party 
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wow it’s been so long since I did the protocol 0 and cleansed all the pests. Life has been free sailing for…years now. 5 years? holy shit.
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The buds are definitely more buff on this meat breath round. Hopefully more yield as well. Even though the HIGH EC didn’t impact the yield as much as I thought it was almost imperceptible.
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The seedlings are doing it! The one has a minor mutation on it’s true leaf, strange that.
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ok I started the crapbuds experiment 10 days ago and they still smell but not that much. I can get more stink if I go and grab a bud out of the bags where I have them all stored. The ones on the line are fading fast now. No hard number but they are waaaaay less smelly than when they started out 10 days ago. I’ll give it 14 days, then I’m going to inspect the buds… see if there is any visual sign of “old buds” disease. You know, the syndrome where some turd manages to crank out odorless flavorless buds. My minds eye keeps flashing back to the shit kicked trichomes.
Hey perhaps this year I’ll document some organic growing. I was surprised at first when people started calling it living soil. I just called it organic growing. I am pumping some exotics out there in the garden, using basic organic ph control and materials. You know all the basics. earwig shit. alfalfa meal, blood meal, bone meal…green sand. Compost generated from lame plants like comfrey. eh don’t worry I got it all. All the trimmings of traditional organic farming, they now call living soil. oh wait, did I mention it’s hydroponic? ahh fuck me… traditional organics with hydroponics tossed in there? what kind of madman… ok ok. So I bumped that shit up a notch with a drip system as big as a football field ok? Like shiiit, am I some kind of water carrying pack animal? Anyways it’s not some kind of weed growing utopia, but I’ve tossed a few up for experimental purposes sometimes.
My favorites out there are the Vaccinium and Rubus, blueberry/huckleberry and black raspberries. There will be some winter damage, but I am cultivating native species using ahem no till gardening straight from Elaine Ingham. Those bugs are my little worker bees, they do it all for a handful of bug food. They transform, what is basically hard packed junk clay into fruitful growing conditions! Plus I can get rid of the quack grass. Those fucking weeds are the bane of existence… the rhizomes are so…pernicious. Pulling them out of bug-dirt is way easier.
There’s my ph control kit. Oh I have a meter to check as well, not pictured. See the bag of aluminum sulfate? That’s for when you totally blew the shift and your plant is dying from a ph of 6.0 and you need it to be 5.5 in 15min. Caution dangerous. Elemental sulfur for when you want the ph to drop slowly over the year. And coffee. As long as you pump a bunch of coffee grounds onto the ground, each drop of coffee brewed is 4.5. Excellent for maintaining ph when it’s in the zone. It’s excellent organic materials as well.
Yah the aluminum sulfate I don’t recommend to use. But listen. If you are looking at your blueberry plant and it’s got brown dead tips and yellowing leaves… you need some powerful chemistry now.
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With some composted materials, which we are pumping out by the boatload in the rotating composter… some power bloom, blood meal and a tiny sprinkle of alfalfa meal. You should be pumping out organic blueberries as big as the end of my meaty ass thumb. If the berries aren’t huge like that you have failed, believe me. The ground here is lethal to plants like that as the soil is clay garbage ph 6.8. Lots of rocks and clay. So how am I feeding these plants? Basic top dressing of said materials. The bugs will come. When I planted the acid plants originally I mined out the clay and replaced it with peat then made sure to hammer the ph in the first season so it couldn’t rise to 6.
The hurtin part is trying to… reverse engineer that into the mind of old hippies. Like I mean in the real world. For some reason it’s been absorbed by people growing weed, but not people who were adults in the 70s they are still tilling up the ground and spreading horse shit. Killing blueberries with high phs.
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did they start calling it living soil based on that 1943 book? Someone first used that phrase on me hmm like 8 years ago? hah hah I didn’t even know they were talking about organic growing at first. But then… they knew plants required symbiosis to grow, and not many people in the real world were even talking about symbiosis. Then I noticed it in a seed catalog. A write-up about organic growing using symbiosis. It seems like there was a gradual shift in the last 20 years back to organics.
lol, no I am still using my water culture, there will be no symbiosis allowed down there on the weed farm. But that’s part of the strangeness, you know. It’s like… if you are growing organic you also have to believe in all these strange fucking claims as well. Like yah, I’m not going to go outside and start spreading chemical fertilizers around if I can help it, that’s not good. But inside, I’m going to whip the plants ass in my chemical mix by being it’s terrible god, oh and it WILL produce.
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In case you were wondering, yah I’m just slacking around the house with my finger up my nose typing in crazy shit online.
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The seedling with the leaf thing it’s looking pretty normal now. It just had a shrunken tip on one side. You can see the one side is not like the other, but it’s growing now.
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