Also this grinder was just cleaned so anything you see in there is from that I sifted lastnight
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Picture 1 is the purple punch. She’s finishing off nicely despite the rough start of flower.
Picture 2 is the Alien Bubba. She isn’t photogenic but she’s great smoke forsure! I can’t wait to have her all jarred up
Picture 3 is my best looking bubblegum. They are all finishing at about the same rate. I’ll give the whole tent 2 more weeks. Then it’s chop time.
Picture 4 is flower 2. I just gave them a little hair cut . I took clones off of the purple punch and blueberry headband. Today I also flipped to flower. I can’t wait to try the blueberry headband and I know I already love my French macaroons and purple punch. This will be a real nice harvest here in a few months.
I forgot to take a picture of the veg tent. They all look good. I’ve got 2 white widow seedlings 2 exodus cheese seedlings 3 tangerine dream. 2 In 1gal that got fed today and 1 still in a solo cup. I’ll be running the little one with the formentioned seedlings. I’ve also got 3 French macaroons and 2 more purple punch. Plus the 4 blueberry headband clones and 3 purple punch clones I took today.
Sorry for the shitty picture. The little turd wouldn’t stay still. On the bottom in the middle is this little white grubby thing about an inch long with a redish brown head. Any idea what it is?
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I think you’re right! Thank you! It looks just like the one on the top. Do you know if they are destructive? I’ve found like half a dozen in the last 2 months but I don’t see any damage or anything. They are usually just crawling around the top of the dirt or I’ve found them dried and dead in the corner
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I know that they are hell on sprouts. They’ll cut them right off at the ground.
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Hey man it’s all a learning process! From what I can see I’d say you’re loving them to death. Which means over feeding. I am guilty of this as well. But I’ve learned as I get older that less is more. What kind of soil mix are you running? What nutes? What’s your humidity and temp? If you need any help give me a shout. I’m no pro either. I’m the kinda person where I’m never satisfied. I’m always improving. I’ve been having pretty good luck with homemade soil and minimal feedings. Way better than I ever had with bottled nutrients.
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Hey I appreciate the input! This soil is about 40%recycled soil from when I started back in 2019 and 60% coots recipe. I use build a soil craft blend with dr.earth flower girl as my “macro” amendments and I’m currently trying out the TN7 from bio ag for my micro nutes. I also reamend with compost and topdress with worm castings. I’ve been trying g out seed sprout teas in veg as well. I dont think I’m over feeding though. Part of my problem in the past has been not watering g my soil after I reamend. It doesn’t break down well enough to be usable right away. I know I’m shitty at taking care of plants in fabric pots but I seem to have my buckets pretty well watered. Aside from the fabric pots I don’t always feed on time. That either stems from being stoned and not writing it in my journal or not having time. I also noticed I was defoliating and topping too early and too frequently. As for humidity and temp; temp is consistently between 60f lights off and like 74f lights on. Humidity was low and in the 40s since about November. Now we’re sitting in the 50s until thi gs freeze out side then we go back down into the low 50s and 40s. I am able to keep the dry tent at 60 and 60 which is perfect. I’ll take a battle during g the grow to have an easy dry.
What’s your set up looking like? What strains are you into growing and or smoking?
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I’m really excited for my chickens! I’ve got 4 New Hampshire and 4 speckled sussex. As a chef I want to know where my food comes from and to be able to grow my own meat and eggs along with the gardens outside (and inside of course) means alot to me. I’m not going to eat any of these girls. This is just the start of my journey. That will come late next year or into my third year with the chickens.
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I have a grow journal I just started in the organic section. I like to follow VPD as closely as I can. Around 1 in Veg and 1.2-1.5 in flower. Contrary to popular belief humidity isn’t the biggest problem. Large swings in humidity are. That’s what causes pm. During the end of flower I will drop the humidity down to 50 but that’s about it. Until the plant actually starts to die you’re pretty safe running high humidity. In Veg I find the best luck with 78 degrees and 72 humidity. With the high humidity you get luscious growth. If you’re running the coots mix and adding compost you don’t need to feed anything. That’s basically what I run. To help keep your soil moist and organics breaking down I’d recommend a mulch layer. I like to have one 4-6 inches deep and keep that moist with a sprayer. I like alfalfa. It’s full of minerals and has triacantonal a natural growth hormone. You should try one pot with just your soil mix and compare it to adding all the extras. I bet you a pack of my best seeds it will turn out really good and surprise you. Although I’d give you a pack anyhow lol
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I’ve been toying with the idea of a mulch layer for a little while. I haven’t pulled the trigger on it yet because of cost. I’ve got to buy some straw for my chicks so I’ll try with that when I pick up my bale in a few weeks. As for compost I would agree for the most part except I’d want to invest in better compost. The last 2 bags I used were just the compost and Maneur from homedepot. Now that spring is approaching I’ll have access to better compost from my local garden shop. I can tell the compost isn’t that great from the texture and the fact of my plants on the better compost grew better over all. Your bed looks sick though! I wish my current circumstances allowed me to try one out. That’s definitely the direction I am heading. I’ve got those little white mites in my soil too. They were free from my first bag of soil back in 2019 and there been around ever since. What state are you in if you do t mind me asking. From your genetic selections I’d guess Michigan
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I’m in Oregon. I’m lucky to live by concentrates nw which is probably one if not the best organic nutrient source in the country. There’s also several worm casting farms around to pick up castings by the yard at a way cheaper price. I’d suggest looking around locally where you live. You should be able to find some castings or even free manure from nearby farms. Mix some manure with a carbon source like leaves for example and you’d have a very good compost source after letting it cook. You could also look into building your own worm bin and making your own castings. It’s fun and actually really easy. Then you get to put all your inputs in there that you want to feed your plants and let the worms and microbes break it down and make it plants available. Once you buy the inputs like for the coots mix that’s really all you need and you can make a ton of soil. I’d forget all the bottles bs and stick to the organics and I guarantee you’ll get better results for less money. Plus it’s more fun 
You can use anything for the mulch layer. Leaves, rock dust, kelp meal, whatever. I but a lot of my materials from the feed store. You can get 50lb sacks for the same price you’ll pay for 5-10 from a retailer like buildasoil. I’m a cheap skate. I don’t have lots of money. There’s ways to spend less and get more. It just takes a little detective work. Where are you located?
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Be careful with manure though. A lot of the time manure is way too hot and full of urine and it will burn your plants. You really only want a little manure in your compost mix. I’ve screwed some plants up trying to use manure as 1/3 or the soil mix. It would need to be well composted with other stuff like leaves for awhile. I’d probably not put more than 10% of fresh manure in a soil or your asking for trouble. I usually spread it on our garden every year like 2-3 months before plants start popping up. Only like 2-3 inches.
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Rabbit and goat castings are not hot. So if you have a source of that you can put it right on without waiting.
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Oh yeah I know. That’s why lettuce is more likely to give you salmonella than eating chicken. When it comes in contact with “compost” that didn’t get hot enough to kill off the pathogens, accompanied with not properly washing of the greens.
If my daughter was allergic to rabbits I would have gotten a few just for the gardens. I had 2 growing up. One lived to be 13!
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