Hi fellow OG’ers,
First grow in 5 years, due to not having place to grow. A good friend of mine offered me her yard with only a few conditions, and l can grow a few plants in the ground and some in pots in a greenhouse. The g-house is a cheap one at only $140, so l’m not expecting too much, but we’ll see. (I’ll post pics soon)
I modified the greenhouse by cutting and screening two vents at both ends to allow more heat exhaust and ventilation.
I have two stand-type fans for circulation.
The greenhouse is small, 15 ’ x 7’ x 7’. Made from mesh reinforced plastic, it seems fairly decent quality, maybe enough to get two seasons from before replacing plastic?
It’s my first time growing in a greenhouse, and l did no research and am applying many of my outdoor techniques and modifying them as needed.
Likely, many mistakes will be made, but l like a challenge.
I tell my friends that l’m going to hang out with some females that stink and drink a lot. I get funny looks until l tell them what type of females they are!
The seeds were given to me by a friend, who was given by another, so l’m not sure of WHERE they came from, but their containers and the way they were carefully packaged and labeled made me confident the plants were legit plants with good genetics.
I have been pleased in all except for the Northern Lights, which is an auto-flower variety that l wouldn’t have taken. But it’s only one plant.
The other seeds are feminized, except for the PieFace, and the Pink Grapefruit seeds l was given by a friend. Pieface and random sativa just planted a few days ago, so l don’t have pics yet.
All plants are grown using organic, lowest possible concentration of non-chemically produced, homemade fertilizers and teas.
I am growing :
– JR’s ‘Pink Grapefruit’ - a strain a friend was working on. I believe a sativa dom hybrid.
– ‘Critical Jack X Widow’
– ‘Girl Scout Cookies’
– ‘Pineapple Chunk’
– ‘OG Kush’
– ‘Purple Rock Candy’
– 'Northern Lights (AF)
– 'PieFace
– Some random pollinated sativa from a friends crop, fair genetics, but he didn’t grow it right, gonna give it a shot and see what l can do.
All are in G&B raised bed soil mix plus l amended it with about 15-20% coir, due to aridity of where l lived and also to counter some hydrophobic tendencies in the soil mixes.
The pots l will be using in the greenhouse are 12 gallon from farm supply and mounted to roller dollies with zipties to faciltate easier maintenance.
Ground holes dug to 24 ’ ’ with post hole digger, then ‘belled out’ bottom of hole to around 16 ’ ’ diameter. Backfilled hole with potting mixture. Topped off with leaf mulch to reduce moisture loss.
Seeds were germinated using paper towel/baggie method on 4/20 and sprouted and planted on 4/25.
First 2 pics of this sequence are just to show average size and plant root structure on May 8, or 13 days old being transplanted for first time from four inch pots to 1 gallon pots.
Plants are in order from preceding list.
Coming Soon “5 days later, did they survive?”
