Hey folks, I was BuddyJesus on the old OG and am stoked to be back at it here. For the last few years, I have been gardening in a legal state using a garage with no roof. It gives full sunshine but there are limitations with the pot sizes and there being no live ground for the pots to sit on. This is my third year of using organic amendments in 100 gallon fabric pots. I will be fitting six regular seed varieties(two of each) in four of the pots. The hope is to have 4-8 female plants blooming come July. They are all currently too young to determine the sex. The varieties are Lebanese Rainbow, Sonic Begonias, Tropazola, Sierra Jah, and Interdimensional Oranges. I know the breeder for most of them.
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Here is some information on the genetics that I have gathered so far. All are regular seed varieties.
Sierra Jah is from an unknown small breeder in southern California. It consists of CaliO x Jah Goo. I have never tasted a Jah Goo variety before.
Tropazola is from a legacy breeder in the south that is a cross of Trop Cherry x Cocazola F1 (Candy Male.) I’ve never smoked a trop cherry before and am eager to!
Sonic Begonias is from a Hawaiian legacy breeder. It is a cross of Sonic Boom x Scarlett Begonias. I haven’t grown this but I followed a friend growing it that was unlucky with it filling out as a male.
Lebanese Rainbow is from a breeder in Illinois. A cross of Red Lebanese x Rainbow Bright(75% Caribbean.) It has a moderate and delightful lavender flavor with incense notes. I watched a friend grow this outside in Oklahoma and the size was above average.
Interdimensional Oranges was a cross made by a comrade in cannabis from Oklahoma. The funk was muted in the vapor and the prominent flavor was that of orange zest.
Koffee Mug F2 was a project from the same friend in Oklahoma that made the Interdimensional Oranges. The cross is self-explanatory, but the flavor of the vapor was unique in that I could taste roasted coffee on the soft palate on the exhale. I hope to get that phenotype in one of my two specimens.
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Update to come in the morning as there is now a frost warning. I’ve seen forecasts (much too late to do anything though) of temperatures between 36F and 34F. They have had about a week of cold temperatures to harden them off and I am hoping for the best.
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everything got amended with some extra alfalfa pellets which are roughly a 2-0.5-2 fertilizer along with 20 lbs of compost. I spread out a jar of wine cap mushroom spawn in each cannabis bed and mulched with shredded straw pet bedding to prevent ants. The other beds are all planted with zucchini, potatoes, tomatoes, and bell peppers. I have a couple one gallon pots that contain catnip and basil plants as well. I watered them all in before I relaxed in the shade a bit with my Garden Statues.
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I also have an indoor garden that is now being converted to a gourmet mushroom bloom tent. I currently have cultures for Lion’s Mane, King Trumpet(now out of season), and Golden Oyster. I have two 2 gallon buckets inoculated with Golden Oysters and the rest are in refrigerated jars. This will be a negative pressure tent in the works but I know I likely will have to add another humidifier and I will have to get a backup vent fan. Or even better, get a new fan before designating the current one as the backup.
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Here are photos of the plants at 11 days in the ground. I have a lunker of a mushroom growing next to my zucchini plant but I can’t remember if I inoculated that bed with lions mane or with king trumpet spawn. My brother didn’t see it the day before.
The cannabis plants are all healthy and rebounding from the cold start to the season. The two Interdimensional Oranges and the two Lebanese Rainbow are all female. There are a couple that might be male, but they need more time to develop before I cull them.
There is a bit of an infestation of mites from the bell peppers. They are the same type as last year and will be gone without any intervention or damage in a week or two.
The potatoes have already broken the surface already.
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One half of the mushroom fruiting body is shrinking and darkening while the other is still firm/growing.
the potatoes are exploding.
and it is time to begin sexing the plants. So far there is one definite female, five likely females, one probable male, three likely males, and three that aren’t showing any sexual expression yet. I will give them another week before I cull any males. Here are some pictures for practicing your sexing skills!
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the first photo is of golden oyster mushroom mycelium colonizing a 2 gallon bucket after 2 weeks. I think one more half week and it will explode with fruiting bodies.
The next two are lion’s mane buckets after 1 week of colonizing. This kind of mycelium runs thinner strands. They need at least another week before fruiting them.
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I forgot to journal the progress in the last week with the lion’s mane that is outside. There has been 60-85% relative humidity for the last four days.
The mystery mushie outside turned out to be lion’s mane. Unfortunately it is dying from a dark brown fungus that is likely the rust mold that grew on my brother’s cannabis plant last year.
As it was raining, I was unable to further inspect for sexual maturation on the cannabis. I trained them shorter by bending the tops down under the rungs of the tomato cages. I will start culling the males likely next week.
sorry for the lousy image, it was from my brother’s lousy phone.
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Bed 1 clockwise from the rear is Tropazola, Sierra Jah, and Interdimensional Oranges. I thought the back one was leaning male, but newer nodes make me want to give it more time. There is barely any aphid activity so far this year.
Bed 2 clockwise from the rear is Tropazola, Sierra Jah, and then Interdimensional Oranges as well. There is light ant activity that concerns me because they are likely carrying aphids. I will spray with insecticidal soap ASAP(about a week).
Bed 3 clockwise from the rear is Koffee Mug F2, Lebanese Rainbow, and Sonic Begonias. There was light ant activity here as well so there will be aphid concern and spraying in a week.
Bed 4 clockwise from the rear is Lebanese Rainbow, Koffee Mug F2, and Sonic Begonias. There is little aphid activity and no ant action at this bed.
I observed about 5 caterpillars today so I went over each plant thoroughly. I hope this improves with the peppermint spray that is planned.
The peppers aren’t exploding like many of the vegetables, but the bed does have a large bunch of Lion’s Mane growing on the edge of the bed.
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I wasn’t going to try to eat this fungus as it wasn’t the correct color for lion’s mane that is healthy. I got a more definitive identification of it being a slime mold. I looked them up and they are edible, but they have no flavor.
Pot 1 has the tallest plant in the garden. The one in the back is a Tropazola while the others are also above average size. On the left is an Interdimensional Oranges and the one on the right is a Sierra Jah.
Pot 2 had some caterpillars already on the plants! I take joy in squishing them. Clockwise from the rear is Tropazola, Sierra Jah and Interdimensional Oranges.
Pot 3 has three very healthy average sized plants, but there was some aphids and a caterpillar found. The insecticidal spray will be bought on the first.
Pot 4 has a large Lebanese Rainbow in the back. There is also a strong morphology contrast between the narrow leaf Sonic Begonias on the left and the very wide leaf Koffee Mug F2 on the right.
Golden Oyster Bucket beginning to fruit.
Lion’s Mane Bucket looks a lil healthier than the other one. I am uncertain if infected as there is a section of it that looks a slightly different color.
Trichoderma infected lion’s mane bucket that I dumped out last night.
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The garden is going well currently. There is some damage from caterpillars. I didn’t see any today so they must have flown off already. Some aphids are present and I finally collected supplies for an insect spray. It consists of 4 teaspoons of sodium bicarbonate and a teaspoon of peppermint scented castile soap in one gallon of foliar spray. I also sprayed the top of the mulch and floor of the garage for ants. Very few ants have been seen but prevention can’t hurt.
This is the first bloom from my first Golden Oyster mushroom buckets. No flavor report yet as I will be eating them tonight.
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All the plants had some spots of chemical burn from the foliar spray being applied twice this week. The second dose was a much lighter dose than the first but most of the damage was already done. I hope it knocked back the aphids for a while. The plants are responding to the organic inputs but they are asking for more. I will add more alfalfa pellets in about 4 days. I want them to recover from the defoliation treatment I did that was to reduce the number of leaves near the bottom of the plants or strongly affected by the foliar.
Pot 1 has a large tropazola in the back and a Sierra Jah on the right.
Pot 2 Has a Tropazola in the back that is barely smaller than the one to the right which is a Sierra Jah. The plant in the front is an Interdimensional Oranges.
Pot 3 has a Koffee Mug F2 in the rear that is average in size but smaller than the Lebanese Rainbow on the right.
There is a large and bushy Lebanese Rainbow plant in the back. The plant on the right is a Koffee Mug F2 and the near left one with the slightly taco’ed leaves is my remaining Sonic Begonias.
My second flush is going to be better than the first. There is still another day or two remaining on the 2 gallon Golden Oyster bucket before they are ready for harvest.
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Zucchini isn’t vining as much as i remember the plants doing when I was growing up. At least it looks healthy and is blooming.
The basil is blowing up now. they call for one per foot of garden so I am considering the harvest of one of them. Another option is transplanting them?
Potatoes are growing like crazy. They are almost as tall as my cannabis plants. They have a lot of pretty blooms.
The bell peppers are not looking like they are taking off. There are blooms but no fruit yet.
The tomatoes are producing lots of fruit. Currently they are about 2" diameter. All of the tomato beds are doing well.
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These pictures were from the twentieth. I keep forgetting to upload them to the journal. All of the plants are at the top of their tomato cages and have been trained downward to promote bushing but soon will start getting the trellis treatment.
This plant was the only female in the pot. I may plant some radishes or something small in the rest of the planter.
these two are both female.
I had to shoot the photo from another direction to show that the two remaining plants are filling in their canopies and available space very well. Both are now sexed as female.
There are still three plants in this pot but one will likely need killed for being male. It wasn’t absolutely obvious yet so i wanted to give it time to develop.
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Maybe it’s a bush variety? You probably grew all vining types in the past.
Thanks for showing off your grow. I look forward to seeing your harvests.
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thanks for the guidance. i didn’t know to check and yes, i thought they all vined. haha.
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This is my best attempt to try to get all four pots in the picture. They are just too large for that now. All the males are culled with 9 of the 12 original plants being female.
There is some Calcium deficiency starting to show and I haven’t given any garden lime this year. That will be fixed today.
Pot 1 had a male for the spot in the back. It was dominant in the pot and I am working on using the trellis netting to pull it back toward the wall.
Pot 2 had the same issue with the rear plant being a male and leaving an empty space that can get covered hopefully when pulling the branches toward the bare spot with trellis netting. I also use the netting to try to even out the canopy as it grows.
These two plants already forgot that they had a third plant in the pot with them in number 3. Happy little bushes that are about nose tall for me and i am 6’2". I need to keep them under 8’ so they remain invisible to neighbors when they stand on the sidewalk and such. By law it has to be this way and I don’t mind being discreet for the sake of security.
This is Pot 4 with its 3 plants. I am excited for all of them. The one on the left is a very stout looking narrow leaf variety from a Hawaiian breeder and it looks VERY different from the others. The tall one in the back is a beast of a Lebanese Rainbow. It is crowding the pot some and i will need to clean out a lot of the inner branches between the plants. The plant in the front center is a medium sized plant with very wide leaves(the Koffee Mug F2). The plants in this planter already have buds forming as well.
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The golden oysters grow extremely vigorously. Since beginning to grow em I have been seeing lots of alerts from our state that they are highly invasive. I am feeling guilty and despite loving the taste of them, I will be using up the remaining culture on one more bucket before I quit them. I have twelve jars of lion’s mane ready to go into two gallon buckets(two per bucket i am thinking to start with.)
The zucchini is definitely not vining and now has one fruit developing! It is getting much larger too.
the catnip has doubled in size over the last week.
The basil is exploding as well since i topped them and harvested the smallest one. So far we have been putting the basil in the melted butter we use on mashed taters.
Plenty of fruit are growing now on the bell peppers. There has been some yellowing of the potato leaves, so i lightly fertilized with some general purpose organic 5-4-4 fertilizer.
The tomatoes are still strongly producing. My brother regrets not using tomato cages as some of the plants have died due to broken stems when trying to use just bamboo. I gave everything a light dusting of garden lime to prevent the blossom end rot. Last year the tomatoes were having trouble with not turning color outdoors due to the weather i am guessing. I have to research this more.
and just a couple photos I took on the tenth that I don’t think I shared with the journal readers.
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