Thanks man! It’s the best of both worlds! semi-hydro organics 
A lot of members have joined the gang… nube, crunchberries, bassman5420, beagleZ, OldRon and I’m forgetting some others… check out their grows for ideas.
I love the simplicity of it really. You’re already organic, so you could just recycle your soil into some SIPs. EzPz.
Yes! And with automatic watering of the sips interests me too. Might never have to show my face down there (or at least enjoy an extended vacation).
Join us!
Right! I mean, I like poppin’ in and peeking on my plants, but I’d like to be able to have some extended time away without worry. I’m working on something for the auto water. Crunch posted above, EarthBox brand makes an auto-watering system, looks like you feed a sensor down the tube and it measures the water level, then opens a valve when necessary to refill… downside, it looks like it connects to your faucet, and that kind of bothers me, last thing I need is a flood.
I’m still workin’ on ideas, I’d love a combination of blumats and SIPs… gravity fed, limited amount of water, no electricity… 
We’re not a cult… I swear… ?
Real nice work man.
That Vietnam Black sounds like some crazy smoke.
Just out of curiosity what type/model of fiskars do you use?
thanks bud
Vietnam Black is a strange one… tinnitus herb, haha, at least that’s what I’m calling it.
This is my favorite pair of Fiskars:
They’ve got some sort of coating on the blades. Hopefully it’s not wearing off into the herb, it’s probably teflon or something that shouldn’t be combusted. Most of the wear on them is from me cleaning them with alcohol and pads. Remove the safety lock if it gets in your way. I wanna to try one of those brushes, but I have these, and they work. If it ain’t broke…
Man those are my favorite too after trying a bunch. I have like 4 pairs of those lol
It is Teflon and I love them.
love it, if your ears aren’t ringing are you really smoking? Haha
Thanks very much for the advice on Fiskars, we don’t really have them here, but I’ll track down anything that can make trim jail a bit easier.
They have so many different types of scissors.
It looks like the STS ended up doin’ the trick on the T-1000.
I started plucking the male flowers with tweezers and could see some pollen grains sprinkling out. So I started shaking and rubbing the plucked male flowers over the pistils and hoped the pollen was viable.
I made a trip down to the NorCal redwoods after doing the manual pollination and left the plants do their thing for about four or five days.
Came back home to some withering pistils and swelling bracts 
Looks like GG#4, Agent Orange, Key Lime Pie, Blueberry, and Rudeboi OG are all going to produce seeds, hopefully they’re worth a shit 
Beautiful, man, I fucking love it up there. You see those trees and you’re like,”We are dust…”
Weed looks okay, too, I guess… haha.
Yup, pretty much. It was a pretty incredible experience being among those giant living things. Feeling like you’re nothing compared to something so old. It’s easy to forget about your weed plants, your responsibilities, your life… haha! It felt like being in another world for a while. Highly recommend the experience to anyone out there.
Was that you’re first time up there? Or down there, I guess? I looooove it up there, every time we go up north (which hasn’t been in a while; a trip is for sure long overdue) like every fiber of my being just starts responding, spidey sense going off, energy just humming, like,”Yes, this is where it’s at…” Can’t explain it. It just feels right up there.
Except for the annual forest fires… haha. I kid, but those do blow. I love it up there, though, for sure.
oh man, this has been a dream of mine for as long as i can remember! Hope you enjoyed to the fullest, sound like you did!
I always tell my wife… I dont want to be in a casket, just burry me under a redwood lol
Love the nor-cal old growth forests! Spent many a time frolicking in those woods! Used to live in the PNW and love NorCal cause it was still PNW, but with just a bit more sunshine!
So humbling to stand amongst those giants! Miss that soo much! Hope you had a fantastic time!
Yeah, it was my first time down there, although I have been to some of the ones right above San Fran. I was in way NorCal this time, in the Jedediah Smith Redwood park. There is some special energy in that place… and I’m not even in to all that spiritual/energy stuff that much! But, you can’t help feeling ‘something’ when you’re surrounded by all that life energy. It’s crazy… you can see the scars from fires on some of the biggest trees, and they just kept on growing! Amazing…
You should realize your dream man. It was one of mine too, since I was a little kid. It was beyond my expectations. Hope you get there someday!
Haha, yeah that’s a good point, the weather was perfect! We slept with the tent open every night and got a little chilly at points, but it was gorgeous and sunny during the days… I needed a good dose of sun, I think I may even have a little tan going on!
All that ancient IMO wisdom your tapping into. We all go back to it, it is the entirety of accumulated knowledge.
Delighted to hear the STS done the job for you.
Beautiful pics of the redwoods. Definitely on the list of places to visit. Trees release those phytoncides that are beneficial to us too.
Not sure if I mentioned the couple of plants I threw outside as an experiment, but they seem to be trucking along. The one of the left is an Auto “OG Kush” From Humboldt Seed and the other two are Pakistan Valley from World of Seeds… both were freebies that I received many moons ago. I’m surprised that they all germinated. Never mind the volunteers that sprouted from hash trash in the background of the first pic…
I did cut one branch from the reversed T-1000 and hit the OG Kush Auto, and already seeing signs of pollination. My understanding is that the Auto gene is recessive, so all of these “F1” beans will not auto-flower, but they would be fems. I think, if I grew out the fems and reversed a few of those and then pollinated the group of fems that I may be able to find some plants that auto-flower in the progeny. Sounds like a lot of work 
Some observations on the outdoors stuff… the stems rubs seem to be stronger in smell than my indoor plants. The OG Kush Auto is smelling pretty typically like cannabis right now, some lemon floor cleaner thing going there. The Paki Valleys smell quite different from one another, one has a very strong cherry smell on the stem rub. It’s much harder to keep pests away outdoors!
I’m not expecting much yield or anything from them, not even sure if they’ll finish before the rainy season here. Just really cool to be able to throw some plants outdoors here…
I ran up to Concentrates, Inc yesterday to pick up some myco supplies and some Bu’s blend and Sunshine Mix… that place is like a gardeners heaven… they had a couple of free BioAg samples I grabbed, some I hadn’t seen before… Multi-Mino (Microminerals) and Boro-Mino… where is that Boron guy, I bet he’d love these! The guys at the check out were super knowledgeable too, giving me some ideas on charging Bio-Char and they hooked it up when I told ‘em I was growin’ cannabis… I fuckin love Portland, haha!
Also, I dumped my City Picker’s in prep for the next run… a few observations: The boxes that I only did one run in, ended up being pretty clean underneath the grate. Not much root mass had accumulated down there. Some finer particles had slipped through the grate. All of the wicking corners were intact though. On the boxes I ran two cycles in… the res was about half full with roots, decaying matter, and finer soil particles. They both smelled pretty anaerobic after sitting for a couple of weeks - stinky! There were a TON of worms in the bottom of the two cycle boxes and it looked like a mess of castings, roots and sludge under the grate. My concern is that with all that junk down there, you’re only getting about half the water volume you can normally fill the res to. There’s also no real way to flush all the mess out without disassembling the boxes.
I think going forward on the CP boxes, I’m going to do a couple of things to see if I can keep the finer soil particles from getting into the res. I’m thinking about picking up some medium duty landscaping fabric and lining the wicking corners with the fabric, so the soil can’t become loose and seep through the grate when it makes direct contact with the water. Also, I’m thinking about putting a layer of landscape fabric on top of the grate, at least covering the bigger holes, then putting the soil on top of that, leaving the wicking corners uncovered by fabric. My thinking is that when I top water occasionally, a bunch of particles wash down through the grate and end up in the res. Also with the worms and other living things in there, I’m sure particles get shifted around and loosened and make their way down by force of gravity. I’m thinking the roots will still be able to grow right through the fabric, into the res without issue… but I guess there’s only one way to find out!
If you guys/gals have any better ideas, I’m all ears… I’ve got awhile before I ramp back up!
