Day 39 Flower ATFs - Day 31 Veg Multi-strain
I've done this once or twice before and seemed to have a good reaction to it so if you are about to read this please take a nice bong rip or smoke a J or something. Don't eat an edible as that will take way too long to kick in and then you'll forget what you were doing and pass out, but get baked as this post is going to be on the longer side! I kinda went nuts with the camera which is actually a rarity for me.
Let's start in the actual vegetable garden. A good chunk of my spring veggies and lettuces are all done and harvested. However I am going to take a bit of a risk and see if I can grow another round of veggies before the first frost. I planted a lot of 60 day or less variety things to be harvesting beginning of October. Hands down I have been way more excited to outdoor veggie garden this year than to grow my cannabis girls. Anyways, I cleared everything out and remixed it. I had saved about 20 gallons of my spent drain to waste water form the cannabis girls and thoroughly soaked the whole bed with it. I did a better job of mixing the perlite and clay pebbles in. I do think it makes a big difference as the soil in my yard can be dense and the airation has really helped. It is really cool I can use my waste products from my grow and have a good veggie garden.
Now the fun begins. Well I was out taking pictures yesterday and set my phone down in the grass to be able to use both hands to move some soil around. I needed to water the plants and so I went over to the hose and stood back and gave the whole bed a good misting. Well that was a big mistake. My phone got sprayed in the grass and it turns on but the screen is all rainbows and the touch screen doesn't work. It's basically locked me out of that phone. Costly error but I got a new phone and the camera is better so that is why this post is long! I was trying it out and took a bunch of pictures and I do think it is way better than my old one. That's the silver lining I guess.. lol. I hate doing dumb things.
Anyways so instead of pictures that I took yesterday, you get pictures of today with the new camera. Here is how healthy my drain to waste garden looks now.
I have broccoli, carrots and onions in rows in the middle of the garden. They are all just sprouting but nothing to show off yet. Green beans already got one good harvest off of and they are going nuts again
Zucchini will be a mystery if I can get anything good but it's a fast variety and they are growing really fast.
New airpots I purchased for salads. Like 10' tall and really wide and I put different varieties in each corner. If I grow outdoors next year I think I'll try one out for fun and grow it low and wide.
Random peppers, onions and herbs.
Tomatoes with one red one.
I swear I basically took old soil and tilled it up and have only used waste nutrients and water for this entire garden. It you run drain to waste I highly recommend doing some stuff like this. It makes the value of the nutrients go that much further really.
Onto the reason most of you are here. I have two of the ATF clones to a friend that is going to finish them outdoors. They were big so my friends might have some on their hands. I think in Oregon the sun is up for 14.5 hours a day now. Good time to get them in the ground as the light slowly shrinks. I wasn't going to have room for these. Anyways I kept two of the ones that looked the best and I likely will grow them in the tent that the ATF scrog is in when it is done. That is still like 6 weeks away so these will get really big.
These girls are not quadlined and I've topped them quite a few times to get them into this shape. This will be a first in my journals to just use topping and bending to shape them. Either way goal always is to keep them spaced nicely and even.
The Multi-strain girls are getting used to their new homes. I forgot to put the great white on the roots this time and they took a couple days longer to adjust. Just more proof to me that it is pure gold for the roots and to minimize stress during transplants. Once they pick up the pace a little more I will begin training harder.
Durban Poison
Honeysuckle staying low but even
Aurora Indica is the one I wanted to grow the most this round and it is looking fantastic. Funny note on the camera is I never changed the lights in anyway at all in the tent and some pictures turned blue and some more purple. Guess at different angles it can really pick up different colors. Takes way better pictures with the full LEDs on though. I could never do that with the old phone.
Panama had one of the nodes get bent too hard. It was half on and healed itself but stopped growing. That means one of the quads was growing much taller and so I decided to top it so it's even again. We will see how this works. Never done that before.
The bonsai for
@newty. Time to do some training on it soon I think but the I am pretty proud of this thing. When I took it over it was practically dead with little vegetation on it.
Before
Today
Lastly the big scrog is doing really well. I do think that the heat of this summer will make this buds pretty long and not so stacked on top of each other. They have a long ways to go and even though I say they are on Day 39, they had some stress and some slowness and really probably about a week behind. They also took a while to pop pistils into flowering and a lot of people just judge flowering at their first signs of those.
The plant on the right is the smaller of the 4 that is propped up. I think I did as good a job as I could getting it higher with that net on still so it got good light at least. Clearly not even the same height as all 3 of the others but if I just left it at net level it wouldn't have gotten great light and been a waste.
All the girls
Long colas
Middle height colas
To leave on a fun note. I thought this was a cool looking picture in general.
