Cajuncelt's Spring 2015 Grow - Blue Dream - Bubba Kush - Critical Cure - Etc

TheCelt said:
Hey Cajun, I have been following along. Awesome job you have even if the money isn't what you had before :) But its much better to have a job you really enjoy than to have big pay cheques :)
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For true my Celtic brutha.
 
Every time I check in here my friend Im left happy in the thought that you are living the dream. So rightly, in my eyes and it gives me strength to keep pushing for my dreams ! :) (oh and your pic is hanging in our front room for inspiration! )
 
I learned today that they average out in grams each grow. A min must be hit.
The min is 0.5g per wattage of lamp.
So, 1000w/6 plants is 83g per plant that must be hit.
That's about 3 oz per plant.
 
I in all honesty, was very relieved to hear that. I do better than that on here with 1/8th of the resources there.
Whew.

So, here's some of my lil ones at home at a week old.
I leave about 3" at the top of the containers for few reasons.
1. It blocks direct air when they're tiny.
2. Mainly cause when they show their 1st 3-leafers, you can fill the containers up to the top. The stem below the new soil line will sprout lateral root systems.
Makes for a big root ball when they go into their veg pots in a few weeks.
Dust those with Mycos of your choice & they hit veg hard.

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And yes, they are on my window sill in plain view. Not supposed to be visible, but I'm doing this legally! Can you wrap your mind around that?! I can open the door & show it off to the local cops.
 
Where I work, they use an organic custom soil. I took their ingredients but omitted the bone meal & a few other things and added worm castings, crustacean meal & a few other things that I wish I could do at work.
I'll see if I'm right (or very wrong).
 
You are such a lucky little bugger my friend. I beam from ear to ear when you speak of such freedom. As for your soil, Im guessing here your gonna be right!!!! :) :)
 
Hi Cajun, this all sounds great!
I got 24ozs from 4 plants under 2 600 w hid's.....so.....1200/4 = 300/.5 = 150 grams = 5 ozs each = 20 ozs. total minimum. I only beat the minimum by 4 ozs.! But to me, that 4 ozs equals 16 grams of oil. Half a month of c. fightin' power!
Does anybody know if LED's can produce more than 4 grams of 85%+ oil per oz. of bud?
Talk about the bennies of being legal.....a crabby neighbor (who since has been evicted) complained about the noise of the vent fan to the police. The cops (sheriff) showed up and inspected my grow room and papers and thanked me and told the complainer the grow was not too loud and completely legal. WOW....what a trip!!! The cops protecting my pot!!!!!!! It's a miracle. PTL.
Continued good luck, Cajun. You deserve it!
 
Thanks LA & John.
Means alot to me.
How's the grow going John? You guys ready to pull em down?
They're considering starting a lab for concentrates where I work.
You talk about quality oil. I could use the heat vac ovens.
If I grow enough over the minimum, 20% is sold to another dispensary in Denver. I get a huge cut of that 20%.
 
The grow is good, Cajun. I wasn't able to work it, so the 65 gal smart pots were never given enough room (a second enclosure) to really produce to the max. We just bought another 3,000 gallons of water yesterday. That makes about 3,000 gals/week now! Also forced to use straight O.F. and salt nutes due to late start. We'll have a good crop if the weather holds another month from now, which it would in a 'normal' year, but this is not a normal year, so we'll see what we see. We'll go organic with lots of room next year (I hope) for a GREAT crop. Quality and quantity! Also looking for a new grow location not so remote. Anybody have land in Sonoma Co., California?
Cheers to y'all...:Namaste:
 
My friend :)
I still cant believe that the targets are so low!!! I mean I know with certain ways of growing that quality has its direct correlation to the quantity produced. Yet the levels you mention per plant are of such low levels you must be able to be very selective in where youd push them to produce. So knowing you skills that cut of the 20% is surely a lock in!
Then tie in with concentrates starting up and I bet your one happy bunny at the moment! Simply awesome. :) :)
 
Yeah it's about speed & quality. The quantity is there too, but it has to do with the 80-20% thing too.
Much more is expected from the Master Cultivators.
It's kind of like sales I think. The hourly underlings can make close to what the salaried upper management does through commissions if that makes sense.
Plus, hitting barely over the minimum is not smiled upon. There unspoken expectations.
The outdoor grows don't have some type of minimum. I guess for obvious reasons.
 
On another note, there a dispensary called the Pink Room that uses all LED lighting. Their end product has alot of folks looking at LED commercially. I don't know what the utility bills are here, but they've to be through the roof.
 
It must be really wierd witnessing something that used to be grown mostly from your love, for industry to claim it as theirs and squeeze the word "efficiency" out of it.
Company's equations weight "time" as a more valuable coin, which is a sad obvious truth. You're left with deadlines and obligations which aren't beneficial for both of yourself and the plants. To be honest, I've never heard about strict time and yield demands at top notch famous vineyards.

I know you'll take your time filtering the company's input, and taking the best out of it. I'm sure you won't be drained into a weed growing space-monkey, and thus your teaching will someday prevail as standard cannabis science. (and if you ever feel like calling in sick for a day, just because you've had enough of it, in the end, that place doesn't deserve you)
 
It is a little strange.
That's the biggest change for me
Personal grows get way more attention than commercial grows. It's been difficult not wasting time on inferior plants & just trash them.
 
Cajun, are they breeding their own seeds and how do they decide which strains to grow?
 
Yes, we've our own strains & take-offs/versions of known strains. OG Kush for example.
I was given a book to read about breeding. It's easy over my head so far, but I'll send an electronic version to ya.
The decision on what to cross depends on what affects are being reproduced or enhanced. There are a bunch of reasons they pick the specific males & females and whose gonna be mommy/daddy. I honestly don't know enough yet to know the specifics.
The amount of juvenile plants, clones, & seedlings that are trashed for being small or slow is mind boggling. If it lags behind in the slightest bit, bam, gone.
The new cultivators (me) are not really encouraged to mess with the breeding program until they're more established and their crews are hitting the right numbers/dates.
The grows here revolve so much & so fast it's crazy. I'm having to learn to think 4 or 5 grows ahead to fit the fiscal stuff. It's fun though.
I can get my Master Cultivator thing, then mess with breeding. Or, get into the concentrates which I probably will.
My lil ones at work got their tags today. So, they're official. Lol.
 
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