Cannafan's Perpetual Grow - Where Everything Changes - Autos - Photos - Seeds & More!

[B A R]

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Congrats on the chop Partner and the Garage Grow is my favorite. If anyone was going to show us how to make our own essential oils it had to be you; Queen DIY herself. I've been interested in this every since Cajun mentioned it, thanxx.

 

[CajunCelt]

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Yay Wildlings.
I missed them.

 

[Light Addict]

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Your simply a big fat awesome bonus for us all here at 420 my friend. Its never just buy it, its always hey lets make it! thanks for being you!

 

[Lady Cannafan]

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Thanks guys. You are all awesome to me!

On the subject of the essential oil, my understanding is that they are using it to increase terpenes in the plants. That's an idea that I will give it a shot for. The rosemary/clove oil for bug control is another thing entirely.

I had the opportunity to test the oil mixture on some live aphids yesterday. My Mother gave me some tomato plant cuttings so I can try to grow them under the LED's over the winter and when I got home with them I checked them over with a loupe. There were aphids all over the cuttings and many with wings, which means they were ready to fly to new food sources.

I isolated the cuttings and tested the Rosemary/Clove oil spray on them. What happened is the bugs would get drenched and stay in one spot appearing to be dead, but after the drops either fell off or dissipated the bugs would stand up and begin moving again.
So, it doesn't work on killing aphids with one application.
I can drown them......if they are caught in a puddle of the oil, it's just sticky enough that they can't get back out of it. LOL

So, this morning I'm testing a new concoction using garlic oil. I want to be able to drop them with just one spraying, not several over the course of days while they grow wings and start flitting around to new plants.

The funniest part of this....I was reading from a site on the internet that claims the juice/oil from tomato leaves will kill off aphids in your garden.
These aphids were on a tomato plant living the dream......hmmm



Edit: You know I HAD to take pics. LOL Here's the two critters I was watching during the spraying. They got back up and continued with their travels. The lower one looks like it's actually drinking the oil.

 

[Lady Cannafan]

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Homemade Garlic oil spray for the win!

Here's what I concocted for the Aphids:

3/4 C. vegetable oil (internet says to use mineral oil, I am out at the moment so I made do)
4 Heaping tablespoons of chopped garlic from a jar with it's juice
1 C. water
2 drops of plain ol' dishsoap (unscented)

I let the garlic sit in the oil for a couple of hours shaking/swirling the jar a couple times. Internet recipes say to use fresh garlic, chop it up and let it soak in the oil overnight. I figured because this garlic is already minced and sitting it it's own oil that it didn't need to steep that long.
Strained out the garlic through a fine mesh strainer and cheesecloth (if you don't strain this extremely fine you will clog up your sprayer)
Mix the water and dish soap into the jar and gently swirl it around. (shake it too much and you get suds. LOL) You want to swirl it around a bit always just before spraying, oil and water don't stay mixed and you want to be sure it's combined as much as possible when spraying.

I located some of the critters and took before pics and after dousing them. They died almost immediately when hit with the garlic spray. I checked several times to be sure they weren't moving those spindly little legs, and they were dead. dead. dead.

Here's some pics (you know I had too. LOL)

Before:
This one is tending to something that looks like an egg sac or a really fat newborn.

After spraying:
It's dead.

This one was ready to fly.
Before:

After:

Before:

After:
It died sticking sideways. LOL

I believe this is a very tiny juvenile leafhopper.....I think...regardless, the garlic spray killed it too.

So, I will watch the cuttings for the next few days to see if they suffer any ill effects from the spray.
Not sure you can do this during flower due to the garlic, but I'm thinking if you only have to spray it once or twice maybe it wouldn't have any long term effect on the taste of the buds?

This is a very concentrated mixture, so it can probably be diluted with water to make it not so strong. I'll be testing it further while mother still has tomato plants in the garden.

 

[Shawnee]

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what a cracking demonstration, explanation, and recipe, Canna......outstanding!

 

[Lady Cannafan]

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what a cracking demonstration, explanation, and recipe, Canna......outstanding!

Thanks Shawnee.

These bat rastards multiply so fast that they can get out of control inside and outside. Anything I can do to help people not suffer that misery!
I like to test things before I feel they will work for me.

 

[CajunCelt]

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Very cool Canna. I had ptsd from the mite attack I got a few years ago on a journal here.
I thought the holes in the leaves were trichs! And I thought the webbing was from an over active spider. Good grief.
anyways, those lil suckers had a metropolosis in my tent in a matter of hours.
I'm a get-that-dog-outta-my-grow-room-now kinda guy nowadays.
Thanks for the info!

 

[Lady Cannafan]

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Well, I might have a problem....we have a freeze watch in effect starting tonight.

What will happen to my outdoor plants if they freeze?

I can bring the two Sleestack Skunks inside, and the THC bomb for the night...but I can't up and move the wildlings.

Anybody know if one night of freeze is going to kill off the pollinated plants, or cause serious damage to my buds that I can't harvest until Saturday?

Grrrrrr...........

;-)

 

[Lady Cannafan]

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Thought some of you might like to check this out, forewarning...it's long. Sit back relax and put your thoughts in gear.

Episode 1: The True History of Chemotherapy & The Pharmaceutical Monopoly

 

[CajunCelt]

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Well, I might have a problem....we have a freeze watch in effect starting tonight.

What will happen to my outdoor plants if they freeze?

I can bring the two Sleestack Skunks inside, and the THC bomb for the night...but I can't up and move the wildlings.

Anybody know if one night of freeze is going to kill off the pollinated plants, or cause serious damage to my buds that I can't harvest until Saturday?

Grrrrrr...........

;-)

Frost will kill them.
Dang it. I knew I should come kidnapped them.
Can you cover them? They'll probably make it if so. The soil temp will stay 10-20° warmer than the ambient air.... Hopefully.

 

[Lady Cannafan]

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Damn, I have to head for work. No time to cover them.
I'll try to do it when I get home from work before 11 p.m. and hope it's in time.

Send good "No Freeze" karma!

 

[B A R]

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"No Freeze" karma!​

 

[Lady Cannafan]

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{{singing child's nursery rhyme tune}}....

"A tisket.....a tasket....a Wildlings' filled up basket...."

Believe it or not this is 4 of the Wildlings. It's a very large basket though. ;-)

Although I wasn't real happy with the quantity of bud on them, I am quite happy with how crusty they are with trichomes.
It did not freeze, so I got to them in time. The cold weather provided some lovely purple colors to them, I love that.

They got their bath and are hanging to drip dry. That water was full of junk by the time I was done! Debris from trees, bug carcasses and lots of dirt.

There are two wildlings left, the ones I pollinated. I still don't see seeds, so I will give them another week. They may very well have been past the time for pollinating.

I may go out and dig them up tomorrow (they are small enough to do that) and bring them onto the back porch, so I can get them inside for the night if freeze warnings come into play.

Not real clear pics there, my fingers were absolutely freezing. Baby ....it's cold outside!

 

[CajunCelt]

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Awesome.
I feel sad though. Hope we get more Wildlings again.
Really cool colors on that one...

 

[Lady Cannafan]

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Awesome.
I feel sad though. Hope we get more Wildlings again.
Really cool colors on that one...

Well, if the seed experiment doesn't work....was thinking on revegging the two left. Think that would work? Keep them going until next spring. LOL
And I didn't uproot the stems from the chopped ones. Will be interesting to see if they come to life in spring. Prolly not.....but doesn't hurt a damn thing to leave them there.

 

[Shawnee]

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Top job, Canna, congrats on your harvest.....you saw it all with those babies and you stuck with it. Reps from me to yoiu....

 

[94xjjohn]

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OK, you got pics, it happened! And they look beautiful! Congrats you little cultivator, you!!!

 

[Lady Cannafan]

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Freeze warnings will continue now, so I will not have any choice but to keep these final outdoor plants indoors in order to not lose a harvest. And I'll be damned if after everything these plants and I have been through trying to keep them alive that I will allow that to happen!

Now....what the heck do I do with a 7 foot tall plant? If I put it under the LED, will the lights be able to reach the lower parts of the plant before light fall off happens?

The two sleestack skunks will be ready for harvest in a week or so, the trichomes are mostly cloudy. I'm going to leave them in the window indoors while they finish.

The THC Bomb...it's too tall for the windows. It's only a foot away from the ceiling and the top part is about 2 feet above the window light.

Opinions on whether I should maybe supercrop the top part of THC Bomb, or take my chances under an LED in the garage grow or any other ideas are welcomed. She's got a long way to go before harvest considerations for sure.

If I did the garage option I would put her under the Budmaster XG unit because I can get that one high up without any trouble and it's at the end of the row of plants.

I'll have a couple pics up in a bit.

Okay, first the 3 girls together in the window. THC Bomb towers the other two

Sleestack girls upper buds:

THC Bomb:

 

[Lady Cannafan]

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Top job, Canna, congrats on your harvest.....you saw it all with those babies and you stuck with it. Reps from me to yoiu....

Thanks Sis. I never actually see the reps happen when you give them on my settings. Wondering if there's a glitch in that in addition to the "likes" thing still not working. {{shrugs shoulders}}

Did you get a freeze overnight?

OK, you got pics, it happened! And they look beautiful! Congrats you little cultivator, you!!!

Glad you stopped by. Congrats on your own harvest as well.