The fireworks WERE blurple! Noice. Glad to see your “dump and run“, sounds like things are going good. See you later and good luck! You got this!
Copperrein's Summer 2021 Outdoor Soil Grow
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Looking good Copper! I like the signs, I guess you got sick of the neighbours asking what strain they were. 
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Hah! Rarely do neighbors see this part of the property (for security reasons). Those are for me; last year the plants grew far past their containers and the little normal nursery tags were impossible to see by harvest time without touching flowers.Looking good Copper! I like the signs, I guess you got sick of the neighbours asking what strain they were.
I use lath strips for tons of stuff around here. I think a bundle of 36 is like $14 at the local home improvement place. They're what walls were made of before drywall. I water seal a bundle at a time and use them to jerry rig all sorts of crap.
Another useful precut lumber is furring strips which are roughly 5/8" by 1 1/4" soft pine in 8' lengths.
@BooWho2
Thank you! Now my kid's being an ass but I'm dealing.OK....it's raining so I'll get a photo of the outdoor girls later. They're happy and have yet to show signs of nute burn which diminishes my current stress load a little. I realized last night I just stuck them in a soil mix with about 1/2 the mass being chicken shit (before perlite). Granted, I let it cool a while but I'm second guessing myself now.
I also mixed up some Rapid Root and powdered mycos and watered both the roots of the plant and directly under where I placed them prior to doing the final fill of dirt.
Here's the budzai shot with an actual camera
I've been taking her outside on sunny days and back in at night. I'm getting close to 20 degree temp difference between night and day which I hope is contributing to the black purple she's showing. Really really wish I had been a little more focused when I placed my first seed order and gotten this strain in photo instead of auto. OH WELL.
Aaaand back to painting signs.
<3
Are you expecting frost Friday night into Saturday morning? We will be close and after Saturday I figure we will be good for the season up to the mid parts of October, or maybe longer.
Already started hardening off some of the pepper plants and I am thinking of bringing up a couple of Blue Dream clones to start to harden them this coming week. Possibly turn them in to mother plants to have clones ready for late summer and through the winter in the basement room.
Already started hardening off some of the pepper plants and I am thinking of bringing up a couple of Blue Dream clones to start to harden them this coming week. Possibly turn them in to mother plants to have clones ready for late summer and through the winter in the basement room.
Mdlroad
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Hah! Rarely do neighbors see this part of the property (for security reasons). Those are for me; last year the plants grew far past their containers and the little normal nursery tags were impossible to see by harvest time without touching flowers.
I use lath strips for tons of stuff around here. I think a bundle of 36 is like $14 at the local home improvement place. They're what walls were made of before drywall. I water seal a bundle at a time and use them to jerry rig all sorts of crap.
Another useful precut lumber is furring strips which are roughly 5/8" by 1 1/4" soft pine in 8' lengths.
@BooWho2
OK....it's raining so I'll get a photo of the outdoor girls later. They're happy and have yet to show signs of nute burn which diminishes my current stress load a little. I realized last night I just stuck them in a soil mix with about 1/2 the mass being chicken shit (before perlite). Granted, I let it cool a while but I'm second guessing myself now.
I also mixed up some Rapid Root and powdered mycos and watered both the roots of the plant and directly under where I placed them prior to doing the final fill of dirt.
Here's the budzai shot with an actual camera
I've been taking her outside on sunny days and back in at night. I'm getting close to 20 degree temp difference between night and day which I hope is contributing to the black purple she's showing. Really really wish I had been a little more focused when I placed my first seed order and gotten this strain in photo instead of auto. OH WELL.
Aaaand back to painting signs.
<3
In the desert we get up to 40° temp changes. It was 62 this morning forecast 100 this afternoon. You can feel it changing. Then sun goes down and temps dive bombHah! Rarely do neighbors see this part of the property (for security reasons). Those are for me; last year the plants grew far past their containers and the little normal nursery tags were impossible to see by harvest time without touching flowers.
I use lath strips for tons of stuff around here. I think a bundle of 36 is like $14 at the local home improvement place. They're what walls were made of before drywall. I water seal a bundle at a time and use them to jerry rig all sorts of crap.
Another useful precut lumber is furring strips which are roughly 5/8" by 1 1/4" soft pine in 8' lengths.
@BooWho2
OK....it's raining so I'll get a photo of the outdoor girls later. They're happy and have yet to show signs of nute burn which diminishes my current stress load a little. I realized last night I just stuck them in a soil mix with about 1/2 the mass being chicken shit (before perlite). Granted, I let it cool a while but I'm second guessing myself now.
I also mixed up some Rapid Root and powdered mycos and watered both the roots of the plant and directly under where I placed them prior to doing the final fill of dirt.
Here's the budzai shot with an actual camera
I've been taking her outside on sunny days and back in at night. I'm getting close to 20 degree temp difference between night and day which I hope is contributing to the black purple she's showing. Really really wish I had been a little more focused when I placed my first seed order and gotten this strain in photo instead of auto. OH WELL.
Aaaand back to painting signs.
<3
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We did get a little frost but the plants did well. What is concerning me is all the rain. Looks like the dry winter was just holding back for spring. I doubled my perlite but I'm seeing overwatering effects. I'm hoping todays temps will dry them out a bit.
This is getting nuts, tho. I'll check weather the day before on Accuweather and Wunderground...plan accordingly, and boom...totally different weather. I might get a hoop house before this fall. Last fall was a lot of work shaking plants off in the morning to keep the buds dry.
My fiancé just started on anti-depressives and isn't really work-worthy (tho he's finally getting to experience visual hallucinations for the first time in his life
) so looks like I'll need to be down at the tent more than first expected. Not a huge issue but yeah, I'm going to try to take all my photos first thing in the morning, go to the tent and set it up...and then social media my stuff from there. It's all good though because I'm functioning and enjoying being out and about. I haven't felt this ok in so so long. I'm having fun. gasp!
Best of luck with the new business Copper!
It might seem that there is a lot of rain but the lower peninsula is in a drought situation. Most of the snows we got were dry snow, meaning it would take 20 or 30 inches of snow to melt down to one inch of water. The usual in the winter is 10-11 inches of snow to melt to an inch. Not enough spring rains and the soil is going to dry out before the summer heat spells.
Not enough rain & snow water going into the soil and some people will have wells going dry. Just as bad are the farmers who are now pulling water from the aquifer for their fields and that means more work and expense resulting in higher costs which are passed on to the rest of us.
If I saw some of your photos correctly you will be growing some of the outdoor plants in pots. Nice thing about growing in pots outside is that it means dragging a hose around once a day and just having to soak 5 to 15 gallons of soil instead of a large garden bed.
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Mhmm. If I remember right, we're on the Saginaw aquifer which replenishes a little faster than everyone else however is more susceptible to shit leaching into it. As I understand it.
What farms are watering by you? We just have corn and soybean farms which just get planted... Rarely sprayed once a season... And then are left to dry and get ugly.
No one pulling water yet. The line "...who are now pulling water from the aquifer...." is now as opposed to years ago. Back then the farmers waited for rain and hoped it came in time to help with a bumper harvest.
Here we go again. It started a light rain at about 7 am. Took till 10 for the concrete patio under the Maple tree to get damp. Probably will end up with .10 to .15 inch of rain, hardly enough to replenish the soil moisture at the rate of 1 inch per week that we should be getting.
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Ah...big farming is a mystery to me. When they're here doing farmer things with the massive John Deer devices I sometimes wander over and ask questions but it seems like a different language. WHY to they only take the outside strip of corn first and then come back a few weeks later to harvest the remaining stuff? Moisture content testing? Never got a straight answer to that one. HOW DOES ONE PLAN THINGS?
Where's the line on how late to plant corn or give up on the year and take an insurance payout? It's almost like magic and experience play a bigger part than science in some of the shit I see farmers doing around here. I'd be grey and balding by now if I had to wager my family's whole year of financial stability on when I was going to plug some corn into the ground. Intense.
We're just staying damp here. I think all the moisture might be dropping before it makes its way to you. It's really slippery and grossly sticky here. A few days ago when it stayed in the 50's the man and I were both sweating doing very light labor just because of the thick humid air. I don't remember it being this shitty when I was a kid :< What people used to complain about in regards to weather would be a perfect year now I feel. Ugh. :<
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I've had little time to check in on the outdoor girls but conditions haven't been the best. Despite that even Andy and Ollie, the special needs plants, are starting to burst with new growth:
All the older strains like White Widow and Hulkberry are doing well. LSD (which was the one that pushed herself out of the soil at sprout and lost some taproot) is the weakest still. Not overly concerned, however. I suspect everyone will be in outdoor mode in a week, overwatering aside. For some reason my chickens like Sour Diesel. First time I've had them mess with a plant so I may have to cage her early. We'll see:
In other news my green onions are about to flower. I love the papery calyxes(?):
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Random leafies:
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And since this is my more informal journal I want to share a small part of the process of making the Blurple fireworks stars:
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Copper Oxychloride is that pretty green color and it results in the blue half of the stars. Strontium carbonate (red) and copper oxide (different blue) mix together in the other dough to make the magenta-ish fuscia red half. Chemistry is so much fun <3
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I roll out both doughs as if I were making pastry and layer the colors as above. They stick together and create one star that burns two colors. This helps me get around a lot of quirks that would arise if I just tried to make one star color that appears blurple (binders and chlorine donors and metals, OHMY!)
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Aaaaand then I cut them into little cubes. They get coated with stuff and dried and eventually I'll add them into a shell.
Disclaimer: It's 100% legal here. Don't try this at home. Etc. etc....
All the older strains like White Widow and Hulkberry are doing well. LSD (which was the one that pushed herself out of the soil at sprout and lost some taproot) is the weakest still. Not overly concerned, however. I suspect everyone will be in outdoor mode in a week, overwatering aside. For some reason my chickens like Sour Diesel. First time I've had them mess with a plant so I may have to cage her early. We'll see:
In other news my green onions are about to flower. I love the papery calyxes(?):
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Random leafies:
View media item 1825720
And since this is my more informal journal I want to share a small part of the process of making the Blurple fireworks stars:
View media item 1825724
Copper Oxychloride is that pretty green color and it results in the blue half of the stars. Strontium carbonate (red) and copper oxide (different blue) mix together in the other dough to make the magenta-ish fuscia red half. Chemistry is so much fun <3
View media item 1825723
I roll out both doughs as if I were making pastry and layer the colors as above. They stick together and create one star that burns two colors. This helps me get around a lot of quirks that would arise if I just tried to make one star color that appears blurple (binders and chlorine donors and metals, OHMY!)
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Aaaaand then I cut them into little cubes. They get coated with stuff and dried and eventually I'll add them into a shell.
Disclaimer: It's 100% legal here. Don't try this at home. Etc. etc....
Reminds me of LOS mix day in the cellar! Only my buds explode though
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That reminds me of the cliché Middle Eastern spice market shot for Saveur or some such. So pretty <3Reminds me of LOS mix day in the cellar! Only my buds explode though
I think that the farmers have to know the moisture in the corn kernels. If it is to moist the corn will start to mold in the silo, not enough moisture and I am just guessing on this, but the corn will not have the optimum amounts of sugars. That is for feed corn.
The 'truck farmer' family that owns a fruit and veggie stand over in lower Macomb county will tell us when they will be harvesting sweet corn. Walk in at the end of July and he will tell me that the next field is being "picked next Thursday". They plan on planting on a specific day because experience & the seed company say the corn is so many days to harvest, just like some of us plan on harvesting the weed in so many weeks after changing the amount of dark the plants get. For the farmer though, if the weather is to hot or to cold or it rains to much or not enough then the crop tends to be smaller than they were hoping or not as sweet. They plant fields every week or so planning on harvesting ripe corn on a schedule up until a couple of weeks before first frost.
Oh, as far as I know there is one planting of field or feed corn per season which is different than perpetual harvest of sweet corn (the stuff that us mere humans like to eat) throughout the mid-summer to mid-fall. the sweet corn us mere humans like to eat.
Ya, being a farmer is not for everyone.
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I could walk across the street to the main farm barn thing they have and read the sign but I think the fields are leased by bolthouse farms or something. They're supposed to be organic but I don't know. As long as they're not putting horrible shit in the soil or air, I'm happy.
I checked on the girls last night. The top of soil they're in had started to dry so despite cold winds today I hope to see some perkier plants by this evening.
Who knows, though
Aha hah hah hah :|Man I can't wait 100f and 60% humidity.
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Holy shit other grow communities are not even communities. I made the mistake of joining a local growing group on Fuckerberg's platform. 75% of the population has never grown a vegetable, nevermind cannabis. The remaining 25% are mostly gate-keeping cunts who are just so....stuck in that weird part of the grow world where everything must be flushed and 24/7 light kills photos and if you look at a plant wrong you'll herm it.
Holy hell, @Renee Roberts and co. ...I'm starting to get why the mod team here is so vigilant. Please never stop slapping us on our wrists. If this place turned into those other places we'd all be screwed out of something pretty special. Damn.
This rant brought you by the letter C for...*cough* cold and the number 180/100 as in my BP right now.
Sorry for the wind >.>
It's always blowing.
Holy hell, @Renee Roberts and co. ...I'm starting to get why the mod team here is so vigilant. Please never stop slapping us on our wrists. If this place turned into those other places we'd all be screwed out of something pretty special. Damn.
This rant brought you by the letter C for...*cough* cold and the number 180/100 as in my BP right now.
Sorry for the wind >.>
It's always blowing.
Mdlroad
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I have opposite problem high wind high temps low humidityHoly shit other grow communities are not even communities. I made the mistake of joining a local growing group on Fuckerberg's platform. 75% of the population has never grown a vegetable, nevermind cannabis. The remaining 25% are mostly gate-keeping cunts who are just so....stuck in that weird part of the grow world where everything must be flushed and 24/7 light kills photos and if you look at a plant wrong you'll herm it.
Holy hell, @Renee Roberts and co. ...I'm starting to get why the mod team here is so vigilant. Please never stop slapping us on our wrists. If this place turned into those other places we'd all be screwed out of something pretty special. Damn.
This rant brought you by the letter C for...*cough* cold and the number 180/100 as in my BP right now.
Sorry for the wind >.>
It's always blowing.