Copperrein's Summer 2021 Outdoor Soil Grow

Yep! This journal rocks! Congratulations!
 
Thanks guys....hey...anyone midwest getting the smoke from the wildfires? It's eerily smoky here. My eyes are burning and it's mostly not the weed.
 
copperrein said:
I smoked a cone of dream queen to celebrate the win.
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Ok. Here's a dumb question....I have some of those raw cones but have never used them....do I just shove weed in there until it's full? :p
 
BooWho2 said:
Ok. Here's a dumb question....I have some of those raw cones but have never used them....do I just shove weed in there until it's full? :p
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Not dumb and I'm still trying to figure out the best way to do it (even after watching videos) :D

I start with pinky-nail sized lumps and nearest to the paper mouthpiece I pack the tightest. Not so tight I can't inhale after a couple puffs, but not loose - and especially not so loose the whole joint gets floppy. So from mouth to tip the packing should get ever so looser.

I kinda have a geometry picture in my head when I do it: you're packing the same amount of weed into the cone every 10mm but due to the taper the material compresses more or less depending on cone diameter.

EDIT: and I've tried the little packing funnel from RAW but it sucks and have just made myself a little packing trough out of tin foil.
 
copperrein said:
Not dumb and I'm still trying to figure out the best way to do it (even after watching videos) :D

I start with pinky-nail sized lumps and nearest to the paper mouthpiece I pack the tightest. Not so tight I can't inhale after a couple puffs, but not loose - and especially not so loose the whole joint gets floppy. So from mouth to tip the packing should get ever so looser.

I kinda have a geometry picture in my head when I do it: you're packing the same amount of weed into the cone every 10mm but due to the taper the material compresses more or less depending on cone diameter.

EDIT: and I've tried the little packing funnel from RAW but it sucks and have just made myself a little packing trough out of tin foil.
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Awesome! Thank you Copperrein. :love:
 
copperrein said:
Thanks guys....hey...anyone midwest getting the smoke from the wildfires? It's eerily smoky here. My eyes are burning and it's mostly not the weed.
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Yes. Some days the sky is blue like I am used to seeing. Other days I can see the clouds but the area in-between is gray, kinda like a layer of fog a 1,000 feet up and hugging the ground. That gray color can last for a day, two and sometimes three. Then the cold & warm fronts move north and pushes the band of smokey air up into Canada which I hear is having its own fire problems in the west.

Makes me wonder if the smoke is blocking enough light to make outdoor plants start to flower a week or so ahead of their usual schedule?
 
SmokingWings said:
Yes. Some days the sky is blue like I am used to seeing. Other days I can see the clouds but the area in-between is gray, kinda like a layer of fog a 1,000 feet up and hugging the ground. That gray color can last for a day, two and sometimes three. Then the cold & warm fronts move north and pushes the band of smokey air up into Canada which I hear is having its own fire problems in the west.

Makes me wonder if the smoke is blocking enough light to make outdoor plants start to flower a week or so ahead of their usual schedule?
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Same here...it seems to be affecting the sativas only which as I understand it should be ok? Like if they try to revert the possibility of a herm is less than an indica?
 
copperrein said:
Same here...it seems to be affecting the sativas only which as I understand it should be ok? Like if they try to revert the possibility of a herm is less than an indica?
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Length of good quality daylight has dropped short enough that I doubt that there is enough time for them to go back to a vegetative state. On the plus side, the plants might be ready for harvest a week or so earlier meaning that we do not have to be inspecting and cutting flowers off while wearing our winter coats and gloves.;)

I have a couple of Blue Dream and Girl Scout Cookie clones which are looking more indica dominant and those are well on their way to showing the short spacing in between new nodes that starts before the pistils show up. This is about 10 days ahead of the Blue Dream and GSC clones at this time last year. These clones are part of the same line of clones from the same mother plants started years ago. They are part of the group of plants that survived the culling of plants taken from the grow room in the spring.

A cutting taken from a sativa looking plant at the beginning of July has rooted and is growing fast. A week ago I thought it was looking like it was getting ready to start flowering. Last Friday the clone showed male, no pistils at all, so the whole thing hits the compost pile in the next day or so. Going to try to get a decent photo of the clone first and then a photo of the mother as soon as it shows male.
 
SmokingWings said:
Length of good quality daylight has dropped short enough that I doubt that there is enough time for them to go back to a vegetative state. On the plus side, the plants might be ready for harvest a week or so earlier meaning that we do not have to be inspecting and cutting flowers off while wearing our winter coats and gloves.;)

I have a couple of Blue Dream and Girl Scout Cookie clones which are looking more indica dominant and those are well on their way to showing the short spacing in between new nodes that starts before the pistils show up. This is about 10 days ahead of the Blue Dream and GSC clones at this time last year. These clones are part of the same line of clones from the same mother plants started years ago. They are part of the group of plants that survived the culling of plants taken from the grow room in the spring.

A cutting taken from a sativa looking plant at the beginning of July has rooted and is growing fast. A week ago I thought it was looking like it was getting ready to start flowering. Last Friday the clone showed male, no pistils at all, so the whole thing hits the compost pile in the next day or so. Going to try to get a decent photo of the clone first and then a photo of the mother as soon as it shows male.
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Wait where did the male clone come from?
 
copperrein said:
Wait where did the male clone come from?
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The mother was a new plant of unknown sex that I had started from seed over the winter. I took it outside when I was taking everything out of the grow room. I waited until I was sure the plant was going to recover from whatever was happening in the basement. Once I was sure the plant was OK I took a cutting off the very top tip and stuck it in a small container of Happy Frog and waited for it to grow. Plans were to leave the original mother outside till harvest was over.

The little cutting started growing new leaves after about 2 weeks which for me is a sure sign that it has roots. I was planning on bringing that one back inside and after quarantine putting it into the newly re-arranged grow room.

The seed was one of a batch a buddy gave me back in Nov 2017 and I had forgotten that some of those had turned out to be male. Not a problem because I have a naming and numbering system that tells me which mother plant donated which cutting. That way I can back track and get rid of all of the plants in the that line if or when I find out it is a male.
 
SmokingWings said:
The mother was a new plant of unknown sex that I had started from seed over the winter. I took it outside when I was taking everything out of the grow room. I waited until I was sure the plant was going to recover from whatever was happening in the basement. Once I was sure the plant was OK I took a cutting off the very top tip and stuck it in a small container of Happy Frog and waited for it to grow. Plans were to leave the original mother outside till harvest was over.

The little cutting started growing new leaves after about 2 weeks which for me is a sure sign that it has roots. I was planning on bringing that one back inside and after quarantine putting it into the newly re-arranged grow room.

The seed was one of a batch a buddy gave me back in Nov 2017 and I had forgotten that some of those had turned out to be male. Not a problem because I have a naming and numbering system that tells me which mother plant donated which cutting. That way I can back track and get rid of all of the plants in the that line if or when I find out it is a male.
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I admire your organization and experience...just wanna put that out there
 
Right so...nutrients washing out of the soil! Big issue this year thanks to our new monsoon season. Asked around and ended up settling on a potassium-based polymer. There's two major types of agricultural polymers, cheaper sodium polyacrylate which is a salt of acrylic acid. There's some contention online whether sodium polyacrylate releases water and nutrients effectively into the root zone. Sodium polyacrylate has been known to lead to soil salination. Potassium polyacrylate does hold nutrients and the company is vaguely local.

Experiments are planned for the winter:

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Trala said:
Good morning ladybird :)

You are fast becoming a Nutty Professor mark 2.

A monsoon is an Aussie cyclone aye?
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No no, I used it to mean a super wet couple of months like in India and I wish I was a Nutty. Pee-shaaaw!

Whoops, forgot to update. Here's the current state of the potassium polyacrylate. I also did a smaller test with food color to see if they would indeed absorb nutrients:

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Trala said:
What the fuck are you doing there?
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Textured lube, duh.

I'm fucking about with ways to help keep nutes and water in the soil my outdoor plants are in. These are potassium poltacrylate crystals....water beads/orbs but meant for agricultural use.
 
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