Cottage 420's Organic Perpetual Indoor Garden

[bobrown14]

re: Cottage 420's 2015 Organic Grow With LOS & Kristalica - Sleestack x Skunk1

Yeah how about that eh? I think I have a few more beans and I've got a few others to try. I grow the autos in the veg room with my regulars.

 

[bobrown14]

re: Cottage 420's 2015 Organic Grow With LOS & Kristalica - Sleestack x Skunk1

Just a little update here with pics of the ladies. I'm ~50 days into flower on the back row ladies, so most of these pics are the girls coming down the back stretch. I've watered them with straight RO water for about 4 days in a row (been hot here ladies are thirsty).

So it was straight up RO water 3 days in a row, gave them a break, then Tuesday they got alfalfa sprout seed tea, next day new white pistols yesterday and today so I took some pics. Tonight I watered with a half water half malted barley tea that I left sitting over night. I will water again tomorrow with more malted barley tea mix with water.. here's my watering schedule coming down the stretch. I will be doing pretty much the same all the way to the end just changing up which seeds to use for sprouts. Next up will be non-gmo organic corn after the malted barley.

Corn and alfalfa have a hormone called triaconatol - it's a growth hormone that promotes VEG growth but also promotes bud growth. Take a look at all the new white pistols that showed up overnight. They were there in the am so it only took say 12 hrs for them to form. That's fairly impressive and why I like to use alfalfa and corn sprouts.
End result will be bigger fatter buds. That's my goal and this water schedule works for that. It's not a written in stone thing as I change up as I see fit or have time to tend to the sprouts. It's been a while since I used wheat grass so that most likely will be next after the corn sprouts. No real method just doing it the way I feel is all.

So last Friday was coconut water/TM-7
Saturday - water
Sunday - water
Monday - water
Tuesday - SST (alfalfa)
Wednesday - lots of new pistols over night - water
Thursday - Malted barley tea & water
Friday - Malted barley tea and water
Saturday - water and repeat....

Pics:

My first attempt at fimming - that top cola is starting to get pretty fat so maybe its working - final weigh-in will tell the story - Blue Thai

Fimmed girls sister - she looks pretty nice, beautiful large main cola - Blue Thai classic buds here

Krystalica clone - ~35 days into flower just starting to frost up

Kali x AK - looking very nice this plant was very very easy to grow - getting good results nice main cola

Kali x AK again - she's getting close - time to check trichomes

Fimmed girl - see all the new white pistols!! she just took off after alfalfa tea

Here's the star of the back row - Blue Thai - she was first into flower and will be first to harvest here soon. She dropped most all of her fan leaves already and has put on a bunch of sugar leaves to compensate. Gonna be interesting looking buds at trim time! This one may give me so nice weight on the fatty buds. They are all very very sticky.

Psychedelic green pic of the star girl

 

[SweetSue]

re: Cottage 420's 2015 Organic Grow With LOS & Kristalica - Sleestack x Skunk1

Mmmmmm. A tent full of lusciousness. Great work BB. That Blue Thai is amazing and the explosion of pistils following the enzyme tea made me laugh right out loud with sheer delight.

Great job with your girls.

 

[bobrown14]

re: Cottage 420's 2015 Organic Grow With LOS & Kristalica - Sleestack x Skunk1

Another set of bud porn pics today.. just for the heck of it, they look so happy in the air conditioned flower room. All I do is water (barely tea today), say "hi" talk a little and marvel at the beauty.

 

[Major PITA]

re: Cottage 420's 2015 Organic Grow With LOS & Kristalica - Sleestack x Skunk1

Man - those are beautiful!

 

[SweetSue]

re: Cottage 420's 2015 Organic Grow With LOS & Kristalica - Sleestack x Skunk1

He is a master at it Major. Looking incredible BB.

 

[ClosedCircuit]

re: Cottage 420's 2015 Organic Grow With LOS & Kristalica - Sleestack x Skunk1

The plants look great bb!

 

[bobrown14]

re: Cottage 420's 2015 Organic Grow With LOS & Kristalica - Sleestack x Skunk1

Thanks guys... just been watering and plants are growing... going to be time to chop a few, maybe even tonight. I'll do an update with pics when I get home today. Going to chop a few and make some room. I had a mother in my veg room but she wouldn't have it and just kept getting bigger and bigger. I was trying to keep her small in a smaller 4gal container but she just kept growing and was getting to be a PITA every day I had to water her AND she was wilted every morning!! I broke down planted her in a 10gal no til and put her to flower. She's sooo much happier now, pics to come later tonight....

 

[bobrown14]

re: Cottage 420's 2015 Organic Grow With LOS & Kristalica - Sleestack x Skunk1

Grow report here... been REAL hot here the last week or so. Grow room temps in the 90s with AC on, at least I have control over the humidity. We had a bad storm roll thru that brought in a lot cooler air temps and RH is good now too.

OK so watering this week has been the same pretty much:

This weeks Barley tea is: malted barley tea/mixed in with water 4 cups to gallon. Been keeping my largest pot in the fridge with the barley tea to keep it from going bad.

So water schedule was this:

water - Barley tea - Barley Tea - water - Barley tea - Barley tea - water; just like that every day.

In the flower tent the back row is heading for the chopping block, that will be tomorrow harvest day I will harvest 3 plants.

Here's the lineup :
back row - Krystalica clone - Blue Thai - Kali x AK - Blue Thai - these are ready to harvest except the Krystalica clone
Front row - Krystalica Clone -Krystalica clone - Blue Thai - Krystalica Clone - these are younger


Here's a pic of the ladies - SOG, not the greatest pic but we can see the older ladies are pretty much finished

Blue Thai fimmed - nice cola there but the main cola is overall smaller than the colas left natural - experiment

This is the new star of the show - another Krystalica - BUDS EVERYWHERE

Another Dark Devil - she was HOT in the VEG tent where there was no AC temps 95-100
last week she was suffering, Krystalica clones had no problem in the heat = superior genetics

Krystalica Clone - 45 days front row girl

Star girl again - she looks tremendous

Kali x AK - we can see the indica showing thru - BIG fat buds with long slender fan leaves - she's almost ready

fimmed girl again

This was the mother that I had in VEG but she wouldn't stop growing and ran out of space in her pot so I transplanted her yesterday and put her in flower - she's got flowers overnight!!

Mother girl again - first day in flower - she's going to be a wopper girl in no time

 

[SweetSue]

re: Cottage 420's 2015 Organic Grow With LOS & Kristalica - Sleestack x Skunk1

Wow! A lot of excitement going on there bb. Your star is shining all over that tent, isn't she? I'm interested in seeing how that ex-mother will perform.

Great work.

 

[ClosedCircuit]

re: Cottage 420's 2015 Organic Grow With LOS & Kristalica - Sleestack x Skunk1

That mother is going to be a monster!

 

[bobrown14]

re: Cottage 420's 2015 Organic Grow With LOS & Kristalica - Sleestack x Skunk1

Another grow report - I've been slacking on reporting mainly due to work keeping me busier than I like but hey after the last several years its good to be a little overwhelmed AND getting paid for it! Can't complain but I'm pretty sure I'd rather be gardening for a living. I seem to have some sort of green thumb that's rubbing off on me from my wife. She actually loves gardening more than me. She was just outside tonight building a trellis for some cucumbers... I looked at the trellis and thought ..... hmmmm I could bend a nice big fat lady over that 100%...

Anyways back to my indoor garden. I've broke down and finally purchased some Aloe powder, man that stuff is a pricey. Not sure its worth it but I'm giving it a try. What I'm doing with the aloe powder is mixing with water 1 tsp/gal of RO water and top drench. Pretty easy stuff. Easier than growing sprouts but the sprouted seed tea gives me immediate positive results over night! Pretty much what ever seeds I sprout they all work.

So now I'm getting pretty far along with the ladies in the flower room. I just harvested 2 plants, one Krystalica Clone and the Fimmed Girl that was Blue Thai. The fimmed top really put on some weight this past week and I mean bulked up big time, I think the fimming worked but it also added a week or 2 to the finish time so pick my poison. Result of letting her flower too long we will see. When I chopped her she was pretty heavy for her size. Probably the heaviest of the Blue Thai plants so far!

I'm starting to feel like chopping time is an art just like trimming which I totally suck at. I'm going to hire my friend from Cali to help me from now on. He loves trimming and I don't! I much prefer tending to the live ladies but I do know there's a lot more to it than just growing. We can make or break a good grow at anytime thru out the process. Veg, flower ... when to chop, how long to dry, trimming and finally curing. All those steps are EQUALLY important. Mess one up, you mess them all up. Attention to detail is where it's at.

Here's a few pics of the ladies:
Starting off with the Fimmed Girl - she's done and chopped hanging in the closet now
this was a few days ago - chopped tonight - that top is not all that large but its DENSE and fat. Bigger around that my fist for sure.

This is the next up for harvest good chance it will be tomorrow - Kali X AK her buds are dense too!! She's getting chopped tomorrow, I don't care what she says ... every time I think about chopping her she goes on a pistol shoot and changes my mind for me.

Star girl - might have to change her name to Frosty!!

Star girls sister with a little sun shining on them, reminds me of a Skatalites song - Reach For The Sky. I'm pretty sure that song is about what we see here.

Star girl looking straight down. Notice a little yellowing. Solve that issue (I'm in no-til this is the 3rd round in that pot). Solution to the early yellowing is top dress with worm castings from my last years worm bin some rock dust and top drench with RO water. Problem solved. She's already back to keepin it green. Probably going to retire that no-til pot as it's a little smallish at 5 gal. I'll recycle the soil into a 10gal pot I have waiting and put another clone in there.

This is the Dark Devil # 2 - side view I WILL be harvesting tomorrow AM - no more new white pistols = harvest time.

Dark Devil #2 again

Star Girl - see the big mother in the back there - she's not even flowering yet - her stretch is getting BIGGER and ROUNDER every day... I'm going to have to adjust the lights which I never do....

 

[bobrown14]

re: Cottage 420's 2015 Organic Grow With LOS & Kristalica - Sleestack x Skunk1

More to report here - harvested Fimm'd Girl and Blue Thai that were ready. Moved 2 more Krystalica clones into the flower room. The Krystalica seems to be a big hit with friends and family even on a short cure! I like it. I mix a little Krystalica with the Blueberry Skunk and I get a very strong psychedelic high and it lasts for a few hours and I wake up in the AM refreshed and ready to go...

So we have 2 Blue Thai hanging to dry and another Dark Devil hanging... I've been cutting all the fan leaves or as many as I can off the plants before I hang them. It's summer time and the living is easy and hot n humid. So I'm stripping off the fan leaves and hanging to avoid mold. In the winter I want the fan leaves on to slow down the dry time, not in the summer. Now they take 7-10 days to dry, and they may not really dry out they start to cure hanging. So I've been waiting 5-7 days hang time and then trim and into C-Vaults for the cure.

Yeah so drying/curing for me is different depending on season (relative humidity). I've got the AC on in the flower room and that's where I have the plants hanging. I have the Dark Devil hanging in our bedroom and she's pretty much trimmed but still ripening "on the vine"!

Still going no-til and still going 100% organic, ain't stoppin now.

For amendments been top dressing no-til pots with more EWC and watering with Aloe and coconut water. My wife brought home a new container of Coconut water WITH Aloe that I used yesterday and will use again tomorrow.

Pics of the new line up:

First off is the Coconut water with Aloe:

Here's the Kali X AK (left) and Blue Thai hangin in the closet!

Group shot of some of the new lineup. Out with the old and in with the new!

Blue Thai from the top view - this pheno is really a runt, I'm not impressed. This is a good example for the argument of selecting the best genetics you can and if you're purchasing seeds, get them from a known good breeder. This strain comparo to Krystalica.... there is not really any comparison.

Star girl AKA "Frosty" just doing her thing.

Krystalica "mother" clone, what like 5 days in the flower room, WOW she's a knock out, she's got flowers all over the plant now - this pic was a few days ago. She's the new star and taking over the flower tent!!

Here's mother girl next to the Blue Thai, you can see how much larger

This is my VEG room.. time for a clean out. I've got 1 Black Cream auto (similar to Dark Devil) and 2 Cream of the Crop Cash Crop autos running with a few Krystalica clones. I'm winding the VEG room down then it will be a major clean and start over with the next round... going to switch to Krystalica "C" Pheno and Coots "The One" - seeds a coming!

Veg room - running 20/4, usually its 24/0 but summer time giving the girls a break and the autos like it better I think running 20/4. Orange pot = Cash Crop auto, purple pot = Black Cream auto, purple pot on shelf = short pheno Cash Crop auto... Krystalica clones to the right .. plant in clay pot... ?? some freak of nature I let grow she's like 4 months old and still not sure what she wants to do. I'm a curious lot so I'm letting her do whatever thing it is she wants to, she's been taking a beating (from me) and still alive. May be worthy ....

 

[ClosedCircuit]

re: Cottage 420's 2015 Organic Grow With LOS & Kristalica - Sleestack x Skunk1

You're killin it, sir.

You should definitely tell how that Blue Thai smokes. Unless, I missed it.

 

[bobrown14]

re: Cottage 420's 2015 Organic Grow With LOS & Kristalica - Sleestack x Skunk1

You're killin it, sir.

You should definitely tell how that Blue Thai smokes. Unless, I missed it.[/QUiOTE]

Thanks there CC, much appreciated.

I will definitely do a smoke report on the Blue Thai - plants are small but the buds are EXTREMELY sticky. I just got finished trimming one plant, so it won't be long now. I'll do a test smoke but its been so humid here its hard to get a bud dry enough to smoke right now.

 

[bobrown14]

re: Cottage 420's 2015 Organic Grow With LOS & Kristalica - Sleestack x Skunk1

I took a clone of Fimm girl and what do I know - the clone of fimm girl is all stretched out again just like her sister. Initially I thought fimming was a mistake but I just trimmed fimm girl and weighed here and she was 95g which isn't too bad, I won't complain with that at all.

With that said, I'm going to fimm the clone... here's a few pics before and after fimming:

Here she is before the operation - notice how spindly she is - all her sisters didn't do that but fimm girl did, just vvery widely spaced inter-nodes, not ideal but I wanted to see if it was genetics or something I did. Took a clone and well its genetic so fimming again

Here's the main top or the Apical Meristem the brains behind the goodies! I'm going to trim the top, not cut it off just give her a hair cut. This will end up being 4 top flowers tightly clustered together as one. I thought this was a waste of time but the last plant turned out fine and had the yield as well. She will fatten up going down the stretch.

Here's a pic after I gently snipped and gave her a trim AKA = fimm

Here's the Big Girl mother I put into flower last week. She's got a lot of flowers already and she is HUGE easily 2x as big as most of the others currently in flower.

 

[ClosedCircuit]

re: Cottage 420's 2015 Organic Grow With LOS & Kristalica - Sleestack x Skunk1

I took a clone of Fimm girl and what do I know - the clone of fimm girl is all stretched out again just like her sister. Initially I thought fimming was a mistake but I just trimmed fimm girl and weighed here and she was 95g which isn't too bad, I won't complain with that at all.

With that said, I'm going to fimm the clone... here's a few pics before and after fimming:

Here she is before the operation - notice how spindly she is - all her sisters didn't do that but fimm girl did, just vvery widely spaced inter-nodes, not ideal but I wanted to see if it was genetics or something I did. Took a clone and well its genetic so fimming again

Here's the main top or the Apical Meristem the brains behind the goodies! I'm going to trim the top, not cut it off just give her a hair cut. This will end up being 4 top flowers tightly clustered together as one. I thought this was a waste of time but the last plant turned out fine and had the yield as well. She will fatten up going down the stretch.

Here's a pic after I gently snipped and gave her a trim AKA = fimm

Here's the Big Girl mother I put into flower last week. She's got a lot of flowers already and she is HUGE easily 2x as big as most of the others currently in flower.

Your grow room has a calming blue hue. Its quite relaxing to look at. Maybe that's why I enjoy traipsing over here.

 

[SweetSue]

re: Cottage 420's 2015 Organic Grow With LOS & Kristalica - Sleestack x Skunk1

I enjoy those kick-ass plants. The lighting is beautifully calming, I'll give you that.

 

[bobrown14]

re: Cottage 420's 2015 Organic Grow With LOS & Kristalica - Sleestack x Skunk1

Thanks there SS - calming is more of a "lighting effect" from my camera.. the grow room is much more on the red side of the spectrum.

I trimmed my Fimm Girl Blue Thai and into curing jars. Got 68g from just the one plant so not too bad for that strain, and comparable to the weight of the others I cut down. So I think the only side effect of fimming the top was an extended week to 10 days of flower time. Not Ideal as it pretty much hosed my perpetual schedule now. Instead of harvesting 3-4 plants a month I'm closer to 1 plant every 2 weeks now. Kind of a pain to keep track of all the details for each plant. I'd much prefer to do 3-4 plants at a time than to have one plant finishing every few weeks. The water schedule is crazy all over the place.

To remedy that I just installed some Blumats with a water reservoir. So far so good but I don't know if they started working yet or not. I'll be messing with the Blumat system a bunch more ... kinda getting tired of hand watering 2x a day (grow room on 3rd floor). Getting some good exercise tho.

I have one more Blue Thai to harvest - it's the smallest lady of all of them but she's the frostiest!

Test smoke (kinda) of the Blue Thai - WAY WAY too soon for this one. VERY racy and I got a tad paranoid, if I wasn't ready for it I'd have chopped all the ladies down freaking out. Definitely needs to age a little and buds fresh, the smoke is harsh, which I can expect from fresh buds but I guess I'm spoiled with the Krystalica - that tastes great right from the get go and just keeps getting better.

Trimmed the Dark Devil - 25g from this one (first try I got like 38g), smells great (goes very well with a bottle of Bogle Petite Sirah ifn's ya like to pare wine and canna), and I still have some of the first one left so I'm letting this one cure some more. Hard not to dip into it tho... very medicinal long lasting high.

No pics today... oh I have a few from last week I can share:

Frosty Girl

I think this is a Krystalica clone from first run coming down the back stretch - still 3-4 weeks from harvest

The Little Blue Thai - she's very small - only one large main cola but the bud starts 5" from soil line and goes all the way to the top - and very very frosty. Not gonna win any yield contest but the frost is nice to see on the shade leaves!!

Little Blue Thai again

Kali x AK - right before chop - notice no more white pistols. Thats my cue to chop. I of course took a close look at the trichomes; yup ready to hang. I really liked growing this one - WAY easy no need to do much of anything cept keep her watered, she did the rest.

 

[Radogast]

re: Cottage 420's 2015 Organic Grow With LOS & Kristalica - Sleestack x Skunk1

Dude!

Never make decisions while you are drunk or paranoid (unless it's a small decision, like pairing a Barefoot Merlot with Blue Dream!)

Your Dark Devil was an auto, right? I haven't seen any photoperiod seeds.