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Cottage 420's Organic Perpetual Indoor Garden
What is a triploid bud? LolSlurricane Mutant
I'm going to document the triploid grow with pics are the little one grows
Here's a few pics
Slurricane Mutant - triploid
The Beginning: First set of true leaves and 3 cotyledons
After transplant to VEG #3 nursery pot - 2nd set of true leaves
Side view - 3rd set of leaves
Top view 3rd set of leaves
Close up top view of 3rd set of leaves .. maybe looking like 2 more sets of leaves showing along with the third set. Next pic will show more.
A plant with 3 sets of chromosomes
Aww I see we don’t call those mutants do we?
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Yes mutant... those PMB seeds came off a mutant like this one. Recessive genetics tho.
Oh hey speaking of genetics....
FYI:
There's a 50% sale tomorrow only at True North Seed Bank. Celebration of Canada going legal woohoo .. and of course I just bought a pack of
Cookies Cubed - Zcube 3 x Forum GSC
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Slurricane Mutant - top view
Slurricane Mutant - side view
Slurricane #1 - had to go into flower. I can't wait any longer this low flower count is messing with me. Time to get going. Throwing her in my extra slot.
Will be hanging my new Timber lamp tomorrow.
DT #10 - at the lights, YoYo's are out and hooked up.
DT #10 - lights need to go up to the ceiling again.
Slurricane Mutant - side view
Slurricane #1 - had to go into flower. I can't wait any longer this low flower count is messing with me. Time to get going. Throwing her in my extra slot.
Will be hanging my new Timber lamp tomorrow.
DT #10 - at the lights, YoYo's are out and hooked up.
DT #10 - lights need to go up to the ceiling again.
Looking good brown
Some great strains going for you. Oh btw
CONGRATS on MOTM nomination
All the best buddy
Some great strains going for you. Oh btw
CONGRATS on MOTM nomination
All the best buddy
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It's just a big floppy mess right now but that will change to colas here fairly quickly.
Just took down the 4 DDA plants I had going from the summer run right @ 77 days from seedlings.
Here's a test nug from the first donor:
Sluricane Mutant - holding onto those 3 leaf sets
LaquerHead
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Would you be weary of mulching your indoor pots with some outdoor comfrey/yarrow/herbs? I thought about giving them a heavy spraying off with some plain water, then a neem/alcohol spraying or 2 before mulching with them. Sound like a bad idea?
Other than barley straw,vermicompost, and plant trimmings...I haven't really mulched like I think I should be. Of course the rest of the comfrey and stuff will go to the worm bin and eventually make its way in anyhow! Do you treat your vermi for pests before using it?
Other than barley straw,vermicompost, and plant trimmings...I haven't really mulched like I think I should be. Of course the rest of the comfrey and stuff will go to the worm bin and eventually make its way in anyhow! Do you treat your vermi for pests before using it?
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My vermicompost usually sits out thru the winter and I switch to another bin and start on the new bin in late fall. In the spring after the thaw I start harvesting the vermicompost from last years bin. No insects at all, just almost all worm castings.
Thats how I do it. Our Bins are 175gal and 125 gal. We don't fill either of them up totally and rotate each spring. If that makes any sense. By switching in the late fall all the insects have done their job and either moved on or died. Insect frass is a good amendment to soil and compost.
For comfrey, you can just top dress with leaves. The leaves will break down in a 3-5 days. Comfrey doesnt have a lot of issues with insects. If you're worried about spider mites or russet mites you probably bring them in on your shoes and clothing. Nothing really to do but develop and IPM regime.
Which reminds me time for my weekly IPM spray.
IPM spray weekly maintenance treatment. which means I'm bug free for now.
Recipe:
1gal filtered water
1 tbs Monteray Insect spray
1/4 up pure coconut water (no preservatives no sugar)
1/4 cup HorseTail Fern tea
1 tps - Pro-tekt
1 cap full - Ful-power
1/4 cup kelp tea (either reconstituted from kelp meal OR the dried mixed with water)
All that in sprayer and shake well. Foiler top to btm & btm to top all plants soil surfaces and stems and branches even the floor and walls. Everything in the flower room and I'm doing this on the VEG plants as well.
1x a week until we get pests then its every 2 days for 3 weeks and up the Monteray spray to 2-3 tbs. Then back to the 1x a week after bug free for a week.
Nothing on seedlings until they are hardened off.
I don't mulch that much. If anything I'll scratch in a few tbs of malted barley ground fine, cover it will some worm castings/compost and water in.
I'd do a lot more top dress if I was in LARGE containers. Mainly to keep the soil moist but there are other advantages as well. Basically mulching is a form of composting. So why not just add already composted material as a top dress??
I mainly add most all of what I would use for top dress, I add to my compost bin. I also add in amendments to my compost bin including everything I mix into my soil mix including a cup or 2 of rock dust every few months. The rock dust really helps the worms make small work of the composting materials. It speeds the process up quite bit.
It's my mothers that I need to pay attention to for top dressing. They are rootbound most all of the time so they show signs of nutrient deficit before any of the other plants. Not that I have much of that (knock wood).
The mothers of the DT actually turn colors. I have 2 phenos, one gets gold leaves and the other gets reddish gold and some purple leaves when they are hungry.
It's weird they go thru the colors in VEG 20/4 just like the flowering plants do but there's no flowers. Those colored fan leaves on the mothers fall off too just like they do on the flowering plants.
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I got windy..
Lol good info though!
LaquerHead
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Very good info! Thanks bro! Thats pretty much what I do also...i just know they stress the mulching in no-till. But I mulch as you do, with not much other than the regulars amd vermi! Hopefully some fresh herbs and such will help a bit! And my vermi-compost already gets mulched but I'd like to have peace of mind knowing there is always something being decomposed....if that makes sense. Comfrey for example...that stuffs gold!
Oh and I'm in pretty large containers (20 gal)! I also have a pretty good IPM routine, except I slacked the first 3 weeks of the last plant's life...and im paying for it now! Little cok suckers
Oh and I'm in pretty large containers (20 gal)! I also have a pretty good IPM routine, except I slacked the first 3 weeks of the last plant's life...and im paying for it now! Little cok suckers
You get a good winter there Mister BBrown... People that don't get a good freeze could have bugs winter over in a compost pile. A good cold winter is what I need here to freeze all the hemp mites to death.. Die Mfers die.......... But I know I use to use my Grandma's compost to amend my soil back in Arkansas, and alittle lime will speed things up too...
Congrats on the nomination bob!
Oooh, tied for first place 
Looking forward to the Slurrys, beautiful plants.
Looking forward to the Slurrys, beautiful plants.
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Ok got some good info today at a vendor I just bought some amendments from.
Its a soil run - 3 different soil mixes very similar to what I do (I'm way less inputs tho)
More of a few amendments is how I do it. Less is more if you will.
Anyhow they did 3 soil mixes side by side grows in LOS soil with slightly different soil recipes. Done with high end LEDs (Fluence) and a pretty sweet setup to. 1000pfd at canopy with Co2. They used Blumats and measured soil water content. (I gotta figure out how they did that).
Here's what they got growing a scrog similar to what the hydro guys wood do:
"Results:
*Average yield across all cultivars was 2.475 lbs. per 4’x4’ area*
*Average yield across all cultivars was 66.88 grams per square foot*
"As we learn more and improve these processes, it seems likely that living soils
offer the ability to match or beat hydroponic yields with less input and labor cost, a smaller carbon footprint, and in a manner that would allow for the final product to be certified organic based on current National Organic Program standards."
Here's the complete article:
(NOT my soil mix)
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1...NTROLLED_ENVIRONMENT.pdf?12402203499105181695
Its a soil run - 3 different soil mixes very similar to what I do (I'm way less inputs tho)
More of a few amendments is how I do it. Less is more if you will.
Anyhow they did 3 soil mixes side by side grows in LOS soil with slightly different soil recipes. Done with high end LEDs (Fluence) and a pretty sweet setup to. 1000pfd at canopy with Co2. They used Blumats and measured soil water content. (I gotta figure out how they did that).
Here's what they got growing a scrog similar to what the hydro guys wood do:
"Results:
*Average yield across all cultivars was 2.475 lbs. per 4’x4’ area*
*Average yield across all cultivars was 66.88 grams per square foot*
"As we learn more and improve these processes, it seems likely that living soils
offer the ability to match or beat hydroponic yields with less input and labor cost, a smaller carbon footprint, and in a manner that would allow for the final product to be certified organic based on current National Organic Program standards."
Here's the complete article:
(NOT my soil mix)
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1...NTROLLED_ENVIRONMENT.pdf?12402203499105181695
That's a good read!
Thanks Bob...will read it later...congrats on the nomination as well...
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