Cottage 420's Organic Perpetual Indoor Garden

[bobrown14]

Looking good as always BB.

I'll be keeping a close eye on your Purple Pineberry. I'm now regretting that I didn't include at least 1 with my current round.

I think the Purple Pineberry is the healthiest looking of all the ladies so far. I'm having an issue with one or 2 of my plants from clones. They are getting light green and loosing leaves ... only thing I'm thinking is over watering or water in res is getting tired or has something growing in it. I'm using Bluemat system but only on a few plants. Time to tear that down and clean it. I have floaters in the res - ahem, probable operator error.

I'll be sure and post some pics of her - she's about to flower any second now... hopefully tomorrow. I'm leaving the window open in the flower room tonight its going to get pretty cold. Hopefully that will bring on the purple color. It's been working in the VEG room so far!!

 

[SweetSue]

Great update BB. I got so involved in planning an early flip so I can go on vacation at year's end that I forgot about thr EWC on my pots. Thanks for the reminder.

 

[bobrown14]

Great update BB. I got so involved in planning an early flip so I can go on vacation at year's end that I forgot about thr EWC on my pots. Thanks for the reminder.

Say what, vacation?? yikes! Wow I stressed out every-time we went on vacation. I got to the point that I was going to install cameras so I could keep a watchful eye... decided that wouldn't really be a vacation, specially if something went wrong. I just set up Blumats and said f-it, if something goes bad, compost and start over.

I had better luck with me NOT being there. This week I just over watered 3 ladies and I'm pissed at myself... and the ladies are stressing too. So today I FINALLY cleaned out the flower room and moved some more plants into flower .. time for the fun.

The one lady I put into flower last week is totally covered with the goodness but the Purple Pineberry, she's being shy... I can't wait to see her buds, she's getting BIG and FAT but no flowers. The leaves are like 10" across on the big fans.

I'll get some more pics up tomorrow.

We went worm casting hunting again, this time of year its perfect and the worms are laying cocoons so I'm collecting them and putting them in the compost bin for next year. I harvested comfrey and put that in the worm bin too.

 

[bobrown14]

Ok mini update.. still all pretty much in pre-flower so the fun is just ahead.


Here we go:

Here's the Purple Pineberry on the right there - on the left is Krystalica round6 clone PhenoC
The Pineberry was set into flower at the same time. She's holding back and getting big. We should see some flowers in a day or 2. I've got some SST with Wheat grass going and will water in tomorrow. That will get things going for sure.

Krystalica loaded with pre-flowers

More Krystailica - they are all clones off the same plant

group shot

Another group shot

Autos I have going in the VEG room - purple is popular - Dark Devil

Purple power - Blackberry Kush auto

 

[UncleCannabis]

The fan leaves on your Purple Pineberry look like freaking solar panels!! Wow!!

 

[bobrown14]

More bud porn ... things are starting to pick up again in the flower room and also in the VEG room. I'm getting my Krystalica back in action with several plants in early VEG late VEG and a few in flower along with a few new strains we are trying out...more to come on that the seeds are being stubborn so I got the heat mat out.

Purple Power .. autos in the VEG room going 20/4

Purps

More Purps

This one is my favorite - she looks GREAT

Moving on to the flower room this is CBD Lavender just about ready to start blooming... she's soooo close

Side view of Lavender

Krystalica - kinda take these for granted its always the same .. but I really really like predictability, first to flower last to chop. Whats not to like.

More Krystalica

Purple Pineberry - she's just starting to show per-flowers sorry for the crappy pics - took a clone last night will take a few more tomorrow and get a better pic of her. She should be flowering nicely tomorrow! Those leaves are big, if I grew this one outdoors she'd be a monster.

 

[santb]

Bob, you have some pretty hot girls there.. When they come of age, I'd like to take one out for pizza and beer, see where it goes.... My favourite is blondie Krystal...
My intentions are strictly honourable, of course...

 

[santb]

Mind you; your purps all have rockin bodies too..

 

[ClosedCircuit]

Sup. Havent been making the rounds very much so no surprise I had no idea about this journal.

 

[bobrown14]

Hey there CC thanks for stopping by - been here a while now, on round 8 i think with this strain and of course been dabbling with a few others as well. 7 rounds in a year basically starting another round every 1 1/2 - 2 months, harvest - start next round. What I do is half the flower room is current round the other half is last round and next to harvest, clones in VEG .... been doing it like that for a while now. Working good, gives me enough time to cure properly which makes a huge difference in quality and taste.

Here's a little more of the current goings on:

Krystalica new flowers

Krystalica current in flower - will be another month or 2

More krystalica in bloom

Purps auto in VEG room - there are 6 autos I have going and 4 of them are purple stran

Seedlings of Krystalica from last run - one bud had seeds found at trim time, threw em in a pot and wow 100% success.

Purple Pineberry in bloom.. this was 5 days ago or so

Purple Pineberry again

And again

Pineberry top view

 

[ClosedCircuit]

Whats funny is I am pretty sure I have posted here before but I wasn't paying attention. The title in your signature is different so I think thats what got me.

But anyways, everything looks good man!

 

[bobrown14]

Thanks for the kind words there CC - been doing no-til for a 1 1/2 years and some of my first no-til pots are starting to show signs of beat soil. I have 3 plants (clones from originals) that are yellowing some. I transplanted one last night into another pot with a new soil mix and she's half way back to full dark green - over night! So these are on a 6-7 generation no-til... going to toss that old soil after this run into compost bin and start over. I may even transplant any that show signs of yellowing. We will see what tomorrow brings.

This has been happening the last few runs. I'm only getting 3-4 zips per plant last run. I expect to see 8-10 or more zips per plant.

Time to make some more soil - woohoo! I love making new soil.

 

[ClosedCircuit]

I pumped for these new seeds. Keep us updated!

 

[bobrown14]

A little update.... Been fiddling with some autos in the VEG room while the ladies grow up some.

This round started out with Thrips on a few plants. So we got our IPM going with excellent results. No more Thrips. Thanks God they are sooo small impossible to see with naked eye but easy to get rid of. Easier than getting rid of fungus gnats.

Still growing Krystalica but instead of growing 8 plants this round I've subbed in a few different strains looking for some new buds for a change.

I'm growing one plant CBD strain called CBD Lavender which is growing nicely. Also testing some Purple Pineberry. Both of those strains look promising and are growing GREAT with flowers but looks like they will run a little longer than Krystalica (65-75 days) as the flowers are taking a while to fatten up.

I'm still doing water - SST - water - water - SST repeating usually watering every 2-3 days right now.

SST is either of many usual suspects - been doing a lot of Kelp meal/neem cake meal teas with aloe/coconut water added in.

Other SST or Teas I use are Corn sprout tea or alfalfa sprout teas. Sometimes I just add in coconut water with Malted Barley ground fine and watered in.

Today I'm trying a different tea - rabbit berry/EWC with Kelp meal tea I'm brewing now. Krystalica flowers are looking a little yellow so the rabbit berry tea will be a good boost of nitrogen should help, I'm trying the get the colas to get bigger/fatter!

Here's some Purps auto I harvested today, one little plant but this bud packs a big punch. This plant smells like berry with a tinge of skankyness followed by a fuel smell. That's an hour after chopping. This is one cool looking plant. Too bad I cant grow a big one like this .... yet.

Here's the classic Krystalica Pheno C I've been running for a while know. Color is off a little why I'm going with a rabbit berry tea tomorrow. Pheno C is a large main cola surrounded by a bunch of slightly shorter colas. There's the Purple Pineberry in the backround.

Purple Pineberry - nice and green and the Krystalica ladies are yellowing which the tend to do more than the others as we can see here but too much yellow I'm loosing yield here unless I do something about them hogging up the N. They are nitrogen hogs, top dressing with rabbit poop and rabit poop tea and we should see a turn around soon.

more purple pineberry

CBD Lavendar here coming along nicely

Krystalica

Krystalica - again yellowing

Krystalica I put into flower yesterday... not yellow yet.

Krystalica I put into flower about 5 days ago already has flowers.

CBD Lavender with Krystalica as a back drop patience patience let them grow stay out of the way...me

Here's a few pics of the autos in the veg room. Matero Blue I think or Black Raspberry Kush

Same thing here I have 2 or 3 of these going and they are finishing up

 

[brightlight]

WOW...that 1st pic's colors ranks w/ anything I've ever seen. So many different colors & shades....red, purple, violet, crimson, mahogany, brown, gold, & the deep green. Epic bud!

 

[ClosedCircuit]

I literally just said to my GF standing next to me "HOLY SH*T LOOK AT THE COLOR ON THE PURPS."

Nice job man. That Matero Blue looks amazing as well.

Are those rabbit berries composted? I have been trying to figure out what would be the best source of soluble nitrogen (Ammonia). Reading your last post I kept wondering if composted vs dried berries would provide a quicker N boost...lol I wonder how many studies there are out there where people poke around with rabbit poo and see what noticeable differences aging it has.

 

[bobrown14]

I literally just said to my GF standing next to me "HOLY SH*T LOOK AT THE COLOR ON THE PURPS."

Nice job man. That Matero Blue looks amazing as well.

Are those rabbit berries composted? I have been trying to figure out what would be the best source of soluble nitrogen (Ammonia). Reading your last post I kept wondering if composted vs dried berries would provide a quicker N boost...lol I wonder how many studies there are out there where people poke around with rabbit poo and see what noticeable differences aging it has.

Thanks for the kind words... that IS some pretty bud there. Amazing really. I tried a test smoke from another plant I harvested last week and I got WAY high and I'm no lite weight I smoke a lot of quality cannabis. Woke up buzzed and pretty much lasted all day today and ... wait a minute gotta work tomorrow and be able to function so yah another one of those non-work night buds. haha People depend on me being functional at work so I gots to do the right thing and keep it real - this cannabis puts me in outer space. I'm good with that for sure but reality is what it is.

Rabbit poop:

Not composted but I am composting a bunch in my worm bin. My no-till soil mix is running out of N cause the Krystalica seems to be a nitrogen hog for some reason. Didn't really notice until last run and this run yah its right there in my face. So I need a fast fix so I don't waste 3 months worth of work here.

Rabbit poop is ready to go, you can pile it up and plant right in it. Its got all the rest of the manures beat with maybe the Llama exception but should be very close to Llama poop which is the only other poop beside rabbit poop we can plant in directly without composting. I would prefer to compost but I gotta do something now or I will loose yields here.

The rabbit manure is my go to (organic) N source, when I need it. Usually I add some into my soil mix as it's fairly slow release but doing a tea should speed that up a bit. I'm hoping anyways, first time I'm trying it in a tea. All the flower gardeners use it and thats were I found out about making tea with it.

My soil is getting tired or most likely beat up by the N hungry Krystalica ... I've been re-building soil this round. Getting larger pots and recycling the old soil as plants get harvested. Up-pot to larger and larger containers and mixing a bit of new soil and recycling the old either in compost bin and/or raised beds.

Gotta keep it sustainable. Feed the worms, the worms feed us.

Just dialing in the no-till - my bet is that the way to get no-till to work best is go to LARGE containers. Will still run into what I'm getting now but it will take longer. Re-amending works but I'm finding soil compaction issues. Water in and the water runs right out into the pot drain dish and plant roots drink from the pan.. it's working but not what I'm used to. The rabbit crap also has a lot of micro nutrients and microbes too for soil so I'm going with it ... I should see improvement in a few daze! Wish me luck.

 

[ClosedCircuit]

Indeed bigger pots sorts of lend themselves to LOS...or is it the other way around?

Have you considered running certain pots for certain nute hungry strains? Like if that kystalica is N hungry now there a chance it may be a calcium or mag hog in flower...I ask because I have been thinking about keeping track of what strains crave what and having a soil on hand to accommodate them. Not like a soil for every strain, but a high mineral/high N soil for those heavy feeders, and then something more run of the mill for the hardier strains that will grow in anything. You could do it no till...you just amend with certain thing to keep it going that maybe the other pots don't get.

...Also been thinking about adding small amounts of clay to boost CEC. I wonder if this would help with hungry or finicky strains.

woo...I'm rambling. A couple beers and a bowl will do that.

Oh ya, I have been sharing the product Sea-90 with people who are using RO water. Its pretty much water soluble low-sodium high (when compared to normal salt) mineral ocean salt that you dissolve into water before drenching...you apply at rates of like 1tbsp to 5 gallons if I remember right. Constant watering with this will prevent most mineral deficiencies...unless you are just running your soil ragged. Of course if anyone reading this is watering with well water then you would probably want to use Sea 90 sparingly - if at all.

 

[Radogast]

A beautiful mahogany and purple bud

 

[bobrown14]

A beautiful mahogany and purple bud

Thanks Rad

I've got some more similar to that one. I'll be harvesting them maybe tomorrow. I'll post some pics. This stuff is pretty strong - my non work night meds, gets me a very good nights sleep and wake up still medicated which goes on and on all the next day!

Indeed bigger pots sorts of lend themselves to LOS...or is it the other way around?

Have you considered running certain pots for certain nute hungry strains? Like if that kystalica is N hungry now there a chance it may be a calcium or mag hog in flower...I ask because I have been thinking about keeping track of what strains crave what and having a soil on hand to accommodate them. Not like a soil for every strain, but a high mineral/high N soil for those heavy feeders, and then something more run of the mill for the hardier strains that will grow in anything. You could do it no till...you just amend with certain thing to keep it going that maybe the other pots don't get.

...Also been thinking about adding small amounts of clay to boost CEC. I wonder if this would help with hungry or finicky strains.

woo...I'm rambling. A couple beers and a bowl will do that.

Oh ya, I have been sharing the product Sea-90 with people who are using RO water. Its pretty much water soluble low-sodium high (when compared to normal salt) mineral ocean salt that you dissolve into water before drenching...you apply at rates of like 1tbsp to 5 gallons if I remember right. Constant watering with this will prevent most mineral deficiencies...unless you are just running your soil ragged. Of course if anyone reading this is watering with well water then you would probably want to use Sea 90 sparingly - if at all.

Hey there CC - bigger pots and LOS no-till yes indeedy. I like to keep them manageable so if I have an issue I can move them around so 15gal is about my limit there.

I like your idea of using clay. That is very beneficial to the uptake of nutrients for sure. I have SEA-90 but haven't tried it yet. I'm hoping my worm castings have what I need but it looks like just the one strain I've been running wants a lot of nitrogen.

Yah its weird - Krystalica didn't really show she was N hungry until the last 2 runs. Could be soil getting tired but I've got the other plants there in the same soil with not near the yellowing. Some strains just yellow more than others and thats the Krystalica for sure but my first plant this run has small buds and didn't really get top heavy like I'm used to seeing.

I may try a little clay - I won't have to did too deep to get some! Thanks for the tip thats a great idea. I'm going to take those no-til pots and retire them and go larger with a new soil mix which is same as the old mix.


I'll throw this soil into the compost pile and amend it there with lots of N fixing plants we have growing around here, like fenugreek (cover crop) and comfrey & cardoon. We grow all of that in the outside gardens and it's about time to fill the worm bin with this years harvest. Cardoon and comfrey will add the N to the worm bin fer sure. Just need to take advantage of that N when it's ready.

Today I did a kelp, EWC and rabbit poop tea for a foiler (started yesterday). Cup of rabbit poop and a few tbs of dried kelp (ascophyllum nodosum),handful of EWC & bubble over night no need for sugars in this one.

Rabbit poop has all the energy the micro-organisms need to thrive and adds N to the equation. Lets see how the plants respond. Usually when I foiler spray the ladies get warm and happy. It's getting close to winter so the humidity is lower. The foiler spray helps with humidity when I spray right before lights out. I'm going to try the SEA-90 again next foiler spray with just water. Need to wash off the residual kelp - so buds don't taste like ahem ... sea weed!

The more I read about organics from the ocean the more I'm impressed with mother nature. There's a whole green world out there under the water in the oceans. It's been there for a VERY long time. We can thank the ocean for our time here on earth that's for sure.