Cottage 420's Organic Perpetual Indoor Garden

[ClosedCircuit]

Many people suspect seaweed is the reason for very low breast cancer rates in Japan...and I imagine cancer in general. Its one of the true super foods. It has a robust chemical makeup, as we all know. If it were a tertiary plant I would be sure to grow it in my garden Fruit of the Sea!

 

[bobrown14]

Many people suspect seaweed is the reason for very low breast cancer rates in Japan...and I imagine cancer in general. Its one of the true super foods. It has a robust chemical makeup, as we all know. If it were a tertiary plant I would be sure to grow it in my garden Fruit of the Sea!

Kelp is great - anytime I even think I need to help the girls out a bit, I foiler spray with kelp. Last night before lights out I sprayed with the rabbit poop kelp tea and the girls are already greening up over night. I'll do another foilar spray tomorrow and take a few pics.

Here's a few pics of an auto purps I chopped today:

 

[bobrown14]

Update for this round.

Got a handful of plants in flower and a bunch in VEG as well. Started a few new strains from seed for the next round and so have a bunch of little ones.

Try out Headband - Far Out - California Dream - they all are sprouts right now. Also started another set of Purps autos since the last ones I harvested turned out pretty good.

So still going with the organic soil. This round of Krystalica, the ladies in flower really showed how much N they want compared to the 2 other plants in the same soil. I've been foiler spraying with kelp meal tea every 3 days and the 2 ladies that were getting yellow are getting back to green again. I top dressed with a little more EWC and rabbit manure for micro nutrients and Rabbit berries for N and also made some tea with the rabbit manure and Kelp meal.

When I make the tea with rabbit poop there's no need to add sugars or BSM to the tea, the rabbit berries have food for the micro herd in spades. So I bubble for 24-36 hours and water in, next watering I foiler spray all the girls and ladies.

Thats really it - I'm going to be harvesting 1 plant at a time and as I harvest one I will move another into the flower room to take its place. I will be doing this until next spring. I don't really like trimming so that's why I want to chop one at a time. Its just easier for me that way. The buds go into storage for cure anyways so there's not rush to chop everything. It's just way way easier. That and now I'm not worried about scheduling flower times ... if a few plants take longer then the next round will VEG longer = bigger plants so win win. What's not to like about that?

Here's some pics:

Flower room has 1 Lavender CBD, 4 Krystalica (one harvested yesterday), 1 Purple Pineberry (took a few clones too).

Here's 2 of the 4 Krystalica - see one is farther along than the other one - They get chopped when I think they are about to start with the banana shit (throwing seeds out). The plant on the left is getting close to harvest, time to take a closer look at the trichomes.

Group shot of Krystalica - there's the CBD Lavender in the back left there (black square pot). She looks great!

CBD Lavender - she's going a little slow but packing the frost on big time - I can't wait to try this one out.

Krystalica before N treatments with rabbit poop... she's coming around - look in the backround looming over head is the Purple Pineberry - she's a monster buds are arm sized. I forgot to take a close up of her.. I'll get that next time.

Same pic Pineberry looming... yeah she's already in the keeper basket!

Another Krystalica - this one is in a new fresh batch of soil - no yellowing yet.. she's about a month behind her twin sisters (all clones of Krystalica Pheno C).

On to the VEG room - group shot

I think this one is Matero Blue - was purchased as a photo but has been in 20/4 lighting and we have this!!

Matero Blue bud shot - she looks yummy in person really lots and lots of pistols

Matero Blue again

Matero Blue another

Matero Blue - this one getting close to finish

As we can see here - I don't get all kerfubbled up about yellowing leaves. The only time I really get worried is when I see a plant yellowing from the soil line up ... that's the sign of N deficiency. If left alone the result will be low yield. This can be "fixed" with some foiler spray with Kelp meal tea.. I add in some rabbit poop (a handful or so) to the tea and let go and spray .. Vola.. there's magic in the kelp foiler. We can foiler spray all the way to harvest time!

Cheers and keep it green everybody.

 

[CyTheElectric]

Beautiful looking plants you have here bobrown. Cool if I join the circle?

 

[bobrown14]

Beautiful looking plants you have here bobrown. Cool if I join the circle?

Yeah buddy, as they say the more the merrier!! Here take a puff Welcome to the party!

 

[CyTheElectric]

Yeah buddy, as they say the more the merrier!! Here take a puff Welcome to the party!

Sweet! Don't mind if I do.. Question about your purples. They look lovely, by the way, how are you getting them to be that deep dark color? Is it plant genetics, being grown in a healthy LOS, or does it have something to do with the temperature of your room? Or, is it a combination of all three? Just wanted to hear your take on it. If you've already been asked this question, and aswered it, sorry in advance, but those purples are sooo dark and healthy, I have to ask.

 

[bobrown14]

Sweet! Don't mind if I do.. Question about your purples. They look lovely, by the way, how are you getting them to be that deep dark color? Is it plant genetics, being grown in a healthy LOS, or does it have something to do with the temperature of your room? Or, is it a combination of all three? Just wanted to hear your take on it. If you've already been asked this question, and aswered it, sorry in advance, but those purples are sooo dark and healthy, I have to ask.

Genetics mostly probably 99.5%, the other .5 I do leave the window open on a few cold nights early on in the grow, not many but a few. The ones that get dark purple pretty much start out showing purple on the cotyledons from seed pop, and that's the genetics. Growing is a proper organic mix I'm sure helps the plants with showing the true colors keeping the ladies happy is always a good thing.

I've got 6 seeds popping right now. Keeping my fingers crossed....

The purple is for sure a Pheno thing tho... I've been pretty lucky in that out of say 8 seeds 1 or 2 did not go purps and those 2 were runts pretty much. This is to be expected really.

 

[CyTheElectric]

Right on for the quick respond BB. I hope you dont mind me picking your brain from time to time, but your grow is very intriguing to me, and from the looks of it, you know your stuff. I'm hitting the tail end of my first LOS grow, and if I can get my soil to preform like yours, I'll be a happy camper. Have a good one BB.

 

[bobrown14]

Right on for the quick respond BB. I hope you dont mind me picking your brain from time to time, but your grow is very intriguing to me, and from the looks of it, you know your stuff. I'm hitting the tail end of my first LOS grow, and if I can get my soil to preform like yours, I'll be a happy camper. Have a good one BB.

Hey there CY - pick away man cause it's slim pickin's over here fur sure! I'm glad to share my experiences, its my pleasure and an honor to help in any way.

My goal is to farm sustainable and organic. I wouldn't use anything in my gardens that a Vegan would turn away. Not that I'm vegan now but I used to be so I have some sensitivity to others around me and also to the future and to all the children in the world.

What I see going on in traditional farming is not sustainable. The nutrients folks use casually as if it makes no difference worries me. We need to understand that what we pour into and onto the soil does NOT disappear. So my take on gardening is to do it responsibly as much as I can, use what we can make for ourselves as much as possible and be very very careful what we bring into the gardens because we want it to stay here and live with these things we use to garden with. So very important to me that its safe, clean and sustainable.

Gardening/farming this way is actually very easy. Healthy living soil really takes care of itself, indoor gardens should require water and a little TLC... pretty easy.

My approach is water and get the heck out the way. Of course we make a few teas along the way for the ladies; rewards for the hard work. I let out worms do ALL the heavy lifting around here.

Time and patience - mother nature goes by a whole different clock than us humans. I'm just trying to figure out how we can take advantage and use her goodness in the here and now.

Here's a teaser nug pick from the purps we just jarred up. This is some tasty good weeds:

Purps in the jar - I had a tray of pic buds but for some reason it's not here...

decent nug here - cant wait to fire this one up ... this bud dries FAST - I have to get it into jars at just the right time, not too dry and not too wet (it will mold).

This is the Matero Blue - she's real purdy. I have a few of these still going, I'm going to let the go till no more new pistols.

 

[bobrown14]

I just LOVE growing flowers... thanks to my girl she loves growing flowers even more than me.

It's been a bit since I did an update. Been busy with holidaze and all.

In the grow room been pretty much fighting off N deficiency in a few no-til pots (after 2 years and several rounds). I'm going to retire a few of those that I'm fighting with and go bigger pots which I have waiting in reserve.

I mixed up some more soil today and have it sitting watered with kelp meal/vermi-compost/BSM tea and also gave all the ladies and girls a foiler with the tea as well.

Foiler with vermi-compost and kelp = 1 cup compost and 1/4 cup kelp and 1tbs BSM, bubble for 24-36 hrs, take a cup of that tea and a gallon of RO water, throw in a tbs of Ful-Power ... get the sprayer and give the ladies a party.

Here's my latest harvest - auto Matero Blue - doesn't really look very blue and doesn't look like any of my other blue plants but hey... lets call this one "who the fuck knows OG" - nice yellow and red tinges on the buds and leaves very dense and sticky. Cant wait to test this one out. I guess she's a tad blue looking at this pic

FYI - flower room has plants of different ages. I find that FOR ME - it's much easier to harvest 1-2 plants at a time and dry, trim and cure. Any more that 1-2 plants at a time and trimming is WAY to much for me. Drying/trimming/curing is as important as growing for me so I want to trim with attention to detail. If I have more than 1-2 plants to trim, it's way way too much "work" for me. I loose my focus and don't do as good of a job when I'm in a hurry vs takin my time and trimming properly.

WTFK OG - after the chop

WTFK OG - after the chop

WTFK OG - after the chop

Here's my other Matero Blue - these are under 20-4 lighting and there's a mouse in my VEG room... they like to eat seedlings... grrrrr

On to the flower room - Krystalica pheno C - the one I drilled down to over the last few years. Clones but have seeds from last run that I have going in VEG right now!

CBD Lavender chugging along... 60ish days in flower.

group shot of sorts - CBD Lavender in the middle - Krystalica in the back there and Krystalica on the right center

Purple Pineberry here - close up of the main cola which is pretty big for indoors - fore-arm size easily

PPB - another shot sorry for the focus

 

[Radogast]

re:

FYI - flower room has plants of different ages. I find that FOR ME - it's much easier to harvest 1-2 plants at a time and dry, trim and cure.

I've settled into a pattern of placing 1 or 2 girls into the flowering room every 2-6 weeks, which naturally means I harvest, trim and dry 1 or 2 girls every 2-6 weeks. I almost always wait until there are volunteers for an hour or two of trimming. (Naturally I smoke 'em up.) FOR ME - It makes the harvest job pleasant and relatively effortless. All I really do is take photos, wash buds, hang and/or bag the harvest to dry, and try to clean the rooms and scissors within 24 hours.

Yesterday I trimmed an under 2 oz plant. I finished in less than an hour, but it was still the most I've trimmed in over a year of harvests

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I also like how having plants of all ages means the grower can spend time with the ages that need the most attention. Unlike humans, the babies and older adults usually need the least attention, so we can play with the toddlers and pubescent plants instead of waiting for the babies and old ones to wake up from their long naps and do something interesting

 

[ClosedCircuit]

I'm really in love with that Pineberry shape.

Another for the list.

 

[bobrown14]

I'm really in love with that Pineberry shape.

Another for the list.

Thanks there CC - here's a good pic I took tonight after lights out, you can really see the size of her compared to another lady in the foreground that is a few weeks older. The Pineberry is BIG in the back there looming, her main cola is getting pretty huge!

 

[Radogast]

Thanks there CC - here's a good pic I took tonight after lights out, you can really see the size of her compared to another lady in the foreground that is a few weeks older. The Pineberry is BIG in the back there looming, her main cola is getting pretty huge!

Her cola looks like a shadow on the wall in a horror movie.

 

[bobrown14]

Update time here... just been chugging along in late flower. Plants are bulking up buds and dropping leaves like it was a late fall day! So far all the ladies are going as expected.

One of the ladies in one of my 5 gal no-till pots was exhibiting N deficiency (LOTS of yellow too early). I've succeeded in nursing her close to finish but she's a little smaller than I want but the nugs will be small but really tight and dank.

This part of the grow I'm basically watering plain RO water then mixing in some ACT with kelp meal and that's pretty much it. Brewed the ACT mainly for the VEG room. The VEG room is a full house right now. I didn't include pics of that today. I will update again with more pics of the VEG room, thats going to require another post. There's a lot going on in VEG right now. Preparing for the next round as the ladies in flower are almost done.

What I do going down the stretch this round is pretty much mainly RO water with either Aloe/coconut water and/or malted barely ground fine mixed in with water and water in. Pretty simple really. Most of these plants will be in the 4-6 zip weight class dry which is fine. If they get much bigger then I have to cut back on plant #s, I'd rather grow 8 plants in flower at a time. Right now I have 7 going as I harvested one a few weeks ago. So I'm waiting for one of my little girls to show me she's ready to show me her goodies. I've got a few in the VEG room wanting to step up. We will get to that next post.

Bud shots at lights out tonight.

Main cola of the Purple Pineberry .... not purple YET! hoping...one of the longest main colas I've ever grown indoors. She's a whopper and frosty too.

Krystalica clone (round 8 I think). She's stable mate for the Pineberry girl. I like to put big plants together as I think plants give off feramones and want to naturally compete for the reproductive space. I hope they make each other grow bigger fatter buds.

CBD Lavender - she's really starting to pick up the pace with the frost.. This one was an experiment, I hope the smoke is as good as she looks ....

Another Krystalica clone - I don't load the flower tent all at the same time as I run perpetual so this lady is a few weeks behind the other ladies so a little smaller buds but they will fatten up and get danky 100%

Another Krystalica - back left corner under a new lamp I just bought - SolarECLIPSE SE250 - I think I was one of the first folks to get this lamp. I'm results oriented so it's hang it and let er riiip and see whats what.

Krystalica foreground - Pineberry looming in the back - to the left of Pineberry is a Krystalica clone next to harvest. We can see the progression of Krystalica with colors and bud frost. Patience is key... I don't stress with yellowing leaves with this strain. The smoke will be psychedelic but not too long lasting which is nice for a work night! Not so much for a work day tho!! 1 - 2 puffs if I'm going out, otherwise too overwhelming for me <-- light weight

Krystalica clone under the Amare lamp again

This pic really shows the difference with the 2 Krystalica along with the Pineberry - the plant on the left there is getting REAL close to harvest.. I've had my sheers in my hand a few times already and held off.. it will be worth the wait and patience.

Ok breaking rules here.. I'm a 100% total organic grower. I grow and harvest pretty much all our own vermicompost and composting bits. This is a nitrogen fixer similar to Comfrey with maybe even more biomass. This plant is called Cardoon, its a nitrogen fixer (gets nitrogen from the air) and converts it to usable N in the roots and leaves. Cut down - compost in the spring it the compost will be ready for planting!! I'm really a soil guy, my wife likes to grow stuff so we make a good team. I grow flowers inside and she grows flowers, veggies and fruit outside. I mainly help with soil building. She's impressed with our results... happy wife happy life as they say.

seedling after a IPM with kelp and neem, hopefully I didn't just chap her ass with the foiler spray!!

 

[Radogast]

Unlike Comfrey, I have read that Cardoon feeds the mycorrhizal fungi network - .That should be great for prepping soil for cannabis.

l don't know first hand, just book knowledge. My yard has failed to grow both Comfrey and Cardoon seeds - presumably because they like more than 2-3 hours of direct sunlight per day to germinate.

 

[bobrown14]

Unlike Comfrey, I have read that Cardoon feeds the mycorrhizal fungi network - .That should be great for prepping soil for cannabis.

l don't know first hand, just book knowledge. My yard has failed to grow both Comfrey and Cardoon seeds - presumably because they like more than 2-3 hours of direct sunlight per day to germinate.

Hey Rad - yeah we did well with cardoon and hopefully since we are a 6b zone it will perenialize for us ... depends how cold the winter is this year. I've never had luck growing comfrey from seeds - many of the cutivars are sterile and only grow from root cuttings. They are invasive so best to grow the bocking 14 version which is sterile. We grow a lot of comfrey and my wife got creative with the cardoon. It's WAY WAY better looking that comfrey and biomass very close probably and we can take cuttings same as comfrey.

Our cardoon is still going didn't even flinch at any frosts we've had so far which is amazing really. I'd like to say it was the kelp foiler that's keeping it going but probably the plants genetics. It's extremely hardy for a 6b plant. I think you'd have luck where you're at even in the woods - both of our patches are shade/sun one patch with trees the other is west facing close to the house and is actually larger than the other patch that gets more sun.

 

[santb]

Hey Bob; lookin good as always. LOVE your Krystalica.
Do you grow any MJ outdoors? I've got one outdoors, Barneys Farm DSL(read backwards) in LOS in a shadehouse that started flowering about 3 weeks ago; looks healthy and green, trouble is, it's only early summer here... We have a lot a tall trees around the boundaries of our place, and originally the shadehouse was in a corner that was getting less light than I had foreseen.. So lots of shade early and late, with only a few hours of direct light.
I have moved the shadehouse and plants to a sunnier spot, hoping for a re-veg, but this thing is still flowering. 2 weeks to go til summer solstice... I reckon it gets about maybe 7-8 hours direct light, maybe another 1 hour either side of good ambient light, then the rest is mostly total shade.. Can't give it more due to security.
I was hoping for a monster plant come autumn but would be almost as happy to hear that it will continue flower and finish in a month or 2, even though it will probably yield much less... I'm assuming that the light situation is to blame, even though it is hot and bright here...
Just thought you mite have some experience with this, and some advice.
I'm now considering moving it back into the dark corner in an effort to force it to continue flowering, rather than stressing it out by re-veg for 2 months then back into flowering..
What do you think?
Cheers.

 

[bobrown14]

Hey there Santb - if you want to keep the flowering process going give the lady some malted barley tea with some kelp meal and a dash of coconut water (pure water). Those 3 ingredients have growth hormones and lots of beneficial micro nutrients along with a bunch of enzymes for growth and vigor. I like to foiler spray the whole plants and really this will help the lady get going and keep her there.

I would also do a tea with alfalfa meal as well. Water and/or foiler that as well. Alfalfa has a good bit of growth hormones in it that will really get the lady going. To make a tea with alfalfa try 1/4 cup 1/2 cup to a gal of water bubble and dilute into 2-4 galons and water in.

For kelp tea 1/2 cup to gallon of water. You don't have to bubble/aerate if you don't have an air pump, just jar it and shake vigorously for a minute every once in a while - loosen lid after shake dilute that mix with 2-4 more gallons of water and there you go. You can water in and strain and foiler spray. You'll get good results from any or all of the above.

Cheers

 

[drcannabi]

Hello Guru!

I'm back and so glad you're still here. You are a magician sir. It's a real treat to see a true organic garden. My hat is off to you my friend. Be back soon.