Cottage 420's Organic Perpetual Indoor Garden

Hey Bob, nice trees. Ever consider sheltering your outdoors when there’s a storm coming in? Could help control the moisture on the buds and the potential for mold.

Gorgeous flowers this season though.

What are your plans for next season?…. :cheesygrinsmiley:
 
Lerugged said:
Looking great. Which strains are you running outdoors?
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I still have one of those Transkei going - she's tough as nails. It's been raining and cold for last week and she's still hanging in there. Gonna get some warm weather rest of the week then chop - she's at like plus 90 days in flower too - been knocked over several times in the wind with pelting rains. Impressive and she's still going.

Other strains I ran outside were

Cookies Cubed
Jelly Sickle
PMB = purple monkey balls
Transkei

Sorry I haven't been around much lately I've been trimming for a month and getting our outdoor veggie beds ready for next spring. Planting cover crops and planting fall crops.

I've got some nice pics of harvest and some beauty flower pics.

Now working on testers... YAY :cheer::passitleft:
 
ChefDGreen said:
Hey Bob, nice trees. Ever consider sheltering your outdoors when there’s a storm coming in? Could help control the moisture on the buds and the potential for mold.

Gorgeous flowers this season though.

What are your plans for next season?…. :cheesygrinsmiley:
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Yes fer sure - this season I planted several plants under a big hug sycamore tree that I cleaned up cut all the lower branches. It was in a nice spot where the plants got full sun all day but also got more cover from the rains. Those plants had minimal issues with molds and also minimal issues with caterpillars.

Those caterpillars really suck - they poop and create mold from the poop. Nasty stuff. I tossed a good bit of weed in the burn pile.

Thinking REAL hard about a tunnel next year. I got a nice patch out in the open for veggies might be nice to have a few ladies in there in the back. Been working on the patch getting the soil right. Started out with hard pan. I'm thinking 65gal bags on pallets so I can move them around with our new tractor and pallet forks.
 
StoneOtter said:
Hey Bob, looking fine with weeks to go! Do you get much of October to finish them? I'm in Mass looking a week behind or so. Hoping for mid October here.
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Too much rain at the wrong time this year. I think Mass was even worse with hurricanes and Noresters. We got hammered with rains worst ever. Last year we hadda drought and no rain at all. Outdoors is tough. Got a fair amount of mold and chopped soon as I saw it.

Turned out worse than I thought once at the trim table. Not used to tossing good bud.
 
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Shrooms in the woods.

These are edible and not the silly kind. But their mycelium create a symbiotic relationship with pine trees and oak trees. Found these in a 2nd growth forrest near us.

New tractor LS MT352 got a GREAT deal due to it being very tight to get into glad I'm only 175#s and 5'10".

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...sweet ride!!...jealous...,,,cheerz bob... :high-five:...h00k... :hookah: ...
 
bobrown14 said:
Too much rain at the wrong time this year. I think Mass was even worse with hurricanes and Noresters. We got hammered with rains worst ever. Last year we hadda drought and no rain at all. Outdoors is tough. Got a fair amount of mold and chopped soon as I saw it.

Turned out worse than I thought once at the trim table. Not used to tossing good bud.
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Hope you got mostly good bud anyway Bob! Looks that way from here. Yeah i had a lot of loss this year, maybe 20 to 30%. Last year was drier and was better if you watered here, though I didn't have an outdoor grow last year.
 
Love the frost work Bob!
 
Beautiful Bob! Love your art work too!
 
Glad to hear that youre still atit Bob! I know its been awhile since I've chimed in but im still doing good and still atit my damn self! Lol! The last couple of years life has thrown me quite a few curve balls for sure and learning to adapt and adjust isnt always easy for me. Sort of the hard to teach an old dog new tricks scenario, ya know.
Anywho- im so glad to see you still happy as always in your garden and enjoying what you do. Ill be in touch and continuing to follow along.
 
Azimuth said:
STHL? atit?
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Got my mind on chain sawin... waiting for the snow to go away then full on attack. lol
Timber for the win.

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Pronounced STHL round these parts.
 
Big Sparks said:
Glad to hear that youre still atit Bob! I know its been awhile since I've chimed in but im still doing good and still atit my damn self! Lol! The last couple of years life has thrown me quite a few curve balls for sure and learning to adapt and adjust isnt always easy for me. Sort of the hard to teach an old dog new tricks scenario, ya know.
Anywho- im so glad to see you still happy as always in your garden and enjoying what you do. Ill be in touch and continuing to follow along.
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Thanks for the kind works brother. Yeah been a weird few years....
and now this:

My first wife is Ukrainian and my current wife is Russian. <face plant>

Both are my best friends and one is my mate for life.

Bout the only good thing about covid is my wife can wear a mask so no-one will be able to see/hear she's Russian.
 
bobrown14 said:
Pronounced STHL round these parts.
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I thought that's how "chainsaw" was pronounced everywhere.

But I've been an old fart hillbilly since I was three days old ;) . . . .
 
bobrown14 said:
Got my mind on chain sawin... waiting for the snow to go away then full on attack. lol
Timber for the win.

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Pronounced STHL round these parts.
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Ok, I get it. A play on words, not an acronym. :thumb:
 
Chickweed living mulch layer -

1st pic - chickweed after 3-4 days after chop

Here's a good read on chickweed as a cover crop and its benefits:

Weed of the Month: Chickweed - Brooklyn Botanic Garden

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2nd pic this is the chickweed growing with a plant its small and growing slow due to completion and low light.

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3rd pic is chickweed after about a month after chop. It flowers and seeds the soil at the same time and is edible as a bonus.

Can be used as a herb added to a salad or dip etc.
I just cut it back when I plant a new plant in the pot and put the cut back on the soil as a top mulch layer.

I do this to keep microbes alive and to add nitrogen back into the soil when the pot is empty. It's a living mulch and a cover crop. I dont really even need to do anything but cut it back it will always re-grow.


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bobrown14 said:
STHL atit same soil

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Very cool Bob! Thanks for sharing brother!
On a side note- i had taken 4 cuts from my hard to root Cherry-Gar-See-Ya plant before putting into flower and all 4, yes all 4 of them have rooted successfully and have since been put into solo cups of a living organic soil mix. Very happy about that! And also i had a hard time germinating and growing out my Polar Vortex (Platinum Kush Breathe × Slurricane) by Inhouse Genetics, and now ive also got 3 successfully rooted cuts of her too! So now i have multiple chances at growing each of these again. Very exciting times ahead!
And thanks for hearing me out Bob and the rest of my 420mag family!
 
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