Cottage 420's Organic Perpetual Indoor Garden

People can replace their charcol in their air filters.. Least what I hear,, I love the smell myself.. And if anyone that doesn't like it,, they don't have to come over.. No one complains.. But I understand some people need to keep the smells in check.. Plant look great Mister B..
Keepem Green
 
Awhile back, last April in fact, you mentioned

Is there something you do to clean and recharge, or do you purchase a new charcoal filter?


Hey there Rad... easy .. run warm water thru it for several minutes... problem solved. Let dry ... doesn't need to dry too long cause running air thru it will dry it way faster than letting it sit. Carbon is an element, so no changes. Kinda cool really.
 
Hey there Rad... easy .. run warm water thru it for several minutes... problem solved. Let dry ... doesn't need to dry too long cause running air thru it will dry it way faster than letting it sit. Carbon is an element, so no changes. Kinda cool really.

Does it matter if I run the water backwards or forwards through the filter?
 
Yes I have - here's the ingredient list = Bacterial culture (1%), pelletized alfalfa (2%), water (97%)

We make our own home made version of this with:

EWC - 1 cup (takes the place of the bacterial culture)
1/2 cup organic alfalfa meal (pelleted version is Rabbit/horse feed found at your local feed store)
2 tbs Kelp Meal
4 gal filtered water
1 tbs of BSM (black strap molasses)

Bubble over night ~24 hrs in a Homer bucket (or if you have a vortex brewer that's another method).

Water in... We do the above on a bi-weekly basis, 4 gallons is enough for all of our indoor and outdoor gardens.

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Here's a little write up on how I transplant seedlings to either final containers or VEG pots.

I do 2 transplants with Photo period plants and 1 transplant of AUTO period plants.

PHOTO plants - seedling pot --> #2 nursery pot (1.66 gal) --> 7gal AutoPot XL

AUTO pants - seedling pot --> final pot #2 nursery pot (1.66 gal)

Here's how I transplant with minimal to no root ball damage, the plants just keep on going with little to no recovery needed.

First off before transplanting I will water the plants the day before with a good watering. This is so the root ball and surrounding soil will stay together when I pull the plant out of the old container.

First thing is the have the lager pot filled about 1/2 way with some new soil mix (I keep a container of freshly mixed soil on hand).


Next is, and this is the most important part - take a knife and run it around the soil all the way down into the pot to the btm and around the entire pot. This loosens up the root ball from the container.

Here's a pic with the knife ... I run it around the edge of the pot full 360 degrees or more.

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Now take the smaller pot & set it on top of the new container and GENTLY pull on the stem... if you don't feel the root ball release right away, turn the pot slightly upside down and give it a little shake while pulling. The root ball should come out fully to almost fully intact. Like this:

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Here is the fully intact root ball, I'm holding the plant by its main stem right at the soil line. You can see this plant is just starting to outgrow its current container. This is an AUTO plant about 20 days old. Time for some Mycos... sprinkle right on the roots and also some in the pot where the root ball will sit.

Put the root ball into the new container - fill in empty spaces around root ball and water. Done!

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Here's a comparison of the smaller seedling pot to the #2 nursery pot

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Same diameter but the #2 pot is square and much taller but takes up the same floor space as the seedling pot but 3x or more the amount of soil.

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This is how I've been transplanting plants from container to container or to outdoors in the garden for as long as I can remember.

Sometimes its these very important procedures that are often overlooked or not talked about ... hopefully there's something here that will help anyone having challenges with transplanting. It's the little things that sometimes can help gardeners make growing easier and more rewarding.

Transplanting can get daunting at times for me say when I have a VEG plant that got HUGE for whatever reason... I follow these steps and it makes transplanting less stressful for me and more importantly, for the plants.

thanx bb I appreciated tht write up of transplanting the autos I never thought of using a knife to get it lose I always wud squish the sides but in doing so some of my transplants the roots wud get knocked lose so I will be defintly trying the knife method on my nex transplant/uppotting which will be coming soon since I have auto at 13 days old 2day so I will be uppotting her into a bigger container now with reading various journals and seeing u do autos u say u use a 1.6 gal pot to put ur autos in so I'm wondering is tht due to space issues or do u autos not do gud with xtra soil or is it since they have pre programmed life cycle they jus don't use more then say 2 gal. I'm wondering cause I had an auto tht got stunted most likely cause I waited to long to top her didn't do enuf research I thought I knew enuf n since I was growing photos I figured I new enuf well guess what it turns out I didn't lol so now I'm doing way more research lol so wud me putting an auto in a 5gal home depot bucket be enuf to get a good yield off it or is 5gal home depot bucket over kill and a waste of xtra soil n space?? I guess what I'm asking is whats a good size to put autos in lol man I'm sry 4 the long winded question I jus got done vaping a whole bowl to my self of purple kush and I'm tring to finish this post without falling asleep lol ive noded off twice now trying to setup my new journal and getting back to every1 elses posts lol oh yeah u gotta swing by the new journal its in my sig but its called the garden of weeden lol great right I love it since thts a major reason I'm growing this herb is to help promote a more loving peaceful nature in the house and so far it seems to be working lol anyway jus wanted to swing by n ask u bout the auto question and say :thanks: for the post on transplanting an to let u no of my new journal n thts where ill be from now on so make sure to go to tht journal now instead of the one I been using anyway remember keep it green and stay frosty my friends :Namaste:
 
thanx bb I appreciated tht write up of transplanting the autos I never thought of using a knife to get it lose I always wud squish the sides but in doing so some of my transplants the roots wud get knocked lose :Namaste:


Yeah the knife trick I think I learnt from my mother... whom learned it from a local organic farmer lady a long long time ago.

Gotta pass these methods on down the line... oral tradition is a live and well my friend.

I will check out your new journal.

Happy 420 day everybody! It's 4:20 somewhere and today it's 4:20 EVERYWHERE! woohoo! :passitleft:


Edit... autos I have not had much luck with them. Woody probably will be showing us how to grow the big'uns. I sometimes get the runts... cull and move on. Not really worth all the non-work! hahahaha I just grew one like yours last month same result.
It's genetics ... sometimes I get big ones but its few a far between.
 
Yeah the knife trick I think I learnt from my mother... whom learned it from a local organic farmer lady a long long time ago.

Gotta pass these methods on down the line... oral tradition is a live and well my friend.

I will check out your new journal.

Happy 420 day everybody! It's 4:20 somewhere and today it's 4:20 EVERYWHERE! woohoo! :passitleft:


Edit... autos I have not had much luck with them. Woody probably will be showing us how to grow the big'uns. I sometimes get the runts... cull and move on. Not really worth all the non-work! hahahaha I just grew one like yours last month same result.
It's genetics ... sometimes I get big ones but its few a far between.
Where do u get seeds from n ur autos in peticular i tryn keep 2the places who r discreet in shipping n except credit cards i dnt wana do cash in the mail n moneyorders r watever cause they all take even longer n it takes long enuf sumtimes lol so far ive ordered frm cks n gyo seed bank cks where gud on timing n stealth n gyo was ok at timming n stealth there wasnt really any other then the plain box it came it then the containers tht held the seeds where right in it metal box n all lol
 
I'm starting to wonder if Autos and LOS just don't mix. I have a few autos under my belt all grown with bio bizz nutes and was getting 100g a plant no problem. Now with this run of autos in LOS they are just looking a little small, started off quick but now just taking their time. Have been searching the interwebs and not seeing many people do autos in LOS.
 
I'm starting to wonder if Autos and LOS just don't mix. I have a few autos under my belt all grown with bio bizz nutes and was getting 100g a plant no problem. Now with this run of autos in LOS they are just looking a little small, started off quick but now just taking their time. Have been searching the interwebs and not seeing many people do autos in LOS.

You might have something there for sure... some strains are made in organic soil, and those strains I do VERY well with.. The AUTO's I have to give them a lot of N teas and fuss with them which I don't like to do. I have a separate grow space just for AUTOs.

There's some tricks for sure and I'm not an expert!
 
Mini update time... not much changes... the ladies are just powering on getting close to the stretch for the Devils Tit plants and the rest of the ladies are in the bulk up stage. So going to water in some Malted Barley Tea with some mykos and let em rip.


Devils Tit #1 - She's @ 60 days here for a 70 day strain so getting close! I expect some bulkage to happen.
She is red and gold colors...
This is a 80% Sativa with a VERY high potency ... likely I wont be testing freshies.. cause I'm scared!


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Devils Tit #1 lower down nug shot

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Devils Tit #1 again

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Devils Tit #2 - She's @ 54 days here.. color is green and gold so we have 2 different cultivars going. I have clones of the #1 and the clones of the #2 are not doing anything .. not dead but no roots yet.

DT#2 with the leaf tip up curl.. checked the breeders pics of his grows and this is genetic. Snowcap has breeding plants that look just like this one.

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Devils Tit #2 again big skirt pic

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Far back shot of flowers - Ladies in the front are Citrus Berry #2 & #3 30ish days, and DT#2 in the back - SOG style - how I do it.

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SOG

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more SOG

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Every once in awhile,, we find them ones that don't like to clone.. But as long as you got green,, it's got a chance.. Love the pictures,,,

Keepem Green
 
Mini update time... not much changes... the ladies are just powering on getting close to the stretch for the Devils Tit plants and the rest of the ladies are in the bulk up stage. So going to water in some Malted Barley Tea with some mykos and let em rip.


Devils Tit #1 - She's @ 60 days here for a 70 day strain so getting close! I expect some bulkage to happen.
She is red and gold colors...
This is a 80% Sativa with a VERY high potency ... likely I wont be testing freshies.. cause I'm scared!


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Devils Tit #1 lower down nug shot

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Devils Tit #1 again

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Devils Tit #2 - She's @ 54 days here.. color is green and gold so we have 2 different cultivars going. I have clones of the #1 and the clones of the #2 are not doing anything .. not dead but no roots yet.

DT#2 with the leaf tip up curl.. checked the breeders pics of his grows and this is genetic. Snowcap has breeding plants that look just like this one.

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Devils Tit #2 again big skirt pic

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Far back shot of flowers - Ladies in the front are Citrus Berry #2 & #3 30ish days, and DT#2 in the back - SOG style - how I do it.

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SOG

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more SOG

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Yea i have an early vixen in the cloner jus stayn green not dead but not really alive either lol well they r but u no what i mean :rofl: but yea beautiful lookn ladies there bb as always yea now im getn temps under control got better lights an added malted grain teas to the regime thing are about to pop off atleast i hope so lol im getting sum vitacoco coconut water rite nw 2 take hme 2 my ladies n will give everyone a shot wen i get back but yea on average what r u pulling off each auto dried weight?
 
Beautiful colors in those pics bob. I've had those turned up burnt tips on some Southeast Asian strains. Genetics hmmm interesting...I just thought I overfed or was off on pH. :Namaste:

Thanks BL ...

I was thinking I was doing something wrong like too close to lights etc.. but when I did a search for this strain and the breeder... found pics that I thought were my plants ... exactly the same look. Breeder didn't even mention anything about the tips ... kinda like it was expected from that particular pheno and he was blitzed about them looking like that so ... gonna a be a hard hitting Sativa.



Hard to believe this plant was almost done under 60 days. All she's doing now is dropping the huge ass fan leaves, several every day. Gonna be nothing left but buds!
 
Yea i have an early vixen in the cloner jus stayn green not dead but not really alive either lol well they r but u no what i mean :rofl: but yea beautiful lookn ladies there bb as always yea now im getn temps under control got better lights an added malted grain teas to the regime thing are about to pop off atleast i hope so lol im getting sum vitacoco coconut water rite nw 2 take hme 2 my ladies n will give everyone a shot wen i get back but yea on average what r u pulling off each auto dried weight?

Dried weight? Haha... I usually run 10-15 at a time enough to fill my AUTO table. Probably have 20 plants now and MAYBE will get a # of dried, half I keep in my stash, the rest goes like hotcakes at a firehouse breakfast. The ones I run are all the RED-BLACK varieties. Red Poison/Dark Devil ... and so forth.

I grew one of those mini's like you grew a few weeks ago... I smoked it all at one sitting and had to get more out from the stash. Disappointed but the buzz was nice as usual. Small package big punch deal.

You asked me where I get my AUTO seeds.. was always Herbies until no CC .... these last ones I got from GYO and Seed Supreme.

Stocked up on some Black Dog too... Woody is knocking that shit out of the park! Bringing back memories from last summer. That strain is easy to grow but can get PM if not being pre-emptive.

I can grow some of the fast flowering OG variants almost as fast as the AUTOs and get a much larger yield with a 2 week VEG. 1 week difference and better all around IMHO. I like to VEG longer for bigger plants tho. I just fill in with AUTO's, as I've got space to grow in and grow the AUTOs in their own space.
 
Dried weight? Haha... I usually run 10-15 at a time enough to fill my AUTO table. Probably have 20 plants now and MAYBE will get a # of dried, half I keep in my stash, the rest goes like hotcakes at a firehouse breakfast. The ones I run are all the RED-BLACK varieties. Red Poison/Dark Devil ... and so forth.

I grew one of those mini's like you grew a few weeks ago... I smoked it all at one sitting and had to get more out from the stash. Disappointed but the buzz was nice as usual. Small package big punch deal.

You asked me where I get my AUTO seeds.. was always Herbies until no CC .... these last ones I got from GYO and Seed Supreme.

Stocked up on some Black Dog too... Woody is knocking that shit out of the park! Bringing back memories from last summer. That strain is easy to grow but can get PM if not being pre-emptive.

I can grow some of the fast flowering OG variants almost as fast as the AUTOs and get a much larger yield with a 2 week VEG. 1 week difference and better all around IMHO. I like to VEG longer for bigger plants tho. I just fill in with AUTO's, as I've got space to grow in and grow the AUTOs in their own space.
Yea thts kinda what im doing now n thts funny u get from gyo thts what i used last time n i think i will again this time
 
Hey there Rad... easy .. run warm water thru it for several minutes... problem solved. Let dry ... doesn't need to dry too long cause running air thru it will dry it way faster than letting it sit. Carbon is an element, so no changes. Kinda cool really.

Did that yesterday. It's a lot better. Still a bit of an aroma, so I may have a leak in the ducting.
 
Freaking awesome ... when you're fine with V2 lemme know and share design?? I have MM's version in a 5 gal homer bucket with lid... You got me pumped (a little pun there) and I fired mine up today!

I change up my inputs .. because.. mid flowers and LOTS of veg plants ... going with a little extra N.

Today's inputs:

1 handful Alafalfa meal + 2 handfuls of forest found worm castings + 1oz of ground up non-gmo organic malted corn + mycos... in bucket! FTW

I need a new pump ... I think mine is worn out its working but not getting a big vortex. Which pump are you using??

Hello bob! When I was went on the expo one of the breeders there told me he was using venturi air injection which I discovered earlier (2 days before expo).



There is a firm called Mazzei which makes them. Seems to work like a charm. :thumb:
You got some lovely plants there I love them! The frost is spectacular! My Shark is at it now, flat even canopy and still stretching!

Did that yesterday. It's a lot better. Still a bit of an aroma, so I may have a leak in the ducting.

Try to repeat the rinse and if it wont help, soapy water spraying time! That's what I would do, to make sure. Happy growing! :thumb:
 
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