Cottage 420's Organic Perpetual Indoor Garden

[bobrown14]

re: Cottage 420's 2015 Organic Grow With LOS & Kristalica - Sleestack x Skunk1

Tonight I gave the nursery girls another feeding of Non-gmo organic corn sprouted seed tea - or SST. This goes hand in hand with a little of the coconut water and should be an excellent way to really get things growing.

So the other day it was a shot of coconut water for all the little girls
tonight they all got a good watering of the corn SST.

Corn SST - diluted with RO water - so 8 oz of corn sprouts ground in the processor added to 3 gallons water. Just enough to water all the little ones (8 plants) and my ocra seedlings !!

This should be the magical combo... fingers X'd and hoping it works.

pics to come... trying to get pics without the pink LED coloration ... working on it.

I've got some buds forming on the big girls and a little frostiness too!!!

 

[bobrown14]

re: Cottage 420's 2015 Organic Grow With LOS & Kristalica - Sleestack x Skunk1

Ok a few pics from earlier today...I'm running a true 900watts of LED power in this tent. 2 450watt lights and a 900watt light using about 50% of the power. This grow room is as hot at least as it was with a 600w HID with a 700w led and the same ventilation. This room has AC so when the outdoor temps warm up I'll need some cooling.

This girl is the only one I topped the main cola early in flower - you can see she stretched a good bit on the 2 tops but her lower colas got bigger than her sisters and shes a little wider around. I'm testing how topping works to see if there's any advantage. We will see, the main colas on the other plants are going to be HUGE. This one even tho I topped her she's the tallest of them all. I'm really convinced the container size is what gives us some monster plants. The largest fattest girl started flower in a 8gal container. Starting to get some mango citrus smell out of these but not very strong yet. The BlueBerry will stink up the whole neighborhood if I let her.

This is the last of my seed from the BlueBerry from last run. This one has 8 inter-nodes and is 5-6 weeks old from seed; today is her first day in flower and I'm pretty sure she's a she!! I need to get a real camera sorry for the funky color pics! I have a real camera but I cant find my cable to hook up to my computer.

Here's a good pic of the SOG filling in and you can see our lighting. Buds are frosting up already and we have at least 2 months to go... so it's the grind coming on. Watering, ACTs SSTs for 2 months pretty much every day even with the large containers. I'm using all 7gal or larger with a few 5gal pots for some auto flowering plants. The BlueBerry will get a transplant this weekend into an 8 gal container.... just waiting on some soil to finish cooking. The soil I have almost ready is left from the last run that I amended watered and let sit for 3 months, its ready now!!

 

[bobrown14]

re: Cottage 420's 2015 Organic Grow With LOS & Kristalica - Sleestack x Skunk1

How's this look? I (kinda) figured out how to normalize the LED lighting.. that's a little better....

 

[drcannabi]

re: Cottage 420's 2015 Organic Grow With LOS & Kristalica - Sleestack x Skunk1

Tonight I gave the nursery girls another feeding of Non-gmo organic corn sprouted seed tea - or SST. This goes hand in hand with a little of the coconut water and should be an excellent way to really get things growing.

So the other day it was a shot of coconut water for all the little girls
tonight they all got a good watering of the corn SST.

Corn SST - diluted with RO water - so 8 oz of corn sprouts ground in the processor added to 3 gallons water. Just enough to water all the little ones (8 plants) and my ocra seedlings !!

This should be the magical combo... fingers X'd and hoping it works.

pics to come... trying to get pics without the pink LED coloration ... working on it.

I've got some buds forming on the big girls and a little frostiness too!!!

Hi Bo,

Your skills are amazing Brother!!! I love your commitment to organic growing and the info you're sharing... When you say a shot or two of coconut water, do you mean a liquid shot as in whiskey (1.5 liquid ounces to a shot)?

I didn't realize you were topping in flower. The last HST should be done a week or 2 before the flower cycle. Yields suffer greatly when chopping off any upper branches during flower. You're much better off bending and tying once the flower cycle has been invoked. Sorry about that Bo! At least you'll be able to see the potential with the growth pattern.

You're canopy is looking great my friend!!!

 

[bobrown14]

re: Cottage 420's 2015 Organic Grow With LOS & Kristalica - Sleestack x Skunk1

Hey Doc - I've actually tried to reply to your post a few times and for some reason it's - maybe I started a problem for myself somewhere .... sticking up for SweetSue... Ah well. Yeah a shot glass.

 

[bobrown14]

re: Cottage 420's 2015 Organic Grow With LOS & Kristalica - Sleestack x Skunk1

Ok so I was in the flower tent yesterday at lights out - sun was still shinning on the ladies so I took some pics under regular lighting and also too the one girl I never transplanted into a 7gal pot. She's a little smaller but not much - her buds are stacking up....

 

[drcannabi]

re: Cottage 420's 2015 Organic Grow With LOS & Kristalica - Sleestack x Skunk1

Absolutely beautiful Bo,

Would you give coconut water in flower too, or just veg?

 

[bobrown14]

re: Cottage 420's 2015 Organic Grow With LOS & Kristalica - Sleestack x Skunk1

Hey thanks Doc - I used coconut water 3 times in Veg and 2 times so far in flower and will keep using it weekly, when my wife goes shopping I steal a can for the ladies.

If you look close at the last pics ^^ see the leaves pointing straight up, thats what my plants do after coconut water and the side buds grow longer and bigger overnight.

Buds are starting to really get stacked up here, I'm thinking there's going to be a frost warning here in the next day or 2! WOOHOO the fun is starting. The smell went from a faint danky cheese yesterday to a little bit stronger smell of mango .... they are definitely changing smells ... crazy. Wait till my blueberry starts to nug out. I'll have to shut the windows and turn on the AC.

Cheers,
BB

 

[drcannabi]

re: Cottage 420's 2015 Organic Grow With LOS & Kristalica - Sleestack x Skunk1

Awesome brother! When reading the label, what am I looking to avoid?

 

[bobrown14]

re: Cottage 420's 2015 Organic Grow With LOS & Kristalica - Sleestack x Skunk1

We get this brand at Whole Foods market - again my wife is the coconut water connoisseur so this is her favorite brand - you want just 100% coconut water, no preservatives no chunks no sugar... nothing but 100% coconut water and this is the one she likes and I'm going with her and the ladies like it too. Me ... meh... its ok, I drink mostly RO water and some beer and some wine... fancy waters not really me but apparently this stuff does wonders!
I'm surprised at the results to be honest.

You can order a case online too:
coconut-life.com

^^ thats the stuff right there we drink/feed the ladies with!

 

[Major PITA]

re: Cottage 420's 2015 Organic Grow With LOS & Kristalica - Sleestack x Skunk1

My wife drinks the same stuff. That and "Blue Monkey". I stick with the beer and wine. I don't want to drink anything that comes from a blue monkey.

 

[drcannabi]

re: Cottage 420's 2015 Organic Grow With LOS & Kristalica - Sleestack x Skunk1

Tanks Bo!

That makes it way too easy !!!

 

[bobrown14]

re: Cottage 420's 2015 Organic Grow With LOS & Kristalica - Sleestack x Skunk1

quick update - last night the ladies and the girls all got watered with Mung Bean sprout tea.

I soaked about a 1/4 cup of mung beans in the sprouting dishes, watered every 8 hrs for about 32 hrs and we have sprouts a little longer than the seed. I ground them up in the food processor put a screen/sieve over a large pot with about 3 gallons RO water filled the pot up to where the ground mung beans are sitting in the water (steeping in room temp water), let sit overnight, water the ladies.

The PH of this is very low around 5 maybe lower. My soil was amended and top dressed with Calcium Carbonate or Limestone powder which is a natural buffer to anything we can add that's either high or low ph. I do not PH test anything as I run LOS soil so if anyone that not sure and reads this post, be aware not all soil is equal and you may want to aerate the tea for day or so to neutralize the PH. With LOS its just pour on and watch the ladies reach for the sky in total happiness.

More news on my favorite buds - I have a blueberry plant that I thought was a lady... I've pulled HIM out of the grow room and is isolated while he grows what looks to me like balls. Ah well it was a good run while it lasted. I f'up and didn't take any viable clones the last run and now I'm screwed. It's OK I'll find another favorite. That blueberry was nice with yields like a Indica, high like a Sativa and smell like a skunk.

 

[drcannabi]

re: Cottage 420's 2015 Organic Grow With LOS & Kristalica - Sleestack x Skunk1

Great update Bo,

Sorry about the cannaballs. I'm also kicking myself for not cloning my 2 favorite strains. We live and learn...

 

[Major PITA]

re: Cottage 420's 2015 Organic Grow With LOS & Kristalica - Sleestack x Skunk1

Hey Bob - it sounds like you've "got a lot of balls".
Too bad about losing a favorite strain.

 

[bobrown14]

re: Cottage 420's 2015 Organic Grow With LOS & Kristalica - Sleestack x Skunk1

Thanks for the condolences guys... I may not have lost it totally. I've got a nice Blue Thai plant going now, I moved the blueberry to another part of the house. I was thinking about giving him a HUGE trim and I mean top down to like the 2nd node and wait for a few side branches to pop some balls into a baggie over top of the balls and collect some pollen wait till the Blue Thai is almost finished and put some pollen in a bag on one bud and see ifn's I cant get some quality seed.

Weird thing, the laddies started changing scent with the male in the tent there. They were getting all sweet smelling and I mean mango fruit smell, very nice (compared to the skunk last run) and I took the male out and they stopped getting sweeter smelling and maybe even a hint of the danky cheese smell... very weird. They were pretty skanky cheese smelling there for a while until the male started to show balls thats when the sweet smell started and it wasn't subtle. The male plants definitely smell a lot different than the females - I wonder if the ladies can sense there's a male in the house!!?? If so how??

Kinda makes we wonder if it wouldn't be beneficial to have a premature male around during flower to boost trichome and flower output??? Just a thought .. you know most ladies like a good man around to keep them "happy", could it be the plants put out pheromones that change the growth pattern??? Figure out a way to harness/harvest male pheromones without the pollen to make those big nugs even bigger and fatter and sweeter tasting for us?? .... off to google.. .maybe someone else figured this one out (I bet yes).

EDIT: Hey hey.. there's some science behind my hunch... off to read the interwebs.....

 

[drcannabi]

re: Cottage 420's 2015 Organic Grow With LOS & Kristalica - Sleestack x Skunk1

Very interesting Bo.

I never thought of that type of interaction in the plant kingdom but heck is true in almost every kingdom, so why not mmj.

It'll be interesting to hear what you find out.

On another note, do you have a good recipe for a flowering AACT? I think I burned my Laos with a little to much poo and need to get the old SFW healthy.

Thanks!

 

[bobrown14]

re: Cottage 420's 2015 Organic Grow With LOS & Kristalica - Sleestack x Skunk1

Hey there Doc - I'm working on it ... Me gots some brain freeze going now tho so its off to the smoking room with me and my gal and ahem my new buddy! (the male plant is in the smoking room/sun porch). My dog is barking for his buds too, sheesh. I turned the tide on my best friend my dog (he's 13) and now I'm the "best friend", he LOVES nuggets so I give him a few of the popcorns he gobbles them up and goes and lye's down and listens to the music playin.

The last ACT I brewed was pretty much all vermicompost aka worm casting from my outside bin from last year including young worms and light on the BSM. I'm not putting any nitrogen source in the ACT but I've topped dress with a few (10-20) rabbit berries at a month into flower. Not sure if its helping but not seeing any bad signs either. Whenever I see any sign of issues I just water until I feel better then resume SST ACT. I'm pretty sure at this point in flower (30+ days to go), I'm thinking the ACT is going to be helping the next round not this one and am concentrating on SST teas now. I've got some sprouts going at different stages and I'm going to see if I cant push the limits with the SST to see if I cant find the point where too much is just enough!

My last run I was doing ACT all the way to finish (and heavy on the BSM) up to the last 2 weeks then just water and I did very well but didn't do any SST. My soil this run is fantastic so I think I'm going to do more SST than ACT up to finish. I will be doing the ACT with the super Microbulator (man that pump is loud) for the outdoor plants so there will be some for the girls for sure.

 

[drcannabi]

re: Cottage 420's 2015 Organic Grow With LOS & Kristalica - Sleestack x Skunk1

Very cool Bo, I'm looking forward to how it turns out with the SST. I got a little carried awaye with the sea bird guano lol. I love that stuff, maybe a little to much lol.

 

[ClosedCircuit]

re: Cottage 420's 2015 Organic Grow With LOS & Kristalica - Sleestack x Skunk1

You potblocked your plants and now they are displeased with you bob