Conradino23
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Hey man, can we just rewind a bit, cause I got lost? 
So DT smokes like a Thai and finishes in 60 days or it's another strain?
So DT smokes like a Thai and finishes in 60 days or it's another strain?
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kelticBlue
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This is yes and more yes thx for the inspiration all those skinny sativa leaves are beautiful.
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Hey there Woody - yeah got a new camera... how could you tell?? hahahahaha... Got a Nikon D3400 DSLR... it's basically the same deal as the point and shoot cameras but has other added gadgets.. I'm got a Dummies book for the camera so I'm learning.
It's not cheap but it was in the top 10 DSLR camera review where every other camera was in the thousands of dollar price range and this one is not even close. It's considered entry level DSLR but it takes pretty good pics, I added another lens that works better for close up flower pics. We grow a lot of flowers in our outdoor gardens and my wife loves taking pictures of her flowers and her point and shoot (Cannon power shot) is at the end of it's life but still takes great pics. It was time to upgrade. I like the point and shoot for the ease of it all but I want to step it up if I can! I have a good eye, just don't know all the ins and outs of whats possible
I've got a lot to learn or re-learn, I used to mess around a lot with film SLR cameras back in the day but mostly did black and white.
Black and white photography is a great tool to learn to take better pics... I should get back to basics with this new camera.
It's all buttons and computers now... used to be all mechanical and I was good with that.. not so much with the computer driven gear. I just need to figure out what the mechanical equivalents are in the digital world. prolly just better off smoking some weed and taking some pics and go from there! Yeah... that's what I'm going to do. Thanks for the tip there Woody!
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I don't think you can hurt anything with a horsetail fern tea. It's basically silica in spades. There's a little more to it but I've made teas with a full jar of horsetail and put a 1/2 cup to a gallon and foiler sprayed it on..
I'd check with Doc tho he's got some specific ideas about silica and when it should be applied. \
I "mainly" apply in VEG and I "think" that's his suggestion for silica but I also do it in flower but its not the main objective for me, just a "cant hurt" thing. I'm usually foiler spraying everything with IPM so I just keep a jar in the fridge and add in every IPM. Spray VEG plants and Flower plants at the same time with same ingredients.
The silica helps the plants immune system so that in turn helps fight off the PM/molds.
I get lost trying to even figure out the camera I have,, a Canon Power Shot. Imagine that,, It's the first kind of real camera I've had since 35 MM ones back in the 80's. Mine is getting kind of old,, I was thinking of another Cannon maybe the Rebel... I like the name.. But I did just look at the one you got. It has an onboard macro right? I kind of like what I've had, but it's kind of cursed,,, I dropped it off a 6' step ladder the first week I had it. Alittle repair later,, I've shot alot of pictures with it. A new set of batteries always helps. One day.. Alittle more than I want to spend for now but, I had a piece of dirt,,, probably some resin ball stuck in the lens and it woodn't move. I've used gummy fingers and the card won't come out anymore unless I pop it myself, but it still works. I want something with a good macro lens, something you can change lens with. Not that I take alot of pictures of anything but pot anyways.
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Hey man, can we just rewind a bit, cause I got lost?
Hey there Conrad.. yes it smokes like a Thai and gets me plastered... face plant don't remember ....
I've had plants that finish in 60 days but this round only 1 was somewhat ready at 60 days. This is all from clones I took from the first round and I selected from a fast finisher big gold lady. I'm letting them go a little longer than 60 days although one of them I could have chopped at 60 days.
I don't have a replacement ready or I'd have chopped her. So it won't hurt letting them go a little longer than usual. Maybe tame that high a little! It's racy to say the least.... took me a good month or so to get used to it!
The genetics are:
Devils Tit: Mendocino Durban Poison x Acapulco Gold x C99 (male)
I think the C99 gives it that fast finish but it's not really a Thai plant although it sure looks like one! I selected cuts from the most Sativa leaning female from my first round. Wish I had kept the males.
Each successive round the plants are getting taller and larger. The only reason for roping is the plants grew past the lights and I wasn't here to tie them down. Had to do it after the plants were hitting the roof above the lamps as we were out of country during the stretch.
Hey there Woody - yeah got a new camera... how could you tell?? hahahahaha... Got a Nikon D3400 DSLR... it's basically the same deal as the point and shoot cameras but has other added gadgets.. I'm got a Dummies book for the camera so I'm learning.
It's not cheap but it was in the top 10 DSLR camera review where every other camera was in the thousands of dollar price range and this one is not even close. It's considered entry level DSLR but it takes pretty good pics, I added another lens that works better for close up flower pics. We grow a lot of flowers in our outdoor gardens and my wife loves taking pictures of her flowers and her point and shoot (Cannon power shot) is at the end of it's life but still takes great pics. It was time to upgrade. I like the point and shoot for the ease of it all but I want to step it up if I can! I have a good eye, just don't know all the ins and outs of whats possible
I've got a lot to learn or re-learn, I used to mess around a lot with film SLR cameras back in the day but mostly did black and white.
Black and white photography is a great tool to learn to take better pics... I should get back to basics with this new camera.
It's all buttons and computers now... used to be all mechanical and I was good with that.. not so much with the computer driven gear. I just need to figure out what the mechanical equivalents are in the digital world. prolly just better off smoking some weed and taking some pics and go from there! Yeah... that's what I'm going to do. Thanks for the tip there Woody!
Your talk of cameras made memention to the daughter that she still didn't have that DSLRshe wanted as a graduation present. We went out to best buy expecting to buy the Nikon D3400, but neither of the Nikon lenses seemed to focus well in autofocus and wouldn't manually focus - so she ended up bringing home the Canon EOS Rebel T6i with the standard 18-55mm lens and the 55-250mm for $100 more .
The daughter is real pleased I stopped reading in mid thread and took her out to buy her a camera. (I think she slept with the camera
)Thanks guys
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Today we did an ACT - aerated compost tea.. although not really any compost just mainly "found" earthworm castings.
By "found" - we walk the dog in an old growth forest close to our home, and there's EWC EVERYWHERE.. We take a 3gal homer bucket and a scoop... in 15 minutes a full bucket of EWC from the forest floor. The worms are mainly European Night Crawlers (the big fat ones).
In our compost bins we have red wigglers ...
Red wigglers stay close to the surface and mass up...
Euro Crawlers - dig deeper into the heap or soil
ACT recipe for today:
EWC (1cup)
Dried horsetail fern (1cup)
malted barley (1oz) ground to fine powder
Filtered water 4 gallons.
Aerated for 24 hrs... was a nice brown tea color when watered in. Going to spruce up the micro herd a little. I think I've only done 1 ACT was way early in this round...
Anyone that wants to try Malted Barley ground to a fine powder. What I do is grind it fine 1oz (weighed) and into 1gal RO water and water in.
There's a benefit I almost forgot about. The malted barley will shorten the flowering period by 20-25% - that's a big deal for me.
OK some pics.. messing with our new camera and I have no idea what I'm doing ... I keep forgetting to puff first.
Anywho, here's a close up of the DT#1 I posted in the eye candy thread. This is a side bud thats actually propped up by the hardware around DT#2... I let these girls do their thing and they got the room a little messy. Imagine that.
DT#3 - this one I moved to her own space just to see how large she is indoors. She's a good 7' tall almost 4' wide and the other 2 DT's are larger! I can't wait to get these dried and cured. I'm not in any hurry like I usually am to chop as my VEG room was pretty sparse for a month or 2 but I'm ramping back up.
Chem-Dawg clone there in the front just getting going no flowers yet but getting close! I have another Chem-D in the back but she's tucked in under the big DT's and has been in flower for a week or so.. I let her go to see if she would reach up to the lights and fight her way thru.. she's finally poking here flowers up into the light. pics to come on that.
DT #1 - main stem... she's tied to the back wall and even at that she's "raising the roof" yeah u right. that main cola is huge...
she's shakin n bakin
This is looking more and more like a pure sativa ... could go a long time. Equatorial Sativas can go 6 months in flower... I'll have to look into the way they grew the Acapulco Gold back in the day.
DT #3 close up:
DT #1 close up of side branch flowers:
DT #1 closer upper side branch... cant take pics of the main cola top, it's outta site above the lights!
DT - low down nug shot:
Messing with my camera... it's a fish unicorn...
No, it's a pepper.. ^^^ it's the green one in the middle of this pic vvvv
By "found" - we walk the dog in an old growth forest close to our home, and there's EWC EVERYWHERE.. We take a 3gal homer bucket and a scoop... in 15 minutes a full bucket of EWC from the forest floor. The worms are mainly European Night Crawlers (the big fat ones).
In our compost bins we have red wigglers ...
Red wigglers stay close to the surface and mass up...
Euro Crawlers - dig deeper into the heap or soil
ACT recipe for today:
EWC (1cup)
Dried horsetail fern (1cup)
malted barley (1oz) ground to fine powder
Filtered water 4 gallons.
Aerated for 24 hrs... was a nice brown tea color when watered in. Going to spruce up the micro herd a little. I think I've only done 1 ACT was way early in this round...
Anyone that wants to try Malted Barley ground to a fine powder. What I do is grind it fine 1oz (weighed) and into 1gal RO water and water in.
There's a benefit I almost forgot about. The malted barley will shorten the flowering period by 20-25% - that's a big deal for me.
OK some pics.. messing with our new camera and I have no idea what I'm doing ... I keep forgetting to puff first.
Anywho, here's a close up of the DT#1 I posted in the eye candy thread. This is a side bud thats actually propped up by the hardware around DT#2... I let these girls do their thing and they got the room a little messy. Imagine that.
DT#3 - this one I moved to her own space just to see how large she is indoors. She's a good 7' tall almost 4' wide and the other 2 DT's are larger! I can't wait to get these dried and cured. I'm not in any hurry like I usually am to chop as my VEG room was pretty sparse for a month or 2 but I'm ramping back up.
Chem-Dawg clone there in the front just getting going no flowers yet but getting close! I have another Chem-D in the back but she's tucked in under the big DT's and has been in flower for a week or so.. I let her go to see if she would reach up to the lights and fight her way thru.. she's finally poking here flowers up into the light. pics to come on that.
DT #1 - main stem... she's tied to the back wall and even at that she's "raising the roof" yeah u right. that main cola is huge...
she's shakin n bakin
This is looking more and more like a pure sativa ... could go a long time. Equatorial Sativas can go 6 months in flower... I'll have to look into the way they grew the Acapulco Gold back in the day.
DT #3 close up:
DT #1 close up of side branch flowers:
DT #1 closer upper side branch... cant take pics of the main cola top, it's outta site above the lights!
DT - low down nug shot:
Messing with my camera... it's a fish unicorn...
No, it's a pepper.. ^^^ it's the green one in the middle of this pic vvvv
Should be an interesting sativa, cant wait for a smoke report.
kelticBlue
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New Camera looking good.
Just an FYI when I shoot under the COBs I use the 'tungsten light' setting, I think it is 3000k. If I recall you white balance manually ? That beats all, I should not be so lazy all the time.
I am planning to go collect some local earthworm poops again this year, thanks to you.
Just an FYI when I shoot under the COBs I use the 'tungsten light' setting, I think it is 3000k. If I recall you white balance manually ? That beats all, I should not be so lazy all the time.
I am planning to go collect some local earthworm poops again this year, thanks to you.
Nice colas there.
I'm wondering if any of you have EWC experience with the larger African Superworms. My little red wigglers just don't seem to be very active this summer in the veg area with consistent daytime highs of 82-84 degrees. They are not keeping up with the cannabis leaves, I probably have close to 5 gallons of unprocesssed leaves. They are still alive, but seem to be slow eaters. I'm guessing the big African worms might better enjoy the heat, but I'm wondering if they will be able to navigate the 1/4" plastic grating between the different worm trays in my Worm Factory 360.
I'm wondering if any of you have EWC experience with the larger African Superworms. My little red wigglers just don't seem to be very active this summer in the veg area with consistent daytime highs of 82-84 degrees. They are not keeping up with the cannabis leaves, I probably have close to 5 gallons of unprocesssed leaves. They are still alive, but seem to be slow eaters. I'm guessing the big African worms might better enjoy the heat, but I'm wondering if they will be able to navigate the 1/4" plastic grating between the different worm trays in my Worm Factory 360.
That is going to be my next undertaking...getting a worm farm going. After the xmas vacation I will start working on one. How much do you generally get from yours Radagast?
Bob, question....you said the malted barley reduces the flower time, how does it do that? Not doubting, just trying to understand.
It's hard to say - maybe 2-4 gallons of earth worm castings a year. The advantage to me is mostly the stealth disposal of 2 gallons of leaves and stems every month. The only thing that regularly leaves my grow room is water and bud
Every couple of years I need to dispose of 10 cubic feet of spent soil, but I have dug and moved at least 6 times that amount of soil in my outdoor landscaping this year, so spreading soil around in my yard is something the neighbors expect to see.
New camera has nice macro....looking great! 
Mister BBrown,,, you been smoking to much of your product........ A fish unicorn????? Hey here's my attemp to put some class in a picture,,, even if it sucks................
BTW see the artister??????????
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Hey Rad.. yeah the red wigglers go dormant with heat and cold... We run a different worm bin than you, basically a compost bin 70 gal and 170 gal.
That setup takes a bit longer to get hot enough for the wigglers to take a break due to basically soil mass. The Euro crawlers want to dig deeper... so in our setup we have both, the red wigglers are at the top in mass and the Euro's dig deeper and compost the mostly already composted compost... if that makes any sense... for worm bins like you use the red wigglers should be the best bet.
I just dump all my leaves in the bin along with a big harvest of comfrey. I'm talking fill the 70gal container up to the top over flowing, in 3-4 days its back to less than 1/2 full .... I get itchy just thinking about it. There's a lot of activity in there, more than worms for sure.
Rad what you do is harvesting worm castings, in our setup we are harvesting compost... very very small difference, and I supplement my soil mix with "found" EWC along with our compost. We get the euro castings from the forest and mix that in with the soil mix, top dress and ACT.
At the end of my bins life cycle, we put all the compost thru a 1/2" screen frame into a wheel barrow. puttin the ARM in fARMing as you will. At the end of the day... plants gone wild! We take that compost and mix with CSPM 1:1 add in amendments and use that mix for our "mulch" for our outdoor gardens. Amazing results ... outdoors and indoors. I use the compost as "part" of my humus portion indoors. Worm castings being the other part of the humus mix.
If you want to fire up the Reds ... add in several cups of Kelp Meal.. and some rock dust (helps with the digestion and the final product).
I've been throwing in a fair amount of crab shell meal, and karanga and neem meal .. it's all good and the output is only as good and the input... doesn't matter how you're composting.
These little tweaks don't seem like much but I look at the composting the same as our soils... this is where I pay the most attention, to the inputs to our compost.
Kelp meal is gold!
The worms will love you.
Thank you, I've been forgetting the rock dust for the last 5 months or so. It might be the lack of rock dost and the boring cannabis leaf diet that is slowing these worms down. I'll also look for kelp meal. I have a HUGE canteloupe that should be ready to harvest soon so I know they'll enjoy those scraps.
Thank you!
TheFertilizer
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Hey Bob, how do you recognize the ewc put in the woods?
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I did a write up on it a few years ago... look for dead decaying logs limbs on the forest floor, beside the limbs and dead trees there will be lots and lots of pure castings. This forest we are in is part of a very old park and part of it is an old growth forest and the rest is 2nd growth forest....all several hundred years old. The park we go to dates back to 1844 as a city park. Some trees are a lot older..
Yeah so when we go for a walk, we walk with the giants... well east coat giants anyway. The forest floor always amazes me. I'm always on the lookout for cool stuff. In these older growth forests, if you look close enough, the whole forest floor is basically one big giant worm bin, castings are literally everywhere. Easy pickings beside the logs. Fall is here now (kinda even tho it's been in the mid 80s and 100% RH yuk - AC is back on).
Leaves are beginning to fall, so a little harder to find. I have a few places I go back to all the time so I just brush some leaves away and scoop up a bucket or 3. Once you see the castings, it becomes pretty apparent they are everywhere.
Worm castings in the woods.... one of my favorite pass-times... of course my dog and wife tag a long wondering WTF is so interesting .... hahaha
Click on this link to my post with pics VVVVV
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