re: Cottage 420's 2015 Organic Grow With LOS & Kristalica - Sleestack x Skunk1
Whoa! Beautiful plants and pics!
Whoa! Beautiful plants and pics!
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BB....... Whoa! That first picture is the Dark Devil? Oh yeah! Mine's not going to be as big as yours, what with your lights outpacing mine and my 11/13 schedule, but she's every bit as lovely. Your garden is so luscious. The Blue Thai is breathtakingly beautiful. I need to begin kelp foliars with my next batch.
When doing foliars, at what point in development do you discontinue them?
I like the way you hang them upside down as a whole plant. That's actually the way my mother dried a plant someone cut down and gave her once years ago. In my gardener's brain, this makes better sense than dicing them up, but maybe that's because I always dried herbs like that, with as much attachment as possible until reasonably dried. What's your reasoning on that?
The only concern I would have is the impossibility of washing it at harvest. I know mine will have gnats stuck in there.
I look at your pictures and wonder why more growers aren't using living organic soil mixes. Look at them! On a scale of 1-10, how difficult were they to grow, to this point?
Nice cola formation
Have you looked at Krystallica's trichomes?
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Great trichome shots. Are you going for full couch-lock ?
Not going for couch lock at all actually. Although it seems to be popular around these parts!?? It's time to chop now, I'm just being lazy errr maybe locked to my couch!!
With that said I'll give m smoke report on my early harvest. It's been a couple weeks so pretty early but I've smoked a few fattys the last few daze. When I first light up I feel absolutely nothing, talking to my wife about "it's a "creeper" going to creep up on me after I smoke too much. But not to be let down, about the 3 hit my face warms up, I can feel my whole face getting warm like I'm having a serious hot flash but it's not going away and then I just start to giggle for no reason, followed by my entire body getting a tad warm but noticing all my aches and pains from the days work in the outdoor gardens disappear. Wow very strong and a bit racy too as I can feel my heart rate is slightly elevated. I cannot finish the joint. That was 2 nights in a row couldn't finish. Taste is smooth piney with a fruity finish and the smoke is dense - can't hit too hard or it's coughing until dizzy. So all in all I'm very happy with this grow/strain and I've got clones going so this will go a few more rounds.
Not going for couch lock at all actually. Although it seems to be popular around these parts!?? It's time to chop now, I'm just being lazy errr maybe locked to my couch!!
With that said I'll give m smoke report on my early harvest. It's been a couple weeks so pretty early but I've smoked a few fattys the last few daze. When I first light up I feel absolutely nothing, talking to my wife about "it's a "creeper" going to creep up on me after I smoke too much. But not to be let down, about the 3 hit my face warms up, I can feel my whole face getting warm like I'm having a serious hot flash but it's not going away and then I just start to giggle for no reason, followed by my entire body getting a tad warm but noticing all my aches and pains from the days work in the outdoor gardens disappear. Wow very strong and a bit racy too as I can feel my heart rate is slightly elevated. I cannot finish the joint. That was 2 nights in a row couldn't finish. Taste is smooth piney with a fruity finish and the smoke is dense - can't hit too hard or it's coughing until dizzy. So all in all I'm very happy with this grow/strain and I've got clones going so this will go a few more rounds.
Is this is a Blue Thai smoke report?
Hey there Ranger thanks for the reps. Someone once told me it's all about the genetics when getting the most of of the ladies. So yeah, the Krystalica has turned out real nice. I love smoking it too and very very easy to grow, they respond very well to proper treatment. For folks that like to train/LST and the like, this strain I think is made for that.
SS on the Malted Barley tea - I make a 3 1/2 gal pot of it - bubble for 6 hrs not too much and add a handful of nettle leaves and leave it sit with a towel covered (not the lid) as I want a small amount of air to get in there - actually I take the towel off 2x a day to let fresh air in. This mix can sit for several days, just don't want to make alcohol which you can smell (I used to brew beer so I know what fermenting barley smells like). With wild local yeasts and airborne bacteria, alcohol production takes a pretty long while to get going +1 week so the mix keeps ok in room temps. So I take 3-4 soup ladles full into a 1 gal container and fill with water. Top drench that mix. I did that 3 days in a row and well you can see what it did for the Blue Thai - they both took off as did the Kali-AK. Then just regular water for 2 waterings. Today I will check to see if the mix is still ok (no alcohol or vinegar smells), if its good I'll do another, if I smell and vinegar smell it goes to the compost bin and I'll start another batch.
Runnaway temps... yeah wow 98F yesterday that was hot but not all that humid. I turned on the AC this am tho, that should keep temps under control. Here were we live this time of year can get very hot and very humid QUICK. I really don't like AC, but on those dog days it's nice to have. Ladies don't seem to mind too much as long as they get adequate water EVERY day.
The ladies with yellow leaves are done... I'm chopping the other 2 down tonight when I get home.
They use up the stored nutrients in the leaves which is why the big fan leaves turn uniformly yellow (senescence). This process is completely normal and expected. Those yellow leaves turn directly into big buds. These plants usually shut down water intake which is my sign to chop but that has not happened with the last 2 plants yet!! But I'm chopping none the less.
I think I'm going to hang them in my bedroom - they smell very nice, my wife said "flowery" last night. Not like green canna at all. Kinda surprising actually, I don't have to worry much about my neighbors and smells!
Have you shared this method with BlueJay's thread? I ask because the general consensus over there is that you don't need to use an enzyme tea more often than once weekly, but you seem to have come up with the LOS equivalent of the HB CAT drench. Fascinating. I only have a couple weeks at most with my Dark Devil. Do you think she'd benefit from this? I don't have any nettles though, drat! I wonder if it would have a similar effect to do a simple malted barley grain/kelp meal tea over the three days?
edit: need to find some nettles