Love the visual bob. I grew up with a cottage in Irondale, just west of Gooderham. We used to go to Bills Hills in the 80s in Wilberforce to watch the hillclimbs. I loved my summers north with my parents. That cottage is gone now, luckily my brother couldn't get enough and now he's waterfront in Haliburton. Look me up on your way up this summer, love to tie into one and show you a few good bass holes! Plus.....now it's way more fun with all the toys.
Congrats on another harvest bob. Looking good. Just opposite here w/ rH.....tropical moisture all month (same that caused SoCal mudslides) 60's rH in dry area so usual 3-5 day hang went 8-12. Actually nice result...not something I can count on very often out here though.
The Stankmon said:
MJ said:
thanks bud... welcome aboard to the train to the outer reaches of our universe, as we know it ... Jim! I'm high again!Biggy said:
Whats going on with the kelp meal is it is composting. The smell will go away pretty quick. The smell is a sign your soil is alive. Once the smell goes away you will be good. Some greens are actually what we call green manures - Comfrey, kelp, nettles ... to name a few. They will smell very similar to brown manure during the composting process, but they break down a lot faster than brown manures.
It wont stink too long. Just leave the lid on for 4-5 days make sure there's adequate ventilation. Prop the lid open an inch or so, probably too wet in the container. Stir it up a little and prop lid open, with the bokashi you shouldn't have a smell. It's not mold that is hyphae and bacteria working. Mold is completely different and not good.
Take a picture and post it. Mold will turn dark grey ...
I usually compost my soils outdoors then bring them in after the breakdown is done. I never smell anything... kelp will smell a little but it should smell like the ocean or the beach more than manure.
Depending on what you are doing mixing soil there should be no smell or smell like soil.. it it smells like shit its probably too wet prop the lid open and give it a stir.
Vermicomposting with worms you will need a fair amount of ventilation. Still very little to no smell.
Smells sometimes come from anaerobic bacteria - this is not good for soils or plants.
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Yeah I'm still in catch-up. Chopped DT #6 today and up-potted a Chem mother plant I had that was in fad in VEG. Hopefully she will come back around or I will loose that genetic. I did take a few cuts and I'm certain she will bounce back and thrive. The cuts are a pain in the ass to get going, taking a month to grow roots etc.
I took pics today .. more to come.
Will weigh up DT #7 and post pics tomorrow.
Puffing on a test bud of I think its Ghost Train Haze that I left out in a dish to dry. Shit is straight up total frost nugget - turned silvery green and tastes like mint with chocolate under tones and then mouth coated with a lemon pledge flavor. Very chemy after taste. Interesting... nothing like the first test buds I was puffing on a few weeks ago.
I've been a little stressed today with a bunch of work I'm doing in the garden, so sitting down and taking a puff or 3, I'm feeling much better.
Wife and I are sipping a glass of red wine and I'm thinking the tastes are 180 degrees apart. Must try white wine next time. Wait, puff some more, I'm feeling a flavor meld event coming on..... I can feel it... chem taste & now mouth numb. GTH = not too bad... eyes are probably red white and blue slits right now.
GTH = Good... very good. Strain saving good..... didn't take cuts (thinking of Woody) . I have a handful of seeds tho!
I high A/F
Love tht lil pmb u got there and what is ur veg light schedule wonder y she started flowering like an auto?? But either way I'm sure u will turn her into sumthn magnificent like always lol.Yeah buddy - I like it very much and my friends are asking for more. My friends that are used to puffing my weeds too so it can't be too bad. It's got everything really. Great taste and smell, gets me felling mighty fine and not edgy like some Sativa can, and just drops me off gently leaving me wanting to take another trip on the Ghost Train... yeah it's good.
Doesn't have that big bag appeal but once you try it, you won't care.
Chopped my Lab #1 today. Wow she was bulked up and sticky A/F. Hung her on the hook to take off most of the fans and had to go fetch a bottle of Iso Alkey-haul and had to keep wiping down my hands and trimmers. Drying room smells like Lemon funk. I got pretty high just breathing in the terpines while trimming off the fans.
To dry plants I just cut em down with loppers, hang em on a hook it the kitchen doorway and trim off most all the fan leaves so the flowers dry a little faster. I don't have ac or any fancy drying box... I'd need a 4x4 tent for that .. OH, that's a great idea I'll need another fan .. have a filter already.
Anyway - so I just hang the plants upside down the whole thing if I can. The plants are still alive... even tho we cut them down they are not dead. Otherwise clones wouldn't be a thing... food for thought.
So I like to let the just hang upside down and let the plant figure out whats going on. All good. We humans have been working with this plant for several thousand years. Much like Bison, they know whats coming and why I don't fvck with my plants much at all. Messing and touching is stressful for them and the plants have pheromones they release when they are being messed with and all the other plants close by pick up on them and make appropriate corrections (make themselves taste bad). More food for thought. Why you sometimes or oft-times see only 1 plant having and infestation while all the other plants are OK. Evasive action based on neighboring plant pheromones. I want my plants focused on flower production not evasive actions, and specially not to me.
Not BS....
Here's my little PMB #2 that went into flower like an AUTO.. she's going to go purple. Little tiny thing .... for now!
Next up for chop is Lab #3 and Dolato #1 - she has been in the corner all by herself, I've not even got to get a close look until today. ooohhh la la.. some frosty girl! Yay.
Gettin kinda caught up... 1 round finishing and another getting going. Still a lot of work yet to do. Thankfully I don't have to mix soils!! Woohooo.
Hey Fert - I'll go check out your journal - did a quick drive by and just take her easy.. water for the win for a few more days. EWC/kelp meal is your friend.
I get plants that look a lot worse in VEG and I don't care ... Spinosad will have no effect on the plant/leaf growth. Add in some Kelp tea to you spray... you are spraying the leaves with the spinosad right?
I'll do another pass thru tomorrow... been puffing some Dolato freshies that taste like paint thinner and lemons.... hahahaha geeze...
Try this out: It has a nice paint thinner inhale, followed by a beautiful lemon pledge after taste and a mouth coating of some kinda funky soil sludge.
OYE.. still good & still puffing.
Freshies are whats for my brain!
My brain on freshies.....
Pics to come!
