Re: Magnus' Summer Outdoor - Soil 15 AK47, Crit Mass, Ice Bomb, NL, Big Bud, Pin Expr
Hi All!!!
Hope you are all doing well on this late Friday evening.
I'll try to keep the writing to a minimum here tonight because I'm already tired and want to go to bed (after an episode of Buffy; just picked up the first season as a bit of a treat for myself this month). So let's try to keep it just to plant porn tonight, eh?
Okay, so I made some compost tea today. Well, I mixed it up and set it to go. It'll take about 2 days before it is finished. But I've got pics of all the ingredients for you so that you can learn how to make it for yourself...
The first ingredient is cow manure. I use about 6 cups of the shit (pun intended).
Worm castings. Basically worm shit. How do they get that stuff, I ask you... Do they run their fingers along the length of that slimy creature, squeezing the shit out of them? 3 cups.
Oatmeal -- and not the quick cooking kind, either! One cup.
Mychorrizae. Brilliant microscopic organisms for the roots of your plants. 2 tablespoons.
Sea Kelp. Basically just a form of seaweed. Smells like it too. 1/2 cup.
Bat guano. Or, bat shit. 3/4 cup.
Black earth humates. Not quite sure what this stuff is, but it seems to work, and that's what counts. 3/4 cup.
Molasses. Simple ingredient that you can get from the grocery store. 1/2 litre.
Now, take all ingredients, mix them together, stuff into the foot of a good pair of nylon stockings. Suspend this stocking into the water and let the bubbler take care of the rest. More pics below...
This is the size of pail I use for those ingredients. Notice that I have a broom handle laying across the top of my compost tea. The nylon stocking is tied to this to suspend it in the water below, where the bubbling action is taking place.
I forgot to mention that you add the molasses to the water after the nylon stocking has been suspended into it. This broom stick will hold it steady and up for the full 2 day duration.
I took this pic to show you how there are two air hoses coming from the bubbler into the mix. One of those bubbler rocks is actually stuffed into the nylon stocking and deep into the manure mix. Having a bubbler rock inside the manure helps to bubble the good manure vitamins and good bacteria and other organisms out into the water. It really does help a lot.
In this pic, all the ingredients are stuffed into the nylon and about to be submerged into it.
Here is the birds eye view. You can easily see the nylon with the ingredients and the bubbler rock tied to the broom handle and the two bubbler rocks (the other one is set on the floor of the pail) working away.
BUT WAIT -- THERE'S MORE!!! THERE IS... WAIT FOR IT... PLANT PORN BELOW!!!
These are by far my two biggest plants, not necessarily in height, but in dearth. The first one is a CBD Critical Mass, started this spring from seed. WOW. The second one is a Pineapple Express, which I am really looking forward to.
This first one above is a Big Bud. I'm really looking forward to seeing if what they say it true about these plants, basically that their buds get so big and heavy that you often have to prop up the individual colas... Now, wouldn't that be a nice haul?
This first, kinda small (relatively!) plant is my AK-47, grown from seed (and it was a freebie, too). All the rest of the plants up here are unknown as to what they are. Unfortunately, all the markings wore off the popsicle sticks I used to keep track of them.
These next plants are all the ones I didn't have big growing boxes or holes in the ground for. So they have all been living either in fabric bags or regular -- large -- pots. You'll note how much smaller and less thriving they are. But each one holds its own, for the most part, and they will all give a certain amount of yield. Each of them is like a large indoor plant, if truth be told, and I suspect each will give quite a bit of gold at the end of the game.
Enuf talk. Let's look.
And these next two plants are the ones I put into flower about 1.5 weeks ago, coming along nicely with their cycle and they're going to produce a lot of weed, I suspect, for their size. I cannot even imagine how much weed I'm going to get from my eight plants in the big planters and the holes in the ground!
Okay, so there we have it -- all the plants I am currently growing. Want to point out that all but the Critical Mass and the AK-47 are all grown from my own clones. I waited to clip the snippings from the 4 mother plants until they were all in flower so that I would end up with all my clones being monster cropped. And can't you tell that they're all monster cropped? All those colas on each plant... None of them growing in the traditional christmas tree fashion, either. Am I a fan of monster cropping? You betcha!!! I mean, look at all those colas. Now try to count all the little suckers you can see.
One point of interest from today: found one plant that was actually about 4 inches taller than me!
So there's your pictorial overload for the night, eh? Hope you've enjoyed the show. And I do hope some of you will try to make some compost tea for your plants (it's also good for all those plants in your garden, like your strawberries and your tomatoes).
Looking forward to hearing what you have to say. And btw -- these pics were taken before watering tonight, so they're all a little droopy, some moreso than others.
One little side note: All the plants in the wooden planters and the 2 in the holes in the ground (in other words, all the biggest plants) are now consuming between 3 and 4 gallons of water per day (not accounting for evaporation, mind you. I'm sure some of that water is going up into the atmosphere).
On the book front, I came up with a brilliant idea tonight. I've decided to hold a series of virtual book events. These will be webinars, or meetings on the web, that I will invite scores and scores of bookstore owners and managers to. I will give a brief reading from Finding Max at them (reading the first chapter) and then hold a meeting with questions from the participants and basically marketing the book to all these bookstore owners that I otherwise would never have met.
I think it is a brilliant idea.
Market to the people who will be tasked with marketing books at their respective bookstores. Simple. Elegant. Brilliant.
And if anyone else has any other ideas on how I can make Finding Max into the success I believe it should be, then please don't hesitate to suggest your ideas to me. I need all the help I can get...
So be well, all of you. Sleep tight, and don't let the bedbugs consume your dead layers of skin (that's what they do).
Magnus.
No idea though.
Hoping best buds for you
