Coach PJ, I received a few things in the mail this weekend & as soon as I go pick up some more soil we can start.
PeeJay's Prudent Home-Brewed Organic Soil - Outdoor Out of Sight Deck Grow
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Update:
Temperatures have been on the warm side this week. Humidity has been decent. The plants are getting pretty big. The greenhouse is 6'x6'. I lose two feet along one side because I have junk in there, too. Here are a couple of family photos. I stood on a milk crate for the first one. Useable space is 4'x6'. It would be a tight fit for these two in a 4'x'4' tent. It's getting difficult to take whole plant pictures while standing inside the greenhouse.
Beta is looking good.
And, she is starting to flower. It is about 14 hours and 10 minutes between sunrise and sunset right now.
Alpha is also growing rapidly. Not flowering yet.
These plants have now been in the soil for going on eight weeks with just water. I've started top dressing at each water with a mixture of 3 cups fresh flowering soil, 3 cups of worm castings, 1 cup of Yum-Yum, 2 Tb of high P guano, and 2TB of Panca clay. I don't use that full amount - just a couple of handfuls scratched into the top of the soil. The mix is super bioactive. I moistened it and let it sit a few days and it has a rich loamy aroma.
Lots of lacewings in the garden. These guys are great. They eat mites and aphids. The real bonus is when they lay eggs. Their nymphs are real mite and aphid pigs. Unfortunately, I've been spraying with chitin, rosemary and citronella. Not much chance of the nymphs surviving on the plants.
Temperatures have been on the warm side this week. Humidity has been decent. The plants are getting pretty big. The greenhouse is 6'x6'. I lose two feet along one side because I have junk in there, too. Here are a couple of family photos. I stood on a milk crate for the first one. Useable space is 4'x6'. It would be a tight fit for these two in a 4'x'4' tent. It's getting difficult to take whole plant pictures while standing inside the greenhouse.
Beta is looking good.
And, she is starting to flower. It is about 14 hours and 10 minutes between sunrise and sunset right now.
Alpha is also growing rapidly. Not flowering yet.
These plants have now been in the soil for going on eight weeks with just water. I've started top dressing at each water with a mixture of 3 cups fresh flowering soil, 3 cups of worm castings, 1 cup of Yum-Yum, 2 Tb of high P guano, and 2TB of Panca clay. I don't use that full amount - just a couple of handfuls scratched into the top of the soil. The mix is super bioactive. I moistened it and let it sit a few days and it has a rich loamy aroma.
Lots of lacewings in the garden. These guys are great. They eat mites and aphids. The real bonus is when they lay eggs. Their nymphs are real mite and aphid pigs. Unfortunately, I've been spraying with chitin, rosemary and citronella. Not much chance of the nymphs surviving on the plants.
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Updated progression.
6/12 ~ one week after the plants were moved into bigger pots and moved out onto the deck.
On 6/16 alpha is growing well, and beta takes a beat down.
On 6-20, Alpha is wearing a disguise. Beta is starting to bounce back from the beating. Plants have been plagued by very hot extremely dry conditions for a couple of weeks straight.
Increased humidity and cooler temperatures arrived ~ 6/28. Here are the plants on 6/30.
Here we are on 7/7 the day the plants moved into the greenhouse.
Which brings us up to yesterday morning, 7/15.
7/23. Temperatures have been a little warm. Growth has been good. Beta is starting to flower.
LOL, I haven't been catching the size of those two in earlier pics. Dey Big! 
The next several weeks should be interesting.
The next several weeks should be interesting.
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Here you go, Gray. I set the timer on the camera and scrambled to get behind the plants.
Looking fantastic brotha! 
GardenFaerie
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Nice and healthy. You may consider tidying up that side of the ghouse with all the stuff. Insects can definitely nest around in that. Just fold everything and put it neat.
Love,
your mother
Love,
your mother
Teddy Edwards
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LOL. Thanks Mom. 
Actually, around the 1st of August all that stuff will be out of there - just have to wait another week-ten days. I have a storage solution on the way.
Actually, around the 1st of August all that stuff will be out of there - just have to wait another week-ten days. I have a storage solution on the way.
My birthday...
CCOiler
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Looking great PeeJay.
Happy early Birth (Bud) day BAR.
Happy early Birth (Bud) day BAR.
StreetDweller
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Looking good as usual, great pics
Conradino23
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Flowering already! Great man! Great!
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Alpha on Wednesday morning:
Alpha on Saturday morning:
Game on! There are a crap-ton of flower sites on her.
Alpha on Saturday morning:
Game on! There are a crap-ton of flower sites on her.
One pound one plant
7.9 oz in jars
8.1 trash
All manicured colas
California law allows 8 oz dried flower
7.9 oz in jars
8.1 trash
All manicured colas
California law allows 8 oz dried flower
GardenFaerie
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Wow, those are some of the healthiest plants I have seen on this forum by anyone. Very nice. It's your soil, peege.
That yum yum is the ticket. I plan on purchasing some soonish.
Excellent work with your plant. She is nice and symmetrical. 
Governmentchz
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Sweet, I'm in time for the magic. model grow peej.