420Brother
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good looking mate, cheers.
you do have a way with words, i've told you before
be well my friend, best wishes
you do have a way with words, i've told you before
be well my friend, best wishes
Radogast 2 - Return of the Clones
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I left work early today and went to a combination fruit market, deli, flower stand just upriver from Boston past the old fish weir on the way to Watch City. At 60 degrees, it was the warmest day in six months. My wife was a bit stressed because .... Boston.
Pushing a full cart of groceries towards the parking lot, I jumped up and down pointing ....
Coast of Maine.... Coast of Maine .... they have Lobsta Compost !!!!
$9/cu. ft.
Pushing a full cart of groceries towards the parking lot, I jumped up and down pointing ....
Coast of Maine.... Coast of Maine .... they have Lobsta Compost !!!!
$9/cu. ft.
Kuddos Rad. Excellent find! WooHoo!!! Gonna feed some to your worms or use it all in your soil? Damn, you're going to have some seriously happy plants. 
xtrchessreal
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Your seedlings are looking greener! 
I see that you were thinking of cloning from your grandchildren...Do you not have mothers to clone from? I hope they come around soon,
sending clones some energy
~~~~~~~~~~~~~>>>>>>..........~~~~~~~get better clones~~~~~~~..........<<<<<<<~~~~~~~~~~~~
I see that you were thinking of cloning from your grandchildren...Do you not have mothers to clone from? I hope they come around soon,sending clones some energy
~~~~~~~~~~~~~>>>>>>..........~~~~~~~get better clones~~~~~~~..........<<<<<<<~~~~~~~~~~~~
All together now! ~~~~~~~~~~>>>>>..........~~~~~~~~~~get better clones ~~~~~~~~~~..........<<<<<~~~~~~~~~~
Made me think of Tinker Belle.
Made me think of Tinker Belle.
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Kuddos Rad. Excellent find! WooHoo!!! Gonna feed some to your worms or use it all in your soil? Damn, you're going to have some seriously happy plants.
I need about 1/3-1/2 bag per 10-gallon pot, with 50 gallons ready to mix soon. I am still missing pumice/aeration media and neem/pest control media.
I have enough cc mix, rock dust, peat moss, and now compost for 50 more gallons which I can find plants for within a month.
Eight 10-gallon pots should just about fill my 4x8' flowering room, leaving 20 gallons of cc mix for vegging.
Step by step Rad. Coming along nicely. I have that tent sneaking up on me mid month and I'm thinking about eventually going to 25-45 gallon pots/planters. Won't have enough money to buy everything until May but I can dream until then. Wait until you mix this soil up Rad. It's amazing to get your hands into. I'm so looking to mixing more.
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Your seedlings are looking greener!
sending clones some energy
~~~~~~~~~~~~~>>>>>>..........~~~~~~~get better clones~~~~~~~..........<<<<<<<~~~~~~~~~~~~
I was trying to do a motherless cloning series. My plan was just as I did last May:
Shortly before going 12/12, cut clones and flower out the mothers.
When the youngest clones are ready to flower, do it again. Repeat.
As long as I don't lose a whole generation, I keep the genetics alive without dedicated mothers.
At this point I just want to get clones out the current clones.
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Repotting day
Now that I have seedlings that are thriving, I moved the 5 remaining scraggly seedlings from last year into 1/2 gallon pots.
First I mixed some veg soil : 6 parts sphagnum peat moss, 3 parts lobster compost, 1 part potting soil, and rock dust.
I also stirred in some brook gravel drizzled in neem oil, and TM-7 (humic acid and nutes)
The transfer was a bit rough as the seeding soil crumbled and tore roots.
Once the seedlings were sitting on new moist soil, I sprinkled the root ball with powdered mycorrhizae and filled the pots.
The seeds in their new homes.
Three of the repotted seeds are unsexed, unknown breeder free seeds - making six of these in total.
Two feminized seeds, Borderline and AK47, join two unsexed Hawaiian Skunk - making four named seeds.
I used the remaining veg soil to host some Blueberry cuttings taken from the outside non-420 garden.
Now that I have seedlings that are thriving, I moved the 5 remaining scraggly seedlings from last year into 1/2 gallon pots.
First I mixed some veg soil : 6 parts sphagnum peat moss, 3 parts lobster compost, 1 part potting soil, and rock dust.
I also stirred in some brook gravel drizzled in neem oil, and TM-7 (humic acid and nutes)
The transfer was a bit rough as the seeding soil crumbled and tore roots.
Once the seedlings were sitting on new moist soil, I sprinkled the root ball with powdered mycorrhizae and filled the pots.
The seeds in their new homes.
Three of the repotted seeds are unsexed, unknown breeder free seeds - making six of these in total.
Two feminized seeds, Borderline and AK47, join two unsexed Hawaiian Skunk - making four named seeds.
I used the remaining veg soil to host some Blueberry cuttings taken from the outside non-420 garden.
The brook gravel is a nice touch Rad. Tell me you didn't wash off all the teeming life.
There's green growth going on Rad. I can see it! Time to rock!
Where are you planning the blueberry patch? Whoops. I should ask you on the other thread. Disregard that.
There's green growth going on Rad. I can see it! Time to rock!
Where are you planning the blueberry patch? Whoops. I should ask you on the other thread. Disregard that.
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The brook gravel is a nice touch Rad. Tell me you didn't wash off all the teeming life.
There's green growth going on Rad. I can see it! Time to rock!
Where are you planning the blueberry patch? Whoops. I should ask you on the other thread. Disregard that.
I was a bit concerned about brook gravel. It stems from me not being able to find pumice. I read that all the pumice on the East Coast comes from Greece, but no-one seems to carry pumice as a gardening or landscaping stone anymore. Anyway, I wanted something to act as drainage channels in the soil so that watering on top wouldn't just pudddle. The stones are too rounded to help with water retention.
The brook rocks aren't teeming with obvious life, because I washed the sand out the holes in the bottom of the pot I used for scooping.
Blueberry bushes will probably be used as a hedgerow defining the area in front of the rock waterfall that hasn't been built yet.
Any extra bushes will likely go on the west slope of the ledge or down by the brook in the lower meadow near the not yet planted willow tree.
We can talk about non-420 gardens in a grow journal, just not picture them
I got my pumice from BAS. Beautiful stuff. That's where I got the rice hulls too, to discover later what an excellent addition they were to the soil. I bought them because I loved the way they looked and knew I would like the way they felt. Silly woman! 
That addition was probably what makes my SWICK work so well. Worms love rice hulls too. Makes good bedding material. If you do a SWICK I recommend Home Depot on line for perlite (or do you already have some?). They sell a big bag for about $25-30 with the shipping. Can't find it in stores.
That addition was probably what makes my SWICK work so well. Worms love rice hulls too. Makes good bedding material. If you do a SWICK I recommend Home Depot on line for perlite (or do you already have some?). They sell a big bag for about $25-30 with the shipping. Can't find it in stores.
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I got my pumice from BAS. Beautiful stuff. That's where I got the rice hulls too, to discover later what an excellent addition they were to the soil. I bought them because I loved the way they looked and knew I would like the way they felt. Silly woman!
That addition was probably what makes my SWICK work so well. Worms love rice hulls too. Makes good bedding material. If you do a SWICK I recommend Home Depot on line for perlite (or do you already have some?). They sell a big bag for about $25-30 with the shipping. Can't find it in stores.
I can't buy all the pumice I want at BAS prices. I want 16 cubic feet for a swick.
I'm not a fan of perlite. Not aesthetically. Not environmentally. Not experientially.
Even theoretically: a migrating soil element that doesn't degrade to something useful is wrong for no-till.
Perlite works well for a SWICK though. I have no real use for it in LOS, or any soil for that matter. . It will probably bug the hell out of me to use it in HB soil, but I'm committed to doing it by the directions, at least for the first run. Lava rock - the kind they sell for landscaping - works well for the SWICK too. I can't believe they don't have it in the stores yet. It's not in stores here yet either.
Took me a while, but worth every bit. Sorry about the ongoing trials and tribs. I think there's light at the end of this tunnel.
One addition that I like for soil (in and out) is Azomite. Don't have the numbers on me, but the stuff's got everything. It's not a short-term solution though. None of the rock dusts are, so that's hardly a criticism.
You mentioned that you couldn't get to compost because of the snow/ice. Traditional (European) way of hastening thaw is sprinkling wood ashes over bed/field. This breaks up the surface sheen and lets the sun shine in. Beds need ash anyway, so having the thaw work it in for you is a nice double-whammy.
Thx for your adept use of word, wit and logic. A rare and delightful combination.
One addition that I like for soil (in and out) is Azomite. Don't have the numbers on me, but the stuff's got everything. It's not a short-term solution though. None of the rock dusts are, so that's hardly a criticism.
You mentioned that you couldn't get to compost because of the snow/ice. Traditional (European) way of hastening thaw is sprinkling wood ashes over bed/field. This breaks up the surface sheen and lets the sun shine in. Beds need ash anyway, so having the thaw work it in for you is a nice double-whammy.
Thx for your adept use of word, wit and logic. A rare and delightful combination.
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Thank you for the kind words, Ranger
I couldn't get to store bought compost because New England runs on a schedule. This weekend the ice cream stands were packed with people, even when it was 42 degrees outside.
Outdoors, I am a city boy trying to establish a no-till, perennial food and flower garden. In the fall, I get automated mulching from fallen leaves, fern dieback, etc. I have not now, nor ever plan to run a compost heap, but I have several acres of maple forest nearby to scavenge for leaf piles.
Indoors, I don't have wild nature to help out, so I'm looking towards Red Wiggler worms for compost. I'm also trying to grow weedy herbs like St.John's Wort, Dandelion, and Comfrey for soil feeding.
QUESTION:
I have a firepit outdoors that generates paper ash, a fireplace indoors that generates wood ash, and barbecue. Each generated about 10 gallons of ash last year. I don't know what to do with these. Any suggestions?
Yes! Use them for snow/ice melt as I described above (Post#817).
If you have already had a thaw, then save them for next year. This may sound a little weird, but store them covered, and do not look at them. When you go to strew them next Spring, you can look, but not before. This may be foolish superstition, or there may be something to it, but I'm religious about it. Even when I add new ashes to the ashcan, I'm careful not to look at what's already there.
Nice collection of glass, Brother. Must be fun to match herb w/appropriate pipe.
If you have already had a thaw, then save them for next year. This may sound a little weird, but store them covered, and do not look at them. When you go to strew them next Spring, you can look, but not before. This may be foolish superstition, or there may be something to it, but I'm religious about it. Even when I add new ashes to the ashcan, I'm careful not to look at what's already there.
Nice collection of glass, Brother. Must be fun to match herb w/appropriate pipe.
xtrchessreal
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Thank you for the kind words, Ranger
I couldn't get to store bought compost because New England runs on a schedule. This weekend the ice cream stands were packed with people, even when it was 42 degrees outside.
Outdoors, I am a city boy trying to establish a no-till, perennial food and flower garden. In the fall, I get automated mulching from fallen leaves, fern dieback, etc. I have not now, nor ever plan to run a compost heap, but I have several acres of maple forest nearby to scavenge for leaf piles.
Indoors, I don't have wild nature to help out, so I'm looking towards Red Wiggler worms for compost. I'm also trying to grow weedy herbs like St.John's Wort, Dandelion, and Comfrey for soil feeding.
QUESTION:
I have a firepit outdoors that generates paper ash, a fireplace indoors that generates wood ash, and barbecue. Each generated about 10 gallons of ash last year. I don't know what to do with these. Any suggestions?
I found this article from University of Illinois: Using Wood Ash in the Garden- U of I Extension
Ash is potash aka Potasium - K so yoo can use it for soil amendments but care must be taken about PH as it will raise the PH. But with the right balance of other amendments it could offset the PH back to 6 or 6.5 where you want to be.
I love that "don't look at them" admonition. There's probably something to it that defies our logical reasoning.
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I'm the family lightweight. But I hear the chatter "wind or water" "fast or slow."
Xtrchessreal,
Raising PH it's what did it. !!! I've been using the firepit ash to fight back against Virginia Creeper. I just read they prefer ph 5.1 to 7.0. Sounds like Virginia Creeper is a blueberry planting indicator species