Radogast's Hi-Brix Basement Grow - New Location - New Soil - New Experiences

That's alot for my sorry ass brain to digest............. But I've been known to go to the hardware store back home and buy ladybugs. I think it was 6 bucks for 1500 in a tube. Use to keep them in the fridge and spray them with alittle dishsoap so they couldn't fly away for acouple days........ They work great on things like aphids and such.. Not alot for most' growers pests' tho. Still a GOOD ALLY''''....

GL and Keepem Green
 
There is a TV series on Netflix - - Disjointed --- staring Cathy Bates and produced by Chuck Lorre (The Big Bang Theory) and David Javerbaum (The Daily Show with Jon Stewart)

The reviewers panned this show , 21% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The reviewers either have bad taste or were scared to give a positive review to stoner comedy.



The wife, the girl, and I were having a bad night and turned on episode 1 at about 11PM for something to fill the time while waiting for the boy to bring back fast food after a 3 hour fiasco with the pizza parlor (involving phone calls to and from corporate offices.)

So the wife is in a bad mood and everyone is hungry and we turned on episode 1 and watched the whole series back to back and enjoyed every episode.

It's a sitcom about an old activist running an LA pot dispensary.

It has basic sitcom charcters.

It hit every stoner stereotype right on the money and is funny as hell. :)

3 people watched in an all night marathon. 3 thumbs up. :thumb: :thumb: :thumb:
 
It's another brix foliar day :)

In the flower area


Haze x Kali China (57 days) - Was 4' now 3' tall and sprawling all over the place. She goes dry in the 3 days between drenches.

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Little buds, but I sort of like her :)

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Carnival (24 days) - Stretched from 17 to 31 inches - such a well behaved girl.

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Buds are just setting - she had her first cat drench today.

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Carnival - A pretty plant. Lost one leaf so far. A pleasant plant to grow and a very good smoke

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Guawi (39 days) - At 50" tall she looks like the cannabis equivalent of an Irish Wolfhound - shaggy and competent

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Her buds are developping but I suspect she has several more inches of stretch in her.

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The 3 largest in the veg area



Haze x Kali China looks so much happier than her mother in flower. I think she will enjoy the extra hempy water.

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UltraDawg a regular seed in soil, she doesn't seem to like the training - getting woody rather than growing strong.

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A Carnival in soil

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The garden is settling into it's groove again. Temperature and humidity are in great ranges. Veg area is starting to look productive :)



I bagged the reveg HSO Bubba's Gift - 8 grams after 4 months of reveg - a waste of time and space - but also a learning experience.

Also fully dry today, the last of the 'flowered in veg area' girls, HSO Amherst Sour Diesel for 16.6 grams. A small finish for a strain I never quite grew well but seemed to have potential. She smells good but not as dank as her mother.

These were my only two Humboldt Seed Organization seeds. Overall I'm disappointed. I smoked lots of good Humboldt County weed in the 70s.These seeds did not live up to my expectations. As I said, the Sour Diesel had potential, but I didn't get a great run from her. None of the family liked Bubba's Gift.
Lookn good again in there man glad to hear everything workn out 4 ya now n back into the normal flow of things
 
There is a TV series on Netflix - - Disjointed --- staring Cathy Bates and produced by Chuck Lorre (The Big Bang Theory) and David Javerbaum (The Daily Show with Jon Stewart)

The reviewers panned this show , 21% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The reviewers either have bad taste or were scared to give a positive review to stoner comedy.



The wife, the girl, and I were having a bad night and turned on episode 1 at about 11PM for something to fill the time while waiting for the boy to bring back fast food after a 3 hour fiasco with the pizza parlor (involving phone calls to and from corporate offices.)

So the wife is in a bad mood and everyone is hungry and we turned on episode 1 and watched the whole series back to back and enjoyed every episode.

It's a sitcom about an old activist running an LA pot dispensary.

It has basic sitcom charcters.

It hit every stoner stereotype right on the money and is funny as hell. :)

3 people watched in an all night marathon. 3 thumbs up. :thumb: :thumb: :thumb:

I caught a couple episodes when my wife watched them. Definately stereotypical.
 
It really is something the way they take off when their roots are in the nute soup. It's why i always loved dwc and now i don't have the noise of air pumps buzzing through my apartment walls like angry, beagle-sized bees. Ftw
 
There is a TV series on Netflix - - Disjointed --- staring Cathy Bates and produced by Chuck Lorre (The Big Bang Theory) and David Javerbaum (The Daily Show with Jon Stewart)

The reviewers panned this show , 21% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The reviewers either have bad taste or were scared to give a positive review to stoner comedy.



The wife, the girl, and I were having a bad night and turned on episode 1 at about 11PM for something to fill the time while waiting for the boy to bring back fast food after a 3 hour fiasco with the pizza parlor (involving phone calls to and from corporate offices.)

So the wife is in a bad mood and everyone is hungry and we turned on episode 1 and watched the whole series back to back and enjoyed every episode.

It's a sitcom about an old activist running an LA pot dispensary.

It has basic sitcom charcters.

It hit every stoner stereotype right on the money and is funny as hell. :)

3 people watched in an all night marathon. 3 thumbs up. :thumb: :thumb: :thumb:

I caught a couple episodes when my wife watched them. Definately stereotypical.

Ha!

I just binge-watched them all and it's great! I LOLed in every episode. It even got better as the season progressed. Seriously, the writers must all be lifelong smokers.

Good writing, some true wit, Kathy Bates is amazing! Loved it. :love:

21%? :hmmmm:
 
Ha!

I just binge-watched them all and it's great! I LOLed in every episode. It even got better as the season progressed. Seriously, the writers must all be lifelong smokers.

Good writing, some true wit, Kathy Bates is amazing! Loved it. :love:

21%? :hmmmm:

I am going to have to check it out!! Always looking for a good show to watch during the day to burn some time!!
 
It really can be dramatic. I mean.... you start to see happen and then it just booms. So fun.

My veg area is filling out. except for a couple of 1-bud clones that refuse to reveg. If I need the space, they go away.

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Soil seedling UltraDawg - She has an intense aroma now, but no sex showing yet.

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Sadly, I think she smells like another male.

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Haze x Kali China(59 days) - In real life, the trichomes are clear and well formed.

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Sadly, I think she smells like another male.

Seriously? . That's something you can smell? .That's pretty cool. Although I'd hope I won't get as many males as it might take to learn that particular growing skill.

Garden is looking nice and happy there Rad .

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Wow Rad, that is some serious growth. Whats your height limit?

I'm about 65" from soil line to the lights. I let them grow up to the lights (and past the lights if they really want to grw there.) With the hempy pots I should get another 3 inches. I've only done a supercrop in flower twice in 3 years.



Seriously? . That’s something you can smell? .That’s pretty cool. Although I’d hope I won’t get as many males as it might take to learn that particular growing skill.

Garden is looking nice and happy there Rad .

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It's not so much that I can smell the difference between a male and female, but when I open the veg area and get a burst of smell the day after not noticing a smell, it has turned out to be a male in there. I'd love to be proven wrong! :)

This is my last UD seed, and all the rest went male. So far this year, my non-fem seeds have all gone male.


P.S. I seemed to have killed my last Amherst Sour Diesel seed and a Darl Devil Auto seed in my direct planting into perlite experiment. My Bubba's Gift and ASD clones stayed in flower, and are 1-bud plants in veg, so I'm losing those genetics. I'm pretty much out of seeds and down to 4-5 strains.

I'll watch how fast hempy vegges for me before doing anything. It may be that hempy won't allow as many plants in veg as soil.
 
There is a TV series on Netflix - - Disjointed --- staring Cathy Bates and produced by Chuck Lorre (The Big Bang Theory) and David Javerbaum (The Daily Show with Jon Stewart)

The reviewers panned this show , 21% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The reviewers either have bad taste or were scared to give a positive review to stoner comedy.



The wife, the girl, and I were having a bad night and turned on episode 1 at about 11PM for something to fill the time while waiting for the boy to bring back fast food after a 3 hour fiasco with the pizza parlor (involving phone calls to and from corporate offices.)

So the wife is in a bad mood and everyone is hungry and we turned on episode 1 and watched the whole series back to back and enjoyed every episode.

It's a sitcom about an old activist running an LA pot dispensary.

It has basic sitcom charcters.

It hit every stoner stereotype right on the money and is funny as hell. :)

3 people watched in an all night marathon. 3 thumbs up. :thumb: :thumb: :thumb:

I saw a lot of stoners on instagram give the show bad reviews too. They felt it portrayed the lazy, stupid stoner stereotype too much. They felt it made us all seem lazy and stupid. I got where they are coming from but me and my wife enjoyed it.
 
I'm about 65" from soil line to the lights. I let them grow up to the lights (and past the lights if they really want to grw there.) With the hempy pots I should get another 3 inches. I've only done a supercrop in flower twice in 3 years.





It's not so much that I can smell the difference between a male and female, but when I open the veg area and get a burst of smell the day after not noticing a smell, it has turned out to be a male in there. I'd love to be proven wrong! :)

This is my last UD seed, and all the rest went male. So far this year, my non-fem seeds have all gone male.


P.S. I seemed to have killed my last Amherst Sour Diesel seed and a Darl Devil Auto seed in my direct planting into perlite experiment. My Bubba's Gift and ASD clones stayed in flower, and are 1-bud plants in veg, so I'm losing those genetics. I'm pretty much out of seeds and down to 4-5 strains.

I'll watch how fast hempy vegges for me before doing anything. It may be that hempy won't allow as many plants in veg as soil.
Dam rad u just don't have very good luck wen it comes to doing ur reveg girls huh well shit im srry 2 hear that ur out of strains now but hopefully those one bud reveg girls come around and start to produce u sumthn i noticed the other day that this round of girls are almost all reveg clones lol i almost lost a few strains n so had to make a few late minute clips lol they sure do make for interesting looking plants mine tend to look like a ball of branches that jus stick out everywhere haha but after some training and beating them into submission i end up with some good lookn girls/meds
 
Hey there Rad... sorry to hear about the seeds direct into hempy....

GL with the last UD seed... everyone seems to be running that strain around these parts! UD some variant of Chemdawg??

This seed will hit it and be the keeper.. sometimes it happens that way.

I agree on the smell of males. They tend at least to my nose, smell grassy in VEG.

The Chems that I run tho smell different at different times of the day specially in VEG. They are all over the place and go from straight up gas to dank piss to no smell... and a few days later they do it all again.

GL with the little ones. Winter time is here apparently - tonight 21F - last year we didn't hit 21F until February. Thought we were going that direction again this year. Looks and feels like snow already.

RO water and PH - it will never change. I've left several 5 gal homer buckets sit for 3 weeks covered lots of times, all good.

Now wondering about the plastic the buckets are made from..... :lot-o-toke:

Rad (and friends), I updated the organic soil thread with some info on soil testing. Found a university (VA Tech) that will test anyone's soil out of state for a comprehensive test result (2 pages worth), cost is $16 and you get the test results in 3 days or less sent to you via e-mail. Just have to fill out a form and send in your soil.

Va Tech will also test soil that is chemically fertilized for an additional $6 (I think) and they will advise you about the fertilizers (salts) in your soil.

Also a good link there about our County Extension Service.. not sure what's up with Oregon and Washington State. They get the same funding as the rest of the states get but now do not offer soil testing to the public.

Makes me wanna wonder what they are doing with the money we send them and the test equipment that we bought for them.

By "we" that's all tax paying people in the USA - FDA is a federal tax subsidized program. Part of that is to make sure we don't have another famine like we did during the 30s. Soil testing is a BIG part of the success of no famine for US. Food for thought!


We get the same thing here in PA for $10 but report is mailed. :reading420magazine:
 
Hey there Rad... sorry to hear about the seeds direct into hempy....

GL with the last UD seed... everyone seems to be running that strain around these parts! UD some variant of Chemdawg??

This seed will hit it and be the keeper.. sometimes it happens that way.

I agree on the smell of males. They tend at least to my nose, smell grassy in VEG.

The Chems that I run tho smell different at different times of the day specially in VEG. They are all over the place and go from straight up gas to dank piss to no smell... and a few days later they do it all again.

GL with the little ones. Winter time is here apparently - tonight 21F - last year we didn't hit 21F until February. Thought we were going that direction again this year. Looks and feels like snow already.

RO water and PH - it will never change. I've left several 5 gal homer buckets sit for 3 weeks covered lots of times, all good.

Now wondering about the plastic the buckets are made from..... :lot-o-toke:

Rad (and friends), I updated the organic soil thread with some info on soil testing. Found a university (VA Tech) that will test anyone's soil out of state for a comprehensive test result (2 pages worth), cost is $16 and you get the test results in 3 days or less sent to you via e-mail. Just have to fill out a form and send in your soil.

Va Tech will also test soil that is chemically fertilized for an additional $6 (I think) and they will advise you about the fertilizers (salts) in your soil.

Also a good link there about our County Extension Service.. not sure what's up with Oregon and Washington State. They get the same funding as the rest of the states get but now do not offer soil testing to the public.

Makes me wanna wonder what they are doing with the money we send them and the test equipment that we bought for them.

By "we" that's all tax paying people in the USA - FDA is a federal tax subsidized program. Part of that is to make sure we don't have another famine like we did during the 30s. Soil testing is a BIG part of the success of no famine for US. Food for thought!


We get the same thing here in PA for $10 but report is mailed. :reading420magazine:

Thanks for pursuing the county extension and testing - Farmers around here would go ballistic if they stopped testing services.


23F outside right now (7PM) Fountains and outdoorfurniture are inside for the winter (except the stone and wrought Iron.)


Basement temps outside my grow areas went from 74 to 64 last night. Tonight should be colder.

I'll verify the heaters kicked on in another hour or two.
 
Yeah right on, I guess the soil in the Willamette Valley is sooo good they don't need soil tests... ahem... don't they grow food for the rest of our country and the world??

Food for humans and more importantly feed stock for animals that feed humans and other animals that feed humans. That's the most important part. The feed stock for animals. If the feed stock for animals is lacking minerals and nutrition, it won't be long ... to starvation and famine and then revolution.

We need to feed people nutritious food. A proper soil is how we do it.

Why the program was started a LONG time ago.

Cannabis grown in soil, is the same thing.
 
Yeah right on, I guess the soil in the Willamette Valley is sooo good they don't need soil tests... ahem... don't they grow food for the rest of our country and the world??

Food for humans and more importantly feed stock for animals that feed humans and other animals that feed humans. That's the most important part. The feed stock for animals. If the feed stock for animals is lacking minerals and nutrition, it won't be long ... to starvation and famine and then revolution.

We need to feed people nutritious food. A proper soil is how we do it.

Why the program was started a LONG time ago.

Cannabis grown in soil, is the same thing.

My suspicion is the universities/county extension agents don't want to get busted for providing support to cannabis growers with ferderal funds - just in case congress decides to fund the DEA to go after state legal cannabis again.

In the current political environment, I don't blame them. I wouldn't want to be jailed for criminal soil testing.


The family farm, established in 1825? (80 acres after civilization made their homestead official) is in the Willamette Valley. Mostly a small dairy farm (15-20 cows roaming 15-20 mostly wooded acres.) Never more than a tractor and a rented harvester on the flat 40 acres by the train tracks. My mother's mother grew up there, her father built the current house with bartered lumber, but her older sister and her husband got the farm - that's common in my mother's family history. Related to a successful uncle or brother, they kept moving and exploring new territory. Descended from a nephew of Daniel Boone, a nephew of Henry Morgan the privateer, a nephew of a Colonial Governor, and a nephew of a King of Wales :)
 
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