SoilGirl's Indoor Organic Soil Medical Grow Journal - Mars II 1600 & Other LEDs

[SoilGirl]

Something I forgot to mention, I have my Mars II about 20 inches above my plants like CO Finest did for that pounder he scrogged under one for now. it covers about 4'x4' to 4.5'x4.5' this way. I'm going to try to keep it like this through about the 3rd week in flower, then any height the buds gain will be pushing them closer to the light, no more raising the light unless I really have some stretchers (hopefully not haha..) - so far I've done a pretty good job of keeping an even canopy if I do say so myself though hahah I'm glad I didn't use a scrog net like I'd planned on at first. It would've really limited how hands on I can be. You don't need a net to get an even canopy... (though I admit it sounds a lot easier than fluxing or other constant LST/HST and topping hahaha)

oh and definitely I'll be right there girl!

 

[Gfcollective]

If u google mealy bugs u should see a pic of one with some red dots on it. It's being attacked by 3 I believe it was predator mites. They are angry lil guys, but they are the mite angels if there could be ha.

Glad to see ur efforts paying off soilgirl. A week ago I had about 12 armored scales attach to the bottom of my nycd girl. Luckily I trim mine and scrog them so they still had about 2' to climb to reach my canopy. First time I've ever had armored scale problem myself, they are like microscopic mealy bugs that don't move. Easier to control but o read spider mites (not predator mites) are armored scales natural predator. So I guess it's good to know I have no mites.. but these armored scales are weird, they don't move and they were so low on my plant it looked like new root growth trying to grow, but we're lil jelly pouch with a bug hidden inside. I used ur trick w a swab and alcohol. Will continue to do this on the 2' of exposed stem to keep them from moving up my plant. I also bleached the floor and light spray on outer cloth. If I see more in a week I'll be giving a drench as well but even without using ur soil that uve worked so hard for o don't want to drench it so I feel u 100%. That's why we work w our hands

I&I

 

[Gfcollective]

Something I forgot to mention, I have my Mars II about 20 inches above my plants like CO Finest did for that pounder he scrogged under one for now. it covers about 4'x4' to 4.5'x4.5' this way. I'm going to try to keep it like this through about the 3rd week in flower, then any height the buds gain will be pushing them closer to the light, no more raising the light unless I really have some stretchers (hopefully not haha..) - so far I've done a pretty good job of keeping an even canopy if I do say so myself though hahah I'm glad I didn't use a scrog net like I'd planned on at first. It would've really limited how hands on I can be. You don't need a net to get an even canopy... (though I admit it sounds a lot easier than fluxing or other constant LST/HST and topping hahaha)

oh and definitely I'll be right there girl!

I use a net for support only. I tried scrog but I need more room specially since I've been running my own shop for a week now (ya my own boss at 24, goal was 25). I can still work on infested plants I just am looking up instead of down at them (because two of my doors are un accessible.) I also just 3 weeks ago added 3 plants into my scrog net to offset a harvest every month. I tilted my 160x3 just like u to help get light to those shorter guys. But a net u can make work just like your soil, if u want to haven't checked my soil in bathroom since last springtail I found, will check on it this week and let u know what it looks like, I'm excited.

I&I

 

[Green Dreamz]

Happy TokerDaze SG.....i hope all is well and medicated in your time zone

 

[SoilGirl]

If u google mealy bugs u should see a pic of one with some red dots on it. It's being attacked by 3 I believe it was predator mites. They are angry lil guys, but they are the mite angels if there could be ha.

Glad to see ur efforts paying off soilgirl. A week ago I had about 12 armored scales attach to the bottom of my nycd girl. Luckily I trim mine and scrog them so they still had about 2' to climb to reach my canopy. First time I've ever had armored scale problem myself, they are like microscopic mealy bugs that don't move. Easier to control but o read spider mites (not predator mites) are armored scales natural predator. So I guess it's good to know I have no mites.. but these armored scales are weird, they don't move and they were so low on my plant it looked like new root growth trying to grow, but we're lil jelly pouch with a bug hidden inside. I used ur trick w a swab and alcohol. Will continue to do this on the 2' of exposed stem to keep them from moving up my plant. I also bleached the floor and light spray on outer cloth. If I see more in a week I'll be giving a drench as well but even without using ur soil that uve worked so hard for o don't want to drench it so I feel u 100%. That's why we work w our hands

I&I

I'm glad things are paying off too haha its about time I stop paying and get paid back LOL. Sorry to hear of the armored scales, never had them before, but ugh. If they're related to mealybugs I'm glad I've never had them >.< mealybugs Suck. (pun not intended ) - I really want to beat these mealybugs without pesticides they just scare me into thinking "Drench! Drench them! Kill!!!" - fighting the urge.. good luck beating yours without a drench!!

I use a net for support only. I tried scrog but I need more room specially since I've been running my own shop for a week now (ya my own boss at 24, goal was 25). I can still work on infested plants I just am looking up instead of down at them (because two of my doors are un accessible.) I also just 3 weeks ago added 3 plants into my scrog net to offset a harvest every month. I tilted my 160x3 just like u to help get light to those shorter guys. But a net u can make work just like your soil, if u want to haven't checked my soil in bathroom since last springtail I found, will check on it this week and let u know what it looks like, I'm excited.

I&I

Your own boss at 24, freaking awesome dude. I wish I had my own shop for this. One day I will. My mind is set lol. But for now - still getting this LOS thing down haha. And oh I'm sure I could make nets work - I'm not writing them off, I still eventually would love a tent set up to scrog in. Fluxing is more for small time growers that can focus on a few plants than people like CO Finest or yourself haha, and I want to grow lots of buds!! (I say this like Ricky Bobby saying, "I Wanna go Fast!!") - I'd just like my plants to be grown in LOS and be the best possible quality for patients like my dad, who really rely on it.

By the way my dad's been juicing about 15 of my fresh cannabis leaves I've pulled and kept every day or so for a few days and he wants to do it more often, he's starting a little health streak (let's hope it lasts!) and is starting to have a little more faith in my 'unconventional' healthcare... though whether that's because of his CBD juice actually making a difference in his life or because he got in an argument with his doctor the other day I can't be sure hahaha. He sure is stubborn >.< haha, in fact maybe I can use it against him. Reverse psychology. "I bet you can't get healthy! I bet you can't quit drinking!" might actually make him mad enough to get healthy just to spite me - hey whatever works. He really likes my cannabis leaves hahahaha - he says his drink (which he now makes from juicing an apple, a carrot, the 10-20 cannabis leaves, then a celery stalk) tastes just like my plants' leaves smell, and he absolutely loves it hahahaha - I tasted it and wow!! LOL. Makes me want to use my fresh leaves for flavor more often!

Happy TokerDaze SG.....i hope all is well and medicated in your time zone

Thanks for stopping in GD and happy Tokersday to you! you'll be glad to know that I am in fact a little medicated, I made a little knife press hash out of some kief I rubbed from my trim. Actually very powerful stuff! - pretty tasty too when done right hope you're having a wonderful daze as well!

 

[nhteatime]

Great update Soilgirl!

 

[SoilGirl]

ALOE VERA!!!

got it earlier today - moved it into some extra aerated LOS soil with all the things I use for my cannabis, (Aloe is very sensitive to overwatering) and moved it under a spare CFL ... hahahah it even came with a little living mulch already going for it! small world. It's been grown all organic its whole life which makes me very happy - now it will continue that path and provide my plants with many good things....

Now I just need to figure out how to make aloe vera juice the right way ... any help anyone I definitely dove right in this time before studying - I just heard CO say "get aloe vera!" and I know its in my best interest to listen up when he says that hahaha.

For those that don't know, Aloe is a dynamic accumulator. It has all the essential nutes for your plant (NPK) and lots of micronutes/minerals, and best of all for your soil and plants, salicylic acid, which really adds another extensive layer of organic IPM - I plan to grow it alongside my cannabis for as long as I'm growing cannabis hahaha.

 

[k0ncept]

You need to open a nursery!! I love seeing such a variety of plants! and on top of it they all look great!

I am still working on getting some of the stuff you suggested, should be soon! Keep on Keeping on!!

 

[drcannabi]

Hi soilgirl, did you grow that aloe from seed? I'm going to get one started asap. I listen to CO too. He's good!

 

[SoilGirl]

oopsie sorry I left you out nhteatime, thank you!

You need to open a nursery!! I love seeing such a variety of plants! and on top of it they all look great!

I am still working on getting some of the stuff you suggested, should be soon! Keep on Keeping on!!

Hahaha I'd love to open a nursery especially one related to LOS cultivation. Maybe one day thanks so much for the compliments! and good for you!! organic IPM is definitely the trick to the best quality organic buds you can grow. I just see no need to buy name brand products anymore, or any down sides about OIPM. You're on the right path

Hi soilgirl, did you grow that aloe from seed? I'm going to get one started asap. I listen to CO too. He's good!

Hahaha skimmer alert!! Shame on you doc!!

-just kidding I do it all the time, but no, as I said I got the plant today, from a local nursery all about organics. It even came with some organic nutes that look like neem cake but feel like worm castings and a little clover living mulch up top. You can't see that clover now that I transplanted into new soil and covered them, but you'll see more soon if it doesn't make it. Thanks for coming by doc!

 

[drcannabi]

Thank you soilgirl. Guilty as charged. I've been known to skim with the best of them lol.

Thanks so much for explaining it to me again. You're good people.

 

[Gfcollective]

I'm glad things are paying off too haha its about time I stop paying and get paid back LOL. Sorry to hear of the armored scales, never had them before, but ugh. If they're related to mealybugs I'm glad I've never had them >.< mealybugs Suck. (pun not intended ) - I really want to beat these mealybugs without pesticides they just scare me into thinking "Drench! Drench them! Kill!!!" - fighting the urge.. good luck beating yours without a drench!!

Your own boss at 24, freaking awesome dude. I wish I had my own shop for this. One day I will. My mind is set lol. But for now - still getting this LOS thing down haha. And oh I'm sure I could make nets work - I'm not writing them off, I still eventually would love a tent set up to scrog in. Fluxing is more for small time growers that can focus on a few plants than people like CO Finest or yourself haha, and I want to grow lots of buds!! (I say this like Ricky Bobby saying, "I Wanna go Fast!!") - I'd just like my plants to be grown in LOS and be the best possible quality for patients like my dad, who really rely on it.

By the way my dad's been juicing about 15 of my fresh cannabis leaves I've pulled and kept every day or so for a few days and he wants to do it more often, he's starting a little health streak (let's hope it lasts!) and is starting to have a little more faith in my 'unconventional' healthcare... though whether that's because of his CBD juice actually making a difference in his life or because he got in an argument with his doctor the other day I can't be sure hahaha. He sure is stubborn >.< haha, in fact maybe I can use it against him. Reverse psychology. "I bet you can't get healthy! I bet you can't quit drinking!" might actually make him mad enough to get healthy just to spite me - hey whatever works. He really likes my cannabis leaves hahahaha - he says his drink (which he now makes from juicing an apple, a carrot, the 10-20 cannabis leaves, then a celery stalk) tastes just like my plants' leaves smell, and he absolutely loves it hahahaha - I tasted it and wow!! LOL. Makes me want to use my fresh leaves for flavor more often!


Thanks for stopping in GD and happy Tokersday to you! you'll be glad to know that I am in fact a little medicated, I made a little knife press hash out of some kief I rubbed from my trim. Actually very powerful stuff! - pretty tasty too when done right hope you're having a wonderful daze as well!

Hey soilgirl thanks for the kind words. Armored scales don't move fast at all, they actually only move when they are little hatchlings, they don't go far and set their new home up. I'll take a pic and show u their dead bodys. They are the easiest peat I've come across to control, just need to know what ur looking for as they start at the bottom and work their way up and look like root bumps that want to grow above soil, till u notice they keep going further up the stock.

Aloe Vera is awesome stuff but I've never grown it, like all plants including cannabis, u can make essential oil out of it. I have a wisdom tooth breaking skin (yea I'm that young) and my fiance put clove bud essential oil one drop on a q tip and my entire side of my mouth went numb and drooling.

About the nursery, that and a apothecary has always been my dream, I plan to use the funds from the shop to start my family nursery. When I bought my fiance elderberry for 25$ and came home then cloned ot for free is when I realized that it could be easily done, I just need a 5 acre lot and some green house material plants well I have a ungodly amount of seeds so just need the space ha.

Keep on staying green soilgirl love the added plants into ur garden.

I&I

 

[B A R]

Hi soilgirl, did you grow that aloe from seed? I'm going to get one started asap. I listen to CO too. He's good!

Now you & I both know we all love pics Dr. Canna but this is 420 Magazine, not Hustler Magazine. We have to read the accompanied text. All these models aren't just telling us they like horse back riding & picnics by the lake.

 

[SoilGirl]

Thank you soilgirl. Guilty as charged. I've been known to skim with the best of them lol.

Thanks so much for explaining it to me again. You're good people.

Hahaha no problem doc I know you're good people too

Now you & I both know we all love pics Dr. Canna but this is 420 Magazine, not Hustler Magazine. We have to read the accompanied text. All these models aren't just telling us they like horse back riding & picnics by the lake.

Reg makes a fair point, doc!

Hey soilgirl thanks for the kind words. Armored scales don't move fast at all, they actually only move when they are little hatchlings, they don't go far and set their new home up. I'll take a pic and show u their dead bodys. They are the easiest peat I've come across to control, just need to know what ur looking for as they start at the bottom and work their way up and look like root bumps that want to grow above soil, till u notice they keep going further up the stock.

Aloe Vera is awesome stuff but I've never grown it, like all plants including cannabis, u can make essential oil out of it. I have a wisdom tooth breaking skin (yea I'm that young) and my fiance put clove bud essential oil one drop on a q tip and my entire side of my mouth went numb and drooling.

About the nursery, that and a apothecary has always been my dream, I plan to use the funds from the shop to start my family nursery. When I bought my fiance elderberry for 25$ and came home then cloned ot for free is when I realized that it could be easily done, I just need a 5 acre lot and some green house material plants well I have a ungodly amount of seeds so just need the space ha.

Keep on staying green soilgirl love the added plants into ur garden.

I&I

Aw thanks Gfc! Hahaha I won't personally mind if you share the dead pest pics but if they're gory 420 mag rules will. Post at your own discretion - oh my god, I found out something freaking terrifying today. So I went in my flowering room and this wasp-like thing was flying around like mad. I swore it was a wasp but - how the hell could it be a wasp in the middle of winter??? Scared the living s**t out of me.

Well I killed it with a neem oil sprayer hahaha.-that knocked it out of the air then I stepped on it. It looked very waspy but... not a wasp. I looked more into it - turns out, male mealybugs are gnat like at first - nothing like their female counterparts. And those males sometimes grow into big wasp-like things. HOLY CRAP. almost made me pee myself. Do they freaking sting??? IDK!!! I'm scared to go in my grow room!! SHIT. excuse my french. I'm about to go nuclear on these f**kers. Got some peppermint dr bronners, and a neem oil and pyrethrin mix going, and I'm about to boil some garlic and ghost peppers, then I'm going to combine all 3 for a super organic mealybug death dip. Then I'm going to dip every flowering plant up to the mulch as close as I can get. Then for good measure I'm going to spray every leaf with MGIS after they dry -.- I'm so done with these things.

Oh nice use of clove bud oil, but I'm glad I got my wisdom teeth removed! (Plus I remember waking up and tripping out on the anaesthesia, I woke up in a world of bright fuzzy rainbows LOL - for a whole 15 minutes or so. Insane. My mom was freaking out but I was just flying high as a kite hahahaha, the doctors said that's never happened to them before. When it was over I was like "don't I have more wisdom teeth?" )

Aloe is awesome you should get some! Easy to clone and very useful - you'd never need to pay for rooting gels/hormones ever again! but right, a privately owned apothecary would be awesome. Cloning things is so easy... My dad ordered an apple tree and I cloned it for him, he was amazed, because he was about to order another for like 40 bucks!! Right then and there its like, wow how easy would it be to make money off of this? Plus I've rooted a few cuttings of this one bush that flowers beautifully for him that are doing great now, I'm sure I could sell those hahah! I'm going to start doing more stuff like that for extra money. Like selling our organic eggs, we have way too many, and people love them, and aloe cuttings I bet would sell.. hmm... you have me wanting to enterprise on things thanks for coming by again!

 

[akisunni]

Do they freaking sting??? IDK!!! I'm scared to go in my grow room!! SHIT. excuse my french. I'm about to go nuclear on these f**kers.

You just made me laugh out loud. Hopefully we both wont get in trouble for the S word here.

 

[SoilGirl]

lmao glad you enjoyed that aki someone ought to and it certainly wasn't me!

SO MOVING ON - just gave all my flowering plants some fresh aloe juice! Turns out all you gotta do is slice the aloe leaf open vertically, gently scrape out the gel inside, and dilute it in water. No measurements or anything. I used a skinny 6 inch long leaf that was dying for some reason and mixed its gel with about a gallon of water, then I just watered like normal, and later watered a little more.

I'm also making a Sprouted Seed/Enzyme Tea to give to my flowering plants, to really help things get going in the Soil Food Web, and get the flowering off to a nice start! No bubbling needed!!

Here's the recipe (thanks to Sweetsue for sharing the recipe at her awesome LOS Autoflower grow journal!)

"-Enzyme tea -2 tablespoons of seeds (1 oz.) The choice of seeds is non specific. Almost anything works. Soak for 12-18 hours in mason jar. Drain that water and throw away it's full of growth inhibitors. After a day or so once sprouted, add 1/2 gallon of water to the sprouts for a 36-48 hour soak. Strain and use 1 cup of this to 1 gallon of water as soil drench. Observe 'praying' leaves. Chop seeds for worm food. Do not store these teas."

Enzymes and Aloe! If only I could have seen myself a few years ago... awesome. I have a feeling the coming flowers are going to amaze me. I'm going to use a mix of my top cover seeds, and my hermie lucy seeds for the SST hahahaha. a tablespoon of each

 

[drcannabi]

come on guys. I thought we were all just kidding around. You know I don't purposely miss posts. I actually try to read every one. Maybe I have too many subscriptions. Anyways, I do appreciate the information and remember we're all stoners. Nobody here is a rocket scientist. We all miss posts let the first person who's never miss A post cast the first stone.

 

[SoilGirl]

doc we never stopped kidding around don't let Reg get under your skin, he's just a ball-breaker, and it's all in good spirit. no stones are being cast I promise! We of course know you didn't do it on purpose, and we're all guilty of skimming at times it happens. There's lots of words to read here hahaha. Especially from me!

 

[Green Dreamz]

Now you & I both know we all love pics Dr. Canna but this is 420 Magazine, not Hustler Magazine. We have to read the accompanied text. All these models aren't just telling us they like horse back riding & picnics by the lake.

Well thanks for messing that fantasy up for me......oh and you forgot........long walks on the beach.........Happy Daze SG

 

[drcannabi]

It's all good soilgirl!