Still Growing - SoCal Hybrids & Mexican & Colombian Sativas Under Sun Natural Systems

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It raises the Brix by increasing the plant tissues' resistance for shocks and insects' attacks, it is responsible for holding together the cell walls of plants. It is crucial for cannabis in early veg and middle to late flowering, when it also pairs with magnesium to stimulate trichomes production, which as a biochemical process we just start to understand. I can say that due to giving much more calcium to my plants than I used to I have very little to none pest problems. Can you believe that I didn't spray my plants this season even once? Yeah it works! :tokin:
 
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conradino23 said:
It raises the Brix by increasing the plant tissues' resistance for shocks and insects' attacks, it is responsible for holding together the cell walls of plants. It is crucial for cannabis in early veg and middle to late flowering, when it also pairs with magnesium to stimulate trichomes production, which as a biochemical process we just start to understand. I can say that due to giving much more calcium to my plants than I used to I have very little to none pest problems. Can you believe that I didn't spray my plants this season even once? Yeah it works! :tokin:
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This is the observation we've been waiting to hear Conradino. It calls for some rethinking, doesn't it?
 
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It definitely does, doesn't it :surf::smokin2:
 
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Doc persuaded me to purchase some limestone dust. I think after reading this I'll start using it a bit more as top dressing for my LOS. I started using neem meal with them and the gnats almost entirely disappeared, but I also noticed that the HBKit soil I have running side-by-side is absolutely gnat-free. Ok then. Beginning today. How often have you been dusting with it and how liberal have you been with application?

Forgive me for not being more attentive. Life and death shit in my end of the woods took me away for a while. It was your statement about not needing to spray at all this season that stopped me in my tracks.
 
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And just another pleasure for your pleasure :lot-o-toke: Pics of my Nanda Devi, landrace sativa bud from Himalaya with my favorite hash, which got stronger recently. Most likely the best weed I smoked in my life on sativa and mostly sativa field :lot-o-toke:

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Pretty Conradino. Mmmmmmm. :laughtwo::green_heart:
 
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SweetSue said:
Doc persuaded me to purchase some limestone dust. I think after reading this I'll start using it a bit more as top dressing for my LOS. I started using neem meal with them and the gnats almost entirely disappeared, but I also noticed that the HBKit soil I have running side-by-side is absolutely gnat-free. Ok then. Beginning today. How often have you been dusting with it and how liberal have you been with application?

Forgive me for not being more attentive. Life and death shit in my end of the woods took me away for a while. It was your statement about not needing to spray at all this season that stopped me in my tracks.
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Ok, so I believe I used it twice as a drench. Once as a lithothamnium + lactobacillus acidophilus, and once as a phosphorus/calcium carbonate mix which was limestone flour + charred sesame seeds. Tomorrow I'll show you both plants anyway, yeah they couldn't be much different with the same soil and the same stuff applied. Also, totally different reactions. I really don't believe it's a miracolous thing or somethin, but it changed something very important, but I'm gonna have to wait till I harvest, dry and cure to be able to say something more. It definitely added a lot of sweeteness to the terpenes performance, I'm getting mango bubblegum from Grape Ape now and yeah proverbial shit from Grape Dog, shit spicy marmalade to be exact :lot-o-toke:
 
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I find these observations exciting. I'm headed home from the hospital now. I'm going to review your journal on the bus trip and do some thinking about how best to proceed. The lactobacillis acidophilus is something else I want to try at some point.

I'm so thrilled that you took on this exploration Conradino. What I'm doing in my tent pales in comparison. I need to step it up. :laughtwo:
 
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conradino23 said:
Great info there, Cruizer. Cannabiogen calls it "cola de borrego". From a quick research and from what I picked from older growers here I found out that also Mexi varies in quality a lot. Oaxacan was supposed to be the best next to Acapulco Gold, but they say that also Jarillo de Sinaloa (that's the strain I'm growing) is a superior bud. From a Spanish speaking thread I've been also able to figure that this strain is very similar to so called Michoacán. It all sounds very interesting :tokin:
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Hello Con. In the mid 60's everything was pretty much un-named Mexican herb in my Norcal locale. By the late 60's & early 70's the better quality herb often got "labeled" by its Mexican state of origin. The best Mexican I've ever experienced came from small state of Nayarit. It is still a top 10 lifetime herb. Also had pipeline to some excellent & very tasty offerings from Chiapas, which is the southernmost Mex. state.
 
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As promised I'm dropping you pics of my windowsill-grown plants... and some say that you won't get a bud this way :smokin2::laughtwo:

MMM Grape Ape in some weird sativa-dominant expression. Flowers very slowly for 11/13 photoperiod she's on in comparison with Grape Dog, which grows massive buds for the size of pot she's in, less than one gallon. But Grape Ape is in 1,8 GAL air-pot, so it's not a rootspace issue. It's harder to imagine better proof that you won't jump genetics no matter what. Trichomes production is quite good for 4th week of flowering, especially below the top, where layer is already thick like sugar. Also, excellent calyx-to-leaf ratio. Brix: 14/15. Smells like mango bubblegum, no spiciness at all. This new soil does something in the end, and sun index didn't really reach the high charts yet :smokin2:

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Grape Dog is nothing like Grape Ape. It's a very bushy plant without many big fan leaves, but buds are quite big for the minimal setup I have, and I believe that with perfect conditions it might be very heavy yielder. It must've taken after NYCD/Chem Dawg '91 cross, and although quite leafy calyx-to-leaf ratio is quite good. Brix: 12/13. Smells like mango/strawberry marmalade with rotten/putrid end, spice and gasoline have gone away.

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And last but not least O.G. Kush. What would you say for these trichomes? It's just 2nd week of flowering. Brix was 9/10 today, but I took a really old fan leaf from underneath, earlier it was 12/13. Smells piney for now :Hookah:

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:Namaste:
 
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Thx a lot, Zigs! Means a lot :lot-o-toke:

Just to finish this day I'm gonna show you my uncomplicated procedure of measuring Brix, which Graytail explained somewhere else but I cannot recall where the thread was :rollit: What I wanted to add is some details about the device which I've just found out via net research. Anyway, later.

So first I pick a fan leaf usually medium to big size from the middle of the plant from a rather sunny spot on the plant in the middle of the day, and place it on a waxing paper... but first I recalibrate refractometer with a small screwdriver.

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Then I mash the leaf with a metal spooon to a pulp

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And then from this I squeeze it by hand on a refractometer's glass

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I usually manage to get 2-4 drops... and I usually get a hazy line... which started me thinkin', and I found out that that's normal in our trade :thumb: Ok, but why it is like that? Basically Brix is total solids' count in the solution, which means mainly carbohydrates and minerals. The thing is the first ones are always in majority, cause that's how primary metabolism looks like, while minerals count to around 20% the solids. This is mainly calcium and magnesium we are talking about, and abundance of these ones result in a hazy line. Straight line will be close to 95-100% carbs, but then you're missing on the minerals. So it really tells you something if you know where you're going :lot-o-toke::Namaste:
 
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Ok guys, today I had a really difficult day. Do you remember Mountain Spot I've shown? Well, basically it's 300 m upward from my place on a flat top of the hill or around 980 feet. I had to hike there with 6 plants, 5 Aurora Ultras and 1 Jack Herer, cause it's beautiful, sunny, and wild which means it's unlikely somebody's gonna go there for a walk :thumb:

So I waded through the bushes, blackberries and whatnot just to outplant these babies in a nice red soil which is heavy in clay but has a lot of iron and calcium. It took me a bit to do the job, and I gave it a lot of sweat and blood literally, but I've done it. If they survive 2 weeks there I'm gonna go and add some EWC I think, I've already sprinkled some lime. Now, if the rain comes tomorrow as it's supposed to, they'll have enough water to survive at least a week on their own. They'll have to shield insects too but I hope they'll do it.

Ufff, probably the hardest guerilla operation I've ever done. Now we have to have hope it's gonna bring some flowers. Ok, I'm gonna eat some pasta alla ricotta e zucchine now, I'm really tired and I wish they legalized the fuckin' thing here already, cause it gets really exhausting :bitingnails:

Have a green one, guys :Namaste:
 
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It will be needed as for now it's just wishful thinking :cheesygrinsmiley:
 
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So I hiked to The Shady Spot to check on Grape Dogs, and of course they are poor-looking but I want to show them to you anyway, because you'll never learn from anything better than from your losers :thumb:

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As you can see everything is wrong with these plants :cheesygrinsmiley: They are thin, lanky, have their leaves twisted and drying, lost probably around 50% of their foliage... but they still carry on without spraying :tokin: They are in the wrong environment with too little light, too much water and humidity, where only trees, blackberries, fern and weeds grow. Yeah exactly weeds with the right strain usually sativa or sativa-dominant there's no problem really, they thrive in that kind of environment, but strains heavier in indica do not do so well. Still, these plants somehow make it and I expect them to bring some bud. I had to sprinkle some calcium carbonate though and replant OG Kush cause she was almost eaten alive 20 yards away :cheesygrinsmiley:

Otherwise windowsill plants have their trichs checked and we're getting into 90% cloudy area, so chopping is coming in few days for at least one of them :Namaste:
 
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The weather has been miserable for the plants. I'm farther south than you and it has been cloudy, foggy and cold 60's here. It will get better :Namaste:
 
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Cruizer said:
The weather has been miserable for the plants. I'm farther south than you and it has been cloudy, foggy and cold 60's here. It will get better :Namaste:
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We have high 80s but I live in the humid zone, so rains as always come on a regular basis. For now I didn't have to water my plants even once. Hmm if I'm lucky I'll start in July :cheesygrinsmiley:
 
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LOL, my bad! I thought you were in Southern California. But i see you're in Italy, you're not missing much over here as far as weather goes at the moment.
 
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