Tead's Indoor-ish, Winter, Hempy, OGK, SOG

[Rifleman]

........Yup... a fine example of some serious jack-leg engineering.

Locally that's known as Hillbilly Engineering. ....and why us D students went to VoTech and took GBT, so we could build grow rooms in our old age.

 

[bobsacamano]

The more I ponder the autos, the more I feel they're a real fit for my outdoor growing attempts.
I can't grow during the normal outdoor growing seasons... it's just too hot and humid... so the autos allow me to cheat a bit and may be workable.
Keeping the critters at bay is the ongoing challenge. It's been a while since I've danced with buggins... it may be a deal killer for outdoor action.

hey tead. i dunno if this is an option or not but i'm starting a soil improvement project here (tilling, raised beds, lots of amendments to chuck up this shit clay hardpan i am blessed with now...sigh) but so anyway i've been reading up a lot on companion planting. i was quite frankly shocked at the number of options there are that reduce or outright repel pests. you'd have to do some research tho, cuz you'd have to find a suitable biological "substitute/stand in" for our good 'ol cannabis plant in any deep dive research endeavors...since, you know, for some reason there's not a lot of readily available/reliable companion planting info (at least that i've found) for said plant ...but it's just an idea i thought i'd throw out there.

 

[Radogast]

Parting shots of an OGK grown in a gallon milk jug cut down to about 1/2gal. The root mass was very much like a mat forming on the top layers but not reaching down deep into the res. I'm really starting to think that the res area of hempy grows is not really a growth area... tho this only appears true with traditionally fed plants, not the Osmos.

Working theory why the roots don't bother to grow down:

Perlite wicks water up to the surface - so roots don't have to go in search of water. After the childhood enthusiasm of growing a taproot, they just grow enough to find water, which is the first unoccupied perlite surface. Except when they get hungry, then they grow to find the osmocote slurry.

 

[Tead]

hey tead. i dunno if this is an option or not but i'm starting a soil improvement project here (tilling, raised beds, lots of amendments to chuck up this shit clay hardpan i am blessed with now...sigh) but so anyway i've been reading up a lot on companion planting. i was quite frankly shocked at the number of options there are that reduce or outright repel pests. you'd have to do some research tho, cuz you'd have to find a suitable biological "substitute/stand in" for our good 'ol cannabis plant in any deep dive research endeavors...since, you know, for some reason there's not a lot of readily available/reliable companion planting info (at least that i've found) for said plant ...but it's just an idea i thought i'd throw out there.

Ya know... it's good words, but co-planting will only get you so far.
Having said that, I do co-plant. I have a huge rosemary bush in the raised bed.
The bug population is such that regular protection is required and an occasional nuclear bomb may need to be employed.
Regular Neem treatment provides one layer of protection. Semi-regular BT applications. Pyretherin as needed. A layer of perlite over the soil keeps the snail numbers down. You get the idea.

Speaking of the devil.... a little DDA girl that may not make it. She's been taking her time and the bugs have had their way with her.

An unknown seed... photo of some sort. I'm planning on using her for clone source material.

And a colorful bud porn shot of a UD

 

[SweetSue]

You may have to start Dark Devils indoors and transplant after they get some roots. They're slow starters to begin with.

Hadn't considered that. The bugs are chomping her up.

 

[Weaselcracker]

I like the sneak peek at the jackleg stuff. All that haywire junk creation stuff that we do is worthy of a dedicated thread of its own- if we weren't too lazy to contemplate making one. I was commenting on Skybound's journal how my grow becomes more self-contained, more cramped, more complicated, and more functional as the years go by. Just like a boat, or a spaceship, it's a little patched together cannabis pod life support system surrounded by a hostile environment.

 

[Tead]

Just like a boat, or a spaceship, it's a little patched together cannabis pod life support system surrounded by a hostile environment.

Good words!

 

[Tead]

So.... red trichomes.... hmmmm.

 

[Tead]

Sooo.... the red trichome girl went down.

KaliAK.
I decided to reveg her. I had previously decided to cull her genetics from the garden. The red trichomes were the straw that took down the camel's back.

Bottom shot is her reveg configuration.

 

[Radogast]

Red trichomes, half AK47, and mostly sativa - that sounds like 3 good reasons.

I was high on 3 hits of AK47 for most of today (about 1:30 - 7:30 PM.) I was VERY productive
(I am a light weight.)

I'll toke a prayer that your Kali AK gives you the same productive kick

 

[Gauge Steel]

May I have a spot in this here grow?

 

[Tead]

To quote Tangina Barrons in Poltergeist... "All are welcome.... all are welcome!"
Yup... it's a strange random place. Be sure to at least know where the closest seatbelt or handhold are. There may be nudity. There will be swearing. Food will fill in gaps.

Welcome along GS! Feel free to banter about whatever tickles your soul.

 

[Tead]

Photos and a small lesson.

Betty first! 'Outside' is the veg tent. 'Inside' is the bloom room.

Bloom room

Veg tent

Put some rooted clones into perlite.
Oh look... an empty 2L hempy pot.

Filling with perlite and layers of Osmo.

A clone with enormous roots that got floated out of her perlite cloning medium.

And here's a little Blue Dream girl from her Dirty Girl mother....

Dats it man!

 

[Rooster1]

Tead. I'm swimming back from the flood! I was in your hood this afternoon but had to head back to Red Stick. I'll be back from the flood in another month or two. Looking good my man, looking very good! What I had in October before coming down has about run it course. Need to get back and get some beans growing and going. Ole Rooster1 , IMA back ! well almost....

 

[Gauge Steel]

Thanks for the catch up! Holy Perlite Batman!
BTW Beauregard Parish Seven years. Left five years ago.

Gauge

 

[Lady Cannafan]

Hi Tead

Radogast sent me here to check out how you're growing in hempy. I'm trying some hempy this grow, will be ordering the Osmocote and some more perlite today.
What is your perlite rated on the coarseness, coarse... or super coarse?

 

[Lady Cannafan]

I have grown 2 autos... Red Poison and Blue Treacle and they have both knocked my socks off and into the next state. Im saving the rest of my auto seeds for the outdoor season just because of yields. If im paying for electricity i want a bit more than 4ish oz per plant. If i could grow em like rifleman tho...

"A house divided against itself cannot stand"

Ooohhhh....good to know. I have a Red Poison started this past week, and just received some freebie Blue Treacles.

 

[SweetSue]

Photos and a small lesson.

Put some rooted clones into perlite.
Oh look... an empty 2L hempy pot.

Filling with perlite and layers of Osmo.

A clone with enormous roots that got floated out of her perlite cloning medium.

And here's a little Blue Dream girl from her Dirty Girl mother....

Dats it man!

You doll, you. Thank you so much for the photos of the Osmo setup. That makes it even easier to do. I'll be running out to Lowe's after breakfast to get the pellets and get another seed started later today.

This hempy pot is becoming one of my favorite parts of the grow.

Welcome Cannafan. lexort has been a great help to both of us too, so you might want to check him out too. Good luck with yours. As you can see, I'm having great fun with mine, despite the rocky start. Back-to-back stellar harvests have me setting up the next one immediately.

And Rooster.... Good to see you about.

Sorry Tead, I got carried away here. I realize it's your yard.

 

[Tead]

Tead. I'm swimming back from the flood! I was in your hood this afternoon but had to head back to Red Stick. I'll be back from the flood in another month or two. Looking good my man, looking very good! What I had in October before coming down has about run it course. Need to get back and get some beans growing and going. Ole Rooster1 , IMA back ! well almost....

I was beginning to think you may have been sucked into the gulf.
What's it been? About 6mos of work down south? I sure hope it's gravy.
Jazzfest rolls around the end of this month. You might consider a day of music (and laundry!). It's a 2 weekend thing with a bonus thursday on the 2nd weekend that I'm gonna hit. Marcia Ball, Kermit Ruffins, Tab Benoit, George Porter, and C.J. Chenier are all on my list for the day. Tickets can be steep ($80/day), but I suspect some will appear in my world. Then there's the Crawfish Monica or the Crawfish Bread..... yowsa!

Thanks for the catch up! Holy Perlite Batman!
BTW Beauregard Parish Seven years. Left five years ago.

Oh nice! You'll hear me frequently bitching about the heat and humidity. As someone familiar with the joy, you're allowed to chuckle a bit and think "poor dumb bastard!" when I get into that mode.
We cook often in this thread... tho it's been forever. Say.... ain't we smack in the middle of crawfish season..... hmmmm.....

Radogast sent me here to check out how you're growing in hempy. I'm trying some hempy this grow, will be ordering the Osmocote and some more perlite today.
What is your perlite rated on the coarseness, coarse... or super coarse?

Oh nice.... I hadn't peeked at your house lately... but I seem to recall that rumble building over there. I think I meant to chime in but got distracted by a shiny object and a bowl of OGK.

So... Osomocote+ has the trace nutes in it while the standard Osmocote doesn't. You might consider another product called Dynamite. Very similar but suffers less ppm fluctuation with heat.

I've been picking up the Vigoro stuff in large bags from my local Home Depot. The Miracle Grow stuff is too fine and has some nutes in it as well. Your hempy hole will probably be in the 1/4" range, so really any size will work... it's just that you get more perlite in your runoff with the finer stuff... tho even that will end as the medium settles. I guess you could finds some too course.... I've seen 1"+ sized perlite... but any of the regular growing stuff will be fine.

Have you got semi solid plans in place regarding the hempy grow, or are you still forming ideas from the mist?
Osmo is a great choice for a super-easy grow. The only thing I do is adjust PH and add CalMag... and I don't "know" that I need take those simple steps... gotta do a test grow.

 

[Tead]

You doll, you. Thank you so much for the photos of the Osmo setup. That makes it even easier to do. I'll be running out to Lowe's after breakfast to get the pellets and get another seed started later today.

Your previous words coincided with some creation I had going yesterday. Seemed a good time to take a photo.
Using Osmo+ or Dynamite?

This hempy pot is becoming one of my favorite parts of the grow.

I know... it's like a garden toy for grownups. When you become more familiar, you can cook up some very interesting variations of the base gumbo.

Welcome Cannafan. lexort has been a great help to both of us too, so you might want to check him out too. Good luck with yours. As you can see, I'm having great fun with mine, despite the rocky start. Back-to-back stellar harvests have me setting up the next one immediately.

And Rooster.... Good to see you about.

Sorry Tead, I got carried away here. I realize it's your yard.

Oh please... it's just a thread baby.... not like you're digging for door keys in my front pocket. An evil Tead just loves to find an excuse to make his sweetie dig in his pockets.....