The Dudes Abode: An UrbanAchiever Joint

Tony Urban

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Welcome friends and casual acquaintances.

I am starting this journal now, instead of later, because I am homeless. In a journal sense. This will be my final resting place for all future grows, if the boss is socially cool like that. This journal will also be where I/we can discuss various topics. I am open to various topics so long as they aren’t racist, sexist, or closed to facts and logic. But mostly growing cannabis and posting photographs. The odd link to whale sounds.

My first grow was mildly amusing and slightly successful if at least ‘not a complete failure’. My second grow was less amusing but more successful. I don’t have high hopes for this journal to be amusing at all but I am hoping for an improvement on my yield while maintaining my photographic quality of the plants.

This will be a slow start. I plan on doing some work in and around my grow space as well as some unintended renovations upcoming due to some winter snow/water damage to my place. No rush for me as I have plenty of bud to last us.

Not a great start for a reader. I don’t know which strains I will be dropping. Not a bunch of cool photos to share. Here is what I CAN tell you.

Grow Space: A 3’ x 3’ x 6.5’ tent. Built like a tank. Lots of double vents. I also have a smaller veg tent but it’s not in this scene.

Light: I have two. One is a Fusion Pro 400 from growlightscanada. The second is a Perfect Sun Dwarf Star. Plenty of light for my space.

Grow Medium: Living Organic Soil. A full breakdown is available somewhere in my electronic bread crumb trail on 420. A general breakdown is in the comments of one of my photos below. I do know it’s getting better and better each round.

The soil is in two large totes. I will be careful not to overwater in these bad boys. I amended one of the totes as shown in the photo.

Odour: I got a big ass carbon filter and fan.


Training: I built an adjustable net for LST. This time it will be used the whole grow and not taken off. I wanted to see how the plants grew without it. Now I want to see how it does when properly utilized.

So this will be a slow journal to start. I Hope to get some seeds planted ASAP but until then it’s going to be quiet.




 
very neat! I will be searching for your recipe and keeping tabs whenever you get up and running sir! First seat. Woot woot!
:yahoo::passitleft:

Glad to have you aboard.

Just for clarification. The soil I am using was based on Clackamus Coots recipe that is out and about online. I made very slight alterations based on what I had available.

After that, it has been sitting in my basement in large bins, for the last year. Over that year I used small portions of that soil. Putting the used soil back after use. Recently I added some topsoil and shredded paper to dilute the mix a bit.

The soil is improving each round. As folks have told me it would. So I am looking forward to seeing this next rounds result.
 
So you grow your plants directly in those totes? Or do the pots go on top?
Well I am not sure yet. I think I will start them in small 4” pots first. Possibly some style of non toxic cup. Something to allow for the root to develop a little mass before adding to the big tote.

Pulling up a chair. Pass the poofs.
Done and done. For now we are basically growing soil. :confused:
 
Yeah I considered it briefly. But I wouldn’t exactly follow through with it. Being honest with myself lol. The dude doesn’t want to work that hard.
Fair enough, but you already have the totes and that sh*t is heavy...so you're not that lazy ;)

I use a similar, though smaller (13 gallon) totes and I recycle my old soil using red wrigglers (and veggie scraps, coffee grounds, egg shells, dryer lint, etc). Sticking to those inputs, it is odorless and effortless. I use a french press and eat a shitload of eggs (we have chickens) so I need to put the leftovers somewhere. Either it sits in the trash and smells and then I have to drive it to the dump..or I walk down the basement and throw it in the bin. The vermicompost is 50% of my soil, so I guess it is a variation on the "living" soil (though truthfully I haven't read anything yet on LOS...one of these days).
 
Fair enough, but you already have the totes and that sh*t is heavy...so you're not that lazy ;)

I use a similar, though smaller (13 gallon) totes and I recycle my old soil using red wrigglers (and veggie scraps, coffee grounds, egg shells, dryer lint, etc). Sticking to those inputs, it is odorless and effortless. I use a french press and eat a shitload of eggs (we have chickens) so I need to put the leftovers somewhere. Either it sits in the trash and smells and then I have to drive it to the dump..or I walk down the basement and throw it in the bin. The vermicompost is 50% of my soil, so I guess it is a variation on the "living" soil (though truthfully I haven't read anything yet on LOS...one of these days).

Yeah I get it. I occasionally put trimmings, organic scraps, and other things in the bins and it gets broken down. There are some critters in there. A few small worms. I am slowly building an environment for more life. I want to get some predator mites to do a good sweep of these totes though. There have been minor populations of gnats.

I considered getting some worms with that order.

I will be planting some red clover as a companion plant and keep the soil working in areas not populated with cannabis roots.
 
I'm in, always up for learning new things, now I have to go and read Clackamus Coots recipe.

Welcome! Not sure how much you will learn from me but there are a few regulars who we can learn from. Glad to have you here
 
Subbed up, looking forward to following along. Best of luck to you.✌️

Glad to have you Tom. Always love watching you bring the best out of your plants. Appreciate all the support you have given me and the experience you bring.
 
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