This Year's Outdoor 2012 Garden Diary - By JTG & My Wife

Hey RL, the only Dumb Question is the One That is Never Asked. No I do not use ant insecticides, or Fungicide on my Plants, or de wormer, or Neem Oil, or any of the various SPRAYS and Topicals, that are added to ones Plants!!! I use only Natural Predators, they work by far the best !!! I have never had a problem with Bud Worms,Thrips,Aphids, Whitflies,Maggots,Ants you name it, I have "NEVER" had problem with Insects, PERIOD!!! The reason being, is I use the Natural Predators to Police My Garden,Spiders,Wasps, Yellow Jackets, Hornets, Praying Mantis', Lady Bugs and Carnivorous Caterpillars!!! All of these Natural Predators KEEP these other Nasties "WELL" in check. WELL IN CHECK!!! I have Never had a problem with Spider Mites(OUTDOORS OF COURSE), because the Lady Bugs and the Yellow Jackets feed on them Profusely!!! Each Bug can eat 200 X it's weight in the Mites a Day. Talk about voracious FEEDERS!!! And the other Predators hold in Check everything from Locust,Worms, Maggot Bearing Fruit Flies,Mosquitoes,and many others that I am sure you can think of. My advice is to never SPRAY, not just because the adverse taste it imparts to Your CROP!!! Which is pretty BAD, Let's be Honest Here. It also helps destroy the beneficial Insects, that if given the OPPORTUNITY, will thrive and be able to CONTROL the adverse Insects that will try to make a toe hold in Your Crop. Trust Me, It Works!!! The more of the bad Bugs that get Produced, The More Good Bugs Get Produced, basically a perfect Harmony, no one get s the upper Hand, and all insects are kept to a VERY Normal level!!! No need for Sprays Sorry, that took awhile... HERE IS THE BUD PORN
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Well that's the first of HARVEST for 2012, I hope You all were able to gain a good Perspective of what has been Happening? One word really SUMS it up!!! "BUSY", NUFF SAID!!! Any Questions Please ask. I will try and catch up to as many of YOU as possible, unfortunately, with all the excitement, DRAMA, ETC. That has been going on around HERE, I think I just might do as I say, and start from this point Forward!!! I love repeating MY Self!!! Just seeing if any are paying attention!!! I have to try and get a little NAP, I have to go on watch in a FEW, so I should try to catch 40 winks. ENJOY THE PICTURES(I HOPE THEY ARE UP TO SNUFF).
 
Sorry I tried to post the pictures it would not allow me to Post, as it will only 50 at a time, I tried to choose from memory, and looking back at the other posted Photos. Unfortunately, I think I Posted some X-tras, and maybe even missed some of the ones that originally weren't Posted, SORRY FOR THIS OVERSIGHT!!! SINCERELY JAMESTHEGREEN.
 
Wow!! Every single photo you posted is amazing. Those colas on those plants are absolutely huge!! Just amazing. I hate to guess what your haul is.

I can tell you have been very busy. Good to see you back!:thumb:
 
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I need to give you and Y a proper reply but I am beat ... Y you look great and James ... the green
 
Nice harvest, James. Wish I could just hang mine up like that all over the house!!! Sorry, I haven't been around, been feeling a little under the weather plus have been doing battle with spider mites. Wish I could turn loose some predators in the house but then my cat would try to eat them. For some reason he likes to eat bugs. Good to see the missus back in the pictures again.
 
The close ups, of the BUDS, are my most rare form of my Heirloom Kush, the really Hairy One,that looks like it has cotton candy sprouting all over it, it is also the one I took the most close ups of. It should be ready in another week or so, unfortunately, it was the only one I had this Year!!! I tried seeding it,but am not sure if the seeds took. Pictures 18,19,20 21,22,23,,25 are all of this particular Phenotype of this aforementioned Strain of KUSH, which is by FAR my favorite of the different Phenos of this particular Strain of Heirloom Kush. It finishes a wee bit later than the other phenos of the exact same strain, GO FIGURE!!! Picture number 25, is I believe, if I got my counting right, a different PHENO of the exact same Strain, this one is the second latest finisher, and truth to tell, I like it just as much, almost as the other two, it's flavor is sublime, Sandalwood mixed with Spice and Pepper, a very exotic smoke!!! I got my main plant that I saved for seedstock to take on a very good amount of seeds, so I know once again I will have my heirlooms all ready for Next Year, HOORAY!!! I seeded my other heirlooms, but only time will tell if I got to them early enough, or if the Pollen was still viable when I seeded. I wanted to get seeds off of My Female Hairy Heirloom, in hopes that because the Mother was of this Pheno, I might get more of this most coveted Strain!!! I also seeded up my other Phenos as well, time will tell. I also seeded my HIGHLAND KUSH, actually backseeded it, to the original Heirloom Kush that was one of it's Parents, I am hoping to get a stable Hybrid from it, as it was my Heirloom Kush crossed with a KUSH out of Humboldt County. The Highland is an awesome PLANT, but I think if I back crossed to it's original Parent Plant, I might end up with something truly spectacular. Last Year I crossed my Heirloom with Bubble-Gum, I have not tried any of these as of yet, but I plan to next Year, imagine, a BUBBLEGUM crossed with an Heirloom Kush, that makes my mouth water just thinking about it, only problem being that the Bubblegum finishes a bit late, but since my Heirlooms are all VERY early Bloomers, I expect things to finish around the End of September. UUGH, not all of my plants are Kushes, the Orange Krush is not a KUSH. it is an old school strain from Colorado, named after the then very famous ORANGE KRUSH DENVER BRONCOS DEFENSE, from the late 70's. It's genetics, from what I have been told, are as follows South Eastern Indian, Indus Valley Idica, Purple Indica and California Orange. It is one of the hardest strains to find pure, and in it's un-adulterated State any longer. I only know two people that still produce seeds and clones from it, any longer. They are very stingy in giving any of it away, which to Me is a Shame. It truly is on of the most Powerful Smokes out there, and I consider my self lucky to have access to it. I have tried to cross my Heirloom with it this year, and I hope this goes well!!! RL, did you also read my recipe to you about the FOX FARM SOILS??? I think maybe you thought I was trying to get you to read about my damn plants, which is not so!!! I also wrote you a recipe,and some warnings about the soil mixtures, I hope you read this as well. It is some wheres in the Journal)(MY JOURNAL, I THINK), just take your time, and if you have not found it, you will!!! The other plants in Rooms Hanging are also MAZARI SHAREEF(NON KUSH) and Romulan(MOSTLY A SATIVA), so not all my Herb is KUSH!!! I am surprised the GUM, did not keep your BUD WORMS OUT of your stem??? I usually use WRIGLEY'S SPEARMINT or their CINNAMON. After I swab out the HOLE with Peroxide and ALCOHOL, then I put the GUM into and covering the HOLE, I promise YOU RL, this has NEVER failed me in the Past. I grew up in SO-CAL, and Never had any problems with what you are going through!!! I grew in OJAI before(VENTURA&SANTA BARBARA CNTYS) in the ANGELES NATIONAL FOREST), so I am shocked you have had so many problems with WORMS!!! Are you growing in DIRECT SUNLIGHT??? If not, this could be a major problem, as Worms, and all sorts of nasties thrive in the shady areas. But I also understand that Paranoia down SOUTH strikes to the very core of every Grower, so I understand if you had to grow in SHADE. To bad you could not just make a hole deep enough for your Plants, so just the tops of them showed above ground,and the rest were covered by the Hole,that would save You may inches or feet depending on the size of your Containers, and just the Tops of the Plants would be visible to the naked eye. You would be surprised at how much such a simple thing like that can hide your Plants!!! I have had people walk right by my Plants that were hidden this way, and as long as you keep them spaced out from one another, they are almost impossible to see unless pointed out by You, or spotted by a very knowledgeable grower. Which happily to say is not the NORM!!! So hit me back, and let Me know what way you are hiding your Crop, I know we can lick this Problem!!! Bud Worms!!! I have never, ever seen a Garden with the amount of worms You are describing!!! I swear it must be because of where they are Planted. Well RL, I have devoted a whole page to our problem(I SAY OUR, BECAUSE THROUGH CIRCUMSTANCE IT HAS BECOME MINE,AND HAPPILY SO!!! A FRIEND IN NEED ,IS A FRIEND INDEED!!!) Hit me back when You Can RL, this Bud Worm Problem has me damn near apopolectic!!! Take Care, SINCERELY, JAMESTHEGREEN.
 
guess everyone here has said what I would say!
well except HOLY SHIT!!
that about sums it up for me:)
sure am glad to see Y out there on the runway in her greening ware.
also glad you have maintained your seed stock
one other thing wasnt Orange crush from the 80s? I know I watched them dash all the hopes and dreams of every Browns fan in america. GRRR!
 
Yeah My Brother, the Broncos originally started calling themselves the Orange Krush around 76-77, back when they had Alzado,Jackson, and some few others I for the life of Me cannot remember on Defense!!! On offense they had Craig Morton(QB) Rick Upchurch(WIDE RECEIVER/SPECIAL TEAMS) and that is about it for my Knowledge of their once Great(SEMI) great Teams from the Mid to Late 70's. They did have an upsurge during the ELWAY era in the Mid 80's to late 90's, but the defense just called themselves the Orange Krush, they were not the original ones!!! Don't You just love watching, Year after Year, Ernest Byners' Fumble on the Go Ahead, put the game out of reach touchdown!!!:cheesygrinsmiley: It always brings tingles to my Spine to watch it!!!:high-five:, to bad Ernest forgot to HOLD onto the BALL, LOL. It almost makes me just as happy to watch Dwight Clark make the Catch against the Cowboys in the 1981 NFC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME!!!:thedoubletake:

It still makes Me sick to watch, and I almost always change the damn Channel!!! That play(THE CATCH) kept me from following my Team(THE COWBOYS) for almost 10 whole Years!!!:hmmm: I only started to watch them with interest when Jimmy Johnson became Head Coach, and of course they go 1-15 his first year there, but I continued to watch and root, and lo and behold, the next year they finished 7-9, then 11-5 with one Playoff win!!! Then the Glory Years came once again, 2 Super Bowls in 2 Years)(BACKTOBACK), a loss in the NFC Championship Game to the 40whiners, then another SUPER BOWL!In 1995 Season, which was 3 Super Bowls in 4 years!!! And You Know what they have done since FC, not a DAMN THING!!! Were talking almost 20 years with no CHAMPIONSHIPS, it is really getting tough to swallow!!! So what do you think of my BUD closeups, of my Heirloom Kush, the really Hairy one??? Notice how the myth about hairy weed has been dispelled by all the TRICHROMES that you can see evident all over the Bracts? Some body tried to say that because a bud can be Hairy, that it must not have any Crystals, just Hairs,which are not Pschoactive(BALDERDASH I SAY!!!) Look at all the crystals that are evident, also, how does one think that the Hairs appear(MAGICALLY???) they are attached to Calyxes, which the last time I checked, are where most of the Crystals come from!!! So the more Hairs, the more Trichromes. I think most people just do not look close enough, or something, because every time I have gotten Herb, if there are a lot of Hairs, this means a lot of Trichromes, they may be smaller, but there are LOTS of them, which more than makes up for their smallness in size!!!:yikes:

I am so sorry not to have written back to YOU sooner FC, please accept my apology?!? May I lapse no more, and may you continue to be my Brother From Another Mother!!! I better go now, I will be posting some Random Porn here again shortly, I need to give Buck a good writing too!! I am gonna post a few of my favorite Picture of my Heirloom Kush Closeup, so You can see what I mean by all the Crystals, even with Hairs!!! So here it is, HEIRLOOM KUSH, PHENOTYPES THREE, VERY HAIRY...
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I had to add the last picture, it was to KUSHY not too!!!LOL.:drool:
 
I Love the hairy bud it is a sight to behold.
why the hell did you have to bring up Byner? I thought we were closer then that:) F'en red right 88.
I did meet Alzado when he came to the good side. they used to practice at kent state football stadium during the summer. that is the browns did. and a championship what is that LOL we cant even win a divison since Modell left.
and back in the day of Renfro and Staughbuck, Too Tall well they were awsome had every autograph from the cowboys back then.
 
Beautiful James, Just Beautiful!
Those plants are monsters!
 
Buds buds buds and more buds!! Hi James how you going??
Ive dropped by a few times and you now are at the best part buddy:) Glad to see your wife, Yarrow, looking pretty in pink ! Holdin them mass Buds!!! Hope you both are well. Anyway take care n maybe hear from you later.. Smokemup..:goodjob:
 
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