Weasel Forges Ahead

Kriaze said:
Whatever happened to the Unconventional Gardener? I used to read...
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Kriaze said:
it went into oblivion.
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I know right! Recently I found that someone had reproduced it in full, pretty much, and I made a thread here to link to it all. (I was/am aiming to copy all the recipes into individual posts on the thread bud life gets in the way and I haven’t got back t it.)

all the links to the archived versions are in the first post.
(Link coming)

The Unconventional Farmer: Archive of Korean Natural Farming techniques

It was a 420 Magazine member @MerryAnna who first introduced me to the techniques of Korean Natural Farming and a website created by Gil Carandang that provided excellent guides to making the DIY ferts and soil conditioners etc. That site, The Unconventional Farmer (dot com) was legendary, and...
www.420magazine.com


Weaselcracker said:
occasionally they pop up years later with something interesting
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clean slates are good too!

Nice soil mixing buddy :D
 
Skybound said:
Gasifiers were used all throughout Europe between the world wars, IDK why that simple, yet efficient technology went the way of the dodo.
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Probably just convenience. Some people here for a while were running their diesel vehicles on deep fryer oil they were scavenging from the local restaurants. But they grew up and got more responsibilities/lazy and just went back to buying fuel. And anyway it’s one of those things where if everyone was doing it- right away there’d be none left. And we have nothing that compares to fossil fuel.

Living in the country gives you the freedom to do stuff like build gasifiers from the piles of spare parts and junk you dragged home. But it also takes so much time when everything is DIY. So between managing the junk piles, feeding the chickens, fixing the truck, tending the garden, manning the fortifications and lightin’ up the latest wave of radioactive mutant zombies, you end up having to split your time.

:hmmmm: ‘hmmmm.. What shall I do this week... work on the gasifier, or read that ‘home dentistry’ book before this toothache gets any worse? Maybe if I... Ahhhh Shit! there’s godamn zombies in the chickens again !! “

Brewsterman said:
making hash
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A couple oz. blob. Dry sift then I used my special roasting in the oven technique which turned it very sticky. I still have that bunch of P chunk which I’ll use for making pain cream. By the way @Brewsterman I got your snail mail and thanks so much! I’ll send some snails back your way when I get time.

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~Tests~
I’m about to start testing a few different nutrient mixes to see if I can get any clues about why my plants aren’t always as perfect as I want them to be.

I’ve been blaming myself and my nutrient mixes. Now I’m also thinking about blaming the peat moss, and the peat moss PH. Promix buffers to 5.5. That’s fine I guess and the guy explained it convincingly. Maybe everything I said would be more convincing if cheesy music played while I was saying it. But 5.5... still seems so low. It’s at the bottom end of any recommended hydro PH range. And this for something which is supposedly not hydro anyway, but is soil.

I planted a few clones in
- regular Promix which is PH 5.5
- Fauxmix at PH 5.8
- Fauxmix at PH 6.2.

I have some other clones set aside for testing as well and I’ll try a few (I’m thinking three) different nutrient mixes side by side in regular Promix.

I don’t have enough plants or enough time to test all the nutrient mixes at each pH level or anything stupid like that. But I’m hoping I’ll at least find a clue or two.

Speaking of stupid like that, this time I am going all-out on trying to get pollen out of that Pineapple Chunk.
I am have one in veg which I am spraying with :
- Colloidal silver
- STS
- Gibberelic acid at 80 ppm
- GA at 100 ppm, and
- GA at 120 ppm

On five separate branches of course. I’ll put it into flowering in another week or so and carry on spraying.
 
Weaselcracker said:
A couple oz. blob. Dry sift then I used my special roasting in the oven technique which turned it very sticky. I still have that bunch of P chunk which I’ll use for making pain cream. By the way @Brewsterman I got your snail mail and thanks so much :green_heart: , but I can’t PM right now because apparently my brix got too high and the system got overloaded or something. So now it’s all about keeping my brix levels as absolutely low as possible.
Weaselcracker said:
Make sense?
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no
Good. Glad you think so. I’ll send some snails back your way when I get time.
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last pic looks likes sometime the dog might leave on the floor :laughtwo: should put it in a block or ball
I'm sure it tastes better than it looks :laughtwo:
Just saw the edit
Was wondering about that. when you get your pm back, let me know if you have any questions.
loose ones are wild climbing cucumbers (hedge hog gourd) non edible
still lots of oil it that leaf you sifted, get your distiller built yet? or to many projects not enough time or energy ? brix got too high? brix levels? brix soil ? brix x
does that mean you talk to much in PMs
 
Brewsterman said:
last pic looks likes sometime the dog might leave on the floor :laughtwo: should put it in a block or ball
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Yes yes. Back to a ball shape it goes. Cause everyone likes balls right? There we go... Much more polite.
Hash ball

Hash ball

 
I want to pick another bone with peat since I'm phasing it out, it's easy to talk shit about it, but I don't like having to determine that fine line between wet and dry because if it's kept too wet, they grow slow, but if they ever get too dry they wilt over causing diminished yields and there's been plenty of times when I picked up a fairly heay pot, it still had some wetness about the upper layers, yet the leaves would get so weak and droopy looking.

On a side note though, I think I likely over ferted which likely left behind lots of salts that gets congested with subsequent feedings and such. I think your lowered feed charts will be more successful than the Megacrop emulations.
 
I don’t really have issues with the watering thing. I’ve gotten used to peat that way. Peat lets me go five days between waterings if I need to, and that’s been essential at times. Otherwise I’d be relying on an auto-watering setup.
I’m just not so sure that it’s really inert enough to be treated like a hydroponic medium. I mean, it’s made of organic matter and it has quite a few sticks and roots mixed in it. And everything is depending on a few tablespoons of lime to regulate the PH. It’s not a clean slate.
 
Some random observations on censorship I was thinking about.
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Hi @Reave welcome.


Pollen attempt

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Pollen attempt

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Here is my Pineapple Chunk forced pollen attempt victim. If this doesn’t work I am going to give up trying to torture pollen from her. I’ll make some seeds by pollinating her from some other plant that is more cooperative. I’m thinking the Carnival would make a nice cross

I’m sort of flogging a dying horse at this point. She’s been a good plant but I’m sure there are other good plants in the world. After about six years of being alive she’s not very vigorous, and actually never was to begin with.

Besides saving the phenotype (maybe), I was interested to see whether the seeds from a self pollination would have some increased vigour, and variation between them.
 
...my monies on the STS...Good Luck!...cheerz... :high-five: ...h00k...:hookah:
 
Thanks Dr H. I tried STS on it twice already before this and got lots of pods but no pollen. This time I have done everything by the book and I painted my spray bottles black, I’m storing them in a cool dark place, and generally being as anal retentive about the spraying routine as possible. Did you ever get around to using STS- if so what was your spraying schedule?
 
...no I didn't, although the one part from Latvia or whatever country it was , did arrive in time to try(took 3 months), I got concerned about pollinating my whole big room in the grow shed, so the plan is to pick up a small tent and put it in another shed next to the grow shed and give it a go in the spring...I'll have to revisit some links I've saved and determine the best direction on spraying...and that depends on if I survive our recently started, down to the studs, bathroom renovation on a very old cottage, that we've almost made a house(35 year project... :eek: :rolleyes:)..if the physical stress doesn't kill me, the mental part just might...;):rofl:...cheerz...:high-five:...h00k...:hookah:
 
A few pics of early flowering plants. Mostly for reference for me to chart the progress of my chemical torture-meal victims.

First the one I have been watching the most- which is a Carnival.
Last night while I was poking around in the flowering room, I discovered a little tag down in the dirt which says 0SF. It turns out this is one that I added a bit of oyster shell dust to :straightface: I tested the pH of the soil and it’s about 6.4.

So this plant, which I’ve been using as the test model for my latest mix, isn't even in the normal PH 5.5 promix I normally use.
:cough:

Pretty sloppy lab practices weasel...

But in any case- whether it’s a better mix or just a better pH, or both, the plant still seems to be doing well, and that gets me closer to the answer.

Carnival- day 12, day 20

Carnival- day 12, day 20

In fact it’s doing better than most of the other plants in flower which are mostly showing classic K deficiencies. It makes me even more interested in the low soil PH problem theory.

Here is a PC put into flower yesterday, Feb 15, and recently up-potted in to my 6.2 fauxmix.
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Here is a Lemon Haze cross put into flower Feb 1 and also recently uppotted into 6.2 fauxmix. I overdid it a little with the bunny poo in this one.
Lemon Haze cross

Lemon Haze cross


Lemon Haze cross

Lemon Haze cross

 
Thanks Celt. They’re coming around. As usual it relates to spending more time in the grow, which is something I don’t always have time for. But for the last few weeks I’ve been beating my head against the issues pretty hard. Looking forward to organics though, where people say that the plants feed themselves. I’m sure they’ll do a way better job of it too.



Skybound said:
Have you used any silica yet?
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Not yet but it is feeding time tonight hopefully, if I get time to do it. I used to add silica to my mixes. I would have to add it to the water first or otherwise it would react with the other nutrients and cause precipitation.
 
Dankman_420 said:
Looking good brother :D
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Thanks Dank. I’ve been a bit AWOL lately. The mail snails finally delivered my new guitar amp I bought myself at Xmas time. And wow ❤️ So I’ve been completely lost in space for the last three days getting stoned and blowing my ear drums out. I’ll make sure to play some Sabbath for you...


I’ve been cramming lots of smallish plants into flowering. It feels odd to have so many pots in there, given how I’m just flying by the seat of my pants right now, grasping at straws with my feeding routine and even my soil. I’ve got four different soil variations in flowering now, and am going to run several different feeding mixes. I hope the whole house of cards doesn’t collapse. But...what else is new....:laughtwo:

I also put my STS/CS/GA pollen attempt victim into flower tonight.

But so far the newest plants are looking good. I’ll try to get some pics next time. The idea to drop the calcium levels by 25% was a desperate stab in the dark that seems to have paid off. Whew...

I also dropped the nitrogen by 28% at the same time, and am happy about that too. I wouldn’t need them to be any greener.

This is the test Carnival at 22 days in flower. The damaged older growth predates the newest mix and doesn’t seem to have worsened.
Carnival

Carnival


Carnival

Carnival




Spitz said:
Pineapple Chunk
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That bloody PC:eek:
I sprouted the plant before I started my first journal back in 2015.
I spent so much time trying to replace it with a better strain, so I could get rid of the annoying thing, but I never found anything. Now I’m struggling to save it...
If I can’t get pollen out of it I’ll end up crossing it with some other strains. Probably a healthier way to go anyway, genetically speaking.
PC

PC

PC in early flower.
 
Weaselcracker said:
Hi @Reave welcome.


Pollen attempt

Pollen attempt


Pollen attempt

Pollen attempt



Here is my Pineapple Chunk forced pollen attempt victim. If this doesn’t work I am going to give up trying to torture pollen from her. I’ll make some seeds by pollinating her from some other plant that is more cooperative. I’m thinking the Carnival would make a nice cross

I’m sort of flogging a dying horse at this point. She’s been a good plant but I’m sure there are other good plants in the world. After about six years of being alive she’s not very vigorous, and actually never was to begin with.

Besides saving the phenotype (maybe), I was interested to see whether the seeds from a self pollination would have some increased vigour, and variation between them.
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guess you never saw this Colloidal silver question
 
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