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[Richard Drysift]

Oh wow maybe that's what was happening to my tomatoes last year, they were big and healthy with lots of blossoms but not many tomatoes. This year I think I'm going with a raised bed instead of pots so I can water less. I'll try hand pollinating them to. I'm also doing something new and growing edible mushrooms in beds and wood logs, pretty excited and it looks easy besides lots of drilling. Plus I have more damn shade then sun in my yard so I may as well use it for something useful.

Yes raised beds are so much easier; I added buried soaker hose last year to my beds and put a timer hooked to my garden hose. I had quite a few tomatoes last year but those can pollinate themselves with just wind. They say limiting the number of fruits per plant makes for bigger tomatoes or pumpkins or whatever which makes sense. I've grown mushrooms indoors many times but only cubensis; never a wood loving variety.

The smart pots work great for potato (and sweet potato). Start out with about a 1/4 or a 1/3 full of soil and start do your mounding as the plant gets bigger. Harvest is the easiest with them too and no shovel cuts. If you have seen this my apologies.
https://smartpots.com/how-to-grow-potatoes-in-smart-pots/
Have you tried growing sweet potato before? I am going to be experimenting with using the shoot tips as hormone therapy to speed up my veg time due the high amounts of PGR. Easy to grow however and worth trying in those smart pots as well. Now is the time to start the slips though.

No I ever grew any kind of tuber before but if I can manage to get a nice yield I will try doing sweets next season. Thanks for the tip on mounding and the great link. I was gonna wait until mid April to plant the seed taters...is that too late? I'm in southern New England.

 

[NaturalFarmer]

I would plant seed potato in May 1, no rush....Just ensure a pH around 7 if u can. With sweet potato, you grow the slips first and plant those. Each sweet potato can make like 20 slips or shoots and you break those off and they root. I think they are not actually tubers either, and instead just swollen roots. Fairly interesting article about them here
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2015/05/05/404198552/natural-gmo-sweet-potato-genetically-modified-8-000-years-ago

 

[dubekoms]

Yes raised beds are so much easier; I added buried soaker hose last year to my beds and put a timer hooked to my garden hose. I had quite a few tomatoes last year but those can pollinate themselves with just wind. They say limiting the number of fruits per plant makes for bigger tomatoes or pumpkins or whatever which makes sense. I've grown mushrooms indoors many times but only cubensis; never a wood loving variety.

No I ever grew any kind of tuber before but if I can manage to get a nice yield I will try doing sweets next season. Thanks for the tip on mounding and the great link. I was gonna wait until mid April to plant the seed taters...is that too late? I'm in southern New England.

Haha yeah my brother was good at growing those, when we were wayyy younger he'd just grow them in his wardrobe lol until our mom found them, good times. Can't wait to have him over sometime and show him my shrooms, maybe try and convince him the blue oysters are psychedelic.

I'm in mass I think I started my potatoes late April, early May. Basically as soon as there were no hard frosts, they don't mind if its a bit cool though. Yukon's were super quick, think I harvested mine early august.

 

[Richard Drysift]

It high time to shift this thread back to growing cannabis; my favorite indoor vegetable. Here's to my first multiple plant harvest since frikkin forever ago. Got some blue dream x Cmh and a few unidentifiable crosses here. These have low percentage of amber trichome heads which is surprising as they are only at day 56; placed into the bloom room on 1/19. It must be due to the intensity of the FS+UV and 10k finisher T5s. They seem to do a number on the leaves of each plant I place under it; I have already jacked up the yoyos higher twice. It also seems to help make the buds super dense and ripens them rather quickly. The fixture is now about 24" away from the topmost canopy which seems far for a T5 but the leaves were being scorched. Not from heat or temps but from light intensity & stress. Every one of the plants under it had at least one hermie and I am 100% sure there are no light leaks in my flower room so that's why I'm pulling these almost two weeks before I planned to.



I expect to pull less than an ounce dry from the three plants this harvest. It's great I've got fast flowering plants here but they yield very little; maybe 10g per. I found that mothers must be selected among the plants recently sexed as trying to reveg after harvesting resulted in slow death. Maybe I cut too much off the plant to reveg them. Either way this grow will slowly transition to clones to eliminate the extra step of sexing them out.




Heres some shots of the herms; glad I caught em early...



And finally this is what they look like after trimming all the fan leaves... like tiny cabbages! thanks for dropping by! Peace

 

[macsnax]

I guess the real treat

It high time to shift this thread back to growing cannabis; my favorite indoor vegetable. Here's to my first multiple plant harvest since frikkin forever ago. Got some blue dream x Cmh and a few unidentifiable crosses here. These have low percentage of amber trichome heads which is surprising as they are only at day 56; placed into the bloom room on 1/19. It must be due to the intensity of the FS+UV and 10k finisher T5s. They seem to do a number on the leaves of each plant I place under it; I have already jacked up the yoyos higher twice. It also seems to help make the buds super dense and ripens them rather quickly. The fixture is now about 24" away from the topmost canopy which seems far for a T5 but the leaves were being scorched. Not from heat or temps but from light intensity & stress. Every one of the plants under it had at least one hermie and I am 100% sure there are no light leaks in my flower room so that's why I'm pulling these almost two weeks before I planned to.

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I expect to pull less than an ounce dry from the three plants this harvest. It's great I've got fast flowering plants here but they yield very little; maybe 10g per. I found that mothers must be selected among the plants recently sexed as trying to reveg after harvesting resulted in slow death. Maybe I cut too much off the plant to reveg them. Either way this grow will slowly transition to clones to eliminate the extra step of sexing them out.
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Heres some shots of the herms; glad I caught em early...
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And finally this is what they look like after trimming all the fan leaves... like tiny cabbages! thanks for dropping by! Peace
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I haven't been getting alerts to your thread lately. I guess the real test is, did the uv bulbs make a difference in thc or canabinoids? Growing from seed may be hard to tell. But from the way your plants responded to the uv, it's sounds on track with I've read about uv. Keep em comin man.

 

[CaptainSnap]

Nice looking frost Richard! I have used 400w cmh bulbs in flower before and noticed more trichomes in my personal opinion when I did this. I now just use for veg as I get explosive results there as well. Been wanting to invest in the new 600w cmh bulbs to replace my flowering one but they are currently too pricey!

Great Job non the less. To me quality over quantity is priority!!

 

[Richard Drysift]

I guess the real treat

I haven't been getting alerts to your thread lately. I guess the real test is, did the uv bulbs make a difference in thc or canabinoids? Growing from seed may be hard to tell. But from the way your plants responded to the uv, it's sounds on track with I've read about uv. Keep em comin man.

Hard to say without a true side by side with control group. The UV+FS and finishing lights really do a number on them. By that I mean as soon as I put plants under the T5 they yellow right up. I mean granted they are in about week 7 or 8 by then so naturally they are ripening by then but it seems like they throw so much more energy on the plants.

 

[Richard Drysift]

Certainly not the prettiest plants but the buds are rock hard and smell like licorice. Here are 2 Candyman Haze phenos; different mamas but the same daddy. They look very much like their mothers did only smaller. They both were cut last week and are almost dry enough to jar now. Some of the larger buds from these are golf ball sized...not bad for tiny ass plants!

 

[Richard Drysift]

Nice thing about growing a perpetual SOG is with plants this size there is no trim or larf. I can trim and hang a plant in less than 8 mins. All the buds finish at the same time.
The major con is yields suck. The old lady and me smoke about a 1/2 oz per week....more or less. So far average yield runs 8-10 dry grams per plant...more or less. So I need to be able to produce at least 2 plants per week to keep up with consumption. I have been placing 5-7 plants at a time into the bloom room so I stagger the harvest window to suit my needs. Some of the plants need more time than others since I simply crossed two strains without backcrossing I get plants that exhibit the full range of strain characteristics. Yields will improve as I veg longer and introduce clones. I have selected a few mother plants for cloning but they are as yet too small to take cuts.

 

[Richard Drysift]

Another drawback to doing it this way is that once you fully sex out a plant they never seem to want to go back to veg phase. Plants that were selected as mothers are taking frikkin forever to grow large enough for cuts so I gotta keep poppin more seeds for the time being. I'm gonna try vegging longer from seed to slowly increase yield. Here's some plants that were hung last week; got 2 ssd x cmh here but not sure what strain the other one is....but at least there are no more nanners. Think it was due to light stress last time; seems better after yanking on the yoyos to raise up the T5 finisher a bit higher...

 

[Richard Drysift]

Here's a pretty one; no not much in the way of yield but a nice pull for a plant that was vegged for total of 3 weeks and then flipped. It is blue dream x Candyman Haze & it smells absolutely divine.
We are reaching the end of the usefulness of this thread. Not like it was ever all that useful to begin with My goal here has been and remains to show how one person of average intelligence can grow superior quality bud in organic soil with minimal effort and without the use of narsty tasting chemical nutrients. Once I get a few of my mothers to grow large enough to pull some clones I plan to start a whole new thread because there's been so many changes I need to document here. Stay tuned to the organic channel peace