NoTillPhil's 2018 Backyard Tree Mission

NoTillPhil

NoTillPhil

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Hi all ! I'm going to track my grow for the summer here in this thread. Not a full fledged journal but more of a follow along.

This is my first legal outdoor grow so I'm excited to be able to baby my plants and tend to them daily. I'll be planting half of my six plant limit in mounds I have been working since December started in a previously planted garden area. I'm not sure how long it sat overgrown with weeds but the soil was clearly much better than surrounding soil. Basically sandy loam.

So for starters I dug down 12-20" and about 48" across. I then mixed in hay and leaves with some blood meal. This basically doubled the amount of mix and brought the mounds up 20-24". I then turned them a half dozen times or so throughout winter usually preceding a warm spell. After a couple turns I added some more blood meal and some fish bone meal to assist in nitrogen depletion. I also added epsom salts.

About two weeks ago I mulched around the piles and pathways with hardwood chips and dust. I also turned the piles and added some Happy Frog flower food 5-8-4.

Yesterday I mulched the mounds with 4-5" of compost I also started in December. It's not quite ready to be mixed in but is perfect mulch atm. I also planted some mixed beans into them just in case nitrogen still needs a hand.

I'll be putting together a potting mix and running the other 3 plants in smart pots. 100gl minimum. I think may go with 200s. Because I'm likely to change something last moment I'll fill you guys in on the mix when it happens. Atm I'm thinking rice hulls, peat and native soil with some added goodies.

Gotta run now but I'll put up pics and some info about strains and where the plants are at now shortly.
 
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NoTillPhil

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I just did a soil sediment test of the native soil, not the piles, and determined I'm actually in what would be considered good loamy soil. By hand and crumble test I was thinking more sand than anything but it's equal part sand and loam. Approximately 45% sand 45% loam and 10% clay.

Here are some pics of the grow area and the sediment test. Clay and organic matter are still suspended. Sand is under blue marker and silt from blue to pink.

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First two are Death Valley OG on left and Mammoth on right. Unknown baby daddies.
About 32" tall and equally wide, prob wider. Should easily be 4-5' wide tip to tip as soon as they get tied down outside.


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Humple

Humple

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NoTillPhil said:
I just did a soil sediment test of the native soil, not the piles, and determined I'm actually in what would be considered good loamy soil. By hand and crumble test I was thinking more sand than anything but it's equal part sand and loam. Approximately 45% sand 45% loam and 10% clay.

Here are some pics of the grow area and the sediment test. Clay and organic matter are still suspended. Sand is under blue marker and silt from blue to pink.

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Awesome. One of these days I'm just going to say "Fuck the neighbors" and go ahead with an outdoor crop. I'm a medical patient, so the legality isn't an issue, but my wife and kids have to get along with some of the people who live around us, and I don't want them to have to deal with the drama. But shit, man, it surely would be nice...
 
thumper60

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Humple said:
Awesome. One of these days I'm just going to say "Fuck the neighbors" and go ahead with an outdoor crop. I'm a medical patient, so the legality isn't an issue, but my wife and kids have to get along with some of the people who live around us, and I don't want them to have to deal with the drama. But shit, man, it surely would be nice...
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I here ya on the fuck the neighbors stuff, but I grew last yr in the yard legal for the first time what bothered me most was the grandkids running around the greenhouse stuffed full of plants just seemed weird! but times r -ah changing
 
socaljoe

socaljoe

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NoTillPhil said:
The 400 gallon pots are $35 or so a piece. I did three for $38 and have enough to do one more with wire and three more from fabric roll. So maybe $50 for six instead of $210.
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Damn, that's just a wee bit cheaper. :mrgreen:

Right on, can't wait to see those babies all greened up.
 
Novabudd

Novabudd

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thumper60 said:
same ones we got here been crawling thur them 30 yrs lol just gotta watch ya step haha
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Thats for damn sure ! We have some pretty good speckled trout fishing in the stillwaters that cut through the bogs. Just gotta tread careful and watch out for the beaver slides
 
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