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Laughing Grass

Laughing Grass

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DarkWeb said:
I've been helping a friend and his family sugaring. Fixed sap lines, taped trees, bottling and now boiling. It's really awesome. And yes we know the family through one of our kids. So yeah the kids have been part of some things. My little guy snowshoed a mile the other day tapping trees.
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I was gonna ask if you tried building an igloo again this year, but I think you need snow for that!
 
cannabiscrusader

cannabiscrusader

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wakeNbaker46 said:
any amendments? i have dr earth, still plenty in the bags.
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No vermiculite. Dr earth is good stuff. You can go heavy on it. Just work it into the first inch or 2 of soil. Use plenty of perlite mixed with your promix or sunshine mix. The emphasis on aeration is often overlooked, or the warnings unheeded. I've only been adding ewc with my topdress and dolomite lime in my initial mix. Just keep the soil moist and well fed. 1/4 cup every other week seems to be good in 5 gal containers

Sips seem to be the way to go for organics. Problem I'm running into is the stages when the plant stops drinking for a minute, they become waterlogged and show signs of overwatering. Working on a 5 gal dtw automated straight from the tap.

bongsmilie
 
curious2garden

curious2garden

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StareCase said:
Moi aussie ...

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The Diesel is huge compared to the wee Cheese in the foreground.

Here be the byproduct of the Scugog Mite Fight that took place over these past 6 weeks. I was "guilted" into bringing an outdoor plant, purchased a few hours earlier from a nursery as an honour to The Little Spud, into the indoor VEG area.

STUPID ME!

About 5 weeks into BLOOM, I noticed a shitload of off-white speckled fans - more so on the Diesel. Checking with both LG and C2G, they confirmed that the issue was spider mites. Checking with a magnifier, I saw mini webs in the nodes and "scurrying black specks" on the back of those leaves. The mites hitched a ride from the nursery plant.

STUPID ME!

These two ottoman sized ladies in the BLOOM tent:

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with branches stacking really nicely ............................. had to be completely culled.

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The branches were taken to the back forest and tossed into the brush. The BLOOM lights went dark and have been that way since mid January.

Fortunately, I had taken cuts while still in VEG and they had rooted. But when I checked the clones under the mag, I saw the same little black scurrying specks and mini webs! Further proof that the problem was in the VEG area. So I gave the clones a citric acid wash and two further wipe-downs with a water/ISO mix over the next 10 days. Daily inspection over those 10 days did not reveal any webs or mites. And the clones began to recover.

Once the clones started to recover, they also started to look like they were monster cropped. Elongated single fingers, darker green, no serrated edges, excessive stem stretch - all symptomatic of a re-veg. This stem stretch led to a couple of previous Cheese clones to be scrapped. While the Cheese seemed to struggle to get re-started, the Diesel exploded.

And after several weeks of re-vegging, both are back again and the spread has resumed. I see no more little black spots scurrying on the underside of the fans, there are no more webs in between the nodes or the spaces in between the frons of the leaves and I do not see any off-white freckling on the large fans. Both are now back on their regular VEG feed routine

The coaxee has learned to never put an outdoor plant under the indoor lights (STUPID ME!) and the coaxer has learned to never ask again.

The Diesel will see the inside of the BLOOM tent but the Cheese won't. In 14 days, I intend to take cuts off of both to get the Next Generation ready. And since the Diesel is gonna have the 2 x 4 all to itself for 10 weeks, I am going to see how wide I can spread that lady in these next 2 weeks.
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I'm glad you made it through. It's so hard to lose a table, frustrating
 
shnkrmn

shnkrmn

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cannabiscrusader said:
No vermiculite. Dr earth is good stuff. You can go heavy on it. Just work it into the first inch or 2 of soil. Use plenty of perlite mixed with your promix or sunshine mix. The emphasis on aeration is often overlooked, or the warnings unheeded. I've only been adding ewc with my topdress and dolomite lime in my initial mix. Just keep the soil moist and well fed. 1/4 cup every other week seems to be good in 5 gal containers

Sips seem to be the way to go for organics. Problem I'm running into is the stages when the plant stops drinking for a minute, they become waterlogged and show signs of overwatering. Working on a 5 gal dtw automated straight from the tap.

bongsmilie
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Never considered that issue with sips before (I'm sip-curious). Passive systems have their limitations.
 
cannabiscrusader

cannabiscrusader

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shnkrmn said:
Never considered that issue with sips before (I'm sip-curious). Passive systems have their limitations.
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They do. I'm basically trying to get everything to a point where the wife and I can take off for a few weeks. Everyone around me has a brown thumb, big mouth, or both. I'm thinking a backet inside a bucket. Drain out the side down low so very little water accumulates, with no wick. I can snap the lids on with a hole cut in the middle and a pac man slit. Ever changing, ever evolving

I heard you like buckets! I put a bucket in yo bucket son!!!!
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