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[Growtogrow]

Fed the girl's a good batch of tea this morning.
I sprayed it on in a foliar spray. And I also gave them a half a gallon of tea leftover mix to the root Zone. It was packed full living microbes... Good to the very last drop.

We've got good temperatures and sunshine for the next three or four days.
The new light over top of the silver haze is showing good results so far the plant is responding well today. I'll take measurements today and be more scientific of it from here on out.
Before tea pic

2 hour's after tea.

I took down the three T5 lights down. At least until it rains again this coming weekend it supposed to . At that time I may put them back up and I may not... I may bring out a couple more of the CMH lights to amplify the Shaded end of my grow cage. during the overcast and or the afternoon around 6 to 9 when the day is shadowing that area.

 

[smokeyfromau]

Thanks Smokefromau
Remember to put down paper ei. News paper or regular brown or white packing paper, but non wax or glossy paper but any biodegradable paper.
The reason is...is that the wood chips will eat up all the nitrogen in your soil before the ( wood chips) decompose far enough to be beneficial to the garden. The wood chips I put down over the (brown paper down first) that's protected from the above. Also it's going to allow my wood chips decompose slowly to create a fungal wood chip mulch or compost . A fungal wood chip compost maybe one of the best things that you can do for your soil . Access YouTube John Green Growing Your Greens and look up fungal wood chips there's a four or five good videos on it and it'll teach you a lot about fungal wood chips and a fungal wood chip Garden. There's another one called The Garden of Eden that's also another very good vido but super long and maybe a lot of content that's really not necessary. but the education part of it... almost makes it worth it all .
I use natural wood chips there's no painted ones in here or colored ones and eventually I hope to have a fungal wood chip Garden

Hey GTG Thanks Bro Thats a good idea i read about wood chips eating up the N in the soil like pine bark, I love the fungi in the wood chips, i always throw a bit of myc fungi in the soil mixes with bti also. I have seen those colour wood chips the cheap pine ones and it looks reddish, i try to get more aged pine chips even if a bit more in price. Fungi is beautiful to see also with mushrooms popping up

Good idea Bro the heater, to make it warm for the girls. Thats pretty cold and the weather is a bit bad there atm i guess, hope you are alright with the dam bust in MI i heard about on the news. I use the T5s if the day is rainy esp if plants still veging, i know they are not as powerful as LED but they were a great buy. I got 3 , but might get another.

Visit from my Aunty and Uncle today and i had to lock the girls up in the harvest drying room all day ( bed room lol) sure smelt nice entering:drool:. I want to tell them but my brothers dont want to, so that might put a damper on my in ground grow, but will see what i can think of doing. I do hope that nasty water fines up , and gets back to what it should be this time of year. Depends if winter is colder than normal here might see 1 or 2 32f(0c) mornings. 26F is pretty dam cold. I really love the heater idea, the girl less cold hardy can have the heat source a bit closer to her.

 

[Growtogrow]

I took the measurement of the silver haze triple threat. The reason I call this a triple threat is cuz there's actually three plants in that spot one in the middle and one on each side. I have the side plants pulled down and letting the middle grow straight up pulling some of its longer branches down to the side.
So with this plant having a light over top of it I'm hoping to see significant growth in it over the next week. To flip by the first.

 

[Doug58]

I got my photos in the ground today. The soil in my yard is sandy, but the one photo I grew last year had no problems packing on buds after I mixed worm castings, composted cow manure and some Scotts top soil in the hole. I top dressed with all the fresh Goose crap I cleaned up out of my yard during the Summer when the flock that breeds on the lake I live on invaded my yard with 40 goslings...

This year I used two bags of manure and humus, a few bags of Scotts top soil, 60 pounds of worm castings (3 bags @ $4.00 a bag Walt's Crawlers 30 pound bags or so) and I must have emptied 70 pounds of Fox Farms Happy Frog soil from last years grow bags that had perlite mixed into it last year. I also mixed in some bags of raised bed soil in with it all. Dug down about 18 inches and mixed all that into the sandy soil creating a raised bed probably 2 feet deep. Going to cover the raised bed with pine wood chips from an old stump I have to finish grinding. I also have white birch chips from a birch tree I cut down and had someone grind up two years ago. It's pretty decomposed now. Planted two Amethyst photos and 3 Mauvelous photos from Afterthought Autos. Supposed to be early finishing photo plants. With my soil being sandy I figured all that old Happy Frog I had could only make the soil better mixed in.

Looks like the cold weather may be finished here in Michigan. Late frost occurred in the middle of June last year. With temperatures reaching 80 degrees Up North already I don't see frost returning until September.

I only cracked one Fastbuds Original Skunk and an Original White Widow which I will grow in Fox Farms Happy Frog soil in 11 gallons fabric pots which will be grown in a tent in my pole barn unless they get too big. I've never tried either before.

I will then be planting some Afterthought Autos Azure Rocket regular seeds and see if I can harvest some seeds from them. They only grow 12" to 18" tall and take about 70 days. They are small enough that I should be able to grow them in five gallon pots. They will be in a tent for about a month and then moved to an area that gets direct sunlight around 15 hours a day. I don't want to run a tent more than 45 days.

 

[Doug58]

I took the measurement of the silver haze triple threat. The reason I call this a triple threat is cuz there's actually three plants in that spot one in the middle and one on each side. I have the side plants pulled down and letting the middle grow straight up pulling some of its longer branches down to the side.
So with this plant having a light over top of it I'm hoping to see significant growth in it over the next week. To flip by the first.

Do you top any of your outdoor photos or just train?

 

[Growtogrow]

Do you top any of your outdoor photos or just train?

I do it all.... Outside or inside...Top, super crop, LST, EST, manipulate and manicure throughout the entire grow.
I manipulated and tied down more today and super cropped the sage and sour a little bit more it was on accident I wasn't really trying to but she snapped a bit in the main stock.. it'll bounce back.

I took before and after pic.
I did the deed to her at noon today it's been 7 1/2 hour's and the sun is almost gone for the day.
I'll take a pic of her now. Let's see the growth.

After

After 8 hour. You Can Tell She's a little laggy on the top cuz that's what got busted at about quarter of the way down or so . It's also kind of dark here and those plants aren't getting the light the sunlight's gone and is overcast right now. so they're kind of Droopy anyways . But the plant with a light on it silver haze she's all perky still.

Before

I guess I'll make my post about the silver haze with the light over it.
it's approximately the same time I measured last night and as you guys can see it grew about two and a half almost three inches today. I had full sun today and they got a good helping of T water yesterday. I'm about to give them a litte spritz of tea right now.
I made a little extra batch of Boogie Brew tea with no Alaskan fish fertilizer in it or sugar this time yesterday and has been brewing for about 30 hours.
There's soil moisture is still really I did the knuckle in the soil moisture test some people don't think that's very accurate but to an organic grower and a Hill Billy living in the city it works great)
So I'm just going to feed the leaves of the plant tonight.
I don't usually do it at night time but I'm not too worried about the mildew at this time. And I'd like to give the microbes a good chance to build up on the leaf before the sun comes out..so they have a good Colony build up in the morning time when it's sun does come out.

 

[Growtogrow]

I got my photos in the ground today. The soil in my yard is sandy, but the one photo I grew last year had no problems packing on buds after I mixed worm castings, composted cow manure and some Scotts top soil in the hole. I top dressed with all the fresh Goose crap I cleaned up out of my yard during the Summer when the flock that breeds on the lake I live on invaded my yard with 40 goslings...

This year I used two bags of manure and humus, a few bags of Scotts top soil, 60 pounds of worm castings (3 bags @ $4.00 a bag Walt's Crawlers 30 pound bags or so) and I must have emptied 70 pounds of Fox Farms Happy Frog soil from last years grow bags that had perlite mixed into it last year. I also mixed in some bags of raised bed soil in with it all. Dug down about 18 inches and mixed all that into the sandy soil creating a raised bed probably 2 feet deep. Going to cover the raised bed with pine wood chips from an old stump I have to finish grinding. I also have white birch chips from a birch tree I cut down and had someone grind up two years ago. It's pretty decomposed now. Planted two Amethyst photos and 3 Mauvelous photos from Afterthought Autos. Supposed to be early finishing photo plants. With my soil being sandy I figured all that old Happy Frog I had could only make the soil better mixed in.

Looks like the cold weather may be finished here in Michigan. Late frost occurred in the middle of June last year. With temperatures reaching 80 degrees Up North already I don't see frost returning until September.

I only cracked one Fastbuds Original Skunk and an Original White Widow which I will grow in Fox Farms Happy Frog soil in 11 gallons fabric pots which will be grown in a tent in my pole barn unless they get too big. I've never tried either before.

I will then be planting some Afterthought Autos Azure Rocket regular seeds and see if I can harvest some seeds from them. They only grow 12" to 18" tall and take about 70 days. They are small enough that I should be able to grow them in five gallon pots. They will be in a tent for about a month and then moved to an area that gets direct sunlight around 15 hours a day. I don't want to run a tent more than 45 days.

Way to go Doug shit you're on point man. Man after my own heart...you're doing it to it that's what I'm talkin about that's the way to go at it bro. You got all the things in the right places after this year's grow you're going to be doing things for real

 

[Growtogrow]

Hey GTG Thanks Bro Thats a good idea i read about wood chips eating up the N in the soil like pine bark, I love the fungi in the wood chips, i always throw a bit of myc fungi in the soil mixes with bti also. I have seen those colour wood chips the cheap pine ones and it looks reddish, i try to get more aged pine chips even if a bit more in price. Fungi is beautiful to see also with mushrooms popping up

Good idea Bro the heater, to make it warm for the girls. Thats pretty cold and the weather is a bit bad there atm i guess, hope you are alright with the dam bust in MI i heard about on the news. I use the T5s if the day is rainy esp if plants still veging, i know they are not as powerful as LED but they were a great buy. I got 3 , but might get another.

Visit from my Aunty and Uncle today and i had to lock the girls up in the harvest drying room all day ( bed room lol) sure smelt nice entering:drool:. I want to tell them but my brothers dont want to, so that might put a damper on my in ground grow, but will see what i can think of doing. I do hope that nasty water fines up , and gets back to what it should be this time of year. Depends if winter is colder than normal here might see 1 or 2 32f(0c) mornings. 26F is pretty dam cold. I really love the heater idea, the girl less cold hardy can have the heat source a bit closer to her.

hey Smokey it's good to see you stop by man. Thanks for all the compliments and roses
Yup this year's better than last year that's for sure. Things are looking up though I'm getting it figured out slowly but surely... maybe next year I'll have it figured out...maybe the virus will go away and my money will fall right

 

[Growtogrow]

The girls had a nice lite shower this morning.
I had to pull in the light. It would've most likely been good. But Y take a chance. It had run it's time this morning also. As it starting raining at 945. It's to be partly cloudy this afternoon. A good hazy day. The girl's are going to love it.
They're already standing up with great vigor. I have some of the tea left it's about the last few hours that I can use it where it will still have pro active microbes in it.
It just stopped raining about 15 minutes ago I'll check the radar to see if it's good. No sense in wasting them on the ground.
Although they would do good there as well.

It's still raining a bit longer.
So I amped up the Tea a little bit.
I added a couple handfuls of worm castings to the tea bag and about a quarter cup of raw dark brown sugar and about 3 or 4 tablespoons of the fish poop plus add another bubbler to it all so it's really boiling well. I'll spray that on just as soon as it's all clear on the rain.
Thank you all for stopping by

 

[Jean-O]

Looking real good bud with this crazy weather. Never would have thought too much about flooding in michigan till the last few years. Looks like things are good ur way though.