Hecno's on going organics

@WildBill Millipede farm is going great , I have worked out the pumice stone out , should have done it long ago . :thumbsup:View attachment 1712568View attachment 1712569

Never purposely grew millipedes before!:biggrin:Are those babies or adults? I know I've seen some awful big millipedes before!
Yeah, I've seen the definite improvement with using the pumice! I think it's pretty key with this organic guys because our media can get quite heavy, as you have experienced.
In January, I'll start my first grow with all BAS 3.0 media as a base. If it works as well as expected, my old media will be relegated to the flower beds. They need to be reworked anyway. The 3.0 has a ton of volcanic pumice. With this media when re-amending, I want to go to a less of a thermophelic type of cooking. And basically that just means that worms and other things will be doing the breaking down of the amendments and not just the rampant raging of microbes. I just don't know if I can do that year round. It would become essentially like having a large worm bin. I just don't know if I could do that outside.

I'd really like to just move to beds and actually keep a living structure going with an active living root zone and living cover crop. Kind of a quasi Ruth Stout style of grow................ Even though Ruth never grew cannabis ! :biggrin::eyebrows::haha::haha:
But that will have to wait till I get my grow room built in my shop room built in my shop
 
Here we go , M.P.DP I will be harvesting late in the week as they will be ready the way I like them , I will post some full plant shoots when I do , also I am very impressed with them , @gorilla ganja good job mate . :thumbsup:
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:drool: excellent looking stuff mate as always! That one above looks rock-solid too...
But... GG isn't here - :rofl: - it's easy to forget which site you're at sometimes!
Did he send you any of the Cereal Milk cross? ...not sure it it's auto yet, but I hope he can keep the aroma profile of CM expressed. That would be a real treat for ya, dairy-fruity in the proper phenos - :thumbsup:
 
G'day guys , Well first 4 are done [ 77 ] days M. P. DP , The first plant is the tallest of them and the duds are not as dense and as you can see all red stems and I am unsure why , I am thinking lack of [ P ] ? ,
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Now these 3 little rippers , buds are very solid and even the lowest buds are big , no fluff . should average 5 once a plant , would have been more if the big girl had played the game . :mrgreen:
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The end is here , GB x FSL , Taken at Day 87 , Not as dense and more leaf which I did trim shading leafs along the way . One thing I forgot to take photos of was the root structures after growing with the pumice in the soil , I sure will be using it all the time now and I estimate I put in around 20 % One thing I will do next time is inoculate it with microbes before I add it to the soil . :thumbsup:
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The end is here , GB x FSL , Taken at Day 87 , Not as dense and more leaf which I did trim shading leafs along the way . One thing I forgot to take photos of was the root structures after growing with the pumice in the soil , I sure will be using it all the time now and I estimate I put in around 20 % One thing I will do next time is inoculate it with microbes before I add it to the soil . :thumbsup:View attachment 1717539View attachment 1717540View attachment 1717541View attachment 1717542View attachment 1717543View attachment 1717544View attachment 1717545View attachment 1717546View attachment 1717547View attachment 1717548View attachment 1717549View attachment 1717550View attachment 1717551
If you've grown these before, you kinda know what to expect and you know exactly what you did there in the grow. I think you're competent enough grower to know where you need your adjustments if you want to try to get more bud to leaf ratio.

You could go ahead and pre inoculate your pumice, but I really don't think it's necessary. They will get populated very quickly once you place them in your living media.

Now, I'm not saying not to do it!
In your particular case, A few days before you're going to pot up , I would just make up some compost tea with your local ingredients, even better if you have your own IMO, and just place the pumice In buckets and spray your compost tea all over them and swap around a bit. And just add that to your media that you're gonna use that you've been cooking and then bring it up to the proper moisture level with your compost tea and let that sit for a day just to make sure it doesn't heat back up.

I want to plant into a very active soil. And that's the biggest reason that I've gotten away from direct planting. With a very active soil, there is the increased possibility that that activity will consume the seed. Especially if it's oversoaked. I like using pucks soaked in Rootwise and then sprouted in a humidity dome with a light and heat mat. And it seems to be a little bit easier to germinate all the girls in the one run in one small space. It's easier to control the temperature and environment in that small container.

On this last run I sprayed my media the night before and potted them up and transplanted the next afternoon. Enough time to make sure the media didn't heat back up and my little seedlings hit the ground running!
While it be good growing any cannabis plant, I think it would be extremely beneficial if growing autos! You have roots ready to go with your transplant and you have a freshly potted up container that its media is at the proper moisture level and the media still has plenty of air and has not been packed down so the roots can explore their little asses off With minimal effort! :eyebrows: :haha::haha::haha:

I did learn quite a bit on this last run of various different things with cannabis. I really think the most valuable thing that I had confirmed was bigger is always better in organics. Yes, it grew a bigger girl, but the increase in bud size and amount was far greater than the increase in size of the overall plant.
And naturally with autos you want to size the pot for the girl. I'm not going to use a 20 gallon pot to do a SourStomper. While it would be a "big" SourStomper, it would still be a SourStomper.:biggrin:

Here's what the BAS 3.0 media looks like with it volcanic pumice. I think I remember them saying 20% is what they include with this recipe. I just took that before I add the layer of compost. That was mainly testing to see if this media was too hot for seedlings. Looks like it's doing fine.
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@Teetee Thanks mate :thumbsup:@WildBill I have always direct seeded and never had a problem . and I am working on easy growing , most of my work goes into soil building , after that as little as possible , PPM and all that stuff I do not do worry about , Ph yes , and as I have said I do my own N.P. K ratio at the different stages that I see , this round feeding did not start till week 6 , I believe get your foundation right - soil - the hard work is done . I may be wrong , but I am seeing new growers think if they read that this is how you do it , they come unstuck and wonder why , I think they should learn the principles of growing medium used first , then plant and then nutrients , --- Also we never stop learning . This is the joy of growing .
 
G'Day all , Well it is all over, we have moved into our new place , we do have a bit of work ahead of us as in some things to fix around the house but that is ok because I have a 2 year plan for that , The yard was a mess which was a shame as there is a lot of stone work around , I have cleaned up a lot but it will take time but the main stuff around the house is done , I had to clean all the garden beds out due to being over grown , The wet season is here which is good as I can see where the wet spots are in the yard , I am in the making of a veggie garden , being the first one I have put out it where I think is best [ we will see ] once I have a full growing season done I will have a better idea how the sun travels , if I have to move it I will , I also have a fish pond going and around 800 ltr of soil on the go , Witn the veggie garden I have to put a strong fence around it due to the fact that in the mango season there are a number of wild plugs around . -- there are some good mango trees on the property -- Yum yum - Also lots of birds here around 57 different types . We have 2 young birds we are looking after , first photo is a Papua New Guinea owl found on the ground in town and got her 9 weeks ago .
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Also a Torres Strait Pigeon , found here at home on the ground ,
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Both birds have 24/ 7 access to the out doors so they can come and go as the please . and can't for get the snakes . here is home ,
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One of the first jobs was to get the smoke house up and going .
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Now I will not be growing tell the end of the year due to the fact I have to get things sorted and fixed around house and yard , so I will be build a new grow room [ no more tent ] It will be towards the end of the year , Now some of you guys know I stated my small business [ Home Gardening service ] Here I was thinking I will do 3 days a week , that would be good then I have more time to work around home , - as if - try up to 6 and sometimes 7 days a week , I am at the stage I have cut back . I now only do full garden rebuilds , that was so I can work to my time frame , 4 days a week and that is it . :smokeit:
 
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