Indoor Mars Hydro grow journal: WildBill does Hubbabubbasmelloscope in EarthBoxes under MarsHydro SP3000

[Bmurrciless]

Bob is shy! He is a mess at the moment. I really need to clean him up and remove the dead leaves and give him a haircut. He's been sitting in my bedroom by the double glass doors that lead out to the wraparound porch and shop. He's got his leaves plastered to the glass like a kid looking through a window of a toy or candy store or a kid wanting to go outside and play........................Yeah, I know! Kids don't do any of that for the most part anymore.
. He's heavy as hell and I failed to clean him up from letting him spend the simmer in a corner of the wraparound porch.
When I get back home, I'll see if he's ok with it.

He doesn't know about this pic I took soon after moving. It was his first time ever being outside in his whole life. He was totally distracted with soaking up the sun, so I quickly snapped this pic while he was preoccupied.
I gave him a really close haircut in prep for summer as he used to do for himself.
He got big and fat from being outside under the sun. The fugger even grabbed the porch railing to try and keep me from bringing him inside when fall came that year. He's stubborn as hell, but I learned from him!
He has a new pan to sit on after him bitching at me for one.
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edit..................I wrote this in a joking manner for entertainment purposes, but it's quite obvious that the plant means something special to me as a memorial of sorts just from the duration I've had him. He is in my will and goes to my son that loved our Uncle Bob as I did.

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Awesome may Bob live a long a prosperous life!!!!

 

[WildBill]

Well when the time comes for me to learn organics. I know who got the experience and know who to ask. I'll ask you. Lol. What kind of farming did you do b4 weed? Just curious

I grew almost all the food we ate......just about anything you can think of.

My Uncle moved in with my Mom and started selling the surplus in a trailer I built for him to use for selling the veggies. He towed it to town in his old '63 Ford van that the fishing wagon that he and hid brother, my Uncle Bob, used to take long fishing trips in. This gave him something to do, other than tearing up my farm equipment! LOL! He could tear up a cannon ball with a rubber hammer!

I eventually raised cattle and fed them organically grown feed. They never had hormones, antibiotics , inorganic food and only had mandated shots. The most cattle I had was over 400 cow and calf pairs. I had quite a few leased properties where I grew their feed and they grazed. The leases didn't cost me any cash. The lease agreements were based on me making improvements to the land with organic principles. It was fairly easy to get the owners to agree after them seeing the home place. The beef was just unreal! I hate going to the store to buy the crap they call beef. I got out of raising cattle on large scale even though my beef drew top dollar. Like a LOT of small farmers, I still had a regular job. I changed companies for a much higher paying job that entailed far more travel. I only had a handful on the home place after that.

I did jump into raising a cash crop one year. Across from my farm was about 50ac of fallow land. No one had done anything with it for 10 years that I knew about. I gave the owner the same proposal I did for cattle raising leases. I only worked it two years before I planted my intended crop, but it was intensive as hell. I grew 50 ac of a particular strain of cantalope/melon, Israeli Ogden. It was a VERY profitable endeavor, but the amount of work, headaches and just plain stress. I was happy to leave that as my one time trip into cash crops. I have HUGE respect for the small family farmer that does that year after year. That is a tough life!

I'm still learning canna for sure. Container growing is totally new to me. Even dealing with bugs, I think growing canna outside would be far easier for me if I had the opportunity. I'll trudge along and keep learning, adjusting and improving my program. I love this site and love seeing all the different methods of growing this wonderful little plant. I take in everything and evaluate it to see if it fits within my total mindset on organics.
It's been a learning experience for a few reasons. First most is growing indoors with an environment YOU create. Container growing is totally new with all the caveats with that. Last, but certainly not least, is utilizing and gathering organic material on such a small scale. I'm used to gathering my materials by scavenging most of my materials with most of the cost is fuel for transportation or pennies on the dollar for salvage material.

Finding, buying and using these source materials on such a small scale is where most of my refinements of my particular program will occur. Yeah, you can always refine your environment you're growing in and that's important and you can really geek out on the tech available. If you don't have a good working knowledge of the basics of organics and apply that, you can still grow ok canna. I'm not about growing "OK Canna".
Other than my starting media( not worth the time and effort for me to make on my own), I won't buy these "packaged" materials that suppliers mix together and market as "the end all be all" in growing canna. It is pretty funny to me when I see such things being marketed and people just eating it up. I'll slowly test and adopt individual materials that will fit me and my methods. There are many things out there that fit that bill that some may not think about using.
Just two easy things that fall into that category that I currently use are HumiChar and DuMOR chicken crumble feed. HumiChar is a micronized humic acid and and biochar product. It helps moderate your soil, really key in growing in a "small" container and especially in an EarthBox, retain moisture and homes for your microbes. DuMOR Organic chicken crumble has lots of trace minerals and is mostly organic with the non-organic ingredients being pretty much inconsequential, especially when compared to the so-called organic amendments concoctions these canna marketers put together. Both are best used when you add all your amendments to you base media, but can be utilized during the grow.

I'll always try to help others here with their questions. I will always let ya know if I don't know if I don't know or not sure on the answer. I have no problem acknowledging that I don't know everything about organics and I'm always up for learning something new in growing canna.

 

[Big Sul]

I grew almost all the food we ate......just about anything you can think of.

My Uncle moved in with my Mom and started selling the surplus in a trailer I built for him to use for selling the veggies. He towed it to town in his old '63 Ford van that the fishing wagon that he and hid brother, my Uncle Bob, used to take long fishing trips in. This gave him something to do, other than tearing up my farm equipment! LOL! He could tear up a cannon ball with a rubber hammer!

I eventually raised cattle and fed them organically grown feed. They never had hormones, antibiotics , inorganic food and only had mandated shots. The most cattle I had was over 400 cow and calf pairs. I had quite a few leased properties where I grew their feed and they grazed. The leases didn't cost me any cash. The lease agreements were based on me making improvements to the land with organic principles. It was fairly easy to get the owners to agree after them seeing the home place. The beef was just unreal! I hate going to the store to buy the crap they call beef. I got out of raising cattle on large scale even though my beef drew top dollar. Like a LOT of small farmers, I still had a regular job. I changed companies for a much higher paying job that entailed far more travel. I only had a handful on the home place after that.

I did jump into raising a cash crop one year. Across from my farm was about 50ac of fallow land. No one had done anything with it for 10 years that I knew about. I gave the owner the same proposal I did for cattle raising leases. I only worked it two years before I planted my intended crop, but it was intensive as hell. I grew 50 ac of a particular strain of cantalope/melon, Israeli Ogden. It was a VERY profitable endeavor, but the amount of work, headaches and just plain stress. I was happy to leave that as my one time trip into cash crops. I have HUGE respect for the small family farmer that does that year after year. That is a tough life!

I'm still learning canna for sure. Container growing is totally new to me. Even dealing with bugs, I think growing canna outside would be far easier for me if I had the opportunity. I'll trudge along and keep learning, adjusting and improving my program. I love this site and love seeing all the different methods of growing this wonderful little plant. I take in everything and evaluate it to see if it fits within my total mindset on organics.
It's been a learning experience for a few reasons. First most is growing indoors with an environment YOU create. Container growing is totally new with all the caveats with that. Last, but certainly not least, is utilizing and gathering organic material on such a small scale. I'm used to gathering my materials by scavenging most of my materials with most of the cost is fuel for transportation or pennies on the dollar for salvage material.

Finding, buying and using these source materials on such a small scale is where most of my refinements of my particular program will occur. Yeah, you can always refine your environment you're growing in and that's important and you can really geek out on the tech available. If you don't have a good working knowledge of the basics of organics and apply that, you can still grow ok canna. I'm not about growing "OK Canna".
Other than my starting media( not worth the time and effort for me to make on my own), I won't buy these "packaged" materials that suppliers mix together and market as "the end all be all" in growing canna. It is pretty funny to me when I see such things being marketed and people just eating it up. I'll slowly test and adopt individual materials that will fit me and my methods. There are many things out there that fit that bill that some may not think about using.
Just two easy things that fall into that category that I currently use are HumiChar and DuMOR chicken crumble feed. HumiChar is a micronized humic acid and and biochar product. It helps moderate your soil, really key in growing in a "small" container and especially in an EarthBox, retain moisture and homes for your microbes. DuMOR Organic chicken crumble has lots of trace minerals and is mostly organic with the non-organic ingredients being pretty much inconsequential, especially when compared to the so-called organic amendments concoctions these canna marketers put together. Both are best used when you add all your amendments to you base media, but can be utilized during the grow.

I'll always try to help others here with their questions. I will always let ya know if I don't know if I don't know or not sure on the answer. I have no problem acknowledging that I don't know everything about organics and I'm always up for learning something new in growing canna.

My personal growing experience is dramatically elevated because of your input and limited oversight.

 

[WildBill]

My personal growing experience is dramatically elevated because of your input and limited oversight.

I'm happy that my input has had some value to you and I appreciate you letting me know.

 

[WildBill]

hecno
Thanks for the rep! Coming from you, it means a lot to me.
A brother from another Mother across the world!

 

[hecno]

Mate , we are both on the same page . This .

Or this . Came here 34 years ago for 2 weeks fishing and will never leave .

 

[NorthernLights_420]

I grew almost all the food we ate......just about anything you can think of.

My Uncle moved in with my Mom and started selling the surplus in a trailer I built for him to use for selling the veggies. He towed it to town in his old '63 Ford van that the fishing wagon that he and hid brother, my Uncle Bob, used to take long fishing trips in. This gave him something to do, other than tearing up my farm equipment! LOL! He could tear up a cannon ball with a rubber hammer!

I eventually raised cattle and fed them organically grown feed. They never had hormones, antibiotics , inorganic food and only had mandated shots. The most cattle I had was over 400 cow and calf pairs. I had quite a few leased properties where I grew their feed and they grazed. The leases didn't cost me any cash. The lease agreements were based on me making improvements to the land with organic principles. It was fairly easy to get the owners to agree after them seeing the home place. The beef was just unreal! I hate going to the store to buy the crap they call beef. I got out of raising cattle on large scale even though my beef drew top dollar. Like a LOT of small farmers, I still had a regular job. I changed companies for a much higher paying job that entailed far more travel. I only had a handful on the home place after that.

I did jump into raising a cash crop one year. Across from my farm was about 50ac of fallow land. No one had done anything with it for 10 years that I knew about. I gave the owner the same proposal I did for cattle raising leases. I only worked it two years before I planted my intended crop, but it was intensive as hell. I grew 50 ac of a particular strain of cantalope/melon, Israeli Ogden. It was a VERY profitable endeavor, but the amount of work, headaches and just plain stress. I was happy to leave that as my one time trip into cash crops. I have HUGE respect for the small family farmer that does that year after year. That is a tough life!

I'm still learning canna for sure. Container growing is totally new to me. Even dealing with bugs, I think growing canna outside would be far easier for me if I had the opportunity. I'll trudge along and keep learning, adjusting and improving my program. I love this site and love seeing all the different methods of growing this wonderful little plant. I take in everything and evaluate it to see if it fits within my total mindset on organics.
It's been a learning experience for a few reasons. First most is growing indoors with an environment YOU create. Container growing is totally new with all the caveats with that. Last, but certainly not least, is utilizing and gathering organic material on such a small scale. I'm used to gathering my materials by scavenging most of my materials with most of the cost is fuel for transportation or pennies on the dollar for salvage material.

Finding, buying and using these source materials on such a small scale is where most of my refinements of my particular program will occur. Yeah, you can always refine your environment you're growing in and that's important and you can really geek out on the tech available. If you don't have a good working knowledge of the basics of organics and apply that, you can still grow ok canna. I'm not about growing "OK Canna".
Other than my starting media( not worth the time and effort for me to make on my own), I won't buy these "packaged" materials that suppliers mix together and market as "the end all be all" in growing canna. It is pretty funny to me when I see such things being marketed and people just eating it up. I'll slowly test and adopt individual materials that will fit me and my methods. There are many things out there that fit that bill that some may not think about using.
Just two easy things that fall into that category that I currently use are HumiChar and DuMOR chicken crumble feed. HumiChar is a micronized humic acid and and biochar product. It helps moderate your soil, really key in growing in a "small" container and especially in an EarthBox, retain moisture and homes for your microbes. DuMOR Organic chicken crumble has lots of trace minerals and is mostly organic with the non-organic ingredients being pretty much inconsequential, especially when compared to the so-called organic amendments concoctions these canna marketers put together. Both are best used when you add all your amendments to you base media, but can be utilized during the grow.

I'll always try to help others here with their questions. I will always let ya know if I don't know if I don't know or not sure on the answer. I have no problem acknowledging that I don't know everything about organics and I'm always up for learning something new in growing canna.

Damn Wild Bill. You must be a bit older than me sir. Lol I will be 35 yes old in 13 days. You sound like you been around the block and really know your organics and farming. My grandma grew up on a farm with animals and food growing also out in Jacobsville Michigan out by white city light house way in the upper peninsula. I never lived there but I live in the U.P. not to far from where there farm was growing up. I gave you some rep points also for your great response. I read it all and appreciate you taking the time to do so out of your day. Thank you sir! I always wanted to be a weed farmer growing up so that's what I did once it became legal here. I love growing weed. Now I'm starting to have interest in maybe growing some strawberry plants outdoors summer in my yard cuz I love strawberries. But no huge ambition here to grow anything other than weed or strawberries and maybe a aloe plant some day. Lol but I admire your story and knowledge. Respect!

 

[NorthernLights_420]

You got a lot of knowledge up there man. If you dont already have one. If you want to share your knowledge I'd love to learn organics more. I'm sure others would love to learn more also about it. If you dont mind sharing your knowledge you should write a organics tutorial in the organics section some day for people to read. I know I would read it!

 

[WildBill]

Damn Wild Bill. You must be a bit older than me sir. Lol I will be 35 yes old in 13 days. You sound like you been around the block and really know your organics and farming. My grandma grew up on a farm with animals and food growing also out in Jacobsville Michigan out by white city light house way in the upper peninsula. I never lived there but I live in the U.P. not to far from where there farm was growing up. I gave you some rep points also for your great response. I read it all and appreciate you taking the time to do so out of your day. Thank you sir! I always wanted to be a weed farmer growing up so that's what I did once it became legal here. I love growing weed. Now I'm starting to have interest in maybe growing some strawberry plants outdoors summer in my yard cuz I love strawberries. But no huge ambition here to grow anything other than weed or strawberries and maybe a aloe plant some day. Lol but I admire your story and knowledge. Respect!

Yeah, I've been around fer a spell.
Ewwwwwww! Growing in the UP? Jeeze that is a really short season and can snap to winter almost instantly! LOL!
Thanks for the rep!
I try to elaborate enough for someone to understand or learn my thought process on the subject and/or be entertained.














or sometimes I get too high tend wax and wane between trying to convey an idea and chasing related tangents.












The Best thing about it that you guys will never know which one is reality!

 

[NorthernLights_420]

Yeah I will be growing autoflowers most like because of the short season here. I may try some indica blueberry photos depending on how my DJ Short Blueberry turns out. If she turns out nice and no problems I will continue her indoors and try her outdoors also with some autos. I only plan to do 12 out at our families camp. For my first outdoor run I dont want to go too crazy

Yeah, I've been around fer a spell.
Ewwwwwww! Growing in the UP? Jeeze that is a really short season and can snap to winter almost instantly! LOL!
Thanks for the rep!
I try to elaborate enough for someone to understand or learn my thought process on the subject and/or be entertained.














or sometimes I get too high tend wax and wane between trying to convey an idea and chasing related tangents.












The Best thing about it that you guys will never know which one is reality!