Another Oregon Grow

[slow drawl]

@slow drawl

When you up-pot, do you just drop the smaller pot into a bigger one? Kind of looks like that...

No... they grow in 3 gal. bags until its time to move em on up.

 

[Humanrob]

No... they grow in 3 gal. bags until its time to move em on up.

LOL my bad, those drip irrigation pipes looked like the tops of pots to me...

 

[Amshif87]

Been a week or so since I took any pics for updates busy busy...lots of good shit going on in the spring here, (springer season on the Columbia, clamming at the coast, surf perch, morels when I can find them. I Love Oregon.
Still waiting for my Bangi Haze cuttings to show sex, the plants need to be transplanted badly. I need to get 2 of them in my raised beds.
Six of them in the background here.
I might have a few extra Bangi Haze for any of you Oregon growers close by. I only need 1 male and 2 females.
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One of them is going in the middle here, hoping it can reach it's full potential. The GDP that was here grew balls.View attachment 3689860

The other is going in here with the Pineapple Chunk.
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The GH plants are doing well.


It's gonna be cramped in there.

Well its time to hit up some Strawberry Cough and get to work.

Subbed and interested in any extra plants, m or f. I'd really like a good make to throw to my manzana weed cut. She needs some hazey pollen in her life lol

 

[slow drawl]

Subbed and interested in any extra plants, m or f. I'd really like a good make to throw to my manzana weed cut. She needs some hazey pollen in her life lol

Sounds like a plan, I've never tried the manzana before.
This will be my first year making seeds.
I ordered the Bangi after reading of its early finish for a Sativa and resistance to mold, we shall see.
I'll let you know as soon as the cuttings are strongly showing sex.

 

[Amshif87]

Sounds like a plan, I've never tried the manzana before.
This will be my first year making seeds.
I ordered the Bangi after reading of its early finish for a Sativa and resistance to mold, we shall see.
I'll let you know as soon as the cuttings are strongly showing sex.

The manzana was a ten year old seed bag seed from Manzana Washington. It had been worked outdoors up there for almost a decade. My buddy had been carrying the lone bag seed around for ten years and he finally popped it last year. Super Sativa leaves on an indica frame. Not a lot of side branching and minimum stretch, like literally .5 in a soil mix that was probably a little high on N. I don't want to lose the parsnip/sandalwood/spice she's got going on, but I'd really like to open her up and stretch her out. And if Bengi is a fast finisher then it will be perfect as she is as well.

 

[slow drawl]

The manzana was a ten year old seed bag seed from Manzana Washington. It had been worked outdoors up there for almost a decade. My buddy had been carrying the lone bag seed around for ten years and he finally popped it last year. Super Sativa leaves on an indica frame. Not a lot of side branching and minimum stretch, like literally .5 in a soil mix that was probably a little high on N. I don't want to lose the parsnip/sandalwood/spice she's got going on, but I'd really like to open her up and stretch her out. And if Bengi is a fast finisher then it will be perfect as she is as well.

Interesting strain ya got there, the Bangi might cross well with it.
I love my sativas, always on the hunt for something potent I can finish here on the wet side.

 

[Humanrob]

Interesting strain ya got there, the Bangi might cross well with it.
I love my sativas, always on the hunt for something potent I can finish here on the wet side.

Me too!!! @Amshif87 -- if you come up with some good seeds, you might be able to go into business... at least at the local level.

 

[Amshif87]

Me too!!! @Amshif87 -- if you come up with some good seeds, you might be able to go into business... at least at the local level.

I've got a couple things working but I won't pass anything out until they've been tested by the crew. Maybe someday I'll get around to throwing some pics up and make a thread. Years on the east coast with draconian weed laws have me in the habit of keeping no documentary evidence around. But even here where things are a little friendlier a little discretion never hurt.

 

[Humanrob]

I've got a couple things working but I won't pass anything out until they've been tested by the crew. Maybe someday I'll get around to throwing some pics up and make a thread. Years on the east coast with draconian weed laws have me in the habit of keeping no documentary evidence around. But even here where things are a little friendlier a little discretion never hurt.

Absolutely! I'm all for keeping everything I do legit. For my situation, there is no need or temptation to do otherwise. I believe that at least for now, the world of bartering is still open and legal... just as a side note.

 

[Amshif87]

Absolutely! I'm all for keeping everything I do legit. For my situation, there is no need or temptation to do otherwise. I believe that at least for now, the world of bartering is still open and legal... just as a side note.

Well I'll post them up for local testers. I'm going to be working a black lime reserve crossed to a mothertongue male and I'll probably stick the same male to my blue city diesel. I've been a member for 4 years and never really posted but now that I'm doing more than lurking I think I'll stick around. Sorry @slowdrawl for de-railing your thread. I offer flowers in recompense

 

[slow drawl]

Well I'll post them up for local testers. I'm going to be working a black lime reserve crossed to a mothertongue male and I'll probably stick the same male to my blue city diesel. I've been a member for 4 years and never really posted but now that I'm doing more than lurking I think I'll stick around. Sorry @slowdrawl for de-railing your thread. I offer flowers in recompense

I love testing...nice looking floral display.
No problems man, feel free to post away. I need help keeping my own thread going. So much going on in the spring it's hard to get on here much.

 

[Amshif87]

I love testing...nice looking floral display.
No problems man, feel free to post away. I need help keeping my own thread going. So much going on in the spring it's hard to get on here much.

I feel you there. We're at a new spot this year so it meant building the food and medical gardens from the ground up. But I've got all of them in their holes and they are looking super happy. Now I've got to start focusing on some projects inside.

 

[Amshif87]

I love testing...nice looking floral display.
No problems man, feel free to post away. I need help keeping my own thread going. So much going on in the spring it's hard to get on here much.

I just re read your thread and I couldn't find any information on what you used for soil in the bags in your greenhouse?

 

[slow drawl]

I just re read your thread and I couldn't find any information on what you used for soil in the bags in your greenhouse?

This is basically my first thread for a grow so I'll probably leave a lot of shit out that most of you would include.
I took my soil from last years grow Ocean Forest/Happy Frog and 1/3 my garden soil and dumped it onto my 2 raised beds and amended with..... and incorporated the top 4" of my raised bed soil.
My Compost
Alfalfa Meal
Feather Meal
Azomite
Neem Seed Meal
Fishbone Meal
Kelp Meal
Bone Meal
Cotton Seed Meal
Dolomitic Lime
Then covered it up for 2 months.
This will be a water only grow with the exception of a periodic dose of teas.
Getting ready to go camping for a few days, I'll chop down a good amount of stinging nettle and horse tail while I'm there and start some tea when I get back.
Hopefully the Bangi Haze cuttings will be showing sex by then, the parent plants are growing quickly and I'm running out of space.

 

[Amshif87]

This is basically my first thread for a grow so I'll probably leave a lot of shit out that most of you would include.
I took my soil from last years grow Ocean Forest/Happy Frog and 1/3 my garden soil and dumped it onto my 2 raised beds and amended with..... and incorporated the top 4" of my raised bed soil.
My Compost
Alfalfa Meal
Feather Meal
Azomite
Neem Seed Meal
Fishbone Meal
Kelp Meal
Bone Meal
Cotton Seed Meal
Dolomitic Lime
Then covered it up for 2 months.
This will be a water only grow with the exception of a periodic dose of teas.
Getting ready to go camping for a few days, I'll chop down a good amount of stinging nettle and horse tail while I'm there and start some tea when I get back.
Hopefully the Bangi Haze cuttings will be showing sex by then, the parent plants are growing quickly and I'm running out of space.

Right on man, this year I started by adding 6 cu ft of EWC from NW redworms to a bale of promix that I found we're expanding to about 7.5 ft. It's a super basic commercial version of promix made by Sungro. It's 75% peat and the rest is a mixture of horticultural pumice and perlite. To this I added a 50# bag of turface, it's like little chips of hydroton. It is used on baseball infields. Apparently it works as an aeration amendment and also can give your plants a couple extra hours before they dry up in a heatwave. This brings my base to 15 cu ft. I 5-5-5 organic fertilizer from Concentrates NW. It has kelp, alfalfa, flaxseed, fish, and fishbone meals with glacial rock dust, and mycorrhizae. I beefed this up with neem seed meal additional glacial rock dust and Azomite with oyster shell flour as a liming agent. might have missed something I'll go back over my notes. I did this 6 times and split it between 12 holes. I scored the promix from my buddy who got 30 bales of that, 25, 3 cut ft bales of Metromix 360 and 20 bags of turface for free off of craigslist from a sungro employee in Hubbard that got laid off. Cost me a 1/2 oz of flower for 9 bales and 9 bags of turface. I'm $50 in a plant between EWC and amendments. Feeling pretty good about that. Only 60 gallons per plant but I'll be pulling tarp in mid July. My native soil is super fertile if a little rocky. After I take my first round down I plan on throwing 50 gallon smart pots right over the holes. Sorry for the long winded post, Chernobyl got me feeling chatty. Happy growing.

 

[WV: Jetson]

That's a beautiful picture: you got your trampoline, you got a sweet looking deck and E-Z Up, you got a nice looking pile of amendments and a trailer full of soil, all in the backyard of suburbia (Portland?). And a couple of plants, somewhere, waiting to get their grow on.

 

[Amshif87]

the plan is only feeding with malted barley teas and coconut water maybe once every two weeks and possibly top dressing with more compost and high p bat guano in flower.

 

[Amshif87]

That's a beautiful picture: you got your trampoline, you got a sweet looking deck and E-Z Up, you got a nice looking pile of amendments and a trailer full of soil, all in the backyard of suburbia (Portland?). And a couple of plants, somewhere, waiting to get their grow on.

I'm between Portland and Salem in the heart of the willamete valley. But you were pretty close with the suburbia, I'm 2 blocks of main st in small town America. Got the girls in the holes on the 11th. Some went out vegged pretty well and a couple were large clones. Got my other girls keeping watch on everything. Should be a fun year. I'll start a thread tomorrow morning with all of the details of what I'm doing sorry again @slowdrawl for derailing

 

[Amshif87]

Alright, finally started a thread of my own. Stop by and have a look

https://www.rollitup.org/t/oregon-on-a-budget-2016-s-for-pennies.910711/#post-12642206

Happy Farming!

 

[slow drawl]

I'm between Portland and Salem in the heart of the willamete valley. But you were pretty close with the suburbia, I'm 2 blocks of main st in small town America. Got the girls in the holes on the 11th. Some went out vegged pretty well and a couple were large clones. Got my other girls keeping watch on everything. Should be a fun year. I'll start a thread tomorrow morning with all of the details of what I'm doing sorry again @slowdrawl for derailing

Good looking start to your season man, I see quality and quantity coming your way.
Nice growing area ya got there. Gotta love Oregon..growin in the back yard.
Because of shitty soil here on my lot I've been forced to build raised beds. I'm happy with them because I've got to build the soils the way I want over the last 17 years but It's expensive to start. I have 12 of them currently and have no more room.