Oregon on a budget 2016. #s for Pennies

[Amshif87]

Devils cut kush was a strain that was bred by a friends father in omaki wa. He popped ten year old seeds in late November and this is the keeper he put out this year. I have one in flower right now inside. reminds me of an OG with beefed up stems and leaves. Same golfball nugs spread out over long stems. Smells decidedly kushy with Chernobyl like lime tones. Grows with pretty good structure, the nugs are rock hard and even though they aren't huge, there is enough of them that I think it's going to yield pretty well. Pics indoors are a week ago and she's put on some weight since then.

 

[Amshif87]

What can I say about this one? Lucy's lion, this plant is the medicine. 16% CBD and less than 2% thc. What a nightmare to grow. So finnicky you can't even look at her wrong or she'll start to curl and flop over. She is sensitive to nutes, light, over/under watering,heat. I mean any minor hiccup the rest of my garden takes in stride and she threatens to off herself. My indoor soil was too hot for her last batch so she was a little fried when I put her out. She got a special mix with much less of the 5-5-5 but the same amount of rock dust/minerals/oyster shell flour. She seems like she is growing out of her issues and might end up doing alright. I only ran her once before now, but despite her issues she yielded a pretty good harvest of some tasty buds. Made awesome rosin as well but I never took any pictures of her other than the one I snapped right after I'd picked up the cut. You're not missing out though, by the end she looked like commercial hemp.

 

[Amshif87]

This next cut was passed to me as dr Funkenstein and that really excited me. I really do not think this is the NocturnalG cut. It grows way more Sativa than it should and although she gets a decent fade, it's been nothing like what I've seen from pictures of the real deal. The plus side is that whatever I have is awesome. Big yielder of some pretty uppity colorful nugs that smell so strongly of oranges and sweat that it made me drop my agent orange. It is definitely funky.

 

[Amshif87]

Blue city diesel was the first cut I acquired after moving back to Oregon. Great yielder of super sprucey/piney nugs with an awesome berry smell flavor that develops more later in flower and into the cure. You can tell it was Soma's fake diesel that was used in the cross as you can't pick up a single hint of the real SD in its structure, growth or flavor but none the less it is one the plants that will be here for a while.

 

[Amshif87]

Also mixed up some soil and transplanted some clones I had inside into #3 pots and moved them outside. Going to let em veg out and then hopefully sell/barter/trade them in 10-20 gallon pots of water only soil to people who want to grow their own but don't want to work to hard. Lol. Lastly a pic of my newest additions to the flock. I've got 4 Blue laces red Wyandottes and I'm hoping for a roo so I can get a breeding quad going. My daughter chose another barred rock and a production red as well. Alright, I think that just about wraps up what I had for tonight. I'm going to hit a dab and then hit the sheets. Happy farming fam.

 

[slow drawl]

Also mixed up some soil and transplanted some clones I had inside into #3 pots and moved them outside. Going to let em veg out and then hopefully sell/barter/trade them in 10-20 gallon pots of water only soil to people who want to grow their own but don't want to work to hard. Lol. Lastly a pic of my newest additions to the flock. I've got 4 Blue laces red Wyandottes and I'm hoping for a roo so I can get a breeding quad going. My daughter chose another barred rock and a production red as well. Alright, I think that just about wraps up what I had for tonight. I'm going to hit a dab and then hit the sheets. Happy farming fam.

Your rockin it for sure buddy. I like the revamp on your wheelbarrow...might have to steal your idea.
I was wheeling some rock to the back yard the other day....I ain't what I used to be.

 

[WV: Jetson]

Yowza, that's a heck read! Great notes. The only suggestion I have is making the mulch ring larger. Your lawn is going to be loving your soil and moving right in.

 

[TWS]

Get a job

 

[Amshif87]

Yowza, that's a heck read! Great notes. The only suggestion I have is making the mulch ring larger. Your lawn is going to be loving your soil and moving right in.

Yeah, I'm going to be putting weed barrier down when we frame out the hoop house. After digging all of those holes I couldn't bring myself to try and cut all the sod out too. I can still fit the push reel mower between the plants, but that isn't going to last for long. Lol. We live and we learn.

 

[Amshif87]

Get a job

I know, right? If I had time for a third job I'd take it though. I've got a hard time saying no to work. I'll get a day off when I die has always been my mantra.

 

[Amshif87]

Your rockin it for sure buddy. I like the revamp on your wheelbarrow...might have to steal your idea.
I was wheeling some rock to the back yard the other day....I ain't what I used to be.

Thanks bud, when I was digging my holes after about 18 inches down it became solid rock. Went to lift a super full load and the handle snapped off. We rigged it with a piece of pipe but just haven't gotten around to replacing it. I scored that 6 cu ft wheelbarrow with the duely up front for $6 at a garage sale a while back. Gotta love the come ups.

 

[Amshif87]

Got home today and the clones I potted up and put outside are loving life.


Everytime I put clones up on Craigslist I get blown up and I unload them almost before I get flagged so today when topping plants outside I decided to make cuttings.
I also took clones off of the 10 plants I'm about to flower. Ideal world would give me 3 fem and 2 males from both strains. Give me a few options to work with. Hopefully I'll find something good. Going to be flowering the donor plants in 2 days after I make sure the cloning today didn't slow them down. I'm wondering if anyone has any experience transplanting plants after they show sex in the flower cycle. I'm wondering if this would slow them down or if the extra root space will more than make up for it. They're in 3 gallons now and I was thinking putting them straight into #10s as soon as they show sex. I've got a quarantine tent inside I will be moving the males into so I can observe them flower and possibly collect pollen if I like what I see. I'd rather not put all 10 in #10. There is no way I need that much pollen from the males and I think even for pots that size would be pushing it in the little 30x30 I've got. But these plants are looking pretty big in the 3s and I'd rather maximize my returns.
I'll get pics of all the plants when they get flipped.

 

[Humanrob]

I'm wondering if anyone has any experience transplanting plants after they show sex in the flower cycle. I'm wondering if this would slow them down or if the extra root space will more than make up for it.

I don't have a lot of experience with this but did ask this question once and the responses I got were that the plant might take a few days to recover (i.e. temporarily slow down) but that they would benefit in the long run from the extra soil -- especially a move from 3 to 10, that's a decent size upgrade.

 

[Amshif87]

What's up farmers. Been a bit since I've been on. Things have been chugging along but nothing too exciting. Ended up getting some mites indoors. I've been having a rough couple weeks with my diabetic gastroperisis, that combined with running my lights at night meant I got really lax with my IPM routine. Selling a lot of clones recently has put me in touch with different growers and I wouldn't be surprised if I it started there. Regardless I'm about 7-10 days out from taking down that light and after that I'm taking apart the full room and cleaning it from the ground up. Right now I just went through and got as many of the affected leaves as possible and I'm doing nightly sprayings with water and have put green bamboo stakes amongst the colas and put the fans on blast. Every time I go in I've been wiping mites off the stakes and it has kept them at bay for now. Pineapple kush is smelling incredible despite the troubles. A quick before and after the haircut on one of the 7 plants. I moved all of my vegging plants upstairs and am keeping out of that room after I'm in the flower.

On a more positive note. I had some popcorn/larf, so I turned it into some nice extract. Still open blasting like an asshole, using a Büchner funnel and Erlenmeyer flask. Turned out pretty nice. 40 hours in purge, super terpy and really clean. It's been treating me proper.

I topped all the plants out doors and since I was cloning the plants in my seed run I threw them in peat pucks soaked in kelp, aloe and humic acid. 8 days later had roots in 75% percent of them and have a feeling most of the rest will be ready now. Since I've moved everything out of the room downstairs I've taken over the baby's nursery as my clone nursery for the next couple weeks.

Plants outdoor are getting big. Biggest one is almost 3.5' talland about 4' across. I noticed some black fly aphids today and tomorrow will spray with a Rosemary mint aloe spray. Not a bunch yet, but they can get ugly fast. I'll throw up some pictures from earlier today in the next post.

 

[Amshif87]

The last two pictures are of some of the clones I put in 3 gallons outdoors 11 days ago. They are loving life, but the new growth where they were topped has a funny purple color. This is in 3 of four strains that was planted on the same day. Wondering if any fellow farmers have an answer. Thanks for stopping by. Look for a good update tomorrow. Drip irrigation, pulling tarp and a free greenhouse

 

[ky man]

I know, right? If I had time for a third job I'd take it though. I've got a hard time saying no to work. I'll get a day off when I die has always been my mantra.

that was my old saying in the coke days that I would have plenty time to sleep when I died so I was going strong long as I could..LOL.ky

 

[ky man]

by the way good looking plants and happy growing to you..ky

 

[Amshif87]

I'm Been a bit since I got on, but you know how it goes, garden, work, family, life sometimes gets in the way of screens. Lol. Plants are chugging along. Got a free 7x12 greenhouse frame for free. The shitty covering on it was flaking pretty bad but I had some 1 year uv treated 4mil plastic so I set it up as a light dep. Also had half a roll of 6 mil black plastic from Home Depot that I've been using as blackout tarp. My buddy has used it for years with his 40'x20' and never had any problems so I figured why not. Right now I have the seed plants in there. Ended up with 4 killer grape females and 2 mother tongue females. I transplanted them to #10s and the 4 males will be going inside to finish their lives away from all the ladies. Taking there place in the greenhouse are 2 BCD, 2 Sour Urkel and 2 Skywalkers that are all chilling in #3s right now but will be hitting #7s tomorrow. Pictures are of day one in the greenhouse before I pulled the old top and then of today with a couple of the newly displayed tender bits .

 

[Amshif87]

Made some medicated organic vegan fluten free salted coconut caramels. They have been going great with all the cherries from the parents orchard.

 

[UncleBuck]

only thing i can add is to spray regularly with BT outside. once a week or so, just spray them before sunset until they start dripping a bit off the leaves. that'll keep the bud worms at bay.

if you've never been outside before, you may not know about how awesome bud worms are.