Covert Grow Ops/Sidetracked:

[Larry {the} Gardener]

I got over to last year's SOL, Slo and GV patches this morning. I topped the BP for the first time. I topped both tops and leaned the 88 {F1} over a little more.

 

[Larry {the} Gardener]

Is she not just thirsty?

That might be it. You can't see it good in the picture, but one of the branches had wilted and all but died. A few of the leaves had cooper like hue to them.

I have been giving it a gallon of water twice a week. I know that is not much, but it's more than some of them have been getting. I added a little Epson Salts to the water today, along with some of the bad blue stuff. I've been using about half a cup of 11-2-1 and a five second squirt of MG 12-4-8 liquid plant food per gallon of water. Maybe I got it a little too hot.

 

[Larry {the} Gardener]

My buddy gave me a little chunk of bud he had with him today. There was already 2 seeds on the tray before I started breaking it up. Will do a smoke test as soon as my customers get out of here. Might even put seeds in soil when I get in from work. Today is the last good above ground day of a while.

 

[Larry {the} Gardener]

More LOB work this week. This was the two BST2's in the GN patch that I was forced to plant in same hole.

 

[Larry {the} Gardener]

The early flowering BST1 male was still doing his thing. I trimmed the top 6 inches or so and will dry the pollen before killing him. I'll put a BST2 in his place. I'm really starting to like how those Fat and Stinky plants are growing.

 

[Larry {the} Gardener]

I went back to check on the Deer Ate CP1 this morning. It was drooping less, but some of the bigger, older leaves were still clawing. We did have five inches of rain in the last 3 days, so it should be well watered.

 

[Larry {the} Gardener]

I didn't make it to check on the seedlings, but the 60/40 seedling that I left at the house is doing alright. I put it in my blackberry patch. The fat leaves tells me it isn't a GV1.

 

[Larry {the} Gardener]

My work day today started last night. I stayed at the camp, but swung by and picked up a tray of CPDA's {black cups} and CP1's {orange cups} from the holding grounds {by the light of the moon}. I took the smallest 4 CP1's to go in the 3DT and CE patches, then brought the rest of them inside the shelter to top.



I thought about keeping them in the shelter for the night, but ended up putting them outside. This morning I was wishing I had. Deer {or something} had ate the shit out of them during the night. I planted them all, even the stubs. Deer Ate CP1 looked worse, and she made a big comeback.

 

[Larry {the} Gardener]

I planted the empty hole in the AL east patch with a healthy CPDA and one of the chomped ones. Also dug a couple more holes, putting two plants {and a grapevine} in each. One of the holes had two good plants and the other one good one, and one deer ate. The chopper was out early this morning, so I was in a fucking rush. Thus the double plantings.

I'm not going to count the two chomped plants in T-Pig. If they make it, I will change it later.

T-Pig is 52 + 4 = 56

 

[Larry {the} Gardener]

The two CPDA plants already there were doing pretty good. The tops on them both were kind of twisty and there was some hooked leaves on one of them. This is the first ones, so I'm learning the pheno's as I go.

 

[Larry {the} Gardener]

I put the 3 remaining CP1's in the three empty holes in the AL west patch.

T-Pig is 56 + 3 = 59

 

[Larry {the} Gardener]

Yesterday I forgot to mention what I put in the new holes. I used a couple of the packs I had mixed up for more holes in the FP patch. It was 2 cups of 5-10-15, 1 cup 13-13-13, 1 cup 10-10-10, 1 cup 6-6-6, 4 cups perlite{which I don't really need at this location}, 1 cup lime, 1/4 cup vermiculite, 1/4 cup Epson salts and 1 cup coffee grounds. I added 2 gallons of a recent soil mix to each hole {and to the ones I had to replace plants in as well}.

Here is the CPDA that I used to replace the broke back plant that died in AL east.

 

[Larry {the} Gardener]

I checked on the three plants in the SOL, GV and Slo patches this morning. This is the 88 {F1} in the GV patch. She got a super cropping, as did the other two.

 

[Larry {the} Gardener]

When I got to the SOL patch, the lid was off the jug of 11-2-1 liquid plant food again. I found it 12-15 feet away under a bush. The teeth marks in the lid make me feel better. At least it's not a person fucking with me. I'll put a live trap out there and see what is causing me grief.

 

[WV: Jetson]

The teeth marks in the lid make me feel better. At least it's not a person fucking with me. I'll put a live trap out there and see what is causing me grief.

I'm guessing

 

[Larry {the} Gardener]

I'm guessing

Yep, it could be a coon. Since my BIL's fused neck doesn't let him look up anymore, he is training his Redbone coon hounds less than he used to. Which means we have more coons around. It could also be a possum. They have sharp teeth as well.

 

[Larry {the} Gardener]

I should have taken notes this week. It has been too long since I posted to remember everything, but I will try.

I camped Tuesday night. I sat and smoked and thought about all the work I had lined up the next day. As I got my pack ready for morning, I noticed how bright the moon was. So I packed up my folding shovel, folding saw, Epson salts, slug bait, deer repellent, 4 gallons of soil mix, two kinds of liquid food and grabbed a bucket for the plants. Then I went by and picked up the 4 CP1's I had set aside for the 3DT and CE patches. It being night, I was able to walk across open areas I would have had to skirted in daylight. I stopped by the rain catcher at the food plot and got five gallons of water, then headed on back.

The 3DT patch is very close to where I come onto the land at, so I was close as soon as I climbed the fence. But I had trouble finding the right trail into the brush {using my headlight as little as possible}. I sat down the water so it would be easier looking. I found the patch, and got the 3 CP1's transplanted into the holes there, but I couldn't find the bucket of water then.

I went on and set the other CP1 in the CE patch, which was also a bitch to find in the dark. I got back to camp at 0130, three hours after I had left. I was up before daylight and went back with another bucket of water. In the daylight I spotted the other bucket of water as soon as I was in the woods. It was just 10-12 feet away from the trail going in.

Here is one of the new CP1's.



And one of the ones already there.



T-Pig is 59 + 4 = 63

 

[Larry {the} Gardener]

I went on and checked on the JP and SEE patches while I was in the woods. I did some super cropping on the GV1's in the two patches, but this was was cropped by the deer. After what Deer Ate CP1 has done, I'm not counting it out until it's dead.

 

[Larry {the} Gardener]

GV1 in SEE patch. Before and after topping and super cropping.

 

[Larry {the} Gardener]

Wednesday afternoon I got back in the woods to check on the HR patch. All was well except for this GV1 that had fallen over. It felt like the roots had been cut, and there was tons of ants in the ground around the stem. Not sure if they did the damage, or if they are eating whatever did it. I piled up dirt on the stem, but it will be another week before I can get back there again, so I'm counting it as cashed. This is the plant that was lost through much of it's young life, so it didn't get the food and water the others did. As a result, it was a runt. If I had a few more GV1's ready to go, I have 3 or 4 holes in this patch now that could stand a plant. {but since the damn grasshoppers just cleaned up my sprouts for me, I may have to do mixed strains in the patch}



T-Pig is 53 - 1 = 52