Ozcocoloco O.D 2018/19

[OzCocoLoco]

Bit late starting this thread but there's not slot of action this early.Pretty much same plan as last season 15 plants all Bodhi all Snow Lotus crosses,Strawberry Lotus,Dream Lotus,White Lotus,Space Cake,Dragons Fruit,Starflight Guava,Triple Godess and Uplift. Only major changes are I'm going to run some non organic fertilizer inputs (still no chemical pesticides or fungicides) and got a few 45 gallon pots to fill up.
Re did the watering system hoping to avoid the issues from last year and got some new drip manifolds to experiment with.

 

[socaljoe]

Sweet. You had some nice plants last year. Hope all goes well for you this year

 

[OzCocoLoco]

Sweet. You had some nice plants last year. Hope all goes well for you this year

Hopefully we have a good year with the weather,the last couple haven't been the best so we're due a good one.

 

[dopeonarope]

Hopefully we have a good year with the weather,the last couple haven't been the best so we're due a good one.

so far the sunshine is super good for spring - if the rain holds off at the end it'll be a cracker

 

[Subu]

Good luck with the grow.

 

[OzCocoLoco]

so far the sunshine is super good for spring - if the rain holds off at the end it'll be a cracker

I've had them inside while we had those couple of weeks of cloud and rain so they're a little bit behind last year's.
Last year it was the 10th of March we copped a belting from the weather year before it was the 2nd or 3rd of March so fingers crossed it's not 3 in a row.
I'm stepping up my cage game this year though,was a bit lazy last year and only had half fully caged and didn't lose a branch of any of them so have to get them all done no matter what this year

 

[OzCocoLoco]

Not the best start to the season,have had a bad run with males and am down to my last 15 plants.
Had 5 nice ones go male since this pic was taken

Most of the pots are filled and in place and the remaining plants will go in over the next week or 2.

Went with a slightly different soil mix.The base is the same soil I've used for the previous 2 years,with fresh compost and it's been re-ammended with 30 Kg of Soft Rock Phosphate,5 Kg Guano,,40 Kg Gypsum,10 Kg Kelp meal,30 Kg of Natra Min + P, 5 Kg of Bukashi grain,20Kg Zeolite and 20Kg each of horse and cos manure. It's also been inoculated with Nutrisoil LS and NTS BAM.


Irrigation is roughed in only connections left to do,going to be a mix of pressure compensating dripper rings and dripper manifolds this year.

 

[OzCocoLoco]

 

[OzCocoLoco]

 

[giglewigle]

Looking good what mulch is that I like the look of that strawberry lotus eye catching

 

[OzCocoLoco]

Looking good what mulch is that I like the look of that strawberry lotus eye catching

Lucerne Chaff,same stuff they feed horses with.
I like the look of that one as well,not quite as good looking as the Goji from last season but it's got that look to it

 

[OzCocoLoco]

Not a whole lot of action lately,plants are starting to shape up and get ready for their big push over the next 6 weeks.

 

[OzCocoLoco]

Plants are coming along,having pre flowering issues again but other than that everything is squared away and hopefully they start to put on some size over the next 3-4 weeks.

 

[Subu]

Nice work

 

[OzCocoLoco]

Nice work

If you want any tips give me a yell id be glad to help you learn how to grow

 

[OzCocoLoco]

Space Cake #1 is going alright so far.

Starflight Guava #1

Uplift #1

 

[rob333]

so far the sunshine is super good for spring - if the rain holds off at the end it'll be a cracker

the rain is fucked down here in south and its only gunna get worse due to the weather comming in from the west and more up qld way we have had rain here for 3 weeks straight and still got another 3 to go 18c tops

 

[rob333]

the rain is fucked down here in south and its only gunna get worse due to the weather comming in from the west and more up qld way we have had rain here for 3 weeks straight and still got another 3 to go 18c tops

it better stop soon or im guna have to pull up and decide to go indoors

 

[Lucky Luke]

cooleo, following along.
The plants look bigger this year. Might have been the outside lights stopping reveg.

 

[OzCocoLoco]

cooleo, following along.
The plants look bigger this year. Might have been the outside lights stopping reveg.

I think they worked reasonably well, I should have started them a week earlier though.