Grow-A-Long with Dick

[Richard Drysift]

Is that the feminine hygiene spray?

Freshness made easy....hey speaking of fresh here’s a nice tray of fresh worm castings; check out that old moldy potato skin. Zoom in to see my wormies in action.
Time to brew up a worm tea...


Dumped 4 root balls in this bin and added:
This tray of EWC
Kelp meal
Humid acid
Chicken manure
Fish bone meal
Blood meal
Insect frass
Crushed oyster shell
Garden gypsum
Azomite

30 days cook time starting....now

 

[Nutty sKunK]

Freshness made easy....hey speaking of fresh here’s a nice tray of fresh worm castings; check out that old moldy potato skin. Zoom in to see my wormies in action.
Time to brew up a worm tea...

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Dumped 4 root balls in this bin and added:
This tray of EWC
Kelp meal
Humid acid
Chicken manure
Fish bone meal
Blood meal
Insect frass
Crushed oyster shell
Garden gypsum
Azomite

30 days cook time starting....now

Is the temperature important to cooking soil and if so what’s the ideal temp range?

 

[Richard Drysift]

Important maybe but since my soil labratory is kept indoors it’s not something I worry about much. It can get down to 55-60deg F in here this time of year and maybe up to 80 in the summer which seems to be fine. Central A/C kicks on when it gets really hot.
I’m no expert but I would think freezing cold likely slows decomposition while extreme heat probably would bake the micro herd once devoid of moisture. Makes sense to me that soil cooks off faster in comfortably ambient temps but I could be wrong.

 

[myke]

Mine sits in my heated garage its pretty cool,AB. So I run a heat mat under.I turn it every week.After 3-4 weeks I unplug it.I run too much power already so it is what it is.

 

[Nutty sKunK]

A wee tip I noticed due to yellowing leaves. If the yellowing is due to moisture stress in the soil the leaves will yellow but will NOT be able to removed easily. The plant will resist giving them up.

If they are yellowing due to a deficiency/maturity then the leaves will come away with ease.

Just my experience.

On a side note check out this explosion of growth for only 19 days! Green crack Auto.

 

[myke]

A wee tip I noticed due to yellowing leaves. If the yellowing is due to moisture stress in the soil the leaves will yellow but will NOT be able to removed easily. The plant will resist giving them up.

If they are yellowing due to a deficiency/maturity then the leaves will come away with ease.

Just my experience.

On a side note check out this explosion of growth for only 19 days! Green crack Auto.

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Funny I was just in my garden,wondering why some come off easy and others not.Nice tip,so I have a water distribution problem I guess.

 

[JHake]

Been 11 days since last update i believe.

White Domina is forming buds, and Gorilash is finishing her stretch i would say.
Really like the branching in the White Domina.

I have a kelp extract i was planning to use as a foliar spray, but not sure how it was made and i believe it's not organic. It's high in potassium so i believe it was made with potassium hydroxide. Will stay with what i know it's organic.

These days i will topdress with some gypsum, malted barley, a high K fertilizer and some EWC/compost mix.

 

[PadawanWarrior]

Damn. No matter how many times I look at this title, I think grow a long dick, lol. I don't know why my brain wants to block out the word With.

 

[TheDifferenceX]

best thread title ever

 

[Rozgreenburn]

Bet you don’t mind telling people you smoke gorilla glue. What’s wrong with crossing it with “big swingin’ dick XD”. And have “big swinging’ gorilla dick”. Imagine the size of those colas!!!

I bred a lovely girl "Blue Poo", she smells exactly like a fresh bowl of blueberries which have been dragged through a fresh pile of dog shit. This is my very private stock and if you want any you must call her name.

 

[Wattzzup]

I bred a lovely girl "Blue Poo", she smells exactly like a fresh bowl of blueberries which have been dragged through a fresh pile of dog shit. This is my very private stock and if you want any you must call her name.

Pics of this?

 

[Nutty sKunK]

I bred a lovely girl "Blue Poo", she smells exactly like a fresh bowl of blueberries which have been dragged through a fresh pile of dog shit. This is my very private stock and if you want any you must call her name.

I must’ve gotten one of your seeds... I grew a blue dream auto out and straight up smells like dog shit and blueberries on the plant. Cut and cured it’s very very smelly. So smelly that it escapes Mason jars lol

 

[Rozgreenburn]

Pics of this?

Will try in about 4 weeks. Roll on

 

[Richard Drysift]

Love me a blueberry strain. Until I actually grew some out myself I never knew that weed could smell/taste like that.

 

[green_machine_two9er]

Nice. Glad to see this thread. We need to ban together and fight the real misinformation propaganda campaign. The nutrient industry has been brainwashing people for decades and I’m finally about sick of it lol.
Here’s some recent projects I’ve been working.

 

[Richard Drysift]

It is almost...


These plants sprouted just before Christmas. What I like to do is drop the hours of light gradually instead of flipping right to 12/12. This reduces the stretch and induces preflowering. I start at 15/9 for a week and then go to 13/11 at which most strains soon begin throwing pistils ...or balls
Once I separate the boys and feed them to my worms I will reset the timer to 18/6 and reveg the girls for a couple weeks to monster crop them before flipping to final bloom phase.

How many of these bushy little cabbages are female? 2 Afghanis are femmed but the other 8 are regs; sure hope I’m not making a mistake inviting hermed genetics back to my bloom room.

 

[green_machine_two9er]

It is almost...
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These plants sprouted just before Christmas. What I like to do is drop the hours of light gradually instead of flipping right to 12/12. This reduces the stretch and induces preflowering. I start at 15/9 for a week and then go to 13/11 at which most strains soon begin throwing pistils ...or balls
Once I separate the boys and feed them to my worms I will reset the timer to 18/6 and reveg the girls for a couple weeks to monster crop them before flipping to final bloom phase.
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How many of these bushy little cabbages are female? 2 Afghanis are femmed but the other 8 are regs; sure hope I’m not making a mistake inviting hermed genetics back to my bloom room.

Nice tip thanks

 

[Budzbuddha]

Ever think about steeping male plants for a tea , like they do using nettle ? Banana peels for K too.

 

[Budzbuddha]

Yeah might have to try that step down cycle

 

[Richard Drysift]

Have concerns about this one, it’s looking much better after aact but still a bit off color. Been feeding Neptune’s harvest but now I’m thinking it’s due to too much N as opposed to not enough.