Cann's Organic No-Till Garden

[Cann]

Flower room with lights raised + new bulbs installed. You can see how much these ladies have been stretching...its crazy.



Clover coming up nicely. it tends to get crushed when I water, but enough will survive to provide a decent cover. I don't want the entire pot covered with clover, just patches here and there.



Swami Kushendez genetics...just over a month old. They are the ones in airpots


~3 weeks of development in the small flower tent. Check out the stretch on the Gods Gift x OG Kush that is in the 30gal smartpot in the back right of the tent. was not expecting that...

 

[Cann]

Okay, so I have been running a poorly documented soil experiment in the corner of my tent. Here are the details: (5) 4.6 gallon airpots - 5 ace of spades #1 clones from last run. I tried my hardest to pick clones that were the same size, there was a ~1inch discrepancy..nothing too noticeable. The soil in the pots breaks down as follows:

Back L: Control (Roots 707 Soil, RO water)

Back M: Roots 707 + Roots nutrients (buddha grow, buddha bloom, etc. - everything I have leftover from the bottled nute days) RO water every other watering

Back R: Roots 707 water test...this one I am intentionally keeping wet all the time to see if I can do damage by overwatering in airpots

Front L: Cootz mix (1/3 sphagnum, 1/3 EWC, 1/3 pumice + rock dust and all the other usual suspects) + canna mulch + enzyme teas (barley/coconut) RO water every other time or so

Front R: Roots 707 w/ the bottom 1/3 sub's supersoil (+neem, kelp, and crab that I added to the mix when I made it) w/ just RO water

Here they are around week 2 of flower


Week 6. I moved them around (sorry..it was to equalize light distribution for more accurate results) so they are as follows:

Left most plant: h2o test
Back L: control
Back R: cootz method
Front L: roots nutrient line
Front R: supersoil

it might be hard to tell from these pics, but the cootz plant has about twice the flower growth of it's sisters. the control is the smallest, and the supersoil and h2o test plants are surprisingly close in size as well as larger than the roots nutrient line plant. apparently water is a good thing in airpots...hard to overdo.


Control Cola

Cootz Cola. had to bend the leaf out of the way to show the full flower size so I couldn't get a good thumb comparison...but you get the idea. enzymes


i'll keep y'all updated on this as things progress. kind of a boring corner of the tent compared to everything else that is happening lol

 

[Rrog]

Sweet! All very interesting and helpful. Thanks for documenting your work for everyone.

 

[Cann]

Picked up a pot in my backyard yesterday and found this:



Lovin this new camera like that mama earwig loves her eggs...

 

[sullivan666]

Garden looks awesome! And props on the soil experiment! Next paycheck I'm definitely picking up some barley seed and clover.

 

[Rrog]

You see Cann- you have a natural eye

What do you suppose that is just north of center in that pic? Aphid or mite?

 

[sullivan666]

What do you suppose that is just north of center in that pic? Aphid or mite?

Didn't even notice that lil guy there!

 

[headtreep]

That's really awesome documentation! Thanks for showing it off. Your plants look really lovely

 

[Rising Moon]

Looks good Cann.

The clover will totally fill in from the looks of it, it grows like strawberries in a way, sending runners once established...

 

[Cann]

i feel you on the clover..it seems to have a tendency to clump and then grow out from there, like you said.

rrog - you say I have a natural eye? you have a natural eye my friend! i didn't even notice that little guy either...too busy focusing on those crazy eggs...

i reckon it's an aphid..been a lot of those around my peppers lately (the pot I found the earwig underneath was a 5gal homer's bucket planted with jalepenos). perhaps a soil mite though. i'd prolly need a microscope to figure it out...can't wait till I get back to the PNW and i can probe my biologist mother to get me a microscope from her lab then the fun will truly begin.

thanks for all the love y'all. bout to go water the veggie garden. 88 degrees here today...gotta water my seedlings constantly or else they dry up in their little trays..damn black plastic! but a first a bowl of cheesequake to straighten things out..this stuff is delicious. if only it didn't get PM so bad...

 

[Kalyx]

Cann

horti's are indeed in digital ballasts...no magnetic for me thanks.

haven't sprayed a foliar in a few days out of sheer laziness, but next time I spray it'll be neem/potassium silicate

thanks for providing all that info about potassium silicate BTW...good stuff. personally after looking at all the data I'm gonna keep using it (i had already read most of that anyway)...it doesn't seem too dangerous/synthetic (for me at least)...the temperatures needed to create it are similar to that of a ceramic kiln firing...nothing too insane. nowhere near as damaging to the earth as many other nutrients. for what its worth I think it is still a great addition to my garden, and IMO it is "acceptable" for organic gardening. doesn't necessarily mean it is ideal, but I don't think it is going to affect the quality of the medicine in the long run.

others may have a different take on this. I'm definitely not a "purist" in the sense that some of y'all are...i live in a city, and don't have enough time/resources to do things like find horsetail or nettle and process them into a silica supplement. gotta make sacrifices where you can...i drink RO water but still have to clean my dishes with the poison tap...compromises are the name of the game here in babylon. if i lived in the woods and had all the time in the world, potassium silicate would not be a part of my regime. but given the circumstances, i'm gonna keep using it. for me it kind of falls into a neutral category between synthetic salt nutrients, and organic bottled nutes. still from a bottle, but not poison IMO. it is definitely one of the few aspects of my garden that I look to improve on, but for now it is staying. plus the effects of silica are extremely visible...super thick stems, fat leaves, etc...definitely worth it, especially given how much stress I often put my garden under.​

Perhaps the new bulbs were so much brighter because the digi ballasts firing hps up at 20K Hz really do slowly squeeze your gas cocktails out the vent holes and into???

Danks for at least digesting the silica thing. The looming question I was posing is not whether it will effect the quality of the medical resins you produce, but whether it will affect the quality of the lung tissues of yourself and your patients in the long run? Still seems like a bit of the synthetic mindset holding over if you ask me, "put this on and they will explode with growth."

Perhaps the answer to your vortex flop would have been a few more bamboo stakes or maybe just longer veg times and more work snapping the hurd, more airflow and heavier spray loads can help too? Silica has it limits even when used as abundantly as in your Si-ganic setup?

I really appreciate how yourself and Rrog have taken up a lot of slack and gotten the living organics talk out of the hydro shop mentality and brought it into a more holistic, real world, cyclic organic system mindset. Cheers, and to each his own. Gardening is personal and there is no one path on this interesting journey. Glad we are walking and talking together everybody!

 

[Rrog]

Kalyx- all is really good. I have a new SSV vape and I'm trying it out and now it's hard to type. However, the discussions are very nice and I have learned a lot. Everyone's cool and so we pass the bong.

Cann- your PM box is full.

 

[Kalyx]

Cheers... I've got a fresh batch of IWE made of the trim of 2 og18s and a Tahoe I wish I could pass right thru the screen. The FLAVOR of good genetics grown living organic then ice water extracted is something I want to share with every med patient. Bless the web! Danker together y'all =] very glad for the higher living organic crew on here. Love and light

 

[Rrog]

Fresh hash is always so nice.

 

[Rising Moon]

You said it Rrog, Im going to be making some Kandy Kush dry ice hash this weekend...

160 micron goodness...

 

[Rrog]

You're doing dry ice? You really do some cool stuff, Moon.

 

[Rising Moon]

Haha, its just the easiest way to do it!

5 min and Im done smoking a bowl of it.

And super clean, Terpene goodness.

 

[Cann]

please document your extraction...would love to see your process/final results. been thinking about making hash with this next round of trim...been making canna caps and kief out of everything but I have 300+ caps and a bunch of kief...time for something else

cleared out a few PMs...hate how the limit is 50 here..that shit fills up way too fast!

kalyx glad my silica use hasn't turned you away! happy to have you around here. like you said, we're all walking the same direction but there is no one path.

 

[Rrog]

I'd love to see how you do the dry ice extraction also.

 

[headtreep]

Damn I just made some a few days ago. Shit is easy and makes gold powder that I mold into discs. Awesome stuff!