Big Buddha Cheese

We, my son and I, are loading up to head to the Panhandle of Florida to cook and serve hot meals to anyone in need of one.
This was my son's idea, he did the same during Harvey and when he said he was headed to Florida I said I am in, let's rock this place. I have found us a location that we can serve two towns only miles apart separated by the Apalachicola River, in an area with very little services.
We have been told that there are very scattered hot meals, mostly cold sandwiches. We want to bring warmth and love to those folks who are in dire need!

I contacted a friend who will attend to my garden while I am away, not sure how long, till we run out of food or money.

So today I did a major defo and a hand watering with some Great White added. My rez was fairly empty so I ran is as a flush to empty the tank and refill the rez and made up another 40 gallons for my friend to add as needed. He will come once a day to check and adjust the pH as needed.

Got pic's but no time to post so I will do so when I return.
Will be checking in to give update on our adventure.

GR

gr865 said:

We, my son and I, are loading up to head to the Panhandle of Florida to cook and serve hot meals to anyone in need of one.
This was my son's idea, he did the same during Harvey and when he said he was headed to Florida I said I am in, let's rock this place. I have found us a location that we can serve two towns only miles apart separated by the Apalachicola River, in an area with very little services.

Click to expand...

That's a WONDERFUL plan! The world needs more people like you and your son. Travel safely.

As previously posted, my son and I just spent the past two weeks in the panhandle of Florida feeding as many people as we possible could. We started a GoFundMe page for donation and served over 125 gallons of chicken noodle, beef noodle, taco and veggie soups along with 25 gallons of deer chili and 20 gallons of a goulash. We also served over 1500 hot/chili dogs.

It was a very sad but uplifting experience, met so many good people that have lost everything but held their heads high. We did the best we could to bring them a little love from Texas.
My apprentice whom I have been teaching growing took care of my plants while I was away. My ladies are ready to go into flower, actually they should have gone into 12/12 last week, they are overgrown now. Looks like a lots of Super Cropping is about to happen today.
Will post some pics soon.

Update
Day 42 of veg.

Been awhile since last update due to our journey to Florida, so this will be a multi post so as to get the pics here.
Well on the 15th I did a major defo with plans to begin 12/12 on 20th. With our trip to Florida I got set back by well over a week, the plants have grown considerably and so this past Saturday I had to do a minor defo and total retie an re-positing of the plants.
So now I plan on going into 12/12 this Thursday the 1st of Nov.
My mentor took care of my plant while I was in Florida and he did a fairly good job. A few issues when I returned, I had about 30 gallons of solution made up for him where all he had to do was pH once added to the rez. He did a great job on that. We ended up being gone much longer than expected so he had to gather rain water from my cisterns. add the nutes and additives then pH. I had left him total instructions for adding nutes to have the solution at 1.0 to 1.2 EC, but when I checked upon my return the EC was 1.8. So Saturday I had about 10 gallon of 1.8 EC in the rez, added 3 gallons to the rez along with 4 ml of Cal/Magic which brought the EC down to 0.95, pH'ed the solution and did a major flush. I then added 12 gallons to the rez, nutes to 1.0 EC and pH of 5.8.
This morning I had around 3 gallons in the rez so I added Great White, pH'ed and ran the rest of the solution through the plants. I will be cleaning the rez, with a lite Clorox solution, rinse well and refill with rain water an add nutes to 1.1 EC, give it about 8 hours to stabilize then pH it before the next cycle @ 4:00 PM.
This has set me back about 10 day behind my original schedule, the plant may end up being a pain as they are really overgrown so after stretch I feel I will be needing to do more Super Cropping and LST to keep them manageable, wish me luck,

10/12


After defo on the 15th



12 days later



Just love Great White



The ladies after 10/15 defo



For you defoliation haters please do not comment, just move on to someone else's post. Thank you!






Con't in the next post.

Con't from previous post.

The ladies 12 days later on 10/27, the pale looking leaves are not a problem just the overhead light reflecting on them.






They recovered well from the defo, happy with them at this point.

A little nute burn from the 1.8 EC and some early Cal/Mag damage to some fans, they have been removed.

GR

Damn, they sure grew their leaves back fast! They were like nicely espalied ornamental fruit trees and a few days later they're shaggy gorillas again.

BOO! Happy Halloween

First cycle of 12/12 starts at 9 PM tonight, so let's see what happen's over the next 8 to 9 weeks.




A little Super Cropping







Inside the tent.








GR

Update: Day 5 of 12/12

Here is a shot taken when I returned home yesterday, 11/4, from my river trip. The plant had a couple of burned leaves but no major damage.



Here they are this morning, 11/5, after removing them from the tent and doing some tie back. Got room now to grow, I think next week I will be attaching a net over them to hold the back from the light. I usually wait till flowers are showing more but damn the growth is overwhelming.



Got roots, most all pots look like this, a mix of fresh roots penetrating the pots and a few that are beginning to die of, and the process continues.





Here's the lineup, after tieback. Feeling there will be a major defo at day 21, so thick.







Cont. next post!

Con't from last post!

Update day 5 of 12/12

One last picture from this morning, just a mass of leaves and the plant is just beginning to stretch.



Got this yesterday from my Bud in NM, he sent this with a bud of his latest outdoor grow. 70% Indica dominate hybrid.





Cute, back in the day, say 45 plus years ago he was my VW mechanic, two bugs, two buses and a Type 3.
Has since become a very successful geologist, oil and environmental property mitigation, but he does remember the day,

GR

Looking good and jungly in there bro, did you get my pm?

Yes sent response yesterday.

Today I picked up, from my apprentice, the clones that he had taken care of while I was away. They were taken prior to going into flower.
He only misted them over the 18 days he had them so there was not much growth. Only lost one out of 14, good for him, so made up a lite nute mix and put them under T5's. Want to keep them in solos at least until my 5th week of flower, then put them in one gallon pot, not sure if plastic or smart pots, till harvesting those in the tent When the tent is empty I will move them in there till the smoke test tell us which ones to keep and clone for the spring grow.
Set up in the tub with the rez so no drainage issues. Have put a double layer of weed barrier to shield the light from the clones for getting to the plants in the other room.







Told him to come by every other day to see how they are going to respond to my treatments.

Will begin topping as soon as they show response to the new nute solution.

GR

OBS fade starting, smelling great
Sorry man somehow I posted this in the wrong thread! My lack of computer skills never cease to amaze me...

No prob

gr865 said:

No prob

Click to expand...

Thanks...I was on here admiring your trellis idea, I am definitely going to use it on my next vert grow, as you can see I have a jungle in progress... Done plenty of Scrog just didn't dawn on me to flip it vertical....

Stay on top of it, I missed my start date for 12/12 by 2 weeks, it's going to be a mess trying to take care of these things during flower

But I'm up to the task?

Day 14 of 12/12

Not much to show, just trying to keep them out of the lights. So I ended up putting up the nets to hold them back. Normally don't do that till late in flower, and when I defo next week I will probably remove the net and do some retie back to the screen.
Tie back 11/7




11/11


11/12


11/12
PM


PM after net tightening


And two days later time to tighten the net again.



Tonight I raised the upper lamp, will be last move till harvest.

GR

Looking good in there brother! Nice and green and Jungle Bushy

OneHitDone said:

Looking good in there brother! Nice and green and Jungle Bushy

Click to expand...

Jungle is right, can't keep the fan out of the lights. and have 4 more days till day 21 of 12/12 and trimming time. May have to do it sooner than planned. I know I will end up cutting a lot of small stuff off and have a bunch that is coming off the back of the screens.
Waiting as long as I did to go into flower has cost me a of energy that should be going to buds instead it's going to the jungle. The work involved is just too much also.
Lesson's learned, don't miss the time to go into flower by two weeks, it's a mother!
But, I have a feeling the extra grow will pay some dividends at harvest, at least I hope so.