My Outdoor Garden-2010

P. STONIE

P. STONIE

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Its fun growing veggies along with your pot cuz you not only watch you plants grow but like VG has you can watch your watermelons grow I have a few myself those are cool to watch. Flowers too. I love my zinnias so many blooms!
 
filmore

filmore

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Hey VG, you have an awesome garden. What do you think of my first attempt do far? Thanks for your advice to get me started.
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d.s.m.

d.s.m.

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As a man that's content to grab a couple cans of beer, go out and sit on the back porch and just watch the tomatoes grow, I dig looking at your garden.
 
mr.india

mr.india

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veggiegardener said:
OK, I'll try to get this right. I'm still trying to figure out how to insert the photos into the text.

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These are pix of the ingredients that go into my potting mix for transplants. I used young Tomato plants for this tutorial.

Epsom salts(Magnesium)
Liquid Ironite(A good mix of Micronutrients)
OreGro(unavailable unless you run into someone who used to sell it, as I did. Volcanic ash will replace it.
Superthrive(which I use any time the possibility of stress exists.)
Cytozyme Lab's Soil(Derived from bacteria, this product accelerates bacterial activity, making more nutes available.)

Depending on my mood or observations, I'll often add, in small quantities,

Sulfate of Ammonia 21-0-0
Fish emulsion
Seaweed Emulsion
Beneficial Fungi
Guano

It is easy to over do this!

Err on the light side.

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These pix show the potting soil and additives before adding water. Water helps the nutes to mix evenly in the potting soil. Note how this inexpensive potting soil has little perlite in it. This is a good thing.

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Another shot, showing the bottle of Superthrive and newsprint I use to line each pot. This replaces gravel to help keep soil from washing out the drainage holes.

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The middle pix shows the consistency of the mix, which resembles runny oatmeal. Not how I line the pots with newsprint, taking care to keep it below the soil level, to avoid wicking moisture away from the roots.

The paper helps during future transplants by protecting roots from the air. The roots easily penetrate the paper into new soil when placed in a larger pot.

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I use a small tub to catch runoff from the slurried mix, returning it to the bucket, periodically.

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I add slurry up to the desired level. I usually remove lower leaves so that I can place the young plant deeper. This adds stem that can generate more roots.

With Cannabis I usually add rooting powder to help new roots form. Not so, with tomatoes.

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I place the young plant into the slurry.

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I pour slurry around the root ball, taking care to hold the plant upright until the plant is stable.

There are a lot of reasons to use the Slurry Method.

The water washes the soil into all the gaps around the root ball.

The water compacts the soil to a perfect density, making good contact with feeder roots, while leaving plenty of tiny gaps for air to carry oxygen to the roots.

By adding small amounts of nutrients to the soil, the transplant does a light but thorough feeding, that would be very difficult to accomplish with most other methods.

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All done. I placed them in a greenhouse, where they vegged until the weather warmed up.

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One of the plants a few weeks later, just prior to going in the ground.
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really awesome transplanting method..
 
wheezer

wheezer

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Hey bud! How's it goin'? Your stuff is lookin' awesome! I wish I had been following this all along. I did alot of veggies last year, but with everything else I'm doing , it was too much this year. I noticed most of the gardens I've looked at this year, in the last few weeks, seem to be getting a slow start for sure. I don't know what's going on. They're coming on pretty good now, but they should've been where they are now a couple weeks ago. I know you've seen my grow, and I'll be putting up some bud close-ups this week. I have all my stuff on the forums at Marijuana reviews.com. but I have been popping over to keep up with a couple grows that caught my attention, yours being one of them. Good job brother, and keep it up! PEACE!
veggiegardener said:
A couple are only showing a few flowers. None are really showing buds, yet.

Yes, this is the latest I've seen things bloom. Many other things in my garden are very slow, as well.
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cruzer101

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Hi gardener,
Hows the net working for you? In my case it was just to difficult to put over them so I removed the panels and used pvc and plastic.





I took off the front panels and used it there though, works good, holds up the lower branches:




Thanks for the idea man.
 
veggiegardener

veggiegardener

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cruzer101 said:
Hi gardener,
Hows the net working for you? In my case it was just to difficult to put over them so I removed the panels and used pvc and plastic.







I took off the front panels and used it there though, works good, holds up the lower branches:




Thanks for the idea man.
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We got the net over the big girl. It is serving its purpose, but agreed, it was a lot of work. By next Spring, I'm going to come up with a solution. Had I known this cross would get so large, it would have gone outdoors. Hybrid vigor is amazing.
 
dralion

dralion

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Hey there VG, I see on post #695 you have a pic of the stock of one of your plants...I notice the dry crumbly leaves near the inside and bottom of plant. As my beauties continue in flowering stage I to am getting a lot of these type of crispy leaves. Normal is it?
 
dralion

dralion

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VG, in post # 671 you talk about things slow to bloom this year. I was wondering, with this late bloom possible bring us into a later harvest month, where we are going to have to worry about rain and protecting our plants from rain. What do you do about rain with your plants that arent inside a greenhouse. I really dont want to have to deal with problems rain may cause. Any suggestions?
 
veggiegardener

veggiegardener

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dralion said:
Hey there VG, I see on post #695 you have a pic of the stock of one of your plants...I notice the dry crumbly leaves near the inside and bottom of plant. As my beauties continue in flowering stage I to am getting a lot of these type of crispy leaves. Normal is it?
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Yes.

As the leaves are shaded out by the canopy, the plant will absorb the energy from them, leaving them dry and crisp. I pull them off when I get near them, but don't get manic about it. This will increase as the buds mature.
 
veggiegardener

veggiegardener

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dralion said:
VG, in post # 671 you talk about things slow to bloom this year. I was wondering, with this late bloom possible bring us into a later harvest month, where we are going to have to worry about rain and protecting our plants from rain. What do you do about rain with your plants that arent inside a greenhouse. I really dont want to have to deal with problems rain may cause. Any suggestions?
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Once the buds begin to tighten, if we get rain, I shake the buds/plants to remove excess moisture. Wind usually takes care of the rest.

I DO watch very closely for mold after a rain storm.
 
veggiegardener

veggiegardener

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whats ittoyabub said:
looks like you got the central cali caterpillar problem too hahaha
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I was told about bud worms in 1980. My Grandmother suggested Bt for tomato horn worms about the same time. I found it worked on bud worms, too. In all these years, I've seen fewer than 100 bud worms, total. Last year I saw one live one, and another dead. Both were about 1/4 inch long. I've seen 3 tomato horn worms over the same period
 
dirrtyd

dirrtyd

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Whats up Veggie plants still looking nice. Have been seeing more moths lately a reddish brown colored one in particular. Stop by I put up some new pics of the gurls. dirrtyd
 
Hodgegrown

Hodgegrown

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I too have found a few of the caterpillers even though I spray every third day, they seem to like one plant in particular...
 
veggiegardener

veggiegardener

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dirrtyd said:
Whats up Veggie plants still looking nice. Have been seeing more moths lately a reddish brown colored one in particular. Stop by I put up some new pics of the gurls. dirrtyd
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I'll bet a pic of a butterfly called "Fiery Skipper" will look a lot like your butterfly.
 
veggiegardener

veggiegardener

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Hodgegrown said:
I too have found a few of the caterpillers even though I spray every third day, they seem to like one plant in particular...
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The only serious infestation i've had was about six years ago.

The plant was a Herijuana. It had about a dozen worms, but I caught it before the damage got extreme. I lost about an ounce of buds.

The butterflies really showed a preference for it.
 
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