SpicySativa's Organic Garden

Those sound awesome. I love the TGA stuff but switched to growing all fem just to make staying within my legal plant count easier. I think we can grow 12 now vs. prior years where I was at 6. I don't need 12 so maybe I'll run some again next year.

In Cali you can grow as much as you want as long as you don't go above 99. You nust have to have patients and copies of their recs for each 6 in flower and how ever many in veg. I have 16-18 in flower. And same amount in veg. Including myself , I have 5 patients. So I can have 18 in flower and 24 in veg legally. I've looked into the laws of it extensively. The law just states per patient. Doesn't specify a patient limit. My buddy does the same. Cops came for a different reason. Saw the grow and the recs and said he was ok. All the dispensaries do the same. That's why you get a free gram as a new patient. As soon as you sign that paperwork and they make a copy of your rec. You are a member of that collective. They use your rec copy for plant numbers and to posses larger amounts of flowers. They should give you a free zip at least every month. That's one reason I don't like dispensaries. That's a whole other thing. In Humboldt and Mendocino they don't have plant number limit
they are allowed 100square feet per patient. San Jose doesn't have a plant limit. Then outdoor varies from county to county. In humby and mendo its 25 per parcel. I SoCal its still 6 per patient.
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Hyroot - Good point on the plant count. If I ever expand any more that's the route I'll take. For now, I think 6 are going to fit my space perfectly, provide me more meds than I need, and I'll still have lots of free time.

I really enjoy my gardening, but there is a fine line in there where it goes from fun hobby to chore...

Yea I was thinking about upping my game to a larger area but I think I'm just going to get a taller tent to flower in. I've got a twin cab at the moment and I do my vegging in the short one and my flower in the taller but I want one more tent so that I can put clones and seedlings in the cab and the veg in the short tent of the twin and then the flowering girls into the tall tent.

Just switched my bulb and plugged in the 11/13 timer (DJ short suggested (we'll see how it goes)) I switched to a HPS cuz I want my girls to put some spacing on. I vegged under MH so the girls are all "squat" and I want more light pen than that...

Nice. How tall are they now?

20" or so... I'll measure when the lights are on so I can be exact but I bet I'm pretty damn close there. Mainlined. I think I'm going to abandon the ML and just stick with LST. I think it will get the size that I want in a little less time. I'm more or less basing my perpetual around a 4 week cycle.

Siftin' wigglers...

Well done, my wiggly little friends. Well done.

It's a beautiful day for some gardening! I snapped a few pics along the way.

-Worm bins restarted and fed food scraps and coffee grounds supplemented with fresh borage and comfrey leaves.

-Bins topped off with a bedding of cannabis leaves and roots, rice straw, "almost-ready-compost" from the pile outside, some shredded grocery bags, and various other "browns".

-Borage in full bloom.

-Sweet, tasty peas.

-Free seeding marigolds in the raised beds. Marigolds are excellent companion plants, and require zero maintenance. They just pop up, grow, make pretty flowers, re-seed, and repeat.

-A jungle of carrots and onions.


What a treat to have such beautiful weather on this lazy day!

Happy Saturday, friends!

-SpicySativa

I'm envious as shit of you SoCal fellas. I'm still kind of stuck in the "polar vortex"

I'm up in the Bay Area, actually. We REALLY need more rain, but it's hard not to enjoy a nice sunny day.

It's 20 and cloudy where I am. So I'm still envious ;P

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Well done, my wiggly little friends. Well done.

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That's a nice haul. How many worms do you estimate you're workin with?

Per the advice of an old timer I've been trying to harvest un-screened vermicompost, but man it's a pain in the nut sack. I don't know what the real benefit is (if any)?? I might have to build a little contraption like you've got there. Is that 1/4" screen you're using?

its 85 degrees here in SoCal. sunny and hot


nice haul on those bins. I need to build me one of those screen sifters..

That screen I use has 1/8" holes. I like it because it screens out the majority of the worms, AND lots of cocoons. I usually run it through the screen again a couple weeks after I harvest to gather all the worms that hatch out of the cocoons I miss. Even then, I still end up with lots of wigglers hatching in my pots. Not a problem, I just like to get as many as possible back into the bins where they will be more productive.

Stow - I couldn't even hazard a guess how many worms I have in each bin...LOTS of them.

I can't think of any benefit to un-screened casting, but I'd love to hear the old timer's theory.

I swapped out my 400 MHs for 600 MHs to finish out the last couple weeks of veg. The Vortex have settled in to their new pots, so it's time to speed things up a little. I'm planning to start the flower cycle with a nice even canopy about 16-18" above soil. I'm guessing 10-14 days or so. Can't wait to see what my new room can do in bloom mode!

Quick peak at the bushy little Vortex ladies... They seem to be loving life.

Mmmmmm thats a spicy meatball, i love organics and everything about it, im actually reading a really good organic gardening book at the moment it covers all topics from soil to cover crops its very interesting. how long does it take your leaf matter to break down?

You mean the leaf matter I put in the worm bins? It goes very quickly. I harvest the bins about every 2-3 months, and the majority of what I put in during that time will be completely processed. Sure there will still be a little straw, the odd avocado peal, or corn cob, but all the cannabis leaves get munched pretty quickly. Even big thick cannabis stems don't last more than two worm bin cycles (4 months).

I like to let my leaves dry out, then mix them in with the bedding material whenever it needs to be replenished a little. I also keep some wet and just bury them under the bedding for a quick worm snack.