Tika’sGarden of Earthly Delights

[Tika]

VisuL break today. Celebrating you ALL
thanks for your friendship😘

[oldjarhead100]

even a storm out there looks better than one here lol

[Tika]

@oldjarhead100....yes we think we’re dying when it’s 35 here...birdbath frozen. Really silly. Stay Cozy🤗😘🤗

[Tika]

alltatup. This is for you

[alltatup]

Absolutely beautiful, as are the pics of the cloudy, windswept coastline.

[Tika]

Morning tent shot not yet 4 weeks in flower, PurpleMobyDick ( future wagonettes) and a fresh bouquet for you all🤪

[oldjarhead100]

what an idea Tika I'm always having to look up when I planted write it on the tag , do you have problems with the marker washing off ,the last grow I had 3 different strains and all the tags were blanks so I have a great mix lol

[Tika]

I do a hard copy calendar that at the end of the year looks like pure madness.
The tags are plastic / broad and tall enough not to get lost in the pot/ and I use a Black Sharpie. Can fade in the flowering light so I just give it a second coat. At harvest I reuse them on the drying net to delineate the strains, reuse the other side for the next grow ( being SURE to cross out or scrub out the previous)

Stay warm good buddy🤗

[OzBud]

you can get garden markers like sharpies, they don't fade in the light

[GreenState]

Your beach pics look great!
I love frosted tops on my indoor plants.
Not so much the outdoor ones though (g). A shot out back.

[Tika]

That image is so beautiful!,

[Tika]

Let the sun shine in
off to work❤️

[oldjarhead100]

nice yard looks warm and inviting

[Tika]

Open to all warm heart oldjarhead100

[alltatup]

Lovely patio!!!

[Tika]

Purple Moby Dick @ 35 days from putting seed promising looks for the backyard. Currently under 4’ 4 bulb T5 24/7. Like all others:
mix my coco/perlite, pre moisten with 5 ml CaliMagic /pH 6 water
fill 6 x 6 plastic s 3/4 full
put seed into root riot
put root riot with seed into coco mix (leave root riot top showing.)
once germinated (3-6 days) and the stem takes on that tall look...
backfill with more coco mix & add a touch more of moisture
iIF Fems like above : once leaves reach the sides of plastic...
premoisten mix (usually with feed) in 5 gL smart pots; transplNt🌱then additionL feed but not drain to waste yet.
Yappy pappy here
😜🤓🦋

[Tika]

RagWeedDWC noooo kiddddding! I haven’t fished since I’ve been growing ( course we’ve been dry as a bone here) but l’ll even get a weekend license and worm rod for blue gill from the shore. I realllly miss fishing.
Fo

Go for it
🎣

[OzBud]

thanks Tika was thinking of getting some T5s to get some tomatoes and stuff going early next season and didn't know if I should go with the 24 or the 54. Usually I just get them sprouted indoors on a heat mat then use window light but its pretty weak still at that time of year and they don't grow much before going outside

[RagWeedDWC]

Tika I work to support my fishing habits.... :-) I grow for the other !

[Tika]

4 weeks/2 days in the flower tent. I’m in the purgatory of my impatience. Wishing the DoubleCookie x PurpleWizard would giddy-up more but all is ok. Getting sticky face moving each out of the tent to feed and sticky fingers STILL defoliating.
🤓

[Tika]

oldjarhead100 what is the question? Plant riser or saucers for them or?....

[RagWeedDWC]

`I stick my head in so I can wax my mustache :-) . In the last grow room rebuild I mounted the DWC reservoir on a 3/4 marine plywood that fit the bottom of the VEG and Flower side, mounted casters on the bottom of it so I can slide the whole grow out into the room and trim or for maintenance. To damn old to bend around inside my grow room :-)

[LurkingInTheGrass]

RagWeedDWC

what a great idea. I would love to see a pic of your wheeled rig

I been watching a tube video series (Growing Exposed) that visits commercial grow ops. out of the dozen or so I have watched, only one had the foresight to make plant "dolly's" (risers with casters)
of course 2 others were moving tables. one of them had set up a rail system about waist height, and they could move their tables around the entire building along the rails (the rails lifted in spots - to make a gate, for people)

ever since, I been thinking about casters for my buckets


just saw your pics in another thread SWEET THINKING!!!

[Spidermite]

You always have such beautiful well manicured plants. Ive gotten lazy and just started running seas of green. Still getting same totals or more per tent just doing it the lazy way.

I need the burn to grow back. Getting hard never running out.

[Tika]

Find your burn...l🤗🦋😘

[Tika]

Good Friday Morning
feeding the girls...here is Merlin’s Ride #2 at one day shy of 5 weeks into flower. May not get big buds but will get tight danky ones for sure.
once done with round of feeding going after defol of Purple Moby Dick and will post .
best Regards all around🤓

[Spidermite]

Nice and frosty. Gonna be some great smoke.

[alltatup]

Quite a handsome ride Merlin has there.

[Tika]

The 3 Purple Moby Dicks got their first topping and defol. HUGE fan leaves 10+ inches. If it wasn’t so cold I’d make my spring rolls or Yalanchi as I did with my God bud.
They are now pissed and ugly as sin
BUT they will rally with a vengeance I trust. All the new growth was under the umbrella of these thick robust leaves.
42 days from seed🤗🦋🤓

[oldjarhead100]

That talent Tika never got into the eating of raw stuff unless I had to .which I did at one time lol ,those are some beauties

[RagWeedDWC]

Bait wrapped in a leaf????? Everyone in my family loves sushi, I will catch it and "clean" it, but it has to visit a frying pan before I will eat it :-)

[Tika]

RagWeedDWC I LOVE sashimi...especially octopus properly done...scallops, salmon, tuna...not mackerel 🥴

[starramus]

Tika Do you get your God Bud seeds direct from Jordan of the Islands? How are they to order from? I have grown Blue God from clones, but never from seed. I would like to order Blue God seeds when they get them back in stock. I have a couple of Indica connoisseurs in the house.

https://jordanoftheislands.ca/product/marijuana-seeds-god-bud-strain/

[Tika]

starramus yup-LA. They send the “stealth” packaging tho. Last one was a wad of tangled pink synthetic yarn. Someone is getting PAID to do that shit...rip apart a little mailer..take my whopping 10 seeds, and reshuffle the yarn & mail it.
I like the full on assortment from Seedsman but I’d have to order 6 months in advance- planning on my order getting yanked- to make my germination dates😖

[Spidermite]

Ive had great luck with haze.io seeds

[oldjarhead100]

no I have never had a confiscation it does sound like you have a gung ho worker

[Tika]

The line up of the tent at week 6 Completed in flower and champing at the bit 2 or 3 more weeks to go over all...now watching pistils curl, change color, trichomes clouding and some amber WTF and bling. Getting my usual white caps. Will do another post of bud shots.. after this.
the DoubleCookiexPurpleWizard will have small buds but they will be tight. MerlinsRide...bushy girl...same. JockHorror bigger buds ( an old seed ) ...my sativa generally stash. Jack Herer...new to me has a great aroma. Purple Moby Dick...is a dick of a seed...can’t wait to get it outside. The most temperamental seed I have ever done! Funny as the documentation doesn’t say is humidity dependent. Will be huge, supply nutes, yamity yamity
Chopped one...if you can’t roll with the flow you are outa here. Still hanging onto 2 for outside.
All in all good...eager to hang the drying net and clean my snips in anticipation. That’s how I keep my shit together and not harvest too soon. We are gratefully in a warm spell with low humidity...perfect for the tent.
Right hand (and eye) dominant but use my left hand plenty for much including harvest... has an arthritic issue ( do you think at my age) anyway the left is what holds the stick for trim... so saw a Doc who actually recommened CBD cream...needles to say I launched a bit.
thanks for your ear as always...posting the line up then trichome shots...the PMD can earn its pissyass residence or not.
If I duplicated again...sorry
bling shots coming🤓

[starramus]

My wife grows nettles. You don't want to make a mistake ,and touch the damn things. Better to wear gloves. An interesting bit of trivia. The ancient song Itchycoo Park is based upon nettles. "A number of sources claim the song's name is derived from the nickname of Little Ilford Park, on Church Road in the London suburb of Manor Park, where Small Faces' singer and song-writer Steve Marriott grew up. The "itchycoo" nickname is, in turn, attributed to the stinging nettles which grew there." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14ViwvgtvbA

[Tika]

Thank you oldjarhead100. The boys used to chase us with nettles..learned how to run fast! Also OJH yes I ratchet rope my lights up and down. I keep them a little low over top buds as I want the light to get to the mid range buds as well.
starramus that isn’t too ancient of a historical fact...I remember it well😜

[starramus]

Relativity applies even outside of physics. To a millennial Itchygoo Park is ancient.

[Tika]

The bud and the bling from the Honeysticks. Jocjbandcjackbbigger but no bling yet

[oldjarhead100]

very very nice, do you have a light mover or just like the white tops ,I keep my light mover a lot closer than I would if it was stationary if it burns them Ill back off but so far so good

[LurkingInTheGrass]

white tops, are from her Platinum LED

[Tika]

YUP @LurkinginTheGrass...if I avoided white caps all my other bud sites would be compromised (I think). Supposed to be 18” above canopy- it’s so when I begin flower-the canopy being even. Even with LST there are escapees for whom I don’t compromise the entire grow. Do my best to ensure everyone catches some good rays.🤗🤓🤗

[Tika]

This morning flash shots at lights on time. Now to feed, bathe/groom the dogs...and clean house🙃
have a great day folks🌝

[RagWeedDWC]

Struggling to find words, but awesome grow. Gives me something to achieve

[Tika]

Very kind of you to say RagWeedDWC. A pretty “pedestrian “ grow compared to most folk. I only changed my process once (fancy & nutrients nutrients with a whole lot of shaking)...totally disappointing. Other than that just keep on foloweing the original GWE program with the addition of Liquid Kool Bloom and LED lights ( from original HPS). Experience is the great teacher. How long and in what situation have you been growing?

[RagWeedDWC]

Many years ago, grew in soil with bagweed seed, ok results but... bagseed :-). On a recent trip I acquired the Girl Scout cookies and started in the fall. First time trying DWC, but old school in the process. Find your mothers, clone and grow. Next year I will look at the auto's.
Learned a huge amount in the forum, and lessons will be applied when I start back up in the fall (Man has got to fish).

[Tika]

One more...got sticky face! DoubleCookiexWizardPunch ( black leaf) with at least 2 more weeks to go. “Little but Mighty”

[Tika]

yellow good question. Yes they are the nutrients. (Flora trio, caliMag and in the case of the tent plants Liquid Kool Bloom. )
I pull each plant out of the tent and put it/rotate them to photonand feed.
I ACTUALLY called GH about premixig / storing...spoke with manager. I was previously led to believe that I had to mix and feed same day and after doing that for several years...the manager said he mixes and stores 5 gallon buckets of feed for a week (covered)! Woohoo! Point-answer your question...if I have left over mix I will keep it three days and use it first next feed. In a perfect world I would prefer mix. 2 feeds...that’s maybe 24=gallons. The GH Flora trio you can store ( out of sunlight, heat, etc. for up to a week.
I prefer having the mix done the day before or at least the gallons filled with water..then I add nutes and feed which is what you are seeing
🤓

[yellow]

Excellent! I would love to have a big barrel pre mixed, then to only fill my can from that. Almost like a tap in your kitchen! Hmm just got an idea: An automated nute mix straight from the bottles. Seperate tubes pumping the solution through a tap. Ill work on this..

[Tika]

yellow a note on prefixing: cover if stored outside and stir before administering...from the General Hydroponic’s man 🤗