Just a few pictures.

[3Berries]

Young willow wood with green bark is super high in rooting hormones. Easy to make by just boiling them up for a tea. It keeps in the fridge for a month or so too. The corkscrew willow is the most potent one of all the different willows I have.

 

[Cali]

So I decided to clone the girls in the city picker and defoliate a bit heavy. This time around I’m going to leave the clones dipped in the aloe over night and tomorrow I will transfer into the rockwool cubes that are soaking in kelp meal water. Also made a small jar of hydrated kelp meal to water in the fresh 2 gallons of soil I added to the city picker because it wasn’t filled correctly I only had about 5 gallons. The ladies will need that soon since I’m flipping the switch tomorrow, will also top dress with fish bone meal and 1” of home made worm castings.

 

[UndergroundFarmer]

They look good. I just finished up transplanting from 5 gallon pots to what Lowe's sells as "patio pickers" - the exact same product made by the same company that makes the earth boxes and city pickers in Pennsylvania. I bought eight of them - four each for two 4x4 tents! I'm starting off running only two plants per picker in a mix of Build-A-Soil 3.0 living soil and some homemade soil plus some very fresh worm castings with worms included straight from my worm box. How many plants can you run in one of those and take them to maturity?

 

[Cali]

UndergroundFarmer wow sounds like you will be one happy grower come harvest. I think 2 plants or one really big one is what I would go with to keep the canopy manageable. Also the more you do the quicker you can fill the tent and flip to flower. I’m doing 6 in one city picker because I didn’t have a place to save my clones and figured I would grow them in my 2x2x5 and flip as soon as possible. Post some pictures of your set up. I’m going to upgrade soon myself and considering buying more city pickers vs a bed of soil for the convenience of moving them around if needed. Hoping for an 8x8 space. Check out this grower he grows nice big plants in city pickers. danner1620. Also of course the Buildasoil channel.

 

[UndergroundFarmer]

I've been watching Jeremy for a while now! I'll be posting pics a little later tonight. It's funny - I went through a lot of time and expense over the last month or so trying to get the environment perfect for a bunch of stricken plants only to find that the real source of my misery was mites! It's just as well. Now that I know what the real issue was, I'm excited for the way the survivors are growing fast in their living soil and can't wait to harvest some worm-powered weed.

 

[Cali]

Just an update. Buds are getting bigger. Middles of week 6. Smells like gas and lime with fruity tones. City pickers are on 12/12 for a few days now. I will only do 2 plants max next time instead of the 6.

 

[UberMensch]

 

[Going2fast]

Spicoli.!!!!!! Looking good.

 

[Cali]

Figure I’d post this, This way I show how things can get out of control real quick. And how I deal with it. Anyways, I’m having a fungus gnat issue. For some reason I’m my 2x4 the back right hand corner pot is infested with gnats. Same pot or corner that I always have issues with. I think the air is stagnant back there so I added a small fan blowing down there straight to that corner and put out my yellow sticky traps. Also have fly traps by my lights work great for gnats. I did try knocking them back a bit with hydrogen peroxide and water 1 parts to 4. My wife used it last time and she liked the results so I had to try it.

 

[No3odiesShad0w]

They look fantastic😍

 

[Cali]

Update. Fungus gnats are almost gone still a couple here and there. Knocking them back with water to hydrogen peroxide 1:4. Sticky traps and covered the whole pot with my worm castings which seems to have helped a lot. Castings will help with pest because they are full of chitin so does malted barley. Also a fan directly to the pot. Lack of ventilation in the back corner was the main issue. The clones are starting to shoot roots I checked yesterday. The city pickers I had to do a defoliation because they are getting big in the small 2x2. The front left corner is short and the back right corner is short didn’t realize it until I defoliated them yesterday. They are going thru 2 gallons of water every 2 to 3 days max. I top dressed them with worm castings as well. Plants all look happy to me.

 

[3Berries]

I wonder if a large fine mesh bag over the entire pot and tired around the trunk would stop the gnats? You could still water over the top of it and it would get air.

 

[Cali]

Week 8. Colas smelling good and trichs are mostly cloudy. No more fungus gnats. City pickers starting to show flowers and grew more than I thought they would. City pickers keeping the moisture levels ideal make the plants grow fast and big like hydro but without the magic bottles and all the extras. Clones are disappointing, only one has shown roots the others are no show it’s been more than 14 days now. First time showing how I clone and of course 10% rooting success lol. I think keeping the clones dipped in aloe over night wasn’t a good idea next time a quick dip and thats it as usual. Trial and error. Not giving up though I neeed at least one of my 6 sapphire scouts to root I love that strain. All gas with lemon tones reminds me of the OG Kush form early 2000 here in Cali. Plants look a bit lighter green. Can’t wait for harvest.

 

[UndergroundFarmer]

Earth boxes and pickers come with a mulch cover that will keep gnats from having a place to land on the soil. Trouble is, you can cut holes in for your plants but you have to do that starting out. It's just too messy to add them after you're into a grow.

 

[UndergroundFarmer]

Have you run into any troubles checking water levels with a scrog net in place? I'm about to have to put one up. I've been considering making a dipstick or a floating indicator to judge when to add water instead of shining a light into the tube.

 

[Cali]

First time using a city picker in a tent. I left the tube right at the corner for easy access. A dipstick is not a bad idea, because having a Scrog net will get in the way depending how tall and how much you lollipop. I think next grow I will try without the net in the 2x4 and do a Scrog net on my city picker to spread a couple plants flat because they grow fast

 

[UndergroundFarmer]

I may just rely on Cannabenders to flatten things out. I'll be defoliating and some other maintenance this Sunday, so that might be the way to go.

 

[Cali]

UndergroundFarmer wnat if you add an extension to the pipes so they stand tall past the nets, that would be easy to access cheap solution and easy to do.

 

[UndergroundFarmer]

I've thought of that but then realized that it would be that much tougher to see what's at the bottom. I also considered getting a tall skinny funnel for when they need water. The only other way is to water until it's dripping on the floor. Maybe if there was a float valve small enough to work in that space I could make them water themselves. It would have to be done before adding soil and there would be no good way to repair it if Murphy came to visit after a grow was underway. Perhaps a clear indicator tube could be mounted like in some hydro setups. You could also use it to drain a picker in case the reservoir gets nasty.

 

[Cali]

Week 9 basically just trying to figure out where I’m going to dry them so I can chop them up. All cloudy/milky. Was planning on drying in the same tent but the city pickers outgrew the 2x2 so I want to move it over to the 2x4. Plus I have clones and seedlings I started that I would like to put in the 2x2 soon. I have 2 tangerine dream from Barney’s farm, 2 freebie white widows from seeds man and 2 mazar from a fellow grower here. I won’t let these grow too big I just want to grow them out and choose a winner or two to clone and keep if any are worth it.