Light the Grow Gher!

[DingusKhan]

Have I ever missed all y'all. I've been lurking and re-reading all the incredible GWE wisdom and lore, getting ready to drop seeds. It's been a little over a year since I harvested about 4 pounds of legal, outdoor, backyard grow. I still have a bunch of that, but I can't stand not having anything growing any longer.

Also, my young friend, lets call her "NinjaBear", has been interested in growing, so I'm setting her up with a couple auto-seeds; one in soil, one in a DWC bucket, and handing down my first, cheep, Amazon LED grow lights: MarsHydro 300 from about 2 years ago. They were inexpensive, perfect for a bedroom closet grow, and grew me about 5 ounces of some tasty ass buds on my first grow.

Finally, when I saw Mr.furley "show your grow" thread I had to do it. I wet-toweled 5 seeds that have been waiting in my desk drawer. A Holy Grail Kush by DNA genetics, also 2 Northern LightsXBigBud/Ryders and 2 Auto Diesel (True North Seeds Freebie).

So far, the HGK, and 1 each of the autos have sprouted. The other NLBB started a tiny root, but did nothing after I transfered it to a RapidRooter. The Auto Diesel went into a rock wool cube only because I bought a pack of cubes when the grow shop was out of rapidrooters. This is my 2nd attempt, the first failed.

They are going to spend their first few days under T5 and an LED flood lamp. Then HGK is going into a DWC bucket with MegaCrop, Auto Diesel is going into a cup of Happy Frog soil, and the NL/BB is going to NinjaBear, also in DWC probably in bottled noots.

Below are pics of my starts and my seedling veg closet. As always, I aim to keep it easy.

Peace!

 

[alltatup]

Dingus, you are off to a great start!! Man, I wish I could harvest 4 lbs!!!!!!!!

 

[SoOrbudgal]

@ATU the message you sent I lost it when I clicked it? Went to reply and it disappeared? Sorry don't want to hijack this thread.

 

[DingusKhan]

Thanks tat. You totally will in your future Oregon back yard!

Hi SoOrbudgal, no worries.

 

[DingusKhan]

One of the NL/BB that put out a tiny tap root placed in rooter seems to have fizzled. I stuck it in a cup of soil but I think it's dead. But otherwise, we have 3/5 live births from the Costco Rotisserie Chicken Germination Station, sitting on a heat pad set to 82. I'm keeping the HGK and the auto diesel.

And just to further try to tempt you alltatup and the bourgening masses of GWE to the dark side of Southern Oregon, here's from my back yard last October. The bare skeleton was Purple Hindu Kush with Vanilla Kush still ripening in the background. They and the others were grown in 100 gallon smart bags (about 5 feet diameter by 2 feet high) with Gaia's Gift organic soil from Grant's Pass, (southern) Oregon.

As you can see, I did a version of LST as promoted by Scott, the youtube guy who sounds a little like a rabbi (also a southern Oregonian, despite the accent), staking the main stalk to a cane stuck at 45 degrees away from the sun makes a HUGE, wide bush, wrapped in 4 inch fence for support.

You can have 4 plants, legally, here. But no pressure, or anything.

It's also kinda fun to show the bookends of a 14 month gap. Whoa...

 

[SoOrbudgal]

Well it's a pleasure to meet you neighbor. My outdoor was a early harvest disaster but I live in a more forested area in a bowl surrounded by a forest. 8hrs at the most of direct sun. But I got a spot were clearing now that is free of trees (fell them last weekend clearing them out now). Going there with my 4 legal recs. next summer. I have a great love for anything kush and I've read a lot about Gaia's Gift soil. I'm in my last week of working for the man setting into retirement so i'll be going to more outdoor festivals. Like Selma has during summer an auto grow? I'm friggin giddy about the whole idea of not being under the radar of work.

 

[alltatup]

Sorry for your loss, Dingus: the Cannabis goddess giveth, and the Cannabis goddess taketh away... And I'll bet southern OR is a lot less expensive than up north. I will have to check out any intentional communities in the regions around Roseburg...

SoOrbudgal I am so excited for you to retire!!! The clearing sounds like a great idea.

 

[DingusKhan]

SoOrbudgal, we GWE'rs need to stick together, and I especially think we need to start a committee to bring alltatup to (Stephen A) Douglas County. The State of Jefferson needs more of us who truly insist on living free.

If you mean this year's harvest, I know what you mean. Several of my friends, growers and local hemp farmers, and even the grape growers really took it in the rear this year. 2019 was pretty shitty luck, getting hammered with that blizzard last spring, and then a complete comedy of climate errors for growing anything outside. Not like last year.

The only thing growing fabulously this year were the fleas and ticks.

 

[SoOrbudgal]

DingusKhan I got a sister she lives in central point but that area has gone way up in land prices and homes. Saw many hemp fields wandering around Medford and other areas during a wino weekend last summer. I just love that area dryer but damn get fire smoke in that bowl in grants pass.

 

[DingusKhan]

I so know what you mean. I happened to go buy a used camp trailer off Craigslist in Grants Pass the day after the Mile Post 97 fire started in Canyonville. It was eerie driving down I-5 through a smoldering fire in that canyon, but Grant's Pass was totally socked it with smoke. It was worse than normal Oregon morning fog. A lot of Roseburg wine grape growers couldn't sell their crops because of smoke flavor.

 

[DingusKhan]

The grow gher makes imperceptibly slow progress. 3 of our 5 seeds have graduated to sprout status, the Holy Grail Kush, and one each of the Northern Lights/BigBud Ryders and Auto Diesel. One each NL and Auto-Diesel have gone dud. I'm keeping HGK and Auto D. NL/BBR went into the 5 gallon bucket that hosted my very first grow.

Thanks to GWE, that bucket blessed me with about 5 ounces of very sweet, sticky Dairy Queen (TGA seeds) that even impressed some old stoner friends. It has also blessed me with 3 or 4 other harvests since then. It is a very good bucket.

But after my first few grows, I wanted bigger plants that wanted a bigger reservoir, and have switched to Sterilite stackable bins. Even though they're from Walmart, I like that the lids fit on the big AND medium (half height) bins, which are perfect for bubble-cloning (my preferred method) and seedlings, are black (lightproof) and pretty sturdy. You can also have several different versions of lids with holes cut for grow cups, cloning collars, etc.

Since I believe NinjaBear can handle it if I set her up with an Auto and a Photoperiod, I dropped a couple OG Kush seeds that will go in soil. They have been soaked for 24 hours until they sank, and a day and half in wet paper towel in a sushi dipping dish in the Costco Rotisserie Chicken Humidity Tray on a heating pad. When they FINALLY put forth a rootlet, after about 48 hours, I placed them in Bio Rooters (equivalent to Rapid Rooter).

When they poke out the top they will go into Happy Frog with additional perlite and coco, about 10% each, in a clear vietnamese soup to-go cup until roots are visible, then into a 3 gallon bag or Ocean Forest or a local organic live soil, if I can find a small amount of it in December. NinjaBear and I will raise one each, take cuttings later, and LST into something really cool to flower out.



It is such a pleasure to be growing again, sharing with all you fine GWE growers and jokers.

Peace

 

[DingusKhan]

Day 5: Yay! we have roots! Also OGK seeds were placed in BioRooters this morning, and the seed heads are just about to break surface. You can see the one on the left has already shed her seed husk, the other is still helmeted, and will break out by morning.

Rx Solutions: These are the nutrients I've been using for the early part. The Farm Store carried the brand for a while, but then cleared it out, when I bought the last of it. I've never tried GH's trio, I'm guessing this is pretty much equivalent. It's grown me some really nice buds. I've since switched to MegaCrop, but I wanna try this stuff again before I give it to my friend with her little plant.

By the way, you heard that right. I buy most of my grow supplies from the local farm store. They intentionally carry stuff for pot growers. Oregon RULES.

 

[DingusKhan]

The sprouts in this tub have not been getting top feed. I meant to put a schnorkel in there, but I've been alternating between too busy and too stoned to get around to it.

The water is about an inch below the bottom of the cup, and there's a single 6 inch bubble stone going on in there. It's just enough to keep the clay balls moist underneath, and the top of the rooter slightly damp to the touch.

I know it's been about a year, so my gut feeling might be out of calibration. But this seems just about as fast as previous grows that did get top feed.

Any thoughts about top feed?

 

[Farmall]

DingusKhan regarding top feed. I used it from start to finish on my very first grow not knowing WTF I might be doing. Several comments about not needing the top feed after the first few weeks but the first impression of a video I saw stuck with me. The feed ran 15 minutes every hour from a separate reservoir and that grow was spectacular. If I were to go with hydro again, I would absolutely do it the same way.

Ive posted this link several times but I really worked for me and it stimulated the mad scientist in me so it was even better😉

https://youtu.be/_1Eg-XesZGU

 

[Farmall]

By The Way: the roots when this was completed filled the entire 5 gallon bucket....JAM packed, plants were 5’ tall and I had used some inexpensive blurple lights.

 

[SoOrbudgal]

Sometime Dingus we'll have to meet since were only 70mi from eachother. When I get my thing going full year round ( very soon we can trade clones? I've not got much going right now but soon. Having germination farts right now, keep moving my starter setup around to warmer areas they are not speedy at the moment on the autos only 1 out of 3 seeds so far it's been 5days. Moved them into small soil now with humidity cups on top under light and near woodstove (not to close) autos are a challenge for me which I've struggled with.

 

[SoOrbudgal]

I just placed some auto seeds into soil cups from paper towel and soaking. Only one has come through so far, autos don't like me LOL but they will learn ")

 

[DingusKhan]

Awesome! I started my first grow in the winter, a little before Christmas. I truly think this is the best time of all to start a grow. So much crap going on out there, sometimes I just need to hide in my closet and watch the grass grow. And seeing seeds break ground is the first of the favorite events!

 

[DingusKhan]

Wow man, that's SA-WEEEET! What an efficient use of space for a sea of green in a 2X4 tent, which is what I have. My last tent-grow was one plant in big tote, which yielded a little under a half pound with an LEC315, but it took abut 5 months and a shit load of trimming and training. Maybe I need to try a SOG, once. Even just 4 or 6 plants, but in DWC, maybe 3 months... I need more babies.

 

[DingusKhan]

Hey Budgal, are congratulations in order yet? Retirement?

I misunderstood you earlier, and thought you were also here in Roseburg. But 70 miles is still close enough! I would love to trade clones, black cherry sounds awesome. If I don't manage to kill them, I should have OGK and HGK cuttings alive in about February.

I'm going to up Salem to meet JDU on Sunday, who needs to rehome some Mango clones. I offered to bring one back for you.

Are you using a warming pad? Sitting on an insulator? They work wonders. I have one set under the plastic tray that the rotisserie chicken box is sitting in, set to 80. The seeds seem very happy so far.