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Ten year plan finally done.

Woke up Sunday morning to find what looked like Thrip damage to some leaves on Jumping Jimmy. The local Hydroponics store did not open until one (1) o'clock, so we got high and hiked Hatcher's pass. Got to the store about two (2) thirty (30), bought Spinosad, Mixed it up, put in a drop of dish soap, mix again. I drenched all the plants top and bottom, waited four (4) days, did it again. I'm at one (1) day after the second treatment, no sign yet.
 

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Beautiful plants Charlie your doing a good job. I live in the South Usa, but I've got kinfolk that live on the Kenai River and they wouldn't leave there for anything, they love Alaska , they ask me every month to come visit. I'm going to one day ,my brother has gone up there fishing and he said he got swarmed by bugs and I told him ,he was full of sh-t , and he said there were bugs everwhere. I ain't worried about no bugs , I know it's beautiful there. Keep up the good work.
 
Thanks man, They look like that because of all I have learned on GWE. Insects are sometimes an issue. DEET is very popular here. Birds from Asia, South America, and the USA come here to nest and eat bugs. I have seen mosquitos rise like fog on the melting Tundra on the north slope.
 
Your welcome Charlie , They live real close to a place called Soldotna , I think , I know they have excellent salmon fishing there. They even can their own fish. I'm going one of these days ,not fishing , but just to check out the awesome scenery.
 
Dude, the fishing is world class, halibut, five (5) kinds of salmon. The King Salmon in the Kenai river are the biggest in the world, current record just over ninety three (93) pounds. Dall Sheep come down to the only road to go there. I have traveled through Soldotna many times going to Homer or Seward to halibut fish. Halibut get up in hundreds of pounds, The derby winner every year in the three hundred (300) to four hundred (400) pound range.
You can see glaciers from the road, There is one nearby you can hike to. Your will want to get a can of DEET and a can of Bear Spray to take with you.
If you swing a visit with your kinfolk, do it in June or July, May is break up, every thing is melting and slushy and muddy. August can be good, but you have a chance of an early fall, Rainy and cold.
 
Charlie , that's exactly what they said , June or July cause the water has to clear up. They mainly catch Kings an Silvers ,then they can their own catch. I've tried it to , it's much better than canned TunaFish. I would love to see a glacier in person instead of on TV , not to many Glaciers down here in Mississippi. With the nut in the WhiteHouse right now ,we better be trying to see all the Glaciers can before its to late. Good looking grow dude , keep it up. Harvesting my plant in a day or two. Later Charlie
 
I spent 4 years in Valdez. That was some of the most memorable days of my life. Easily one of the most beautiful places on earth.
 
We are in a mountainous part of Alaska, The hiking, skiing, and hunting are amazing. I already mentioned the fishing.
 
Congratulations on your up coming harvest. May your buds be huge and frosty. When we first lived here, in nineteen eighty seven (1987), everybody was talking about the glaciers receding. The Mendenhall Glacier in Juneau used to be at the edge of town, tour busses would stop there to show people a blue chunk of ice two hundred (200) feet thick, the size of Delaware. It is still huge but about two (2) mile paved trail hike now.
 
Valdez is spectacular, one of the most beautiful fiords I have ever seen makes the harbor. There are five (5) glaciers I can think off, calve into fiord that goes from Valdez to Prince William Sound. Right in the middle of the Alaska Range, The water falls along the road to Valdez are beautiful.
 
Buds are getting big and frosty. I had to support a lot of the with a string to the rafters.
 

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I transplanted the Clone I made from the top I cut off Seriously Happy. It is in an five (5) gallon fabric bag, with five (5) pounds of Kind Soil, filled the rest of the way with Coco Coir. All I give it is PH'ed tap water (well water). It is under a Three hundred fifteen (315) Sun LEC with a four thousand two hundred (4200) lamp.
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I topped the Serious Happy clone. It grew another set of leaves, so I topped it. I get to train this one myself, instead of starting two (2) weeks before the switch to twelve/ twelve (12/12).
This is my first time doing the Kind super soil system, Your not suppose to water to runoff, The Coco Coir percolates different than Living Soil or even potting soil, it is harder to do than I thought it would be. The Coco Coir seems to absorb every drop of water until it saturates, then none of the water. I have to water very slowly, as soon as I get the top wet, I stop. In one (1) second it is flowing very fast out the bottom. Watering less and more often may be the trick, but I must get it wet down to the Kind soil on the bottom.
 
This is my first try with Kind Soil, so far I really like it. When I first transplanted it I got some yellowing at the tips, it was pale from living off jiffy pot potting soil. I thought the roots couldn't have the Kind Soil yet, I thought it was Nitrogen starved, so I gave it half strength nutes. In reality it was nute burn, so I made it worse. The nutrients in the Kind Soil must soak into the Coco Coir by capillary action up to the plant. It lived and looks good except a burned leaf.
 
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