3rd I
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Alright well after 5 months of hard work I finally have a moment to hang out for a little while n' fill you guys and gals in...
I started bringing everthing in about mid april....100-5kg blocks of coco, 100-30lb. bags of worm castings, 40-4 cuft. bag of big n chuncky perlite, 200 lbs. of powdered dolomite lime, 160lbs. blood meal, 150lbs. greensand, 300lbs. bonemeal, 150lbs. kelp meal, 50lbs. soil moist polymers, Tanaka one man auger, pick axes, shovels, clippers, loppers, tarps, sawsall with 6 fully charged batteries (n' a ton of blades).....after that i'venever been in better shape in my life...just gotta gain some weight back...lol
Then the real battle began...digging...on average my holes are 20 to 30 gallons...where i am at there is about 6-8" of root mass you have to get through to get to the good dirt...you can see the "man hole" covers in the pics...then comes the rocks...small, medium, large, XXL
Once the holes were dug it was time to fill em'...i use 4-20 gallon trash cans and one 32 gallon...i mix 15 gallons at a time and add all ingredients to the 20 gal and use the 32 gal to aid in the mixing process....(7.5 gal. coco, 4.5 gal. perlite, 3 gal. worm castings, 2 cups lime, 1 cup blood, 2 cups bone, 1 cup kelp, 1 cup greensand, 4 oz. Soil Moist)...i set up a new staging area at each patch and use 5 gallon measuring buckets (i do 2 at a time) to take the ingredients to the trash cans next to the holes....usually coco first, worm poo n' amendments, then the perlite...to hydrate the coco i lay down a tarp and stack up 16 blocks at time, 4 X 2(x2) then wrap em up like a present and put heavy rocks on top and fill with lots of water
Then the fun part....planting...then added native on top to cover the perlite...i pretagged everybody with some homemade plant tags...i take plain white tags punch a hole in the top, then cut them in half and discard the pointy side, then spray paint em black, and when they're dry i take a sturdy twist n attach it to the punched hole and they're ready...i use a fine point silver sharpie...can't see em at all
Strains---Apollo Mist, Biddy's Sister, Blue Moonshine, C99 X GF, C99 X C4, Chem Double D, Casey Jones, Deep Chunk X Chocolate Trip, Deep Chunk X Highland Nep, Early Pearl Skunk Haze, Early Skunk, F-13, Lemon Grass Thai X Deep Chunk, Lapis Mountain Indica, Maple Leaf Indica X P 13, Mango Haze X White Widow, Mazar, Old Time Moonshine, PowerHouse, Pommelo, Somango, Snowdog Kush, Super Skunk, SSH, Vanilluna, Willies, n' Willies's Haze
A few weeks before they went out
Remaining 2/3...hardened em for about a week before planting
Preparations for Plot 3
Some of Plot 1 from 5/24/09
Some of Plot 2 from 7/10/09
I started bringing everthing in about mid april....100-5kg blocks of coco, 100-30lb. bags of worm castings, 40-4 cuft. bag of big n chuncky perlite, 200 lbs. of powdered dolomite lime, 160lbs. blood meal, 150lbs. greensand, 300lbs. bonemeal, 150lbs. kelp meal, 50lbs. soil moist polymers, Tanaka one man auger, pick axes, shovels, clippers, loppers, tarps, sawsall with 6 fully charged batteries (n' a ton of blades).....after that i'venever been in better shape in my life...just gotta gain some weight back...lol
Then the real battle began...digging...on average my holes are 20 to 30 gallons...where i am at there is about 6-8" of root mass you have to get through to get to the good dirt...you can see the "man hole" covers in the pics...then comes the rocks...small, medium, large, XXL
Once the holes were dug it was time to fill em'...i use 4-20 gallon trash cans and one 32 gallon...i mix 15 gallons at a time and add all ingredients to the 20 gal and use the 32 gal to aid in the mixing process....(7.5 gal. coco, 4.5 gal. perlite, 3 gal. worm castings, 2 cups lime, 1 cup blood, 2 cups bone, 1 cup kelp, 1 cup greensand, 4 oz. Soil Moist)...i set up a new staging area at each patch and use 5 gallon measuring buckets (i do 2 at a time) to take the ingredients to the trash cans next to the holes....usually coco first, worm poo n' amendments, then the perlite...to hydrate the coco i lay down a tarp and stack up 16 blocks at time, 4 X 2(x2) then wrap em up like a present and put heavy rocks on top and fill with lots of water
Then the fun part....planting...then added native on top to cover the perlite...i pretagged everybody with some homemade plant tags...i take plain white tags punch a hole in the top, then cut them in half and discard the pointy side, then spray paint em black, and when they're dry i take a sturdy twist n attach it to the punched hole and they're ready...i use a fine point silver sharpie...can't see em at all
Strains---Apollo Mist, Biddy's Sister, Blue Moonshine, C99 X GF, C99 X C4, Chem Double D, Casey Jones, Deep Chunk X Chocolate Trip, Deep Chunk X Highland Nep, Early Pearl Skunk Haze, Early Skunk, F-13, Lemon Grass Thai X Deep Chunk, Lapis Mountain Indica, Maple Leaf Indica X P 13, Mango Haze X White Widow, Mazar, Old Time Moonshine, PowerHouse, Pommelo, Somango, Snowdog Kush, Super Skunk, SSH, Vanilluna, Willies, n' Willies's Haze
A few weeks before they went out
Remaining 2/3...hardened em for about a week before planting
Preparations for Plot 3
Some of Plot 1 from 5/24/09
Some of Plot 2 from 7/10/09
This is going to be unreal.
