hanuman
Active member
Hi friends
I thought it'd be a good idea to document my OD grow of this year on icmag, modestly hoping to fit in somewhere in this crowd of great growers. Some of the threads I have read here in the OD forum are simply out of this world, with a special mention to our Danish brethren who have left me dazzled with their outdoor photos :jawdrop:
I am located @44.5° North, in a beautiful area of Europe. No guerilla for me, my spot is set in a rather discreet corner of my garden... ok, big garden let's say. OK, a field really. :wink: Anyway, I'm located on a hillside, south facing, with an fantastic landscape of rolling hills for miles and miles visible almost 360 degrees around (minus a small quarter perhaps). Not that the plants really care,
but it's a great place for ganja gardening all the same.
As I chose a new growing spot this year, I had to dig the meadowland to make some sort of elevated plaform, as unfortunately I only have between 10 and say 40 cm of good soil before hitting the rock. I'm actually planning to dig deeper in the rock for next year's grow, as it's tender limestone. But being a stoner for years, I have strong reasons to believe I'll never get to it
This limestone makes the soil rather alkaline, so after digging the patch (roughly 3 x 1 meters, i.e 10 x 3'), I added 3/4 of a 30 liter bag of peat to bring up the acidity level and lighten the soil. I also added a bag of wormcastings, half a bag of commercial composted manure (by bag I mean a 40-50 liter bag), some potting soil, some more soil taken off mole-hills, plus a few organic goodies, i.e a box of 1kg of bloodmeal, half a box of bonemeal, a good amount of bat guano, say 500 grams, keeping some guano and bonemeal for blooming time, and whatever I had left from last year. This results in a very rich, yet light mix. The plants love it. My only problem is that I have to give extra nutes now and again, as the rock underneath limits root growth, which soon reflects on the bottom leaves. For that I use biobizz grow + bloom in pH ajusted water, around 60-70 liters once a week. The drip system visible on the photos hasn't been used much at all this year.
This year, I was given 4 rooted cuts of a Serious AK47 clone, (sativa pheno), that has been going around the Internet growing community of this country since 2000 at least. I guess it is the pre-2000 AK 47. I have never tried this pheno yet, but I only heard great comments about it. High, yield, smell, taste... everything seems to be here. It should finish around mid-october. Needless to say, I'm getting increasingly excited.
Knowing that being put in soil at the end of April, they'd eventually reach a respectable size, I didn't start any other strain, as this is a strictly personal grow and these days I don't smoke much more than 1 or 2 js a day. So 2008 is going to be the year of AK47 monoculture. Well not entierely, as I also have two very small guerilla gold females, but more than shaded by the AKs.
But enough talking already, here's a few pics. Thanks for your attention
h
I thought it'd be a good idea to document my OD grow of this year on icmag, modestly hoping to fit in somewhere in this crowd of great growers. Some of the threads I have read here in the OD forum are simply out of this world, with a special mention to our Danish brethren who have left me dazzled with their outdoor photos :jawdrop:
I am located @44.5° North, in a beautiful area of Europe. No guerilla for me, my spot is set in a rather discreet corner of my garden... ok, big garden let's say. OK, a field really. :wink: Anyway, I'm located on a hillside, south facing, with an fantastic landscape of rolling hills for miles and miles visible almost 360 degrees around (minus a small quarter perhaps). Not that the plants really care,
but it's a great place for ganja gardening all the same.As I chose a new growing spot this year, I had to dig the meadowland to make some sort of elevated plaform, as unfortunately I only have between 10 and say 40 cm of good soil before hitting the rock. I'm actually planning to dig deeper in the rock for next year's grow, as it's tender limestone. But being a stoner for years, I have strong reasons to believe I'll never get to it
This limestone makes the soil rather alkaline, so after digging the patch (roughly 3 x 1 meters, i.e 10 x 3'), I added 3/4 of a 30 liter bag of peat to bring up the acidity level and lighten the soil. I also added a bag of wormcastings, half a bag of commercial composted manure (by bag I mean a 40-50 liter bag), some potting soil, some more soil taken off mole-hills, plus a few organic goodies, i.e a box of 1kg of bloodmeal, half a box of bonemeal, a good amount of bat guano, say 500 grams, keeping some guano and bonemeal for blooming time, and whatever I had left from last year. This results in a very rich, yet light mix. The plants love it. My only problem is that I have to give extra nutes now and again, as the rock underneath limits root growth, which soon reflects on the bottom leaves. For that I use biobizz grow + bloom in pH ajusted water, around 60-70 liters once a week. The drip system visible on the photos hasn't been used much at all this year.
This year, I was given 4 rooted cuts of a Serious AK47 clone, (sativa pheno), that has been going around the Internet growing community of this country since 2000 at least. I guess it is the pre-2000 AK 47. I have never tried this pheno yet, but I only heard great comments about it. High, yield, smell, taste... everything seems to be here. It should finish around mid-october. Needless to say, I'm getting increasingly excited.
Knowing that being put in soil at the end of April, they'd eventually reach a respectable size, I didn't start any other strain, as this is a strictly personal grow and these days I don't smoke much more than 1 or 2 js a day. So 2008 is going to be the year of AK47 monoculture. Well not entierely, as I also have two very small guerilla gold females, but more than shaded by the AKs.
But enough talking already, here's a few pics. Thanks for your attention
h
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Hey m8 you got green thumps too bro 
what a blast ! smokin it right now as i wake and that's strong stuff
In fact, the pics don't show it but they are already budding nicely, and really they started their stretch more than a month and a half ago. I even started seeing some baby trichomes yesterday. Don't forget that outside, at this latitude anyway, the plants start flowering a long time before effective 12/12 (which is sometime in the middle of september I think?). To tell you the truth, I found that whatever the strain (except for early stuff, of which I'm not a great fan), my plants always finish between the second and third week of october, and I've done quite a few indoor strains outside all these years! 
So I'm just keeping my fingers crossed!
oh wait, we know each other, don't we... 
Thanks anyway mate!
