chief bigsmoke
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so I guess my question for you today is... out of your strains which one is your favorite. All your genetics look stunning. very long stigmas(pistills) and all looking frosty as the snowman
Smoking wise~ my morning medicine if I have it is Kali Mist, Blue Mystic, Cherry Bomb, and I really enjoy Blue Orca, The One, The Black, Mazar, G13/haze... for late day... say... 4:20 and beyond and I can not wait to get my hands on the Durban Poison x BMR... that's the middle row in my garden. I only tried a taste so far and it was phenomenal. I'm sure I'm forgetting some favorites as I'm waking and baking on some of The One this morning because I had a little upset stomach from all the bong loads from watching "magic trip" last night http://www.magpictures.com/magictrip/ hehe thanks for asking cheif!
The most anticipated strain right now that I am soooo excited for is the NL#2xHaze... 30ish year old seeds popped several months ago. I have all the same cuts from one of the seeds. It was the first seed release!
My favorite to grow is kinda tricky, diff. than my fave to smoke. The DPxBMR's are sooo pretty and sooo easy going. my biggest yielder so far was the G13xhaze. I said in the beginning of my thread that I probably wouldn't run this finniky and demanding plant again. Turns out I couldn't NOT run it again! They don't like the soil as much as all of the other plants do, but I got less and less concerned if their leaves aren't perfect. Still happy and produces like craaaazy! I can't smoke too much of it if it is allowed to go for more than 80 days, or is cured for a long time. It gets a little intense, psychedelic even, and I really can't drive on it or talk to people.
*edit* i must mention that the mazar was unbelievable "easy" to grow... such a happy, easy going, and productive lady!
~MissGD
The most anticipated strain right now that I am soooo excited for is the NL#2xHaze... 30ish year old seeds popped several months ago. I have all the same cuts from one of the seeds. It was the first seed release!
~MissGD
The most anticipated strain right now that I am soooo excited for is the NL#2xHaze... 30ish year old seeds popped several months ago. I have all the same cuts from one of the seeds. It was the first seed release!
~MissGD
I was running to class this morning and really didn't have time to go into it deeper sorry....
So basically we have a soil mix and in the soil mix there are microbes, hopefully aerobic, which require carbon for building organic compounds and nitrogen to synthesize nitrogen-containing cellular components; amino acids, enzymes, and DNA. On average the soil microbes incorporate eight parts of carbon to every one part nitrogen. Also only around 1/3 of this carbon is actually metabolized (remainder is transpired and lost as C02) so microbes need around 1g of nitrogen for every 24 grams of C in their food.
This is important because when C:N ratios of 25:1 are exceeded, the microbes must search the soil for nitrogen. The incorporation of high C:N residues depletes the soils natural supply on N, thus resulting in a nitrate depressed period. This also has a negative effect on the organic materials in the soil delaying the decaying process as the organisms do not have enough nitrogen either present in material undergoing decomp. or available in the soil solution.
Only reason why I can actually talk about this with any certainty is because I just finished a month long experiment testing 4 different C:N compounds: grass, alfalfa, alfalfa kept in cool conditions, wheat, and a control. By taking weekly measurements of the C02, using a sodium hydroxide trap, we were able to accurately chart the level of microbial populations in the varying soil containers. If your interested in the results I can try pming em to you.
So in summation, its not so much that it keeps nitrogen "flowering" just that it never reaches a level of depression, and if it does, that the level is short lived. Honestly I have never heard of bio-char but just looking at a few articles about it, it seems that its more reserved for sequestering carbon, not sure if that would help your decomp. time.
Also the entire point of no-till is to build up humus(10:1), on large field applications it takes 4-5 years to start producing better than conventional tilled fields however once they begin their increase in production it continues to increase. The first few years requires an increase in herbicide use and a few other factors which accounts for lower production levels. I almost think that for a system like what your thinking, an outdoor decomp pile to let old batches of soil cook. Might not be an economical decision right now though. The key is releasing the nutrients back into the soil which have been taken up by the plants, thus composting, letting it decay back down into soil humus.
As to your question about producing too much nitrogen, due to the large quantities required by the plant in addition with the relatively low levels found in soil, I really don't see it being a problem. That said, the only way to know the effects is to experiment.
Haven't looked into it too deeply but Biochar seems to be a tool for sequestering carbon in environments such as forest ecosystems which are notoriously infertile. Not really sure how it would work in your system.
Again really jealous of the space and chance to work with all that you have right now, have fun!
MissGreen, have you ever read "The One-Straw Revolution" by Masanobu Fukuoka??
This guy will Blow you away with how natural his farm is. No Till, No Nutrients, No Active Composting.... Un-Believable.
I have heard marvelous things about mazar. especially from med patients. did you notice an increased amount of cbd? = less-pain etc?
Your NL#2XHaze sounds like a winner. very solid genetics.
keep up the good work!
Hashy Haze, and intoxicating smell alone... sandalwood jasmine playdough?? wtf?! very feminine and alluring strain, it spoke to me more than any other plant so far, not that it needed anything! I'm pretty sure its a heavy hitter all around, from what I remember hehehe.
And luckily I've upgraded from a #2 to a #5 as the Capt. graciously pointed out. Just add water. Stokedddd!