~Anything Outdoors 2021~World Wide~

[Great outdoors]

Yeah Great Outdoors,
it seems calcium and silica should be right up there with the ol’ NPK. I remember Tom Hill saying he’d take calcium over magnesium any day, in his soils; he did foliar spray with cal/mag once a month and brix mix every fortnight.
In actual fact I’ve just heavily top dressed gypsum, meseca flour, wood ash out of the fire and blood and bone meal for four different sources of calcium.
40.

I learned a great calcium lesson years ago with my tomatoes. I would always struggle with blossom end rot. Heaps of good healthy tomatoes but trouble keeping up with the calcium need. Then I discovered crushed oyster shells. 50lb bag from the feed store is 10-15 bucks. It was late in the season so I just made a couple inch top mulch of crushed oyster shells. Blossom end rot disappeared. In subsequent years I started mixing it into my soil for both tomatoes and cannabis. I mix so much of it in my soil that I use it as a form of aeration. The beauty of it is it's basically inert until the plant or soil organisms release organic acids to release the calcium. Basically calcium on demand for the plant. Huge improvement in all my plants.
Pproblem now with Covid is my local feed store can't source the shells. I have been using wood ash this year as my main calcium source though my no till mounds surely have some left in there.

 

[Bud Jones]

Early Skunk, Shiva Skunk, Lavender . Some Oklahoma outdoor ..

 

[star crash]

 

[Great outdoors]

Early Skunk, Shiva Skunk, Lavender . Some Oklahoma outdoor ..

Those are really far along. From cut or from seed?

 

[star crash]

 

[Great outdoors]

I think I might start a post up your stalk thread

 

[St. Phatty]

Gathered the plants in a group of 4, sort of like "Circling the Wagons".

Released a bag of Ladybugs on Friday, then again today Sunday, then (if they survive 4 days in the fridge) on Tuesday.

Hoping they spend SOME time eating spider mites before fleeing the scene.

I tried to move the plants so that they are in the shade in the afternoon.

 

[star crash]

Gathered the plants in a group of 4, sort of like "Circling the Wagons".

Released a bag of Ladybugs on Friday, then again today Sunday, then (if they survive 4 days in the fridge) on Tuesday.

Hoping they spend SOME time eating spider mites before fleeing the scene.

I tried to move the plants so that they are in the shade in the afternoon.

They’re looking better

 

[Montuno]

...Aquí, hace muuucho calorrr...

Que os decia yo? : Que donde cayera toda la arena que veia sobrevolarme en altura, iban a tener playa... Pues ala, ya tienen playa en Albacete, el mani ...
...Ayer, 47'2°C (117°F) a la sombra en Montoro (aqui al lado)... Y eso a la sombra...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZPudwm9rCc

What did I tell you? That where all the sand that I saw flying over me at altitude would fall, they were going to have a beach... Well, they already have a beach in Albacete, hundreds of kilometres away from the Mediterranean...
...Yesterday, 47'2°C (117°F) in the shade in Montoro (next door)... And that in the shade...

 

[bibi40]

Mango sapphire S1 :

Mango sapphire original

first half :

second half :

 

[40degsouth]

Hi everyone, yeah Great Outdoors, oyster shell flour is something that’s unavailable to me but l would definitely be using it if l could get it locally and as cheaply as you can. I do use the KNF burnt egg shell and vinegar as yet another calcium source during the year and I’ve also been thinking seriously about incorporating cal/mag solution as part of a foliar rotation.

 

[40degsouth]

Hi everyone, yeah Great Outdoors, oyster shell flour is something that’s unavailable to me but l would definitely be using it if l could get it locally and as cheaply as you can. I do use the KNF burnt egg shell and vinegar as yet another calcium source during the year and I’ve also been thinking seriously about incorporating cal/mag solution as part of a foliar rotation. I was going to post a few photos up of the breeding program but the internet gods are against me today.
Cheers,
40.
BTW, all those beautiful pictures of tomatoes are making me feel an uncomfortable need for summer and el mani, those Beef Steaks (??) look righteous.

 

[Great outdoors]

Hi everyone, yeah Great Outdoors, oyster shell flour is something that’s unavailable to me but l would definitely be using it if l could get it locally and as cheaply as you can. I do use the KNF burnt egg shell and vinegar as yet another calcium source during the year and I’ve also been thinking seriously about incorporating cal/mag solution as part of a foliar rotation.

Not the flour, that would be too fast acting. I am talking about actual crushed shells. I'm talking like this.
https://fourlegsorwings.com/products/crushed-oyster-shell-for-poultry
I get a 20kg bag from the animal feed store for $18 CAD when I can get it.

 

[40degsouth]

Ohh, l see. I’m pretty sure l can find that at a local feed store

Double post there?? But everything seems to be working now

Well I’ve done another round of culling today. These plants have never been watered or fed and you can see plants are beginning to select themselves. Stretch is over and l did up the temperature to give them a more realistic environment, like they’d experience outdoors; l also needed to dry the media out so l can check for drought resistance and for plants which are naturally going to purple, not just because it’s cold.
Most of the plants have used up the cotyledons and some are starting to use up the lower leves because of the stress they’re under.
Daylight hours are starting to become exponentially longer as days lengthen and the sun becomes higher in the sky, every day. It still won’t be long enough to stop them flowering though and stem rubs are becoming more intense and giving up the secrets of which way the plants are leaning.
I’ve taken a photo of the plant we were keeping an eye on and it’s neighbour, which looks basically the same from above but from below you can see the first true leaf is beginning to rapidly dry out.
Another thing I’m looking for is stem development and you might be able to see that some are much thicker than others and some are quite thin.
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[Great outdoors]

Ohh, l see. I’m pretty sure l can find that at a local feed store

Double post there?? But everything seems to be working now

Well I’ve done another round of culling today. These plants have never been watered or fed and you can see plants are beginning to select themselves. Stretch is over and l did up the temperature to give them a more realistic environment, like they’d experience outdoors; l also needed to dry the media out so l can check for drought resistance and for plants which are naturally going to purple, not just because it’s cold.
Most of the plants have used up the cotyledons and some are starting to use up the lower leves because of the stress they’re under.
Daylight hours are starting to become exponentially longer as days lengthen and the sun becomes higher in the sky, every day. It still won’t be long enough to stop them flowering though and stem rubs are becoming more intense and giving up the secrets of which way the plants are leaning.
I’ve taken a photo of the plant we were keeping an eye on and it’s neighbour, which looks basically the same from above but from below you can see the first true leaf is beginning to rapidly dry out.
Another thing I’m looking for is stem development and you might be able to see that some are much thicker than others and some are quite thin.
40

Those are sure looking nice for your winter

 

[40degsouth]

Thanks Great Outdoors,
they’ve greened right up with the warmer temperature and the majority of the now keepers have had a pretty even stretch. The canopy has obviously opened right up by culling out the undesirable plants which I’m hoping will alow for some lateral development.
Over the next couple of days I’ll start reducing numbers through stem rubs, the Malowie leaners have a very distinct ripe mango smell. The temperature is about to be cut and now the first selection of drought resistance has been made the plants will again be given wet feet. After that the females will be culled, which will of course be around half the population and then I’ll hopefully find a male to further the breeding project, if not, I’ll just have to start again.
Thanks for the kind words and support,
Cheers,
40.​

 

[bibi40]

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More killer mandarine autos two days ago , before the cut :

13 about 16 plants are harvested now , 3 more left and will be cut those days ...

 

[Chunkypigs]

Damn Star, you went full sativa this season...

I got a real over grow problem this year after testing and balancing my soil. #ThanksSlownickle!!!

seven ECSDs

Give the plants proteins and they make you trichs...

 

[star crash]

Nice bushes chunky

 

[Great outdoors]

Golden cobra