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Dyr and Tanska outdoors 2010
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those thyphoon look great especially! it sure is a strong performer, tried it at n.62 and grew very fine. i'm not growing them this summer though, but made plenty of seeds for future grows.. just trying something different this year.
anyways looks great as usual dyr! greetings from finland!
anyways looks great as usual dyr! greetings from finland!
øjjjj det flot Dyr
sikke et grow : )
sikke et grow : )
thank you, thank you my friends
Here is an update from today with hindu kush, we put sand on top around the holes to prevent the snails from getting to the plants, also ferramol
The 2 trikotelydons(or whatever they are called ), thought there was only 1 of these last time, this little one has recovered well:
And the other one:
Here is an update from today with hindu kush, we put sand on top around the holes to prevent the snails from getting to the plants, also ferramol
The 2 trikotelydons(or whatever they are called
), thought there was only 1 of these last time, this little one has recovered well:
And the other one:
F
fisher
apparently those triplet ones are 90% male so
it'll be interesting to see if you get a female.
it'll be interesting to see if you get a female.
haxi
Active member
Hello guys !
Hey dyr, this nice nice stuff, realy. Keep up the good work man!
About thyphoon:
http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=82414
Much info on this thread, but some maybe false,also.
Peace
Hey dyr, this nice nice stuff, realy. Keep up the good work man!
About thyphoon:
http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=82414
Much info on this thread, but some maybe false,also.
Peace
E
elmanito
Good soil you're having there.Plants are doing great!!! 
Namaste
Namaste
Working Lime into Soil
Working Lime into Soil
Hey, Dyr!
Your grows are of great interest to me, because we’re close to each others’ latitudes. (I’m at 58N.) I only hope I might enjoy comparable success with my considerably smaller grows and lesser experience. Thank you for the time and trouble you take to make your efforts useful for everyone by posting them. If I do manage to make a success of my grows, you will have played an important role.
On Saturday, I’m going to put the last of this year’s plants in the ground. It’s very unlikely they’ll reach full maturity, as they’re sativas (All this year's Rudis are already out, along with lots of Sats in other places.) they only germinated a couple of weeks ago and we’ve had really shit weather for a couple weeks, so they’re only half a dozen or so cm.’s tall. I wish I’d left them inside under the lights, but I was so eager to cut down on electricity usage I put them out onto the balcony during the nice weather as soon as they’d sprouted. Then I broke the grow room down for the summer. Then the weather turned crap. Fucking northern latitudes: two weeks of fucking rain and high winds in the middle of fucking June with temps down to four and five fucking ºC at night! Not much growth there!
Anyway, I wanted to ask you a question about soil: somewhere I read your description of working dolomite (?) lime into the soil. The place I’m planting out into on Saturday is a little clearing among pine trees, so I expect the soil to be rather acid. The problem is, I don’t know how much lime to work in. The instructions on the bag say, “Addition of 1kg of CaCO3 to 1m2 of surface soil will raise pH an average of half a unit.” e.g. if the soil is pH 5 before working 1kg of lime into 1m2 of surface soil, the resulting pH should be about 5.5. Unfortunately, the pH soil tester I got cheap from Amazon doesn’t bloody work. Could you advise me, please, from your wealth of experience what you would do: how much lime would you expect to use; how deep would you go; (The pots are about 30cm deep, so I plan on digging a 20 to 30 litre hole. Actually, because this is such a good spot and I intend to use it again next year, I might make it bigger, say a 50 litre hole.) how much lime would you put in; would you put it all in closer to the surface, or work it into all of the unearthed soil equally from bottom to surface?
I’ll actually be using two spots in close proximity. One of them, as described above, is a little clearing among the pines and the other is in an overgrown field on the way there, also surrounded by pines, but not directly underneath their canopy. I will be putting two buckets into the ground - one of them a twelve litre and the other a fourteen litre pot - both about 30cm diameter with twelve plants sown around the edges, like the numbers on a clock face, so their roots can grow out to the sides when they’re dropped into their new homes in the ground. I’ll put geteroduksin root stimulator at the bottom of the hole and spread it on the exposed roots around the sides before pulling soil up to bed them in. If I’m unlucky and the plants’ root systems aren’t big enough to hold the transplant together, it could fall through my hands and crumble into the hole while upside down, leaving the roots exposed and the leaves under the soil, then I'll have to find another way to apply the geteroduksin. With such small plants in such big pots and such slow growth these past couple of weeks, such an event is not unlikely. That’s exactly what happened when I put another bucket of Sats out last week. It just means I’ll have to spend a lot more time re-planting the seedlings into their new homes individually, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
Any advice or comment you might like to make would be greatly appreciated.
Working Lime into Soil
Hey, Dyr!
Your grows are of great interest to me, because we’re close to each others’ latitudes. (I’m at 58N.) I only hope I might enjoy comparable success with my considerably smaller grows and lesser experience. Thank you for the time and trouble you take to make your efforts useful for everyone by posting them. If I do manage to make a success of my grows, you will have played an important role.
On Saturday, I’m going to put the last of this year’s plants in the ground. It’s very unlikely they’ll reach full maturity, as they’re sativas (All this year's Rudis are already out, along with lots of Sats in other places.) they only germinated a couple of weeks ago and we’ve had really shit weather for a couple weeks, so they’re only half a dozen or so cm.’s tall. I wish I’d left them inside under the lights, but I was so eager to cut down on electricity usage I put them out onto the balcony during the nice weather as soon as they’d sprouted. Then I broke the grow room down for the summer. Then the weather turned crap. Fucking northern latitudes: two weeks of fucking rain and high winds in the middle of fucking June with temps down to four and five fucking ºC at night! Not much growth there!
Anyway, I wanted to ask you a question about soil: somewhere I read your description of working dolomite (?) lime into the soil. The place I’m planting out into on Saturday is a little clearing among pine trees, so I expect the soil to be rather acid. The problem is, I don’t know how much lime to work in. The instructions on the bag say, “Addition of 1kg of CaCO3 to 1m2 of surface soil will raise pH an average of half a unit.” e.g. if the soil is pH 5 before working 1kg of lime into 1m2 of surface soil, the resulting pH should be about 5.5. Unfortunately, the pH soil tester I got cheap from Amazon doesn’t bloody work. Could you advise me, please, from your wealth of experience what you would do: how much lime would you expect to use; how deep would you go; (The pots are about 30cm deep, so I plan on digging a 20 to 30 litre hole. Actually, because this is such a good spot and I intend to use it again next year, I might make it bigger, say a 50 litre hole.) how much lime would you put in; would you put it all in closer to the surface, or work it into all of the unearthed soil equally from bottom to surface?
I’ll actually be using two spots in close proximity. One of them, as described above, is a little clearing among the pines and the other is in an overgrown field on the way there, also surrounded by pines, but not directly underneath their canopy. I will be putting two buckets into the ground - one of them a twelve litre and the other a fourteen litre pot - both about 30cm diameter with twelve plants sown around the edges, like the numbers on a clock face, so their roots can grow out to the sides when they’re dropped into their new homes in the ground. I’ll put geteroduksin root stimulator at the bottom of the hole and spread it on the exposed roots around the sides before pulling soil up to bed them in. If I’m unlucky and the plants’ root systems aren’t big enough to hold the transplant together, it could fall through my hands and crumble into the hole while upside down, leaving the roots exposed and the leaves under the soil, then I'll have to find another way to apply the geteroduksin. With such small plants in such big pots and such slow growth these past couple of weeks, such an event is not unlikely. That’s exactly what happened when I put another bucket of Sats out last week. It just means I’ll have to spend a lot more time re-planting the seedlings into their new homes individually, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
Any advice or comment you might like to make would be greatly appreciated.
Hi MkkDdd, a tricky question you ask there, I'm not sure I'm the right guy to ask, many people on this site know much more about that than me. We never ad much lime only throw a thin layer all over the spot, and then mix it 10-30 cm into the soil. I've heard that in Denmark there is a lot of lime already in the soil compared to Norway and Sweden where they have more problems with acid rain and need to ad more lime into the soil, probably doesn't go for all areas of sweden and norway though. I really don't know what we normally ad, I think it is less than a kilo per m2, maybe 300-500 grams, but our spots are not near pine trees. No matter what you added this year it seems to have done the trick, cause your plants look like their doing great good luck with them.
good luck with them.
I hope i`m not treading on anyones toes here but i like to follow this thread coz i like to follow N Lat grows .
MkkDdd , your best bet would be another PH meter because you are just guessing wether you need lime . If you decide to use it add just a good handfull to a 30ltr hole and mix well . There used to be this guy on Overgrow (forgotten his handle) growing guerilla in pine forests in the USA & he had some terrific crops & all he used to use is a cold water tea made with Cow manure (not horse) . He was able to collect plenty from fields near him & used it all the time . I don`t know what it was about cow manure but it seemed to do something to the acidic soil & raise the PH . If you decide to try this dilute the tea 10-1 .
Nice plants .
Stay green .
MkkDdd , your best bet would be another PH meter because you are just guessing wether you need lime . If you decide to use it add just a good handfull to a 30ltr hole and mix well . There used to be this guy on Overgrow (forgotten his handle) growing guerilla in pine forests in the USA & he had some terrific crops & all he used to use is a cold water tea made with Cow manure (not horse) . He was able to collect plenty from fields near him & used it all the time . I don`t know what it was about cow manure but it seemed to do something to the acidic soil & raise the PH . If you decide to try this dilute the tea 10-1 .
Nice plants .
Stay green .
L
lalandia
things are looking good dyr...good luck
Thank you for your prompt reply, Dyr and Tanska.Hi MkkDdd, a tricky question you ask there, I'm not sure I'm the right guy to ask, many people on this site know much more about that than me. We never ad much lime only throw a thin layer all over the spot, and then mix it 10-30 cm into the soil. I've heard that in Denmark there is a lot of lime already in the soil compared to Norway and Sweden where they have more problems with acid rain and need to ad more lime into the soil, probably doesn't go for all areas of sweden and norway though. I really don't know what we normally ad, I think it is less than a kilo per m2, maybe 300-500 grams, but our spots are not near pine trees. No matter what you added this year it seems to have done the trick, cause your plants look like their doing great
What you've told me is actually very helpful, because it confirms what I'd more or less thought. I feel much more confident about doing it now.
After I'd posted, I had another look at the label on the bag of lime and realised I'd misquoted it: it refers to 1m3 (cubed), not 1m2 (squared). Oops - mea culpa! With that in mind, it seems fairly obvious the lime needs to be worked in throughout the mix, which should make it fairly simple: just dig a 1m. square 1m. deep.
Thanks for the compliment. Yes, so far this year I'm satisfied with the way they look, but they did have quite a bit of nurturing at home before going into the ground. Once in the ground they're bedded in with geteroduksin and sprayed with humus. No lime has been added anywhere yet. The next one will be the first with lime (and the last this year). I've had to return to the sites several more times than I would have liked. It's getting difficult to cover my tracks. (Anti-)Snail granules have been essential!
