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Hello Ace family,

I am very happy to have improving health. I'm going to try and do my most focused grow yet, since I'm no longer a slave to the workforce and daily grind.

As usual I start with pre-grow preparations.

What do I need?
Why do I need it?
When do I need it?
What would make it better? Then ask yourself the first three questions again.

FUNGAL REPOSITORIES
What are they and how do they work? Why do they work better?

Without going into great detail that can be found in my thread
(Making Marijuana Great Again)
Your root system has a symbiotic relationship through (exudates)

Exudates through chemical signals communicate with soil microbial life and bring requested nutrients to the root tips for consumption. Nutrients stick to the microbes and the exudates physically clean the microbes and release them back into the soil with a new or existing nutritional need.

Understanding this simple principle changes the dynamics of your environmental conditions. Now your focus is how can I benefit the microbial life in my soil?
Most growers go flying off the rails here trying to (Super Tune) with every hyped fertilizer, growth hormone, or the latest greatest Teas dreamed up by SuperBudMan!

PAUSE, TAKE A DEEP BREATH.

TEA'S DO'S AND DON'TS
1. Tea's are linear in degradation. This means the moment you combine the ingredients together, the dominant microbes eat their preferred food souce until it's diminished. Then another microbial group becomes the dominate group and eats it's preferred food source.

This cycle continues until the tea is depleted of nutrients. While not all microbial groups wait to eat, the rates that each nutritional sources are depleted is determined by microbial density of each population.

You will notice that my first feeding of the Fungal Repositories is bananas and potatoes (Potassium)? WTF farmerlion that's needed during flowering...correct?

The sugars are already converted into usable sources. I will move towards watermelons and berries once they are available in local markets. The bananas and potatoes will be needed and used now as the plants need them. Upon flowering in the plants timing, not ours. The Potassium needs will be available without notice by the exudates.
Ps. I use lake water for my watering.

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In my 35 and 45 gallon grow bags, I poke thumb sized holes 12" deep with an aluminum rod. You can make new holes daily while you are preparing the soil before you place your seed into the grow medium.

Once an established plant with roots working throughout the bag I stay with the same four repositories, one on each side of the plant. The repository colonies are established and like an assembly line working for your specific plant needs filling orders placed/communicated by the exudates.

One small cannabis seed knows more inherently than I ever will when it comes to growing. Don't let your pride and hyped gimmicks keep you from having the best cannabis possible for your medical or recreational needs. There are several growing styles and growers that I have great respect for. Be it indoors, outdoors, hydroponics, aquaponics, DWC etc.

I don't by any means claim to walk on water, I do think I can see the water from where I'm walking. lol

This last picture is of a volunteer seedling from last season. From the bag it came up in it should be a Phitsanulok Thai x Ogers Kush. So I'm letting it do it's thing and see what happens. I hope you find what I'm doing and how I do it interesting.
Peace farmerlion
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Good Morning Ace Family,
I just came in from dropping some more seeds. I have seven 35 gallon grow bags that are housing a hybrid I did 4 or 5 years ago. This will be the first time I have run any of the Lebanese x Auto Malawi f1's. These are both offerings from Ace. These both produced very big cola's.

I also have a 45 gallon grow bag double planted with some Red Hindu Kush. I was gifted these from a friend and I feel bad I can't remember which friend showed me such kindness? My apologies...

This is the mother donor of a Blood Rose from Hazeman seeds. Highland Nepalese Grape is the male donor. I only have two seeds and one has just cracked open this morning. If I recall right I got 42 to 46 grams of beautiful 90U hash from this plant. Anything from larger screenings I don't consider beautiful, but very appreciated.

I hope you all have a great day.
Peace farmerlion

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Good Day, Ace family!

After gathering eggs from some chickens this morning, these babies are going into a pear smoothie. Whole eggs bring so much to the soil. The lower two pictures you can see the repositories building fungal colonies.

Then I rotate the wholes to a new area and start over with eggs and (banana, potatoes, watermelon and assorted fruits) whatever is being discounted at the stores or farmers markets.

I am so blessed to be able to wake up in the morning and after some Bible study to have coffee out in the greenhouse, watching all this life start bearing fruit. I will have a few more seeds ready to drop in today.

I'm expecting a special gift from a friend today. I will get some of those beans germinating asap. I will double plant the six 45 gallon grow bags with these new genetics.
I don't know if a name has been chosen for them or not? My favorite Bible term used for pursuing personal interests is (Vain Janglings) so that is what I will refer to the near decade long filial selections that have been made pursuing a memory of grandeur.

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Nice colonies!
Looks impressive to me, very healthy soil in the making.
I´ll take a seat and watch. You use the whole egg?
Alpenglow, I sure do use the whole egg. Eggs I have found are the fastest colony starting protein and have the long term breakdown of the shells that continually provide calcium and other nutrients.

I feel that egg shells themselves are like vermiculite that has a long term purpose. Helping keep the soil aerated and fortified with essential nutrients. Plus the colonies naturally balance the soils Ph levels.

There is no buying (up/down) guessing , getting it wrong and having your plants experience unwanted stresses that slow healthy plant growth. This process removes all the stunting factors from your grow.

The only things a person can really do to stunt growth (for no gain to your harvest is TOPPING and DEFOLIATING PLANTS) Yes, no gain.

Plants don't grow leaves that they don't need for their environment. Some phenotypes are bushy (Lebanese, Honduran) some are very sparse like (Thais, Hazes and Columbian strains) they still for their phenotype on produce what they need.

I will briefly discuss defoliation. Wilting yellow leaves should be removed. Partially yellowish (red, purple, orange and blue) leaves have anthocyanins in them that express as different colors and hormones. These add to the overall cannabinoidal compound of the flowers and shouldn't be removed.

These are very seldom your larger fan leaves that some accuse of blocking light. Harvest the upper buds first (indoor growers) then defoliate those branches and continue to flower the lower branches throughout their harvest.

This allows the plant to maximize it's environment and have the strongest growth opportunities.
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Celebrate 🍾 ✨
WOOWEED
The Black Raspberry Kush and the Baglung, Highland Nepalese popped through the soil today and I just planted the 🍇 Grape Highland Nepalese male x Blood Rose female and the last seed of Snowmoon that I had.
Actually they were both the last seed of each hybrid. I'm thinking an ice cold Modelo 🍺 beer my rolling stool in the greenhouse and ponder which male if I get one could/would be used as a parental donor for an open pollination.

I prefer to have seeded plants as this introduces more hormones into the cannabinoidal expressions, imo? Dubi could verify from his numerous tests of like plants (seeded and sinsemilla) the cannabinoid differences. It's just made sense to me that it should be different even if in only minor percentages.

So anyways, off to ponder with a cold beer.
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Good morning 🙏 Ace family,
Today I'm testing my main two water sources for composition levels. Instead of typing it all out I'm going to post a picture of that page of my notes, less the date I just wrote that in.
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One nice thing is I will be able to blend the two sources together without any issues of making sure my new 65 gallon water tank doesn't have to be empty. I connected a 25' hose to it, now I can gravity feed water to the back of the greenhouse. A larger diameter hose will give me better flow rates, but the town I was in didn't have any so I made do.

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This will save a lot of physical work for me. I also use 400 micron filter socks for filling lake water so I don't get debris inside the tank. I have heavier 100 micron filters but they won't allow algae blooms to go through into the soil.

I should have or hope to have some cool mail today, nothing showed up yesterday. The chickens didn't lay any eggs last night or this morning so I will hold off to feed again until I have one per bag for feeding.
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First change in plans (always have a backup plan)
So my friend has been out of town and by the time his genetics would get here, be germinated we would be almost a full month behind the vegetative requirements. IMO?

So I'm going with a hybrid cross I did two seasons ago. It's a Blue Thai (Dinafem) f x m Purpura Regina (Bald Monkey Seeds) Both parental donors have Thai genetics with a faster flowering Indica to shorten cycle times. Both have an onset that works well for Northern growers.

I've had two Cutthroat ( Black Rose, Heath Robbinson) x Blueberry f4 (DJ Short) soaking a few days and nothing. So I dropped in two more in the hopes that at least one will crack in the next two days. Fingers 🤞 crossed.

If all fails I will grab more of the Lebanese x Auto Malawi and I will still be on schedule. With a later harvest window in cooler fall Temps. That would be neat to see what expressions are different.

Have a wonderful upcoming weekend my friends.
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Good morning beautiful people of the Mag, I hope your days are starting out great!

The genetics I was waiting on have been replaced with some Auto Zam x Highland Nepalese Grape 🍇 I just started about 10 seeds, I'll add more in a few minutes just to ensure germination rate needed. I have spots for 10 to 12 more plants in the 45 gallon grow bags.

I was going through my Ace genetics yesterday and the Zamal Hashplant was screaming pick me, pick me! I almost did, then the prospect of seeing what another cross with Ace auto flowering genetics would be like won out.

Plus I can't say enough good things about Vermontman's Highland Nepalese Grape phenotype. These auto's the Lebanese and the Nepalese are a bases loaded homerun in my greenhouses natural environment.

So that's going to be the lineup for this year. My passion is for medical and this really brings that into alignment with what I do. Plus the hash, that I love making during the winter months, is outstanding from all these genetics.

I repurpossed a 1895 hand crank washing machine I bought at an antique store a few years back. An old hippy runs the store. When I told him what I would use the machine for he started carrying parts to my car. Hadn't even discussed price yet. I did bring him several samples of bud and hash.
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This is the drying/hash making room, everyone needs a private place to go to and get away.
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Nice to see you back with a report here Farmerlion, will be very interesting to follow you along, Please keep up the good work (y)
Thank you kindly my friend.

I did want to state in the above picture the bucket full of plant material is after I cleaned out the washing machine, I blast through the material one last time with the shower head melting the ice and give it one final flush. Then I feed it to the deer, they seem to like it.

But a bucket full of plant material isn't part of the hash making process for those that didn't know. If I make it through this season without any health issues, I will do a segment on how I make hash. There is a few styles/methods for separation of trichomes from the leaves.

Quantity of material to separate goes a long ways in determining the method versus time of processing. I spend 8 to 10 hours making one batch of different grades, start to finish.
Cerathule it's very nice to see you again.
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Since we have some time while seeds are germinating and popping through the soil. I'll just post some cannabis related pictures.
This is a Gnome my neighbor give me, he liked the Ogers Kush plant best.
The leaf was off of a Highland Nepalese Grape from Vermontman. I have counted 21 and 23 leaves multiple times, I get lost and just say there is a bunch. The laminate turned out to be low quality, sorry about that.
Just a few pictures of some freshly made hash and below are some joints rolled with the numerous packs of papers dubi has sent me over the years with my orders.
The bottom picture is most of my seed stash. I have more jars in the fridge but I was running out of table space to lay stuff out. Individually there was just over 150 packs of purchased seeds. Many from Ace as you can see going back to 2007.

Time to go check on the seedlings.
Peace farmerlion
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Hey all,
I'm a big fan of Humic and Fulvic Acids in my soil. Humisource Plus is a soluble Humic Acid concentrate. Here's a Data sheet breakdown of what's in it.
With all ammendments they can be overdone. This is very forgiving, you can disrupt the Ph temporarily. I plan on using a metered sprayer for applications to the soil. In previous years I would add a tablespoon to 3 gallons of water in the watering bucket.
peace farmerlion
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Going to be a fun thread to watch Been looking for organic nutrients that are more easy going and less potential for burn.

Could also top dress with peat humus and then water in heavily. I had a Cow manure with peat humus mixture I used for mulch the last couple years and it works great, and was also forgiving. I guess if you are growing in containers, this may be a little better in getting the humus into the root zone!
 

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The last 5 gallon container I bought lasted 5 1/2 seasons and I used it all over the property. This and a little Sea-90 goes a long ways. I bought a 5 pound bag of Sea-90 3 years ago and at 2 tsp per 5 gallons once a week or so, I still have half of that too. There is some minerals that the fruit I use just doesn't have. These two products really balance things out naturally.
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Good morning all,
Here is some pictures from the greenhouse, with seedlings at different stages.
I have a gap in growth as I was waiting on some genetics. They have showed up now but I'll hold off until another time. The Snowmoon never broke the surface so I place another Lebanese x Auto Malawi in it's place. For the empty bags that the other genetics were going to fill. I split between Blue Thai x Purpura Regina and Highland Nepalese Grape x Auto Zamaldelica.

So this season is full of Ace crosses/hybrids. Which I'm very happy to have, they all benefit the medical needs of the people I donate to. The Lebanese and Nepalese genetics have been the most effective and requested salves and ointments hands down.

So here is some baby pictures.
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The Phitog marker is Phitsanulok Thai x Ogers Kush or possibly Chocolope from DNA Genetics? There is actually two volunteer plants in this bag. I will most likely move one to a single planted 45 gallon grow bag. I intentionally over seeded a few bags to ensure that some germinated seeds actually broke through the soil. When the males start showing up I'll select which one I like best for an open pollination of all the females.

One seedling is visibly darker chlorophyll than the others. I'm interested in how this one will express phenotypes. I didn't photograph that one yet. It's still slow going but the season is underway and all 19 bags have something going.

Have a beautiful weekend with family Friends and plants.
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