Fireknot farm 2016

[_tessarecting]

Found a mutation on the Shade Lotus

 

[OranguTrump]

Holy shit, dude - those colas are monster!

 

[FoothillFarming]

ponolove , had a theory for caterpillars and when the eggs are laid ,was a certain moon phase also from memory . wish i had taken notes . that guy knows his stuff

Just saw Pono on IG had a leaf with eggs on it. You guys all know the leafs with an impossible amount of perfect little eggs under the leaves...... Well he plucked the leaf, saved it, and is waiting for the eggs to hatch. When they do, he knows to spray.......GENIUS!!

Sorry to keep side busting.

Hard to tell from the picture, but do you have multiple tops coming out of that bud from the "shade" lotus? I have a Sky lotus with three tops coming out of one cola. I will try to post it.

 

[_tessarecting]

Hell yeah man that plant has like 5 tops at least maybe even more...octoplant...I see why everyone loves this strain. Beastly, great nose and resin production, and not finicky at all. I hope I find more beans! :jawdrop: I dont know what you mean by tops coming out of colas...post it up.

I saw that on IG too. Thats a cool idea if you can mimic the environment for the eggs to hatch in a way thats similar to the environment of the plant...I dont know anything about it but could be worth looking into.

 

[slownickel]

Just saw Pono on IG had a leaf with eggs on it. You guys all know the leafs with an impossible amount of perfect little eggs under the leaves...... Well he plucked the leaf, saved it, and is waiting for the eggs to hatch. When they do, he knows to spray.......GENIUS!!

Sorry to keep side busting.

Hard to tell from the picture, but do you have multiple tops coming out of that bud from the "shade" lotus? I have a Sky lotus with three tops coming out of one cola. I will try to post it.

Foots,

Used to grow asparagus, planting some now as a matter of fact.

We use light traps to monitor adult populations. There is constant laying of eggs and the egg stage varies on temperature, not the moon. A lot make show up as the climate changes, many folks associate this with a moon too. Cycles accumlate, the way to control worms is when you see the first one show up. Even then sometimes, it is too late.

Note when they showed up this year and temperatures changes.

The moon controls the upward and downward flow in the plant, but it is not an alarm clock for worm eggs.

 

[_tessarecting]

Elaborate on that last sentence please

 

[slownickel]

Elaborate on that last sentence please

http://www.gardeningbythemoon.com/phases.html

For you Tess....

http://www.gardeningbythemoon.com/medicinalherbs.html

 

[plantingplants]

We use light traps to monitor adult populations. There is constant laying of eggs and the egg stage varies on temperature, not the moon. A lot make show up as the climate changes, many folks associate this with a moon too.
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The moon controls the upward and downward flow in the plant, but it is not an alarm clock for worm eggs.

SlowNickel, Destroyer of Woo.

Wanted to call bullshit on that but didn't have the facts, just the feeling. Thanks for the insight into moth behavior!

 

[slownickel]

SlowNickel, Destroyer of Woo.

Wanted to call bullshit on that but didn't have the facts, just the feeling. Thanks for the insight into moth behavior!

You must learn to be more gentle.... there is no bullshit...

As the French say, there is only poooo poooo and

 

[BAKED_BEANZ]

Just saw Pono on IG had a leaf with eggs on it. You guys all know the leafs with an impossible amount of perfect little eggs under the leaves...... Well he plucked the leaf, saved it, and is waiting for the eggs to hatch. When they do, he knows to spray.......GENIUS!!

Sorry to keep side busting.

Hard to tell from the picture, but do you have multiple tops coming out of that bud from the "shade" lotus? I have a Sky lotus with three tops coming out of one cola. I will try to post it.

yeah more i think about it , it was a certain week of a certain month , not the moon phase . it was in the big plants thread long gone now though .
but as its now been pointed out its more temp related , which makes more sense .

looks like the theory regarding plants , is sound . lol

 

[Coughie]

but as its now been pointed out its more temp related , which makes more sense .

I've had a theory/read a theory, that pest pressure predictions can be assessed and predicted using something like Growing Degree Days..

Growing Degree Days being a measure of how much light-heat-energy has been accumulated during a growing season/year and using that accumulation to plot various events (in grapes) such as flowering time, fruit set, veraison, harvest windows.... as well as pest pressures.

If the same pest always shows up at the same week of the same month, every year, for a series of years where the weather is relatively comparable... I would think you could calculate the GDD around that period and use that as a gauge for when to expect pests in an off (hotter/colder) year.

 

[slownickel]

Great post!

Great post!

I've had a theory/read a theory, that pest pressure predictions can be assessed and predicted using something like Growing Degree Days..

Growing Degree Days being a measure of how much light-heat-energy has been accumulated during a growing season/year and using that accumulation to plot various events (in grapes) such as flowering time, fruit set, veraison, harvest windows.... as well as pest pressures.

If the same pest always shows up at the same week of the same month, every year, for a series of years where the weather is relatively comparable... I would think you could calculate the GDD around that period and use that as a gauge for when to expect pests in an off (hotter/colder) year.

Great job. This is the issue. This is why folks should make notes so they can go back and see when the worms showed up last year. When did it rain, how much rain. Relative humidities... Also a good hi/low thermometer or to the extreme a fancy dancy Davis weather station.... light traps as well as molasses traps will give you an idea of what is around and in what quantities... but you have to count the bugs.

 

[_tessarecting]

Im in the garden right now watering in more zinc, seablast, and I gave a couple mounds a gram of copper too. I was wrong about the shade lotus having 5 tops...I count 13 cocksauced colas at the top not counting the side ones. ugh I cant wait to smoke it.

 

[Shcrews]

yah the sky lotus puts out real nice. not as much stretch as some of the other OG x SL crosses, but definitely gets the thickest buds. i would love to grow Ancient OG x Sky Lotus , combine the Ancient's stretch with the Sky Lotus' thickness. Wasn't Foothill Farming working on that one? sign me up!

im doing root drench today too... beautiful weather for it, a little hot but i'm enjoying it because i know i'll miss it in a month or so when it starts getting cold as hell.

what's your favorite plant at this point?

 

[_tessarecting]

Im loving it up here too man. I love the sorcerers and sky lotus equally for production but the dragons fruit looks like some amazing bud...we'll see soon. I'd pick up all 3 of those packs again if I come across them.

I know baked_beanz crossed sl x aog and will be testing it soon too.

 

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True story: I tought a squirrel how to drum this morning from my bedroom window. I even got video evidence of it. I might post it on IG later.

 

[slownickel]

Post it!

 

[FoothillFarming]

True story: I tought a squirrel how to drum this morning from my bedroom window. I even got video evidence of it. I might post it on IG later.

really? All I can get them to do is throw stuff at me from the trees.

 

[BAKED_BEANZ]

tess your plants are humming along , they huge.
bodhi definitely pumps out the goodness

yes we,ll be running some sky lotus x ancient og ........ i was after a more sky lotus structure , but it was a cross that had too be made . i also hit her (sky lotus ) with locktite pollen , i think they could possibly be an even better match . in fact i need to go digging for those seeds very soon .

 

[_tessarecting]

Due to technical difficulties Drumming with Squirrels will not be airing this evening. I got it to drum for like 10 minutes this morning we were dying with laugher. Fuckin farm life...

Sorcerers apprentice, smaller nug pheno, big plant, think you had this one Shcrews

Sky lotus footballs smelling like weapons of mass destruction