heady's maine adventure: gavitas, blumats, and the wicked lobstah soil mix

[heady blunts]

i haven't made it in a few years rusty. i have been relying on the very convenient potassium silicate product agsil 16h.

i don't remember if it was ecks or milkyjoe, but someone pointed out that the K element could theoretically contribute to various problems with heavy use.

i use the potassium silicate regularly on all pre-flowering plants in the garden, but in extremely low concentrations. i'm not observing any negative issues, and i have observed improved pest/disease resistance and general robustness when including the agsil in my foliar regime.

i'm not looking to switch it up necessarily, but it did pique my interest. i just love new research projects. ive been a nerd even longer than i've been a pothead

 

[heady blunts]

i haven't heard of that vortex! haha i kinda love it tho. SUPER witchy

when i was growing outdoors in CA i had to employ some violent demonstrations with those little green caterpillars that chomp the stem in the top buds and invite botrytis in. those little jerks cost me 1/2 my harvest the first year!

i try to keep it friendly with all living things. but if it takes a few squished bodies to discourage a larger infestation, then perhaps that's the most compassionate route---rather than waiting for more and still being forced to eradicate them to save what you can of the crop.

my approach these days would probably be to encourage other creatures to do the murder for me. put some bird houses up or release predator wasps or something like that. then it's all cycle of life balance and no evil intentions.

 

[RustyShcklfrd]

i haven't made it in a few years rusty. i have been relying on the very convenient potassium silicate product agsil 16h.

i don't remember if it was ecks or milkyjoe, but someone pointed out that the K element could theoretically contribute to various problems with heavy use.

i use the potassium silicate regularly on all pre-flowering plants in the garden, but in extremely low concentrations. i'm not observing any negative issues, and i have observed improved pest/disease resistance and general robustness when including the agsil in my foliar regime.

i'm not looking to switch it up necessarily, but it did pique my interest. i just love new research projects. ive been a nerd even longer than i've been a pothead

Thanks, I was curious because I had an issue with too much K in some soil last year, i wasnt using any silica product then, it was the compost. Makes me wonder too how much of an impact it could have over a season. P.S. "...ive been a nerd even longer than ive been a pothead." Good stuff.

 

[heady blunts]

filing away more good quotes. frank just explained soil tests simply enough for me to finally understand them. love that guy!

They serve different purposes. A saturated media extract is going to be more accurate with a custom structured soil in regards to what is immediately available for plant uptake. The Mehlich-3 extraction will show more accurate readings in native soils, but will also give you information about CEC and % of humic matter. If you have the sample treated as compost, you will get an entirely different reading as well, in that you will see TOTAL nutrition contained within the media, not just what is immediately available.

I often test samples multiple ways to get a more complete picture of what is actually in the soil since testing standards do differ and do produce different readings.



dank.Frank

 

[heady blunts]

gg4 x gromdigi no. 1. the most GG4 out of our ladies. she finishes quick and the quick dried buds had a choc diesel flavor very clearly.

freebie rez sssdh no. 9. she looks amazing and smells super lemon but self seeded a bit. she had to share a 10 gallon with 3 other sisters and they were all over 5' tall. hopin she'll do just fine in her own container. definitely more sour leaning than my hazy lady. finished in under 10 weeks somehow!

the last of my elmer's cookies no. 3, the most OG pheno of my four ladies. no. 6 is fully revegged but none of her sister's cuttings made it

good news is the mystery friend hit me up and is planning to make more! eeeeeeeee!!!! EEEEEEEEE!!!!!! honestly in LOVE with this cross.

 

[VortexPower420]

It's the worst when you lose something.

Looking tight, those gg love up to the name.

 

[RoostaPhish]

Looking really nice there buddy. I see similarities between your chocolate and mine. Interesting. Looking forward to trying some of these in the future.
Still pushing the pryo clay! Some versions include fulvate ore.

 

[GET MO]

Everything lookin KILL! All n all how u like the sssdh freebies? I got like 4 of um in line for the flower room, but was thinkin maybe I put um outside...

 

[Buddah Watcha]

DAMNNN Thats frosty bro!

 

[Trich_Tyson]

EC #3 will be missed.. but at least #6 is around.. She looked mean too.

 

[Twisted pleasur]

looking good mang!!

 

[heady blunts]

thanks friends!

the sssdh we had 4 ladies from 9/10 germination on the pack. 1 finished really early. small golf ball nugs with long internodes but crazy grapefruit creamsicle smell that translated to the palate. pretty awesome smoke.

the pretty one i posted came down just before 10 weeks, prob coulda gone 10.5, but she self seeded a bit. never saw a male flower. she was too tall for our room and had to share one 10 gallon with three sisters, so i think those stresses contributed to the seeds. the surrounding plants remained sinsemilla.

the last two are looking nice and hazy, goin for the full 12+ weeks. they don't have the loudness i want tho. kinda generic meh sativa notes rn. maybe they'll improve on the cure. they grow great tho with no issues.

we're trying to save up for a sweet AC system. environment has been easy to maintain during the winter, but now with fluctuating ambient temps and we've had some very dry weeks, we need to get on the ball to avoid issues in the future.

our plan is a big 36k btu unit with two air handlers. i am thinking of putting one in each flower room, and then putting our humidifier in the lung. i'd like to tighten the temp differential between lights on and lights off. with the AC in the lung i'm seeing night temps in the sleeping flower room getting down to the mid sixties, while end of the day temps at canopy height are mid 80's. i don't mind mid 80s as lnog as we can keep rH% up. but overcompensating for the hot room invites a bad situation for the sleeping room that's 20* cooler.

with the AC's in the flower rooms and the humidifier in the lung, i'm hoping to maintain 60% rh in daylight room, and around 50% in the sleeping room. can mini-splits dehumidify without cooling?

we ordered m. longipes from a new distributor to function better than the n. californicus while we were struggling with lower rH. they are badasses. the new distributor breeds their own mites in the US (california). they arrived extremely active and ready to eat and breed. from my casual observations they seemed more vital than the bugs we've been getting from biobest by several measures.

garden's looking good again. got some nice stuff coming up. finally getting away from the seedlings which is a relief---except that i've got a long wait list of beans i wanna pop ASAP! lol i'm hopelessly addicted to seed popping.

elmer's cookie's #6 is coming out of reveg mode and looking ready for cuts by next week hopefully. she's definitely mean---scored 28% total cannabs at the lab. yikes! i'm just a big OG head and while cookies are delicious, i don't reach for them the way i do for OG, haze, and chem. my garden partner LOVES them tho. really works well managing his crohn's.

also ACDCcookies no. 6 is putting out reveg growth in earnest. that's the 27% total cannabs one, 15% total CBD. she is awesome, very grateful to see she's trying to stick around.

just took down the rest of the MEDTREE richness (ACDC x (apothocary OG x prohibition OG)). they are pretty! they were packed WAY too tight---miscommunication between me and my partner i guess. i'll get to try the flowers but i'm not sure i can judge thier growth characteristics by this first round with the stress of being crowded in like that.

here's MEDTREE RICHNESS no. 2, 3, 4, 5

useful seeds cush x white lotus no. 2

useful seeds LUIG13 no. 5

i have been wanting to try the malawi cob cure since tangwena started his how-to thread. i finally got the timing right. i collected around 15 grams of popcorn nugs from our beloved moonflower girl (old school weed for the old school cure). i used rehydrated corn husk from the grocery store (sold for making tamales). bound it tightly, wrapped in cling film, and left it to sweat for ~10 days.

it's still drying/curing, but the fermentation went perfectly! i have smoked some early tester tastes to see if i could detect any signs of mold, but my nose, lungs, and throat all said, "it's clean!"

tangwena claims that his cobs seems to have a stronger, trippier, longer lasting effect than the same herb jar cured.

even if i don't observe a modulated effect, i'm still totally interested in this traditional technique. maybe i just like learning new things!

not much to photograph, looks like a dookie when done correctly lol. actually i posted this on IG and some moron stole the image for a rant post about dispensary pre-rolls, insinuating my cob was what they looked like inside.

haha! i'd be stoked if each pre-rolled joint was filled with 15 grams of organic colombian/afghani with a mean traditional cure on it.

this beautiful nug is from barletta's selected mr. nice mango haze IBL---he's a fellow seeker of the piff. smokin a jay leaves the air heavy with that incense smell. tastes of soap, leather, and wood. yum! i hope to grow some of this soon. miss having jars of haze around.

 

[Siskiyou]

Awesome post heady blunts! Thank you.

 

[self]

Heady! what can I say man, you've been crushing it! Last time I was here you were in a cool little cabinet, now you're in Maine, running rooms! well done sir.
I'm going to go back and read the whole 49 page thread now.

 

[McKush]

thanks friends!
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this beautiful nug is from barletta's selected mr. nice mango haze IBL---he's a fellow seeker of the piff. smokin a jay leaves the air heavy with that incense smell. tastes of soap, leather, and wood. yum! i hope to grow some of this soon. miss having jars of haze around.

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Heya Heady, nice update! Fitting you post MNS Mango Haze for Howard RIP. Im curing my first mns mango now, more on the way. Its great to honour Howard like we are by growing some of his seeds

 

[VortexPower420]

Holy purple Batman!

 

[RustyShcklfrd]

Crazy awesome as usual Heady!

 

[xmobotx]

yeah great update. i see you got a nice looking cob cure going on too

 

[heady blunts]

cue the chorus of angels:

my timewizard_greyfox platens arrived! the press is complete! sweet baby moses it's amazing!

the inaugural squish is probably the best rosin i've made to date. i can't wait to see how good it'll get as i get more familiar with it!

cbdb 8 trim squish

 

[GET MO]

Thats dope heady! Now I want one! haha! .... No seriously tho if u could just slide me all the specs... lol!