Hombre del Monte's garden.

[RandyCalifornia]

I don't know if using soap of any kind will help you with the BT. Unless I am mistaken, all soap should kill bacteria. Also, spraying BT does not guarantee you won't find any more caterpillars. BT only works well with very young caterpillars, and you have to take into account that the day you spray there might be eggs as well. The new caterpillars coming out from these eggs won't be affected by the BT. So they will need a second spraying after 4-5 days.

The bigger caterpillars don't usually die either. BT affects their digestive system and in many cases this just means they will stop eating, but not really die. So you can find many inactive caterpillars that are not tunnelling the buds bud rather just hanging over them. If they have been affected by BT you should also see them mostly inactive and barely reacting to you picking them with the pliers. Probably feeling like shit from eating buds covered with BT.

In any case, finding the first caterpillars means having to manually pick them every 1-2 days for the rest of the duration of the grow, until harvest, BT or no BT. At least where I live.

All that plus I start application as soon as flowering starts happening. Moths lay eggs on stems and leaves when young, buds develop around the cats as they chew buds up from the inside as the buds and cats fatten up. The BT with spreader sticker is inside on the stems and leaves as the buds fatten up and the cats come in contact with it.
This has been my experience.
That Haze is developing beautiful colas!

 

[Hombre del mont]

A couple more Zamal x TTH

And the Icmag Ohaze

 

[Hombre del mont]

Those are long spears forming on the OH How many cobs can you make from a plant this size?

The Zacateca Tribute was my smallest plant and it has produced 5 cobs of around 34g or so.

The Golden Tiger this year is huge in comparison to other years and will produce a shed load of cobs.

I'm just hoping that I can get the OH over the finish line, by which time she should be huge also!

Very exciting times

 

[Hombre del mont]

This is like a sativa beauty pageant WOW.
Dude you are doing Gods work.
That Haze is going to be huge!

I'm inspired by people like your good self, Sensei.

Yesterday I turned another chap in the village on to cobs!

 

[Hombre del mont]

All that plus I start application as soon as flowering starts happening. Moths lay eggs on stems and leaves when young, buds develop around the cats as they chew buds up from the inside as the buds and cats fatten up. The BT with spreader sticker is inside on the stems and leaves as the buds fatten up and the cats come in contact with it.
This has been my experience.
That Haze is developing beautiful colas!

I'm learning more and more each day, Thanks.

I've seen your Haze grows and am inspired by them.

I'd like to do a few different Hazes but it's whether I can get them to finish in time; I'd hate do spend months and months on say 5 different haze variations, only to find I didn't harvest.

 

[Mitsuharu]

Thanks for the sunrise!

 

[Hombre del mont]

@Mitsuharu , I'm sorry there's no sunrise for you. We have mountains to the east and don't actually get to see the sun until some time after the sun is well up.

I generally get up just after it gets light and that's when I venture out to look for worms.

Being retired means that I can have a lay in every morning if I wish. And I can get as high as I want every day.

Today was beach day and we both took double our usual dose. Several times during the day I had to remind Mrs DM where we were, or where we were going.

 

[Mitsuharu]

I think that is the sun and it's nice.

 

[Hombre del mont]

I think that is the sun and it's nice.

It is!, but I didn't think it counted.

I can do a few of those for you, no problem.

 

[Mitsuharu]

I just wanted to see the sun behind the mountains and that pic did it.

 

[Hombre del mont]

Buenas tardes a todos.

It's almost a week since I last updated and it's not so sunny today so I thought I'd take a few photos for you all.

For the last week the weather has been mostly sunny and still hitting anywhere from 28-32c; Very nice.

So nice in fact, that we've managed to get to the beach twice and all being well will be going again tomorrow late morning.

We're one of those retired couple you see arriving at the beach with their chairs and a big bag of food; What most don't realise is that we're both stupidly high!, and that we have real sativa, not some silly Dutch 7 1/2 week nonsense. Mrs DM is sometimes so high, I have to remind her where we are going! Now that we eat cob instead of smoking, nobody has any idea that we're off our faces!

The Plants were all fed with a 2/3 strength organic PK on Sunday, all except the OHaze.
So first off we have the Golden tiger.

She didn't start flowering until mid September, but has really come on well since. I'm thinking another 3 or 4 weeks. The smell is Mango and Pineapple.

 

[Hombre del mont]

Next up we have the Mulanje X Malawi/Ethiopian.

Those of you who read this diary regularly will perhaps remember how for quite some time now, I've been saying that she is yellowing and has been under fed, and I'm still inclined to think that, but
over this last week or so she's been dropping a lot of yellow leaves and in the last 48hrs the leaves have all started to droop.

My first thoughts were perhaps that it is a fungal infection or that I've over watered big time. In the past when I've seen fungal attacks it's been on one part of the plant and then spread, but this is all of the plant at the same time.

I doubt it's over water as there are so many plants around it that take water from the area.

Not particularly toxic. She was given some bat guano top dressing on the 6th of October and has received weak strength organic pk weekly-10 days.

I've cut a branch and the stem is good; No black stuff.

Here's a picture of the lower stem and root area

The roots are white and smell fine.

As to the plant itself, she's as good as stopped producing pistils. when I look with my loupe the trichomes are 75/25 clear/cloudy, so she ideally could well go further yet.

For some weeks I felt that she wasn't hitting her potential, but I put that down to lack of nitrogen earlier in the grow.

What do you guys reckon?

 

[Hombre del mont]

What I should add about the M x M/E is that a small sample bud yesterday and put it in the dehydrator for 8 hours at 60c. This morning Mrs DM vaped it. I know were very naughty, vaping instead of eating cob, but we have to sample it. Really Nice! Clear, up, happy and talkative.

Zamal X Tom Hill Haze

Not a lot of smell until you rub her, then you get a greasy hazy smell.

A small branch got broken a week ago and we vaped it! Shit, it was strong! and she's no where near ready. Some of the buds have some cloudy trichs and even some amber but I reckon she's got 4 weeks at least.

 

[Hombre del mont]

And lastly we have the icmag OHaze

No smell to talk about unless I do a rub and then it's metal!

Some of the older leaves are yellowing so this morning I gave her a top dressing of bat guano.

@flower~power , your seeds. How long did the mothers go?

 

[revegeta666]

I love that you're so much into cobs that you feel guilty for vaping hahaha. Naughty naughty Mr and Mrs del Monte There are always many retired foreign couples hanging out at the beach where I live, that my dogs always go bother. I wonder how many of them are blasted on cobs and if that's why they all like my dogs so much lol

Good luck with the MxM/E. Something weird happening there, curious to learn what it is.

 

[flower~power]

And lastly we have the icmag OHaze

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No smell to talk about unless I do a rub and then it's metal!

Some of the older leaves are yellowing so this morning I gave her a top dressing of bat guano.

@flower~power , your seeds. How long did the mothers go?

I’m so happy to see this ! the original plants that I grew out from the seeds I got from @JohnnyChicago went 14/16 weeks… but I was indoors I’m not sure how long they’re going to go outdoors? I got wood & metal , and some carrots type smells

 

[Hombre del mont]

I love that you're so much into cobs that you feel guilty for vaping hahaha. Naughty naughty Mr and Mrs del Monte There are always many retired foreign couples hanging out at the beach where I live, that my dogs always go bother. I wonder how many of them are blasted on cobs and if that's why they all like my dogs so much lol

Good luck with the MxM/E. Something weird happening there, curious to learn what it is.

Thankfully most of the time we have the beach to ourselves or thereabouts.

this is our regular beach and this is how it usually is. Even during August we can go at 10.30am and share it with just a handful of people. Either side of this beach are others with chiringuitos and car access.

 

[flower~power]

How can we get in touch with Montuno? I miss him

 

[Hombre del mont]

I miss him too. I have him on whats app. I can ask him if I can PM you his details if you like?

 

[Calle Minogue]

You killing it with every single update

Sorry for that mulanje cross, she looks really unhappy. Remembered me of a lockout or squirrel root attack. Hope you can finish her with some nice turnout!

Greatings from the Wattensea