Chunkypigs, that's beautiful brother. Your plants look amazing, thank you for sharing with us.
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Petrochemical
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Those of us whom have had our hands in the dirt for 20 years know that nature has a mischievous streak doesn't she
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Hello my friends, I apologize for my technical ignorance, I need a 12 year old to show me how to navigate my tablet.
These are two very interesting reads. I hope they post properly.
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These are two very interesting reads. I hope they post properly.
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Petrochemical
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Last year half hemp half full gas
looks nice! what kind of price did you see for last years hemp crop?
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I dont handle those numbers lmaop
Maybe this will work ?
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2nd batch
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Petrochemical, I've been looking at your operation. Do you grow any melons on your property?
Can you purchase overstock or spoiling fruits locally in bulk? I'm about pissing myself in excitement seeing what you have to work with. Bulk water melons and potatoes pureed, poured into fungal repositories in just one row would be spectacular. I would do 2 to 3 holes offset per plant.
On the scale I developed this at is all hand watering/feeding per plant. Doing blended material at volume would require some specialized equipment.
A Ranger side by side could be adapted with a generator in the back seat and the box full of water melons and or potatoes. It would be a full days work doing every plant. Which in the end would be a full weeks work on the season.
I myself wouldn't have an issue with that at all. Especially seeing the results as they happen, just the difference in pest issues alone. I would be adding more plants each time I fed the repositories.
Your pictures are making me anxious, we have another snow storm coming tonight. I'm getting ready on the mushroom and Mycelium side with orders coming in.
My spawning has neen slow to this point, while the spawn bags are all doing their thing. The room being used is the coldest inside room. I have warming mats I could dig out if I knew where they're at? My lungs are to shitty to be outside that long.
The after effects of covid and that pnumicocal vaccine have had unbelievable impact and ramifications on my breathing. I have been home bound for 4 months now with no relief in sight.
The perils of gathering water from the lake could be life threatening, I'm not taking that chance. I might have to switch water sources and let the rural water evaporate the chlorine out for 24 hours before I use it. To be honest, I've never tested to see if chlorine actually fully leaves rural water.
Necessity is the mother of all invention, I'll be finding out this season I'm guessing?
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Can you purchase overstock or spoiling fruits locally in bulk? I'm about pissing myself in excitement seeing what you have to work with. Bulk water melons and potatoes pureed, poured into fungal repositories in just one row would be spectacular. I would do 2 to 3 holes offset per plant.
On the scale I developed this at is all hand watering/feeding per plant. Doing blended material at volume would require some specialized equipment.
A Ranger side by side could be adapted with a generator in the back seat and the box full of water melons and or potatoes. It would be a full days work doing every plant. Which in the end would be a full weeks work on the season.
I myself wouldn't have an issue with that at all. Especially seeing the results as they happen, just the difference in pest issues alone. I would be adding more plants each time I fed the repositories.
Your pictures are making me anxious, we have another snow storm coming tonight. I'm getting ready on the mushroom and Mycelium side with orders coming in.
My spawning has neen slow to this point, while the spawn bags are all doing their thing. The room being used is the coldest inside room. I have warming mats I could dig out if I knew where they're at? My lungs are to shitty to be outside that long.
The after effects of covid and that pnumicocal vaccine have had unbelievable impact and ramifications on my breathing. I have been home bound for 4 months now with no relief in sight.
The perils of gathering water from the lake could be life threatening, I'm not taking that chance. I might have to switch water sources and let the rural water evaporate the chlorine out for 24 hours before I use it. To be honest, I've never tested to see if chlorine actually fully leaves rural water.
Necessity is the mother of all invention, I'll be finding out this season I'm guessing?
Peace farmerlion
Sorry I haven't been around for awhile. We had two storms back to back. Knocking down over 300 telephone poles in the area. We were snowed in and without power for almost a week. Thank God for wood burning stoves!
Life is back to just the new normal chaos in post covid pandemic. I'm still sidelined from side effects of the vaccine. I have doctor's appointments this week, trying to figure out my lung issues. Good news is my mushrooms
are looking very good, well at least the mycelium is. I just placed them in substrate this morning. So in a week or two I should have my first flush of fruit.
I will try and start hauling water at the end of the week, getting the microbial colonies going in the grow bags. I will see how standing in freezing water affects my breathing issues. This might be a fly in the ointment I didn't plan for. I will do the best I can to work through this.
Peace farmerlion
Life is back to just the new normal chaos in post covid pandemic. I'm still sidelined from side effects of the vaccine. I have doctor's appointments this week, trying to figure out my lung issues. Good news is my mushrooms
are looking very good, well at least the mycelium is. I just placed them in substrate this morning. So in a week or two I should have my first flush of fruit. I will try and start hauling water at the end of the week, getting the microbial colonies going in the grow bags. I will see how standing in freezing water affects my breathing issues. This might be a fly in the ointment I didn't plan for. I will do the best I can to work through this.
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My respiratory system is not right either......
Been really outa whack
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Vermont Giant Pumpkin Growers Association (VGPGA)
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Farmer lion the farmers markets up here would make you drool
....”Life is back to just the new normal chaos in post covid pandemic.” Not really post yet. 5 family members in different parts of the country got this within the last few weeks! I hope your respiratory functions improve.
I had a chance to try out the sea 90 and you were not kidding . It’s strong. It turned about 4 gallons of water from 34ppm to 500 and sadly burned the shit out of my leaves. My meter didn’t arrive until after. Whups. I mention to others cut this way way way back if you use. Interestingly though, it seems to not slowed the plant down. It seems to be in balance somehow.
I had a chance to try out the sea 90 and you were not kidding . It’s strong. It turned about 4 gallons of water from 34ppm to 500 and sadly burned the shit out of my leaves. My meter didn’t arrive until after. Whups. I mention to others cut this way way way back if you use. Interestingly though, it seems to not slowed the plant down. It seems to be in balance somehow.
Blondie, sorry you had a bad experience with the Sea-90. Dr.Maynard Murray used it in his hydroponic system for tomatoes and pumpkins. The ratios on the bag are what he used for those crops. I've talked to the owner of Sea-Agri Solutions about updating this information. So far they have stayed with the current information.
It does leech from the soil rather quickly if you accidentally get a stronger mixture. I myself haven't had any problems at all in the several seasons that I've used this product. I could just use the Sea-90 and have great very healthy plants, but the fungal repositories bring a level of phenotypic expressions that nothing else comes close to. It can even have you second guessing the breeders descriptions of their own genetics.
The abundance of sugars that are plant ready and other ready nutrients are simply like nitrous oxide or steroids for your plants. The good thing about my repositories is you can't over due them. The only issue that occurs is some plant material can build up on the surface and gnats will take advantage of that environment for their benefit. I often use potatoes and bananas going into flowering for the extra potassium. Anything dried on the surface the following day is removed and thrown onto the compost pile.
1tsp per 3 gallons of water and 2tsp's of Sea-90 per 5 gallons of water. This is a great plenty for your plants every third watering or so. I count waterings as one per day even though I often water again lightly in the evenings. Outdoors it helps the transfer of water greatly.
Ventilation, Ventilation, Ventilation!!! When it's a 100+ degrees inside the greenhouse. The extraction fan on high and the circulation fan running as well, I can use 30 gallons of water on 19 grow bags in a day no problem. High volumes of water transpiration causes hollow stems. This is the effect of a highly effective and efficient ecological relationship between the plant and it's environmental conditions. The health of the Rhizosphere dictates every aspect of your plants health and it's ability to defend itself against heat, pests and high winds. Typical stresses of nature are won or lost in your soil health. This is the underlying beauty of Fungal Repositories .
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Ps Expecting rains today and tomorrow, so I will be using my full rain barrels from last fall to start my soils this season. They are both rich with algea already, a beautiful start to the season.
I’ve struggled with nutes the entire grow. It’s not the product. My soil was showing signs of hot and I added unfortunately. Good news is I’ve got some soil cooking and it will be ready for fall. I’ll use the product in a less nutrient rich soil and be in good shape. I like this method more than traditional nutes. Keep these posts coming and hopefully those lungs will get back in shape.
Hello all, I'm trying to get through spring. We had two snow storms, 308 telephone poles were snapped off. Didn't have power for a week. Then we had 6.5" of rain in 30 hours. My well for water got contaminated with silty run off. It's starting to clear up a little bit now. Hoping I don't have any gray water contamination in my water well, that would suck... I can hook up to rural water for $3,000 they want a $100 bucks a month plus usage. Expletive, Expletive BIG MIDDLE FINGER to that program.
In other news, my dear friend Nannymouse started from seed and give me a beautiful Ogers Kush. After planting it in a 35 gallon grow bag I washed it down very well with some rain water. The little gnome wanted to hang out with the first plant of the season.
I only have 4 total bags ready for germinated seeds. So I'll get my ass back to work and be ready for Memorial weekend to get everything going for the season. The soils are all good I'm just checking the soil density for compaction as that increases year after year until roots find it difficult to spread out and plants suffer.
It does disrupt the microbial colonies but they recover quickly. It's by far the lesser of two evils versus having your soil being to hard. Worms do a great job but I haven't bought any flats of those yet.
Peace farmerlion
In other news, my dear friend Nannymouse started from seed and give me a beautiful Ogers Kush. After planting it in a 35 gallon grow bag I washed it down very well with some rain water. The little gnome wanted to hang out with the first plant of the season.
I only have 4 total bags ready for germinated seeds. So I'll get my ass back to work and be ready for Memorial weekend to get everything going for the season. The soils are all good I'm just checking the soil density for compaction as that increases year after year until roots find it difficult to spread out and plants suffer.
It does disrupt the microbial colonies but they recover quickly. It's by far the lesser of two evils versus having your soil being to hard. Worms do a great job but I haven't bought any flats of those yet.
Peace farmerlion
Genetics, Genetics, Genetics???
So I even hate to do this as you never know what's going to pop and what isn't. BUT tentively,,, this is what's going on in 2022!!!
2 Skunk Dawgs reg
Hashmastakut
2 reg Lebanese
Ace Seeds
1 Peyote Purple reg
CBG
2 Cocoa Puffs fem
Hazeman Seeds
Chocolate Thai x Chocolate Trip
2 CherryBomb reg
Mr.Greenjeans
IBL Hawaiian
2 Blue Thai fem
Dinafem
3 Casey Jones fem
Devil Seeds
1China Yunnan fem
Ace Seeds
1Blue Thai x Blueberry reg
(Dinafem, DJ Short) f1
Farmerlion
1Purple Mexican fem
CBG
1 Orient Express fem
Ace Seeds
7 Mother of Pearl
Huesos
aka (Hmong Hill Tribe Thai) x (Ogers Kush) Oregon Kid
aka
Phitsanulok Thai x Ogers Kush (Oregon Kid)
1 Ogers Kush reg
Oregon Kid
This is the schedule on paper. If some don't germinate I will switch them for something else, I know Skunk Dawg is supposed to be next level funk. I do have 3 Seeds left from Miraculous Meds of Ancestral Skunk. I would like to see those as well.
I haven't done anything outside today as it has been raining and I was going through Genetics. Nannymouse is getting a genetics care package of Panama's and Thai's so she can play with them as her heart desires.
I have been slow cooking ribs for several hours now, it's time to eat.
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So I even hate to do this as you never know what's going to pop and what isn't. BUT tentively,,, this is what's going on in 2022!!!
2 Skunk Dawgs reg
Hashmastakut
2 reg Lebanese
Ace Seeds
1 Peyote Purple reg
CBG
2 Cocoa Puffs fem
Hazeman Seeds
Chocolate Thai x Chocolate Trip
2 CherryBomb reg
Mr.Greenjeans
IBL Hawaiian
2 Blue Thai fem
Dinafem
3 Casey Jones fem
Devil Seeds
1China Yunnan fem
Ace Seeds
1Blue Thai x Blueberry reg
(Dinafem, DJ Short) f1
Farmerlion
1Purple Mexican fem
CBG
1 Orient Express fem
Ace Seeds
7 Mother of Pearl
Huesos
aka (Hmong Hill Tribe Thai) x (Ogers Kush) Oregon Kid
aka
Phitsanulok Thai x Ogers Kush (Oregon Kid)
1 Ogers Kush reg
Oregon Kid
This is the schedule on paper. If some don't germinate I will switch them for something else, I know Skunk Dawg is supposed to be next level funk. I do have 3 Seeds left from Miraculous Meds of Ancestral Skunk. I would like to see those as well.
I haven't done anything outside today as it has been raining and I was going through Genetics. Nannymouse is getting a genetics care package of Panama's and Thai's so she can play with them as her heart desires.
I have been slow cooking ribs for several hours now, it's time to eat.
Peace farmerlion
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Petrochemical
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Your hands are full, let me ask you have you had any experience or grown any cultivars that had the thcv?
Petrochemical,
I haven't selected any plants for thcv levels in particular. Of the say 60 strains I've run in the last 5 or 6 years. They were to verify flowering onset and finish times at my latitude. The only breeder that posts actual testing numbers that I'm aware is Ace seeds. While I do refer to this information it's secondary for my interests and applications.
Please share your experiences and thoughts about thcv strains when you have time.
Peace brother
farmerlion
Hello friends,
Today I was going through grow bags making sure that the soil wasn't clumped. Going through each bag to the bottom and adding in powdered Leonardite as I broke up soil and refilled the bags. I did water in layers to evenly moisten the soil.
For the Ogers Kush I blended half an onion and a whole orange, topping off the blender with rain water. I let the blender run about two minutes on high. Making 4 repository feeding holes, I filled each repeatedly until the blender was empty. I did a light surface watering a short time later.
This plant is very happy in it's new home too. Nannymouse isn't one to share pictures of her work. She is very kind and will school people that ask her for help, otherwise she keeps to herself. She is an incredible wealth of information and a true joy to hang out with, I'm blessed to call her my friend.
The top two pictures I show the repository holes. The bottom picture is the wreck I have to clean up again after I finish the last four bags. I have only used one bag of soil and I will have that same amount or more leftover when I'm done. I have other flowering beds that can be filled up and have flowers planted in them.
I think I will pull genetics out of the refrigerator tonight and do a soak until morning. I use individual containers similar to vitamin packs normally, I'm trying a different seedling starter container this season. I'll have pictures of them later.
Peace farmerlion
Today I was going through grow bags making sure that the soil wasn't clumped. Going through each bag to the bottom and adding in powdered Leonardite as I broke up soil and refilled the bags. I did water in layers to evenly moisten the soil.
For the Ogers Kush I blended half an onion and a whole orange, topping off the blender with rain water. I let the blender run about two minutes on high. Making 4 repository feeding holes, I filled each repeatedly until the blender was empty. I did a light surface watering a short time later.
This plant is very happy in it's new home too. Nannymouse isn't one to share pictures of her work. She is very kind and will school people that ask her for help, otherwise she keeps to herself. She is an incredible wealth of information and a true joy to hang out with, I'm blessed to call her my friend.
The top two pictures I show the repository holes. The bottom picture is the wreck I have to clean up again after I finish the last four bags. I have only used one bag of soil and I will have that same amount or more leftover when I'm done. I have other flowering beds that can be filled up and have flowers planted in them.
I think I will pull genetics out of the refrigerator tonight and do a soak until morning. I use individual containers similar to vitamin packs normally, I'm trying a different seedling starter container this season. I'll have pictures of them later.
Peace farmerlion
