NEW Colorado Growers Thread

[RckyMtRdnk]

Starflight

Starflight

 

[Bluto]

that starflight looks epic. Whats the smell flavor like?

 

[RckyMtRdnk]

that starflight looks epic. Whats the smell flavor like?

It's still curing...haven't sampled it. Smells kinda mentholly, slight grape edge of fruity, and earthy all together. There were four seedlings and they were pretty uniform looking, but the one in the pic was so variegated it was kinda stunted from it it seemed like.

It was neat to watch, but th other starflight's produced way better structured flowers. She was lettin her freak flag fly though for sure. Almost albino in spots. Those pics are all the same plant.

 

[Bluto]

The blueberry mutant creeping in... Had some Vanillaluna that would do similar things.

 

[SooperSmurph]

Mad props to Miles for advising me on setting up my first 100g no-till, totally new experience for me, going great so far, such low maintenance!

 

[who dat is]

Mad props to Miles for advising me on setting up my first 100g no-till, totally new experience for me, going great so far, such low maintenance!

Be sure to get a cover crop on that one Build a soil has a good cover crop blend. Pics or it didn't happen.

 

[MileHighGlass]

Be sure to get a cover crop on that one Build a soil has a good cover crop blend. Pics or it didn't happen.

Clover and buckwheat for the win! I'm not a fan of the pre-blended mixes.

Here's my moms and dads.

 

[SooperSmurph]

Only being fed with rich organic compost teas, poultry feces tea, and water. Inoculated with Gro-Kashi and Mycos. Soil layers were laced with bone meal and dolomite lime.

Cover crop is Alfalfa, another small green I forget the name of, a few sunflower seeds, and we added a rosemary plant right in the middle of the pot because they repel pests.

Good thing too, found a big rubbermaid full of dead plants in a corner of that basement that were INFESTED with mites, solution? Threw the container to the chickens, they went wild pecking and scratching apart the buds to get those little treats, wish it had been done already, but that's hindsight.

 

[Avinash.miles]

for my indoor right now im using straw as my mulch, didn't get the desired results with the living mulches, im guessing a mix of the two would do best in the arid co air
also, this:

Colorado counties incorporated, a clandestine arm of the governor's office which subverts legislative due process & foists punative suburbia-homogeneous policy on rural communities via backdoor lobbying at wine dine and spoon-feed events) has their summer conference next week in steamboat 6-8th... Sponsored by big health care, oil n gas, and police unions... To write restrictive local policy outside the wishes of county residents... Park county gvmt will be closed to allow elected officials enjoyment of the luxury setting for lobbyist paid brainwashing... but if you care Google CCI summer conference for the data.

 

[MileHighGlass]

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Only being fed with rich organic compost teas, poultry feces tea, and water. Inoculated with Gro-Kashi and Mycos. Soil layers were laced with bone meal and dolomite lime.

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Cover crop is Alfalfa, another small green I forget the name of, a few sunflower seeds, and we added a rosemary plant right in the middle of the pot because they repel pests.

Good thing too, found a big rubbermaid full of dead plants in a corner of that basement that were INFESTED with mites, solution? Threw the container to the chickens, they went wild pecking and scratching apart the buds to get those little treats, wish it had been done already, but that's hindsight.

Those look like tillage radishes. If they are, they will overtake everything. They are invasive as fuck. I used them for a round and a half, and then pulled all that remain. They are great for outdoors, but I was not a fan of them indoors.

 

[MileHighGlass]

Some recent shots from the garden. Picture 1 cookies, 2 & 3 casey jones.

 

[Bobby_Stainless]

Looks like that CJ leans to the ECSD persuasion. Nice.


Red Headed Stranger continues to impress me.

 

[MileHighGlass]

I was thinking a little cross of ecsd and thai. The foxtails are so huge, and I have yet to see that trait on ecsd. The bulk seems more ecsd though.

 

[MileHighGlass]

So it's not always roses right?

I made a fermented extract, and I didn't want to waste the leftovers. I typically will throw this on my compost pile. I currently don't have a compost pile so I decided to lightly top dress this over all of my notill pots.

Well that was a mistake. 3 days later and one plant freshly transplanted into flower died, and the corresponding mother is drooping like hell. I hope to whoever that the rest of the moms and dads will be ok.

A couple of other plants have burnt leaves so we will see what happens.

I knew better, but was hell bent on not wasting anything. Should have thrown it out like all the times before.

To much of a good thing is indeed a bad thing.

Thought I would share some bad as most people only share the good. What a dumb thing to do.

 

[Avinash.miles]

interesting...
what do you think caused the problem? the fermented junk made the soil hot, threw off pH, or something else?
i ask because it sounds just like the kind of half-brained and less-than-half-assed idea/experiments that i would do.... it always helps to know why NOT to do something, beyond just NOT to do it.

 

[MileHighGlass]

interesting...
what do you think caused the problem? the fermented junk made the soil hot, threw off pH, or something else?
i ask because it sounds just like the kind of half-brained and less-than-half-assed idea/experiments that i would do.... it always helps to know why NOT to do something, beyond just NOT to do it.

I've been sitting here thinking that it may be to many nutrients all at once. Could also be a ph thing.

I have made plain tea's with the same ingredients, and top dressed the spent material with no problems.

Could have been a shit ferment and fucked up the soil biology.

I'm just crossing my fingers and hoping I don't lose all of my moms and dads.

Still kicking myself for this one.

 

[who dat is]

I've been sitting here thinking that it may be to many nutrients all at once. Could also be a ph thing.

I have made plain tea's with the same ingredients, and top dressed the spent material with no problems.

Could have been a shit ferment and fucked up the soil biology.

I'm just crossing my fingers and hoping I don't lose all of my moms and dads.

Still kicking myself for this one.

Remove all the top dressed gunkshit and flush the soil if they keep looking like shite?

Sucks to hear though man. You sound like me with the best lessons being learned the hard way.

 

[MileHighGlass]

Remove all the top dressed gunkshit and flush the soil if they keep looking like shite?

Sucks to hear though man. You sound like me with the best lessons being learned the hard way.

Already removed as much as possible.

Gonna give straight water for the next 6 weeks and see if it helps.

God I hope my moms and dads don't fucking die!

 

[who dat is]

Take cuts too?

Hide yo kids, hide yo wife. FPE out her gettin' all your plants.

Fingers crossed foyah.

 

[SooperSmurph]

Those look like tillage radishes. If they are, they will overtake everything. They are invasive as fuck. I used them for a round and a half, and then pulled all that remain. They are great for outdoors, but I was not a fan of them indoors.

Tillage radishes are very much a possibility, because of the rich organic compost we used as a base. The Cover crop also contains beets, spinach, and chard as well as the Alfalfa and Sunflowers, and that cute rosemary plant in the middle

I will take your advice and pull as many of the tillage radishes as possible to feed to the chickens.