No use for a name farms El Dorado 2016

[self]

Because you're crushing it and living life and raising family and posting all over the place?
Thanks for stopping in FF



I believe a lot of struggles we have as part of the human experience are misdirected and misused instincts and genes. Likely ones that don't serve the lifestyles we live in our society.
I am guessing that for me and some of my family it's what is called ADD or HDAD. It's mostly in males.
We were hunter gatherers who used to go on long journeys, hunting, walking, running down animals. The women did more focused jobs like gathering berries.
As we became agrarian sometimes the instincts are suppressed. Some skills to cope with our society as we know it are more difficult to maintain.
The alcohol is self medication for these issues, but just like other items that are a little difficult to obtain in nature ( fat, sugar, carbohydrates) we can easily go overboard in the presence of such bounty.
I'm back on long walks and runs. I'm trying anyway, bring a workaholic doesn't help. I was sober for years and did great things and hiked 1000 miles in a shot.

I just thought I could be like a normal person. Nope.

Thanks Self. Thanks for the self help.

That sounds really familiar. It's kinds out of left field, but have you tried hunting?
I picked up bowhunting a few years ago and now my time hunting is my favorite time next to working in the garden.
I went out and tried having a few drinks in the spring at a show I was really looking forward to. Blacked out, remember absolutely none of the main act. Sick for the next day and a half. Lucky nothing else happened. I'm hoping that's the last time I need to learn that lesson.
Keep crushing it Hill.

 

[slownickel]

I'm not much of a woowoo juice man, I'm more if a chicken shit worm castings fish hydrolysate and bonemeal kind of guy.

I concur and go all of the above, plus compost and mineral balancing.

I did jump on the AEA bandwagon from watching this forum but I'm not sold on it, and I'm ashamed to have spent some of that money. I don't visit grow stores aside from the Fruit Growers' coop.

I enjoy Kempf but find it nauseating more woowoo juice. I guess that is the only way they can make money.

Humic acid is not part of my system that is very dialed. Most has come from compost. Some products have content % and some do not. There is currently big discrepancies on which testing methods to use and they give vastly different results.

I know just enough to know I might be buying bullshit
(Just like biology in a bag/jar/bottle) that makes me hesitant to use much of it.

My understanding is that New Mexico humate is NOT leonardite Dakota brown coal IS leonardnite. Studies have shown leonardnite not to be an effective source of humuc acid in trials. I know leonardite can be had for CHEAP. Every nutrient manufacturer uses it as a filler ingredient these days.

The dry new Mexico humate i'm using is 50% humic and due to some labeling and testing disputes it does not advertise fulvic content. I impulse purchased a small package of this because I didnt commit to purchasing bulk humate as I usually do. Mix with 1000-2000 gallons or $30. But its a 1 kilo package. It warns that stronger usage will cause leaf curl.

In the past I have bought totes of new Mexico humate from a friend that rebrands it. I believe it was $600 for a 54 cubic foot tote. Or $2.5/L
A different biologist friend sold me a 55 gallon drum that was a combination leonardite and new Mexico humate product that I liked a great deal. I never got a label or paperwork on those He got to be unreliable and delivered everything really late. I used one barrel for several years and don't remember or have records on the price.

Thanks for the information. I'm currently in the process of locating good sources of raw amendments for a retail store I'm opening.

I USED TO PURCHASE FROM AGRONICS MANY MOONS AGO. IT WAS A GREAT LEONARDITE. THE STUFF WAS MAGIC. THEY ALSO MADE SOME GREAT LIQUIDS.

IF YOU FIND SOMETHING GOOD LET ME KNOW. I NEED CONTAINER LOADS.

I intend to run a business geared towards the commercial cannabis farmer supplying supplies for biological cultivation without all the fancy artwork, molasses and "woowoo" juice.

There are several grades of New Mexico humates from different veins to consider. I'd love to feel better about what I'm buying. It definitely looks like I'll be selling dead diatoms and not brown coal

I'll keep my amino chelated minerals. I'll ditch the AEA. I'm finding good sources for crab hydrolysate right now. I like that stuff!

I HAVE UNLIMITED SOURCES HERE IN PERU FOR CRAB, FISH AND SHRIMP PRODUCTS. LET ME KNOW IF I CAN HELP. I USE A 65% AMINO ACID FISH PRODUCT THAT IS 100% SPRAY DRIED AND SUPER SOLUBLE. ASCOPHYLUM NODOSUM WITH 400 PPM CYTOKININ AS WELL. ALL CERTIFIED ORGANIC. MY PLACE IS ORGANIC.

THE SHRIMP AND CRAB PRODUCT ARE WORKS IN PROGRESS.

I WOULD GRAB THE BAICOR LINE. THEY ARE BETTER THAN ALBION AND MUCH CHEAPER AND THE GUY THAT ENGINEERED ALBION BUILT BAICOR AFTER RETIRING AND MADE AN EVEN BETTER PRODUCT.

I'll try not to be offended that you asked me about my woowoo juice. I feel like I've been throwing the woowoo juice out of people's sheds for the past 10 years.

COME ON NOW. YOU BOUGHT SOME DIDN'T YOU? LMAO. SORRY IF I HURT YOUR FEELINGS.

Do you have a Cannabis garden on the forum yet Slow nickel? I saw your fruit tree beds on another thread. Did you use a bed shaper implement? Get off the slownickels and on to the fast quarters,?

I HAVE 15,OOO AVOCADO AND 65,000 LIME TREES. ANOTHER 120,000 LIMES TO PLANT. I MADE A MONSTER PLOW WITH WINGS THAT WE MADE THAT TAKE THREE OR FOUR PASSES TO MOUND AND THAT IS ONLY AFTER I HAVE CROSS SUBSOILED.

I spent WAY too much time in the mag today. I gotta go dig up a water line. Peas.

Yeah, I can see how this place gets to be habit forming.

No grow here in Peru yet. That is coming soon! Especially if the US goes legal.... that will change everything.

 

[HillMizer]

No Albion here. I use JH Biotech Biomin Calcium and JHB biomin booster 158

 

[HillMizer]

Yeah, I can see how this place gets to be habit forming.

No grow here in Peru yet. That is coming soon! Especially if the US goes legal.... that will change everything.

But what about what you said in Browntrout's thread? What photo flower plant are you cloning?

QUOTE=slownickel;7543374]You will have to hunt through some soil books to fit this together, but it goes like this.

Ammonia is a cation, nitrate is an anion. Electrical charges compete with each other, like using the two positive ends of a magnet against each other.

Given that ammonia is a cation, it competes with the other cations.

It is a known that when one uses nitrates, the plant can pick up 4 Calciums for every 2 Potassiums. When an ammonia source is used, this competition of the cations occurs and the result in the uptake of only 2 Ca for every 2 K. This causes the plant to mature due to the heavy uptake of K quickly in comparison to Ca. This causes flowering as the plant is under heavy K pickup that only happens with the plant is mature.

I have a single 100 W LED on one plant, about 2 feet away and it is on a 18/6 schedule. Pure calcium nitrate and heavy P using MKP along with micros, no sign of flower. I have already taken 4 side branches for cloning. It is approx. 5 weeks old.

Here we are in the winter, meaning high 50's at night, sometimes into the high 40's where I live. So far, no signs of flowering.

If your LEDs were not close enough You may very well be right.

If you read Beddoes book on Carey Ream Theories, Reams interpreted what we all learn in ag school that I regurgitated above. Until he explained what that really means, it was only another test question to be quickly forgotten.

I have grown watermelons, turning on and off flowering by growing out with nitrates, putting in ammonium sulfate for a couple of days resulting in heavy flowering. Then we would switch back to nitrates to get size up and then after 2 more weeks, go back to ammonia to get some more flowers for a second harvest. Once the plant set fruit, we would grow out another 2 weeks with nitrates and then switch to a 2:1 ammonia to nitrate plus amino acids. Those watermelons got a nice premium in the UK and Holland the winters of of 2012 and 2013. We sent out close to 200 containers that season under the Rancho Bravo label. Yields were excellent. The farmer made a small fortune.

How many hours are you running light? Turn the lights on 24 hours for a couple of days. How old are the plants?

Realize stress makes plants flower. Lack of enough light may be an issue as you mention. If you feel you are getting lock out, you better figure out why. Water, lights or nutrients? Can you apply some calcium nitrate? Do you have a conductivity meter? They are $35 in Amazon. Make sure you get some calibration liquid to go with it. If you do have one, what is the conductivity coming out the bottom when you water?

Do you know the conductivity of your water?[/QUOTE]

 

[slownickel]

Aw come on, it's just one OK Kush plant here in Peru and I am in the middle of winter in a 12 inch pot! Way too public where I live in a condo. Yes, there are several other feminized seeds waiting for spring in the fridge. Trying to carve out a place in the north with more privacy to make my first small grow. I do have my cloner running with a few clones of her, but the majority are Israeli avocado clones...

Here are some photos of the Oregon grow I have been helping. Dialed in at 85% Ca. The roots reflect the response in the bag to the calcium. The micro blends of Cu, Zn, Mn and B began last week. Leaves are flattening out nicely and the plant is starting to be happy.

 

[slownickel]

And a couple more...

 

[HillMizer]

Still hope for some monsters. Foliage and branching seems light. Short hours of sunlight or nutrient issue?

Excessive N has caused lanky plants for me in the past My C:N ratio was 10:1 with Organic Material around 45% at planting time.

I just started fertigation aside from my compost extract routine. I'll post it when I get home on Monday it's that AEA stuff along with JHB minerals and fish hydro.

 

[plantingplants]

Lookin' good man. I don't know what it is. I have low branching/foliage plants in the shade right next to some thick ones in the shade. I think its genetics in my case. Green crack vs blue cheese. The cheese looks very sativa. Of course also shade means different things to different people. How many hours?

 

[HillMizer]

I've got 8 hrs. It's across the board and appears pronounced in strains that I gave grown before. Oh well less pruning.

 

[Shcrews]

looks good to me. a plant that size now would yield at least 8-10lb where i'm at

where did you get the JHB calcium

 

[_tessarecting]

How's it growing?

 

[HillMizer]

I'm back from the high country.

I'm back from the high country.

I've been out stretching my legs for about 12 nights in the back country. Now it's time to get down.

Greenhouse is filling in. Major failing here is genetics and stock quality. Winter got busy and I bought clones. The blue dream appears to be something much smaller and crabbier, smells more like hash and catpiss as opposed to fruit &floral. The Super Lemon Haze is like blue dream with lemon.

Sky Lotus

Super Critical.
More pics coming. Tall girls this year. I thought I just added some pics of girls towering over the 11' hoop house.

Garden went good while I was gone. My helper found a male in one if the double potted sites. Whoops! I'm glad she's got her peepers on.

Getting a shipping container (or two) dropped this week for drying space.

D.E. dusting on the full season and a round of barley seed-alfalfa-compost extract. We'll be popping in 13' rebar and wrapping it with hortanova too. One last prube job too!

Thanks for checking in Tesserect. Everything is going well enough. I have a batch of phenos from the garden growing for stock for next year's deps. I might be contracted to grow ogs and diesel next year though. We'll see.

 

[_tessarecting]

Damn dude that's awesome

 

[Bradley_Danks]

Looking real nice!!

 

[HillMizer]

Thanks guys. I have a real photographer on payroll at the moment I'll try and get him out there tomorrow.
I'm pretty stoked on what feels like a simple system this year. I have been breaking some Ganja Farmer dogma.....

I just use chlorinated water from the tap in the irrigation. I was going to add a filter but never did. I think the micro sprinklers, mulch, and organic matter are dealing with the chlorine.

 

[Happyflowlucky]

Really nice looking plants you have going there. Good to see you escaped the fire and best of luck with your hand.

 

[Chunkypigs]

looking sweet! can't believe all that snow.

 

[_tessarecting]

Hey HillMizer, I want to try that DE dusting tech you use. I just bought 2 bags. I was wondering how frequently you apply it, and at around what week into flower you stop?

 

[HillMizer]

Hey HillMizer, I want to try that DE dusting tech you use. I just bought 2 bags. I was wondering how frequently you apply it, and at around what week into flower you stop?

This technique is a bit new to me but I'll share what I've noticed and what I assume.

1. How frequent? It's every few weeks. I believe it will depend on growth rate, foliar frequency, wind, precipitation. It's a visual observation so far for me..

According to my records we dusted about a month ago.
Not sure if it's accurate. I save my "to do lists" by date so I can reference them.

The greenhouse plants still have a bit of D.E. stuck to them. I'm a little worried that the de-leafer may throw a little on the buds. It could throw a lab test.

The full season plants are pretty bare and I'm thinking of doing an application this week.

2. What week to stop? I say at beginning of transition to be safe. The new growth won't be covered, but the critters seem to start at the bottom anyway.

I can't recommend having D.E. on buds at all. It's sharp silica crystals and could have adverse effects if inhaled.

D.e. is cool. I'll use it as my silica soil amendment next year. The basalt and azomite has too much AL &Fe. I'll be good on the rockdust for a few years.

Wear your mask! I have a hand crank duster but it ain't enough for a big garden. Leaf blower on wet plants. Yucca extract might stick it real good.

 

[_tessarecting]

Thanks a lot...im out of rep today...I appreciate the detail...I have a few plants starting to get bulbous and transition...would you say those are a no go?

Very cool you can ammend with it...