Organic Fanatics - Australia

[wilbur]

Good morning All.

I have issues with my old fashioned Sativa. It's growing well but it's not Glowing!

First question: Dunno whether you can get the leaf pic big enuf to see, but to the naked eye the leaf appears slightly yellow in the centre … and the very edges of the margins are bluish green. So I have the idea N is low and K is high. Whaddayathink? (this is a small leaf, not a 'fan' leaf which are dropping off all over.)

The other pic shows CLAWING OF THE LEAVES which has been happening for a month or so now and my second question follows:

I 'm sure it's not overfeeding but it seems reasonable to me that after many months in a pot soil acidity may be rising and pH requires adjusting up? (don't wanna do a pH test because the pot's so chokka with roots I'm bound to damage some of them.)

What think you all?

PS. Silver can you show Ina a pic of possum poo? I can't tell which is possum poo from potteroo poo, glider poo, koala poo, or small wallaby poo! All of which live near my house. (Dingo poo's pretty easy to spot tho'.)

PPS. Silver, dog shit keeps possums away.

 

[_Ina_]

hi,i,m not an expert but i think u don,t have reason to worry. Those plants look really nice! Here is still cold winter,we have a moth or two before starting the outdoorand it must be ready until mid October or.....Those fine looking sativas have no chances here You have koalas near where u live?! it is great!!!!How sweet they are....!!!!!I see u use strange nutrients in Australia,i want to try them too I,m collecting bat and bird poo from caves here and usually i,m using poo from the farm. I was wondering about horse shits.....

 

[SilverSurfer_OG]

I cant tell possum poo from roo poo! But its dark brown and very shiny...

Not sure about yer plant wilbur. That first one looks ok, maybe some spidermite bite marks?

Claw leaf down in usually an over or underwatering issue. But it could be other kind of stress

 

[SilverSurfer_OG]

Horse shit is good but full of weed seeds (the gut doesnt digest the seeds). I use it for compost or sheet mulch under a good layer of cardboard or hay/straw mulch.

Cow poo is weed free as it passes through so many stomachs!

 

[wilbur]

yep! and hasn't cow poo got more potash?

don't know what those brown spots are. never heard of spider mites here. maybe there's other things in the bush here that look the same. seem'm before. never been a problem tho'.

the issue with my plant seems to be UNDERfeeding! the pot's FULL of roots and I reckon the soil's exhausted after all these months.

I 've only been feeding "bloom" and alternate weeks "boost" which are supplements really. took a pH test after all and two thirds of the way down the pot it was 7, but at the drain holes it was 7.5! this was immediately after a "boost" so that stuff must be very alkaline.

so flushed this morning and fed molasses. will check it in a coupla days and see how it's going.

Ina ... yes there's lots of koalas here. we call them 'native bears'. the males roar at night trying to attract females (which make a little MEW sound). heard a male one close the other nite and the wife and I went for a walk with the torch and found it up a gum tree. it was young and very very healthy. koalas are in danger because their breeding is reduced by a strain of chlamydia ... a sexually transmitted disease which can make humans sterile too. (No jokes about human/koala sex, please!)

cheers all!

 

[SilverSurfer_OG]

Well underfeeding is much better than overfeeding.

I love the calcium phosphate this time of year. The roast egg shells in vinegar. Sorts out high ph and calcium deficiency in one go.

 

[wilbur]

another kind of herb

another kind of herb

here's a lemongrass that's doing well at my place.

 

[SilverSurfer_OG]

Wow thats some nice grass man...

I planted a wee lemongrass few weeks ago. Have to protect it over winter but reckon it should grow. Perhaps not quite as lush as yours but ya never know!

 

[wilbur]

in my housegarden

in my housegarden

here some pics.

first one most of you will know as 'rose of sharon'. I prefer 'syrian hibiscus'.

second is another hibiscus. up here we call it 'rosella'. we grow it for jam and cordial.
the plant came to Oz (and it has naturalised over most of warm Oz) in the ticking of camel saddles in the days of Afghani camel drivers.

the third is a new bunch of sugar bananas. there's usually about 160 bananas in a bunch like this.

all organic of course.

cheers

 

[_Ina_]

Yes,this is where i want to drink my coffee in the morning Sugar bananas! This is my home made bat guano fert.i,m just putting this thing in 10 liters of water. Cheers to all bio growers around the world!

 

[SilverSurfer_OG]

Cool so you went bat caving?

Not been up to much recently post harvest. But been choofing on some nice buds

 

[_Ina_]

i go to some caves that are not so dangerous when it is not forbidden because the bats need privacy sometimes But unfortunately most of the people go to caves whenever they want in the summer and make mess in some bigger cavesthis guano is collected in 2011 in this one-Devetaki caveit has two galleries and one of them is only for boat-13 km deep,very interesting place but i ve seeen only the beginning because i have no good equipment. the only thing i have when i go there is cold beer and budsthe guano is in the other galleria where is dry.

 

[_Ina_]

ups,sory...

 

[Avaible]

This cave....magnific

 

[_Ina_]

And full of bat guano and cave birds guanoUnfortunately some nasty mother...rs(politics and others) let Silvester Stallone shoot this stupid action there,right in this beautiful cave...This is habitat for more than 7 tips of bats and many more species but who cares,those are Arnold and Silvester and some other "stars" in Bulgaria There should be very clean cave river but now i haven't been there since last summer when they shoot the movie and made bridge direct to the entrance(because there is a big river nearby)It was a military zone in the communismAnd this cave-" The ladder" is smaller but there is guano in it too. It is deep but only for ropes and stuff because it is going down.

 

[Sat X RB]

pics from up north

pics from up north

I suppose we need a natural history thread to post pics such as Ina's and these ... but here you all are anyway:

if you can see the pale spots in the vegetation on the mountain you will be looking at what remains of the poppy fields grown by the chinese during the late 1800's and early 1900's.

when the "native protection board" was rounding up local indigenous children to take them away they would often hide from the troopers at the chinese camp. the local Warra who pointed the site out to me told how his grandmother hid there and how part of her daily duties was to fill the bowls of the pipes for the miners and gold carriers as they rested at the camp before making their way down to the coast.

 

[Sat X RB]

pic 2

pic 2

the old droving track from the coast at 'saltbox'.

 

[Sat X RB]

pic 3

pic 3

see the local Warra? he is standing on the butt of a huge strangler fig. the photo cannot do the size of the tree justice. it is just too large.

the light shining thru the space to the right of the Warra is the centre of the tree ... where whatever it initially strangled has rotted away and disappeared.

the roots of this tree extend 100 meters in some places and it seems to hate hardwoods. every hardwood around the fig had a root strangling it but the rainforest species were left alone.

 

[Sat X RB]

pic 3

pic 3

"Whale and Calf." can you all see why it is so named?

 

[Sat X RB]

pic 5

pic 5

this is all I can show of a local Dreaming. while I had permission to take a series of photos there I don't have permission to publish them.

so I 'll just tell you the water (and this is just a small edge of it) drops probably 30 - 40 meters onto rocks below. many people have fallen from the top of these falls. ALL men!

Silver, this one's for you! the water has sculpted out small 'baths' where the local women take their newborn to 'baptise' them.

(not much to see but you'll dig the way the light falls and colours the rock.)

Cheers Cobber!