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The things we do for love
Looks amazing this one did the other finish?
The things we do for love
Oh I see…. You must have had some crazy strains to allow yourself to lose such gemIt looked amazing till just before flower but As I said we didn’t Harvest it , it got “lost“ unfortunately. We had to move on to next spot, limited time etc other spots needed attention.
Did you wheel that plant in and out to dep it?
Enough plants to keep busyOh I see…. You must have had some crazy strains to allow yourself to lose such gem…the Bushmen Guerilla growing…. How would you manage water? Water reservoirs burried in soil or you left to mother nature’s natural rain??
How many plants? Of course if it is safe to talk about it
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Hey Persianfarmer.
All this intellectual property was given to me by Bradley Danks, he’s given me his blessing to share it with the community. He was the only commercial grower l reached out to that helped me come up with a successful strategy to beat the leaf spot disease l get here. We’ve done a seed swap and l grew out some of his plants two seasons ago that I posted up on here.
He’s a fantastic person and we’re friends to this day.
View attachment 19150730 View attachment 19150731 View attachment 19150732 View attachment 19150733 View attachment 19150734 View attachment 19150735 View attachment 19150736 Here’s what I’ve just started feeding the plants. This is for a 44 gallon drum and each plant has been getting about ten litres every five days. This is in grams View attachment 19150739 Because of the work I’ve done with Brad over the last couple of years his feeding schedules have changed from the above posts to about the same as mine.
I’ve found that the Blackdogs do extremely well with a five day feeding and l also spray the leaves down for a foliar.
I’ve just started incorporating two packets of BT, caterpillar killer, into the tank just before feeding.
The garden beds are pretty big from 400 gallons to close to eight cubic meters. They hold a lot of water and l actually don’t really have to water until January, some time, depending on the season.
It’s been dry and hot here lately so the plants are drinking a lot exactly how much I can’t really say. I tend to go by feel and if I can scratch down two or three inches and see moisture, they don’t need watering. I also use wooden stakes in the soil and pull them out for a look.
One thing I can say is the wet and dry cycle is very important to prevent fungal infections in the soil such as fusarium.
For the soil l like to put down a lot of blood and bone at transplant, probably 3-5 kgs per plant, in a radius of 1.5 feet one foot from the stem. I then topdress this with about the same amount of gypsum and then over the top of this l put a full bag of, egg laying, chicken manure. I just put this straight on “hot” and let the worms do the rest of the work for me. There are quite literally hundreds and hundreds of thousands of them in the garden and now everything’s gone and totally incorporated.
As for the sun, some spots get more, some less but I’ve often wondered myself just how much. If l had to say, right now they’re getting 8 hours. The calcium nitrate pushes growth through lower light conditions but be very careful with it. The addition of H2O2 with a feeding also pushes growth. I’m incorporating about a quarter of a cup of %50 H2O2 into my feeding with about a cup of apple cider vinegar to chelate the metals. Make sure you add the H2O2 just before your ready to go, otherwise you can oxidise the metals in the mix.
There’s some really fantastic information in the Growing Large Plants Outdoors thread, started by Tom Hill, if you’re in for a bit of a read.
If l haven’t explained things clearly ask again.
40
P.S. l also topdress with as much composted cow manure as to fill the beds up again during the winter. In some cases it can be as much as a cubic meter or more. It’s totally ridiculous volumes of soil but l do this for fitness and it’s all carried in by pack load.
Here’s a cheaky picture of an Ancient Og f5. It actually got a lot bigger than this but it’s the only picture of it over at Mr ‘n Mrs Schrews “MotherLode Gardens” Insta page. I did post it up around 2018 or 19 in the “Outdoors” thread View attachment 19150783
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Hey Persianfarmer.
All this intellectual property was given to me by Bradley Danks, he’s given me his blessing to share it with the community. He was the only commercial grower l reached out to that helped me come up with a successful strategy to beat the leaf spot disease l get here. We’ve done a seed swap and l grew out some of his plants two seasons ago that I posted up on here.
He’s a fantastic person and we’re friends to this day.
View attachment 19150730 View attachment 19150731 View attachment 19150732 View attachment 19150733 View attachment 19150734 View attachment 19150735 View attachment 19150736 Here’s what I’ve just started feeding the plants. This is for a 44 gallon drum and each plant has been getting about ten litres every five days. This is in grams View attachment 19150739 Because of the work I’ve done with Brad over the last couple of years his feeding schedules have changed from the above posts to about the same as mine.
I’ve found that the Blackdogs do extremely well with a five day feeding and l also spray the leaves down for a foliar.
I’ve just started incorporating two packets of BT, caterpillar killer, into the tank just before feeding.
The garden beds are pretty big from 400 gallons to close to eight cubic meters. They hold a lot of water and l actually don’t really have to water until January, some time, depending on the season.
It’s been dry and hot here lately so the plants are drinking a lot exactly how much I can’t really say. I tend to go by feel and if I can scratch down two or three inches and see moisture, they don’t need watering. I also use wooden stakes in the soil and pull them out for a look.
One thing I can say is the wet and dry cycle is very important to prevent fungal infections in the soil such as fusarium.
For the soil l like to put down a lot of blood and bone at transplant, probably 3-5 kgs per plant, in a radius of 1.5 feet one foot from the stem. I then topdress this with about the same amount of gypsum and then over the top of this l put a full bag of, egg laying, chicken manure. I just put this straight on “hot” and let the worms do the rest of the work for me. There are quite literally hundreds and hundreds of thousands of them in the garden and now everything’s gone and totally incorporated.
As for the sun, some spots get more, some less but I’ve often wondered myself just how much. If l had to say, right now they’re getting 8 hours. The calcium nitrate pushes growth through lower light conditions but be very careful with it. The addition of H2O2 with a feeding also pushes growth. I’m incorporating about a quarter of a cup of %50 H2O2 into my feeding with about a cup of apple cider vinegar to chelate the metals. Make sure you add the H2O2 just before your ready to go, otherwise you can oxidise the metals in the mix.
There’s some really fantastic information in the Growing Large Plants Outdoors thread, started by Tom Hill, if you’re in for a bit of a read.
If l haven’t explained things clearly ask again.
40
P.S. l also topdress with as much composted cow manure as to fill the beds up again during the winter. In some cases it can be as much as a cubic meter or more. It’s totally ridiculous volumes of soil but l do this for fitness and it’s all carried in by pack load.
Here’s a cheaky picture of an Ancient Og f5. It actually got a lot bigger than this but it’s the only picture of it over at Mr ‘n Mrs Schrews “MotherLode Gardens” Insta page. I did post it up around 2018 or 19 in the “Outdoors” thread View attachment 19150783
Thanks Persianfarmer, l really appreciate such a heart warming response, it means a lot to me.
Because I’ve jumped back on to respond to you l thought I’d add one final picture of the highly oxygenated feed. I upped the H2O2 today because it’s a bit overcast. There’s one cup of %50 hydrogen peroxide that l get from a local cleaning company. Be very careful with this strength, if you drop it on the dry ground it will start fires, as l found out a few years ago. I left the bottle in the garden and in the sun the bottle expanded and some of the liquid came out under pressure and started a fire……who knew.
Only add this just before your about to feed.
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