Plant Farm 2016

[slownickel]

When there is a problem on new leaves, normally, this is either one of two elements, boron or calcium. If you over water, you won't have calcium uptake and if you have high boron, it can go toxic without calcium there to balance it.

The other reason you can have problems on new leaves is when you have other elements in amazing excess.

Solution? Several options. Dig down deep and see how wet things really. Take off the water for a couple of days. Send in soil sample. Examine for bugs. Check the trunk where it hits the soil for collar rot. I am suspect of boron, calcium and water.

 

[Johnny Redthumb]

Can anyone identify this really weird problem? The bottom left fan leaf is a good representative leaf. Check out where the leaves hit the petiole. The way it's growing is really interesting.

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That looks like too much NH4. NH4 is a cation and can block copper and zinc cations, which I have observed before with way too much Ammonium Nitrate/Sulfate or 20-20-20 applied.

 

[plantingplants]

When that developed, I hadn't applied anything at all except micros. Those plants were at the end of my drip line so I wonder if they got a little extra micro irrigation... it only happened to two of the same strain at the end there though. One seems to be coming out of it, and the other, pictured, only has it really bad on one lower branch.

Is it possible that it just sucked up too many micros and fucked up the first branch? Or is it a disease of some sort...

 

[Johnny Redthumb]

Is it possible that it just sucked up too many micros and fucked up the first branch? Or is it a disease of some sort...

Hard to say...this is where a local tissue analysis lab would be helpful...

 

[plantingplants]

Pictures! The garden seems to be ok now that I've been feeding it salts. For whatever reason (we will soon find out with a soil test), my EC was super low and my plants were starved during the transition to flower. They seem to be OK now, the yellowing has halted (I have the lowest leaves marked on a handful of plants, so I know if it's still progressing up the plant) and new growth looks healthy. I'm sure yield has suffered, but they're chugging along.


Here's a Blueberry Hashplant frosting up:

Legend OG x Snow Lotus putting some weight on. Probably the thickest flowers so far:

Here are the big ladies. The light green one in the back is a Dream Beaver that just kept vegging while everyone else flipped. I think she's the biggest lady now. Everything is officially in flower:

Happy growing!

 

[plantingplants]

Here are a few of the dwarfs. I can't believe how far along in flower the garden is. In the evening it's just full of dark colas jutting out. Seemed like they were just vegging yesterday! I'm stoked

 

[Chunkypigs]

your plants look great! they seem to be a week or two farther into flower than mine.

really nice!K+

 

[slownickel]

Plants,

Regarding irrigation. There are a number of reasons why you want to go to microsprinklers. Ideally you would be 3 per plant or so, spraying a 120 degree range at a reasonable rate, say 20 l/h or so. You want a sprinkler that is more 5 or 6 direct down and out sprays vs one that goes all around in circles. This minimizes to almost nothing the amount of water getting leaves wet, etc. vs a micro sprinkler going in circles, bouncing off your trunk, etc.. There are couple of guys on the board that can tell you want is available locally.

 

[neongreen]

Despite the problems those are looking great Plants. Nice job!

 

[plantingplants]

Thanks pigs and neon! This spot seems consistently early. I wish I had cloned that long vegging dream beaver. Might still try.

Slownickel, I actually have a pack of the streaming sprinklers-- they're labeled as -'shrubblers' I accidentally bought them and I wondered what they were for since It seemed like my sprayers had better coverage, but that makes sense that it eliminates wet foliage.

I tried setting up a few shrubblers but they seem to only water such a confined area. I definitely don't like the sprayers hitting the trunk so much so I think I'll set up 3 Or 4 on a pile of unused soil and see if it's really able to soak it all as well as the sprayers. Thanks.

 

[slownickel]

https://www.jainsusa.com/resources/price-list-catalog/ then go to the microsprinklers catalog, page 41, first square and look at pattern V, they are talking about a width of 11 ft.. You can stick the sprinkler stake further into the ground and limit the distance and the width as a consequence.

Imagine 3 of those overlapping each other. With your plant in the middle. With the black head #30, with three of those, that would be 20 gallons per hour more or less. I would like less, but that is ok.

 

[Johnny Redthumb]

Looking good. Nowhere near as K def as mine, haha!

 

[sinaloa]

Here are a few of the dwarfs. I can't believe how far along in flower the garden is. In the evening it's just full of dark colas jutting out. Seemed like they were just vegging yesterday! I'm stoked

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hi my friend
beautifull the dwarfs


saludos amigo
sinaloa

 

[plantingplants]

thanks guys

Kept forgetting to charge the camera battery. Here are some more photos!

Here are two smaller plants that need some support. Their flowers are dense and heavy. I kind of like when they fall like that though, seems like they get better sun than when pointing straight up. They are overwatered. I did pretty well this year with watering- only overwatered once so far, and underwatered twice. Compared to last year anyway. The cold nights really keep water in.

And here's the biggest gal in the garden. Dream Beaver that just kept vegging. She just started flowering maybe two weeks ago. She's going to be fat. It's kinda hard to read the picture, but the whole center of it is all her. She's spilling out of the two pieces of conduit. You can see how the close spacing affected the shape of the plants. It really limited the growth on the east and west sides of every plant. I didn't have to do much pruning there. The major growth happened on the south and north sides of the plants. It's kind of a funny look. Definitely doing separate mounds or pots next year.

 

[Purple Jungle]

Cant see the imageshack photos

 

[FoothillFarming]

O yea, those are lookin' nice. I love when the buds start falling over like that. I remember Screws AOG pheno he called Side Show Bob, epic.

Got anything looking early?

 

[_tessarecting]

Stacking nice Plants

 

[plantingplants]

More pictures!

Foothill, I'm still working on figuring out when flowers are ready. Last year I expected my flowers to harden up more and get heavy, so I kept waiting and waiting, and it got bad. I'm glad I had that experience so I know what they look like when they're too old. So this year I'm trying to figure out the sweet spot. This one looks like it's getting close, because the hairs are turning orange, but I think it has at least a couple weeks left in it. I don't know why but the buds are pretty small. Looks fine in the photo but it's only maybe 1.5 inches wide.

 

[plantingplants]

I'm too embarrassed to post a photo of the plants last year. What a fiasco. Maybe I should.

 

[plantingplants]

I sprayed down my mature plants with BT the last two days. Cats are dying left and right. Look at this fool: