Round Infinity

[Avinash.miles]

haven't separated the stuff yet... but in honor of the holiday i plucked out a couple crystals

^^ dropped some crystals in a joint

^ new addition to the farm

^ lime cookies bubba
as you can see some white hairs pushing from top nug even at this time; mid week 7

^ more LCB

 

[Avinash.miles]

mixing soil and filling holes - real heavy labor day

^^ in the mix

^ recipe

so damn ready to cut this indoor
right about 8 full weeks right now; most of it looks about ready to come down, still haven't put the scope to the buds yet to check trichs.... need to do that so i can feel good about going down there with the scissors, altho i'd like to push on to 60 days.
turned back the lights significantly (probably on 8 hours on at this point maybe less)

on another note;
i've flipped one of the tents in the barn; flipped on 420
and i'm experimenting with shortened flowering hours - 6 on 18 off; i've used the "gas light regime" for veg plenty: 12 hours on, 5.5 hours off, one hour on, 5.5 hours off. This is the first time I'm trying the gaslight bloom hours...
only one way to find out, right?


more pics of doobie with snake and crystals, todays incarnation is trapper creek weed

 

[Avinash.miles]

one more of these:

^^ doobie weed, dab snake, thc crystals

 

[nameless]

getting fancy with the rolling. i also see you went in @ ab 1/4 cup per cu/ft on your feeding amendments. where will that leave you after the season? ready to do it all again next spring or will you carry over? alot less scratching on your list, i scratched my way through two papers and still altered it in the dusty heat of the mixing moment

 

[Avinash.miles]

getting fancy with the rolling. i also see you went in @ ab 1/4 cup per cu/ft on your feeding amendments. where will that leave you after the season? ready to do it all again next spring or will you carry over? alot less scratching on your list, i scratched my way through two papers and still altered it in the dusty heat of the mixing moment

clay soil has so much capacity for cation exchange that i believe i'll do very well with these levels of amendments - still going to topdress with kelp and some other goodies
if next year i need to rake in some more amendments - so be it
im far from expert on soil mixes, just studied many successful mixes - but very few people use clay like topsoil at 33% of the mix, instead opting for compost which drains much better than the clay topsoil and altho has more organic matter has less CEC

whats shown is one page in a notebook FULL of scratch-outs and re-imaginings of previous soil mixes.... took me easily 3 weeks to decide on an settle on a final mix

 

[packerfan79]

Miles, you are definitely taking it to the next level. Awesome to see organics performed so well.

 

[Avinash.miles]

Miles, you are definitely taking it to the next level. Awesome to see organics performed so well.

thanks pf79
i'm just getting started really,
it feels like our organic soil needs a kick in the pants with more of my fermented plant extracts (which i've been slacking on lately)
so
i mixed up 88 gallons of activated lactobacillus culture in the square 250g transfer tank
will be making a big big batch of kashi as well as several batches of fermented plant extracts

 

[Avinash.miles]

^^ em1 activating

^^ holes are filled!
still need a top layer to fill in up to the berms
considering getting a load of compost to fill in the top layer, probably mix in some pumice to help the compost drain depending on it's texture
found an organic compost guy locally that supplies most of the farmers i've talked to out here producing high quality product on larger scale
smallest load the guy will deliver is 30 yards - I need to clear out space for it....

^raised beds in the front yard are filled, time to water them in well and plant veggies (cold weather stuff like carrots, beets, chard) in them and lay down some mulch

been smoking those thc crystals - very energetic, clear headed buzz

 

[nameless]

crap how much 30 yards of compost set you back? how they deliver that?

 

[Jhhnn]

crap how much 30 yards of compost set you back? how they deliver that?

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That would be about two of these, (or one of something bigger) I think-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBxEr4X9akM

That's a lot of compost. I'm sure Miles has done the math. Right, Miles?

 

[Avinash.miles]

crap how much 30 yards of compost set you back? how they deliver that?

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$ 510 for 30 yds
17 pr cu yd
damn good price imo
price includes freight, delivered in a 30yd dump truck
guy told me that he would charge me same price for 10 yds because it comes in the same truck and price is as much for hauling as it is for compost

need to clear a space for the dude to dump it....

inoculated the holes today with em1, kashi, rootwise, earthfort, quantum....

 

[Avinash.miles]

That's a lot of compost. I'm sure Miles has done the math. Right, Miles?

i'm so ready for it

 

[nameless]

wow just rob the guy why dont you... that seriously is a steal of a deal. i spent half that on the compost for my 1 yard bed. hope the quality is on par with the other stuff youve got going!

ps get a pic of the truck...

 

[Jhhnn]

wow just rob the guy why dont you... that seriously is a steal of a deal. i spent half that on the compost for my 1 yard bed. hope the quality is on par with the other stuff youve got going!

ps get a pic of the truck...

That's part of why big growers make really big money. Everything is cheaper by the truckload. They can produce decent quality cannabis far cheaper than small growers. When the situation normalizes somewhere down the road & growing moves outside where it belongs the price of production & profit pictures will be very different again. It'll be like tobacco, where most of the retail price is taxes.

 

[BOMBAYCAT]

Hey Avi- That looks like it will make a nice grove of trees. How tall do you think they will grow?

 

[Avinash.miles]

That's part of why big growers make really big money. Everything is cheaper by the truckload. They can produce decent quality cannabis far cheaper than small growers. When the situation normalizes somewhere down the road & growing moves outside where it belongs the price of production & profit pictures will be very different again. It'll be like tobacco, where most of the retail price is taxes.

the profitability of scale is great once you start scaling up.... like i can't NOT get that much compost for that price... how could i pass it up? lol

not sure if that is poised to change ever - bulk prices will remain much lower than those at retail levels imo.

Hey Avi- That looks like it will make a nice grove of trees. How tall do you think they will grow?

gonna do my best to keep them low and wide
probably they will max out around 9 feet tall i think
i'm thinking i'll hang a trellis net above head high when the time comes - unless a better solution comes about.

 

[who dat is]

the profitability of scale is great once you start scaling up.... like i can't NOT get that much compost for that price... how could i pass it up? lol

not sure if that is poised to change ever - bulk prices will remain much lower than those at retail levels imo.


gonna do my best to keep them low and wide
probably they will max out around 9 feet tall i think
i'm thinking i'll hang a trellis net above head high when the time comes - unless a better solution comes about.

I can't wait to see them blowing up come July. Gonna be a sight. I was out digging one of the holes earlier today. Holy shit that wore me out, shitty rocky clay soil. Hole is roughly 2-2.5 feet deep and 3 feet wide.

 

[Avinash.miles]

I can't wait to see them blowing up come July. Gonna be a sight. I was out digging one of the holes earlier today. Holy shit that wore me out, shitty rocky clay soil. Hole is roughly 2-2.5 feet deep and 3 feet wide.

we have been fortunate with these holes, the ground is pretty soft; aside from tree roots and a few rocks (mostly fist sized or smaller, none larger than a bowling ball) the going is pretty good once grass roots are broken thru
used alot of soil from the holes to build up berms, but the rest was hauled out to create raised beds and veggie garden beds- which was harder than just digging the holes

things starting to get interesting in the tents again; figured i would share

^^ one gg4 in about 80 gallons of soil (clay mix test batch) under a single 1k w hps in parabolic hood

^ gg4 canopy
2 weeks more veg or so before flipping into bloom

the other bed in this tent has 3 legend og and one 24k white
all vegging at 18 hours of light still for another couple weeks...


the OTHER tent has 2 x kiddie pools with (ghetto made cardboard) raised sides to make them about 80 gallons capacity plus room for mulch
this tent is currently blooming, about day 3 on the 6/18 gas light regime bloom schedule (6 on 18 off)
so far so good

^ strains include remedy, cornbread, nightmare cookies, and more
about 4 plants per bed in these kiddie pools

^ one side of the tent, calling this the "nightmare cookies bed" because the Nightmare Cookies plant is taking over - she is the sativa looker

^ other side of the tent, cornbread plant is taking off, also a remedy is looking ridiculously vigorous

 

[Zapadra]

Much respect! Love to the family and animals!!

 

[Avinash.miles]

thanks Z
shits getting crazy
sealing up the chicken coop today, got 6 more chickens today, older and ready to start laying in the next few weeks
also cutting some wood to cover the water trenches
making more kashi; prepping to make some liquid fertilizers by fermentations

added about 50 gallons of water mixed with activated em1 and beneficial indigenous microbes onto the compost piles and turned them over, soaked again...