Sounds like grass hopper control
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Round Infinity
- Thread starter Avinash.miles
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Sounds like grass hopper control
i had no problems with grasshoppers last year; knock on wood - not planning on having issues with them in the future.... those fn jerks
Zapadra
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you are wild as hell for those cardboard joints dude. hope they stay together for you. is the nightmare cookies jock horror x cookies or another nightmare hybrid crossed to cooks? it surprises me the nightmare diesel is still making her rounds... i lost her back in 2014 or so after a few years of great runs
the cardboard is just acting like a wall to hold dirt in, only has to hold up for about 90-100 days, and it's already 30-40 days in
there aint really any joints in it, they just are slipped down along the edge and filled in with soil - whole point is to get 2x amount of soil in those smaller kiddie pools
the nightmare cookies i have is sin city seeds strain
it's cookies x white nightmare
sin city's white nightmare is blue dream x white moonshine
Sounds like you need a helping hand
got 2 workers living out here now, working 25 hours per week in exchange for room, board, and smoke
the cardboard is just acting like a wall to hold dirt in, only has to hold up for about 90-100 days, and it's already 30-40 days in
there aint really any joints in it, they just are slipped down along the edge and filled in with soil - whole point is to get 2x amount of soil in those smaller kiddie pools
the nightmare cookies i have is sin city seeds strain
it's cookies x white nightmare
sin city's white nightmare is blue dream x white moonshine
got 2 workers living out here now, working 25 hours per week in exchange for room, board, and smoke
Shit 25 hours a week sounds like a great work week.last 8 years I spent 25 hours a week on the damn freeway. Plus 40 plus hours on the clock, and a garden to maintain, and pushing product, oh and part time in school. No more work at the moment. When I go back to work it's going to be local. No more commutes for me
admittedly i get more than 25 hours a week out of them, and they stay so high they need a step ladder to scratch their own asses
Sounds like some serious fringe benefits.
big kiddie pool room getting the chop now; started cutting day 58, today is day 61
cutting in batches so that everything isn't dry at the same time and we ain't swamped trimming. i cut about 3 plants per cutting, wait a day, cut again and so on. trying to let everything get as mature as i can: cut back hours of light to nearly nothing (4-6 hours on if i even turn them on at all), scored and mangled some stems, just above soil level, left intake fan on all nite flushing the room with cold air (nature is playing along, we have a nice little cold snap going here this week).
Avi, like your ideas of cutting back the lights to maybe force flowering harder but the electric savings as well. Have you had a lot of success with that in the past?
Also, I saw you were trying out a clay mix in a pot or two, what kind of mix/ratio did you go with? I'm debating adding 5-15% topsoil with clay to a 40%pumice/40% PeaT/20%casting/ humus mix to make a slightly native/ from the property mix. I know it will alter drainage a bit but probably not a lot. I'm using it 16 inches deep in raised beds.
I've used 1 part topsoil, 1 part mushroom compost, 1 part pine fines, and 1 part sharp sand on a large landscape project before and it worked well, it was eight foot deep in places. Drained fine and plants did well but I supplemented ferts, didn't try it by itself. Not sure why I'm not using it here, would be cheaper, guess I figure the other had more going for it although that's debatable.
Not sure if you've had chickens before, but they have a lot of uses as you know, eggs, potential meat,insect control, compost scratchers/ turners for about 4-12 inches deep. Plus their poop is useful. They are also like watchdogs, at least some of them, quick to let out squawks when they see anything new happening.I call it chicken 911, I hear it every time I come into their view or they see a hawk or plane overhead. Got nine now, only had chicks for 4 years. They are funny to have around, very primitive, like little raptors some of them. Got two silkies that are about the size of a grapefruit and when they come running they put their head down low and look like a fuzzy tennis ball with a head, funny as shit every time.
I've been making lots of lacto and spraying some of it in their coop on the straw and poop and food and adding it to their water. It has eliminated any bad smell, and breaks down the poop stuck in hard to clean areas faster than before using
Also, I saw you were trying out a clay mix in a pot or two, what kind of mix/ratio did you go with? I'm debating adding 5-15% topsoil with clay to a 40%pumice/40% PeaT/20%casting/ humus mix to make a slightly native/ from the property mix. I know it will alter drainage a bit but probably not a lot. I'm using it 16 inches deep in raised beds.
I've used 1 part topsoil, 1 part mushroom compost, 1 part pine fines, and 1 part sharp sand on a large landscape project before and it worked well, it was eight foot deep in places. Drained fine and plants did well but I supplemented ferts, didn't try it by itself. Not sure why I'm not using it here, would be cheaper, guess I figure the other had more going for it although that's debatable.
Not sure if you've had chickens before, but they have a lot of uses as you know, eggs, potential meat,insect control, compost scratchers/ turners for about 4-12 inches deep. Plus their poop is useful. They are also like watchdogs, at least some of them, quick to let out squawks when they see anything new happening.I call it chicken 911, I hear it every time I come into their view or they see a hawk or plane overhead. Got nine now, only had chicks for 4 years. They are funny to have around, very primitive, like little raptors some of them. Got two silkies that are about the size of a grapefruit and when they come running they put their head down low and look like a fuzzy tennis ball with a head, funny as shit every time.
I've been making lots of lacto and spraying some of it in their coop on the straw and poop and food and adding it to their water. It has eliminated any bad smell, and breaks down the poop stuck in hard to clean areas faster than before using
You got a pick of the tennis ball chicken in action?
...lol.......good job Avi
thanks mega
ya i've cut lites down in the past at the end of bloom for a long time now, not every run, but it seems to induce maturity once that trend has already started; helps temps stay cool leading up to harvest, lower electricity costs
i'm excited to see how the 6 hours on 18 hours off bloom cycle works.... talk about a money saver if it gives comparable results
as for my mix... it's 33% clay topsoil (the black dank stuff from up on the grand mesa), 33% peat (greensmix, got the good stuff w no twigs), and 33% pumice
the black stuff expands like mad the first time you water it and even the 3 part mix retains water like no other media i've ever used, which i think will work well in my situation
here is my check list for mixing soil this run (posted a page or 2 back also, but here it is again):
^black is clay-like topsoil, white is pumice, i used 3.8 cu ft bales of peat
one wheel-barrel is 6 cu ft (in my case) and about 2 1/3 bales of peat made 3 wheelbarrow
the stuff def drains kinda slow, but with enough water it will drain thru. once it's wet its heavy.... much heavier than just a compost/peat/pumice mix would be - it must be the clay holding so much water as well as being heavy itself even when dry.
i seem to manage trim season pretty well so far... obviously will need help but by that time in the season i'm sure that things will be covered
A friend ran 6 on 18 off last year, he got results comfortable to his average quality, not sure about yield. It was Blue dream not sure which cut.He's a mediocre grower so it's hard to say if quality is achievable. I Will watch that show for sure
I read your 120 k thread, gotta say that is an insane grow.
I don't have pics of either of them, need to take a few. They are yellowish in color, about 8 inches tall. One of them is named Blue, and the other is fresh Freddy, Freddy is being broody and camped out on a pile of golf balls and eggs for the last 40 days or so. Both of the silkies want to be mommies real bad, the other chickens just lay their eggs and Freddy or Blue try and hatch them. The other chickens prefer the single life.
that seems like a past life by now.... so damn much has happened since the warehouse days.
def i'm excited for the 6-18 grow, if for no other reason that testing it out... that tent is flipped and the other is ready to flip soon (probably early next week)
The 6/18 goes along with the gaslamp 12/1. Veg which would save a lot also.
