The growing large plants, outdoors, thread...

[Madhemp]

Thanks/Pics

Thanks/Pics

I wanted to take a quick moment to thank all of the contributers to this thread. I have been lurking along since the start, and I have learned so much in such a short time. I realize this has been possible because of the time and efforts you guy's have put in. And then had the grace to share with the rest of us.

Here is a couple pics from earlier this week:




So again thanks Tom, and you other (pros?, experts?, pioneers?) for putting up with the repeated questions and inane crap inevitable in an open forum

M

 

[nomaad]

Madhemp: It's most fun when somebody posts up their monsters-to-be and shows that they have obviously been paying attention. The plants look great. How much soil? What strains?

 

[Madhemp]

Nomaad: thanks, I have 10 plants the planters vary slightly because I just could not believe 18" X 8" when I started making them, by the time I finished making them I had realized that you guy's knew wtf you were talking about. Most of them are around 6 feet across x two feet deep a few are deeper because I had some plants started from seed and somewhere along the way I read that because they have a tap root they like it deeper (what girl doesn't). The big girl in the picture is the one I don't know the strain on (I guess that makes it bagseed?) although I got the bag in Mendocino from an old school brother and remember being stoked to find 1 seed. My others this year are :3 Durban Poisons, 2 MK Ultra, 2 GW Shark, 2 Pure Power Purple. My cloning went horribly wrong this winter and I was pretty limited by my own ineptness. Also I went out very early (last week of April) and the plants were almost completly destroyed by hail (the day after I plugged them, it was great). I should mention at this point that setting this garden up nearly killed me! Its only 10 plants, you guy's doing 30, 50, 100's of these are freakin amazing!

M

 

[chemsteady]

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tom or anyone with a better head on their shoulders than me...

PVFGS is all out of the liquid component of the brix mix (gotta buy both liquid and dry btw, folks)--any suggestions for a substitution?

yucca stuff is basically a wetting agent, molasses i can add myself, maybe some liquid karma for the humics, sulfur, pure malt extracts, phytamin 4 3 4...hmmm?

my plants look great in toms mix, btw. no monsters here, just big container plants (7-15 gal) growing nice and strong thanks tom!

~c

 

[Hash Man]

Sorry Chemsteady, I just bought em out of the liquid Brix Mix yesterday! They said they only had 3 left so i swooped up on them.

Tom- I went and got all the recommended meters at PV, still am waiting on my sodium meter, but have all the others. I noticed my ORP of the kelp foliar i just did was around 350, so there was no need to raise the ORP. Do I have some really oxygenated water or something? Also, I took a cheap NPK test like you said, and the nitrogen was registering hi in this test, so now I am pretty sure the first test was confounded for sure.

 

[nomaad]

chemsteady: your plants look great. (too great) are you going to pot up from those eventually? Its a bit early to have started stuff that's meant to finish in those pots. They will be beyond root bound by the fall. Why not pull tarp on these so they finish early (they look close to the point you'd yank kivvers (LOL) on em... take cuttings for a second round, put out later in the season. I worry for your overall root health in those pots having started them this early.

HL: is this the sprayer you were supposed to get, or the one they sent you by accident?

 

[chemsteady]

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nomaad, those are all (well, most) are 7 gal pots--the bigger 15 gal pots are just waiting on the sideline, hehe we ll be repotting here soon, although some of the slower growers i might just leave in the 7s...

hashman, i knew it was you!

any ideas, yall?

~c

 

[nomaad]

look at the ingredients in Brix Mix... I would say that for now (they should have it back in stock very soon) just get a bottle of Biolink 3-3-3 and some kelp and keep calling PVGS. They should have it in stock by monday.

 

[Guiness]

Tom is the man. I am a HUGE fan. I want to someday grow some giant trees and make hash out of all of it.

 

[ROOTWISE]

Hey Tom-

All you projects look like they're rockin right along! Me and the girls just wanted to stop by and say hi...

 

[BrotherGanja]

Wow Rootwise those are some great Colorado Growing Plants I love that state it's where I was Born roots. Blessings to your ladies.

 

[Hash Man]

chemsteady - were you the guy behind me that said "damn" under his breath when i bought all the brix mix? there have been a few times in pv at the register when i have noticed striking similarities between orders being bought and what i had read the night before on icmag. I am sure a few of us have run into each other and not known it!

BUYER BEWARE - in case PV forgets to mention it... The brix mix has to be left slightly open or else the bottle will explode. So either take an icepick to the cap or slightly unscrew it. I wonder how they plan on shipping it when it has to have pressure relief in the heat of the summer.

 

[humboldtlocal]

chemsteady: your plants look great. (too great) are you going to pot up from those eventually? Its a bit early to have started stuff that's meant to finish in those pots. They will be beyond root bound by the fall. Why not pull tarp on these so they finish early (they look close to the point you'd yank kivvers (LOL) on em... take cuttings for a second round, put out later in the season. I worry for your overall root health in those pots having started them this early.

HL: is this the sprayer you were supposed to get, or the one they sent you by accident?

That's the one I meant to get. I will give this one a shot that I have. I am trying to use the sprayer with about 120' of hose so I think the lower flow one that I got may work better for my application. I'll just have to see if it makes a nice spray or not.

 

[nomaad]

thanks. ordered. PVGS is the only order I have yet to make before I am set for the season. I am trying to curb expenses, but really want to throw a full set of instruments into the mix. soil this year. sap next.

and seriously, whose got perlite? we need more 707 grow shops represented here.

 

[BugMeNot]

when your applying brixmix are you soaking the plants down or giving them a nice mist?

 

[nomaad]

I'll be soaking em good to the point of weighing the branches down.

 

[localhero]

Nomaad, why are you against pumice? or maybe im missing something but as i understand it, its a workable replacement. some even consider it superior to perlite.

 

[nomaad]

not against. just going with what I know... kind of too swamped to consider and research it. anybody else have an opinion on pumice?

 

[Hash Man]

I bought Calcium25 for Apples and Trees rather than the Vegetable Calcium25. Did I make the right purchase? See it back there to the right of my excessive amounts of liquid brix mix.

 

[fisher15]

The growing large plants, outdoors, thread...

I got the Calcium 25 for vegetables, but have never used the stuff before. Tom will let us know. Wondering what the differences are?