Orfeas,Have they already sexed or is it only part of the frame?
Thanks for the feedback sweet-emotion
I'm glad you and your friends are enjoying the clear, stimulating, trippy Zamaldelica effect.
left is the tray, now day34
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her structure in veg
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hehe thaibliss i interpreted your sig for me
Fertilizing only with manure is not sufficient in supplying certain nutrients; it has been proven that soil lacking minerals will grow less nutrient-dense food crops, more susceptible to pests and disease. (Also a contributing factor the food-related problems of our societies).'
Greetings,
I was introduced to compost teas a few years ago and was amazed at the immediate results in the form of healthy looking plants. I have always composted heavily for all my outdoor plants. The tea is like supercharging the soil biotical organisms, which produce micro manure on their own, but also are critical in breaking down soil mineral and organic elements.
On the other hand, I would challenge you to find any grape grower that would agree that making the plants as healthy and vigorous as possible will produce the best quality of grape. Part of the terroir is the lack of optimal nutrients, minerals, or water, and the struggle of the plant in that particular environment.
I'm using fish fertilizer and seaweed tea to get my outdoor plants started, because I have a thick bed of compost on some crappy soil, red clay and decomposed granite. The large amount of organic matter is competing with the plants for nitrogen. When it gets warm enough to start brewing some compost teas I'll do that to get them big until the beginning of July. Then I go to only pure water which brings back a nitrogen deficit, slowing down the growth and giving the plants the struggle of the true nature of the less than optimal soil. This seems to concentrate the resins on slightly smaller buds as compared to a babied plant. It also brings out some hidden color as the green chlorophylls are reduced.
I contained a mix of 30% aged compost 40% leaves and green compost from the previous fall and 30% river bottom soil in a fruit box cut into the side of a hill with rugged clay and decomposed granite soil. The fruit box has lots of holes drilled into it for aeration and so the roots can grow into the natural soil.
Late June:
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Late August:
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Late September:
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Harvest:
ThaiBliss
Thai that plant is stunning mate, what is the strain?
Very good point about spoiling plants, the traditional guerrilla farmers certainly didn't pamper their crops like many of us do...
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I for one am no fan of rich green nitro buds lol. Chlorophyll
dont make good smoke.
By harvest my plants are always yellowing, or at least off green/purple, unless I have to harvest early due to weather.
Seems most plants develop autumn colors naturally outdoors,
only seen a few able to get this effect indoors though.
This year Ive used rock dust in my soil mix, complete trace minerals, so far the plants seem to love it.
I'm afraid if you posted that around in many threads, you'd find plenty of people calling it "schwag". Some of the very best highs I've ever smoke came off of plants that look like they have had a tough time. Even me saying that in that way, "a tough time", is biased towards the vibrant green super fertilized look. Lots of native plants would look dramatically different if grown under pampered conditions.
ThaiBliss
see the recent "mids vs AAA" thread, everybody is hopping on the Grade AAA bandwagon and nobody is asking 'well, what gets you higher?'
i have the feeling nobody can tell the difference any more, its seems to be a smaller group of people every year, even here.... or maybe its just going mainstream and the heard is getting bigger...
we, our group of 'trip heads', are bascially like the old european monks of wine vineyards right?
its gonna be decades before what we are going on about is acknowledged by consumers at large...
im waiting for the day when your typical flat-billed hat, baggy pants, sun glass wearing 'dealer' is trying to hunt down some 16week nevilles haze so that he can show off to all his homies he can get the 'real good shit' and not that '45min sleeptrain garbage'
very much in the same vein that now a days 'hipsters' are looking for young bio-dynamic fair-trade wines to pair with their local organic cheeses...
Here's a short story that happened yesterday afternoon. Before I went to work I visited a friend and gifted him one Zamaldelica joint. One friend of him appeared 5 minutes later while my mate was lighting the joint. After he smoked 1/4 of it he passed it to the guy, who after taking 4 hits complained that it was not so strong tasting as other bud he had smoked some days ago. Well, after that, the man stood alone in the garden rambling like a mad man for 5 minutes and then entered the house running till he found the toilet and puked his guts out.He then managed to get on his feet and left the building out of his mind and without saying a word.
Here's a short story that happened yesterday afternoon. Before I went to work I visited a friend and gifted him one Zamaldelica joint. One friend of him appeared 5 minutes later while my mate was lighting the joint. After he smoked 1/4 of it he passed it to the guy, who after taking 4 hits complained that it was not so strong tasting as other bud he had smoked some days ago. Well, after that, the man stood alone in the garden rambling like a mad man for 5 minutes and then entered the house running till he found the toilet and puked his guts out.He then managed to get on his feet and left the building out of his mind and without saying a word.