Dawn Patrol
Sweaty Farmer
Hey All,
I was wrapping things up last season when I joined here so I haven't really shown anything to this point. I'm a long time smoker ('77) and have been growing off and on since '83.
About 20 years ago I decided to get a serious personal grow going again as I was just not impressed with the herb I could buy on the street and shortly after that my mother was diagnosed with cancer. Those two occurrences originally lead me to OverGrow (where I lurked until it was shut down), some incredibly kind folks in Cali that I met on a business trip and then eventually to ICMag.
I've learned a tremendous amount over the years and have tried to change up and improve at least one aspect of my growing/harvesting/processing gameplan every year and for the most part I have learned, improved and moved on every year. Better techniques, better mixes, better feeds and of course better genetics.
I am in west central Florida so we get very little cold weather here (not enough for my tastes) and that gives me a flowering season from September until mid May.
I usually start seeds and take cuts from mums right about now and this year is no different.
I grow in peat and perlite and one of this years improvements is to add about 10-15% coco to this mix and hopefully get better roots as I am re-using the mix from last year.
I will amend that mix with some dolomite lime, calcium carbonate, gypsum and some bone meal and the plants will be hand watered with raw salts that will be custom mixed in a 20 gallon tank.
I am just wrapping up the final trim of last season's late plants, seed processing and extractions of trim and larf (that may take awhile) so I got started a couple weeks later than I wanted, but that's the way it goes. I have an out of state trip in early September so I don't want to get too far ahead of myself. I have help while I'm gone, but they have black thumbs with documented history to prove it :teeth:
Anyway, I'm kicking this season off with a pheno hunt through some Oaxacan sativa seeds I made from RC_Colas original reproduction, a reproduction effort of some Genius Thai from Mr GT and some F2's of the original Kali Mist stock from Mantis Genetics. If these are viable I will be doing and open pollination/reproduction and then pheno hunting in 2020/21.
Also growing their freebie Kali Mist x Blueberry - got to take a minute to commend them for being stand up vendors and the first two shipments were confiscated and destroyed by customs. They went the extra mile to ship in a different manner and the third shipment was the charm.
Not much to see at this point so the pics will be scant for awhile, got a tent full of mums to play with as well.
I was wrapping things up last season when I joined here so I haven't really shown anything to this point. I'm a long time smoker ('77) and have been growing off and on since '83.
About 20 years ago I decided to get a serious personal grow going again as I was just not impressed with the herb I could buy on the street and shortly after that my mother was diagnosed with cancer. Those two occurrences originally lead me to OverGrow (where I lurked until it was shut down), some incredibly kind folks in Cali that I met on a business trip and then eventually to ICMag.
I've learned a tremendous amount over the years and have tried to change up and improve at least one aspect of my growing/harvesting/processing gameplan every year and for the most part I have learned, improved and moved on every year. Better techniques, better mixes, better feeds and of course better genetics.
I am in west central Florida so we get very little cold weather here (not enough for my tastes) and that gives me a flowering season from September until mid May.
I usually start seeds and take cuts from mums right about now and this year is no different.
I grow in peat and perlite and one of this years improvements is to add about 10-15% coco to this mix and hopefully get better roots as I am re-using the mix from last year.
I will amend that mix with some dolomite lime, calcium carbonate, gypsum and some bone meal and the plants will be hand watered with raw salts that will be custom mixed in a 20 gallon tank.
I am just wrapping up the final trim of last season's late plants, seed processing and extractions of trim and larf (that may take awhile) so I got started a couple weeks later than I wanted, but that's the way it goes. I have an out of state trip in early September so I don't want to get too far ahead of myself. I have help while I'm gone, but they have black thumbs with documented history to prove it :teeth:
Anyway, I'm kicking this season off with a pheno hunt through some Oaxacan sativa seeds I made from RC_Colas original reproduction, a reproduction effort of some Genius Thai from Mr GT and some F2's of the original Kali Mist stock from Mantis Genetics. If these are viable I will be doing and open pollination/reproduction and then pheno hunting in 2020/21.
Also growing their freebie Kali Mist x Blueberry - got to take a minute to commend them for being stand up vendors and the first two shipments were confiscated and destroyed by customs. They went the extra mile to ship in a different manner and the third shipment was the charm.
Not much to see at this point so the pics will be scant for awhile, got a tent full of mums to play with as well.