slow drawl
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No... they grow in 3 gal. bags until its time to move em on up.
Another Oregon Grow
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Humanrob
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LOL my bad, those drip irrigation pipes looked like the tops of pots to me...
Amshif87
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Subbed and interested in any extra plants, m or f. I'd really like a good make to throw to my manzana weed cut. She needs some hazey pollen in her life lol
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slow drawl
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Sounds like a plan, I've never tried the manzana before.
This will be my first year making seeds.
I ordered the Bangi after reading of its early finish for a Sativa and resistance to mold, we shall see.
I'll let you know as soon as the cuttings are strongly showing sex.
Amshif87
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The manzana was a ten year old seed bag seed from Manzana Washington. It had been worked outdoors up there for almost a decade. My buddy had been carrying the lone bag seed around for ten years and he finally popped it last year. Super Sativa leaves on an indica frame. Not a lot of side branching and minimum stretch, like literally .5 in a soil mix that was probably a little high on N. I don't want to lose the parsnip/sandalwood/spice she's got going on, but I'd really like to open her up and stretch her out. And if Bengi is a fast finisher then it will be perfect as she is as well.
slow drawl
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Interesting strain ya got there, the Bangi might cross well with it.
I love my sativas, always on the hunt for something potent I can finish here on the wet side.
Amshif87
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I've got a couple things working but I won't pass anything out until they've been tested by the crew. Maybe someday I'll get around to throwing some pics up and make a thread. Years on the east coast with draconian weed laws have me in the habit of keeping no documentary evidence around. But even here where things are a little friendlier a little discretion never hurt.Me too!!! @Amshif87 -- if you come up with some good seeds, you might be able to go into business... at least at the local level.
Humanrob
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Absolutely! I'm all for keeping everything I do legit. For my situation, there is no need or temptation to do otherwise. I believe that at least for now, the world of bartering is still open and legal... just as a side note.
Amshif87
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Well I'll post them up for local testers. I'm going to be working a black lime reserve crossed to a mothertongue male and I'll probably stick the same male to my blue city diesel. I've been a member for 4 years and never really posted but now that I'm doing more than lurking I think I'll stick around. Sorry @slowdrawl for de-railing your thread. I offer flowers in recompense
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slow drawl
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I love testing...nice looking floral display.
No problems man, feel free to post away. I need help keeping my own thread going. So much going on in the spring it's hard to get on here much.
Amshif87
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I feel you there. We're at a new spot this year so it meant building the food and medical gardens from the ground up. But I've got all of them in their holes and they are looking super happy. Now I've got to start focusing on some projects inside.
Amshif87
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I just re read your thread and I couldn't find any information on what you used for soil in the bags in your greenhouse?
slow drawl
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This is basically my first thread for a grow so I'll probably leave a lot of shit out that most of you would include.
I took my soil from last years grow Ocean Forest/Happy Frog and 1/3 my garden soil and dumped it onto my 2 raised beds and amended with..... and incorporated the top 4" of my raised bed soil.
My Compost
Alfalfa Meal
Feather Meal
Azomite
Neem Seed Meal
Fishbone Meal
Kelp Meal
Bone Meal
Cotton Seed Meal
Dolomitic Lime
Then covered it up for 2 months.
This will be a water only grow with the exception of a periodic dose of teas.
Getting ready to go camping for a few days, I'll chop down a good amount of stinging nettle and horse tail while I'm there and start some tea when I get back.
Hopefully the Bangi Haze cuttings will be showing sex by then, the parent plants are growing quickly and I'm running out of space.
Amshif87
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Right on man, this year I started by adding 6 cu ft of EWC from NW redworms to a bale of promix that I found we're expanding to about 7.5 ft. It's a super basic commercial version of promix made by Sungro. It's 75% peat and the rest is a mixture of horticultural pumice and perlite. To this I added a 50# bag of turface, it's like little chips of hydroton. It is used on baseball infields. Apparently it works as an aeration amendment and also can give your plants a couple extra hours before they dry up in a heatwave. This brings my base to 15 cu ft. I 5-5-5 organic fertilizer from Concentrates NW. It has kelp, alfalfa, flaxseed, fish, and fishbone meals with glacial rock dust, and mycorrhizae. I beefed this up with neem seed meal additional glacial rock dust and Azomite with oyster shell flour as a liming agent. might have missed something I'll go back over my notes. I did this 6 times and split it between 12 holes. I scored the promix from my buddy who got 30 bales of that, 25, 3 cut ft bales of Metromix 360 and 20 bags of turface for free off of craigslist from a sungro employee in Hubbard that got laid off. Cost me a 1/2 oz of flower for 9 bales and 9 bags of turface. I'm $50 in a plant between EWC and amendments. Feeling pretty good about that. Only 60 gallons per plant but I'll be pulling tarp in mid July. My native soil is super fertile if a little rocky. After I take my first round down I plan on throwing 50 gallon smart pots right over the holes. Sorry for the long winded post, Chernobyl got me feeling chatty. Happy growing.
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WV: Jetson
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That's a beautiful picture: you got your trampoline, you got a sweet looking deck and E-Z Up, you got a nice looking pile of amendments and a trailer full of soil, all in the backyard of suburbia (Portland?). And a couple of plants, somewhere, waiting to get their grow on.
Amshif87
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I'm between Portland and Salem in the heart of the willamete valley. But you were pretty close with the suburbia, I'm 2 blocks of main st in small town America. Got the girls in the holes on the 11th. Some went out vegged pretty well and a couple were large clones. Got my other girls keeping watch on everything. Should be a fun year. I'll start a thread tomorrow morning with all of the details of what I'm doing sorry again @slowdrawl for derailing
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Amshif87
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Alright, finally started a thread of my own. Stop by and have a look
https://www.rollitup.org/t/oregon-on-a-budget-2016-s-for-pennies.910711/#post-12642206
Happy Farming!
https://www.rollitup.org/t/oregon-on-a-budget-2016-s-for-pennies.910711/#post-12642206
Happy Farming!
slow drawl
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Good looking start to your season man, I see quality and quantity coming your way.
Nice growing area ya got there. Gotta love Oregon..growin in the back yard.
Because of shitty soil here on my lot I've been forced to build raised beds. I'm happy with them because I've got to build the soils the way I want over the last 17 years but It's expensive to start. I have 12 of them currently and have no more room.