Recent content by Rocketman64

Mr.C is by far the best customer service person I've ever dealt with in this crazy seed business. He does what he says he's going to do and does it with a smile. Here's a quick email I received after placing an order with Canazon: "... i was going through todays invoices earlier and i think i...

Okay, all you guys are right on the button. I've never seen this before in any of my plants so I assumed it was a strange phenol. In reality, it had a nutrient deficiency problem of some sort. I've been using this soil mix for years but for some reason, this year it's lacking something. I dumped...

Thanks partner. I'm not one for taking clones so this will be kinda new to me. I think I'll go ahead and snip one just because all the other plants I've grown from this batch of seeds have not impressed me.

I only posted to the Advanced section with this one because I'm assuming some of the more experienced growers may be hanging here. I've been begging old friends over the last year to go through their old smoking gear to see if they could find some seeds from days gone by. Finally, a good friend...

The dreaded post hole digger, uggggghhhh. I spent 8 years installing satellite dishes for a national company many years ago. We installed rain or shine and in the dead of winter with a frost line touching around 12". Our posts had to be below 40" to keep the freezing ground from heaving the...

Excellent idea using the malting idea. Like you, it's tough to quantify exactly what's being used but again, it certainly doesn't hurt anything. Have you done any side-by-side just for giggles?

Never ending battle I imagine. Congrats on a sweet looking(and producing) vineyard!! I hope it's more than a labor of love for you, labor of 'cash' sounds more fun.

I'm actually distilling but the process of mashing is virtually the same. So grass seed, huh? I'm listening...

During my travels I've driven past vast areas of grape vines that seem to run for miles. I simply can't imagine the time involved in harvesting a viable crop from all that. Holy smokes!!

Ahhhh, malting. I know this process quite well as one of my other hobbies requires this same process to allow the enzymes to break down the starches into something my little yeasties like to eat. Although you have anecdotal evidence only, it seems to me the readily available sugars produced by...

I'm impressed with the even spacing of the spurs and just how organized it all looks. I imagine this vineyard has a few years on it? I can see something like this taking quite some time to arrive at what we're seeing here. Were all these vines planted as just shoots from another vine, kind of...

So, in the harvest pic- all the foliage we're seeing originated from the spurs you have spaced apart on the cordon arms? Forgive my ignorance but are spurs also producing the buds for the grapes themselves or do they come later from shoots off the spurs? Thanks for the info YouTwitFace.

Check out some information on Mycorrhizal networks if you really want to keep it simple when it comes to soil life. You'll be amazed how easy it is to maintain a proper soil balance with the correct ingredients. Molasses is nice but I prefer it in my cookies!

Excellent post, Ben. Interesting times we live in. It's stuff like this that keeps reminding us just how little we know. After all the years of study on plants and all living things, new stuff is discovered every day. It's truly a treat for a science guy such as myself to sit back and soak it...

Pretty straight forward for me as well, however, 'sugar supply' shouldn't be taken literally. In other words, dumping white cane sugar in your soil, well, duh. Hope they have enough research dollars to continue the study and determine exactly the molecular structure of the 'sugar' they're...