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Hi Po Boy. It is beautiful here. Some of the last wild fields that haven't been put to grapes. Soil is poor though and the heat fierce. Still managed a decent garden last year. This year I moved to a shadier spot and hope to do even better. My tomatoes like it too.

Hi growers and smokers. Just wanted to say hello and invite you to check out my grow journal Organic in Napa. Small, legal, 100% Organic and nothing store bought except a little fish emulsion. Feel free to follow my progress (or lack of it) and please comment or advise. All the best. Pope Creek.

Sancho on patrol.

All comments and diagnosis welcome. This bag seed baby seems happy enough, notice how she prays.

Yellowing lower leaves.

This Sour Diesel looks too dark at the bottom. N overload?

This Orange Tangie looks too light green at top. N deficient?

Moving slowly toward business end of summer. Clones are lagging behind seed in size but are further into flower. Garden generally doing OK but some plants are showing one or two signs of discontent. Nothing serious hopefully, just a little yellowing on lower leaves. Possibly points to some...

Good idea, thanks for the tip.

Alfalfa is a very complete fertilizer. I use a tea of alfalfa , banana peel chamomile, compost and kelp meal. I use it as s drench and a folier feed. That along with fish emulsion and amendments I'd pretty much all I use.

When in flower your plants are going to hungry for phosphorus and potassium and less for nitrogen. The manure you used will probably provide all you need ( along with what exists naturally in the soil), however you might want to supplement just to be sure. Good organic sources for phosphorus (P)...

Thoroughly entertaining read. Keep it up chaps!

Regarding pests, I realize that I sound like a know-it-all and I really don't mean to, I totally accept there are times when your crop is in peril and the gloves come off. This is people's lively hood in many cases and the stakes are too high. Also, with gorilla, when you seldom get the chance...

Sure. I hear you. You have to go by your experience.

Wish I could get definitive answer on when is the latest you can apply these techniques. I know ideally you start training and topping early, but think I have read you can do some gentle pruning after preflowers show... Still better safe than sorry so I'll leave em be. Don't think I have...

Calico, Can't agree about spray for bugs, unless they are infested, which other than some snails earlier, doesn't seem to be the case. Big healthy plants are pretty resistant to insects ( when not in a grow room) and once they start heavy resin production even more so. One of the beauties of...

I reckon a big plant like that, with it's thick stems and trunk will hold its buds fine. If you don't prune like crazy. Natural Christmas tree shaped plants grow to bear their load. Unless it had those traits bred out like sour diesel, in which case, he's going to need some scaffold!

Hey, thanks for the advice. I have/am considering topping some but am concerned it might be a bit late. Plants are beginning to show early preflowers. How late is it practice to do it? Thought training was safest. But am reconsidering. Maybe I'll top a couple, film a couple and train the rest. I...

Plenty of land and plenty of privacy. Grow is small and legal and fenced. We rescued and rehabbed a fawn last summer after she was mashed up by a truck. Now she's all better and big and hungry, so the garden is fenced. Soil is poor out here. Dusty and compact but I work it hard, ammending...

Brilliant info on pollination method. Thanks. I'm doing and outdoor organic grow on private land in California. Garden is small and sectioned. Clones from a good source in one area and a grove of bag seed in another. Companion veggies throughout. Plants are in the ground and too tight to be dug...