The Dons' Organic Garden

Don Tigro.. is that YOU!? rustling in the bushes? Just heard a twig snap, i swear mon… Boys, I think Don Tigro is bout to come out for SPRING! ! He been so stealthy nobody nah seen him yet! SOON!

Here are three early beauties that may interest some of you TGA heads out there.

They are two weeks into veg and were just transplanted into one gallon smart pots filled with our custon soil mix. Really looking forward to the AOS/Querkle cross.

4 weeks from germination.Things are progressing nicely.

Stay tuned...

@DonTesla: Love seeing the worm bin thriving and pumping out wonderful organic matter.
We are close to having things dialed in.



Few days @ 14/10 then its on to flower.

Roughly 38 days from germination and 5 days into flower. A few males have been pulled already. Here is our early favorite. She's an Ace of Spades×Querkle.

Looking nice DP! I may have missed it earlier in the thread, but are you doing your own breeding?

st0wandgrow said:

Looking nice DP! I may have missed it earlier in the thread, but are you doing your own breeding?

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We haven't done any of our own breeding yet but we do plan to. These are from a local breeder. The AOS×Querkle is the most unique of the bunch. Beautiful structure with tight spacing and smaller leaves than the rest of the plants in the room. All the BubbaKush crosses look similar as the BK is clearly dominant. Thanks for stoppin in, St0w. We take the east next year, brother!Heheheh

9 days into flower and things are lookin pretty good.
BubbaKush×Vortex:

AOS×Querkle:

Lemon Haze×Chernobyl:

Those gals are lookin stellar!! You might have to give your little buddies in the soil a treat for taking such good care of them.

The Wings future looks bright. A lot of young guys stepped up and proved they can play at that level. Anthony Mantha could come out of junior next year and step right in to the NHL. He's projected to be better than all of the other prospects in the organization. I'd like to see them pick up a top-pairing type d-man in the offseason though....

Thanks st0w!!! Ladies are lookin great but its a team effort so alot of credit has to go to DonTesla for his TLC. Not sure where hes been lately...
I agree with you about the Wings. Nyquist really impressed me and Helm can be quality when healthy. But even Tatar and Abdelkater are lookin good. They have always been great at scouting and making steals at draft time.

Whats in dee soil mon, and what's that top layer?

Well to a 12 gallon base mix consisting of humus-based soil, coco coir, fresh worm castings and perlite we added the following amendments:
2-1/2 cups dolomite lime
3/4 cup blood meal
1 cup bone meal
1 cup dry all-purpose
1 cup crushed eggshells
1 cup greensand
1-1/2 cups alfalfa meal
3/4 cup kelp meal
1/4 cup soft rock phosphate
1/2 cup rock phosphate(granular)
1 cup brown rice
5 cups steer manure
Moistened, mixed and cooked for about a month. For the seedling stage they were in this same high-power mix just cut with more coco and worm castings. They've been fed nothing but pure water so far. That top layer is small nugget bark mulch. Thanks for stoppin in!

What does the mulch on top do? I've seen it mentioned a couple times but I'm not sure, how do you top dress with certain ingredients from time to time with that on top.

the most microbes are supposed to live in the top 3 inches of soil, so the mulch keeps this layer from drying out like it would normally. That's what I have read at least, maybe the don's have a different reason? Im going back to mulch myself as the top of my pots is always super dry with all the air movement and stops the roots from growing the top of the soil.

Yea we like to mulch so those top roots get lots of air. It helps with water distribution as well and makes watering more gentle on the beneficial fungi which are very delicate.

She be a beauty!

That's a winner! thoroughbred

@ALL:
SOOOO, GOOOD To be back..
MASSIF BIG UPS, JAH_SPRING IS HERE! YA MON!


Upful Ganja Tracks for us to enjoy

Mr.Head said:

the most microbes are supposed to live in the top 3 inches of soil, so the mulch keeps this layer from drying out like it would normally. That's what I have read at least, maybe the don's have a different reason? Im going back to mulch myself as the top of my pots is always super dry with all the air movement and stops the roots from growing the top of the soil.

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***PSHT!!***
AY BIG H! good points, mon! why weh Dons also like dese nice wood chips, is cause dem protect da micro life and da big worm king from da bright light, right! they thrive massive in a da dark, they nah scared of it!! FEARLESS!
@DonPetro :
JAHJAH, and Lots of roots right to da top of soil, brotha …