Grow, Chop, Dry, Cure, Repeat.

[spontcumb]

Thanks man and Ya, I agree. I cringe when I see guys digging their scissors around inside a perfect bud, trying to clip a perfectly frosted sugar leaf. I like to keep everything as intact as I can.

And keeping those tiny little sugar leaves ends up playing a major role in a truly successful and proper cure of one's smoke!!!

 

[spontcumb]

So it's the beginning of a new chapter for me. Thanks to the help of @greasemonkeymann and @st0wandgrow -- a couple of awesome and extremely knowledgeable organic growers -- my next round of flowers are going to be grown in a fully organic water-only home-brewed soil mix. For the last few days I've been ordering certain ingredients that I need and foraging locally for everything else. I thought I had scored some cheap compost from craigslist, $30 for a standard pick-up full, but it turned out to be half composted horse manure that was still hot and stinky. The old lady was crazy too.......and argumentative......and overall just meaner than a snake. She was one of those hard-nose, take no shit from anyone, lifelong farm girls who'd put a round of double ought buck in your ass if you didn't tread ever so lightly -- which I did. Anyway, long story short, I just bagged up a small compost pile that I had next to my veggie garden.....turned out it was just enough -- about 4 cubic feet. Hopefully it works OK; it was made last summer from a few rotten veggies but mostly out of grass clippings and fall leaves from the previous year.

Here's the compost....black and beautiful. I'll probably have to screen it to get all the clumpy stuff out -- as well as the grubs that were in there.View attachment 3333615View attachment 3333620
Here's some rotten wood that I found by the river that I'm going to throw into the mix to cook also.

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I found this randomly placed gigantic pile of wood chips -- I don't know who put it there or why but it's mine now and I'm going to use it to mulch my containers.
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Damn, I hope this all works lol

You didn't happen to see an overweight dude living in a van down by that river where you found the wood? lol

 

[unwine99]

You didn't happen to see an overweight dude living in a van down by that river where you found the wood? lol

Ya, he was sitting on the pile of wood that I was trying to collect -- I was like "give me the wood bro, I need it for something" -- and he was all like "nah brah, this is my wood" -- so I beat the shit out of him with a metal pipe, rolled his fat ass in the river, and took it anyway.

I guess I might as well finish this thread up with the last few pics I took. I'll be starting a new journal later with a few new things I have going on; I'm trying to upgrade my space a little bit to make it more efficient. I've been pretty busy working on that so anyway, this will be my final post in my first ever grow journal - it's been interesting...............but the next one will be much better, bigger, and a little less pretentious.


Here they were finishing up in the ambient light while I had my new ladies acclimating.

I can't believe how sativa this Kerala turned out. She REEKS like grapefruit.
5 were cut down at relatively the same time - the others finished for a couple more weeks.