5150's Backyard 2013

5150 said:

Hippy do you have grow link?

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Sadly no, this year I am growing for myself and another patient and he would prefer the grow remain as undocumented as possible.

My grow is a bit behind, having PH issues and it's been overcast in the morning so now a few of my plants are flowering... AGAIN... this year's been tough on my garden.

Update video for you all. Getting some nice growth now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e9CVTWyljk

hey man i just watched the video, nice job man, considering you started off this late, thats some nice native soil you got, got me jealous, this florida soil sucks, atleast the parts around here, nothing but roots and sand,

Thanks man. I know some people may be tripping on no ferts yet. If so can I direct you to my avatar or sig grows. I did use 2 bags of FFOF soil in those grows. But we all know two bags will not grow plants waist high when your standing on your roof. So something is going on with my natural soil and I tend to find out. First sign of yellowing I will feed. Not sure what to do during flower though. My soil may be N only. Also one must remember each time I planted in the soil I never had any yellow leafs even during flower. Some older leafs yellow sure. But for the most part were talking none. Thats another factor I have not feed yet.

If I water the grass I can collect nightcrawlers like crazy. It's amazing really. I think my backyard is a huge worm bed. It's has concrete on all four sides for 40 plus years. The only thing I can think of is huge worm bath tub. They have no place to go and my backyard is narrow.

5150 said:

Thanks man. I know some people may be tripping on no ferts yet. If so can I direct you to my avatar or sig grows. I did use 2 bags of FFOF soil in those grows. But we all know two bags will not grow plants waist high when your standing on your roof. So something is going on with my natural soil and I tend to find out. First sign of yellowing I will feed. Not sure what to do during flower though. My soil may be N only. Also one must remember each time I planted in the soil I never had any yellow leafs even during flower. Some older leafs yellow sure. But for the most part were talking none. Thats another factor I have not feed yet.

If I water the grass I can collect nightcrawlers like crazy. It's amazing really. I think my backyard is a huge worm bed. It's has concrete on all four sides for 40 plus years. The only thing I can think of is huge worm bath tub. They have no place to go and my backyard is narrow.

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Yeah buddy, I am also blessed with an abundance of nightcrawlers in the garden soil. Seems like they double every year I flip the soil. What did you pull of that huge beast?

no added nutes yet - yee haw! like yer style - givum what they need when they need it. I amended my expensive store bought soil with the idea that I would not need to feed N but they still charged through (in a yard of soil) 20lbs of worm castings, 5 lbs of blood meal, and all the N that was in the guano and fish bone meal I put in too. my native soil does not kick ass i'm a lil jealous

Holy nitrogen batman, theres no need to fertilize for now anyway. I am color blind and I see how green them ladies are. Are you concerned with a nitrogen excess during flower? Too much N past couple of weeks into august and IMHOP ya get leafier fluffier buds that I am not as interested in...

But your ladies are way bigger than mine! A lot of mine are still stunted from our funky weather earlier in the year... That and I figured out the issue with my crop it was not only PH but an excess of calcium in my water, calcium carbide I believe.

Where do you get your water and do you treat it or add ph down? I used to use rain water but now I live in the city this year and have been forced to use water from the municipal supply... and it sucks. Been having to use brita water because I don't want to pay 2.50 for 5 gallons of RO and I don't have $100 for a RO filter...

HippySmoke said:

Holy nitrogen batman, theres no need to fertilize for now anyway. I am color blind and I see how green them ladies are. Are you concerned with a nitrogen excess during flower? Too much N past couple of weeks into august and IMHOP ya get leafier fluffier buds that I am not as interested in...

But your ladies are way bigger than mine! A lot of mine are still stunted from our funky weather earlier in the year... That and I figured out the issue with my crop it was not only PH but an excess of calcium in my water, calcium carbide I believe.

Where do you get your water and do you treat it or add ph down? I used to use rain water but now I live in the city this year and have been forced to use water from the municipal supply... and it sucks. Been having to use brita water because I don't want to pay 2.50 for 5 gallons of RO and I don't have $100 for a RO filter...

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Right out of the hose. I do PH me ferts (Fox Farms) when I do feed. I am glad I got rid of my flowering plants when I did. I lost month or more grow time but I did it early enough to do well.

Yes buds are on the leafy side on the sativas. Indica do much better IMO. Nothing that kills the buds though but yes it plays a factor.

My advice with early flowering plants is to toss them in the compost pile if it's early in the season.

Subbed up. I'm also up in the PNW, little north in Western WA though. Really been enjoying checking out your grows. What size holes did you dig, and how wide do you expect the ladies to get? I've got a couple plants out back as an experiment this year, but I'm planning something more organized for next year.

I used a post hole auger to dog my holes. I think I have vid of me making part of them. If not in thread let me know I will post it for you. Holes were about 3.5' wide and about 4' deep. with the auger all the holes took me about an hour. Just dug bunch of auger holes to make one big hole. Worked great. It's a work out though.

First night shots of the year. I like some of these for it shows the true dark green if you get the right flash. Right now they are about 3.5' tall and 3.5' wide. You can see 4' slat board laying on the ground. Stretch is about the start anytime now. I got one stunted plant in the corner so I moved the potted plant near it for it a great sun spot in my yard. The runt can do what it's going to do but it's not getting one of the best spots. Also for size that blue pot is 55g barrel cut in half.

Hoping for 5x5 bushes right now. If my natural soil has the gas I think/hoping it's got anything can happen in stretch. Still no ferts at all. Will have to feed the potted plant soon though. It's half FFOF and half natural soil with mega perlite mixed in. I have not seen one single yellow leaf this year so far. Not since planted them in the ground anyway. Right now just watching the plants and let them talk to me. Plus it would be cool to have my first very ever organic pot. As far as ferts go not sure what I will have to do in flower. IDK if mysoil is all N. Been thinking about taking some to get tested at my local nursery. But been saying that for years now.

Oh yah my beans are going crazy as well. Great color also no ferts on them. It turning into great temp wall. Also my dogs are looking at me like what the fuck is this shit. It's that time of year my dogs are outside dogs. 9 months out of the year they sleep in our room. They just got that WTF look at night.

Also time of year to get your driveway alerts hooked up. Don't be that guy that did not know rippers were in the yard. Harbor freight has them and worth every penny. I run 11 of them in my back yard on 8 channels. If a person walks any part of my yard the channels go off in order and light up. Yes I get false alarms every now and then. But false alarms are only one channel at a time. If 2 or 3 channels pop you know 100% you got something in your yard. It's rock solid if you set it up right. Also I found some cool water sock shoes I can sleep in this year. Before I sleep with shoes on and that sucks. These water socks will be much better.

Okay okay time for the pics.

Wow, great, thanks for the detail. I'll have to check for the digging video. Seems you're lucky to have such good soil, I hear a lot about some PNW being terrible. This is my first time planting outdoors so I'm not sure of the quality around me yet, added some into my soil mix just to stretch it a bit due to me over-digging holes, but they're looking good. Everything, including the beans, seems to be loving your soil. Does the nursery test it for free? I know you can grab a home soil test from Lowes, tests NPK and pH. As far as flower ferts, have you thought about top dressing with guano or using compost tea? Good idea on the multiple alarm idea, was planning on picking one up, the more the better. Haha those sock shoes are awesome.

the ebs tthing to grow by your fences and areas were rippers might try to hop are thorn bushes/roses/berrys/etc.. but great job man keep ti up! im about to order some max se 3-20-20 and AN mother earth and FF big bloom grow big and tiger bloom off amazon, i have used some of those nutrients in the apst btu so far all i ahve is super thrive, my girls are nice too in the soil mix i sue its pretty good, but ic ant wait till your baboes are full in flower, BUD PORN!@#$

Explosion time for sure. Safe to say the stretch has started for me. I added a 55g barrel for size comparison. Still no ferts at all. Not even the 50/50 mix potted plant. I will feed the potted one soon tonight though.

Anyway here is another update. Not sure how much these will stretch out. exciting times for sure. Got a late start but happy with the results. Happy I started over with new clones when I did.

strain list.

7 purple kush
2 blackberry kush
1 mendo purps
1 plush berry
1 lemon kush.

First to show signs of flower is the mendo Purps (last pic) Keeping fingers crossed that I have the pink pistil plush berry pheno. Plush berry is the lighter leaf plant with funky bottom branching.

Next step is to clean the bottoms up.

enjoy....

hey so heres an update on the nutrients i plan to use this year
AN- OVERDRIVE (250ml)
AN-mother earth super tea grow (1liter)
AN- bloom,micro and grow( 1 liter each)
FF- beastly bloomz (1 pound)
superthrive (4 oz)
molasses

do you personally think this is a good nutrient mix?

Adrosmokin said:

Wow, great, thanks for the detail. I'll have to check for the digging video. Seems you're lucky to have such good soil, I hear a lot about some PNW being terrible. This is my first time planting outdoors so I'm not sure of the quality around me yet, added some into my soil mix just to stretch it a bit due to me over-digging holes, but they're looking good. Everything, including the beans, seems to be loving your soil. Does the nursery test it for free? I know you can grab a home soil test from Lowes, tests NPK and pH. As far as flower ferts, have you thought about top dressing with guano or using compost tea? Good idea on the multiple alarm idea, was planning on picking one up, the more the better. Haha those sock shoes are awesome.

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Andro...Not wanting to start anything..But most areas of the PNW have fantastic soil quality..The Willamette valley ( Portland is on the north end of) has some of the best soil quality in the world. I'm in the gorge..kind of a fruit tree haven here..I would imagine there are pockets of all areas where soil quality isn't great. But in general The valley's of the whole west coast line can't be beat for soil quaility.

Russianman.

I noticed you left SeaMax off this list..you talked about it earlier. Garden Boss turned be on to the stuff and my girls seem to be really liking it a lot. My local grow shop started carrying it because he said "I've heard nothing but great stuff about it" .

With nutes and soil I really try to keep it organic and simple. Veg, I use E.B. Stone fish emulsion with kelp 4-1-1 with a healthy teaspoon of Molasses, I top dress the plants with worm castings. Then for flower (which started basically last week..I transition of out the fish emulsion using about half strength for a month to my flower nute..which this year is the MaxSea and continue the molasses. I read somewhere on here that MaxSea doesn't provide the Cal/Mag flowering plants need. However the grow shop guy said it has everything the plant will need. So far my girls seem really happy...The only thing going on is things that naturally happen this time of year...a few yellowing big fan leaves here and there low down on the plants.

5150...I like watching your threads man..You do it right! I know you really need the tents/grennhouse over your plants...It's really hit and miss for me. I'm 60 miles east of you and last year we didn't get any rain till October. I have a Blue Magoo that looks like it's going to finish later than I want maybe early Oct..So I might have to build something for that. My Cenex and Purple Lightning look to be finishing mid-Septemberish. My avitar pic is a Cenex mail cola from 2 years ago!

lookin good brother, I just checked out your video, I had one last yr a grape ape that was retarded the whole time of veg, it just stayed the same height didn't do shit, but we just kept waterin and keepin her alive, and when flowering started she blew up and we actually got a good amt off her, but it just reminded me of that when I seen your little plant in the pot, nice plants keep up the good work!

the russian man said:

hey so heres an update on the nutrients i plan to use this year
AN- OVERDRIVE (250ml)
AN-mother earth super tea grow (1liter)
AN- bloom,micro and grow( 1 liter each)
FF- beastly bloomz (1 pound)
superthrive (4 oz)
molasses

do you personally think this is a good nutrient mix?

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I am not the person to ask. I been a Fox farm guy must my growing years.

petert said:

Andro...Not wanting to start anything..But most areas of the PNW have fantastic soil quality..The Willamette valley ( Portland is on the north end of) has some of the best soil quality in the world. I'm in the gorge..kind of a fruit tree haven here..I would imagine there are pockets of all areas where soil quality isn't great. But in general The valley's of the whole west coast line can't be beat for soil quaility.

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I read that all the soil in the valley is soil from Montana from mega flood many years ago.