Ghettochild's Ocean Grown Backyard 2010

[3rdEye]

Excellent therad ghetto. I'm a fan of sourcing locally recently and it is just awesome what we can do with local or mostly local supplies.

 

[Centrum]

Good job ghetto

 

[ghettochild]

I am far enough south that winter isn't a huge concern for frost past jan so i through some clones outside for sexing. This perticular clone was the first top off my AK47 in the back yard. I let it be once i figured out it was a girl. It's been in the ground since feb and has had no problems reveging, it has since surpassed the seed mother it came off of.

more pictures coming soon...

anyone know when flowering really starts? thinking of taking 100 zillion million cuttings hear soon.

 

[ghettochild]

spring light dep on ak blueberry and blue dream!

gotta love that california sunshine.

 

[Justin_Credible]

ghettochild,
I was in the Root Wise thread and read a post from you. Clicked on the link in ur sig to this thread. Nice pics, nice shot from the rooftop.

 

[ghettochild]

i found a 12 year old rattlesnake in my grow... unfortunatly it was the end of his road. 2 in one day I have a feeling this is going to be a Dry JULY!

 

[nomaad]

how'd you know it was 12 years old? I found a pretty big old rattlesnake the other day... he was too dried out to even warn us with his rattle. He was moving beween one dry creek bed and another... never seen a snake moving so slow. 2nd siting so far on the farm.

 

[Rainman]

Ghetto - Great thread and good luck with the summer!

Nomaad - You count the rings on the rattle. A ring for each year it was alive or something like that I do believe. Kinda like trees.

 

[ZEROorDIE]

great lookin plants. i wish i had the space and time to veg out some monsters like that before putting em outside to flower.

cant wait to see the buds that grow off those beasts!

 

[ROOTWISE]

Copy/Paste from another site:

Contrary to popular opinion, you can't tell the age of a rattlesnake by the number of rattle segments. A new rattle segment is added to the tail area with each shedding of the skin, and this can happen up to four times a year. The shedding frequency depends on how much the snake is eating and growing. Moreover, the rattles can be damaged, and segments are often broken off.

 

[ghettochild]

So I got a few shots of that clone I was talking about. This thing has a stem wider then a bic lighter.


Here I am standing behind it.





This is a nice way to compare. This seedling on the right was put out a little bit after mothers day in from a 15 gallon pot. No sup. lighting kinda flowered and snapped back quickly.

The clone on the left was put out in feb. a dinky clone in a dixie cup has now become a monster. (1st top on a seedling)



and here are some canopy shots.







These are some very healthy very mature ganja plants!

 

[Trinity Gold]

youre kicking ass and taking names

 

[localhero]

everything looks cool, im glad you did a comparison with the topped v untopped. using locally sourced ammendments = ideal. your garden looks great!

 

[Rainman]

RootWise - No shit! Growing up my Granny gave us that bit of knowledge and so I always kept it on board as truth! Those eastern diamondbacks were big and mean either way! Gonna be hard telling my Granny shes a liar tho! Thanks for the info. great thread also.

Ghetto - Are the cuts all the same? The one on the left is gonna be a beast!

 

[ghettochild]

The rattle snake was at least 4 years old then... and might have been reproducing in the hill next to my house.

the large clone you see is an AK 47, the first top off of the large bushy AK with the other big girls. I forgot to note it is in un-dug un treated soil. The smaller one next to it is a blueberry girl.

 

[ghettochild]

The june gloom has decided to extend itself into july and we haven't got much real sunshine until 5ish where the fog promptly takes back over for the evening. It is ideal weather for picture taking and for plants cellular division... I swear there are new leaves each morning i look at them. Its like aeroponics growth or something!


I THINK I WATERED THEM 3 WEEKS AGO... funny thing is I can't remember the last time i watered I know for sure i gave them a foliar feed and a nice tea about 3-4 weeks ago.

I can't stress enough how you don't need to invest much into the feeding of a plant put in the ground. All you need is good compost and heaps and heaps of fresh mulch. I usually try to flag down tree chippers who cruise around town. 50 bucks can get you a full load dumped. Which is more then enough for 10 plants my size. It will also feed the plants break down over time adding more rich life and biological diversity into your existing soil. The mounds will shrink over time and your plants will explode. Its so obvious/amazing how much carbon a ganja plant can take up in one season. These two pictures are a nice indication of the potential for cannabis and hemp as a means to clean up our atmosphere.

Mothers Day



July 5th




These are my AK-47 seed girls they all share the same pheno and came off the same stock.

Un-topped.



Topped clone mother.

 

[nomaad]

looking mosterous, brother. keep up the good love.

 

[ghettochild]

Anyone got any idea's on a decent frame to hold these buds up... my topped plants are about 4-6 feet wide already. and about 2-4 tall.

I'm going to harvest some local eucalyptus poles from around the beach maybe about 30 10-15 footers build a frame around them and attach netting for support.

wondering if any of you OG's had any better advice.

the AK that is untopped will get tree stakes as it is already 7 ft tall.

 

[nomaad]

i am a fan of bamboo. but if you have a local forage source for usable poles, I'd be a bigger fan of that. if you can help it, don't use them if they are still retaining moisture. thay would probably be bone dry after a few weeks, but it just doesn't seem wise to introduce anything foreign, moist and potentially full of spores and pathogens to your canopy.

Bamboo works great. Its cheap, sustainable on the production side, reusable... And dry. The nodes also make it slip-proof when properly zip-tied into structures.

nice dwarfing of the wheelbarrow. good work.

 

[ghettochild]

nomaad: looks like it's just me and you in here hombre. Good point about the pathogens and unfamiliar spores I don't think i have the time to let them dry out so bamboo looks like the next course of action. Now if only the damn sun would come out... are you guys having tons of fog up north or is it just south of SF?