Deltron's Backyard 2010

[deltronZER0]

Hey all,
deltron here, and excited to say that for the first time I'm finally gonna be growing some ganja this summer. I've been planning and schemeing and its finally happened, so very excited to share it with everyone.
I'm in compliance with prop 215 with this garden, and in a decent sized town, so I'm going to keep this to a fairly limited little grow, but hopefully I'll get at least a couple zips of head stash however it turns out.
Strains:
So far, I've got a couple different strains that I'm gonna be running. I popped a single grape ape x ? that I pulled out of a bag of bud, and I have an order from seedboo that just got shipped, and that will have some fem paradise whiteberry, some mandala 8 miles high, and some Mr. Nice walkabout (their outdoor mix). beyond that, I am sort of worried about getting those seeds planted, sprouted, sexed and all before they wouldn't finish in time, so I've stocked up on some genetics from a nice fellow on cl/budtr**er and I got a purple odyssee teen and a blueberry trainwreck teen, as well as a lavender kush clone. Finally, today, I was giving my ladies a little bit of a hair cut, since I didn't harden them off properly and fried some leaves, and ended up taking two lower branches off the blueberry trainwreck, and hoping to root them in solo cups filled with mostly coco, but a little bit of roots organic mix
Soil:
For soil, I used about a 6-5-2 ratio of roots organics green fields and roots organic potting soil and generic expanded coco brick. and to that, for every 5 gallons of soil, I have about 8 cups of roots organics brand worm castings. I am going to be using mostly smart pots this grow, and will also be covering the top of the soil with straw, so as to allow maximum root usage of the soil

I have been avidly reading a couple of the big outdoor plant threads, and have seen time and time again that certain things are incredibly important to growing tasty potent meds outside, and I am trying to maximize my grow around these, though my plants will be MUCH smaller I will be trying my best to incorporate the following into my grow season this summer:
*Foliars (brix/kelp/plain h20)
*smart pots with straw (maximizing the root zone)
*aerated teas (ewc/molasses/oregonismxl)
*training plants to be lower and wide with cages
*keeping it as organic with as many microbeasties as possible

I'll have pictures later today when I find my camera cord, but the recap of where I'm at right now, is:
1 18" blueberry trainwreck teen in a 5g smartie
1 15" purple odyssee teen in a 5g smartie
1 5" lavender kush in a 1g roots pot
2 4-5" blueberry trainwreck clones in solo cups of coco
1 grape ape seedling (w/ 1st real leaves developing) in a 20oz soda bottle


Thanks for dropping by! should be a great season!

 

[#1cheesebuds]

oooo wee i cant wate to see them pix of ur garden.

 

[BrotherGanja]

Me Nether, please so us some pics. I want to see what space your working with and what your plants are looking like. I am in the same boat for this is my first outdoor. Good luck my friend we will be here with ya.

 

[deltronZER0]

hey all, thanks for the interest you two, and love for the other 90 anonymous and non-contributing visitors
That camera cord is proving a little tougher to get my hands on that I thought it'd be, so bear with me for the pix. otherwise, the ladies are looking real nice and perky as they work their way through the hardening off process
what are some good organic silica sources? I had planned on using diatomaceous earth for its potential pest stopping power, but looking at it today, it made it seem like it was only effective as pest killer when dry. anyone know?
and also, could I just add DE to the top of my soil surface and water it in for the silica content at least?

 

[deltronZER0]

Just had a big day in the dirt, mostly non-canna related though. Planted a mess of tomatoes, cucumbers, pumpkins, lettuce, basils, green beans, peppers, and strawberries. very excited to see how this project turns out as well. my garden is about 10x22 feet and it was alot of kind of hard clay soil, so I had to mix in 6 cubic feet of soil building compost, so you best believe my back is sore and hands are blistered. in the first pic, you can see all my veggies in the garden, in addition to an avocado tree, a lime tree, and an orange tree.

Other than that, today was a very exciting day! my package from seed boutique finally came in, and so I have some seeds sprouting as we speak. Threw them in the 6 pack planter things that some of my veggies came in from the nursery. I am currently sprouting 3 paradise white berrys, 4 mandala 8 mile high, and 5 dinafem roadrunners. I haven't heard much about the roadrunners, except that they're a super early strain, so I'm hoping to get a little harvest from a couple of road runner ladies in the beginning of september. Other than that, Ive only heard good things about both white berry and 8 miles high, so very excited on that portion of the grow.

next, we have a little picture of my closet set up, which is a 30w cfl in a makeshift hood all over a grape ape mystery cross seedling, lavender kush clone, blueberry trainwreck clone, and a dying blueberry trainwreck. soon the seedlings will be in here too.

 

[deltronZER0]

Finally, the last two shots are the exciting part! pictures are of my two teens, the blueberry trainwreck, and the purple odyssee. Today was a big day for these ladies too, it was their first in full sun after hardening them off for a while, so they were LOVING the beautiful sun, the early morning kelp and oregonism xl foliar I gave em. They're in 5 gallon smart pots, with a mix of roots organic potting soil, greenfields, coco, and earthworm castings. I've got the tops covered in straw, ala the growing big plants outdoors thread in the tom hill forum, and picked up some diatomaceous earth today that will be watered in next time they get hit with the water.
blueberry trainwreck is the first picture, purple odyssee is the second. I love the structure of the bbtw so far, but the purple odyssee seems to have a kind of runty structure, who knows what flowering will bring
all in all, exciting day, and lots of win

 

[deltronZER0]

Hey guys, another big day in the yard.
First off, the first road runner seed has popped. I finally realized that less is definitely more with sprouting seeds. My method this time was to pack 3-1 coco-roots into the 6 site nursey containers that all my veggie sprouts came in, cover em with a suitably sized tupperware, and throw under a light for 3 days, no muss, no fuss so far.

second, been hardening the little lavender kush lady off, and shes been loving it, showing no signs of any stress or anything. one or two more days, and she might be in the full sun, and a 5 gallon smartie fairly shortly thereafter. 1st pic is of this lav. kush in a shady spot of the garden

Ladies are still doing great, included some update pictures as well. I keep trimming more shit of these ladies, I think I'm finally to a place where I like the purple odyssee structure, but I still like the BBxTW better structure wise. 2nd and 3rd picture are the BBxTW and purple odyssee respectively.

Finally, the purple odyssee lady is having some wierd shit happening with its leaves. the pic is a little blurry, but illustrates the 2 ways it seems to show up. it either kills and dries the tip of the leaf with a small yellow border between dead/dry and crisp green. no noticable discoloration otherwise. the other way it shows up is similar damage, but on the side of the fan leaves, a dead and dry portion, and then a small transition of yellow and dying. The right most leaf has the tip damage, and the two left leaves have the side damage. WHAT IS CAUSING THIS? I do not like it.

 

[deltronZER0]

now the leaves just seem to be purpling already. We had a couple cold nights, but not THAT cold, is this just the cold->purple? or is this something I should be recognizing and treating?

 

[deltronZER0]

ladies are lookin' great, hit 'em with a foliar of EJ catalyst and GH bioweed today and they seemed to be loving it, but they've really gotten much healthier since the last picture and don't look so damn runty anymore. not having to pull off many dead leaves as well, so I think things are on the up and up. lavender kush lady (in the 1 gal) has really kicked it into high fuckin' gear. I have this pitiful picture earlier in this thread 4th post in the closet, and now look at this girl. She's getting a transplant into a 5 gal tomorrow because shes gotta be close to the walls with her roots. Not shown, but I now have a paradise whiteberry in a 3 gal bag, and a dinafem roadrunner also in a 3 gal, for some early stash got another whiteberry lady, that I'll probably also pot up tomorrow.
pictures:
1st: purple oddyssee
2nd: blueberry trainwreck
3rd: badass lavender kush

 

[BrotherGanja]

Nice Deltron those plants are looking better for sure. Healthy and Happy. Got to get those babies out in there home!!! LOL.

 

[deltronZER0]

thanks for the company in an otherwise rather schitzofrenic sounding thread haha
In other news, did some rearranging and repotting today. Got the ladies into a much better spot, where they'll get more than afternoons worth of sun, and also potted up the lav. kush and I now have two white berries and 1 road runner in 3 gal bags.

 

[deltronZER0]

hey all, its been a minute, but the ladies are looking great, and have some new company too! Been having some real overcast weather recently, but the plants don't seem to notice. I visited my parents this weekend, and its the longest I've been away from my plants, and they took it real well, since I did a GH bioweed and EJ catalyst foliar and a gh bioweed, RO buddha grow, and EJ catalyst feeding that I watered in before I left. Was able to pick up 2 more teens from a friend; a OG kush (don't know what cut) and a sour lifesaver, which I've heard only good things about, and the stem is already purple, so I forsee some limey, citrusy purple or blue bud, which is exciting too.
in the picture: the OG kush on the far left in the black #1 nursery pot, the sour lifesaver on the right in the #1 nursery pot, BBxTW in the #5 smartie closest, with purple odyssee behind it, and then the lavender kush is the other #5 smartie, whiteberrys and solitary road runner in the grow bags behind

 

[deltronZER0]

Recently was able to pick up a 3.5 gal bucket, a pump and airstone ($3 from the pet store) and now I've been making aerated compost teas for the ladies, and I gotta watch myself, before I let em get too big. I measured my lavender kush last time I posted, and it was 11" and now its brushing on 14.5" just six days later after I've fed with ACT 2 times and foliar'd once.
other than that, nothing too new or exciting happening here, so pictures, of my sour lifesaver, lavender kush, and blueberry trainwreck, respectively

any questions anyone has, lemme know, I don't bite haha

 

[BrotherGanja]

Nice Deltron,

Compost tea will make a huge difference. Maybe think about added in some sea kelp for micro nutes and guano for NPK. You should try to get those ladies as big as you can. In a 3 gal pot you can get a 5-8oz if you veg em good and keep good momentum during flower. Good luck fellow gardener.

 

[deltronZER0]

the tea that I made has had kelp and buddha grow (from roots organics) in it as well as EJ catalyst and a half cup or 3 shot glasses of ewc, bubbled for ~24 hours.
my air pump is pretty weak, I got it for super cheap used from a pet store, so I don't get any foam or anything, but I figure worst case scenario, nutrients with loads of dissolved O2 are better than nutes without dissolved O2

 

[straintester]

I have to agree with brotherganga....
the compost tea is a great idea and the more root space you give them, the better they will grow

Another great idea is to spray them once every two weeks with neem oil. Its a natural insecticide that helps keep the bugs at bay.

AND a huge congratulations on becoming legal

I have always had a dream to grow big plants in my very own backyard legally and this is my first year doing it also, so can completely relate

 

[straintester]

AND ....

Really nice strain list you have buddy

 

[deltronZER0]

thanks man, it really ended up coming together at the last moment.
I ordered seeds, and got the MNS walkabout, Paradise Whiteberry, and Mandala 8mh pretty late, so I ended up getting the clones that are all in the 5 gal smarties.
and I definetly gotta get on that neem. I've already picked two cat's off my shit, and seen some strange little bugs too. been using dr dorights organic pest spray with my foliars, but it seems mostly useless

 

[MarquisBlack]

Yo, it's 3030, I want y'all to meet Deltron Zero, hero, not no small-feat.

 

[BrotherGanja]

Another really good insecticide for cats is an organic product called Safer. It is a bacteria, when the cats eat it there digestive system gets jacked and they die. To get rid of mites,aphids, soil gnat, fungus gnat, or white flies there is better product than neem. There are concentrated forms of neem which have a chemical called azadirachtin it acts as an digestion disruptor and growth disruptor. Neem just doesn't work cause it is not concentrated, neem mainly shines things up and puts a very week preventative on the plant.

Also you should totally invest in a descent pump I have a $20 pump from a hydro store with two outputs, I don't know the rate of output but it would be good enough for a up to 10 gallon brew. I use a commercial air pump at 70 liters per min. doing 30 gallons of tea. Good luck man I will be checking back in on ya.