Cannasseur's 2010 Organic Grow Show

[Cannasseur]

After a ton of procrastinating, this year's grow is finally underway. From trying to find a suitable spot to gathering enough ambition to take cuttings, 2010 has been riddled with dilemmas left and right. This year we are burdened by being under budget and not able to provide our lovely ladies with all their hearts could desire. I would've loved to see a medium enriched with azomite, alfalfa meal, greensand, etcetera, but instead we mustered what we could to bring you this endeavor..

The past couple of weeks have been arduous as we made multiple ascensions into the mountain valley with soilless medium, clones and Earth Juice in hand.

The Cuttings
AK-47 - Serious Seeds
Blueberry - Dutch Passion
Chiesel - Big Buddha
S.A.G.E. - T.H. Seeds
S.D.S. "Sativa Dominant Strain" - Gifted Cutting
Super Skunk - Sensi Seeds
Trainwreck - Greenhouse Seed Co.***
White Russian - Serious Seeds

Crosses
S.D.S. x Wonderberry F1
S.D.S. x Himalayan Gold F1

***(I do not advocate GHS in any shape or form, the seeds were gifted to me)

The Medium
-6 parts Peat Moss
-1 part Earthworm Castings
-1 part Household Compost
-15-20% Perlite

-1 tbsp Blood Meal per gal
-2 tbsp Bone Meal per gal
-2 tbsp Kelp Meal per gal
-2 tbsp Pelletized Dolomite Lime per gal

Upon arrival to our destination, we skulked throughout the bush thoroughly surveying the area, plotting out our spot locations and getting to know our surroundings. With our sites established, we hastily watered them in with a soaking of Neptune's Harvest Seaweed Fertilizer (mixed at 1/2 Tbsp per gal). You can't go wrong with an assortment of vitamins, minerals, and hormones to help combat transplanting shock.

Once all ends were tied up, we began our trek home, but not before applying a barricade of Slug Magic and Liquid Fence around the perimeter of every plant to ensure our happy reunion next week.

 

[HerbGlaze]

Sounds good to me, i'm stoked!

Do you have a youtube account cannasseur?

 

[Cannasseur]

Thanks for stopping in Herb! I do have a youtube account, but not one entitled Cannasseur, I feel it's way too risky combining the worlds of fiction and reality.

Anyhow, here we are two weeks later. We applied a concoction of EJ Grow (1 tbsp per gal), EJ Meta-K (1 tsp per gal), and Seaweed Fertilizer (1 tbsp per gal) plus a topdressing of Earthworm Wormcastings. With AACT lacking in availability on top of a mountain, I've become obliged to compensate for this by incorporating the bounty of topdressing as much EWC as possible to all our lovely ladies.

Trainwreck

S.D.S.

Blueberry

 

[Cannasseur]

S.A.G.E.

Super Skunk

AK-47

During our journey back home, one of my partners pointed out this canker on a passing American Beech (Fagus Grandifolia).

Through fungal infection, the Xylem and Phloem has been plugged up by Compartmentalization resulting in this hyper growth from the concentration of resources..

 

[GreenMAX]

Great looking plants!!!
But what is the reason you are growing in pots?
Digging holes is one time hassle many years benefit task, not to mention better security and less watering...
But maybe Im just mislead by size of plants and those pics are before transplant

 

[Cannasseur]

Thanks to a huge lack of ambition and some technicalities, we chose to go with pots over digging holes. Procrastination has a huge part in it this year. Plus last year many of our clones were not able to finish due to the combination of a wet season and early frost. So in an effort to combat against premature harvesting, we chose buckets. In my experience bucket plants typically finish faster outdoors due to the fact they actually have the ability to dry out in my climate. Typically we get annual rainfall rates of around 40-45 inches. So I myself am fond of the idea of having as much control as possible, rather than letting it attempt to dry out in my climate. I also follow the mindset that nothing good comes without hard work, so a trip or two a week does not feel like too much of a burden to me.

Thanks for stoppin' in GreenMAX, tell all your friends.

 

[haxi]

Nice show man!
Can't wait for the next updates

Keep up the good work!

Peace

 

[Cannasseur]

With another week gone by, it's time for another update...

When I arrived I found myself greeted by During this last visit to the plot, I found myself burdened with a whole new dilemma. Apparently, the spring that ran through our patch has begun to dry up with the minimal rain the past month. Things are beginning to look ominous. Regardless of our newly rising problem, we made an effort to combat the drought till the next heavy storm with a gracious dose of Earth Juice Grow, Molasses, and Maxicrop Soluble Seaweed Powder.

S.D.S. (Sativa Dominant Strain)

Blueberry

Chiesel

 

[Cannasseur]

AK-47

Super Skunk

White Russian

Greenhouse "Trainwreck"

In celebration of a hard days work, I took a detour to the patch of wild Low and Highbush Blueberries conveniently located near the plot...

 

[[m8]]

good looking plants k++++++++

 

[Daniels88]

nice trees you got around you. Love them outdoors

 

[Rob547]

Lookin beautiful man! Keep it up!

 

[shrpshooter]

all your lades r beautful keep it green shrpshooter

 

[Cannasseur]

So here we are again with a new installment of another outdoor experience. The last few months been quite the arduous journey, but I appreciate what I have learned along the way regardless of how bad things look at the moment..

With the combination of a never ending rainless summer and lack of water, quite the damper has been put on the health of the plants. As a result of our water source drying up to near nothing, we were forced to kiss things up to the sky and hope for rain.

S.D.S.

S.A.G.E.

GHS Trainwreck

It became apparent that this was quite futile, when we learned that as far water collection the containers seems to be near useless. Now a whole new box of problems has been opened. Our crops' resistance to infection went hand-in-hand out the door along with their health.

This is the problem we have more recently been encountering...

...But I'm not sure whether to chalk it up to an insect, or some sort of microbial pathogen. There's quite abit of insect droppings on the plants that are infected, but the lesions and necrotic spots make me lean toward the direction of a microorganism.

 

[sierrahippy]

fantastic morning read thanks. Great luck to you on a good finish, May it rain for you.

 

[Cannasseur]

So after a bit more research, it seems that we are dealing with the culprit Bacterial Leaf Spot.