Shrimp Grows!

[bigshrimp]

Hey all, thanks for stoppin in. Ive been here long enough that i'd like to show you all what i've learned at ICMAG.

I'm a medical patient/caretaker in the state of michigan , licensed for 72 plants total. Spent some seasons out west working on others outdoor grows, trimming, being a dirty traveller kid in the off season. After a while i really just wanted to grow my own crop, that and living outdoors is tiring (and in the PNW very moist).

So back to the mitten which is a lovely place but very much miss the west... mountains, old growth, gold panning, rock hunting, the weed culture.

Anyways i've doing indoor for about two years, heres some shots of what im doing.

 

[bigshrimp]

Some shots of the room to get a feel for the grow. Excuse the floor, its been getting kinda beat up. Its gonna get scraped, painted and pond lined pretty soon. These are all old shots btw.

Open room perpetual, both the veg and flower rooms are about 12x9feet with a height of about 8 feet at the peak, sloping sides down to about 3 feet. Basically a giant reflector.

Veg Area - some t8 panels with a 400w retrowhite CMH in the center.

Here is flower - 2x600w Hps (gavita pro600). New plants go into the center where they are left to stretch straight up. Once they are done with that i move them out a row and start to rotate them a quarter turn each day. For the last few weeks i put them to all the way to the wall where they ripen in low light. There is another row finishing to the left not pictured.

I can fit about 30 plants in there if i really pack them in but usually its more like 25. Average about 2.5 oz per plant.

So playing conservatively @ 60g x 25plants puts me at 1500g/1200w or 1.25 gpw. Its perpetual so who knows...

 

[bigshrimp]

Organic soil no bottled nutes - some homemade concoctions but ill get into that later.

Here's the keystone - the compost operation.



Chickens eat everything - all the shit you normally are not supposed to compost. Dairy - meat - bones. My friend has been feeding his road kill deer all winter, they love it sitting there all day stripping the carcass.

So house scraps go in there where the chickens eat, shit, and scratch around all day. I also add as much carbon material as i can to keep up with the little shit machines. Leaves, weeds, horse manure, old straw/hay, cardboard, etc.

That pens about a year old now so ill scrape it up sometime next year and let it go in a thermal pile for a season. Once thats done a good chunk of it will go to the veggie garden and some will be worm feed.



Some smarties with worms. They are getting a base of used coco, leaf mold, and nice shit i dug up from under some real old bird-feeders. Thats all mixed together as their bedding. For feed they get lots of coffee grounds, ash and roaches, and a sprinkling of kelp/crab/neem/char from time to time. And some local clay that's dusted on the top.

 

[bigshrimp]

Some current stuff i have going on...

Veg as it was yesterday

First time scrog!

Some Cindy's Blue Cheese clones from girls flowering right now.

 

[tleaf jr.]

hey im a michganer too looking good thanks for reppin the mitten right bruh cheers im watching stay warm

 

[bigshrimp]

Thanks tealeaf jr. My setups pretty ghetto right now but i plan on making some huge changes here in the next few months.

These are all (VG's) pre98 Bubbas.

The last two are of the original plant which got chopped yesterday.

 

[bigshrimp]

A couple of crappy happenings yesterday, dropped my camera and now the lens wont close. Pretty much trashed, i was able to upload everything off it though. Sucks, im at the mercy of my camera phone for a while. It takes horrible hps pics.

Other thing was i discovered spidermites on my Flav plant. Chopped it and got it out of there. Had a few more weeks to go but still should be useable. Hosed all surrounding surfaces with a 10% alcohol solution.

A couple of good things though, all of them i spotted were on that specific plant and all the plants around it were in the very early stages of flowering so i should be able to get a few sprays in before budset.

Everything that if felt comfortable spraying got neemed, veg and flower.

Used this recipe since its what i had on hand easily.

4 tsp. of organic neem oil
2 tsp. of Pro-TeKt

I mix this in a shot glass until it's completely emulsified.

I add this to 1 gallon of tepid water - you want around 70F and stir or shake this until it's completely dispersed and then I add 1/4 cup of aloe vera extract and shake again as much as possible to activate the foaming action of the aloe vera extract's Saponins.

I spray the plant until the leaves hang like they need to be watered. Top and bottom of the leaves, all the branches and the top of the soil.

HTH

CC

I'm going to start a aggressive spray schedule and likely will have to order some predator mites to release in flower.

 

[bigshrimp]

Have four Cindy Blue Cheese (CBC) by Marijuanita in flower right now. got a cut of the fifth, which was a dude. The other six in the pack were slaughtered by fungus gnats. when i broke open the plugs to see wtf was up with the seeds there were fg larve eating the seeds. Ill be just throwing seed straight into soil from now on.

They got real big during stretch and i've had to get creative with the flower room.

Heres a pic of them when they were little. And one of the dude.

 

[the gnome]

looking nice shrimps
very-n-grean and healthy.

the last few days i was mixing soil and used those plastic milk crates to lift the tub to the cement mixer to dump in
and thought they would be ideal planters
and i have a pile of em...

so here i click in on your thread and voila' lol
how much soil do they hold?
I usually go w/3gall bags...

 

[bigshrimp]

A square seven gallon smart pot drops almost perfectly in there. I really like them since i'm always moving plants around and it protects the roots and soil from getting disturbed. Sits them about half an inch off the ground too.

Plants in square pots always seem to fill and keep in their space better for me.

I know they make crates that are 2x1x1 feet which would be about 15 gallons, i would love to get ahold of some of those.

 

[the gnome]

same here on square containers,
they pack together nicely

forgot to add...
nice looking nugs on those cougars too are they pre98 bubbas too?
vg...? verdent green?

 

[bigshrimp]

Thanks gnome and yeah the bubbas are from Verdent Green.

The plants in the first post are unknown genetics. She is the solo survivor from a 50 bagseed selection i did on my first run. A good girl for sure, fruity/berry tasting with hashy undertones. Very mold resistant, vigorous, does well in low light.

The only thing i don't like about her is she throw laterals like some plants throw colas - straight out and heavy. Makes for alot of work training or some very droopy plants late flower.

 

[bigshrimp]

this is gonna be fun

1000 watt vert dual arc dropped right in the middle. Sits directly below my exhaust fan.

View image in gallery​

 

[FlaDankster]

Nice stuff BS.Your girls look lovely.Dig the crates also.

New to the vert scene?I myself won't ever use a hood again.

Lookin forward to more pics bro.

 

[bigshrimp]

I spent a good hour trying to figure how i was going to fit the hood in there,It was silly.

This is going to work so much better!

Shit its winter too, i'm kinda mad at myself for not doing this a couple months ago.

Yeah i'm new to the vert scene as of today, didn't even consider it until it just made sense after struggling to fit that hood in. Dont even know how i was going to take care of those cindy's blue cheese without doing this.

 

[FlaDankster]

Nice job on that SCROG also.....


Now may be the time for ya to look into doin that scrog vertically.Don't know if ya have poked through the vert section or not but there are some outstanding grows with some bangin yield.I only grow for me(and the other half...and her 6 lungs)so yield isn't at the top of the list for me....but who don't dig 20 and 22 oz harvests with a measly 600??

 

[bigshrimp]

Got everybody sorted out for now. Day 3 for the scrog.

 

[bigshrimp]

Nice job on that SCROG also.....


Now may be the time for ya to look into doin that scrog vertically.Don't know if ya have poked through the vert section or not but there are some outstanding grows with some bangin yield.I only grow for me(and the other half...and her 6 lungs)so yield isn't at the top of the list for me....but who don't dig 20 and 22 oz harvests with a measly 600??

I'll be diggin through the vert section for sure now. I've seen a couple of those vert scrogs and damn they kick some ass.

The whole thing is i told the wife that i was going to spend less time in the room.

I was planning turning the whole veg and flower room into a multi tent, 1 or 2 plants per light scrogged. Automated watering and all that. This whole vert bulb has me thinking though.

 

[bigshrimp]

Lol @ the bare bulb on a 2x4 sitting next to those fancy gavitas.

 

[bigshrimp]

A couple of sex reversals, first one is my bagseed girl. The second one is a Flav plant given to me by a friend. This flav was a outlier - he said the other 20 plants were fairly generic hybrids but this one shows much more sativa influenced structure and flowering habits. Its also the one i'm scrogging.

If i could only get them to drop thier pollen i'd have some S1s and fem crosses on the way.