[_tessarecting]

Hello and welcome to Fireknot farm 2016!

This thread will act as my workspace throughout the year as I transition away from 8 years of hydroponics into organic practices finally! I am greatly looking forward to bumping heads with the growers of IC so we can further our knowledge and experience together!

Here you will find lovely ganja photography, many questions, an open minded attitude, a desire to grow the best, greenhouse construction for veg but no deps, other misc fun like getting water from the well to the top of the hill, maybe some grow poetry, experiments with teas and analysis, soil tests, guerillaing the property, mulching, political commentary in regards to the changes in California, and god knows what else...

Here in the Cali hills @ 2,500ft elevation they haven't banned growing yet but much is still up in the air to see if they will work with the state and allow licensing. The board of equalization spoke in favor of taxing it last year so we'll see. I'm of the naive and faithful disposition I'll be participating in the legal market so as things develop I'll be adapting accordingly.

Right now I'm just starting to plan the season. I'll be taking down some headband and god's gift soon that got ravaged by broad mites. I'll be heat treating my rooms before flipping the candyland. I'm doing mostly Bodhi gear outdoors this season:

Space monkey (gg#4 x wookie#15)
Dragons fruit (oldsog ssh x snow lotus)
More cowbell (gsc forum cut x 88g13hp)
Sky lotus (skywalker og x snow lotus)
Sorcerers apprentice (cheech wizard x appalachia)
Blueberry mountain (dj short bb x appalachia)
Heaven mountain (goji og x appalachia)
Deep line alchemy #3 (a35 x 88g13hp)



I am going to pick the 20 best and chop/juice the rest.

40 yards coot's mix (at half the ammendments of Shcrews' mix) Site #1 (Site#2 taken from old hole)





I have these 20 6'x6' holes in one spot I'm wondering what to do with. I might test the soil this week. The guy who was here before me used them 5 years. I'm going to assume there are no gophers here...but assumptions suck. I'm thinking mounds are a good idea for this spot but haven't decided how I'll do them yet. Ideally I would do all coots mix but my budget may not permit me to do so. I might do one yard of rare earths cheaper stuff with one yard coots mix on top for each mound, but im not sure if thats good enough, what do you think?

Any questions or ideas feel free I'm all ears so grateful to be here and able to collaborate with you all!


And a big shout out to Schrews for all the inspiration!

[Robrites]

I'll watch this show. Glad you are going organic.

PS - think link resolves to ingur not imgur for some reason.
This might work https://imgur.com/a/SqiJS
Also, nice organic bucks.

[mowood3479]

Nice spot. Good luck and heavy harvests

[theJointedOne]

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[gorilla ganja]

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This looks like a great one to watch. Coming from a hydro past as well, It will be interesting to see you transition over to organics. There is a wealth of information on IC.
Check out this thread for a class act as far as setting up a organic greenhouse. Even tho you mentioned no Dep. EssentialGround has the organics figured out.

https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=316308

Best of luck and may all your buds be Huge.
Peace GG

[who dat is]

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[I wood]

Beautiful.
I'm not the jealous type, but you got me feeling it a little.
The hydro phase for me ended in the early nineties. I even invented the constant flow technique (timer broke, plants grew better with pump running 24/7,while trying to find another timer) way before anything but ebb and flow was popular. It was fun while it lasted.
I've never had any regrets about moving to organic dirt.
I wish you well in your endeavor.

[WaxyTaxi]

looking proper, those genes are going to love the outdoors, cant wait to see how everybody does..out of over 100 seeds I popped last year, bodhi's sky lotus is sticking around for a long time...everyone enjoyed the stuff as much as I did.

id say skip the earth stuff and use coots mix.. it seems to have proven itself over the years around here..

good luck T

[exploziv]

Taking a seat as well.

Good luck with your grow!

[_tessarecting]

Thanks everyone! I just set up an instagram @ fireknotfarm (I don't know how to use it yet) and will be posting more pics there as well as here throughout the year. I look forward to following the other outdoor farmers as well.

I like your idea Waxy. I think depending on my budget I'll put a yard of cheaper compost coots mix underneath a yard of the primo coots mix from rare earth, which would give each mound approx 400 gallons of rootspace plus the 6'x6' holes underneath... I'm going to test it for fun pretty soon here (I'm not sure what I'm looking for, mostly curious about it) and will be ordering soil in about a month.