Recent content by SurfWeed

i was also thinking of getting a wine fridge, my house only gets to 77 at the lowest..89 in the heat of the day. just harvested some today, decided not to wash it and hang a big chunk up to dry, as i dont have space in my mini fridge to put the whole plant in paper bags. so it will be good...

right on. your posts have been much help through the growing process, and now in the drying and curing stages as well. appreciate you sharing the knowlege. just threw a mesh bag with a cup of rice in there, as it wasnt seeming to want to drop below 70rh, within minutes it went down to the...

ok well disaster has kinda struck. after moving my buds into jars and back into a bag, i came back from lunch to find the freezer compartment on the mini fridge defrosted itself, leaving a puddle of water under my paper bag full of bud. not much of it really soaked through the bag, so i put...

ok you are right, i let the temp get back up to room temperature (which is like 86f for me) and it seems the buds have 'sweat' some of the moisture back out into the outer layers of the flowers and theyre feelin abit moist again. still smells like freshly harvested plant matter, not much...

im quite the newb and drying and curing is the most difficult part of growing for me so far, as i live in a hot, dry area of hawaii (95f+ / 20rh in my house). if i hang dry with ac, the humidity is way low and i have to run a humidifier. also more electricity than id like, having the ac on for...

Well shit. My cover crop came up and I notice my soil was drying out really quickly . So I threw some straw on it to help retain moisture. Fucken barley straw I got from the farm store had seeds in it, and just read they use SENCOR on the land before the growing season, and insecticide called...

thanks for that. ill have to read through for a maui location or way to send the sample in the mail. i re mixed all my soil with peat moss and some more lava rocks. its in the garden bed now, and mycelium is forming on the top in a few spots already. seems fungus gnats and ants are crawling...

Man I’m so glad you guys are chiming in. I mixed on a tarp and shoveled everything into a 2x 4 fabric bed this morning (Including extra black cinders and rice hulls for aeration, amendment mix, and malted barley powder), covered with a tarp. I have no idea about the nutrient makeup of the...

sorry for the confusion. the pile of soil is in my driveway and covered with tarp, so in a sense that is cooking. if i reach into the pile it is very warm to the touch. but i have not mixed my coots amendments with that huge pile. this soil i got delivered is supposedly ready to plant in, so...

thank you. It is crushed lava rock. Mostly About the size of perlite. I get it for about $5 per .75cu ft. The package says ‘provides aeration to clay soils’ and ‘hydroponic growing media’. So I don’t have enough nutrient mix to amend the whole pile. Should I start a separate smaller pile...

Alright. So I now have a huge freakin’ pile of soil in my parking spot. He dropped off way more than I expected. I thought I was getting a yard. It’s gotta be like 3.5 yards. But the stuff seems like it’s really good quality. Smells good. Consistency is that of some good compost. The...

kahului harbor, and a dingy little neighborhood called paukukalo is where my favorite waves are :) but honolua bay is one of the best in the world and a real pleasure to surf when its not so crowded. I had to reschedule the soil delivery due to work and other personal matters. been so busy...

thank you biz, you led me to some extra research about cover crops which i originally decided against. but their resistance to wind makes it a logical option.. im not always the brightest tool in the shed :P thank you both! my guy has just informed me that this topsoil is finely screened...

Thank you all for the good advice. Really appreciate you folks taking the time to answer. The diversity in your suggestions Just goes to show that there are so many ways to go about this and all the methods you guys mentioned sound great. I will inquire further about his ‘topsoil’ - I’m...