CBDMed
Well-Known Member
Hola from the Colombian Andes!
I have autism, and also a closed head (brain) injury.
CBD helps my autism, and THC helps my brain injury (and my attitude, haha).
This is my second thread on 420. I am basically still new. I have a lot to learn.
I appreciate all of the advice and help so far!
Thanks @Azimuth , @Emilya Green , @bluter , @Bill284 , @StoneOtter , @InTheShed , @Phytoplankton , @SmokingWings , @Sueet , @cbdhemp808 , @Mycelium Farmer , and many others!
Mission: Get Stoned
The purpose of the grow is straight up to stuff jars and Malawi ferment bags with 1:1 CBD.
Time is hard to come by here, so I needed a stupid-simple system.
@Krissi Carbone suggested the SIP to @Buds Buddy , and Buds had great success with it, so now I want to try!
Colombian Andes Rooftop Greenhouse
I am in the Colombian Andes, and we are in a small town similar to Pasto, Nariño, Colombia.
The daily high is like 70F +/-4 in summer, and maybe 65F +/-4 in the winter. But it is mountain weather, so it is all over the road.
(I could maybe grow inside here, but we lose power like every other day, so that won't work.)
We are looking for the right property for a sustainable organic farm project.
We want to save all of our money for investing in the property, so right now the plan is for an economical temporary greenhouse on the roof.
The only drawback is that there is strong night security lighting, so that photoperiods probably won't flower.
As mentioned earlier, we lose power too much to grow indoors, so that leaves autos.
The greenhouse plan is basically for a big hoop-tunnel where you can take the doors off of each end (for ventilation in the day), and then seal it back up at night (because it gets cold here).
I read on another thread that if the temps drop below 68F, the plant basically stops growing. Is that true?
There's only a few degrees difference in between summer and winter.
To answer a common question, the reason we are choosing a cold climate is because we want lots of rain, because rain in the Andes is decreasing.
However, we don't want WARM rain, because if you can grow coca outdoors, then you have guerrillas, and hence a security concern. So it will be a greenhouse grow.
I bought six big black trash cans to moderate heat. We will see.
The workmen are supposed to buy parts tomorrow, and then come out the next day.
In the meantime I realized I can get started growing in our covered patio area.
It gets some filtered sunlight, so the babies should be ok for a few days.
Hopefully the greenhouse will be built before the seeds are up, but if not, I can string lights temporarily in the patio.
Soil and SIP:
For soil I am using a just-slightly-modified Subcool's Supersoil.
It has some extra worm castings (like 10-15%), and then also 50% rice hulls (to massively boost aeration, because I finally realized that I did not have nearly enough!).
(50% is kind of a rough adjustment, but it was really muddy before, so I hope this opens it up!)
I had juust barely enough time to fill SIPs today if I pushed a little, so I forgot the DynoMyco...
Anyway, the SIP pots are pre-soaking now, so there is no undoing it...
These are the commercial SIP buckets that Buds is using.
We drilled four overflow / air holes in each bucket at the 4" mark, in case it might make some kind of difference
Once I wisened up, I realized I could put a cup over the fill-tube, and then I could use both hands.
I tried to press down on the fill tube a little as I filled the buckets, as it seems like the black stand seals better against the wall of the bucket (which keeps a little bit of the junk out of the reservoir).
Then I packed the soil on the outside of the black stand.
The tube cover makes it much easier to fill the buckets!
Just be careful when you pull the cap (so that nothing goes down the fill tube).
And here's 20 buckets topside.
It took 2-3/4 big trash cans of the supersoil.
I got the buckets inside juust as we lost light.
I moved them downstairs to the covered patio.
The soil was already moist, but I thought to add water to the reservoir while I am soaking seeds, so get the moisture gradient going.
Tomorrow I will scoop out about a Solo cup's worth of the aerated supersoil, and then backfill with already-damp regular soil.
Then I will plant the seeds, and make sure that the moisture content is similar.
(Prob'ly it would have been better to put the regular soil first, before wetting, but we were pressed for time. [Next time, hopefully!])
So tomorrow I will check water levels, add fill-tube floaties, put a cup worth of moist regular soil, and plant.
Seeds:
The seeds are all from sponsors.
First there are five (5) Delicious Candy (aka Delicious Cheese 1:1) by Delicious Seeds.
Second are nine (9) Auto Blue Ace CBD, also by Delicious Seeds.
Third are two (2) Purple Kush 1:1 by a vendor-non-grata whom staff informs me is "no longer to be mentioned"! (Got it!)
Fourth are four (4) Pyramid Seeds Northern Lights CBD.
They are soaking now.
Tomorrow morning I hope to plant.
Then I hope we will have the greenhouse up so we can move the buckets in before they need hardening off.
Thanks everyone for your advice and suggestions.
I have autism, and also a closed head (brain) injury.
CBD helps my autism, and THC helps my brain injury (and my attitude, haha).
This is my second thread on 420. I am basically still new. I have a lot to learn.
I appreciate all of the advice and help so far!
Thanks @Azimuth , @Emilya Green , @bluter , @Bill284 , @StoneOtter , @InTheShed , @Phytoplankton , @SmokingWings , @Sueet , @cbdhemp808 , @Mycelium Farmer , and many others!
Mission: Get Stoned
The purpose of the grow is straight up to stuff jars and Malawi ferment bags with 1:1 CBD.
Time is hard to come by here, so I needed a stupid-simple system.
@Krissi Carbone suggested the SIP to @Buds Buddy , and Buds had great success with it, so now I want to try!
Colombian Andes Rooftop Greenhouse
I am in the Colombian Andes, and we are in a small town similar to Pasto, Nariño, Colombia.
The daily high is like 70F +/-4 in summer, and maybe 65F +/-4 in the winter. But it is mountain weather, so it is all over the road.
(I could maybe grow inside here, but we lose power like every other day, so that won't work.)
We are looking for the right property for a sustainable organic farm project.
We want to save all of our money for investing in the property, so right now the plan is for an economical temporary greenhouse on the roof.
The only drawback is that there is strong night security lighting, so that photoperiods probably won't flower.
As mentioned earlier, we lose power too much to grow indoors, so that leaves autos.
The greenhouse plan is basically for a big hoop-tunnel where you can take the doors off of each end (for ventilation in the day), and then seal it back up at night (because it gets cold here).
I read on another thread that if the temps drop below 68F, the plant basically stops growing. Is that true?
There's only a few degrees difference in between summer and winter.
To answer a common question, the reason we are choosing a cold climate is because we want lots of rain, because rain in the Andes is decreasing.
However, we don't want WARM rain, because if you can grow coca outdoors, then you have guerrillas, and hence a security concern. So it will be a greenhouse grow.
I bought six big black trash cans to moderate heat. We will see.
The workmen are supposed to buy parts tomorrow, and then come out the next day.
In the meantime I realized I can get started growing in our covered patio area.
It gets some filtered sunlight, so the babies should be ok for a few days.
Hopefully the greenhouse will be built before the seeds are up, but if not, I can string lights temporarily in the patio.
Soil and SIP:
For soil I am using a just-slightly-modified Subcool's Supersoil.
It has some extra worm castings (like 10-15%), and then also 50% rice hulls (to massively boost aeration, because I finally realized that I did not have nearly enough!).
(50% is kind of a rough adjustment, but it was really muddy before, so I hope this opens it up!)
I had juust barely enough time to fill SIPs today if I pushed a little, so I forgot the DynoMyco...
Anyway, the SIP pots are pre-soaking now, so there is no undoing it...
These are the commercial SIP buckets that Buds is using.
We drilled four overflow / air holes in each bucket at the 4" mark, in case it might make some kind of difference
Once I wisened up, I realized I could put a cup over the fill-tube, and then I could use both hands.
I tried to press down on the fill tube a little as I filled the buckets, as it seems like the black stand seals better against the wall of the bucket (which keeps a little bit of the junk out of the reservoir).
Then I packed the soil on the outside of the black stand.
The tube cover makes it much easier to fill the buckets!
Just be careful when you pull the cap (so that nothing goes down the fill tube).
And here's 20 buckets topside.
It took 2-3/4 big trash cans of the supersoil.
I got the buckets inside juust as we lost light.
I moved them downstairs to the covered patio.
The soil was already moist, but I thought to add water to the reservoir while I am soaking seeds, so get the moisture gradient going.
Tomorrow I will scoop out about a Solo cup's worth of the aerated supersoil, and then backfill with already-damp regular soil.
Then I will plant the seeds, and make sure that the moisture content is similar.
(Prob'ly it would have been better to put the regular soil first, before wetting, but we were pressed for time. [Next time, hopefully!])
So tomorrow I will check water levels, add fill-tube floaties, put a cup worth of moist regular soil, and plant.
Seeds:
The seeds are all from sponsors.
First there are five (5) Delicious Candy (aka Delicious Cheese 1:1) by Delicious Seeds.
Second are nine (9) Auto Blue Ace CBD, also by Delicious Seeds.
Third are two (2) Purple Kush 1:1 by a vendor-non-grata whom staff informs me is "no longer to be mentioned"! (Got it!)
Fourth are four (4) Pyramid Seeds Northern Lights CBD.
They are soaking now.
Tomorrow morning I hope to plant.
Then I hope we will have the greenhouse up so we can move the buckets in before they need hardening off.
Thanks everyone for your advice and suggestions.
. I'm in.
I’m in for the ride
fellow aspie here too 
