Crawdaddy's 2014 Summer Outdoor Season

[Duncan]

Healthy and beautiful plants, Crawdaddy.
Maybe I missed it, I skipped a few pages, but do you leave them all in pots, or do some go in the ground?
I find plants in the ground usually do better, providing the soil has been prepared well, or they're planted in good soil to begin with.
Keep it hazy,
Duncan.

 

[Crawdaddy]

Healthy and beautiful plants, Crawdaddy.
Maybe I missed it, I skipped a few pages, but do you leave them all in pots, or do some go in the ground?
I find plants in the ground usually do better, providing the soil has been prepared well, or they're planted in good soil to begin with.
Keep it hazy,
Duncan.

Thanks and welcome bro!

They are all in pots of one kind or another, the whole patio is concrete and other point in the yard can be seen easily, the big concrete patio is the most private. So kind of hard to plant in ground LOL.

Here is the rundown...

Big Blueberry-25 gallon nursery pot ProMix mix (all my soil mix is ProMIx HP + 1 bag of Ancient forest per bail+2 cups fine dolomite per 10 gallons) (back Middle)
Flower Bomb Kush (FBK) -20 Gallon nursery pot Promix mix (back Left, 2nd picture is it a week back it hidden back there)
Critical-20 gallon nursery pot ProMix mix (back Right)

and these last two are both growin 'Capn Style', 15 gallon airpots with rockwool cubes top feed with big res on bottom..\

Barney's Vanilla Kush (BVK)(right)
Barney's Crimea Blue (BCB)(left)

Hope that helps!

 

[TheCapn]

Thanks and welcome bro!

They are all in pots of one kind or another, the whole patio is concrete and other point in the yard can be seen easily, the big concrete patio is the most private. So kind of hard to plant in ground LOL.

Here is the rundown...

Big Blueberry-25 gallon nursery pot ProMix mix (all my soil mix is ProMIx HP + 1 bag of Ancient forest per bail+2 cups fine dolomite per 10 gallons) (back Middle)
Flower Bomb Kush (FBK) -20 Gallon nursery pot Promix mix (back Left, 2nd picture is it a week back it hidden back there)
Critical-20 gallon nursery pot ProMix mix (back Right)

and these last two are both growin 'Capn Style', 15 gallon airpots with rockwool cubes top feed with big res on bottom..\

Barney's Vanilla Kush (BVK)(right)
Barney's Crimea Blue (BCB)(left)

Hope that helps!

Wow! Looking so good. I would kill to have that set up in my back yard. What a great playground. I can tell there has been significant growth since the last time I saw these plants.

I really like your choice to amend the promix with the ancient forest. That is a great combo. Did you make that dirt recipe up?

Can't wait until a couple months when these things are all budded out. Especially interested in the barney's genetics.

 

[Crawdaddy]

Wow! Looking so good. I would kill to have that set up in my back yard. What a great playground. I can tell there has been significant growth since the last time I saw these plants.

I really like your choice to amend the promix with the ancient forest. That is a great combo. Did you make that dirt recipe up?

Can't wait until a couple months when these things are all budded out. Especially interested in the barney's genetics.

Thanks so much man!

For the soil mix not sure where I got idea, think saw one guy amend with ancient forest and another with dolomite, so I figured why now both. Plus was having pH fluctuations near end so figured dolomite help that. There is some in pro mix as is, but not enough IMO.

Well we get Barney's genetics growin Cap'n style, and they are looking great so far, was going to get some stem shots tomorrow, the vanilla Kush stalk is especially think and gnarly.

 

[Lester Freeman]

Hey Craw, or anyone else interested in hydro growing, a fellow new member needs you to take a look at his problem!

Plant die off at day 30 - never seen before - desperate for help

 

[Crawdaddy]

Jarred and weighed the 4 autoflowers harvested last weekend...

This one is nice...

And so is this one, excuse the cat hair dropped on floor

This one a bit airy, but still looks potent and smells good

This one my favorite though, just has that look

These 4:
21.1
22.8
21.6
16.7
Previous 3:
48
total: 130.2

And the bud seems ot smoke well too pleasantly surprised overall with my first auto grow. Easy as pie too.

 

[Lester Freeman]

Very nice harvest Craw, looks yummy for sure. Nicely formed buds, I can see why that one nug is your favorite.

Have a good day buddy

 

[GardenFaerie]

Pot topiary! Nice. I notice many people trim their buds to an inch of their lives to make them look all pretty. I smoke the small sugar leaves with the buds. Grind it all together. If the leaves have only a little trichomes I remove them, but the ones that are loaded remain. Is there a reason why buds are groomed so tightly? Does it make better curing?

 

[Crawdaddy]

I do not know, maybe a smoother taste, I just trim it to what seems good, figure it not make too much of a difference.

 

[Lester Freeman]

It's because we are interested in growing dense, finely groomed, and well formed nuggets.

For me, it just depends on my mood. If I'm lazy I'll leave some sugar leaves on there, and it usually helps the cure and flavor processing because it doesn't dry out too quickly.

I like to trim my nugs pretty damn tight, especially the spring harvests because they're not going to get a big long cure anyway so it needs to be easier for me to use for maximum enjoyment Just makes the hash pile bigger and makes the buds more enjoyable when it's time to vaporize.

 

[SoilGirl]

So beautiful. Great work, I'm really impressed happy smoking!
God that big blueberry... can't wait to see how that turns out! Thanks for sharing!

 

[GardenFaerie]

Yeah, I guess it makes sense. Commercial pot is dense individual small buds. I never understood how they get those like that, but I know the big operations have trim machines. It's fine for them because they come in and scrape and make oils, etc.

I suppose once I build up a really good stash, I'll start to trim nicer. I don't know how much pot I have left, but it is not more than a few ounces, if that. It should last me a couple of months.

I have another question. When you use a grinder and it gets coated in gunk, how to you get the gunk off without ruining it? I know I can swab it off with alcohol, but I don't want to wreck the green glue. What then?

 

[Lester Freeman]

It depends on what the grinder is made out of, but I usually scrape it out using an ice pick and collect the "fairy dust'" so to speak.

Using a solvent would entail evaporating the solvent, or like you said, could dissolve the "glue"

I use a metal grinder so there is no issue with things like that.

 

[Lester Freeman]

Jarred and weighed the 4 autoflowers harvested last weekend...

This one is nice...

And so is this one, excuse the cat hair dropped on floor

This one a bit airy, but still looks potent and smells good

This one my favorite though, just has that look

These 4:
21.1
22.8
21.6
16.7
Previous 3:
48
total: 130.2

And the bud seems ot smoke well too pleasantly surprised overall with my first auto grow. Easy as pie too.

Just bumping this forward Brotha

 

[jaamzhow]

Hey Craw, Ima chop my auto soon; how'd you cure yours, looks so tasty.

 

[GardenFaerie]

Mine is metal. Aluminum, I believe. They said it was aircraft. Ya. I believe that.

 

[SoilGirl]

Yeah, I guess it makes sense. Commercial pot is dense individual small buds. I never understood how they get those like that, but I know the big operations have trim machines. It's fine for them because they come in and scrape and make oils, etc.

I suppose once I build up a really good stash, I'll start to trim nicer. I don't know how much pot I have left, but it is not more than a few ounces, if that. It should last me a couple of months.

I have another question. When you use a grinder and it gets coated in gunk, how to you get the gunk off without ruining it? I know I can swab it off with alcohol, but I don't want to wreck the green glue. What then?

Personally, I've been using the same metal grinder for almost 4 years (and I smoke a LOT) so it gets clogged up like weekly. Then I just take a paper clip and scrape it like I've got OCD, don't press hard, just scrape back and forth a lot. but I bet there's better ways. If I get desperate, sometimes I smoke it. that's just me though.

 

[GardenFaerie]

Hi Soil Girl. Nice to meet you. I am never sure who is a woman or a man on this forum! It doesn't matter much.

That said, i do use a razor blade to scrape gently, but it seems so inefficient. I have all of that stuff saved in a small container. One day I will smoke it.

 

[Crawdaddy]

I have another question. When you use a grinder and it gets coated in gunk, how to you get the gunk off without ruining it? I know I can swab it off with alcohol, but I don't want to wreck the green glue. What then?

The g/F washes my aluminum one in our dishwasher every now and then, it a pretty new one so gets SUPER hot in there. Like new after words basically.

Just bumping this forward Brotha

Hey Craw, Ima chop my auto soon; how'd you cure yours, looks so tasty.

Trimmed, put in paper bags in top corner of veg closet, waited 5 days

Hi Soil Girl. Nice to meet you. I am never sure who is a woman or a man on this forum! It doesn't matter much.

That said, i do use a razor blade to scrape gently, but it seems so inefficient. I have all of that stuff saved in a small container. One day I will smoke it.

That works but hard to get completely clean, I used to save that, now i just have too much pot in general lol. Still have ounces from last fall harvest.

 

[SoilGirl]

Hi Soil Girl. Nice to meet you. I am never sure who is a woman or a man on this forum! It doesn't matter much.

That said, i do use a razor blade to scrape gently, but it seems so inefficient. I have all of that stuff saved in a small container. One day I will smoke it.

Hiya Gardenfaerie! Nice to meet you too =) I saw your name in the list of people who are doing grow journals but I haven't got to it yet, I will though. This site is so cool, I'm glad I finally signed up (I've been using pest problem solvers and other stuff here for a long time though), I'm also starting my first grow journal, though its not on the level of Craw's (once again, Freakin' awesome work Crawdaddy!)

Oh my, you saved it all? I'd have a nice little gram jar of that stuff, I saved some for a while but then I was clumsy and it became an offering to the carpet... like many ill fated joints of mine.. lol