TheFrizz
Well-Known Member
Hello friends and welcome to my 5th grow journal! 
A bit of background info- my husband and I recently moved out to a 1.5 acre farm in Western WA. We have a beautiful son who just turned one year old, and he loves to help with yardwork! We also have 6 ducks and 3 chickens, they are very generous with their poopies and I plan to put their "stuff" to good use in the garden!
This time around I will be giving outdoors a shot. When I first started growing, my approach was focused on efficiency and yield- I wanted two lbs in a 4x4 tent. Now I care about my plants on a more spiritual level. I believe that being grown directly in the Earth, under real sunlight, with the protection of a greenhouse, will result in the "happiest" plants.
Here is my shift in methodology since 2016:
Grow #1 (Indoors)- Hydro with 100% chemical based nutes
Grow #2 (Indoors)- Hydro with 100% chemical based nutes
Grow #3 (Indoors)- Hydro with about 50/50 organic vs chemical nutes
Grow #4 (Indoors)- Organic homemade super soil, no chemical additives
New Grow #5 (Outdoors)- Organic homemade super soil, no chemical additives
I noticed that adding organics improved the terpene profile and smoothness of the buds, and the plants responded to stress better. The quality of the purely organic soil buds blew me away, so it's time to try again on a larger scale!
The greenhouse we ordered is 15 feet long, 7 feet wide, and 7 feet tall. It will be arriving in a few days. Here is a basic image of how the space will be used:
Each plant will have roughly 3.5' x 3.5' for its root mass. If the plants get too big, I will just move the whole greenhouse north by a couple feet. This would center the plants and provide much more space.
Soil Preparation:
Step 1- Remove sod from a strip of ground 3.5' x 15'.
Step 2- Break up clay and rocks with pick
Step 3- Dump rocky dirt into sifter, dispose of rocks, keep dirt
Step 4- Work in soil amendments (lime, compost, rotted leaves, chicken and duck manure, ashes, enzymes, etc).
Step 5- Add nitrogen fixers as a living mulch (clover, peas, etc)
Here are some photos showing the process of soil preparation. It is rather labor intensive- our native "topsoil" is just clay and sand with lots of rocks. I am on Spring Break now though so plenty of time to dig!
The strains for this grow are:
Skunk #1 (classic strain, parent of many popular hybrids)
Wonder Woman (fruity, dense, funky, with big yields)
Northern Lights (my favorite all around Indica, can't wait to see how she does outdoors)
Black Hyena (Blue Dream x White Widow -see Hyena Murica's grows for more info)
The seeds were started in Rapid Rooters that I buried in homemade organic potting soil. I put them outside in the elements with our veggie and herb starts. They are just starting to emerge, will include pics in a day or so when all four have popped.
Tomorrow the excavation continues, I will update as more progress is made!
Thank you guys for following this grow, I am so excited to try something new and can't wait to see how the plants turn out!
~TheFrizz
A bit of background info- my husband and I recently moved out to a 1.5 acre farm in Western WA. We have a beautiful son who just turned one year old, and he loves to help with yardwork! We also have 6 ducks and 3 chickens, they are very generous with their poopies and I plan to put their "stuff" to good use in the garden!
This time around I will be giving outdoors a shot. When I first started growing, my approach was focused on efficiency and yield- I wanted two lbs in a 4x4 tent. Now I care about my plants on a more spiritual level. I believe that being grown directly in the Earth, under real sunlight, with the protection of a greenhouse, will result in the "happiest" plants.
Here is my shift in methodology since 2016:
Grow #1 (Indoors)- Hydro with 100% chemical based nutes
Grow #2 (Indoors)- Hydro with 100% chemical based nutes
Grow #3 (Indoors)- Hydro with about 50/50 organic vs chemical nutes
Grow #4 (Indoors)- Organic homemade super soil, no chemical additives
New Grow #5 (Outdoors)- Organic homemade super soil, no chemical additives
I noticed that adding organics improved the terpene profile and smoothness of the buds, and the plants responded to stress better. The quality of the purely organic soil buds blew me away, so it's time to try again on a larger scale!
The greenhouse we ordered is 15 feet long, 7 feet wide, and 7 feet tall. It will be arriving in a few days. Here is a basic image of how the space will be used:
Each plant will have roughly 3.5' x 3.5' for its root mass. If the plants get too big, I will just move the whole greenhouse north by a couple feet. This would center the plants and provide much more space.
Soil Preparation:
Step 1- Remove sod from a strip of ground 3.5' x 15'.
Step 2- Break up clay and rocks with pick
Step 3- Dump rocky dirt into sifter, dispose of rocks, keep dirt
Step 4- Work in soil amendments (lime, compost, rotted leaves, chicken and duck manure, ashes, enzymes, etc).
Step 5- Add nitrogen fixers as a living mulch (clover, peas, etc)
Here are some photos showing the process of soil preparation. It is rather labor intensive- our native "topsoil" is just clay and sand with lots of rocks. I am on Spring Break now though so plenty of time to dig!
The strains for this grow are:
Skunk #1 (classic strain, parent of many popular hybrids)
Wonder Woman (fruity, dense, funky, with big yields)
Northern Lights (my favorite all around Indica, can't wait to see how she does outdoors)
Black Hyena (Blue Dream x White Widow -see Hyena Murica's grows for more info)
The seeds were started in Rapid Rooters that I buried in homemade organic potting soil. I put them outside in the elements with our veggie and herb starts. They are just starting to emerge, will include pics in a day or so when all four have popped.
Tomorrow the excavation continues, I will update as more progress is made!
Thank you guys for following this grow, I am so excited to try something new and can't wait to see how the plants turn out!
~TheFrizz
- are you an amazon? 
of course!
. Hazards of starting seeds outside! So I took it as a sign from the CannaGods to switch the strain, and went with VC/DC instead. I replanted a fresh VC/DC seed in the same Rapid Rooter, she can feed off of Hyena's roots to catch up to the other 3. #cannabalism 
We spent 4/20 weekend working on the soil and setting up the greenhouse. 
Very excited 
The shells are really hard in comparison too, but I dunno if it's because they have a different ratio of elements or simply cause the shells are thicker... lol.
