goofyfoot
Well-Known Member
Hey All, just soaked a few seeds last night and will see what happens. They all are FEMINIZED but I have had them for over a year and a half. Plus not knowing how long they were stored will see if they pop. Two are Pineapple Chunk and the other one is a Kandy Kush?? It was one of those free seeds they include with your order: RESERVA PRIVADA KANDY KUSH (what ever that means??) The Pine Chunk`s are from Barneys Seeds.
I hope to get the Kush and the Pine Chunk to join at the roots and splice themselves into one plant. They will either take to each other or one will die off. Basically sharing each others "DNA" and not a true cross by male exchange with female. Still....Pretty cool though!!
1. Will be indoor and outdoor till 12/12, as after that weather will allow outdoor growth.
2. Soil for medium, I have some additives mixed in. I add multiple organic / plant materials to plain potting soil.
Beside extra perlite I have been using charcoal nuggets/chips. They are designed as a medium for orchids
but they provide many beneficial uses. They help in aeration, drainage as they will float. I have no scientific
proof but the effects of charcoal that are know, and what its effects on the re-growth after forest fires are. Is
why I choose to use it. It holds moisture and I believe it promotes the good bacteria, microbes and other
NEEDED and beneficial fungus. While promoting a non-stagnant environment helping root development
and absorption.
3. I have rain barrels on all the house down spouts and I use this for watering. It does sit and gets a bit
skunky and the charcoal helps with this. I like all the little extra`s it adds, like what pond water provides
as it is "alive" compared to R/O water.
4. The organic / plant material I add to the potting soil naturally supply what the plant requires. It takes
advanced time to decompose it in the potting soil, I don't mind and I like the extra hands on time it
requires. What I add is high in the big 3 N,P,K and all the micro and minor elements, plus fuel for the
plants needs.
I use worm castings and molasses along with a minor amount of dissolved nuit`s. I use: Better Gro-
ORCHID PLUS its N,P,K matches ( for the veg stages) what all other HIGH priced alternatives offer and it is
in a "chelated" form aiding absorption and lessening chance of build ups. There ORCHID BLOOM BOOSTER
offer the same "chelated" needs for flowering.
5. I have 2 120watt/6K CFL`s and 2 60watt /2.8 K CFL`s. It is a low total wattage and I have found that it is
like slow charging a battery. It results in promoting development, not the primary supply for it. I will
have outside for 6 to 8 hours of early morning/afternoon sunlight and 10 hours inside with that light
and matched temperature. Before you workout you do stretching and it allows you to benefit from your
actual "workout".
I use this as an example to describe what this 10 hours at this wattage does for the plants.
It allows for the slower growth and development of the roots and internal structures. So you get
"healthier" plants with a better opportunity to fully develop and utilize all you give them to grow.
The sunshine is the workout, and the CFL`s are a massage "so-to-say". Also with there reduced heat
output, I have them close and tight in on the plants. Illuminating all the plants parts in a mirrored grow
box. Illuminating all parts of them.
6. I plan on applying CO2 through the use of brewer`s yeast and a bubbler, two bottles. One will feed the
yeast and the CO2 will be bleed off into a two liter bottle, half filled with water. It will defuse it and another
line will deliver it into a natural sponge above plant. Allowing it to rain down over the plant while it is in
"massage mode" for 10 hours. And the grow box is small, 24" square x 36" high, so it fills up quit nicely.
This is the size difference in the charcoal compared to the perlite, I don't have any science to prove it. But
its presence and as it breaks down in the soil I feel adds a lot to the growth of "healthier" plants.
WILL SEE WHAT HAPPENES...Peace.....
I hope to get the Kush and the Pine Chunk to join at the roots and splice themselves into one plant. They will either take to each other or one will die off. Basically sharing each others "DNA" and not a true cross by male exchange with female. Still....Pretty cool though!!
1. Will be indoor and outdoor till 12/12, as after that weather will allow outdoor growth.
2. Soil for medium, I have some additives mixed in. I add multiple organic / plant materials to plain potting soil.
Beside extra perlite I have been using charcoal nuggets/chips. They are designed as a medium for orchids
but they provide many beneficial uses. They help in aeration, drainage as they will float. I have no scientific
proof but the effects of charcoal that are know, and what its effects on the re-growth after forest fires are. Is
why I choose to use it. It holds moisture and I believe it promotes the good bacteria, microbes and other
NEEDED and beneficial fungus. While promoting a non-stagnant environment helping root development
and absorption.
3. I have rain barrels on all the house down spouts and I use this for watering. It does sit and gets a bit
skunky and the charcoal helps with this. I like all the little extra`s it adds, like what pond water provides
as it is "alive" compared to R/O water.
4. The organic / plant material I add to the potting soil naturally supply what the plant requires. It takes
advanced time to decompose it in the potting soil, I don't mind and I like the extra hands on time it
requires. What I add is high in the big 3 N,P,K and all the micro and minor elements, plus fuel for the
plants needs.
I use worm castings and molasses along with a minor amount of dissolved nuit`s. I use: Better Gro-
ORCHID PLUS its N,P,K matches ( for the veg stages) what all other HIGH priced alternatives offer and it is
in a "chelated" form aiding absorption and lessening chance of build ups. There ORCHID BLOOM BOOSTER
offer the same "chelated" needs for flowering.
5. I have 2 120watt/6K CFL`s and 2 60watt /2.8 K CFL`s. It is a low total wattage and I have found that it is
like slow charging a battery. It results in promoting development, not the primary supply for it. I will
have outside for 6 to 8 hours of early morning/afternoon sunlight and 10 hours inside with that light
and matched temperature. Before you workout you do stretching and it allows you to benefit from your
actual "workout".
I use this as an example to describe what this 10 hours at this wattage does for the plants.
It allows for the slower growth and development of the roots and internal structures. So you get
"healthier" plants with a better opportunity to fully develop and utilize all you give them to grow.
The sunshine is the workout, and the CFL`s are a massage "so-to-say". Also with there reduced heat
output, I have them close and tight in on the plants. Illuminating all the plants parts in a mirrored grow
box. Illuminating all parts of them.
6. I plan on applying CO2 through the use of brewer`s yeast and a bubbler, two bottles. One will feed the
yeast and the CO2 will be bleed off into a two liter bottle, half filled with water. It will defuse it and another
line will deliver it into a natural sponge above plant. Allowing it to rain down over the plant while it is in
"massage mode" for 10 hours. And the grow box is small, 24" square x 36" high, so it fills up quit nicely.
This is the size difference in the charcoal compared to the perlite, I don't have any science to prove it. But
its presence and as it breaks down in the soil I feel adds a lot to the growth of "healthier" plants.
WILL SEE WHAT HAPPENES...Peace.....
I've not had any heartache over not having to shovel my humidity. 
