Soma Lavender has pink hairs too, at least the strain I had did.
Welcome to my new grow, guys
It's been a while since I posted an official journal here, but hopefully this one will make up for all these shadow years
This grow will be an outdoor guerilla grow, 100% organic in terms of soil and in terms of fertilizers as well. It will be done in northern Italy, around 45°N. For Americans (yeah, you are definitely a majority here), the climate here is somehow akin to Northern California or Southern Oregon (more or less) with very long season (I could keep growing until December if I wanted to).
In a nutshell, spring is rainy, but warm, summer is very hot and humid, and autumn starts usually in the second half of October with heavy showers and sudden rise in humidity, but we get first snow around December/January. And temperatures start going down around late November, which gives me an opportunity to grow almost any strain I want, providing it's not susceptible for mould.
This grow will be done in two spots/patches. Last year I did a test run with one of these to clear it for further growing and I was successful - both plants were harvested by the end of October - so I'm gonna use it again with 10 plants this time. Let's call it The Shady Spot as it's hidden in the forest and it doesn't get maximum sun exposure, but has enough light for the plants to grow. Another spot has never been tested, but has plenty of light as it's on southeastern slope (my area is quite hilly) and here I'm gonna put 4 plants (starting small with a new spot is what I prefer). Let's call it the The Sunny Spot.
Soil I have here is brownish loam with plenty of minerals. It's more on the clay side with just a little bit of sand, but with decent amount of organic matter in the upper layer. The Shady Spot has been cleaned up with shears last season, fertilized with wood ash in February, and then dug up well with a shovel as there were plenty of blackberry roots (some as thick as 3"), and then cut again with wood ash and wood chips. The Sunny Spot has been cut with garden compost, biochar and bamboo leaves (silica). Both will be amended again in two-three weeks with crushed sandstone, powdered egg shells, worm castings and blood meal.
Seeds were bought from Herbie's Seeds (one of great sponsors of this forum) and will be germinated in 5-6 days as I'm currently waiting for the new moon. If you like what you're reading, check the post below to find out what strains I'm gonna grow...
This is one of them:
Hope that helps!
Yeah, I'm ready to go further and amend my soil with some more organic additives next week
From left to the right mother's little helpers: crushed sandstone, bat guano, powdered egg shells, powdered banana skins.
They will provide my plants with phosphorus, manganese, iron, calcium and magnesium
i live close to that latitude too, i will be reading about your moth comment next, i found an inchworm yesterday and i got great help from relaxedlester, thanks 420 members for helping, i like this site, a lotI'm still catching up Con, thank you for the warm welcome. great updates and i love when you post F° , lol, I struggle with C°.
I have not read anything on (the dreaded) moths/eggs/inchworms, BE AWARE, if you see a moth on your girls/buds, you have eggs.
do you see moths flying around? just after sunset is when I see the most, i'm at 34° N and I just hope you have a plan for keeping the worms out of your wild buds, when your girls start to flower. If you have high humidity, spray can cause mold, organic dust is a good solution, as soon as a moth egg hatches into a worm, when he eats a bite of the dust, he will
i deploy nets at night this year, last year i spent hours removing eggs from sticky trichomes.
my 2 cents
Trichomes, in my climate with this vegetation it's always a constant battle with insects and small animals. Aphids, spiders, whiteflies, gnats, snails, beetles, you name it! But moths haven't bothered my grows yeat I have to say. Maybe it's just a matter of time, but I have an impression they don't like high humidity that much. I obviously have butterflies too so I'm concerned with the legendary (but anecdotal for me) bud worms. Still can't get over this nickname
Happy growing to ya all, folks!!!
Anyway, both plants should show preflowers in the next 2 days, cause I've been forcing them for 2 weeks.
Hello neighbor greatings from Split,you have nice plants.Have you ever try seagull or bird guano?I also have organic grow but mine is on balcony in pots.I also use banana & eggshell but i want some more phosphor & potassium for flowering.I will follow this journal,i love outdoor grows.
How do you guys go about preparing the Banana peels? Even prior to reading this I was thinking that would be a good source of calcium & potassium.Nice to see another European grower here, guerillahaze! Make yourself at home, please
For P & K I use these additives: powdered banana skins, bat guano, crushed lava rock, comfrey + horsetail + stinging nettle extract, wood ash! Feel free to comment or raise any questions!
Yeah what he said... LOL°F to °C Deduct 32, then multiply by 5, then divide by 9
°C to °F Multiply by 9, then divide by 5, then add 32
Nice to see another European grower here, guerillahaze! Make yourself at home, please
For P & K I use these additives: powdered banana skins, bat guano, crushed lava rock, comfrey + horsetail + stinging nettle extract, wood ash! Feel free to comment or raise any questions!
