Magnus' Summer Outdoor - Soil 15 AK47, Crit Mass, Ice Bomb, NL, Big Bud, Pin Express

[walleye]

Re: Magnus' Summer Outdoor - Soil 15 AK47, Crit Mass, Ice Bomb, NL, Big Bud, Pin Expr

I will pray James is safe where ever he may be. Maybe hope he is having a long walk about. Either way I pray knowing he is in good hands.

 

[Magnus8]

Re: Magnus' Summer Outdoor - Soil 15 AK47, Crit Mass, Ice Bomb, NL, Big Bud, Pin Expr

Hi All!!!

Hope you are all doing well on this late Friday evening.

I'll try to keep the writing to a minimum here tonight because I'm already tired and want to go to bed (after an episode of Buffy; just picked up the first season as a bit of a treat for myself this month). So let's try to keep it just to plant porn tonight, eh?

Okay, so I made some compost tea today. Well, I mixed it up and set it to go. It'll take about 2 days before it is finished. But I've got pics of all the ingredients for you so that you can learn how to make it for yourself...

The first ingredient is cow manure. I use about 6 cups of the shit (pun intended).

Worm castings. Basically worm shit. How do they get that stuff, I ask you... Do they run their fingers along the length of that slimy creature, squeezing the shit out of them? 3 cups.

Oatmeal -- and not the quick cooking kind, either! One cup.

Mychorrizae. Brilliant microscopic organisms for the roots of your plants. 2 tablespoons.

Sea Kelp. Basically just a form of seaweed. Smells like it too. 1/2 cup.

Bat guano. Or, bat shit. 3/4 cup.

Black earth humates. Not quite sure what this stuff is, but it seems to work, and that's what counts. 3/4 cup.

Molasses. Simple ingredient that you can get from the grocery store. 1/2 litre.

Now, take all ingredients, mix them together, stuff into the foot of a good pair of nylon stockings. Suspend this stocking into the water and let the bubbler take care of the rest. More pics below...

This is the size of pail I use for those ingredients. Notice that I have a broom handle laying across the top of my compost tea. The nylon stocking is tied to this to suspend it in the water below, where the bubbling action is taking place.

I forgot to mention that you add the molasses to the water after the nylon stocking has been suspended into it. This broom stick will hold it steady and up for the full 2 day duration.

I took this pic to show you how there are two air hoses coming from the bubbler into the mix. One of those bubbler rocks is actually stuffed into the nylon stocking and deep into the manure mix. Having a bubbler rock inside the manure helps to bubble the good manure vitamins and good bacteria and other organisms out into the water. It really does help a lot.

In this pic, all the ingredients are stuffed into the nylon and about to be submerged into it.

Here is the birds eye view. You can easily see the nylon with the ingredients and the bubbler rock tied to the broom handle and the two bubbler rocks (the other one is set on the floor of the pail) working away.

BUT WAIT -- THERE'S MORE!!! THERE IS... WAIT FOR IT... PLANT PORN BELOW!!!

These are by far my two biggest plants, not necessarily in height, but in dearth. The first one is a CBD Critical Mass, started this spring from seed. WOW. The second one is a Pineapple Express, which I am really looking forward to.

This first one above is a Big Bud. I'm really looking forward to seeing if what they say it true about these plants, basically that their buds get so big and heavy that you often have to prop up the individual colas... Now, wouldn't that be a nice haul?

This first, kinda small (relatively!) plant is my AK-47, grown from seed (and it was a freebie, too). All the rest of the plants up here are unknown as to what they are. Unfortunately, all the markings wore off the popsicle sticks I used to keep track of them.

These next plants are all the ones I didn't have big growing boxes or holes in the ground for. So they have all been living either in fabric bags or regular -- large -- pots. You'll note how much smaller and less thriving they are. But each one holds its own, for the most part, and they will all give a certain amount of yield. Each of them is like a large indoor plant, if truth be told, and I suspect each will give quite a bit of gold at the end of the game.

Enuf talk. Let's look.

And these next two plants are the ones I put into flower about 1.5 weeks ago, coming along nicely with their cycle and they're going to produce a lot of weed, I suspect, for their size. I cannot even imagine how much weed I'm going to get from my eight plants in the big planters and the holes in the ground!

Okay, so there we have it -- all the plants I am currently growing. Want to point out that all but the Critical Mass and the AK-47 are all grown from my own clones. I waited to clip the snippings from the 4 mother plants until they were all in flower so that I would end up with all my clones being monster cropped. And can't you tell that they're all monster cropped? All those colas on each plant... None of them growing in the traditional christmas tree fashion, either. Am I a fan of monster cropping? You betcha!!! I mean, look at all those colas. Now try to count all the little suckers you can see.

One point of interest from today: found one plant that was actually about 4 inches taller than me!

So there's your pictorial overload for the night, eh? Hope you've enjoyed the show. And I do hope some of you will try to make some compost tea for your plants (it's also good for all those plants in your garden, like your strawberries and your tomatoes).

Looking forward to hearing what you have to say. And btw -- these pics were taken before watering tonight, so they're all a little droopy, some moreso than others.

One little side note: All the plants in the wooden planters and the 2 in the holes in the ground (in other words, all the biggest plants) are now consuming between 3 and 4 gallons of water per day (not accounting for evaporation, mind you. I'm sure some of that water is going up into the atmosphere).

On the book front, I came up with a brilliant idea tonight. I've decided to hold a series of virtual book events. These will be webinars, or meetings on the web, that I will invite scores and scores of bookstore owners and managers to. I will give a brief reading from Finding Max at them (reading the first chapter) and then hold a meeting with questions from the participants and basically marketing the book to all these bookstore owners that I otherwise would never have met.

I think it is a brilliant idea.

Market to the people who will be tasked with marketing books at their respective bookstores. Simple. Elegant. Brilliant.

And if anyone else has any other ideas on how I can make Finding Max into the success I believe it should be, then please don't hesitate to suggest your ideas to me. I need all the help I can get...

So be well, all of you. Sleep tight, and don't let the bedbugs consume your dead layers of skin (that's what they do).

Magnus.

 

[FeloniousPunk]

Re: Magnus' Summer Outdoor - Soil 15 AK47, Crit Mass, Ice Bomb, NL, Big Bud, Pin Expr

Hey Magnus,

Plants look great!

Peace.

 

[Magnus8]

Re: Magnus' Summer Outdoor - Soil 15 AK47, Crit Mass, Ice Bomb, NL, Big Bud, Pin Expr

Hey all,

Some of my plants in the bags are getting yellowing leaves mostly towards the bottom of the plant. I've tried to look this up to figure out what the problem is.

Is this a nitrogen deficiency?

If so, I purchased a bottle of straight nitrogen nutrient earlier this year and I'm thinking of giving them some apart from their regular feeding of General Hydroponics Flora series of nutes (yes, it works for soil, so that's not the problem).

Any ideas? I'd like to give them the extra nutes today/tonight if that is what the problem is. If not, does anyone know just what this problem actually is?

Best,
Magnus

 

[Magnus8]

Re: Magnus' Summer Outdoor - Soil 15 AK47, Crit Mass, Ice Bomb, NL, Big Bud, Pin Expr

Hey Felonious,

How nice of you to drop by. I think I lost all my other followers during my period of computer dearth. Oh well. Let's see if we can't get some of 'em back, whadda ya say?

Always so wonderful to hear from you. Looking forward to tomorrow!

best,
Magnus

 

[walleye]

Re: Magnus' Summer Outdoor - Soil 15 AK47, Crit Mass, Ice Bomb, NL, Big Bud, Pin Expr

Hey Magnus8, I can't solve but seeing how fertile your soil is, I would guess maybe lower leaves yellow not a nute issue . I hate chasing fixes with nutes. For me, a few lower leaves yellow is normal on a good day !!! No idea though.

 

[HashGirl]

Re: Magnus' Summer Outdoor - Soil 15 AK47, Crit Mass, Ice Bomb, NL, Big Bud, Pin Expr

I'm not a grower but it seems to me that I read somewhere that it's normal for the lower leaves to turn yellow when the plant is starting to flower as the flowers are pulling the nutrients from the leaves in order to get bigger and better.

 

[Magnus8]

Re: Magnus' Summer Outdoor - Soil 15 AK47, Crit Mass, Ice Bomb, NL, Big Bud, Pin Expr

Hey Felonious,

How nice of you to drop by. I think I lost all my other followers during my period of computer dearth. Oh well. Let's see if we can't get some of 'em back, whadda ya say?

Always so wonderful to hear from you. Looking forward to tomorrow!

best,
Magnus

 

[Magnus8]

Re: Magnus' Summer Outdoor - Soil 15 AK47, Crit Mass, Ice Bomb, NL, Big Bud, Pin Expr

Good morning, all,

Thanks for the comments about the yellowing leaves. I don't think this was just a natural process because the plants are in flower -- because these plants are not in flower.

I bought some straight nitrogen nutrient earlier this year and used some of it for the first time the other day after writing the above post. Over the past few days, the overall health of the plants have picked up tremendously. The leaves overall are much greener, and they are losing that yellow cast that they had. I think one more treatment of the nitrogen will be enough to fix them completely.

I also snipped off most of the yellow leaves so the plants are looking much healthier. The problem was more advanced than I had realized. Too many plants to look after without enough time to do it. But I'm happy that the plants in the pots are beginning to look as green as the plants in the big planters (which have super soil to grow in -- and if you don't know what super soil is, then just let me know and I'll tell you in another post).

I don't have pics this morning to show you, but I'll take some later and post them and you can see for yourself how much better they look.

Had a bit of a scare the other day. The landlord's son, who farrms the fields alongside the grow, knows what I am growing. I've admitted that they are a legal grow to him and he's fine with it. But the other day a friend of his suddenly turned into the field from our driveway driving a huge thresher (this is the machine that cuts the hay down in a field getting it ready for bailing). I thought he was headed for the back end of the field again, where they have been working for day. Nope. He suddenly turned and started threshing alongside my grow!

I was suddenly terrified. What if he figured out what I'm growing? Would he call the cops? I know him well enough to know that he'd never steal my crop, but I don't know how he is about marijuana grows and whether or not he would narc on me.


Well, it has been 2 days and the cops haven't shown up yet, so I think I am safe. But what a terrible scare. I mean I was shaking from fear. I couldn't hold my hands steady even.

Have any of you had any scares like that that have scared the bejeezus out of you? I'd love to hear about them, if you don't mind.

Until then, I remain,
Magnus.

 

[walleye]

Re: Magnus' Summer Outdoor - Soil 15 AK47, Crit Mass, Ice Bomb, NL, Big Bud, Pin Expr

High Magnus, back in the 70's the police were always finding plants. One chief transplanted a real nice one and put it in his police station window so we could suffer and druel watching it!! Only problem I ever had was others chopping them just before I had planned to. I always pick buds before harvest just to compare and found some smoke very good when picked early. At least that way I get a little if someone steals them! I always assume someone knows I grow a gorilla plant or two outside and from years of my dad finding them, accept the fact that until chop nothing is safe anymore. Maybe a sign like we use in Michigan next to a feed pile of corn " for deer only-all turkey and raccoons may not partake per Michigan law". If that gets no respect from varmits, a sacrificial plant with a sign "this one only please" may be respected by the more educated !! And the others "govt test site video monitored" for the less educated!! Signs are funny how they affect people . Or "Don't leave me any and this will be the last time I grow for you silly rabbit" Hoping best buds for you

 

[walleye]

Re: Magnus' Summer Outdoor - Soil 15 AK47, Crit Mass, Ice Bomb, NL, Big Bud, Pin Expr

High Magnus, back in the 70's the police were always finding plants. One chief transplanted a real nice one and put it in his police station window so we could suffer and drool watching it!! Only problem I ever had was others chopping them just before I had planned to. I always pick buds before harvest just to compare and found some smoke very good when picked early. At least that way I get a little if someone steals them! I always assume someone knows I grow a gorilla plant or two outside and from years of my dad finding them, accept the fact that until chop nothing is safe anymore. Maybe a sign like we use in Michigan next to a feed pile of corn " for deer only-all turkey and raccoons may not partake per Michigan law". If that gets no respect from varmits, a sacrificial plant with a sign "this one only please" may be respected by the more educated !! And the others "govt test site video monitored" for the less educated!! Signs are funny how they affect people . Or "Don't leave me any and this will be the last time I grow for you silly rabbit" Hoping best buds for you

 

[Magnus8]

Re: Magnus' Summer Outdoor - Soil 15 AK47, Crit Mass, Ice Bomb, NL, Big Bud, Pin Expr

Hey Walleye,

Thanks for the suggestions, but I don't think any of them would hold for me. You see, my grow is happening right alongside my trailer, literally right beside. So any intruder would be announced by the dogs, for sure, and they wouldn't get past my beasts. Hell, sometimes I wonder if they'll let the wife-bot pass, they like her less than they tolerate me.

But good funny thoughts those ideas of signs were. Thanks for the laugh.

Plants went under tarps tonight to begin their nights of 12/12. I'm so excited! But I fear we may be too l;ate and will lose the whole crop. I won't get into particulars why, it is just that way. I'll be sooooo damned angry if we lose this amazing crop.

Oh, and my largest and most beautiful plant, one of my CBD Critical Mass was split in half by the wind the other night. No way to repair it, but I think the two halfs will live, but one won't be thriving the way it was but will hopefully still produce bud. I'm so upset. I was goin to send pics of it in for plant of the month next month when it had its bud on it.

I'm so damned angry. Did I say that already?

Magnus.

 

[walleye]

Re: Magnus' Summer Outdoor - Soil 15 AK47, Crit Mass, Ice Bomb, NL, Big Bud, Pin Expr

Hey Magnus, I know just how you feel! I have seen leaf spot( from barley in paddock) destroy my outdoor crop every year. Now I may plant 1 or 2 clones outdoor and check on them a couple times but never expect success. A green house would be nice but growing indoors is my best solution so far. Secure, filtered air, controlled light and humidity used in winter. Plus the smell at lights off! The extra electrical cost is offset by success! One good indoor grow gives a lot of buds and butter. My best idea so far has been to limit size of indoor tents so the grow stays small and manageable. I can never flower more than 4-6 plants, a couple moms under t-5s if needed, and a very small clone tent up off floor so I don't have to bend my back. 4x6 flower with (2) 600 watt HPS, 5x5 mom/veg tent with t-5s used intermittently, and a small 3x6 clone cabinet up off floor. The hardest thing is to cull healthy clones but once done I feel at peace and can manage a small grow. I've seen it get outta hand for many here in Michigan who try to grow too many. Kinda like our cucumber plants!! Chopping now, had 4 plants indoor in 10 gallon pots, I see about 5+ oz per plant. Been using Doc Buds' Hi-Brix kit and wash buds at chop. Best smoking buds I've ever grown and no ppm or ph meters used. Peace Magnus

 

[Magnus8]

Re: Magnus' Summer Outdoor - Soil 15 AK47, Crit Mass, Ice Bomb, NL, Big Bud, Pin Expr

Thanks, Walleye,

You and your posts are a gift. You make me laugh and you make me think, 2 things I like to do a lot. Thank you again, from the bottom of my...

How is your grow going this summer? You are growing this summer, aren't you? I'm afraid I haven't had a chance to check out your signature links in a while I've been so busy, but I promise to later today or tomorrow. I've just been so busy with getting the book ready for publication and marketing the book, too, that I've had no time to do anything. Right now I'm working from 6:00 a.m. until about 11:00 p.m. daily, almost without stop. I've never been so busy with something so damned important. I only hope that all this work pays off in book purchases! Maybe. Maybe not.

So, if anyone here would like to do something very easy and very special for me, then pm me. I need people to read my book and write a short, honest review on amazon for me. These reviews are vital to the health of the sales of the book because when someone on amazon considers buying a book from an unknown author they almost always check out the reviews already up. if there are only very few or none, they are likely to pass that book by for another one with more reviews where they can get more info about the book.

My publisher feels it is vitally important that i get a group of people who are committed to purchasing teh book on amazon.com or amazon.ca, reading it and then writing an honest review of it on the amazon platform. These reviews woudl be essential to helping others purchase the book and allowing the book a fighting chance to make it.

If any of you would like to agree to purchase the book on amazon and then write a review of it, please contact me via private message, please. I would appreciate your support more than you know.

Best,
Magnus.

 

[Magnus8]

Re: Magnus' Summer Outdoor - Soil 15 AK47, Crit Mass, Ice Bomb, NL, Big Bud, Pin Expr

Strangest thing happened with two of my plants. You know, the one so I put into flower a few weeks ago.

Up until about a week ago I've been bringing them into the porch to put them into flower. At the time I started, the temperature in the porch and outside was about the same.

When I started covering my outdoor plants with plastic last week to induce nighttime, I stopped carrying them little suckered into the porch at night and just covered them up, too.

I never once thought about the temperature difference.

But anyway, it was the wife-bot who noticed that all the pistils on the two already flowering plants had all but disappeared! They were just gone. Then, about 3 days later I just got this feeling that I should check the trichomes. More from the fun of it than anything. Now, remember that it is only beginning it's 5th week of flowering and, according to supplier, should flower for about eight weeks. And don't you know it but almost every single mushroom head is a rich amber.

Damnit. I know it had something to do with changing their nighttime environment.

They could've grown so much bigger in 4 weeks time.

Oh well. Nothing I can do about it now except sit back and listen to the humming fan. What a comforting sound.

Best,
Magnus

 

[SweetSue]

Re: Magnus' Summer Outdoor - Soil 15 AK47, Crit Mass, Ice Bomb, NL, Big Bud, Pin Expr

Strangest thing happened with two of my plants. You know, the one so I put into flower a few weeks ago.

Up until about a week ago I've been bringing them into the porch to put them into flower. At the time I started, the temperature in the porch and outside was about the same.

When I started covering my outdoor plants with plastic last week to induce nighttime, I stopped carrying them little suckered into the porch at night and just covered them up, too.

I never once thought about the temperature difference.

But anyway, it was the wife-bot who noticed that all the pistils on the two already flowering plants had all but disappeared! They were just gone. Then, about 3 days later I just got this feeling that I should check the trichomes. More from the fun of it than anything. Now, remember that it is only beginning it's 5th week of flowering and, according to supplier, should flower for about eight weeks. And don't you know it but almost every single mushroom head is a rich amber.

Damnit. I know it had something to do with changing their nighttime environment.

They could've grown so much bigger in 4 weeks time.

Oh well. Nothing I can do about it now except sit back and listen to the humming fan. What a comforting sound.

Best,
Magnus

Should be some serious pain/sleep meds Magnus. Lesson learned, but consider this might be just what the doctor ordered.

 

[Magnus8]

Re: Magnus' Summer Outdoor - Soil 15 AK47, Crit Mass, Ice Bomb, NL, Big Bud, Pin Expr

Sorting through my little take and I come across two little ball like things. Balls? Did it start to hermi on me? Sure enough I found r our seeds inside!

 

[pufpufpas]

Re: Magnus' Summer Outdoor - Soil 15 AK47, Crit Mass, Ice Bomb, NL, Big Bud, Pin Expr

congrats on the harvest! It never hurts to have a few extra seeds. I'm so happy for you! Have you tried any of the meds yet?
I laughed out loud at the humming fan comment. I have been there before. I plan on checking out the book just got some medical stuff to pay off first. I'm going to message you about it one of these days. Take care Magnus!

 

[New B]

Re: Magnus' Summer Outdoor - Soil 15 AK47, Crit Mass, Ice Bomb, NL, Big Bud, Pin Expr

I would love to say I would read the book but I probably wouldn't,not because I don't believe it's good but I have not read a book since I was forced to in junior high school . Did what I wanted in high school haha.
I will tell my book worm friends they need to definitely check it out.

 

[FeloniousPunk]

Re: Magnus' Summer Outdoor - Soil 15 AK47, Crit Mass, Ice Bomb, NL, Big Bud, Pin Expr

I was suddenly terrified. What if he figured out what I'm growing? Would he call the cops? I know him well enough to know that he'd never steal my crop, but I don't know how he is about marijuana grows and whether or not he would narc on me.

Even though you know him well enough, free cannabis makes people do stupid things. Never assume trust.

Though he might be trustworthy, a few careless words from him to others who don't know you, can make your grow a target. Use as much caution as necessary when planning your grow. Keep it out of sight as much as possible and don't tell people you are growing. Mums the word around home. Sharing here is much safer.

Peace.