Southern's Little Garden Of Health & Healing

[Southerncough]

Checking on the veg tent tonight and man training them young is so rewarding.
Only gave the thirstiest ones a tiny sip of water and will give everyone a good feeding tomorrow cause I'm beat.
Northern lights 1&2 are looking great. Should really put some cuttings in the bloom room so I don't waste two months training males like last time.
Sour diesel auto is fighting her LST hard which is fun to see her grow so fast. Laughing Buddha and Maui wowie are quite happy as well. Want to top the MW soon but not sure if I want to clone the top, take a cutting later, or just say screw it I've got more seeds I can pop later or buy more of.
Thursday I started another mango seed and today it had popped a taproot so I put her in a rockwool cube for now because I was tired and didn't feel like dragging out the soil bin and grabbed a plug off the shelf instead.

 

[Southerncough]

Training is so much fun!
Here's grandmommy purple

 

[Southerncough]

Trying out a new training technique I saw on YouTube where you push the branches apart with toothpicks. Very interesting, I love using unconventional tools -especially when they're from the dollar store!
Like using binder clips for LST anchors.
Meanwhile, the little purple Haze and Purple panty dropper seedlings just graduated to 1 gal fabric pots. Really love the ones with the Velcro for easy transplanting

 

[Southerncough]

Continued training of the little sour diesel auto, looks like she's starting to pop a few white hairs so rock n roll! I almost topped her but still don't have the guts to top an auto yet. Maybe once I see how she does after the amount of lst I put her through.

The Pakistani landrace could be chopped any day now. Just letting a few more trichs turn amber.

The Cindy 99 and grandmommy purple are starting to show preflowers and the afghani girls are already stretched and stacking bud structures. It's a 6 week strain so her buds won't get super huge before she's done but it'll be nice to get them out of the way for the next round of the perpetual flip.

I missed a watering day or two and the veg tent was looking pretty sad so I baptized the fabric pots in a bucket of nute mix like a ghetto ebb/flow system and by today they all looked super happy with only a few dead leaves so that's fine.

Started a little kc brains mango (Mrs cough s FAVORITE) and she's just precious.
Pretty fun strain to grow that always blooms in bouquets of bud that are pretty yet make trimming interesting.

Looking forward to stocking back up on our staple strains in addition to trying some new ones

 

[Southerncough]

Chopped and dried the little Pakistani plant.
She didn't yield a whole lot but they're some happy, healthy little nugs that are starting to transition from hay to their herbal tea aroma.
Gonna buck and bag them tonight to begin curing.
Was going to sample a piece but decided to abstain because I might be starting a new job soon and may or may not need to piss clean. Figured I'll take a sample test in 2 weeks and see where things are

 

[Southerncough]

Things are chugging along in the garden.
Pineapples are fruiting like crazy and should be ready for summer.
My outdoor tomatoes are pretty beat up from pests and lack of attention but still hanging in there.
Meanwhile indoors the northern lights clones I took (for sexing the mom plants) are popping roots and the first one went into bloom last night.
The Pakistani is in the jar now and starting to smell better each day!
The two afghani lasses are pushing flowers hard and I'm trying my best to keep them pest free knock on wood.
The grandmommy purple is doing well but I'm concerned about how little the Cinderella 99 has stretches...hmm
She's starting to put on some small flowers BUT maybe she's just a really stocky pheno?
That'd be cool! Well if she makes some fantastic meds I've got a clone right behind her!
In the veg tent the sour D auto is doing well and responding to the LST I put her through. The main stem is getting thick and rigid and her side branches are filling out.
Not sure how much she'll stretch but I trained her pretty low so that the side branches would be closer to the too.
If untrained she'd be over 2' tall by now with one big cola.
First time growing it so wish me luck!
I flipped the Pakistani lights babies grown from my unintentional breeding experience a few months ago and the all have massive sativa leaves wich is crazy considering the parents.
Finally moved the baby mango seedling into coco. Was thinking about putting her in hydro or hempy but decided not to make things more complicated as my work schedule maybe getting super intense in a few weeks so I'll keep everything uniform in the grow for now and maybe I'll run a hydro clone or something in the future.

 

[Southerncough]

Yesterday a new shipment of beneficial insects arrived but I was so busy releasing the calvary that I forgot to grab some pics but hopefully the nematodes and predatory mites will keep things under control. Still finding occasional spider mites and mealybug on the leaves and branches. Really trying to keep them from eating the roots alive.
Moving on! The baby mango seedling is looking happy and healthy. She moved up into a 3" pot of coco where she'll spend the next week or so before moving into a 1 gal fabric pot.

Speaking of 1 gal pots, the entire veg tent is looking like a carpet of fan leaves!
Wasn't planning to mainline everything but really trying to buy some time while the bloom room is full so I'm pinching new growth at every node just to keep them from getting too tall.
The sour diesel auto is in early flower stretch and looking quite happy. Some of the branches are a little skinny but we'll see what she does.

All 4 northern lights cuttings rooted and have been planted in 3" pots and placed on a ledge in the bloom room for sexing, so we'll know in the next week or so if the mother plants get to stay or get the axe.

The afghani girls are looking a little beat up which I'm hoping is just from a little overspray when I was punishing some mealybugs with ISO alcohol that made some of the leaves very unhappy.
Grandmommy purple is cruising along and stacking on some bud sites but the little Cindy 99 is still really small. Even her fan leaves are tiny. Hoping she was just stressed and will pull through in the next few days. Even her bud sites are a fraction the size of the girls who were flipped at the same time...weird...maybe she's just a late bloomer or maybe she's only going to yield a pocket full of flower?

Next this week I need to transplant the Maui wowie and laughing Buddha girls into 3 gal pots, tie down some branches, and get ready to flip them into flower soon once their roots fill out.
The afghani is a 45 day strain so hopefully she'll bulk up soon and then get TF out of the bloom room so more girls can move in!

 

[Southerncough]

Been a while since my last post but not much excitement to report on. Mostly struggling to get my girls to survive through harvest despite the pests and heat stress they're going through. I've been trying everything from sprays to CO2 but as soon as I seem to get the mites under control the mealybugs attack the roots and so forth. Been hitting them with weekly deliveries of predator mites, beneficial nematodes, rove beetles, insecticidal soaps, store bought products, pirytherin, etc so we'll see if I can get these bastards beat for good. Not helping that my temps are pushing 100 with the fans full blast.
But that's just the dog days of summer which should hopefully only be temporary.
Meanwhile, getting ready to flip Maui wowie, laughing Buddha, and northern lights girls into bloom. Chopping my stunted Cindy XX and the sour D auto this week and have some girls in veg that will go into bloom when ready.
We're in the thick of mango season and the pineapples were harvested

 

[Southerncough]

Wow it's been a long time since I've updated anything on here!
The garden had a really rough summer and these bugs are freaking relentless!
Every time I get the spider mites under control the mealybugs attack the roots and vice versa! Aaaah!
Fortunately I've got a few ladies limping towards an actual harvest in the coming weeks.
I've been experimenting with growing autos in a tub of soil that I mixed up. Started with some pre mixed soil from mother earth that I amended with coco, worm castings, azamite, live worms, rove beetles, compost, etc. And sprouted two auto northern lights under some low powered veg lights. Once they were sturdy enough I hung a 100w HLG over them and had to bend one that grew twice as tall as her sister (gotta love them inconsistent autos). Those plants have shown the least bug problems and have remained mostly untouched until I found some webbing this week on one of them so they got a good blast of water to mess up their plan.
Then a few weeks ago I thought it'd be fun to sprout 5 new northern lights autos around the mostly mature ones with the thought that by the time the first two are done I'll chop them at the surface and leave the roots in the soil with the new plants which should be in early flower by then. Once the new sprouts established a few nodes I sowed some cover crop seed mix on top and pretty much ignore them except for occasional watering and hopefully they won't drown out the new NL plants. Looks really cool and I'm happy to try something so interesting and diverse especially if it means breaking away from a majority of the bottles I was buying and dumping on the garden.

 

[Southerncough]

Well, the battle of the bugs has taken some turns for the better with fewer casualties.
Just pulled two more northern lights autos that got a little chewed on at the end. Having lots of success with mammoth can control on the canopy and root zone.
Also found that picking up a little Ryobi sprayer with mist setting is helping a lot too!
Meanwhile in veg I've got some girls training and making a nice little scrog in the bloom room

 

[Azimuth]

Hey Southern,

I'm looking at that big storage tub you're growing in and trying to figure out if you're growing in a SIP.

There are a number of us converting over and I started a thread called SIPClub, but haven't seen you posting there so maybe your storage bin hasn't been converted over (there's a water reservoir in the bottom for self watering).

If not, you should think about it it. Happier, healthier and larger plants with less effort. If you're still growing for medical, bigger plants mean bigger harvests.