Stocking Up For The Apocalypse: Goody's Perpetual Grow By The Beach 2020

I am lucky enough to live in a place with a decent outdoor growing season, and enough room inside to grow all year. In Washington, having a medical card will allow you to grow several plants, depending on what the Doctor says you need. Mine says 14, which is the max for our county. I find that number to be fair, and it gives me enough breathing room to do a number of things both inside and outside. I have 11 total right now.
So instead of several smaller journals, I’m going to shift to perpetual growing. I’ve been at it for about a year indoors at this location, and have grown the past 6 years outdoors here. The outdoor grows sometimes have had limited success due to weather changing too soon, and strains taking too long to finish. That’s what finally brought me into the world of autoflowers, which are going to help fill my jars and journals year round from now on.

My indoor setup- The grow area consists of 3 tents. Two of them are 2x2x4 and one is 2x3x5, all situated on top of filing cabinets in the garage. Avg temp in the garage is about 77F, with a dehumidifier keeping it around 45-50%.
My lights are the extremely “budget friendly” $89 Oneo 1000w Equiv (Actual 220w) in each tent, and in the 2x3x5 I have a second 1000w light by Bloomspect (180w actual) that I use during flowering.
I have shifted to using only tap water. I add 7 drops/G of citric acid ph down and it brings the pH to around 6.5-6.7, seems to do well all the way through.
For all of these plants I am using G&B organics Blue Ribbon Blend potting soil, which has been fantastic (and easy to get) for me- and I am recently starting to use ProMix for my seedlings.
My nutrient line up is fairly simple- MEGACROP, Sweet Candy, Terpinator, Silica Blast (all used fairly close to mfg recommendations unless the plant says NO or begs for more) and mosquito bits for gnats.

Outdoors is basically the same but the season ends like clockwork around Sep 15, after which the sun rarely shows itself.
The purpose of all this being simple- The world is going to shit, and I want to fill all these filing cabinets with stuff I can smoke, eat, or smash for a LONG time if things go bad. I’ve only got 3 drawers filled right now, I always need more!
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I want to thank everyone on this board for introducing me to better methods, and better seeds and suppliers.
I'm finally able to get some of the strains I've only dreamed of growing myself, and here is my next indoor lineup-
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All went well with sprouts and they are doing beautifully. I may not be typical in that I float my seeds for 1 day in Water and H2o2 (80% water, 20% h2o2 3% strength) and then put them straight into the soil, skipping the paper towel method.
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And it seems to work out fine most times.
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I love good genetics and eager sprouts! Now I finally get to experience Wedding Cheesecake, GelatOG, Dr Seedsman, and Purple Lemonade. Time to taste some candy.
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And the first little hiccup happened when I dropped the purple lemonade pot, broke the plant in half, had to re-pot....then it starts flowering at about 16 days old. Autoflowers are interesting creatures.

I'll be showing all the outdoor ladies in the next post, as well as updates for these.

I hope you will all follow along, enjoy yourselves, and not take anything too seriously. Happy growing and please don't hesitate to say hello! :nomo:
 
You know I'll be following along !
I didn't know those file cabinets were for pot...I would've guessed there was something silly in there, like files or something.... :)
That's a great idea for storage!
 
You know I'll be following along !
I didn't know those file cabinets were for pot...I would've guessed there was something silly in there, like files or something.... :)
That's a great idea for storage!
Well about 1/2 the drawers are for pot, and already have empty glass jars waiting. The rest is MRE’s and other camping/survival stuff that needs to be in cool/dark. Can’t be too ready these days :reading420magazine:
 
Some of you may have seen this one pop up with the oddities post- This is another LRx that I’m doing (indoors now) just for fun and science. I’m using water from our turtle pond and living in the bottom of it are a couple goldfish from the pond. The root system has been interesting and has renewed itself several times. Suddenly this plant is drinking LOTS of water every day. Will be an interesting finish if it ever has one-
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That thing is doing remarkably well- tbh, a lot better than I thought it would...
That little goldfish is thinking "Man, I really wish I ate roots!"
 
That thing is doing remarkably well- tbh, a lot better than I thought it would...
That little goldfish is thinking "Man, I really wish I ate roots!"
Haha ya and I wish this thing had a window. They get fed well down there at least, and much more regularly than in the pond. I just switched out the fish recently cause we bought a couple dozen feeders. So the original guys that started it are back in their hood, and the new guys are on root duty.
Kind of surprised as well that it made it this far. I’ve pulled off a couple of really funky spotted leaves but the rest look healthy as of right now.
 
A nice little bonus- when I trimmed the GelatOG for its training, I put the cuttings in water and 10 days later-
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It’s an Auto so I’m not expecting much, but it might surprise me and grow a little bigger.
 
Decided to do something different for training on the WCCake. On the last 2 autos I harvested, 1 was quadlined and the other was not. They produced remarkably similar yields (@7.5 oz) so I wanted to try a new way and see if it worked. With this plant I left node 3,4,5. I used 4 as the main branches and trained both branches from 3 in one direction, and both branches from 5 in the other direction. With the main branches pulled out of toward the edges, I aimed all new secondary growth toward the middle.
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it doesn’t look much different than a typical quadline at this point (this was over a week ago) but wait until you see the results.
 
It’s an Auto so I’m not expecting much, but it might surprise me and grow a little bigger.
Doesn't look like it's flowering yet, so you may get a pretty good plant out of it!
I guess no one told you that you can't clone an auto... :rofl: ;) :welldone:

That WCC looks good! When my current grow finishes, I'm planning on growing that WCC you sent me
all by herself in the box- 2 really is one too many in there...
 
Doesn't look like it's flowering yet, so you may get a pretty good plant out of it!
I guess no one told you that you can't clone an auto... :rofl: ;) :welldone:

That WCC looks good! When my current grow finishes, I'm planning on growing that WCC you sent me
all by herself in the box- 2 really is one too many in there...
I didn’t think they would root, it was in a sunny windowsill and likely should have just withered away. There’s 2, and the second one has roots today. 2 miracles! lol Not sure if it helped or not but the water I put them in already had a houseplant take root in it the week before. So maybe there was a good amount of rooting hormones and whatever and it helped?
Anyway yes I’d give that WCC lots of room, it’s doing quite a stretch right now (about 31 days old) check out the training-
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Gonna be a monster I think
 
Yeah, she's definitely gonna need some space- she really does look sweet for only 31 days old!
 
Yeah, she's definitely gonna need some space- she really does look sweet for only 31 days old!
Thanks, I have high hopes for her. From below-
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Yep she was the runt in the very first picture, but she caught up quick.
 
And on the other side of the tent is the Purple Lemonade. It’s also only a month old, and started flowering REALLY early. It’s probably not going to yield much, but it’s starting to get purple and get chunky already.
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It broke almost half it’s branches off early and it’s recovered pretty well, but that’s also why it looks so narrow.
 
Yum!...pot squeezins...
 
The indoor ladies are loving life, especially the WCC, which is getting massive (sprouted 6/16)
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Meanwhile the GelatOG (sprouted same day) has been growing low like a head of cabbage, and is finally showing flower
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And the P Lemonade looks more like a bonsai plant with big flowers growing on a mini plant, and showing a bit of purple-
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The Dr Seedsman is flying high and has now been switched to 12/12 so it doesn’t get so big it’s unmanageable. Seems a good size to flip-
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And of course the science project, which had suddenly become a much faster, thirstier plant. Still not showing sex so I’m keeping a close eye on it, I don’t need unplanned children!
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Will update on the outdoor ladies later today/tomorrow. Have a great weekend, everyone!
 
Great looking bunch you've got going inside- The "fish plant" and the G.OG clone are really impressive!
I really like the looks of that WCC- talk about growing like a weed!
And the outside ladies are just beautiful! Loving the beach life.. :thumb:
 
It’s been getting really warm during the day here.
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Got a great fan today (zon) that can be controlled by heat or humidity, comes on automatically at whatever point I set. Super easy to hook up and program, fits over a 6” hole on top of the tent. Super quiet and only 18 watts. Totally worth it so far.
 
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