OK – worm casting trial is obvious after 1 week. The more expensive brand – 2 USD per kilo is very good. The cheap worm casting brand 1 USD per kilo is a waste of good seed and time.
Leaves on Spicy CBD with better worm casting has darker shade of green. And it is generally bigger and healthier. Leaves on the plant with cheap worm casting is lighter shade of green and growth is less. Increasing yield to just one gram of dry buds would more than pay for better worm casting. I suspect that it is from what were fed to the night crawlers and how long night crawlers were left to feed. And I notice that on a better quality one, texture of the casting is more smooth rather than peat moss like. I think that better fed and longer fed worm produces more humic acid. Also the smell betwwen the tow brand are different. And this is explainable by the species of worm. Thai night crawler is notoriously stink.
However, I don’t think the quality is different from species of worm. I think different species of night crawler should produce the same quality of casting regardless of ethnicity.
The earliest Spicy CBD is still going well. Much better than other finicky sativa plants. I hope that she doesn’t flower next week so I can pinch her for the third time.
Sweet Love is also coming along wonderfully.
Mold and Bugs Management:
After last round of anti-bugs fungus spray, white fly diappeard. House fly and horse fly are buzzing instead. Every time I till the soil, I cut some night crawler in half. The top half survive and would grow tail again but the bottom half became fly food.
This week, I sprayed friendly microbes to fight mold and aphids. Not because it was needed but since I am spraying my blooming Punky Lion might as well direct the nozzle to all my grows also.
Feeding regime
Saturday: Soil drench to three plants. Concentration per 1 liter (20 ml + 3ml Molasses + 1 ml sea weed, 1 g phosphate heavy fertilizer )
Thursday: Soil drench to three plants. Concentration per 1 liter (20 ml + 3ml Molasses + 1 ml sea weed, 1 g potassium heavy fertilizer)
Friday: Spray to three plants. Concentration per 1 liter (20 ml + 3ml Molasses + 1 ml sea weed, 1 g potassium heavy fertilizer, 1 ml humic acid).
Saturday: Spray Concentration per 1 liter ( 3ml Molasses +, 1.5 ml humic acid). The weather is overcast, I read that humic acid makes leaves takes on darker green color and it would need less light.
Sunday: Soil drench per 1 liter ( 30 ml worm tea + 3ml molasses+2ml humic+1 ml seaweed)
@@JP148 here are the pic’s of canna coconut oil in jars. Actually they are more like Coconut butter than oil in the fridge.
For longer term, I just keep them in the ice box.
@Med_in_Tropic, thanks man. Yeah mine got cloudy in the frig. but being an oil it was clearer. Tasted fine so I made brownies with it. Lol Keep dirt under your nails.
@jeesus, 🙏
thanks for the support. 🙏
my lesson is that I should be vigilant even when things seemed to be well.
Next time I see a bulging stem with a hole, I’ll cut that stem open.
Damaging it would be better that let it died.
Wow med this one really tested your patience. It makes me think of the movie series strain hunters. They find sativa landrace strains, but the local farmers are happy when they mix with some indica genetic because it helps them to harvest in a more reasonable time frame. I guess its like our native land race strain in Aus. We call it "bush weed" and it is usually very thin, dark, dry and harsh and not very good quality. Its interesting your method of air cooker. I have not seen this before. I hope you can get some good use from this one.. cheers med
@Shooey, we are hoping for six plants rule by next month. Thanks to the health minister.
His election campaign was mostly about cannabis legalization. And his middle/small party won big 😄😄😄
All I want is to grow my weed without people bothering me. I do think that if more people consume weed we would have a kinder and more understanding world.
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@Med_in_Tropic,😂 non smoking supremacists!! Cool mate. I also just figured out there was private chat and worked out and saw your messages too. Sorry it was so late mate. I read a story recently where Thailand has a progressive king or prime minister who is advocating decriminalization of cannabis and looking to make Thailand a major player in growing and distributing medical cannabis. Exciting times for you guys. This could bring new wealth to the farming community and make things a bit easier for you too mate👍👍👍
Hi @Shooey, any cooker that you can control temperature really. Thai’s normally don’t have oven so the air frier is more readily available.
50/50 THC/CBD is great for the day. And with oil, there is no fuss. No brow beating from non-smoking-supremacists. 😄😄😄
But there must be an auto version of mixed CBD ratio somewhere.
I have 400 doses of this oil. Already gave half away. Nonetheless, this would still last me more than a year still.
Cheers mate
Looks nice. Also nice CBD ratio. Before I started growing I purchased an ounce with the same CBD/THC ratio for butter, was nice arthritis medicine. I would like to get a hold of a CBD strain like that. But for now I grew CBD Jack and it good bud THC a little high. I take CBD for 3-5 days straight when I want to give my system a break from THC, CBD Jack has too much THC. I need to learn a lot about growing CBD. I'm also considering CBD Autos sounds promising even though I would never grow an Auto strain for THC. What do you think about the Ruderalis/Autos plant and CBD?
@SativaKid, actually I think Rudelaris auto is difficult for me. I make lots of error. And I can’t control the weather. These day I also like to clone. So I prefer the photo/auto cross. The so call quick version.
Rudelaris will inherently have some cbd regardless of strain. This part I do like when grow for THC. But my yields would be too small to worth the time
I think ruderalis would complement well with CBD stain.
@SativaKid, I think cbd’s has hemp gene in them. So super resilient and easier to grow than standard Thai sativa.
I over everything and these cbd girls are okay. Today it rained sideway. Afterward, these leaves hardly clawed.
The 1:1 cbd seedling were thin in the beggining and they grow more slowly than an Indica would.
Also CBD strain is new and seeds from the same batch grow diligently with different cbd ratio.. you may have to take clone before even flowering. Much before harvest. And keep the pheno that suit you.
On that line of thought. My space is limited but I also like to pop and clone more than i need but I have people that I can give extra plants away.
My auto’s did not get too big. I think you can do auto cbd. Jut keep them in 10 l pot. And I confess that I topped my auto’s. Even My Wild Thailand Ryder never got any taller than 120 cm.
@Med_in_Tropic,.... so I'll bring some chang then ? 😅 i find the pure plays are the best of the bunch isnt it , hope you're not disappointed though, was a good grow!
Sativas can bulk quite ridiculously and it certainly depends on what sort of sativa, but they are much more easily stunted because of space/time/feed than indicas, so relative feature size scales with that. That is, a sativa in a 20l pot grown for only 20 weeks (without messing with growth hormones/regulators much and assuming the soil is sort of "average" but good) will essentially be an immature bonsai (even if it's 2.5m tall). With indicas the effect of that stunting/scaling is less, due to their size/growing time/etc. I've had no issues getting really bulky flowers from sativas, but not if they're stunted/bonsai in that sense.
A few ways to boost the feature size is to AVOID most forms of stress (especially anything that increases node count/density) and to have more "building block" nutrients in more carboniferous soil (which would also supply extra ethylene, essentially shortening/fattening the plant and boosting flowering, depending on your soil balance). After all, the plants still use waaay more carbon, hydrogen, silica, calcium for actual plant matter than something like potassium or phosphor. I'm sure there are other things too but those are a few things I've noticed.
That plant looks like it is bulking fine atm and the yoghurt you're using would most likely provide a good sugar/carb source. I wouldn't be surprised to see it bulk quite a lot still (up to about another 2 months of flowering, depending on conditions and such), but not sure about the strain.
@Med_in_Tropic,
Yeah instructions don't work so well in "the wild".
I mean there are definitely manual things you could do (pinching branches or supercropping, boosting flowering nutrients etc), but in mostly uncontrolled environments that just varies so much and is a bit context specific. You could look at stimulating "artificial" pathogen attacks, possibly (though I don't really believe in stuff like that in general, which I often think is basically the result you get from some of these growth boosters). I mean, the plant responds by making shit that defends it. If the plant is defending against it...yeah, maybe it's bad...
Topping your plant, for instance, messes with the hormone/growth regulator system which is irreversible, so yeah, weird things can happen (like the plant not flowering properly even, and vegging for a very long time). Sometimes they stretch more/better and veg for longer, sometimes they hermi and start flowering. Depends on health and whatever.
@@Ssomeguy, thanks for the info.
I used “yield increasing techniques” like topping and got smaller plants.
Plants that I did not do too much gotten really big. LOL
"There is no way that 24 liter pot of soil can support this. Roots must have went to in the soil."
Well look, in 20 liter pots in my first grow, if you didn't see, I had a bunch of plants (most of them) over 1.5m easily, some more than 2.0m, and that's excluding pot height. One of them did get knocked over in gale-force winds though.
In a proper 25 liter pot in good conditions you could get 3m plants.
@Med_in_Tropic,
Yeah I got a bunch of 1.0m+ plants with 6-12l soil through winter. Of the plants I've grown, basically any sativa hybrid reaches 2m+ unless it's very indica or ruderalis dominant.
Well done med, it must feel satisfying to get this one finished up. 15 weeks flowering,, mate that takes some serious patience. I suppose the good thing about cbd is you can enjoy the flavours all day and not get too wiped out right?? To me the taste and the “after taste” of great weed is just as enjoyable as they effect,, a lot like fine cigars (which I think tastes like shit)👍
@Shooey, this is not my favorite grow. Took way too long. It is for my mom and my son.
Normally, it takea about three to four time the normal dose to get me high. Not that I ever smoke much. My body is just expensive to entertain. LOL. If I smoke a join at lunch, I still can work. Just in a better disposition.
CBD is great for artheritis pain and to help sleep. My mother can not function because of insomnia and her pain. And ganja is way better than tranquiilizers and pain medecines.
Another person is my son. He get spaced out wit dimensional warping effect after a bowl. He just want to relaxed without getting stone or high. Go figure! This is what he is looking for,
So, I am decarbing and making infused oil tea for the both of them.
I think you should grow what suit you. For me, I like sativa dominate hybrid. Once in a while, I like an indica to help me sleep after intense work stress. CBD is really a medicine and it won't help you if you are not ailing.
As for cigar, I get quesy and dizzy. Don't like it at all.
Cheers mate.
@Cannibalgardens, conditions aren't that bad. Heating and lighting are free. Land is cheap (outside of Bangkok).
Just has to pick the right strain. Most strains are developped in Europ and US. And they are suited for indoor or mild climate.
Or I can just give in an grew landrace Thai; 4 meter tree for nine months. That would be too boring.
Happy growing mate. Thanks for your love and comments.
@Shooey, stupid of me. This sort of caterpillar ate my magnolia. But i thought it would get too high to do damage. LOL Weed plant actually survived more than two weeks with that thing inside it. If I see a hole, there is enough time to correct the damage.
Thanks, @MicrowGrow420, but I fear that it will attract unwanted attention.
I have only a few inch space before the tallest one goes above my fence. (- -!)
Strontium-> glow in the dark?