heres a couple of pics of phantom cookies (phantom = gdp x cherry pie.. and the cookies is: bay 11 x platinum cookies). this strain was popped from seed that i bought from the GDP collective in the bay area. it is my new favorite strain. it retains the smell of phantom, taste almost like phantom but with a touch of the og/sour from platinum and a little more sweetness from the bay 11 and cherry pie (ive had all these strains individually so i know what traits they carry). it yields better than blue dream (which eveyrone knows is a high yield) and is almost all bud with very little leaves. frosty as all hell and rock hard dense as can be. the high is pretty clear, it can get intense on heavy use but its great daytime smoke. also useful for evening smoke, i reserve something else for right before bed though. i never thought i'd find a strain i liked more than kens GDP.. but this one is right there with it.
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heres some first round cut outdoor of girls scout cookie s1. it was grown with just hose water in the ground, where i dump my old soil.
to answer some questions that were on the past few pages:
i am still using rice hulls (for silica and also better drainage). neem also, and since using neem ive noticed it handles everything gone wrong in the garden. i had some mold/fungus growth on the bottom of the cups and on the soil. hit it with neem and sprinkled some neem around the base on the water saucer.. gone within a week. i had some mushroom spores in my bagged soil that started growing on the vegging plants. neem killed em. fungus gnats i do see 1 or 2 here and there. but the neem keeps them WAY under control. i had some larvae (maybe thrips?) on the bottom of some leaves in veg, i gave the plants neem as a top dressing and sprayed the leaves with azamax, one time.. they are gone now.
i did want to note to anyone using bottled silica to be careful because they tend to be high in salt content and can cause ph issues and lockout issues if used too frequently. i'd just use rice hulls. they are cheaper and work just as well.
i never ph my water.. ever, not even in my ez cloner. my tap water is hard too. ph ranges from 8.5 to 9. and over 200ppm
i dont use any bottled nutrients anymore. straight tap water all through flower.. its easier. i dont have as much time in my schedule so i did it for convenience at first, but results are still great so ill stick with it.
soil mix is final, no reason to change it anymore, its perfect for me. i just wish i didnt have to mix it haha.
here is the final soil mix:
FLOWERING SOIL RECIPE
(cook moist soil in covered garbage can for 1 month minimum)
- 2 large bags - roots natural and organic soil large bag (1.5)
- 1.5 cu - EB Earth Worm Castings
- 16 red cups (about 1kg) organic rice hulls
- 420g fish bone meal (down to earth 3-16-0)
- 420g bat guano (happy frog 0-5-0)
- 420g blood meal (down to earth 12-0-0)
- 100g neem seed meal (down to earth)
- 80g potassium sulfate (0-0-50)
- 200g ancient forest alaska humus (general organics)
- 200g xtreme mycorrhizal granules
- 200g azomite
- 100g sea kelp (algamin 1-0-2)
- 70g dolomite lime (30% cal 3% mg or 75/12)
- 50g alfalfa meal (down to earth 2.5-1-1)
- 20g humic acid powder (down to earth)
- 8g Epsom salt
then i usually put aprox 8 tablespoons of neem as a top dressing when i move them into flower, mostly for gnat prevention. doesnt have to be exact, just a dusting across the top layer.
oh and also i did want to note its important to not use pot size too small if you want to maximize your results and the soil performance. i think i use 10gal pots, its been so long since i bought them. basically what subcool recommended in his mix is what i use (i think it was #7 nursery pots which were 10gal pots)
