Mohican's 2013 Season with Compost, SS, and EWC

I live in an area where many large manufacturing plants are nearby. It is because of the proximity to the train tracks.

The lumber is in the back yard now





This is why I am building the greenhouse - F**king squirrels!






Cheers,
Mo

Well, when I took the babies out for some sun today I saw damage on almost all of the leaves. I am trying to figure out the cause and I sprayed two rounds of neem to try and stop whatever it is.










Trays:






















Cheers,
Mo

Almost forgot - The Mulanje Gold $$$ Bubblegum x MozPoz #1 (aka MuMoBG#1) is in its own big kid pot now. His tap root was shooting out of the bottom of the baby pot and so I figured why not.






Cheers,
Mo

Some of the seedling (especially the OGs) have gotten so long that they are falling over. I made some little supports to hold them up. The design is based on some supports I bought last year to hold up the tall Mulanje Mainlined stems.



















The last sprouts in the sunset:






Group sunset shot:






Cheers,
Mo

Mohican said:

Where were you yesterday when I was moving all of that lumber? hehe

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Doing my finals, haha. But if you need any help let us know. I'd like to do it just to learn how to build a greenhouse. How are your seedlings handling this heat? I took a queue from you and put my seedlings outside, but they got too hot and when I checked on them this morning the pots were scorching hot and they were pretty dry. They do love the sunlight, just not the heat.

Tell your friends I have Pakistani Punch for everyone. And for you I transplanted a Jack The Ripper, a Girl Scout Cookie, and a Blue Dream last night. Rooted like crazy.

Keep them watered! They love the heat!

If it gets too bad you can always put a dome over them.

Screen works great too, as long as the winds don't tear it away and it rips out all of your babies - ugh - what am I saying


Last year I had a metal pan sitting next to my plant so it could reflect more light on the plant!





Cheers,
Mo

The pie pan was for catching earwigs with beer. It didn't work. The animals just got to have beer with their fruit and vegetables

What does work -so says UC Davis (http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/index.html) is a tuna can with veg oil and a drop of tuna oil or bacon grease!


Cheers,
Mo

Mo those effin earwigs do work and do work fast on plants! Let me know how that bacon grease or tuna oil works for you! Also you mentioned you saw something on your little seedlings, kind of looks like thrip damage IMO. Sub'd up now, better late than never!

Peace

FM

They seem to be fine. I had domes on them inside and I am wondering if it was a moisture thing? Never did see any bugs but the neem treatments seem to have stopped whatever it was. I put a sticky fly strip up in the cabinet to try and catch any wayward bugs. Nothing has shown up on it yet. Yesterday I sprayed liquid Sevin all over my outdoor garden to try and put a stop to the earwigs and leafhoppers (what I thought were thrips). I hate doing this because I can kill all of the good bugs too

Babies are getting bigger!






Cheers,
Mo

Spinosad is organic and pretty effective, Captain Jack's is real cheap and I like it. Spinosad is safe for all your garden friends, I have a bunch of little jumping spiders on my plants that I've made friends with. So I was real happy when I read that Spinosad is safe for your beneficial predators, even predatory mites! But it'll kill spider mites, that's pretty neat!

I mean, your predatory insects don't love it, and they probably feel like shit for the next day, but they are still alive and eating up whatever leaf miners are left over from the spray downs. Spinosad is safe to come into skin contact, and to use around pets, no respirator, no tyvek suit, no goggles, no gloves. About 3-4 hours after treatment, I see a bunch of little upside down bugs on my leaves, works well. You can reapply every 3 days and up to the day before harvest. Apparently Spinosad was discovered in 1982 in the stills of an abandoned rum distillery in the Caribbean. Pretty cool.

half a beer can works for slugs mo! literally cut them in half and leave a mouthful of beer in the bottom it's dry outside to climb in but too steep n slippy to get out once in, though that's uk, looking at the sun in those pics it looks like a mouthful of beer would evapourate in seconds.

hope the prognosis is good on your knee fella.

Getting an MRI tomorrow. Stuck in the recliner at the moment. Using crutches to get to the loo. Wifey is caring for the seedlings. Im am getting faster at typing on the tablet

Cheers,
Mo

What happened to your knee mo? Coincidentally I had an MRI done on both my knees 3 days ago.

I knelt down in a catcher's position to take a picture of the TGA jars and my knee popped. When I stood up my leg locked! I tried to straighten it out and it made a big crunch sound and now it does not work right.

Mohican said:

I knelt down in a catcher's position to take a picture of the TGA jars and my knee popped. When I stood up my leg locked! I tried to straighten it out and it made a big crunch sound and now it does not work right.

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Hahaha, it really isn't funny, but the way you told it was. That's a real drag right there, I hope everything is well. My mom just had bilateral knee replacement.

Wife is having trouble using the manual on off functions on the light timer. So each evening when the babies go back in the cabinet I get to go help! They are on their third set of leaves and starting to look like cannabis. The kush and sativa all still have similar structure though. No big fat indica leaves, no sharp star kush leaves, and no skinny sativa leaves. The Malawi last year had fat leaves until the 6 or 7th node.

Keiki's are looking great Mo. Hope your knee is okay. Aloha

Mohican said:

I knelt down in a catcher's position to take a picture of the TGA jars and my knee popped. When I stood up my leg locked! I tried to straighten it out and it made a big crunch sound and now it does not work right.

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Does that normally happen cause my shoulder does that. Drives me nuts and is painful. Hope your knee is ok Mo!

I leave seeds outside but in the shade when its too hot and they seem to still grow out fine. I would have to agree that they like the heat.

Peace

FM