ladybugs and fabric planters

today i went to osh and purchased ladybugs

i tried to release just a few inside, the true blueberry that is flowering has a couple tiny little infected mite spots! i am so scared of spraying anything now after messing up flowering plants with super strong spinosad before, so i released some inside! i tried to only release a few, but then they started moving into the crevice of the lid and i didn't want to smash them, so i ran outside with the rest of the ladybugs in their container and just opened it up and let them out, usually i'll wait till the sun is going down as they don't seem to scatter too much then

i bought some nice fresh brewed compost tea for cheap from a hydro shop today, just mixed it up with a bunch of water in a 5 gallon bucket and tossed an airstone in, i'll be feeding in a few hours, hope everyone likes it and it's not too strong!

i got some more root trapper planters, my main goal is to move 3 pinot noir grape plants into them as well as a flowering maple, of course i got a few extra to move some of the smaller plants into ;) so far every plant i have moved into a smart pot, or root trapper pot, has just loved it and had an explosion of growth!

mostly outdoor july 2011 update

here is a pollinated sour diesel x lowryder f1, it was pollinated with more lowyrder


here's a dj short f13


garlic


bagseed acapulco gold


revegetating la confidential


i think this is a blue dream, will need to look closer and edit if it isn't


cinnamon haze, #2 out of 10 planted


revegetating afghan x lowryder #2 f1


revegetating w.o.s. ko chang thai


top left is a dutch passion mekong high femenized freebie, the remaining 3 are w.o.s. ko chang thai x lowryder #2 f1



here are the por struggling jamaicans from inside, in the middle is a poor struggling cinnamon haze, #4 out of 10 planted


not much going on in flower under the lumigrow right now, on the far left is a dinafem critical plus, in the back you can barely see "the white" that was a gift from a friend's collective farm, the plant in front is a dutch passion skunk #11 feminized freebie


under the 400 watt hps the bigger plant in the front is a dj short true blueberry, #2 out of 3 that were planted, the tall stick in the middle in the back is a cali orange, below that is a tiny critical plus, to the far left is a w.o.s. ko chang thai



here are 2 india haze plants that i was gifted


here's the led veg area, the plants on the upper top left are gifts for some folks that have been kind to me in the past ;)

the mite magnet jamaicans!

here are 2 of the jamaican girls, the middle plant is cinnamon haze #4 out of 10 seeds i popped, unfortunately the mites liked the cinnamon as well, she has since had her top cola topped and will go into reveg i hope


here is the 3rd jamaican girl, all the jamaicans have been clearing up from mites outside, plenty of predators to handle the mites for me

ace vietnamese black x thai update

i have 4 living female vietnamese black x thai plants from ace, here are the 2 that have been vegetating inside under led

when i defoliate these, my fingers kind of smell like black licorice, but burnt a bit?!?

here is one that has been outside vegetating at 34*n


here is another that's been vegetating outside but constrained to a tiny beer cup, i'll transplant her soon don't worry, i don't want her getting too large anyways afterall

lumigrow tent

mid may 2011 outdoor at 34 north, some reveg, some males, fun fun fun fun

here is our revegetating la confidential, check out all the green reveg growth!


here's the plot that is going to get blasted by lowryder #2 pollen, since it's not flower time anymore, it's all good, by the time they are full flowering in many months the lowryders will be gone, so i'll have an early seed harvest, then later a non seeded harvest


here is a sour diesel x lowryder #2 f1, the small cup has a clone of a special volunteer plant called balco since it is the lone survivor from my old apartment balcony


here is a clone of the bagseed acapulco gold i dig so much, when done right it's one of the creamiest herbs i have ever had the pleasure to partake of


this is a beautiful dj short true blueberry, thank you again mr. that gifted the seed to me! i got 3 seeds, 2 were females, and 1 male, i wanted to see how one of the females would like it outside, it's been so nice out, she is much larger than her sister of the same age which is confined inside


hiding out under this mango tree is a m.o.d. cinnamon haze


hanging out right under a bunch of lowryder #2 males is a lovely revegetating afghan x lowryder #2 f1 girl


here is another clone of our balcony volunteer, not looking too happy...


look at all those sacks, go lowryder #2 go! 1 out of all of them was a female, see her at the bottom all tiny? next to her in an ice cream pint is a clone of an acapulco gold x purple kush f1


some people i know got paranoid and chopped some plants too early, here's one that they gave me for cooking


and here's another


last but not least is an oaksterdam blue dream that got chopped a week or so too early, the borg were making a come back on here, just too late in the game to spray or wait it out, c'est la vie!

world of seeds thai indoors and outdoors

here's an outdoor one revegetating


here's one inside vegetating in it's orange square container


here's one flowering under a lumigrow es 165 led panel, almost 11 weeks here


pardon the bright orange hps glow, here's one about 9 1/2 weeks into flowering under the hps

vietnam black x thai girls, lol i thought 1 was a guy nope just seeded preflower!

i thought this one was a guy, turns out it just had pollenated preflowers haha, it spent a couple days in the male closet, so i'm sure it'll spit out all kinds of seeds...ooops!



here are her sisters, the 2 lanky ones in front




here's 1 more sister

the 3 volunteer plants i found walking the dog

they are looking pretty alright, i think the 1 in the back might be a male

tortured jamaicans

our hps flowered jamaican has spider mites, poor girl, she is in quarantine for a few days now



here is her led flowering sister, please note that i have stopped feeding these girls, it's evident i fed them all too much, they really don't dig it, i'm backing off on that now



here is their sister, the new mom