Rick's Organic Winter Grow

[Rick Dirte']

Hello all my fellow organic growers! My weed growing adventures started right here in this sub forum 4 1/2 years ago.
My state legalized cannabis in the summer of 2018. I have grown veggies and container plants organically for almost 40 years
but had never grown weed until fall 2018.

I found this website and sub forum and started digging thru the stickies and reading @hecno 's thread and many others.
I made 2 batches of soil Rick's soil mix (link is to post from last year) which I rotate and store in compost tumblers. . I only grow 2 runs a year so each batch is composted 9 months between grows. I continuously amend with ewc, Blue Ribbon compost and various dry amendments. This will be the 6th grow in this batch, I believe.
Big thanks to everybody that I learned from! I have been having good results with my grow style.

Growing Night Owl seeds Mandela Effect (7 gal), Quicksand Cookies (5gal) and Outlier C (5gal). Jean-O's Straw Dog (7gal) & and VooDoo (7gal). Gnome Anvil (7gal).
They'll be under a Grower's Choice ROI E680 and a HLG 600R both with UVA light bars.

Group Shot. End week 1.



Night Owl Outlier C in back & Quicksand Cookies in front, 8 days old.

Gnome Anvil in back & Jean-O's Straw Dog in front. Anvil day 8. Straw Dog day 7.
Straw Dog is entered in Jean-Os Grow Battle. I have to choose 1 seedling to compete
at the end of this week.

Night Owl Mandela Effect in back & Jean-O's VooDoo in front. Mandela Effect 8 days. VooDoo day 7.



Thanks for checking out my grow. See ya next week.

 

[Shugrows]

Nice start looking good my friend

 

[hecno]

Love the grow room , With your soil that is stored do you feed it , I use molasses at 15 ml a liter , great microbe food .

 

[Rick Dirte']

Love the grow room , With your soil that is stored do you feed it , I use molasses at 15 ml a liter , great microbe food .

Hecno my man! Learned a bunch of stuff from you. You'd post some chart or info in your thread and I would start googling stuff.
Learned to cob cure cannabis because of one of your posts. Thank you sir.
Yes I feed Recharge or Hardy Grow Ultra Bio to my soil while it's composting and while I grow in it.
My soil just keeps getting better as it ages, just like you said it would.

 

[420autoflower]

I want in on this one.

 

[Rick Dirte']

End of week 2. Just been giving well water, yucca, added Mammoth silica day 8 and Hardy Gro Ultra Bio (once).
These bags are new to me and have a water proof liner 2/3 length inside. Have to see how it affects my watering.

Group

Outlier C day 15.

Quicksand Cookies day 15.

Mandela Effect day 15.

Anvil day 15.

Straw Dogs day 14.

VooDoo day 14.

Thanks for looking. Be back next weekend.

 

[420autoflower]

End of week 2. Just been giving well water, yucca, added Mammoth silica day 8 and Hardy Gro Ultra Bio (once).
These bags are new to me and have a water proof liner 2/3 length inside. Have to see how it affects my watering.

Group

Outlier C day 15.

Quicksand Cookies day 15.

Mandela Effect day 15.

Anvil day 15.

Straw Dogs day 14.

VooDoo day 14.

Thanks for looking. Be back next weekend.

Looking healthy Rick!

 

[Rick Dirte']

@420autoflower Yeah I'm happy so far. I'll start them on fish hydrolysate after day 21 and they'll get to moving.

 

[Rick Dirte']

End of week 3. Day 21 & 22. They're coming on. Added fish hydrolysate to the watering this morning.
Has been well water, yucca, silica and Ultra Bio once a week so far.

Group shot.

Night Owl Mandela Effect day 22. Jean-O's VooDoo day 21

Gnome Anvil day 22. Jean-O's Straw Dog day 21.

Night Owl Outlier C & Quicksand Cookies day 22.

Thanks folks, see you next weekend.

 

[Rick Dirte']

@Hog MaGundy thanks for the rep Hog I appreciate it!