Bigbuds99 Backyard Organic No Till

A little late starting the journal as my grow is about a month underway but I've got a few pics to share.

No Till Soil Recipe ~125 gallons with this mix ratio

5 CF or 37 Gallons of CSPM (1 Sunshine Bale fluffed and hydrated)
3.75 CF Malibu Compost
1CF Perlite + 3CF Lava Rock = 4CF Total
2CF BioChar
5 Gallons Rice Hulls
10 Cups Kelp Meal
10 Cups Crab Meal
8 Cups Oyster Shell Powder
7 Cups Neem Meal
6 Cups Alfafa Meal
6 Cups Gypsum Powder
~2 Gallons Cascade Minerals - Basalt
~3 Gallons of Glacial Rock Dust
Vermicompost with worms (as much as you have available)




It's clear that this recipe could use a little more tweaking. Need some additional Nitrogen and also adding a Phosphorous source might be needed for a true water only application. I've been supplementing with Fish hydrolysate, FIshbone Meal, and Seabird Guano. Also lots of foliar feeding with N and Kelp Extract along the way.

 

Strain List:

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Napali Pink: (Kauai Electric, Alaskan Thunderfuck & Hindu Sun)
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Kauai Electric:
Hawaiian landrace sativa that has been cultivated on the Powerline trail near Mt. Wai’ale’ale, also known as the rainiest place on Earth. This hearty sativa exhibits a range of bright tropical colors and smells of passionfruit and guava. The flavors are fresh and tropical with an aftertaste of skunk and earth

Alaskan Thunderfuck:
legendary sativa-dominant strain originating in the Matanuska Valley area of Alaska

Hindu Sun:
A rare and unique 30 year old cutting of an island strain


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Strawberry Cheesecake: (Purple Panty Dropper x Forum Cut Girscout Cookie)
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Purple Panty Dropper: (Purple Haze, Matanuskan Mist, and Oregon Grape)

Purple Haze:
is believed to have descended from parent strains Purple Thai and Haze

Matanuskan Mist: (Matanuska Tundra with multi award- winning Grey Mist)

Matanuska Tundra
legendary sativa-dominant strain originating in the Matanuska Valley area of Alaska

Grey Mist:
Power Plant with the peaceful Shiva strain

Power Plant:
South African sativa strains

Shiva:
Skunk #1 with the resinous and hardy Northern Lights #5

Skunk #1:
Afghani, Acapulco Gold, and Colombian Gold

Northern Lights #5:
Afghani

Oregon Grape:
AK-47 x White Widow

AK-47:
sativa-dominant strain mixes Colombian, Mexican, Thai, and Afghani varieties

White Widow:
Brazilian sativa landrace and a resin-heavy South Indian indica

Girscout Cookie: (OG Kush & Durban Poison)

OG Kush:
first cultivated in Florida, in the early ‘90s when a strain from Northern California was crossed with a Hindu Kush plant from Amsterdam

Hindu Kush:
a “pure Indica” landrace strain that is reported by its breeders to come from the Hindu Kush mountain range in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Durban Poison:
Pure Satavia from Durban Africa


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Pineapple UpsideDown Cake: (Pineapple Trainwreck x Cookie Monster)
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Pineapple Express:
Trainwreck and Hawaiian

Trainwreck:
Mexican and Thai sativas were bred with Afghani indicas to produce this Northern California staple

Cookie Monster:
Girl Scout Cookies and OG Kush (see above)

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Purple Punch: (Larry OG x Grandaddy Purple)
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Larry OG:
OG Kush and SFV OG

OG Kush:
first cultivated in Florida, in the early ‘90s when a strain from Northern California was crossed with a Hindu Kush plant from Amsterdam

SFV OG:
SFV OG Kush is actually the Afghani-crossed child to SFV OG


Grandaddy Purple:
Purple Urkle and Big Bud

Purple Urkle:
a select phenotype of Mendocino Purps

Big Bud:
Dutch Bred Indica


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Midnight Splendor (Kali Mist x GDP x Kauai Purple x GSC)
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Kali Mist:
is believed to have originated in the 1990s through crossing two sativa-dominant hybrids

GDP (see above)

Kauai Purple:
Hawaiian x Purple Kush ??

GSC (see above)

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Mirage: (Lemon G (Ohio cut, clone only) x Dr. Hoffman)
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Lemon G:
sativa hybrid is a daughter of Original G13

G13:
very strong strain of cannabis indica


Dr. Hoffman (Acid x Sour Pez)

Acid - paradise seeds)
a Diesel mother plant crossed with our favorite Dutch genetics

Sour Pez: (Pink Pez X Sour Diesel)

Pink Pez: (Sour Pink Grapefruit x Pez)

Sour Pink Grapefruit:
is a hybrid deriving from a mix of indica and sativa genetics. The mother strain is Sweet Pink Grapefruit and the father strain is East Coast Sour Diesel.

Pez:
an indica daughter of Afghani and Pakistani strains

Sour Diesel:
invigorating sativa-dominant strain


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Chocolate Tonic (2:1 CBD strain - Cannatonic x Chocolate Kush)
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Cannatonic:
A cross between a female MK Ultra and a famous G13 Haze male

Chocolate Kush:
a powerful indica strain that captures the best of its two parent strains. Mazar, with its resin-oozing buds, lends its potent full-body euphoria while its other pure indica parent passes on a pungent aroma of hashy incense and chocolate.

 

Picture from 6/25/2019


2 weeks later - 7/10/2019


~ 2 weeks later 7/26/2019


1 week later 8/2/2019 - Flowing just starting




9 days later 8/11/2019


25 days later 9/5/19


16 days later 9/21/2019


6 days later 9/27/2019


6 days later 10/03/2019 (Harvest last 3 plants tomorrow)

 

I just completed my IPM last night using 3/4 TBSP Neem, 1/4 TBSP Karanja, 2 TSP Silicon (Dyna-Grow) and 1 TBSP Soap Nut Powder per gallon of water.

 

Leaf Shine from the IPM Spray last night. Powdery Mildew was always such a battle but now that I'm using neem oil it's a thing of the past

 

Looks like my measurements for the soil build this year are off a bit since I was just recreating from previous notes instead of using the tool I wrote

 

Command: ( Example for 1 bale of CSPM)
python soil_builder.py

Script Output:

 

Command: ( Example for 1/2 bale of CSPM)
python soil_builder.py

 

Soil Builder Code (Python) Amendments have been adjusted to my personal preferences and can be changed as you see fit.

Code:

#! /usr/bin/python

# Rice Hulls come out of CSPM portion of the base mix
HULLS = .05

# Rockdust: (4-10 Cups per CF - MOFO 2018)
ROCK_DUST = 8

# BioChar: (10% of overall mix - MOFO 2018)
BIOCHAR = .10

#Amendments: (.5-1 Cup per CF - REMOVED FROM MOFO 2018) 
NEEM = .7
KELP = 1
CRAB = 1
ALFALFA = .6
MBP = 0
OYSTER = .8
GYPSUM = .6

# Constants
GAL_TO_CF = 7.48
HUMUS = .33

bales = raw_input("How many bales of CSPM are you mixing today? ")
bale_size = float(bales) * 5

# Assume 1:1:1 mix and deviate from there
mix_size = bale_size*3

print "\n{} bale(s) of CSPM contains to roughly {} Cubic Feet or {} Gallons " .format(bales, bale_size, bale_size * GAL_TO_CF)

# 40/30/25/5  (Aeration/Humus/CSPM/Hulls)
aeration = raw_input("\nEnter desired aeration % in whole numbers. ")
aeration = (float(aeration) / 100)

air_amnt = (aeration * mix_size)

if aeration < .33 :
    print "33% aeration is minimum!"
    exit()

if aeration >= .33 :
    cspm_correction = (aeration - HUMUS) / 2
    HUMUS = HUMUS - cspm_correction

cspm = (1 - (aeration + HUMUS + HULLS))

cspm_amnt = cspm * mix_size

HUMUS = (1 - (aeration + cspm + HULLS))

humus_amnt = HUMUS * mix_size

hulls_amnt = HULLS * mix_size


print "\nYou start with {} Cubic Feet or {} Gallons of CSPM" .format(cspm_amnt, cspm_amnt * GAL_TO_CF)

print "\nYou need {} Cubic Feet or {} Gallons of Aeration" .format(air_amnt, air_amnt * GAL_TO_CF)

print "\nyou need {} Cubic Feet or {} Gallons of Humus" .format(humus_amnt, humus_amnt * GAL_TO_CF)

print "\nyou need {} Cubic Feet or {} Gallons of Hulls" .format(hulls_amnt, hulls_amnt * GAL_TO_CF)

print "-" * 80
print "You will have {} CF or {} Gallons of soil before amendments" .format(mix_size, mix_size * GAL_TO_CF)
print "-" * 80

# Amendments need to be added to the living portion of the soil - No Perlite or Lava
amended_cf = cspm_amnt + humus_amnt + hulls_amnt

rock_dust_amnt = ROCK_DUST * (amended_cf + air_amnt)
biochar_amnt = BIOCHAR * (amended_cf + air_amnt)

print "\nyou will need to add {} Cubic Feet or {} Gallons of BioChar to the mix ".format(biochar_amnt, biochar_amnt * GAL_TO_CF)
print "\nyou will need to add {} Cups or {} Gallons of Rock Dust to the mix ".format(rock_dust_amnt, rock_dust_amnt/16)

amedned_gal = (mix_size * GAL_TO_CF) + (biochar_amnt * GAL_TO_CF) + (rock_dust_amnt/16)

print "-" * 80
print "You will have {} Cubic Feet or {} Gallons of soil with Rock Dust and BioChar - MOFO 2018" .format(round(amedned_gal / 7.48 ,2) , round(amedned_gal, 2))
print "-" * 80

# Optional Amendments - supposedly no longer needed

print "\nyou can optionally add {} cups of Kelp Meal" .format(amended_cf * KELP)
print "\nyou can optionally add {} cups of Crab Meal" .format(amended_cf * CRAB)
print "\nyou can optionally add {} cups of Neem Meal" .format(amended_cf * NEEM)
print "\nyou can optionally add {} cups of Oyster Meal" .format(amended_cf * OYSTER)
print "\nyou can optionally add {} cups of Alfalfa Meal" .format(amended_cf * ALFALFA)
print "\nyou can optionally add {} cups of Malted Barley Powder" .format(amended_cf * MBP)
print "\nyou can optionally add {} cups of Gypsum Powder" .format(amended_cf * GYPSUM)

optional_amnt = amended_cf * (KELP + CRAB + NEEM + OYSTER + ALFALFA + MBP + GYPSUM)

print "-" * 80
print "optional amendments equal {} cups or {} Gallons" .format(optional_amnt, round(optional_amnt / 16 , 2))
print "=" * 80

final_gal = amedned_gal + (optional_amnt / 16)

print "You will have {} Cubic Feet or {} Gallons of soil @{}% aeration if everything is used.\n" .format(round(final_gal / 7.48, 2) , round(final_gal, 2), aeration)

 

Foliar Feeding Tonight: Per Gallon of Water

1/4 Cup Fresh Aloe
1 Tsp Kelp Extract
10 ml Ful-Power
Filter through mesh and spray

 

I like this recipe. Thanks for posting it, now I just need to find the ingredients.

 

neemresource(dot)com

 

Malted Barley Powder Topdress with homemade worm castings and watered in with Aloe and Humic Acid.

1/8 tsp Ful-Humix per Gallon of water

1/4 Cup Fresh Aloe per gallon of water

Home made Worm castings (Malibu Base)

Malted Barley Ground up and ready to apply

 

@ElRanchoDeluxe, much thanks. I'm a big fan of you and the other heavy hitters here in the organics section. Completely changed everything about the way I grow and I'm very thankful for the time and effort everyone has put into this place.

 

In Ontario Canada. No one ships up here

 

Awesome thanks, I did order some karanja from amazon and I have Dr. Bonnners pure Castile soap with eucalyptus so I hope that will be alright.