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Hey, So this grow is done and dusted, thought I would add it here as a start-to-finish diary. Substrate : Freedom Farm Premium Classic, amended with Dirty Hands Elemental Blend at 1L per 20L soil and a rooibos mulch on top. Nutrients : Biobizz (Grow, Bloom, Top-Max, Acta-Vera). Kushy Amino Acids, CalMag and Bud Juice Symbiotics. Genetics : Mandarin Cookies V2 from Ethos Genetics. There isn't many pics of Veg, because a cannabis plants looks like a cannabis plant, lets get onto the good stuff. I harvested just over 600 grams in dry weight in total, 400 grams of decent smokable buds and 200 odd grams of bud and offcuts to go towards some bubble hash. Well that's that, cheers for now.

Some pics from today: Pulled one purple haze regular that turned out to be male. The two AK-01s and the slurricane #7 are the biggest plants so far (all just over 1.5m already).

Another year another grow! I have been growing organically in the same area for about 15 years now, but only recently fully enclosed my grow area with 40% shade cloth to help prevent wind burn and other issues as the Cape Doctor likes to do a number on my plants each year! Growing outdoors is really just fun for me and a place to experiment with different strains or growing methods. This grow I have changed things up a bit and thought a forum would be a good place to track my progress. I am growing in soil which has loads of organic matter on the surface but mostly sandy soil with poor drainage about 40-50cm down, so I dug some holes to fill with compost, worm castings, some leaf mulch and other organic matter before giving a good soak with rainwater @ pH 6 and washing in some TrikoLogic I had left over my previous organic grow. I then mixed in a few big blocks of coco coir and pearlite and then leveled the area as much as possible before giving another good soak. This grow I will be running salt based nutes to compare to my previous organic grows as I would like have this area fully irrigated and to keep things as simple as possible going forward. I love growing organically, but it's just so much fucking work! I planted a little later than usual as I hadn't got the shade cloth up yet, but planted the following strains: 23/10/23 - Pineapple Chunk, Bubba Cheesecake, 2x AK-01, Raspberry Cough - a couple didn't germinate, and a couple got eaten by those big fat hairy caterpillars, so I planted some more seeds I had in my collection: 07/11/23 - 2x Purple Haze, 2x Chocolope, Slurricane #7, and JBL (Jillybean) Right, time for some pics!

How things change. Secret Garden Nursery back at the reservation due to dodge landlord and high iron content water that was no good for a nursery. Fucked up a bit on the clones I think. Straight from indoors to outdoor here they having a hard time. Pic 1 & 2. Lost a puff mints to a bug. So being back on the reservation I've decided on a late planting mission. Pic 3 & 4 some choc gelato x slurrican x whatever it got contaminated with. Pic 5 is bobby's widow x gorrila cookies f2 autoflower. Adding some cbd1/thc1 tomorrow. Let's see what happens.

Welcome. Some nice trees and frosty flowers.

Those are some really noice frosty buds.

Not sure why some of the pics are upside down though...

one day when I grow up, I wanna be able to grow like you Welcome and thanks for sharing the awesome pics.