Cannabis Chronicles

LUI Day 82

got no special attention . . . they were admired and encouraged . . .

phlegmbae . . . . . . . . . we’re still fairly new ourselves with Fulvic Acid use . . .

and are experimenting with it’s use here at the nest to see how and when it’s

most effective . . . we’re not so sure ourselves about foliar feeding this late in a

plant’s life . . . we know some do it . . . but in some environments and with some

strains it’s an invitation to bud mold . . . and we’re also not so sure we want to

smoke herbs that have been sprayed with anything in their last couple weeks of

life . . . here’s how were looking at it right now . . . one of the effects of the

fulvic acid is as a chelating agent . . .

it helps to make nutrients more available to

our plants . . . so in this instance we’re using the fulvic acid like a flush . . .

added to the plain water it helps to bring the remaining nutrients in the soil into a

form the plants can easily use . . . so we’re using it to encourage one final

explosion of growth in our LUI’s . . .

In a scene that could have been straight from the script of the classic movie “Animal House”, a New Zealand man learned a personal lesson about public intoxication the hard way.

Here’s the story as reported by the BBC . . .

Man arrested over barter mishap

A New Zealand man who tried to barter marijuana for snacks overlooked one important problem - a policeman was standing right behind him.

Wade Churchward, 28, paid a late-night visit to a Wellington petrol station to buy chocolates and crisps.

When - with the sweets half-eaten - he realised he had no money, he offered the cashier 12g of marijuana and a pipe for smoking it.

But he failed to notice the police car outside and the officer next in line.

The policeman promptly arrested the mechanic who, the Dominion Post said, had been drinking.

On Monday he pleaded guilty to possessing cannabis and other unrelated charges, the newspaper said, and will be sentenced on 3 July.

Calling the whole thing some kind of “barter mishap” is a real hoot.

Adding insult to injury, it would appear that young Mr. Churchward isn’t much of a business man either. No matter how bad the munchies, 12 grams is a lot to trade for a snack break.

As Dean Vernon Wormer said in the National Lampoon’s classic movie: “Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son.”

LUI Day 81

Group Portrait

on day 81 the LUI’s got plain water with the addition of Fulvic Acid . . . 1 TBSP

of fulvic acid per gallon of water . . . the 7 LUI babes share 2 gallons between

them . . .

LUI Day 80 - Day 41 of Bloom

we strongly believe that the grower’s attitude has a dramatic impact on the growth of their plants . . . and the chef’s observations are similar to ours as well . . . Timothy Leary spoke of the dramatic impact that “set and setting” had on someone’s psychedelic experience . . . it seems to have an impact on our plant’s as well . . . as for our plant’s fearing their ultimate they will be cherished even more . . . perhaps they have even “seen” the care with which we treat their harvested “cousins” . . . and they should know our great joy and satisfaction with our finished herbal products . . . besides . . . even as they are harvested . . . they live on . . . their clone back-ups sister’s are growing right
next to them . . . they “know” if they are exception they will literally live forever . . . isn’t that some incentive to express their very best? we also are thinking that these LUI’s are kinda vain . . . they sure seem to like having their photographs taken every day . . . we’ve also told them they are stars here at CW . . . lot’s & lot’s of folk stopping in to look at them . . . just another reason our LUI babes are always “looking good” . . . they are primping and posing for the camera . . . and for their audience . . .

LUI Day 79

on day 79 our LUI’s got what is likely to be their last feeding . . . we are considering one more watering with a bat guano tea . . . but this is the last time they will get a commercial fertilizer “soup” . . . the original LUI’s are entering “the beginning of the end” . . . they will begin their final two weeks before expected harvest this weekend . . . so it’s time to cut off thier food and let them “finish what’s on their plate” . . . some styles of growin require a flush . . . with organic ferts a true flush isn’t possible . . . we say that in the sense that organic nutrients aren’t soluble salts that can be flushed easily from the soil . . . especially if it’s amended soil containing supplements like kelp meal, bone meal, bat or seabird guano . . . while we don’t truly flush our babes . . . we do cut off the feedings for the final two weeks before expected harvest . . . in one sense this is about economy as much as quality . . . since organics are slow release ferts anyway . . . there’s no sense in pouring in nutrients that will never get to our babes . . . one old organic adage is “feed the soil not the plants” . . . since it’s the beneficial bacteria and fungi in soil that convert our organic ingredients into plant food . . . and at this point our soil is pretty well done eating . . .

as we’d said . . . this was the last feeding we’ll give the LUI girls that includes any commercial fertilizer . . . so we finished with a flourish . . . instead of 1 or 1 1/2 TBSP of Earth Juice Bloom . . . this feeding was at 2 TBSP of EJ Bloom per gallon . . . folks may have noticed that with EJ products we usually add 1 tsp of Catalyst per gallon . . . but for this final “meal” that’s increased to 1 TBSP per gallon . . . as per our normal practice all of these ingredients were mixed in advance and allowed to “brew” for at least 24 hours . . . this particular heavy feeding was allowed to “stew” for 48 hours before use . . . as we said before . . . we may give these babes one final drink of a tea . . . then move on to plain waterings . . .

LUI Day 78

nothing but loving words were fed to the LUI babes today . . . here’s a look at the bunch . . .

LUI-Day-77

first pic is day 38 of bloom . . . and then a “bird’s eye” view . . . we actually feel like they are looking a little “weather beaten” after our recent round of treatments which included a baking soda solution drench and a folic acid foliar feed rinse . . . but we aren’t complaining

. . . they are looking pretty darn good!

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Hey 3lbs - I’ve been lurking around your posts for a while and I’ve got to say you are fine and dedicated cannabis creators . . . I gave my last grow a shot of Benomyl for powdery mildew . . . Otherwise I would have lost everything . . . They say one can apply it on cherries up to like 2 days before harvest . . . Strange, no? bye now, delisted . . .

Thank-you for that dlisted . . . .all the best from the nest