Demeter's Garden of Delight

[Demeter]

Tuesday I made a loaf of carrot/herb bread and a loaf of orange-cranberry/herb bread. Yesterday, a 1" slice set me up with a nice trippy high for the day. Saturday a friend and I plan to start the day with coffee, bread and drive around the countryside for the day

Unfortunetly, my pepper crop is looking sub-par this season. I usually do a decent batch of pepper sauce I may have to buy some red habineros to go with the super chilis and sweet peppers to make a smaller batch. Fortunetly, I have some left from last season.

Sho

I am growing carrots this year and would love your recipe! :stoned:

[Demeter]

Hi all (stinky are you out there... you have "joint custody" hee hee) you fabulous growers! PLEASE help me decide what to do with all these girls- in the past I have topped once for clones, then later fimmed and lst'd, but with this batch, I am open to suggestions. If I top today, there will be a bunch of new baby clones to deal with, but if I just lst today I can take clones in another few weeks, and would yield twice as many babies, right? Then again, my flower space is limited: I can only flower 8 plants max, and they can't be too wide, so maybe I shouldn't lst everyone.

I have to repot all 27 of these girls today - they are already growing out of their first post clonebox quart pots! This is going to take me forever with my injured finger oh well, no reward without work:jointsmile:

So I am off to get my hands dirty- will check in later to see what suggestions sound best. Thanks!!!!

[Chronisseur]

Ive been interested in learning the science of the FIM method. The ability to accurately quadruple tops,(up to 8 from what I hear) really turns me on!
The thing that gets me is there seems to be no consistency in multiples, so to be sure you're making the right move, maybe a test or two?

THIS IS ONLY FEEDBACK! YOUR GREEN THUMB WOULD KNOW BETTER THAN MY BURNT THUMB!:thumbsup:

PS: Pot luck dinner? You've got my attn.! (3 wonderful components of life!)

[stinkyattic]

Wow Demeter I guess we are a good team. Did you notice any difference in survival rate % between the ones we put in rapidrooters vs. the other plugs? I like those other ones too.
I am a big fan of bending to expose low nodes to light. You end up with PLENTY of new side shoots which eventually become multiple tops.
Plus there's little to no stress on the plant.
FIM I've used in the past but far prefer to only remove a growing tip if it is to be used as a cutting. Otherwise you get set back time-wise.
If you end up with too many clones (stinky rotten salami hint hint!) they are always welcome to come to their family reunion Their moms miss them.
BTW that dying Blue Haze has completely pulled out of her rootbound funk.

My suggestions for your next round of flowering:
-Lighter soil, 40-50% perlite with that compost I dropped off
-square 3-gallon pots with EXTRA drain holes drilled in them. I ahve a bunch of extras from my previous operation. Just have to get them out of my friend's storage unit.
-Increase ventilation

You may end up with TOO MUCH BUD!!! lol your green thumb is, well, pretty damn green. You just needed better potting conditions.

[Shovelhandle]

sorry Mrs. D, I use box ingredients. I wouldn't know how to scratch built bread. That's my wife's dept. Maybe I'll let her make the next batches from scratch. Hmmm. : )

Shov

[Demeter]

I guess I have been remiss- no pics very too long! I have been busy growing however:

Here is the current crop of girlies- the flowering girls are a mix of trainwreckx, sagebbx, blue haze, PPP, and matanuska thunderfuck...they went in 12/12 on 8/15, so hopefully they will be harvested by mid Oct. I plan to put three of the other group into flower in about 2 weeks, to stagger things, as these other vegging girls are getting pretty burly! I am running out of room, and could take a zillion clones if I only had a place for them. Yes, I have run amok. I have learned too late that just because you CAN take a clone doesn't mean you SHOULD! :hippy: Yikes!

[Demeter]

Here are the little clones, a mix of mystery strains, with some PPP and Sagebbx mixed in....also here is the infamous pregnant O G Kush, and as you can see I am trying to get some clone material from her. I still have a half dozen clones in the dome that may still make it, so I think I need to find a fairy godmother for some of these babies, since my flower room is pretty small.

I also plan to just grow for the next six months, and then lay low for awhile. I really just want to stockpile enough bud so that my hubby and I and our good friends can enjoy the fruits of my labor and not have to worry about supply. I think I know someone who can safeguard my genetics until it is time to grow again, so that makes it easier. I know my girls will be a good home!

Here is also a bouquet of flowers from Demeter's Garden for all my dear friends!

[stinkyattic]

Your flower arranging skill is as good as your growing skill! What a beautiful mix of colors. Thos blood-red dahlias are killa.

[PopaBean]

Looking very nice...
Sweet.

That Trainwreck sounds fun...I haven't giggled from smoking in years.

[Demeter]

After about 5 weeks at 12/12, the trainwreck plant is really starting to stink of sweaty salami! It completely takes over and hides the other plant smells- if anyone asks, I guess I should say I am making sausages?

The bad news is one of the MTF flowering girls has spider mites- seemingly overnight! I sprayed her with NEEM last night until she dripped, and I plan to check on her tonight when the lights come back on- I sure hope she didn't burn up! She already has some nice buds, but will they be okay now that I have sprayed her? Should I rinse her off with the hose? Anyone with info on spider mites? Damn bugs!