Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 9 Entries. Wednesday, January 1 View Page Happy New Year everyone, Check out this vid I made on how to get seeds featuring Doc Rodebaugh and Ken D. Its more for beginners but hey you may still enjoy it. YouTube   Sunday, January 26 View Page My mom knitted our cat a pumpkin hat. You can tell he LOVES it.   Wednesday, February 12 View Page DRAT! My first indoor growing experiment was a total failure. The goal was to see if the plants benefitted from a nightly rest period or if 24/7 light was just better. Results were inconclusive because the plants in both tents look like hell. Here were the conditions that produced such lousy results: Substrate: 50% miracle grow potting mix and 50% coco coir (potting mix may have been too hot or coir had some salts in it?) Lighting: Approx. 350 PPFD (I think this was too high) on 24 hrs in Tent 1 and on 16 hrs in Tent 2 (Both look similarly bad) Watering/Feeding: none other than initial substrate hydration. Soil stayed moist for full 12ish days it took to get to this point Temp: ranging from 70-80 degrees F. Welp, now I know what not to do. Onto the next attempt. And if that one goes poorly I'll do what we all do in a moment of desperation and bug Matt!   Wednesday, February 12 View Page In a day or two I will start a new batch of seeds in this. This is a tweaked version of Dan Sutherland's seed starting mix. Original Recipe: - 3 Parts Peat Moss - 3 Part Fine Perlite - 2 Parts Coco Coir - 0.5 Parts Worm Castings - 0.25 Parts Kelp Meal - A Healthy Serving of Myco innoculant My Add-Ins: - Some Calcium carbonate dissolved in water to maybe neutralize the peat (probably pointless) - Yucca Extract to help with hydrophobicidity (50% sure thats a real word) and feed microbes - ROOT microbe inocculant (I had an open bag of it and thought why not)   Friday, February 14 View Page For Valentines day my girlfriend made me another pumpkin toons card. Any old-school growers know what the 723 was?   Friday, February 14 View Page My homemade germination chamber. It is warmed by a mini heating mat in the bottom of the cooler and the seeds sit on the perforated cardboard shelf. There is a thermostat system that keeps the temp at 86 degrees F. It works well but I'm having issues with mold forming even when I soak in 1% peroxide. Thoughts?   Friday, February 14 View Page A new batch of test seeds are potted up. These are in the Sutherland recipe seed starting mix and under an approx. PPFD of 250. I think this should work out better than the first run. They were hydrated with a light shower of humic/fulvic and seaweed.   Friday, February 14 View Page I hope this stuff is as water soluble as Ron says!   Thursday, February 20 View Page I don't want to spread rumors but I heard that the first 50 people to register for the 150 square foot challenge this year who are 13-29 years old will have their entry fee waived and will be eligible for a bonus prize if they finish in the top 3 of the contest. In other news, I planted my practice seeds way too deep and they are only just breaching lol.