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A few months ago I decided I wanted to learn gardening beyond my main indoor project, so I built this raised bed with one goal in mind: create a true organic living soil ecosystem.
Instead of treating the soil like something that just holds plants up, I wanted it to become a living ecosystem. I reused old organic soil, mixed in fresh compost, added red wigglers, mycorrhizae, insect frass, basalt rock dust, dolomite lime, and mulch, then mostly let nature do its thing. Since then I’ve been feeding the bed with homemade compost from kitchen scraps and coffee grounds and trying to disturb the soil as little as possible.
The transformation has honestly been incredible.
Everything seems to be working together now. The worms are thriving, the soil stays loose and full of life, and the plants have exceeded every expectation I had. My Amish Paste tomato has become an absolute monster, the herbs have exploded, my poblano is producing, and even plants that struggled early on eventually found their stride.
One experiment I wanted to try was seeing whether the soil biology was healthy enough to support a fresh clone without babying it. After pruning back my best Amish Paste tomato, I cut a healthy sucker and planted it directly into the living soil with no rooting hormone and no humidity dome. Just a fresh cutting into the bed. It rooted, took off, and is now a healthy tomato plant of its own, which was a really cool moment for me.
Probably my favorite part has been harvesting herbs for dinner. Fresh rosemary, sage, thyme, parsley, cilantro, lavender, chamomile, lemon balm, and catnip have all found a place in the garden, and cooking with herbs you picked minutes before dinner is something I never realized I’d enjoy this much. The flavor difference compared to store-bought herbs is night and day.
The long-term goal is actually to recycle this living soil into my main indoor project after the outdoor season ends. If I can build a healthy, self-sustaining soil food web outdoors, I’m hoping to carry all of that biology inside instead of starting over from scratch.
I still have a ton to learn, but this project has completely changed how I think about soil. It’s amazing what happens when you stop trying to feed the plant and start feeding everything that lives underneath it.
I’d love to hear what other living soil gardeners have learned or what you’d add to the system before I bring this soil indoors for its next chapter.

🌱 Green Snout Grows | Grow #4
Grow #4 is officially underway.
This grow feels like the start of something bigger than just another harvest.
When I first started growing, I was chasing the same things most new growers are: bigger plants, bigger yields, and the frostiest buds possible. Every run taught me something, but Grow #3 completely changed the way I look at this hobby.
I realized I don’t want ten jars that all produce the same heavy, sleepy high.
I want a collection where every strain has a purpose. Something for early mornings with coffee, something for fishing or hiking, something for gaming, something for pain relief, something to unwind after work, and something that absolutely knocks me out at night.
That’s what Grow #4 is all about.
The Genetics
This run has sixteen plants split into three groups, and every one of them is here for a reason.
🌳 Fabric Pots (Main Plants)
These are the genetics I’m most excited to see all the way through.
• Divinations | Night Owl Seeds
• Compound V | Night Owl Seeds
• Quantum Smash F2 | Axiom Genetics × Grow Peaceful
• Supreme Hulk F2 | Axiom Genetics × Grow Peaceful
These are my main production plants and the ones I’ll be comparing the closest when it comes to growth, resin, terpenes, effects, and overall quality.
🍬 Cotton Candy Containers
These let me compare smaller containers while also giving me a chance to run a few more genetics.
• Divinations | Night Owl Seeds
• Compound V | Night Owl Seeds
• The Wizard | Bean Genie Genetics
• Tiaramis-oooh | A.F.A. Genetics
I’m curious to see if less root space affects more than just yield. It’ll be interesting to compare flower density, resin production, terpene intensity, and finish time against the fabric pots.
🟨 Green Snout Genetics R&D
This is honestly the experiment I’m looking forward to the most.
Grow #3 ended up getting pollinated late in flower and produced 235 mature seeds. At first I was disappointed, but the more I thought about it, the more I realized I had a chance to grow something completely unique.
Instead of throwing those seeds away, I decided to see what they had to offer.
This group includes:
• Gigaglue × Wedding Bear
• Peach Crescendo × Wedding Bear
• Wedding Bear × Wedding Bear (Selfed)
• Tropicanna Poison XL × Wedding Bear
Along with:
• Quantum Smash F2 (Backup) | Axiom Genetics × Grow Peaceful
• Frosted LSD | GOAT Genetics
• Midnight Guava | GOAT Genetics
• Midnight Rampage | GOAT Genetics
Maybe they’re average. Maybe they’re incredible. Either way, I think it’ll be fun finding out.
The Grow
Everything is being grown organically in living soil.
I’m reusing soil from Grow #3 and mixed it with fresh Grow Peaceful Living Soil, Gaia Green 4-4-4, and insect frass. One of my long-term goals is to build a living soil that gets healthier with every cycle instead of replacing it after every harvest.
The setup is pretty straightforward:
• VIVOSUN 4×4 Smart Tent
• 2 × ViparSpectra P2000 LEDs (500W)
• AC Infinity XL Self-Watering Bases
• Organic living soil
What I’m Hoping to Learn
This grow is really one big side-by-side comparison.
I want to figure out which breeders consistently produce the flower I enjoy the most, which genetics deserve a permanent spot in my rotation, how much container size actually matters, and whether any of my Grow #3 mystery crosses are worth preserving.
Every plant will be documented from seed to harvest with notes on growth, structure, training, water consumption, terpene development, resin production, yield, cure, smoke reports, and overall effects.
At the end of the day, I’m not trying to grow the biggest harvest possible.
I’m trying to become a better grower and build a collection of genetics where every jar has its own place.
Looking forward to sharing this grow with you all. Hopefully you’ll enjoy following it as much as I’m going to enjoy growing it. 🌱

Super crazy trim session last night. Just got done with trim jail and figured I’d share the final results from Grow #3.
Honestly, this grow was one of the most fun and frustrating grows I’ve done so far. Not because anything went horribly wrong, but because I feel like I learned more from this run than any grow before it.
Going into this grow, I wasn’t trying to grow the biggest plants possible or chase the highest THC. My goal was pretty simple:
I wanted a stash with a range of effects.
Basically I wanted a jar for whatever I was doing instead of 5 jars that all felt the same.
Setup
4x4 Tent
2x Viparspectra P2000s
Grow Peaceful Living soil
Reused soil from previous grows
Worm castings
Gaia Green to amend reused soil
Insect frass
Basalt
Dolomite lime
Mycorrhizae

Genetics
Peach Crescendo (Ethos)
Wedding Strikes Bear (Mephisto)
GigaGlue (Axiom / Grow Peaceful)
Tropicanna Poison XL (Sweet Seeds)
Purple Haze Auto (Fast Buds)
Solar Flare (Multiverse Beans)
All Gas OG (Atlas Seed)
Plus a couple side projects in solo cups and my Cotton Candy Container

The original plan was actually to let several of these plants run another week or two while I was on vacation in Texas.
Then my brand-new 25-gallon Flex Tank decided it wanted to become a sprinkler system.
Once I realized it was slowly leaking, there was absolutely no way I was leaving the tent unattended for over a week. So I made the call and harvested before leaving.
At the time I felt like I was probably giving up some weight, but looking back I think it was the right decision.

Final Harvest Results
🥇 Tropicanna Poison XL (Sweet Seeds) – 4.31 oz
🥈 Peach Crescendo FP (Ethos) – 3.61 oz
🥉 Wedding Strikes Bear (Mephisto) – 3.20 oz
GigaGlue (Axiom / Grow Peaceful) – 2.11 oz
Solar Flare Solo Cup (Multiverse Beans) – 0.74 oz
Purple Haze (Fast Buds) – 0.58 oz
Peach Crescendo CC – 0.36 oz
All Gas OG (Atlas Seed) – 0.15 oz
Total Harvest
15.06 oz
Just 0.94 oz short of a pound.
Not bad for a grow that got chopped early because of a leaking reservoir and a road trip to Texas.

Then Things Got Weird
I got home from Texas, grabbed a little GigaGlue branch, trimmed it up, ground some up to test, and found a seed.
At first I thought it was just bad luck but turns out it wasn’t.

Final Seed Count
Wedding Strikes Bear – 133
Peach Crescendo FP – 51
GigaGlue – 28
Solar Flare SC – 10
TP XL – 8
Peach Cres CC – 4
Purple Haze – 1
All Gas OG – 0
Grand Total
235 seeds

Yep.
Two hundred and thirty five.
Somehow I accidentally became a breeder without even trying.
The crazy part is that throughout the entire grow I never found a single obvious pollen sac.
I checked trichomes constantly.
I inspected for bud rot.
I took hundreds of photos.
I posted updates.
I stared at these plants way more than any normal person should.
Even now looking back through the pictures I still can’t confidently point to one plant and say, “Yep, that’s the culprit.”

Prime Suspect
Right now my money is on Wedding Strikes Bear.
It accounted for over half of all the seeds found in the entire grow.
133 seeds out of 235 total is pretty hard to ignore.
That said, Peach Crescendo is still acting suspicious too.
So at this point I feel less like a grower and more like a detective trying to solve a crime scene.

Biggest Surprises
Tropicanna Poison XL
Quietly became the yield champion.
I honestly didn’t expect it to take first place, but it put up over a quarter pound by itself.
Peach Crescendo
Probably my favorite plant from a growing standpoint.
The structure was insane.
Every time I thought I found all the bud sites I’d find another hidden top buried in the canopy.
Wedding Strikes Bear
Started out as one of the plants I was least excited about and ended up becoming one of the stars of the tent.
Unfortunately it may also be the reason I own 235 mystery seeds now.
GigaGlue
If I had to bet on which jar disappears first, it’s probably this one.
The frost, density, and overall look have me pretty excited.
Purple Haze
The smallest producer in the tent but probably the frostiest plant I’ve grown.
Every time I opened the tent it looked like someone dumped powdered sugar on it.
Solar Flare Solo Cup
Still can’t believe that little thing pulled 0.74 oz from the solo cups.

Biggest Lesson From This Grow
This was the first grow where I stopped thinking about yield and started thinking about effects.
Instead of asking:
“How do I get the biggest harvest possible?”
I started asking:
“What do I want each jar to do?”
If everything cures the way I’m hoping, I should end up with:
Purple Haze for daytime and getting stuff done
Solar Flare for social situations and fun
Peach Crescendo as an anytime smoke
Wedding Bear for evenings and pain relief
GigaGlue for when I want to shut my brain off and relax
That was the goal from the beginning.
Not maximum yield.
Not maximum THC.
Just a wide range of effects.

Overall, I’d call Grow #3 a success.
I finished with 15.06 oz of flower, 235 mystery seeds, and a lot more knowledge than I had when I started.
Now the next challenge is figuring out whether those seeds are worth growing out… and which one of these plants owes me child support. 🌱😂🍻

Just wrapped up Grow #3 and figured I’d do a little write-up while everything is hanging and drying.

Honestly, this was probably my favorite grow so far. Not because it’s necessarily the biggest harvest I’ve had or because every plant was perfect, but because I feel like I learned more during this run than any of my previous grows.

For anyone who’s followed my grows, Grow #2 was Northern Lights, Hollow Purple, Sour Cherry Diesel, and Crimson Sun. Hollow Purple ended up winning me a grow contest and still holds the title for my biggest single plant harvest. Northern Lights became one of my favorite pain relief strains I’ve ever smoked, and Sour Cherry Diesel taught me that harvesting a little earlier isn’t always a bad thing when you’re looking for specific effects.

Going into this run, I wanted to try something different.

Instead of chasing maximum yield, maximum THC, or the sleepiest flower possible, I wanted to build a stash with a range of effects. I didn’t want five jars that all felt the same. I wanted something for daytime, something social, something for pain relief, something for nighttime, and something that could fit just about anywhere.

This run included:

• Peach Crescendo (Ethos)
• Wedding Strikes Bear (Mephisto)
• GigaGlue (Axiom / Grow Peaceful)
• Purple Haze Auto (Fast Buds)
• Solar Flare (Multiverse Beans)
• Two Solar Flare solo cup plants (Multiverse Beans)

Everything was grown in living soil under two Viparspectra P2000s in a 4x4. I reused a lot of soil from previous runs and amended with worm castings, Gaia Green, insect frass, basalt, dolomite lime, and mycorrhizae. Other than top dressing and pH’d water, I tried to keep things pretty simple and let the soil do the work.

One of the coolest parts of this grow was seeing how different all the plants became as they matured.

The biggest surprise was probably the Solar Flare plants, especially the solo cups. This is the second grow where I’ve done solo cups, and just like the Crimson Sun solo cups from my last run, they matured way faster than the larger containers. I didn’t do anything special with them either. Same tent, same lights, same feeding schedule. The only real difference was the root restriction. Every time I do these little side projects they end up teaching me something.

Purple Haze from Fast Buds was the frost queen of the tent. Every week it somehow got whiter and frostier. It wasn’t the biggest plant in the tent, but it was one of those plants that made me stop and stare every time I opened the zipper.

Peach Crescendo was probably my favorite plant from a growing standpoint. The structure on that thing was incredible. Every time I thought I’d found all the bud sites, I’d find another hidden top buried in the canopy. It just kept stacking and stacking. It was also one of the frostiest plants I’ve grown and really showed me what good genetics can do when everything comes together.

Wedding Strikes Bear was the plant that surprised me the most. Early on it didn’t necessarily stand out compared to some of the others, but by the end it quietly became one of the best-looking plants in the tent. The closer it got to harvest, the more impressed I became with it.

And then there’s GigaGlue from Axiom / Grow Peaceful. This was one of the strains I was most curious about going into the grow because I don’t see many people running it. If I had to guess right now, that’s probably going to be the plant that hits me the hardest once everything is cured. The frost, density, and overall structure on it have me pretty excited.

Now before anyone asks, yes, I know some of these plants probably could have gone longer.

The original plan was actually to let them keep going while I was on vacation. I had just picked up a 25-gallon Flex Tank and planned on using that while I was away. Unfortunately, I discovered it had a slow leak, and there was no way I was comfortable leaving a leaking reservoir unattended for over a week.

At that point I had two choices. Leave everything and hope nothing went wrong. Or harvest a little earlier than absolute peak maturity. I chose to harvest.

Looking back, I think some of the plants probably had another week left in them for maximum density and maybe a little extra weight. But at the same time, I don’t think I made the wrong decision.

The biggest thing is that I wasn’t trying to grow the sleepiest flower possible. My goal was diversity.

If everything cures the way I’m hoping, I should end up with something pretty close to what I set out to achieve.

Purple Haze for daytime, creativity, and getting things done.

Solar Flare for social situations and just having a good time.

Peach Crescendo as that balanced anytime smoke that works no matter what the day looks like.

Wedding Strikes Bear for evenings, relaxation, and pain relief.

GigaGlue for those nights when I just want to shut my brain off and go to sleep.

To me, that’s more exciting than squeezing out another ounce or waiting for a few more amber trichomes.

One thing Hollow Purple and Sour Cherry Diesel taught me last grow is that harvest timing isn’t always about chasing the latest possible harvest date. Hollow Purple showed me how rewarding it can be to let a plant fully mature, while Sour Cherry Diesel ended up becoming one of my favorite daytime smokes because I harvested it a little earlier than most people would have.

That experience changed how I think about harvesting.

Sometimes “perfect” isn’t actually perfect for what you’re trying to achieve.

Looking back, I think Grow #3 was where I stopped growing plants and started growing for effects. Every grow before this was mostly focused on learning how to keep plants healthy and increase yield. This was the first grow where I was actively thinking about what I wanted each jar to do after harvest. I wanted something for pain relief, something for sleep, something for daytime productivity, something social, and something right in the middle.

Whether I nailed it or not won’t be clear until everything is dried and cured, but that was the goal from the start.

Overall, I’m really happy with how this run turned out. Every grow has things I’d do differently, but this is the first one where I feel like I intentionally grew a collection of experiences instead of just growing a bunch of weed.

Now everything is hanging, I’m out of town, and the hardest part of the entire process has officially started.

Waiting for the cure. 🍻🌱

Looks like my two Solar Flare solo cup tests are coming to end of life. Going to chop and hang to dry on the 10th before heading home for a week. Super excited to try out this strain especially after crimson sun turned out to be a very enjoyable smoke!

About day 53 for my fabric girls, they have been loving the new terraform 8 I got them. All grown in organic living soil watered with plain PH water. I think I’m finally getting a hang on reading what my plants need so hopefully my next run they all end up huge dense monsters!

I was recently gifted these but I currently run a living soil set up so I was wondering if anyone was looking to trade for some grow equipment or just buy. These are great just can’t use them in my current set up. Just reach out, thanks!

Hey everyone, figured I’d post here in case anyone in the Tiffin/Iowa City area saw anything.

Overnight between May 20–21 sometime between approximately 10:30 PM and 6:30 AM, my white 2023 Toyota Corolla was involved in a hit-and-run at Aster Village in Tiffin.

The impact was significant enough that my entire rear bumper was ripped off, and a large broken headlight/taillight piece was left behind at the scene. The other vehicle is more than likely missing a noticeable chunk of a headlight or taillight along with having fresh front-end damage, damaged bumper pieces, or white paint transfer.

I’ll attach photos of my vehicle damage along with the broken light piece found at the scene.

If anyone saw or heard anything, has dashcam footage, or noticed a vehicle with fresh damage this morning, please reach out. Even small details could help.

Thanks.

I have only been growing since October of last year and am stuck growing strictly autos due to my current setup but I have fallen in love with the hobby and still cannot believe I actually won something. I really entered just because I was going to be at the festival anyways and figured it would be a good way to test the waters compared to seasoned growers. This was from my second grow ever and I named it Hollow Purple

Harvested grow #2 a couple of days ago. Ended up growing Tropicanna cookies, Northern Lights/ Black Cherry Sour Diesel, Crimson Sun (MVB genetics). Experimented with wicking bases and fabric pots as well as a handful of solo cups. I learned so much this grow and am super excited to test out each strain after it’s ready. I definitely will be following my notes for Tropicanna cookies moving forward, super pleased with how fat and frosty she got! I ended up doing a staggered harvest at day 68 and 73 for different plants to get a range of effects based off their genetics. Can’t wait to get this trimmed and jarred for cure then move onto my next grow. I have been wanting to grow Iced Sangria from all the pictures but can only find photos. Due to my current setup and growing conditions I will be forced to stick with autos for a while so I am wondering if anyone knows of an auto version of that strain or any auto seeds that have similar bag appeal and smoke/effects?