A Lotta Ins, A Lotta Outs, A Lotta Strands In The Old Duder's Head: Urban Grows Mad Stanky Dabs

UrbanAchiever said:
Yeah I feel somewhat close. Just need to send it in for testing to know for sure. It would be major bummer if I abandoned it now. So much time and money put into the soil.

I will say the cannabis it does make is smooth and tasty.
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A fellow grower here on 420mag that is also following you turned me onto some Organically grow and it was So much better then what I could get at the dispensaries etc. I didn't wat to smoke the other stuff I could get. I hate not being able to use my Super Cools Super Soil and my Coots mix that I have So much money in but I am doing Doc Buds kit soil for my indoor and its not legal in our state to grow so I have decided to not chance growing outside but now I have all this soil I have So much money in. :confused:
 
MagicJim said:
High UA. I'm just make myself at home back over here near sticky. It's all good. I think some growers found out that the early Candy Cane was photo and not auto as it was advertised. Best of luck with your grow. :bongrip:
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Thanks Jim! I was gonna stop by the journal and post the link but I figured you would pop by regardless. My buddy grew some of the CC and sent me a sample. His efforts produced great bud but the cure was lacking. Still gave a good buzz. He gave me a few seeds to try. This poor plant suffered a bit but will still give me a bowl or three. Filled an empty space. Should be ready for chop by the time the seedlings to move in.

Always welcome here Jim, glad to have you, feel free to share your situation at any time. Have a good one!
 
Kinda need some eye candy as we move towards the stars of the show. I still have a few things on the go.

I saved very little of the Mulanje x Swaziland flower. 95% went into cobs. What little I did save is airy. I quick dried one cola and slow and lowed two others. The quick dry evaporates in the bong and leaves a nice up buzz but not strong. The pollination really took the juice out of it. Bittersweet. I have 300+ seeds of some African landrace genetics now.

The smoke is definitely smooth though. Whatever the smoke, my (420 members) grow method (LOS/organic), my drying and curing (slow and low), my bud is always smooth based on session feedback.

This was put in a c-vault today after two weeks in a paper bag in the fridge. Impressed I could slow the drying that much on such light and airy bud.
mulanje x swaziland low and slow

mulanje x swaziland low and slow


muluanje x swaziland low and slow budlets

muluanje x swaziland low and slow budlets


mulanje x swaziland budlet

mulanje x swaziland budlet


Also snapped a few more of the Candy Cane auto. I read that journal about Candy Canes being photo. My buddy grew it out first and sent me the seeds so I kinda had that in the back of my mind. I am not a fan of autos myself. But. I have some. Still, I didn't relax until I saw the pistils start early, then I was confident of it truly being an auto.

Speaking of auto. I just smoked some bootweed auto flower cob before eating a big .6 gram piece. I will spin the wheel Bob. Bootweed is another story for another day. Someone remind me later lol.

edit* I was tempted to hit a small branch with the Mulanje x Swaziland pollen I kept. But not sure I want or need that frankenbiatch.
candy cane auto bud

candy cane auto bud

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Changing colours the last few days. Top dressed with fresh soil the other day.

candy cane auto buds

candy cane auto buds

 
ilikemsticky said:
nice pics urb of some pretty bud!
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Thanks man, I really wish I could have gotten them to grow like your sativas. I know my pollination butchery didn't help.

I was a basic nuclear pollinator. I used a brush and "dabbed" some pollen on 1-2 branches on each plant in my tent. Didn't isolate. Didn't spray the tent down later. I remember watching this neat swirling dust of pollen come off the brush lol. So...the plants focused on seeds but. lol I would say lesson learned but. FIDO. next time. (Fk it, drive on).

Fingers crossed the cob is holding all those wonderful trichomes together, compacts, and intensifies. The cob was always going to be the star of that grow. Even with my butchery. People are gonna get wrecked.
mulanje x swaziland cob

mulanje x swaziland cob

Fresh cut. 14 hour sweat. 5 day ferment. Currently drying.
 
I'd like to pull up a chair if you don't mind UA! Though I still need to go back and read from the top...
 
InTheShed said:
I'd like to pull up a chair if you don't mind UA! Though I still need to go back and read from the top...
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YASSSSS!

I have been saying that out loud. Very loud. When its most quiet. To express my enjoyment or happiness. With the added bonus of irritating my wife. Glad you pulled up a chair Shed. For anyone NOT following ITS grow thread...please take this as a cue.

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Fire/Electrical Safety

I was chatting with @Lowded118 today. Since he has seen me reference it before, he asked what my thoughts are about fire safety, and that discussion seemed like a good journal post. Fire and electrical safety are different for a lot of folks. I grow in a basement that may leak on occasion, and sometimes I go away for a few days, so I have known variables.

I have a friend or two in the fire department so I always thought it would look pretty stupid if I burned my house down. The primary motivation to be fire safe is post mortem ridicule.

So in that vein...

I will skip a bunch of blah blah blah about how I got from my first grow to now.

As mentioned the electrician came in and installed a dedicated circuit. 20 amps. Direct from the panel, overhead to the grow area, with the good stuff. Secured the receptacle to a double wall stud.

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I built a small simple shelf to hold the various electrical components. In this case a quality surge protector. There are no fans in the tent. No moving parts. No electrical cords are on the ground. The fan is outside of the tent on its own wooden frame, off the ground. The plants are fed by a pretty ingenious reservoir/float system, no electricity required. (Autopots)

The light is plugged directly into the timer, a heavy duty outdoor/indoor analog timer, which is then plugged into the surge protector. The fan is plugged directly into a speed regulator (to me my greatest weak point) which is plugged directly into the surge protector.
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I also have a fire extinguisher next to the tent. Excessive I know.

Some other things I may or may not have obsessed about...

- the distance from the light source to the tent/wall/plant
- temperatures in the tent, fires can ignite when further from material but higher temperatures exist
- tent cleanliness; plastic fans, lights, heat sinks, dry plant material (no bueno)
- light type to space/tent ratio. are you using way too much light for a small space?
- old electrical; cords, cables, frayed, worn out, or way too many

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EDIT* My exhaust, as previously mentioned, blows into an adjacent room. This is the adjacent room. It also happens to be where the rare leaking occurs. So it also aids in drying the area, circulating the air, and ensuring the area around the tent intake is clean air.
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But a good topic of discussion. Every grower, grow type, and physical grow situation will require its own considerations.
 
What a terrific post UA! I'm glad I got here in time to see it :).

And thanks for the welcome!
 
InTheShed said:
What a terrific post UA! I'm glad I got here in time to see it :).

And thanks for the welcome!
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Thank you Sir! You know those paranoid thoughts we all sometimes get while medicated? Thats one of mine. So I go a bit overkill. I used a seedling heat mat, in an empty stock pot, to sweat my Malawi cobs. In case of fire it was in a pot lol.

I could probably add a fan and humidifier to the tent and be fine. I actually need to bump up the humidity.

I am always stoked to have the drivers and engines of the forum pop in. Its takes a community. I have been lurking and reading more than anything lately. Waiting to drop this journal. This journal is 420 made and the more that show up the better.
 
UrbanAchiever said:
I used a seedling heat mat, in an empty stock pot, to sweat my Malawi cobs. In case of fire it was in a pot lol.
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Uh oh...I have mine sitting on a wooden desk 24/7!

Been following you on the IG, seemed like a good idea to be in the room where it happens.:high-five:
 
InTheShed said:
Uh oh...I have mine sitting in a wooden desk 24/7!

Been following you on the IG, seemed like a good idea to be in the room where it happens.:high-five:
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I am sure they are fine. I am fairly certain my process was excessive lol. Yeah I like the IG for the simplicity and photography. But this is more of a positive social community with a framework of decency. It has more atmosflavour.
 
That's a new one! Oh BTdubs:
UrbanAchiever said:
Those are some beautiful looking buds you got there, and some beauty photos to go along with them
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Like three months into my first journal. Can't say you stuck around though ;).
 
InTheShed said:
That's a new one! Oh BTdubs:

Like three months into my first journal . Can't say you stuck around though ;).
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Dude I know. I pulled back the number of journals I followed to around 15, maybe 20, and they are generally connected. Still it caused my brain to twitch.

There are about 5 that move at the speed of light. I use my iPhone for most browsing. My laptop for posting and now a bit more in-depth reading. Yours, Pennywises, Stickies, Grandpa Tokins, and any number of Sweet Sues move faster than I can process. Sometimes I lose 2 or 3 pages, sometimes 10, depending on the chat.

Those particular journals I have developed the scan. I have been following along, liking the odd post, not commenting a lot, but bouncing around. Your journal is and has been for a while, pretty tight. Photos are clear, not excessive, framed for the post. A lot of how to, and on your other threads, and hundreds of chats lol. The banter I cant keep up with, unless something weird or perverted catches my eye.

Grandpa Tokins journal boggles my mind. How he can day in, day out, grow the same dank. Every time. For years. His pressing and extracts seriously are out of my league. So another one I don't chat much in. That was the issue with my other journals. Conversations carry a lot of journals, that's really not my strength.

Stickies is basically its own bud porn thread lol.

So I have been around but not 100% here. I was trying to help someone that required my content creation elsewhere and I gave it my best half assed effort. I have made a concerted effort to keep 420 and the other project separate, although some of my time here suffered for those efforts. But, this is my only current project on the go, along with IG lol.
 
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