Autos v. Photos - A 5x5 No Rules Fight for Yield: A Jon & NickHardy Gig

That would be @BeezLuiz .
Here's a link to his tutorial.

Tutorial: Homemade Pipe Made From Your Plant Remains

After posting pictures of my pipe on THIS THREAD, there were several requests for a tutorial. So here is my attempt at that. There's a bunch of pics so hopefully I don't get anything out of order. Here's the original pipe, but in this tutorial I'll be making a new one from the start: First...
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Jon said:
Hey @JiggiLotus - well, I have made one attempt at making a nice pot stem pipe. I know I have the skills both mechanically and creatively. But it didn’t turn out very well. I see the pipes dude makes (forget the member, Shed knows I know) and got inspired. It is not as easy as I thought. I mean anyone can make a working smoking vessel from a stem, that’s child’s play. But to make something worthy is tough. So I need work. It’s sort of a goal now to overcome my first embarrassing (publicly by my own choice 🥺) attempt. So I saved this one and I guess you see it’s stripped to cure. That’s the first mistake I made. It’s wood. It has to cure first. So we will start there and see how it goes this time. Can’t use the excuse it was too small this time. Lmao

Do you? If so what do you make and feel free to show if so.
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I met a guy at a farmers market that made and sold hemp wood pipes. He had them in various colors so I asked him what kind of stain he used, thinking who wants a puff of wood stain. He told me he used no stains. What he did was bury them for 2-5 years in raw log format, in different kinds of soil, and as they cured underground they pulled in colors from the soil. They were gorgeous. I should have bought one.
 
Melville Hobbes said:
That would be @BeezLuiz .
Here's a link to his tutorial.

Tutorial: Homemade Pipe Made From Your Plant Remains

After posting pictures of my pipe on THIS THREAD, there were several requests for a tutorial. So here is my attempt at that. There's a bunch of pics so hopefully I don't get anything out of order. Here's the original pipe, but in this tutorial I'll be making a new one from the start: First...
www.420magazine.com
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How freaking cool is that!!? Anyone else hear the spiritual Indian drums while watching the creation of that piece? Beautiful.
 
Gee64 said:
I met a guy at a farmers market that made and sold hemp wood pipes. He had them in various colors so I asked him what kind of stain he used, thinking who wants a puff of wood stain. He told me he used no stains. What he did was bury them for 2-5 years in raw log format, in different kinds of soil, and as they cured underground they pulled in colors from the soil. They were gorgeous. I should have bought one.
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The way you grow I’m surprised you could resist!
 
JiggiLotus said:
How freaking cool is that!!? Anyone else hear the spiritual Indian drums while watching the creation of that piece? Beautiful.
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Yep. That’s the one that inspired me. He’s amazing. Those are art. I couldn’t even smoke from them.
 
JiggiLotus said:
If I ever manage to get a fat stalk like that or bigger I'll try my luck. I'm more of a quilter and insect charmer. 😇

I bet that would make for a lovely peace pipe. 💚
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Btw - it’s easy. Just veg for 98 days. You’ll have one. :rofl:
 
Jon said:
The way you grow I’m surprised you could resist!
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@Gee64 - so based on how you describe the behavior when you add calmag to the organics, as we discussed earlier, do you think it’s possible that I overdid it to the point that I forced so many latent nutes in and out that I started this cascade that I can’t seem to arrest?
 
Jon said:
@Gee64 - so based on how you describe the behavior when you add calmag to the organics, as we discussed earlier, do you think it’s possible that I overdid it to the point that I forced so many latent nutes in and out that I started this cascade that I can’t seem to arrest?
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If so, lesson learned.
 
Jon said:
@Gee64 - so based on how you describe the behavior when you add calmag to the organics, as we discussed earlier, do you think it’s possible that I overdid it to the point that I forced so many latent nutes in and out that I started this cascade that I can’t seem to arrest?
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It's totally possible. The calcium will increase tilth by arresting magnesium, so that causes a nitrogen rush, as well as increased tilth means increased oxygen, unless you overwater, which by the look of your grows isn't an issue, so that increased oxygen will explode your microbial population as well as increase nutrient availability.

On top of all that, calcium is a strong electrolyte, so it increases the amount of electricity in the soil, and microbes, just like humans, run on electricity, so by increasing the soil EC you again increase microbial action.

The end result is you release any locked up nitrogen back to availability as well as increasing microbial activity across the board so everything is more available.

So if you had a bunch of something in your soil, for example nitrogen, and you showed a nitro def as it was all locked out, so you added more nitro but it didn't fix the problem as it got locked out too, and then you add calcium to fix it, you get a nitro overdose.

Add increased oxygen and that could occur with any nute as O2 needs to be attached to the nute in order for the plant to recognize it as food, so if you added any extra anything, then add calcium, it all becomes available at once and you can get an unbalanced pot.

Whenever you see a deficiency starting in LOS the 1st thing you should do is a brix test to see how your calcium is. If it's low, fix that 1st and see if the issue resolves itself.
 
Gee64 said:
It's totally possible. The calcium will increase tilth by arresting magnesium, so that causes a nitrogen rush, as well as increased tilth means increased oxygen, unless you overwater, which by the look of your grows isn't an issue, so that increased oxygen will explode your microbial population as well as increase nutrient availability.

On top of all that, calcium is a strong electrolyte, so it increases the amount of electricity in the soil, and microbes, just like humans, run on electricity, so by increasing the soil EC you again increase microbial action.

The end result is you release any locked up nitrogen back to availability as well as increasing microbial activity across the board so everything is more available.

So if you had a bunch of something in your soil, for example nitrogen, and you showed a nitro def as it was all locked out, so you added more nitro but it didn't fix the problem as it got locked out too, and then you add calcium to fix it, you get a nitro overdose.

Add increased oxygen and that could occur with any nute as O2 needs to be attached to the nute in order for the plant to recognize it as food, so if you added any extra anything, then add calcium, it all becomes available at once and you can get an unbalanced pot.

Whenever you see a deficiency starting in LOS the 1st thing you should do is a brix test to see how your calcium is. If it's low, fix that 1st and see if the issue resolves itself.
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Thank you @Gee64!!!!!!!!!!
:thanks: :thanks: :thanks: :thanks: :thanks: :thanks:

(not that I shouldn’t have already absorbed that but absorbing and executing is two different things)
 
Gee64 said:
I do apologize Jon, when I suggested you get a refractometer I should have stated an analog one. Analog refractometers tell the state of calcium as well as brix.
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You did. I stupidly spent $150 instead. That problem will be solved for what, $20? Asap
 
Gee64 said:
Organics takes a lot of repeating. One step at a time, repeat, another step, repeat. It's just how it works, don't apologize👊
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Thanks but not so much apology as being pissed at me. :rofl:
 
Jon said:
You did. I stupidly spent $150 instead. That problem will be solved for what, $20? Asap
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I had not yet understood who I was talking to yet at that point. :laugh: :thumb:
 
The things you come across when you’re packing. I just was outside and here comes the stepdad holding the below. He says, is this trash or do you want it? Hands me this ripped bag of roughly half an ounce of some weed I grew sometime. I can’t imagine why I would ever put that bag in the kitchen cabinet where he found it. Maybe I was making a box up for someone and left it on the counter and someone tossed it in there, idk. But it’s none of the current weed, I smoked it and I can’t identify it from the taste. But it sure gets you really high, whatever it is. Lol. A bit dry but too good to kief. Free weed! Lol!

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Jon said:
The things you come across when you’re packing. I just was outside and here comes the stepdad holding the below. He says, is this trash or do you want it? Hands me this ripped bag of roughly half an ounce of some weed I grew sometime. I can’t imagine why I would ever put that bag in the kitchen cabinet where he found it. Maybe I was making a box up for someone and left it on the counter and someone tossed it in there, idk. But it’s none of the current weed, I smoked it and I can’t identify it from the taste. But it sure gets you really high, whatever it is. Lol. A bit dry but too good to kief. Free weed! Lol!

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WooHoo!

I ❤️ when that happens!
 
Jon said:
The things you come across when you’re packing. I just was outside and here comes the stepdad holding the below. He says, is this trash or do you want it? Hands me this ripped bag of roughly half an ounce of some weed I grew sometime. I can’t imagine why I would ever put that bag in the kitchen cabinet where he found it. Maybe I was making a box up for someone and left it on the counter and someone tossed it in there, idk. But it’s none of the current weed, I smoked it and I can’t identify it from the taste. But it sure gets you really high, whatever it is. Lol. A bit dry but too good to kief. Free weed! Lol!

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I find a jar here and a jar there every now and then. Somewhere in my house are 4 jars of Primo Durban from a 2018 grow. All the apex colas. Stoner Syndrome🤣
 
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