nobodyhere
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Get him on the forum. That way he can read on medicating, get growing help, etc.
BigBearNTX Perpetual Auto Grow
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BigBearNTexas
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Working on it. I gave him the link.
CraZysWeeD
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That sounds great bear! Watch out with your fingers, you don't want to get burned! 
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BigBearNTexas
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Agreed, but I think I’m okay with this one.
I was always bad about the first rule of fight club. Lol
I was always bad about the first rule of fight club. Lol
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I’m around, just not spending as much time on the site. Been down with allergies since mid-November, and I’ve been pretty exhausted. For those out of state or in other countries, I live in a place that has a juniper tree that blooms in winter and a large percentage of people here are allergic to it. It’s pretty miserable.
Trimmed up the girls last weekend and took some more clones. Not for me, but to give away. I’m still planning on getting back to Autos after this run is done.
Flipped to 12/12 last weekend, but you can’t tell by the plants. Adjusted the lights down to 13/11, hoping it will get going faster. It’s ironic, these clones have been sending up pre-flowers like crazy the whole time in veg, but once I switch them to 12/12, they got shy. I anticipate I’ll see some real blooms by next weekend.
And a canopy shot to round out the post: no screen.
Trimmed up the girls last weekend and took some more clones. Not for me, but to give away. I’m still planning on getting back to Autos after this run is done.
Flipped to 12/12 last weekend, but you can’t tell by the plants. Adjusted the lights down to 13/11, hoping it will get going faster. It’s ironic, these clones have been sending up pre-flowers like crazy the whole time in veg, but once I switch them to 12/12, they got shy. I anticipate I’ll see some real blooms by next weekend.
And a canopy shot to round out the post: no screen.
nobodyhere
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You ever go the cortisone shot route? I have an aunt who swears by it after it gets bad. I've tried in the past and I don't really see much of a benefit.
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BigBearNTexas
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I’ve tried it, not much help. And playes hell with my blood sugar.
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That is a good enough reason to avoid it.
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BigBearNTexas
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I had an injection of toradol under my scapula to help with frozen shoulder. It helped briefly, but not enough to make it worth it to continue getting injections.
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Garden update:
Strain is still Canuck Blueberry. Nine plants are in the 2x2 at 11/13 light schedule, day 15 from flip. They are chugging along doing their stretch.
Nine clones are in the small veg spot. I’ll give them a check today after the roommate leaves for work, it’s probaby time to transplant into a 1L pot.
I’m getting itch to drop seeds, not now is not a good time. I figure I’ve got about six weeks left for the plants to finish up in the bloom tent. I want to drop a couple of autos so I can try CS to make some seeds, but I need to have the tent free.
The new batch of clones are really just back up for my buddy who is just starting to grow. I know I can trim and keep them small for quite a while, so I’m not too worried about them taking up the veg space for the next few months.
Going to make tincture from my last blueberry harvest today. Already have the plant material decarbed and in the freezer. Just need to chill down my alcohol. I’ll start that in a couple hours when my roommate leaves for work.
May make some dog treats from the CBD oil as well. I’m tempted to make a cracker or something that would also be human edible. Because sometimes a CBD cracker may be needed for me. Lol
Pics later.
Strain is still Canuck Blueberry. Nine plants are in the 2x2 at 11/13 light schedule, day 15 from flip. They are chugging along doing their stretch.
Nine clones are in the small veg spot. I’ll give them a check today after the roommate leaves for work, it’s probaby time to transplant into a 1L pot.
I’m getting itch to drop seeds, not now is not a good time. I figure I’ve got about six weeks left for the plants to finish up in the bloom tent. I want to drop a couple of autos so I can try CS to make some seeds, but I need to have the tent free.
The new batch of clones are really just back up for my buddy who is just starting to grow. I know I can trim and keep them small for quite a while, so I’m not too worried about them taking up the veg space for the next few months.
Going to make tincture from my last blueberry harvest today. Already have the plant material decarbed and in the freezer. Just need to chill down my alcohol. I’ll start that in a couple hours when my roommate leaves for work.
May make some dog treats from the CBD oil as well. I’m tempted to make a cracker or something that would also be human edible. Because sometimes a CBD cracker may be needed for me. Lol
Pics later.
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BigBearNTexas
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Pics as promised.
This is a shot of the veg tent when I opened it. These girls really want to be bushes.
After trimming.
And the clones. I think four may make it. They got a little too hot and swampy in their bags.
This is a shot of the veg tent when I opened it. These girls really want to be bushes.
After trimming.
And the clones. I think four may make it. They got a little too hot and swampy in their bags.
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Weekend update:
Everyone got fed today. I haven’t mentioned in a while what I use for nutes, it’s kind of a mixed bag at the moment. For veg nutes, I’m using Tappin Roots Essential Grow (6-1.5-1.3). For bloom, I’m using General Hydroponics FloraBloom (0-5-4). For cal-mag, I’m using Alaska Natural Calcium-Nitrogen-Magnesium (3-0-0).
Bloom tent is kinda boring. I think the stretch is done, just waiting on the plants to pack on the blooms.
Veg area has sad clones. Nine were cut, eight transplanted last weekend. I think maybe four will survive, which is fine by me. These are just back-up clones for a buddy, they may all get culled in the end.
It’s weird that I haven’t germinated a seed in about five months, and have probably at least another month before I pop a seed. Can’t wait to get these blueberry plants done and harvested so I can go back to my autos!
I need to plan spring and early summer plants. I need to have an empty tent by mid-July.
Everyone got fed today. I haven’t mentioned in a while what I use for nutes, it’s kind of a mixed bag at the moment. For veg nutes, I’m using Tappin Roots Essential Grow (6-1.5-1.3). For bloom, I’m using General Hydroponics FloraBloom (0-5-4). For cal-mag, I’m using Alaska Natural Calcium-Nitrogen-Magnesium (3-0-0).
Bloom tent is kinda boring. I think the stretch is done, just waiting on the plants to pack on the blooms.
Veg area has sad clones. Nine were cut, eight transplanted last weekend. I think maybe four will survive, which is fine by me. These are just back-up clones for a buddy, they may all get culled in the end.
It’s weird that I haven’t germinated a seed in about five months, and have probably at least another month before I pop a seed. Can’t wait to get these blueberry plants done and harvested so I can go back to my autos!
I need to plan spring and early summer plants. I need to have an empty tent by mid-July.
Hi bear! New flowering kids are looking good! As are the veg plants - very lush
Haven’t been here for a while, been a bit exhausted too, and only concentrating on what’s needed for the garden. Sorry to hear about the allergies and malaise keeping you a bit low I hope it eases soon. Maybe it is already ... bearhug
Don’t know if you’ve seen it yet, but beez0404 is in the latter stages of an awesome journal where he’s made lots of auto seeds using a reversed Auto Pounder as the pollen parent. It’s fantastic and has heaps of excellent tips. It move along well too, not too much extraneous chatter
. Well worth it for anyone looking at seedmaking ...
Colombian Gold Grow: Come Learn With Me How To Produce Your Own Seeds!
Haven’t been here for a while, been a bit exhausted too, and only concentrating on what’s needed for the garden. Sorry to hear about the allergies and malaise keeping you a bit low I hope it eases soon. Maybe it is already ... bearhug
Don’t know if you’ve seen it yet, but beez0404 is in the latter stages of an awesome journal where he’s made lots of auto seeds using a reversed Auto Pounder as the pollen parent. It’s fantastic and has heaps of excellent tips. It move along well too, not too much extraneous chatter
. Well worth it for anyone looking at seedmaking ...Colombian Gold Grow: Come Learn With Me How To Produce Your Own Seeds!
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BigBearNTexas
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Hey Ms. Amy! I’m on the mend, it seems, so good news there. Breaking out into full body hives wasn’t fun. 
I’ll check out that thread. I love autos, and if I can create an unlimited supply of seeds, I’m golden. It’s still risky to order seeds, and I fear one of these days it will catch up to me. Chances are low, but it’s always hovering out there. It’s better in the US than in the past 80 years, but my area is about on par with Australia in its view of cannabis.
I’ll check out that thread. I love autos, and if I can create an unlimited supply of seeds, I’m golden. It’s still risky to order seeds, and I fear one of these days it will catch up to me. Chances are low, but it’s always hovering out there. It’s better in the US than in the past 80 years, but my area is about on par with Australia in its view of cannabis.
HiddenGrow
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I've heard Texas is hard on cannabis. Makes little sense to me since I've always seen it as the wild west.
Nice garden BigBear. That canopy is super dense. Is there airflow in the lower area?
Nice garden BigBear. That canopy is super dense. Is there airflow in the lower area?
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Some municipalities are decriminalizing an ounce or less, and as a state we are getting closer, but still not be most friendly of places.
Canopy looks crowded, but it’s not that bad. There are 18 colas in there, only two per plant. The lower parts of every plant is defoliate, so airflow is good. I can get in and water all the girls without taking them out. I take them out and give a through watering a once a week, but not bad.
I bit the bullet and ordered a new tent.
Topogrow 2-in-1 (36x24x53). I know this looks laughably small for most folk, but it gives me more space. Right now I have 6 square feet total, 4sf in the tent and 2sf in my makeshift veg area. This gives me potentially 8sf! I hope it helps with airflow as well, since I’ll have it all in one main tent.
Canopy looks crowded, but it’s not that bad. There are 18 colas in there, only two per plant. The lower parts of every plant is defoliate, so airflow is good. I can get in and water all the girls without taking them out. I take them out and give a through watering a once a week, but not bad.
I bit the bullet and ordered a new tent.
Topogrow 2-in-1 (36x24x53). I know this looks laughably small for most folk, but it gives me more space. Right now I have 6 square feet total, 4sf in the tent and 2sf in my makeshift veg area. This gives me potentially 8sf! I hope it helps with airflow as well, since I’ll have it all in one main tent.
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BigBearNTexas
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New tent arrived last night, set it up and got moved into it today.
So, in general, I think I’ll be very happy with this new tent - it’s 36in x 24in x 53in. Having that extra five inches in height is wonderful! And the closet I’m working growing in is almost exactly the size of the tent.
The down side? The closet I’m growing in is almost exactly the size of the tent, and so fitting the tent into the space was a bit of a problem. I built it and put the canvas on in the tv room and then tried to move it to its new home. Turns out I needed a smidge more room to get it where it needed to be. Tearing it down and rebuilding it in place wasn’t an option because of the way the canvas fits - I would never be able to get the canvas on the frame in its spot in the closet. Answer was to undo a couple of the lateral poles to make it a few inches narrower to fit, and then attempt to get the poles connected together again. That didn’t quite work. There wasn’t enough play in the canvas to get one of the poles connected like it should be. So it just won’t be connected. Should work fine as is.
I bought a Topogrow 2-in-1 tent. It has a 2x2 large space and two stacked 1xw “propagation” areas. The two areas are blocked off from each other by a wall that Velcro’s into place. Works great...as long as the tent is empty of all equipment. Once I got the filter, lights, and fan in there, putting up that Velcro wall became extremely difficult. It may happen in the future, but it’s looking less likely that I will use it as a multi chambered tent.
Which is fine, since there really are very few options out there for a tent this size. I’ll use it as one tent for the foreseeable future. Once I get back to autos, this won’t be an issue. And the clones I have now, I’ve decided to run with the flowering girls. The small clones will run 11/13 and anything I get off them will just be bonus.
All the girls were pulled out, manicured, and fed before being put into the new tent. Now that I am not crowding 14 plants into four square feet, I have space to use drip pans under the plants to catch any run off.
I ordered the 300g sample packet of MegaCrop, it was delivered today. Probably going to use it on the next run. Since I’m a lazy grower, it looks like something custom made for my type of growing.
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Hard to tell from this image; but adding that extra foot of width really does give the girls more room to spread out. Which is good, because no matter how I abuse these ladies, they really want to grow into trees. They are branching out at the top like Christmas trees. I’m late enough into bloom that I don’t really want to do any severe trimming on them. I’m just going to let them finish and see what I’ve got.
So, in general, I think I’ll be very happy with this new tent - it’s 36in x 24in x 53in. Having that extra five inches in height is wonderful! And the closet I’m working growing in is almost exactly the size of the tent.
The down side? The closet I’m growing in is almost exactly the size of the tent, and so fitting the tent into the space was a bit of a problem. I built it and put the canvas on in the tv room and then tried to move it to its new home. Turns out I needed a smidge more room to get it where it needed to be. Tearing it down and rebuilding it in place wasn’t an option because of the way the canvas fits - I would never be able to get the canvas on the frame in its spot in the closet. Answer was to undo a couple of the lateral poles to make it a few inches narrower to fit, and then attempt to get the poles connected together again. That didn’t quite work. There wasn’t enough play in the canvas to get one of the poles connected like it should be. So it just won’t be connected. Should work fine as is.
I bought a Topogrow 2-in-1 tent. It has a 2x2 large space and two stacked 1xw “propagation” areas. The two areas are blocked off from each other by a wall that Velcro’s into place. Works great...as long as the tent is empty of all equipment. Once I got the filter, lights, and fan in there, putting up that Velcro wall became extremely difficult. It may happen in the future, but it’s looking less likely that I will use it as a multi chambered tent.
Which is fine, since there really are very few options out there for a tent this size. I’ll use it as one tent for the foreseeable future. Once I get back to autos, this won’t be an issue. And the clones I have now, I’ve decided to run with the flowering girls. The small clones will run 11/13 and anything I get off them will just be bonus.
All the girls were pulled out, manicured, and fed before being put into the new tent. Now that I am not crowding 14 plants into four square feet, I have space to use drip pans under the plants to catch any run off.
I ordered the 300g sample packet of MegaCrop, it was delivered today. Probably going to use it on the next run. Since I’m a lazy grower, it looks like something custom made for my type of growing.
Pics:
Hard to tell from this image; but adding that extra foot of width really does give the girls more room to spread out. Which is good, because no matter how I abuse these ladies, they really want to grow into trees. They are branching out at the top like Christmas trees. I’m late enough into bloom that I don’t really want to do any severe trimming on them. I’m just going to let them finish and see what I’ve got.
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BigBearNTexas
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Oh, and in the “bad” column, in the midst of setting up the new tent, my inline fan died. It’s going to have to be stinky until next payday when I’ll get a replacement.
HiddenGrow
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Ahh yes. The horrible smell of cannabis. I hope you get through the smelly days with no trouble.
I was looking at a tent like that. A little bigger with a 5'x5' flower space. I honestly couldn't see vegging or cloning in the separate chamber, but I can see it as a drying area. That way you can dry your crop and veg in the 2'x2' area.
The gang looks Happy with the extra room BigBear
I was looking at a tent like that. A little bigger with a 5'x5' flower space. I honestly couldn't see vegging or cloning in the separate chamber, but I can see it as a drying area. That way you can dry your crop and veg in the 2'x2' area.
The gang looks Happy with the extra room BigBear
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So far so good! I’m going to need to upgrade lighting next. My little light doesn’t quite shine enough light to cover the new space. I’ve a makeshift fix, but it will also involve rotating the plants around every week.
Got the fan to work, sorta. Still will need to be replaced, but I will at lease have some exhaust until I can manage to replace it.
Need to finish my taxes and get the gov’t started working on my refund. Or as my ex called it, my “forced savings plan”. Lol
Got the fan to work, sorta. Still will need to be replaced, but I will at lease have some exhaust until I can manage to replace it.
Need to finish my taxes and get the gov’t started working on my refund. Or as my ex called it, my “forced savings plan”. Lol