The Med Report
Hope everyone is doing well!
A Pot-pourri of Top-Left & Low-Right's nuggets
As we went though the first jar, the mostly lower, airy buds that hadn't had time to cure, I was marginally impressed, at best. Biding the weeks on a dwindling med supply of Blackberry Kush and a White Rhino Cross, purchased at the Farmer's Market, with exception to daily burping we let the jars be.
Earlier this week we tapped into jar 2, happy to discover it has begun to hit its stride...
My girlfriend nicknamed Top-Right "stink-berry". When broken up or ground, Top-Right's flowers produce a pungent, acrid, berry aroma that envelops the room, and berry taste on the exhale (berry intensifies when smoked in a water pipe).
Low-Right, we just kind of call "mystery". She's by far the stickiest, though a bit leafy. As to sroma and taste, some buds can smell and taste earthy/neutral while others from her are very hash/fruity, hence the name mystery - as you don't know what you're gonna taste.
Low-Right - front half of lid, Top-Left - back half of lid
Both are fairly heavy hitters, as their Indica dominant heritage would suggest.
Top-Left is the better one if you need to remain upright and function. Nerve/muscle pain reduction is noticeable & adequate. Munchies are minimal.
Low-Right is perfect for heavier pain days, needing to get to sleep, or for a little weekend recreation on the couch with the Wii. Munchies - (Buy stock in Cheetos & Ben & Jerry's) Seriously though, great for stimulating appetite.
If these seeds are any indication of what the true photoperiod Blue Mystics are capable of, I can highly recommend them (the non-auto) and look forward to trying them in the future.
From Low-Right's airy buds & the bottom of the manicure pan, we garnered a total of 13 mature seeds, so far. I'm sure there will be more, we've not found any in the samples from the cure jars and none from any of Top-Right's buds.
I may do a "jar-seed" grow soon.
Again, many thanks go out to my fellow forum inhabitants, without the knowledge of whom, I would not be far along as I am in my quest to grow the best.
Come check out my new grow if you havnt got a chance.Anomoly's Big Bud 800 Watt LED/CFL Grow
Like I said before I am not a pro On HID's but I have learned something along the way.
Its all about your grow space, personal needs and expectations versus space limitation,budget, etc.. In my opinion electronically ballasted 600 watt HPS with an air cooled Hood is the best medium of all worlds. I am not sure that digital ballast are all that different or worth the extra money but I do think it is worth it to go from magnetic remote ballast to electronic. First with an electronic ballast is half the weight of a magnetic ballast. Secondly you don't have a huge electromagnet throwing out magnetic waves and other harmful shit. Thats why you see some photos of grow rooms and there are lines and interference in the picture, that is from magnetic ballasts. So although those waves generally don't travel more than 3 or 4 feet I would not want to take my chances if your grow room is near an area where people will be populating unless you want your kid to have three arms
Magnetic ballasts will be the cheapest since it is the oldest technology so there is one thing you can count on and thats reliability and proven technology with magnetic ballasts. I say a 600 watt as well because its not to small and its not to big, which means your power bill will not take as much of a hit as running a 1000watt but you will be able to grow comparable if not better buds. Secondly I think the heat given off by a 600 watt is manageable in even the smallest of grow rooms and can be effective in some of the biggest as well. If you are on a power crunch 600 watt systems gives you more options as far as adding additional light, fans, dehumidifiers, etc. That is mostly the reason I went with a 600 watt so I would have enough room to add my LED's as supplemental and have more ways of getting coverage and light onto the plants. Lastly the market really loves 600 watt just for the reasons I said so there are many options and accessories like MH conversion bulbs that they do not make for 1000 watt systems. For me this was the best option as buying two separate ballast for two different bulbs was not economical or feasible for me, and I wanted the benefit of HPS and MH I did not want to grow with one spectrum the whole time. So I got a 600 watt HPS ballast and got a MH conversion bulb that would fit my HPS system and I think thats the best purchase I ever made. hope this helps a little.
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