Bluter's Happy Home For Hilarious Hempsters

bluter said:
i'm toying with what would be the best size to try run. i've got most everything here. i don't spend much aside from booze, rent, and gas these days. pretty much in that order. :cheesygrinsmiley:

i wanna be working by fall, or sooner, i can't live with the uncertainty. i have a couple strains i haven't run yet that i might give a try for sips once things are better sorted. i've got a car to finish and a bunch of stuff i want to get done at the folks place too.
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On page two of the SIP Club thread in my signature I have a design post where I detailed container builds for a variety of sizes including 1L "take-out" containers which I think are similar in size to the containers in some of your Hempy grows.

I think you’ve probably got a good handle on how to build them but, any questions, just ask.
 
i got both a gelato and an acapulco cracking tonight already. will need to have hempy solos ready for the morning.
 
Back in the saddle!
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noticed @Weed Seeds Express popped their head in. nice to see you here. hope you are back permanent.
 
some happy tails to tell this morning

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acapulco gold



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guess it's safe to let folk know they are @Weed Seeds Express genetics. they've been stored a while so i'm impressed they all grew tails. note the brown spot, it was on both towels, on the bottom inside. whatever it is, it came from the seeds and washed there when i sprayed the towels.

prepped up some hempy cups and took a blurry pic :p



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i filled the hempy cups with perlite and washed them through with some RO and a 3/4 seedling dose of calmag.

transferred the seeds over which is a harrowing procedure every time. i make about a 1/2 inch indent in the center of the cups and move the seed over with some tweezers. it's near impossible to get the orientation perfect, so you shoot for as best you can and cover the seed over. it takes both hands, steady nerves, and a couple hoots to settle down lol :)


all moved in to the veg room



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now let's hope they make to the surface.

the cups got a spritz after with the same calmag mix. once they are above surface and established a bit they'll get an early half nute seedling dose. i start feeding just a bit earlier in hempy than other media. i need to see first leaves past the cots before that happens.

been having a hard time getting the veg room environment dialed in. the rh is a depressing 35% and the temp wants to swing too far both ways. i've got the temps sitting at 26c daytime and dropping to 18c at night. the new space heater doesn't want to co-operate. when it decides to fire up it'll heat to 37c, i need to keep it closer to the 26c range and not have it drop so bad at night.

i'm running the light 18/6 with the main running 16hrs and burple on for an hour at either end. it's been great now that i've got the timers set. i've got it dimmed to 25% for seedling start. it ramps pretty quick once they break ground.
 
we have a little movement today



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both gelatos are a little eager to get going. the second one is further along.



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hoping the acapulco gets a little more motivated. i might have to go gently digging for them soon.

edit: impressed both shed the shells without intervention.
 
bluter said:
the amp with the plates combined make for a very effective and cheap heating pad.
i learned how to do it that way as a teenager.
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Remember how cool it made you feel coming up with tactics like that when you were young? I do, thanks for reminding me of it. I wish I could be so easily impressed with myself these days, lol. Ignorance was bliss.

Sorry (not sorry) for this back-post; I've been pootling along on this thread, I admit, mainly for sh%t$ and giggles but I've only experienced the giggles... and I appreciate you looking out for me that way! Ha!

I've learned a lot here Bluter - the thread's answering a good chunk of my hempy queries, non-hempy ones too.

What does your fert acronym BE refer to, Green Leaf Bud Explosion? If so, how do you rate it as a 'flower additive'?

I run M3ga Cr0p 2-part, (it has identical npk as Jack's Hydro and you can mix it per Jack's' recipes) and I've been using a finisher - even though I can mix the MC2pt to a great flower NPK. The finisher is far from ideal, however, and I am replacing it.

Do you think that the advantage Green Leaf has, ie that their MC and BE products are exquisitely designed for each other, can be overcome by a different flower-only additive out there?

FYI they changed up Sweet Candy pretty dramatically. Now it has high p and K, kelp and fulvic acid. I think it could be worth trying mixed into my SIP reservoir. The other high p,k finisher that has my attention is Flower Fuel (1-34-32), it has an interesting elemental mix and some kelp in there too. I'm looking for something in dry form, powder or pelletized.

PS, I underline questions in my posts, just so people can skip the rest, refer easily.
 
ReservoirDog said:
What does your fert acronym BE refer to, Green Leaf Bud Explosion? If so, how do you rate it as a 'flower additive'?
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bud explosion. it's super hot. you have to make head room for it in the nute schedule or it will burn everything crispy. i don't use it so much as a booster, i really just use it to bring some of the n down in flower. i run a little calmag with it too.




ReservoirDog said:
Do you think that the advantage Green Leaf has, ie that their MC and BE products are exquisitely designed for each other, can be overcome by a different flower-only additive out there?
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there's really no reason to use anything with MC. you can use any booster with MC if you want to, and you can use BE with other nute lines if you like.



NickHardy said:
Hey Bluter!

New ‘uns popped. I’ll pull up a chair if that’s ok?

Nick
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come on in. floor show at least once a week. try the veal. :cheesygrinsmiley:
 
today everyone is either above ground or breaking surface. i didn't even have to go digging :p



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five days from beans is not bad at all. seems like it's one of my faster starts. it doesn't work unless the seeds are decent and fairly fresh. i kinda chose some of the better looking ones to help.

both gelato had an early start yesterday. gelato 1 was outta the gates early.


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she's already optimistic enough to start shooting a set of trues lol
the other one is only a half day behind


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these guys were incredibly eager to go right from getting them in the towel. not to be out done one of the acapulco gold busted top late yesterday about 3hrs from lights out. took the pic this morning.




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still hadn't oriented to the light yet. it'll be stock straight by end of today.

thought i might have to go give the others a little help getting to the surface but they are breaking today.


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nearly there. keep going buddy.. :)

the most shy of the bunch


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no helmets when they came up. sweet but i probably blew all my lottery luck on it so far :cheesygrinsmiley:


got the conditions a little more dialed.


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the rh continues absolutely crap but at least i got my temps more in line with less high / low swing. outdoor conditions are crazy unsettled right now, which is affecting my indoor. would like it just a degree or so lower, but i'm happy to run as is.


i got the light running at about 35% right now and holding. might have a connection issue with the burple. happened to be up early and noticed it hadn't fired. just gave everything a snug and it was ok.

i'm giving everything a mist a few times a day with the RO and weak cal mag because of the crap RH.
 
bluter said:
come on in. floor show at least once a week. try the veal. :cheesygrinsmiley:
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They’d better be good five dollar girls in that show and not them lousy dollar no more like at the other guy’s place. Real veal or just been hit with a hammer?

I guess I’ll just have to settle down and see for myself. 😂

This is my terrified stage where you are now.

They’re so tender.

Nick
 
NickHardy said:
They’d better be good five dollar girls in that show and not them lousy dollar no more like at the other guy’s place. Real veal or just been hit with a hammer?
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no violence here man ... treat your meat well .. like she said.. :p




NickHardy said:
I guess I’ll just have to settle down and see for myself.
This is my terrified stage where you are now.
They’re so tender.
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it'll all be great. i'm not holding hands though. :cheesygrinsmiley:

starting seeds hempy is crazy stupid if you're trying to sell it. i don't even recommend the way i do it to other folk. i've been germinating towel method for so long that it wasn't too bad for me. it's a steeper leap for someone new.

most times a recommend a plug / rapid rooter for starting to new folk. once you're going you can just plunk the plug in a hempy cup. . leave the whole rooter in, it won't hurt a thing.

i'm just too stupid to do it that way. plus i'm cheap. did i mention cheap ? i don't have to buy plugs this way. every time i go to germ seeds i'm like "awww crap, i should get some rooters", then i look at the paper towels and go, "wtf", and away we go again.
 
NickHardy said:
Give me a little time - I need to read up on the hempy section of the menu first because I have zero idea right now!

I’ll follow some of your links!
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hang out anytime. it's like sips but lazier lol
 
bluter said:
hang out anytime. it's like sips but lazier lol
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Hmmm. I don't know about that, what with all the pH'ing and nutrient mixing and all.

But, very similar in the end. Well, except for the grow medium. :laughtwo:
 
Thanks Bluter! Im'a hang out for the floor show. Think I'll have the steak if its all the same, medium rare.

BTW, a silver e30 325i is classy as hell. Are you gonna put collector plates on it? I remember the day my Pops bought a new, 1987 325is, red, black leather, when he got a new job. We kind of went from the poor house to middle-class+ overnight. Yeah, it was weird, but would have been a lot weirder going the other direction!

I loved that 325is so much that I ended up buying a 1978 525i that had been brought over from Ramstein Ger., via grey market, by a Canadian Forces member. It was my first car. After buying it I had (chose) to drive it, on summer low-pro tires, from Red Deer to Edmonton in January - and it was my first time driving stick. Go slow enough and it was semi-safe, but I'll never forget how perfectly glassy the ice on the city streets was that day. Handling characteristics were, no exaggeration, the same as my old 42ft ex-salmon troller, you stopped when physics was done with you, no sooner. Proper tires/conditions though and that little buggy was bliss. Lime green, w. tan vinyl. 70's awesomeness.
 
ReservoirDog said:
BTW, a silver e30 325i is classy as hell. Are you gonna put collector plates on it?
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i'll probably have no choice. insurer isn't going to accept regular plates on the thing. i'll have to get third party and extra coverage. it gets more coverage off the road than my regular car has on it.



 
They’re sweet cars - the 5xx series of the same period used to scare me with its moody looks as a kid. Our next door neighbour had the E30 M3 - only available as a left hooker (LHD) and we we’re in the UK where we drive RHD, he sold it after a year, it was rapid but just didn’t feel as safe driving on the peft in a LHD car.

He got a Maserati Ghibli Cup Bi-Turbo after that. Took me and my Dad out the night he got it. Wow that thing was quick. I was 8 years old or something and loving it.

It was also a super safe car. Because it was only on the road for about two weeks of the two years he owned it. Just constantly broke down 😂

He went back to Beemers after - my Dad of more limited means got an Alfa Romeo 164 Twin Spark Cloverleaf about then. The only Alfa Romeo never to break down in 5 years!

Nick
 
i'm hanging out waiting for the lights to come on this morning. probably throw some weak nute solution at the seedlings and put a foliar together.
 
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