Carcass' $150 Low Budget Grow 2019

[Carcass]

I saved probably $550 by doing it myself.

Good to see you,farside !...I did a $1000 job on my wife's car for $90.00 a while back-gotta love saving that money!

I could really use some advice on some autos

Glad to help,Dean- although I've only grown 4 autos...but I think we can get you more than an oz
with just a little training ....and then you can train the plants...
j/k Dean - just let me know what you need, I'll help if I can...

 

[Old Salt]

I did a $1000 job on my wife's car for $90.00 a while back-gotta love saving that money!

Here's a tip to pass on...
I made a deal with my wife early on. I'd fix whatever I could, and be allowed to spend half of what the labour cost would have been to upgrade my tools.

I stopped collecting many years ago. All my tools are good quality, with a chosen few being exceptional.

 

[InTheShed]

If your tools are all up to date, now it should be you're allowed to spend half of what the labor cost would have been to upgrade your grow!

 

[Carcass]

That might have worked years ago,when we drove clunkers,but now with a Toyota and a Honda, there's never anything to fix...
And leaky faucets and plugged sewer lines don't count,evidently...

 

[DeanWest89]

Good to see you,farside !...I did a $1000 job on my wife's car for $90.00 a while back-gotta love saving that money!

Glad to help,Dean- although I've only grown 4 autos...but I think we can get you more than an oz
with just a little training ....and then you can train the plants...
j/k Dean - just let me know what you need, I'll help if I can...

This is where I am at now , I have just been tiring down , and I was trying to keep everything in point environment wise but my humidifier went down , and today I finally cracked it open and fixed it . But I feel like my humidity jumping from 80% down to 41% by the time I got home from work but I just got it fixed so everything will be on point but I think i should have had it going during the veg and she may have gotten bigger , but I think I may only end up with about the same again , as far as harvests goes . But I have one more seed . What training did you do in yours brother ?

here she is now , she’s in my current journal .

anyway is love your advice dude. How big did your autos get in the veg stage this one hit first pistols at 7th node

 

[Carcass]

What training did you do in yours brother ?

The way I did it for these last two,is to top them as soon as you can get the clippers between the third and fourth node-around 12 days old-then the next day,shave off node#1,that leaves you nodes 2 & 3 to work with. As soon as you've got enough branch to tie down (day 16,apx.),start the quad training.
About 5 days into the training,you'll start seeing pistils,and flowering will start...ignore the flowers and keep training as if she were a photo...now she's stretching too,so the branches are nice and flexible-but they don't stay that way for long, so you've got to stay on top of it till you decide to let her go vertical- about a week and a half into vertical growth,if any branches want to be "too tall" you'll need to bend these horizontal (supercrop) to keep the canopy as even as possible -if the plant cooperates,you'll get a plant like the Purple Punch-If it doesn't like the training,you'll get a plant that looks like the one I just harvested...not a bad result either way...
Now,this is just the way it worked for me-your results may vary...
I think the key is doing all this stuff early, because the clock is always ticking on these autos

How big did your autos get in the veg stage

They were only about 4" tall (but real flat) before I let them start growing upward.

 

[DeanWest89]

The way I did it for these last two,is to top them as soon as you can get the clippers between the third and fourth node-around 12 days old-then the next day,shave off node#1,that leaves you nodes 2 & 3 to work with. As soon as you've got enough branch to tie down (day 16,apx.),start the quad training.
About 5 days into the training,you'll start seeing pistils,and flowering will start...ignore the flowers and keep training as if she were a photo...now she's stretching too,so the branches are nice and flexible-but they don't stay that way for long, so you've got to stay on top of it till you decide to let her go vertical- about a week and a half into vertical growth,if any branches want to be "too tall" you'll need to bend these horizontal (supercrop) to keep the canopy as even as possible -if the plant cooperates,you'll get a plant like the Purple Punch-If it doesn't like the training,you'll get a plant that looks like the one I just harvested...not a bad result either way...
Now,this is just the way it worked for me-your results may vary...
I think the key is doing all this stuff early, because the clock is always ticking on these autos

They were only about 4" tall (but real flat) before I let them start growing upward.

Thank you so much for that brother I think I may try to top the next Moby 1 Moby I have , but I will by another tin of them and try my luck at topping
So where my auto is at now I should still be training as a photo or do I let her work her way up the rest of stretch ?

 

[Carcass]

So where my auto is at now I should still be training as a photo or do I let her work her way up the rest of stretch ?

As long as she's got a few weeks of stretch left, I'd keep that main top as low as you can,and train the branches out to the edge of the pot, then let the tips go vertical, but keep the branches tied down till the stretch is done- then you can remove the restraints.
That plant probably wouldn't do too bad if you just let her go the way she is now,although spreading her out a little isn't going to hurt anything.

 

[farside05]

That might have worked years ago,when we drove clunkers,but now with a Toyota and a Honda, there's never anything to fix...
And leaky faucets and plugged sewer lines don't count,evidently...

I was working on a Honda Odyssey. It's our "newest vehicle", a 2006 with 180,000. We own 4 Odysseys, all grey/silver but ain't they all. My van has the highest milage at 293k. Bought it for $450 and put maybe $1,500 into it over 2 years. Pretty cheap transportation considering what they get for new cars. Owning 4 of basically the same vehicles (different model years) you get real familiar with what breaks and how to fix it. I also own a '72 Chevelle but it's been sitting for 3 years with the front steering components removed. There's always something else that I have to do rather than work on it. I have every part, new, to put it back together. It's a time issue. The body needs refreshed since it was 23 years since it was last restored. Maybe by spring I'll have it done.

 

[Backlipslide]

I'm sensing a theme here.

that was a really good multi quote reply. You got me dying in laughter over here!

I’m really excited to put that stuff into action. Thanks carcass!

I was thinking of trying to sell my old liquid nutrients... I’ve got a lot, left over, my flowering nutes are practically brand new. Used them for one grow, in three plants. Didn’t use much up at all. But yeah, I’m thinking of selling them, because, well, I’m a cheap ass you know!

 

[farside05]

that was a really good multi quote reply. You got me dying in laughter over here!

I’m really excited to put that stuff into action. Thanks carcass!

I was thinking of trying to sell my old liquid nutrients... I’ve got a lot, left over, my flowering nutes are practically brand new. Used them for one grow, in three plants. Didn’t use much up at all. But yeah, I’m thinking of selling them, because, well, I’m a cheap ass you know!

I'll see your flowering nutes and raise you two Remo Nutes Supercharged kits, 10 10gal geopots, a magical butter machine, two manifold kits, and 2.5 gallons of Terpinator.

 

[InTheShed]

I'll see your flowering nutes and raise you two Remo Nutes Supercharged kits, 10 10gal geopots, a magical butter machine, two manifold kits, and 2.5 gallons of Terpinator.

I'll see your Remo kits, MB machine, manifold kits and 2.5 gallons of terpinator, and raise you 10 gallons of terpinator!

Good thing ColaMonster doesn't sub here!

 

[farside05]

I'll see your Remo kits, MB machine, manifold kits and 2.5 gallons of terpinator, and raise you 10 gallons of terpinator!

Good thing ColaMonster doesn't sub here!

If we count opened but barely touched, I got another Terpinator and Roots XS I could throw in the mix.

I know you are not a movie guy, but I always invision ColaMonster as Admiral General Aladeen from The Dictator. Dude has more titles and medals than a middle eastern dictator. He's definitely the chip leader if you prefer a poker analogy.

 

[InTheShed]

Crap I forgot about the Roots XS! I really need to put stuff on Craigslist

 

[Carcass]

Owning 4 of basically the same vehicles (different model years) you get real familiar with what breaks and how to fix it

I get that- We owned (still do) a 62 Bug,and a 67 VW Bus,I drove the Bug from 1980 to 2015,
And MrsC. drove the Bus from 1984 to 2014-so there's not much on old vw's that I haven't fixed at one time or another-we saved enough driving them to buy a house,because we're both cheap asses

I’m thinking of selling them, because, well, I’m a cheap ass you know!

And the theme continues...
Hopefully you can recoup some of your investment...or use them in your veggie garden, and grow some dank ass zucchinis

I'll see your flowering nutes and raise you two Remo Nutes Supercharged kits, 10 10gal geopots, a magical butter machine, two manifold kits, and 2.5 gallons of Terpinator.

I'll see your Remo kits, MB machine, manifold kits and 2.5 gallons of terpinator, and raise you 10 gallons of terpinator!

I got another Terpinator and Roots XS I could throw in the mix.

I really need to put stuff on Craigslist

I'll throw 5- 10 gallon Geopots, another 2.5 gallons of Terpinator,and a nearly full bag (used once) of Bud Explosion on the pile....

 

[InTheShed]

I'm good with all of that, but don't throw the Bud Explosion on the pile or the K numbers will be off the charts!

 

[Carcass]

the K numbers will be off the charts!

It really is strong stuff...just takes a smidge to toast a whole plant!

 

[ChefDGreen]

Hey y’all,

you can send me any of your nutes and geopots... I’ll pay you double what you paid!

 

[farside05]

I should contact the Geopot folks and see if they'd swap out the 10g for 5g. 10g is just too big for my tent. I understand the concept of promoting your product and giving away nute kits, but from a growers standpoint, if I won POTM using something different than your product, why would I change?

 

[InTheShed]

Maybe we should all change to Stank Soil. He seems to win every time he enters!