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[Conradino23]

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Nice! You must love her.
Does she get all mellow and laid back after she discovers one of her tasty treats has been left unguarded?

She's a very mellow cat except when she sees weed. That's when she becomes a real predator.

Same issue here. The wife has 3 indoor cats and the old cranky one is ninja like in her ability to devour cannabis plants. I picked up a clone from a buddy that I'd been waiting quite a while for, I set it on the kitchen counter for literally 2 minutes, when I came back the clone was nothing but a stub.

Yeah some cats just love it, they'll sense it straight away if exposed to a smell. Some don't care though, so it must be a character thing.

 

[NorCaliwood]

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I don't have any grass growing outside in my back yard.. Least the kind one uses a lawn mower on. Well' our little rat dog likes alittle ruffage on his guts every now and then. But he never get close to my young plants, I learnt long ago.. Or I'd have a little stick there. But he sure knows the pharse, 'you want acouple leafs' and he'll run to the flower room door or veg tent, whatever is closest.. Keepem Green

 

[Morglie]

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She's a very mellow cat except when she sees weed. That's when she becomes a real predator.



Yeah some cats just love it, they'll sense it straight away if exposed to a smell. Some don't care though, so it must be a character thing.

He doesn't eat the plants, but I have a cat that will run into my flower room when ever he gets a chance. Not always a bad thing . I had a mouse that had dug the bottom inch of dirt out of a pot through the drain holes and was living under my plant. The cats took care of him.

 

[Radogast]

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He doesn't eat the plants, but I have a cat that will run into my flower room when ever he gets a chance. Not always a bad thing . I had a mouse that had dug the bottom inch of dirt out of a pot through the drain holes and was living under my plant. The cats took care of him.

My cat hates that I close the door to the basement gardening room. He likes to patrol the basement for mice twice a day and KNOWS I should just leave the door open and stop wasting his time. Opening the door OBVIOUSLY gives mice a warning to run and hide. His people are so stupid sometimes .

 

[Morglie]

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My cat hates that I close the door to the basement gardening room. He likes to patrol the basement for mice twice a day and KNOWS I should just leave the door open and stop wasting his time. Opening the door OBVIOUSLY gives mice a warning to run and hide. His people are so stupid sometimes .

There are three rooms that stay closed at my house. The two grow rooms and my studio. Those are the rooms the cats always want into.....

 

[Conradino23]

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I don't have any grass growing outside in my back yard.. Least the kind one uses a lawn mower on. Well' our little rat dog likes alittle ruffage on his guts every now and then. But he never get close to my young plants, I learnt long ago.. Or I'd have a little stick there. But he sure knows the pharse, 'you want acouple leafs' and he'll run to the flower room door or veg tent, whatever is closest.. Keepem Green

Leaves... when I pluck one or two she always eats it.

He doesn't eat the plants, but I have a cat that will run into my flower room when ever he gets a chance. Not always a bad thing . I had a mouse that had dug the bottom inch of dirt out of a pot through the drain holes and was living under my plant. The cats took care of him.

Natural rodenticide

My cat hates that I close the door to the basement gardening room. He likes to patrol the basement for mice twice a day and KNOWS I should just leave the door open and stop wasting his time. Opening the door OBVIOUSLY gives mice a warning to run and hide. His people are so stupid sometimes .

Where cats want to roam human should not intervene.

There are three rooms that stay closed at my house. The two grow rooms and my studio. Those are the rooms the cats always want into.....

Yep the same here.

 

[Conradino23]

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I feel it's time to show my plants on hand, so you get to know what's happening.

Here's CG '72 in the first week of bloom. So far she's been very slow and got shocked when the heatwave came... well it's been drier than usually, and RH below 50% is not optimal for sativas. But I started to water every 2 days, fed her this and that tea, and she's doing pretty well right now. Smell is of faint sweet spice for now.

UD which is gonna show sex soon and I hope this is gonna be a gal. This variety tolerates extreme weather, so heat has never been a problem. But I started to feed her more to help her throughout. She just needed more and she showed it.

Leb of an unknown sex for now, very stretchy.

Stunted Sensi Star, which is on the verge of death due to damaged stalk, but somehow she's still growing. I've shaded her for a while and now I also took her off the windowsill to give her room to breathe.

Bubba Hash, which also has problem with high temps, but I keep her wet and shade her with this old muzzle, so she doesn't die on me.

Here we have the other SS and BH together.

And here are 3 Manipuris eaten by my cat, they'll rebounce with time though, so I'm just watering them and waiting.

Ok folks have a great Sunday

 

[Morglie]

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I feel it's time to show my plants on hand, so you get to know what's happening.

Here's CG '72 in the first week of bloom. So far she's been very slow and got shocked when the heatwave came... well it's been drier than usually, and RH below 50% is not optimal for sativas. But I started to water every 2 days, fed her this and that tea, and she's doing pretty well right now. Smell is of faint sweet spice for now.

UD which is gonna show sex soon and I hope this is gonna be a gal. This variety tolerates extreme weather, so heat has never been a problem. But I started to feed her more to help her throughout. She just needed more and she showed it.

Leb of an unknown sex for now, very stretchy.

Stunted Sensi Star, which is on the verge of death due to damaged stalk, but somehow she's still growing. I've shaded her for a while and now I also took her off the windowsill to give her room to breathe.

Bubba Hash, which also has problem with high temps, but I keep her wet and shade her with this old muzzle, so she doesn't die on me.

Here we have the other SS and BH together.

And here are 3 Manipuris eaten by my cat, they'll rebounce with time though, so I'm just watering them and waiting.

Ok folks have a great Sunday

Looking good. The Columbian is looking very happy. I'm surprised the leb has so thin of leaves. That is an indica hashplant isn't it?

 

[Neiko]

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I had a snow moon from ACE that is supposed to be 100% indica genetics and it had leaves as skinny as Panama. It made big fluffy purple sativa buds too.

 

[Conradino23]

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Looking good. The Columbian is looking very happy. I'm surprised the leb has so thin of leaves. That is an indica hashplant isn't it?

It's supposed to be, but I hear stretchy pheno is always there. It's very hard to say how these plants got to Lebanon and when, but if you look at Pakistani and Hindu Kush hash plants they're always a bit stretchy with leaves somewhere between skinny and fat. Also this plant hasn't shown sex yet, so if it's a male there's the answer.

 

[Conradino23]

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Here are pics from The New Sunny Spot taken in natural evening light. At 6 o'clock there was still direct sunlight, which means they have up to 12 hrs of it. As good as it gets I guess.

UDs are bouncing back after hail. The damage below the new growth was caused by it. You can definitely see the difference between the old and the new leaves. I fed them some stinging nettle tea, they needed it. Next round I'm gonna cut the bushes around to let more light in and start with opening them up. The last two pics show my favourite pheno.

Colombians are exploding. There is one dwarfy pheno (I didn't take a photo) and the rest seem proper expressions of a genuine landrace sativa.

I also checked on my two small Lebs and a Manipuri. They are fine

 

[Tomster420]

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Man I wish I was where you are right now. I hate winter lol

 

[NorCaliwood]

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Just doing a drive by. A fast question? You ever think of getting a bag of some store bought soil to start your seedlings in? I've found they are alot easier on the babies in that first week of growth. Nothing wrong with a good native soil, but I've found something with tons of coconut in it make is easy for they tender stems and roots. Girls are looking great. Hopefully that SS will pull thru. That's one of my personal favorites. GL oh BTW it looks like I have a female of the other UD. Looks like I'll grow one of each, Thanks.
Keepem Green

 

[Conradino23]

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Man I wish I was where you are right now. I hate winter lol

This spring we got hit hard by the anticyclone. It's already 30-32C in the shadow, so it's gonna be a scorching summer. Not so good for the plants, but definitely pleasant for us... until it's too much. I need to go hunting for a good fan as we don't use AC.

Just doing a drive by. A fast question? You ever think of getting a bag of some store bought soil to start your seedlings in? I've found they are alot easier on the babies in that first week of growth. Nothing wrong with a good native soil, but I've found something with tons of coconut in it make is easy for they tender stems and roots. Girls are looking great. Hopefully that SS will pull thru. That's one of my personal favorites. GL oh BTW it looks like I have a female of the other UD. Looks like I'll grow one of each, Thanks.
Keepem Green

My soil is top notch and it's amended for High Brix grows. Strong plants thrive in it and weak genetics show quickly. I kind of see it as a selection tool. If something doesn't grow right I know there's fault on the seed producer's side. The SS has been tossed, she just slipped right out when pulled, the stalk never recovered. But I have another one which looks really good. I'm gonna sun dep her when she's ready next to Bubba Hash. One of them got stunted, it seems like a heat issue. I need to water these seedlings a lot these days, but the strongest will survive.

 

[NorCaliwood]

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And I understood that. Myself I just tend to baby the babies till they get 2 or 3 sets of leaf. Then dropped in my media. Might give unacclimated strains to your soil a chance, you got alot of volcanic ash soils don't you? I figgure that from the mountains ya'll got. All soil is different, I lived up in Indiana and they had peat boughs everywhere. Hard to grow in straight peat, it will fry about everything, but mix it half and half with riverbank topsoil, riverbank topsoil is prabaly the BEST dirt you will ever find. As long as it from down south abit. Floods up north strip the topsoil from up north classify it and repepoist it down south, and you have dirt dreams are made of. That's why they have to fertilize more up there. They are losing their topsoils.
Hey man, if it works for ya all good. If you start having problems with the sprouts, sometimes the small root system can't produce what's needed at it's point in time and it's alot easier to spread young root through coco than about anything there is.. Some top quaity sprouts aren't all of good strong genetics and might need alittle pampering in the crib is all.. All good,, all's good, right.... Keepem Green

 

[Morglie]

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I had a snow moon from ACE that is supposed to be 100% indica genetics and it had leaves as skinny as Panama. It made big fluffy purple sativa buds too.

Snow moon has Vietnamese black in it, in the orient express side. They use a hash plant pheno, but it's still 25% of the genetics. I've got some I'll be popping soon. They sound tasty,especially the purple pheno.

 

[Neiko]

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Snow moon has Vietnamese black in it, in the orient express side. They use a hash plant pheno, but it's still 25% of the genetics. I've got some I'll be popping soon. They sound tasty,especially the purple pheno.

Borh my phenotypes had purple buds and green leaves. It is a really tastey strain. Id like it a little more potent but overall I'd recommend it.

 

[Conradino23]

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And I understood that. Myself I just tend to baby the babies till they get 2 or 3 sets of leaf. Then dropped in my media. Might give unacclimated strains to your soil a chance, you got alot of volcanic ash soils don't you? I figgure that from the mountains ya'll got. All soil is different, I lived up in Indiana and they had peat boughs everywhere. Hard to grow in straight peat, it will fry about everything, but mix it half and half with riverbank topsoil, riverbank topsoil is prabaly the BEST dirt you will ever find. As long as it from down south abit. Floods up north strip the topsoil from up north classify it and repepoist it down south, and you have dirt dreams are made of. That's why they have to fertilize more up there. They are losing their topsoils.
Hey man, if it works for ya all good. If you start having problems with the sprouts, sometimes the small root system can't produce what's needed at it's point in time and it's alot easier to spread young root through coco than about anything there is.. Some top quaity sprouts aren't all of good strong genetics and might need alittle pampering in the crib is all.. All good,, all's good, right.... Keepem Green

We have marl loam here, it's calcareous clay-based soil containing a lot of different minerals, but mainly calcium, magnesium, manganese and iron. Then on the top of it we have quite thick layer of humus. Upper layer usually needs to be cleaned, tilled and cut with amendments a little bit to promote oxygen flow inwards, but one foot below it's perfect. I don't go down more than one foot anymore. This is my basis for potting mix to which I add lithothamnium, powdered egg shells, biochar, a littl bit of garden compost and a mycorrhizal inoculant. This very rarely gives any plant a hard time, but shit happens sometimes.

This SS for example just got broken at the base and I don't know why, but stems of young plants sometimes snap when exposed to a lot of heat, which is my guess here. Well she never recovered. The other is growing fine, so this must've been a weaker pheno. BH that got upcanned got stunted after few days, you know she just stopped growing, so I repotted it once again to a smaller pot and while I was doing it I've noticed that root hasn't grown a bit since. The other one in the planter is doing fine. There are factors here at play which I believe have a lot to do with genetics. Sometimes plants have their limits, sometimes they are prone to stress, sometimes they don't respond well to outdoor hardening. I am aware that some strains need to be pampered in order to survive and produce, but in my environment I just don't have space for them... which reminds me of my glorious failure with Ghost Train Haze feminised last year. These plants were much too weak for my local conditions and needed constant attention to thrive. They were big pain in the ass and I never give second chance to genetics that failed at first time. This comes from my strong belief that cannabis should be STRONG plant above all and if a given variety is not able to fight and adapt then the breeder fucked it up big time and I'm not gonna deal with his product anymore.

Snow moon has Vietnamese black in it, in the orient express side. They use a hash plant pheno, but it's still 25% of the genetics. I've got some I'll be popping soon. They sound tasty,especially the purple pheno.

I grew Orient Express, very nice 50/50 plant with reasonable flowering time and very good mold immunity. Has an old school high to it and makes a quite good hash. Not particularly strong though.

Borh my phenotypes had purple buds and green leaves. It is a really tastey strain. Id like it a little more potent but overall I'd recommend it.

In Snow Moon they combined both of their flagship indicas. It sure sounds nice.

 

[NorCaliwood]

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Damping off? I've lost afew sprouts to damping off. Damping off pathogens attack young plants and they just fall over... GL and Keepem Green

 

[Conradino23]

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You know what NCW, I think I figured it out. I replanted too early and everything would be probably ok if I kept watering like I should've, but sun sucked the life out of it one day, stalk got hit first, it shrank and dried and now most likely we have a root problem on top of it, maybe dampening or even rotting. I'm gonna take her out and check. Lack of attention on my part. Well shit happens, but I still have each of both strains growing very healthily. I'm gonna upcan now and everything should be ok.