Conradino23's Another Outdoor Grow With High Brix Soil - Air-Pots & SoCal Seed Stock

[Conradino23]

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I am glad you enjoyed the story Conrad! Ya I have never thought of cops as better than people but I would think they would be better at covering their asses. All the cops in that town cover each other anyways.I had a buddy that got hauled behind a cruiser by a cop that proceeded to jack the kids arm up behind his back and put the elbows to him. When my buddy called the station the cops told him they were there and it never happened... typical. That looks like some decent seaweed you have to smoke there

Cops are not your friends Yeah my seaweed looks quite good. I won't trim it probably, there's more leaf than calyxes there, I'll just grind everything for a joint. It needs to dry for few more days though before I smoke the first sample.

Yeah, I have always wondered why the indigenous populations in Mexico drank infused Cannabis instead of smoking it early on (circa 1500), when tobacco was smoked here long before Columbus arrived. The Mayans carved drawings in stone show tobacco smoking between the 7th to 10th century. It was more of a ceremonial thing though, and not done every day. More like cigars I guess? I doubt that there was a coverup regarding Cannabis in any archeological digs, as it was not illegal in the US until 1937. And hemp was so common in the colonial period in North America, and even mandated to grow by farmers during WWII. So while the Nixon induced laws and politics are rather insane now, they were not always like this. Also in the 1970s it was almost legal, at least in California under Carter. Anyone would have jumped all over on early Cannabis use in pre-Columbian North/Central/South America and written many dissertations. The Olmec, Maya, Zapotec, Mixtec, Toltec, Tarascan and Aztec (and Incas) had a LOT of psychotropic drugs. They certainly got high. Now the Catholic Church was down on all of that, as they remain today. The fukkers.

The Vikings (my ancestors) certainly had hemp rope and sail cloth, and they came as far south as Labrador circa 1000 AD. But there is no evidence that they grew hemp there, and if they did it likely went extinct. They basically got their asses kicked by the native populations in Canada at that time and went back to Greenland and Iceland.

Hey Conrad, great convo going on here. I can't wait to hear your smoke report. I was just wondering if you've seen the thread for lo and slo drying? Dr. Ziggy started this trend. I got to try some of his lo and slo dried weed and it is fantastic. So far everyone that has tried it says they won't dry the "normal" way again. I'm going to give it a try with some of my Jamaican that is next to come down.

DrZiggy's Low And Slow Drying: Maximizing Your Harvest

My problem is that I cannot really control my temps and RH in the storage where I dry my buds, so 66F is really the lowest I can go around September/October and RH probably around 55%.

neiko i have tried this and i love it the finished buds are quite different from the conventional way we usually do it even the texture imo is different and i believe it smokes smoother with that said here's what im not thrilled about my refer still smells like weed and it's been a month now the refer i used was in the garage and the smell from some gorilla glue i grew was wafting out into the front yard where everyone could smell it so had to put deoderizers around the garage and that really helped my wife would never have let me do in the kitchen fridge if i were going to do it again and i will i want to hang it in there so it dries nice and tight!

I'm aware that slowest drying in low temperature and stable RH produces best smoke... well, maybe one day I'll invest in proper drying rooom. BTW we had rather violent thunderstorm, trees falling down and whatnot, that rolled over my area in the weekend, so I went today to check if the plants survived it and I found few branches broken and few hard cracks, which I fixed with rubber cord. Weather is already getting better, but August might bring few more surprises of that sort they say, so I have to be prepared. This doesn't change our general situation unfortunately, we're in a motherfucking drought, which affects agriculture all over Italy, but has also touched Rome recently!

Few links to read:

One of worst droughts in decades devastates South Europe ...

Rome hit by water rationing as Italy struggles with drought - BBC News

 

[ilikemsticky]

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we just went thru 5 yrs. of drought last winter we hit 200 % of normal go figure,i do have to say this climate change is affecting my tomatoes got 6 going only 3 are putting any fruit at all and what there is of it there very small!

 

[NorCaliwood]

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I had a friend who was a cop in Oakland. Sad to say this, but we smoked many a joint or herbs together. He use to have some hella personal weed. Where did he get it,,, from work. Cops can let peoples go. They do it all the time. But I know they have tightened down the screws of drugs and police. Probably need to. Not that I wood tell a cop where my patch was that's for sure... Hey if a cop needs a brownie point,,, you can bet he's looking out for number one. And that isn't you..............
It takes abit of practice to be able to jar up some well cured herbs. I can't count to jars of over dryed herbds and even afew that molded..Shit happens,, all we can do is learn from it. Big buds when the temp is ok,, like 65=75 degrees and 50 percent R/H , they go in the net or hung from the rafters....... Warner weather,,, airy buds,, I use a paper bag. Least that way you can control the dry time abit.
The UD's are loving life,,, showing sign of adulthood. Knock on wood,, she looks, well one does,, looks close to flowering?? She's close....... 1st of the month wood be fanastic...... And wood finish great....... Keepem Green

 

[ilikemsticky]

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smoking some of this rite now 4 mo. cure black jack!

 

[ilikemsticky]

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i forgot the pic i guess it's working lol

 

[ilikemsticky]

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hey conrad i wanted to run this buy you i am currently running those plants at 15/9 there going outside in a bout 3 weeks i my thinking is have them go outside with about the same amount of daytime as rite now what are your thoughts!

 

[Conradino23]

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we just went thru 5 yrs. of drought last winter we hit 200 % of normal go figure,i do have to say this climate change is affecting my tomatoes got 6 going only 3 are putting any fruit at all and what there is of it there very small!

Yeah it's not a good thing, climate is getting crazy and it affects our food sources first!

I had a friend who was a cop in Oakland. Sad to say this, but we smoked many a joint or herbs together. He use to have some hella personal weed. Where did he get it,,, from work. Cops can let peoples go. They do it all the time. But I know they have tightened down the screws of drugs and police. Probably need to. Not that I wood tell a cop where my patch was that's for sure... Hey if a cop needs a brownie point,,, you can bet he's looking out for number one. And that isn't you..............
It takes abit of practice to be able to jar up some well cured herbs. I can't count to jars of over dryed herbds and even afew that molded..Shit happens,, all we can do is learn from it. Big buds when the temp is ok,, like 65=75 degrees and 50 percent R/H , they go in the net or hung from the rafters....... Warner weather,,, airy buds,, I use a paper bag. Least that way you can control the dry time abit.
The UD's are loving life,,, showing sign of adulthood. Knock on wood,, she looks, well one does,, looks close to flowering?? She's close....... 1st of the month wood be fanastic...... And wood finish great....... Keepem Green

Yeah I heard there are ways around the system... I mean I heard about dealers who were getting ripped off by cops by getting their shit taken and sold back to distributors

UDs should be ready to flower very soon, in usually happens in 1st or 2nd week of August, but this season's crazy, so they might even start flowering earlier. Keep an eye on it, if they do it within this time frame then they're ready by the end of September

smoking some of this rite now 4 mo. cure black jack!

i forgot the pic i guess it's working lol

Very nice!

hey conrad i wanted to run this buy you i am currently running those plants at 15/9 there going outside in a bout 3 weeks i my thinking is have them go outside with about the same amount of daytime as rite now what are your thoughts!

Yes you can slowly cut it down, like 5-10 minutes a day.

 

[ilikemsticky]

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ok will do!

 

[Morglie]

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Cops are not your friends Yeah my seaweed looks quite good. I won't trim it probably, there's more leaf than calyxes there, I'll just grind everything for a joint. It needs to dry for few more days though before I smoke the first sample.







My problem is that I cannot really control my temps and RH in the storage where I dry my buds, so 66F is really the lowest I can go around September/October and RH probably around 55%.



I'm aware that slowest drying in low temperature and stable RH produces best smoke... well, maybe one day I'll invest in proper drying rooom. BTW we had rather violent thunderstorm, trees falling down and whatnot, that rolled over my area in the weekend, so I went today to check if the plants survived it and I found few branches broken and few hard cracks, which I fixed with rubber cord. Weather is already getting better, but August might bring few more surprises of that sort they say, so I have to be prepared. This doesn't change our general situation unfortunately, we're in a motherfucking drought, which affects agriculture all over Italy, but has also touched Rome recently!

Few links to read:

One of worst droughts in decades devastates South Europe ...

Rome hit by water rationing as Italy struggles with drought - BBC News

We must be getting the inverse here. We've had storms and heavy rain about every 2-3 days lately. The farmers here are projecting 15% losses at least from all the standing water in fields.

You can do the slow and lo in a dorm room fridge. That's what several people on that thread, plus myself are using.

I'm loving the seaweed. Should be some nice smoke.

 

[Big Sur]

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All this talk about seaweed. I see weed, and I wanna SMOKE IT!

 

[Waitn4Trudeau]

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Cannabis simply dose not show up in any pre-Colombian records or excavations in North or South America, nor is there any evidence of it in any pre-Colombian tombs or excavations. The Mayan records are extensive, and were completely overgrown by the time the Conquistadors arrived. No record there or in Aztec or Inca records or excavations either. Cannabis is an old world plant, not new. Tomatoes, potatoes, cocoa, chilli peppers, vanilla, tobacco, bananas, corn, pumpkins, gourds and other new world plants were rapidly gathered by the Spanish and taken back to Europe and subsequently exploited, exported and grown worldwide. They also brought with them old world plants. As early as Columbus’ second voyage to Hispaniola/Cuba in 1493, seeds and cuttings of 20 plant varieties were recorded, including barley, wheat, leeks, beets, onions, radishes, cucumbers, broad beans, citrus fruits, olives, melons, parsley, sugar cane, and grape vines. These people were prepared to colonize the world, and very early on.

Here's my wacky theory. Maybe there was a hemp hidden in the jungle and not used by the local people and not in records and it naturally combines with the African based hemp transported to the new world and thus generates new landraces in Central and South America? Some day maybe we figure it out from DNA and it all points to a long gone North American "missing link" for Cannabis?

I call your attention to the evolution of Corn, maybe there is a teosinte for Cannabis:

"Through the study of genetics, we know today that corn's wild ancestor is a grass called teosinte. Teosinte doesn't look much like maize, especially when you compare its kernals to those of corn. But at the DNA level, the two are surprisingly alike.They have the same number of chromosomes and a remarkably similar arrangement of genes. In fact, teosinte can cross-breed with modern maize varieties to form maize-teosinte hybrids that can go on to reproduce naturally. "

"MISCONCEPTION
Evolution is always slow and gradual.

REALITY
Minor changes to influential genes can produce rapid evolutionary changes."

Evolution of Corn


Tracking the Ancestry of Corn Back 9,000 Years


"But despite its abundance and importance, the biological origin of maize has been a long-running mystery. The bright yellow, mouth-watering treat we know so well does not grow in the wild anywhere on the planet, so its ancestry was not at all obvious. Recently, however, the combined detective work of botanists, geneticists and archeologists has been able to identify the wild ancestor of maize, to pinpoint where the plant originated, and to determine when early people were cultivating it and using it in their diets.


The greatest surprise, and the source of much past controversy in corn archeology, was the identification of the ancestor of maize. Many botanists did not see any connection between maize and other living plants. Some concluded that the crop plant arose through the domestication by early agriculturalists of a wild maize that was now extinct, or at least undiscovered.

However, a few scientists working during the first part of the 20th century uncovered evidence that they believed linked maize to what, at first glance, would seem to be a very unlikely parent, a Mexican grass called teosinte. Looking at the skinny ears of teosinte, with just a dozen kernels wrapped inside a stone-hard casing, it is hard to see how they could be the forerunners of corn cobs with their many rows of juicy, naked kernels. Indeed, teosinte was at first classified as a closer relative of rice than of maize.

But George W. Beadle, while a graduate student at Cornell University in the early 1930s, found that maize and teosinte had very similar chromosomes. Moreover, he made fertile hybrids between maize and teosinte that looked like intermediates between the two plants. He even reported that he could get teosinte kernels to pop. Dr. Beadle concluded that the two plants were members of the same species, with maize being the domesticated form of teosinte...

Despite Dr. Beadle’s illustrious reputation, his theory still remained in doubt three decades after he proposed it. The differences between the two plants appeared to many scientists to be too great to have evolved in just a few thousand years of domestication. So, after he formally retired, Dr. Beadle returned to the issue and sought ways to gather more evidence. As a great geneticist, he knew that one way to examine the parentage of two individuals was to cross them and then to cross their offspring and see how often the parental forms appeared. He crossed maize and teosinte, then crossed the hybrids, and grew 50,000 plants. He obtained plants that resembled teosinte and maize at a frequency that indicated that just four or five genes controlled the major differences between the two plants."

"In order to trace maize’s paternity, botanists led by my colleague John Doebley of the University of Wisconsin rounded up more than 60 samples of teosinte from across its entire geographic range in the Western Hemisphere and compared their DNA profile with all varieties of maize. They discovered that all maize was genetically most similar to a teosinte type from the tropical Central Balsas River Valley of southern Mexico, suggesting that this region was the “cradle” of maize evolution. Furthermore, by calculating the genetic distance between modern maize and Balsas teosinte, they estimated that domestication occurred about 9,000 years ago."


Tracking the Ancestry of Corn Back 9,000 Years - The New York Times

 

[Conradino23]

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We must be getting the inverse here. We've had storms and heavy rain about every 2-3 days lately. The farmers here are projecting 15% losses at least from all the standing water in fields.

You can do the slow and lo in a dorm room fridge. That's what several people on that thread, plus myself are using.

I'm loving the seaweed. Should be some nice smoke.

I'd have to get few fridges to pack whole harvest. It's just impossible at the moment. I don't have that kind of space.

All this talk about seaweed. I see weed, and I wanna SMOKE IT!

It's getting nice flavours as I see it. It went to a turkey bag, where it's gonna have higher RH, which will slow down drying process a bit.

Here's my wacky theory. Maybe there was a hemp hidden in the jungle and not used by the local people and not in records and it naturally combines with the African based hemp transported to the new world and thus generates new landraces in Central and South America? Some day maybe we figure it out from DNA and it all points to a long gone North American "missing link" for Cannabis?

I call your attention to the evolution of Corn, maybe there is a teosinte for Cannabis:

"Through the study of genetics, we know today that corn's wild ancestor is a grass called teosinte. Teosinte doesn't look much like maize, especially when you compare its kernals to those of corn. But at the DNA level, the two are surprisingly alike.They have the same number of chromosomes and a remarkably similar arrangement of genes. In fact, teosinte can cross-breed with modern maize varieties to form maize-teosinte hybrids that can go on to reproduce naturally. "

"MISCONCEPTION
Evolution is always slow and gradual.

REALITY
Minor changes to influential genes can produce rapid evolutionary changes."

Evolution of Corn


Tracking the Ancestry of Corn Back 9,000 Years


"But despite its abundance and importance, the biological origin of maize has been a long-running mystery. The bright yellow, mouth-watering treat we know so well does not grow in the wild anywhere on the planet, so its ancestry was not at all obvious. Recently, however, the combined detective work of botanists, geneticists and archeologists has been able to identify the wild ancestor of maize, to pinpoint where the plant originated, and to determine when early people were cultivating it and using it in their diets.


The greatest surprise, and the source of much past controversy in corn archeology, was the identification of the ancestor of maize. Many botanists did not see any connection between maize and other living plants. Some concluded that the crop plant arose through the domestication by early agriculturalists of a wild maize that was now extinct, or at least undiscovered.

However, a few scientists working during the first part of the 20th century uncovered evidence that they believed linked maize to what, at first glance, would seem to be a very unlikely parent, a Mexican grass called teosinte. Looking at the skinny ears of teosinte, with just a dozen kernels wrapped inside a stone-hard casing, it is hard to see how they could be the forerunners of corn cobs with their many rows of juicy, naked kernels. Indeed, teosinte was at first classified as a closer relative of rice than of maize.

But George W. Beadle, while a graduate student at Cornell University in the early 1930s, found that maize and teosinte had very similar chromosomes. Moreover, he made fertile hybrids between maize and teosinte that looked like intermediates between the two plants. He even reported that he could get teosinte kernels to pop. Dr. Beadle concluded that the two plants were members of the same species, with maize being the domesticated form of teosinte...

Despite Dr. Beadle’s illustrious reputation, his theory still remained in doubt three decades after he proposed it. The differences between the two plants appeared to many scientists to be too great to have evolved in just a few thousand years of domestication. So, after he formally retired, Dr. Beadle returned to the issue and sought ways to gather more evidence. As a great geneticist, he knew that one way to examine the parentage of two individuals was to cross them and then to cross their offspring and see how often the parental forms appeared. He crossed maize and teosinte, then crossed the hybrids, and grew 50,000 plants. He obtained plants that resembled teosinte and maize at a frequency that indicated that just four or five genes controlled the major differences between the two plants."

"In order to trace maize’s paternity, botanists led by my colleague John Doebley of the University of Wisconsin rounded up more than 60 samples of teosinte from across its entire geographic range in the Western Hemisphere and compared their DNA profile with all varieties of maize. They discovered that all maize was genetically most similar to a teosinte type from the tropical Central Balsas River Valley of southern Mexico, suggesting that this region was the “cradle” of maize evolution. Furthermore, by calculating the genetic distance between modern maize and Balsas teosinte, they estimated that domestication occurred about 9,000 years ago."


Tracking the Ancestry of Corn Back 9,000 Years - The New York Times

It's very interesting, man

 

[Conradino23]

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Few photos of plants or buds on hand.

Bubba Hash that has the most obscene fuel or even burning fuel smell I've ever experienced. After CAT she's drifted lightly towards mango aroma, but not for long. Great trichome production from the start. Slightly leafy, but not to a great extent. I'd like this plant more if she had more branchy structure, but I guess it's hard to have everything.

Sensi Star that hast to be fertilised in order to stay alive. She puts new set of leaves and loses the bottom one on a regular basis. It's a hardship with this plant and this pheno doesn't resemble any indica I grew, she actually looks very sativish. She was repotted 3 days ago and is forced now to flower, cause there was no point in waiting longer. We'll see if anything changes in bloom.

My Ultra Dog bud that has cured for a bit.

 

[ilikemsticky]

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your girls always look good conrad you have a lot of different flavors going i like lots of choices myself whats that ud like there's quite a few people growing that one sure looks dank is it tasty!

 

[Conradino23]

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Thx man it's as organic as it gets

UD is a balanced hybrid with strong OG/Chemdawg legs. Some phenos fall on the sativa and some on the indica side. Many phenos are punchy and soaring on the edge of causing anxiety for many people, but my favourite Chem pheno is slightly more relaxing with more body stone to it, it has less THC too. All phenos are very euphoric though and mood improving. What I like about this strain is that it won't freak you out completely and it won't put you to bed either. You can smoke it in the middle of the day to function in semi-relaxed state, but you can also smoke it in the evening while watching something on Netflix or whatever few hours before you go to bed.

 

[ilikemsticky]

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that sounds like something i would like how is the taste im a taste kinda guy,maybe some day i will grow some,i just acquired some lemon snow cone(super lemon haze x lemon tree),tangerine cookies(tangie x thin mint girl scout cookies),m2(a cross of four landraces and haze 100%sativa)strawberry snow cone(sour diesel xstrawberry cough),and some sssdh,super silver sour diesel haze,ther's a grower on here named caretaker thats growing one and it's nice couldnt help myself anyway those are my upcoming choices and i would like you to look at the girls and tell me if there is anything i should do they look a little dull to me?,also check out this thai hot pepper it went crazy this year!

 

[Conradino23]

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Taste of UD is usually on the sourish, biodiesel or lemon side with roasted chestnuts and blackberies undertone, but that one came out much sweeter and more delicate. I've smoked only popcorn and trim, which has less flavour, but there's notable cotton candy taste in this bud. I still have the one above to try, which will speak louder.

Your plants look very good including peppers, I have habanero chocolate growing in the garden

 

[Neiko]

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Damn Conrad! You're going to love that Bubba Hash. Yours is starting to look a lot like mine did. I hear ya on the branching. I'm topping the shit out of the clone hoping for better yield.

 

[ilikemsticky]

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Taste of UD is usually on the sourish, biodiesel or lemon side with roasted chestnuts and blackberies undertone, but that one came out much sweeter and more delicate. I've smoked only popcorn and trim, which has less flavour, but there's notable cotton candy taste in this bud. I still have the one above to try, which will speak louder.

Your plants look very good including peppers, I have habanero chocolate growing in the garden

that sounds very tasty i love it when it's delicious and stoney damm another one i need to grow,you no im not going to live long enough to grow everything i want and thats just what i no about as of today tomorrow there will be 2 more i gotta have lol!

 

[Radogast]

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we just went thru 5 yrs. of drought last winter we hit 200 % of normal go figure,i do have to say this climate change is affecting my tomatoes got 6 going only 3 are putting any fruit at all and what there is of it there very small!

We have been under flood warnings all spring and summer. The river I drove by today was over it's banks at least flood stage +3'. Together with an early spring, my roma tomato are huge this year - 10cm / 4" before the first one started to show color. This is my first year here - so maybe this is all normal.