Do you mean algae? There's algae, yes. But no mold. Any white stuff on the leaves is just the dried BTk spray I use against caterpillars. If I find decent mothers I'll move those into proper pots. For now the poor growing conditions are helping to keep their rapid growth in check. If I moved them into really good pots and soil now, they'd take over the tent.
@HashGirl they grow stupid-fast. Some people have reported 9' indoor heights. They're going to need a lot of micromanagement to keep them in the
@ViparSpectra 2x4 tent, which is part of the challenge I've set for myself in this grow.
This grow is stirring the muck up elsewhere on the interwebs and I just needed to rant about yields. I don't see you fine folks doing the thing that caused this rant so I'd like your thoughts on the following:
I'm always put off when people are like 'why grow that strain?! The yields are crap!'. I'm mean yield is nice but that's not my main goal when growing. I'm not making my living from harvesting a product. I'm never out of flower (well...most of the time ) and I will take effect, aroma, and flavor over tons of bud any day.
I'm a vet and used my GI and college fund cash to work towards a masters in biomedical engineering (focused on prosthetics). Along the way the world of genetics and epidemiology shanghaied my brain. I'm an 80s kid so anything involving cool gene science or monstrous mutations already had a special place in my heart
Fast forward to rec legal weed in Michigan. Never really smoked before, preferred booze and amphetamines to what I just believed was the 'stoner effect'. A buddy brought me clones which I promptly started to fuck up and struggle with. I did get a harvest, albeit a pathetic one. More so I gained an obsession with these plants. Their dynamic and relatively unstable mutable genetics hooked me hard. All the strains and mutations and phenotypes...epigenetic conditioning, backcrossing... Holy shit.
The variety, strain history (and often the drama surrounding it...) is why I grow. The simple act of seeing a single seed to harvest and being able to viscerally understand through taste and effect how what I do in the tent affects harvest is brilliant. Starting to grow these plants kept me from dark thoughts, cyclic depression, and anxiety. I haven't had a drink for almost two years now. I can't remember the last time i thought about walking out into the highway or some similar thing.
We're not all growing for yield. Some of us are just trying to enjoy the hobby and grow the best plants we can. No, Dr. Grinspoon doesn't have a huge yield... It is however a challenging plant to grow and can show some very PRETTY buds.
End rant.
Yeah so what gives? We're 12 plants rec legal here so how the hell are people still freaking out about yields? Don't most places only allow 4? Like...CANADA...blessed free and weed-friendly Canada allows only 4 plants in most places (I think?...might be wrong) and I have yet to meet a Canadian starving for bud.
Are these the same people that buy a 24-pack of piss beer and think it's somehow better than a 6-pack of craft? Holy shit humans make me want to throw things at other things.
ANYHOO...
the ladies are doing lady things. I'm wondering if keeping the light on 24/7 might help slow the Grinspoons down. My reasoning is a good portion of growth happens during lights out. Right? Sooo if they don't have that dark period to do proper plant grow things...they'll slow down? Just an idea. The sane side of my brain says this is a dumb idea.
