Equanimity - Isolation

[Equanimity]

Final report, the white room. Third officer reporting. The other members of the crew; Joanne, Carla, Josie, Cheryl, Leanne and Kerry are dead.
Cargo smoked and destroyed.
I should reach the next harvest within six days. With a little luck the single dry bud on the rack will pick me up.
This is Thompson, last survivor of the white room, signing off.

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Strains
{
Lemon Kush (4);
Sleestack x Skunk (2);
}

Environment
{
Cheapest carbon filter
About 2 feet of aluminium flexible tubing
Black Orchid 125mm In-Line fan
3 Scythe PC Fans (intake)
2 Desk Fans (circulation)

Lighting
{
1 600W Dual Spectrum HPS (in a cool tube)
1 300W Dual Spectrum CFL
9 x 35W Cool White CFLs
LED Panel (90 x 3W Diodes; off brand)
}
Horticulture
{
3 Litre black plastic pots.
Recycled coco coir from the last grow.
Mycelium bags hanging about.
}​

}


Nutrients
{
Canna Coco A & B.
Cal Mag.
Mollasses.

Feeding Schedule
{
Seedling (up to 2nd node) - Honestly, the're getting parts of the adult feeds.
** Vegetative Stage Skipped **
Flowering (Just Switched to 12/12) - 16mls Each Nute into 12 Litres of water.
Flowering (Actual Baby Flowers Exist) - 32mls Each Nute into 12 Litres of water.
Flowering (Big Flowers, Medium Trichomage) - 64mls Each Nute into 12 Litres of water.
Flowering (Full Trichomage, Dying Pistils) - Just water.
}​

}
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I've been looking at the same staircase and three humans for what seems like the majority of my adult life; stuck in a loop they're destined to repeat. I'm three stairs from the top when she lurches backward from the locked lift doors - her Security Access Tuner is banjaxed and needs a new data cell; an easy fix, like balls it is.
I avoid the gunshots and can now run straight in to get the object; history has shown me that she will run away. always and forever. To get her cohorts. They will hunt me and I will be cowering inside a black tube. I must sneak past. I keep getting Killed. Procrastinating; As i'm supposed to be moving my grow shit... I can hear it shuffling about in the walls...


So, I had to move my grow room to somewhere I can better manage the climate - it's own room.
I've kept the white room wardrobes and just moved them. This was a complete and utter nightmare. The thing is a pig.

The second wardrobe is in with it; this is now shaping up to be a permanent nursery and it currently has three wee babbies in it. These are sprouts from my own bagseed (as in accidental seeds from my own grows); 19 were planted and three sprouted so the strike rate is fucking shite, it makes me curious to see how these three hunger games survivors get on in life.

These new plants have no names.
They had names but the labels all fell off.
I lost track of which strain was which VERY early on; way before the move.
They have already grown some reasonably sized buds which have been removed.
The girls are back in to bake a while longer to give the young'uns a chance to thicken up.

I've overexposed these images on purpose to combat the HPS hertz banding bollocks.
Desert weed. Mmmm.

It was round about new years, maybe some time after.
It was cold out and I was not able to get purchase outside; sliding about like a penguin with buttered feet.
I should have known, I should have closed the window...
I forgot; missed it, spaced because I was too busy smoking my brains out on my recent harvest.
The temperature dropped and stayed in the low single celciuses for at least two days; the girls responded with nanners, lots and lots and lots of fucking nanners.
I fought bravely against the nanners; destroyed them all and ate most of them.
I missed some, but not many.
There will be some second generation bag seed this time as well.


Also...
The Bitch Rack is back!

That's right. My poorly planned bitch rack has found a new purpose and is now an integral part of the 'staggered harvest' approach I'm trying out.
The rack has thus far shit out some rather tasty buddage that hasn't really needed much jar time.
I'm happy with that.


So that's all there is to report right now.
I'll leave you with a few shots of my favourite nugs so far (I only selected dry ones for photos)

Back I go now, Into the dark, on my own...

 

[Weaselcracker]

I this

 

[Light Addict]

Subbed up my friend and wishing you only the best green karma!

 

[Equanimity]

Thanks guys


I've ordered up some new seeds; White Widow crossed with Big Bud, Herbies are throwing in a female White Widow and some generic afghan regs.

The WWxBB has gotten mixed reviews from what I can see; they describe it as not being quite good as either [of it's parents].
I'm hoping i'll be pleasantly surprised like I was with those two Skunk regs that were both girls.

 

[Equanimity]

So i've decided to do some proper mainlining or fluxing or whatever you calls it.

In this

I had three saplings of varying quality.

One of these things is not like the others.

The others gotsta go.

Darwinism, explained by Gordon Freeman.

The weak and sickly ones have been purged.

We are now ready to flux.

 

[iluvsnow]

Looking good. Subbed.

 

[Light Addict]

ML is where you top multiple times to create many limbs etc Fluxing is a little more involved and you only top a flux 3 times even if you had 40 limbs ML also takes less time in veg me thinks, yet with the single colas per limb and general structure of a fluxed plant lends to better yield! (That's just my opinion lol and I may be fluxing biased )

 

[Equanimity]

I'm gonna do new pics in a while, but it's hard to update now cos I'm temporarily without a reliable Internet connection.

I've topped her for the first time; down to the third node.

I hope to mainline her, hence the shape of the pot; I'd like to make a rectangle of colas, but I'm not entirely sure where to go after topping lol

 

[Equanimity]

Managed to bypass Three's content block so I no longer have to use Opera Mini to get on here, so that's helpful.

Anyway, in plant news;

The White Widow x Big Bud, the White Widow and the Afghani are all sproted. 100% germination, which is just great.
The mainline plant is just some third generation inbred bagseed, but it was by far the strongest and best looking of all the waifs who germinated.

I've also started some strawberries, jus sayin.

 

[NuttyProfessor]

you keeping well mate ?

 

[Equanimity]

you keeping well mate ?

Am doing very well thanks man, yourself?
This growing weed lark has proven to have... Unexpected benefits.
There is no shortage of humans who want this stuff.

 

[Equanimity]

My canopy looks good considering that one of the plants is now dead and the rest have had a good bit harvested off them.

Another ounce or two for sure.

Also, ordering a bunch of new seeds soon, getting pineapple chunk and bubblegummer and since the Lemon Kush is now popular as fuck in my circle, some more of that too.

 

[iluvsnow]

Looking great. I'm glad to hear the Lemon Kush is a hit. I have a few of those that I'm thinking about popping soon.

 

[Equanimity]

I know. I thought it was shit but who am I to judge.

So, looks like i'm green lit for either a 1600w LED or a second 600w HPS. It's just deciding now..

 

[Equanimity]

So, I'm going to be remodelling my grow room again.
Planning New Grow Room
I'm ditching the cabinet and going for an open plan flower area in a blacked out room.
There will be a seperate nursery area.

The plan is simple; I make a 5'x7' flower area and squeeze 20 plants into it on a SoG sort of thing; though they'll all have been topped at least once just for purposes of balancing the canopy.

5 seeds will be sprouted, they'll veg to 5 nodes and go straight into flower; and i'll do this 3 more times until i've got 20 plants; with 5 maturing every so often (we don't know yet)

 

[Equanimity]

That plant i had planned to mainline/flux ?

I killed her

Topped and waited for the 'V', got the 'V' and strapped them down, the first went fine but the second just snapped.

Left it a while to see if it would heal itself (wasn't a major break) but this morning it was all crispy and mottled.

I pulled it out at the root, dug a crude hole in the pot and stuffed a White Widow x Big Bud in it's place.

Might have potted up too early on that one but we'll see how it goes!

 

[Equanimity]

So these are what i'm going to be mostly be playing with this year.
The lemon kush will make a reappearance; it's well liked, goes plenty far enough and is cheap as balls.

The cookies kush is one of last year's CC winners, it's crossed to buggery so i don't think i'll try to cross it.

The incredible bulk i've been dying to try for ages, so now's the time.

The strain hunters money maker was pretty much just to balance the basket (didn't wanna miss out on my free seeds)

Gonna plant 3 and save 2, of each of the 5 packs, as i'm going to try breeding again (i know lol)

As for the free seeds; i'm just going to plant them all (except the afghans) and just taste test; maybe i'll find something i want to breed.

The afghanis will be saved for a time when i need seeds and have no money.

Am sure there's a 10% code somewhere though...

 

[SweetSue]

I like your style, love your writing and humor. I'd like to ride along and watch the show. I can't believe I took on following another journal, but God man, you are great fun.

 

[Equanimity]

I like your style, love your writing and humor. I'd like to ride along and watch the show. I can't believe I took on following another journal, but God man, you are great fun.

I'm following 40 journals, which I think is the maximum lol
gets hard to keep track

 

[Equanimity]

Some Porn....

...Keep in mind that these guys have already had a 4+ ounce harvest taken off them; they have made me very happy

This last one...

...has stopped drinking and hasn't grown in a fortnight.
My new girlfriend will be dismantling this plant tomorrow