GiGaBaNE's 3rd & Final Journal - At Least Until I Change Country

i got my staff cheap, he was the runt of the litter, now he is bigger than all the rest of the litter, he is well trained and well loved, he loves other dogs, not got any nasty in him, he has a mixture of dry biscuits and wet food like you give him, plus the odd bone from the butchers, and the odd branch he drags back from the fields, they also need losts of training like you mention, not so much long walks but more physical stuff so they keep their bulk, i take mine in long grass and find him a big branch and play with him for a bit then he drags it through the grass and this keeps him fit, he also loves tugs of war in the flat, but he is the softest thing in the world, wont go to sleep unless he is lying in the bed next to me or on the sofa, he wont sleep unless he got the quilt or blanket over him.
but once they are trained their the best dogs by far, i would not have another breed now i have had staffs, but the one i got now names tyson and i didnt name him but tyson is huge for a staff, the muscle around his face are huge, he has 2 big lumps on his head and their solid muscle, i say he looks like he has been bought up on steroids, he has a taste for my plants as well, and the odd bud if i try and quick dry some,
he things he is human im sure of it, i had a problem of him shitting and pissing in the bedroom, it was the only place he messed, still does on the odd time when im out all day, but i have plastice down and paper so it dont trash the place, but since i started putting his food bowl on the bedroom he has stopped messing their now when im in, its just when i have been out with the kids he messes on the odd occasion, people pull their dogs away thinking he is going to be nasty but when my dog lies down and waits for them to come to him they soon see how nice he really is, glad you took on a rescue dog, the homes are full of them, kids have them as a vicous symbol and find out they are either not vicious or take to much looking after, but once you get them trained you then get the rewards of having a true family pet living with you, my dog is like a human, my mom got a boxer and its a bit wild but she taks it to dog training which dont cost much and now its stopped messing in the house and now walks by your side instead of pulling and walking on his back legs, these dog trainers know what they are doing, its all about the treats, have some sausage in your pocket then when you walk him hold it out so his nose is by your waist then walk the dog so its following the sausage then get him to sit by raising the treat in front of his nose and push the treat close so it makes him sit then give it him, and then just repeat he will follow the treat then learn that if he walks at your side he gets a treat, then once he got used to that keep the treat in your pocket and only bring it out when you want him to sit, thats how i trained mine, took a while but now people ask me how i trained him to walk at heel without pulling or trying to get to other dogs.

i learned him to lie down in the flat, then when i was out and seen a dog waling towards us id get a treat out and get him to lie down, then hold the treat while the other dog comes up to him or walks past then i let him up to say hello or he stays till the dog has walked past then i gave him a treat, now he lies down when he sees a dog coming and waits till they are either saying hello to him and then he gets up and has a sniff or they walk past and he gets up when they have gone past.

i also had problems with him pulling on the lead when we first went out, so what i then did was walked and then as soon as he pulled id turn round give the lead a tug and walk the other way, then when he caught up and started pulling id do the same thing, its best if your in a park when you do this as you can turn in any way you like, the idea is to give the lead a sharp tug when he is starting to pull then turn and walk the other way, as soon as he runs past and pulls again give it a sharp tug then turn another direction, the idea is to make the dag unsure which way your going to go so he then stays with you so he dont get a pull on his lead, it took my dog 3 days to learn not to pull, so now i have got him an extendible lead, and now he has more freedom to go where he likes and he dont pull and when he has gone to far and the lead has locked and he can feel it he then turns round and waits or comes back to me before starting again, so now i have no problems with him what so ever, his last owner more or less kept him inside as he didnt have the time to look after him as he and his girlfriend had a baby so i had him, but these dogs are really clever and love learning new things, when i was teaching him to lie down i done it in the flat, i got him to sit then when he sat id put the treat in front of his noes and lower it to the ground so he lied down, i dont this 5 or 6 times at the most and now he can do it when i say lie down, so i dont think you will have any problems with the training, some dogs take longer than others, but you will get their, then the rerwards are brilliant, i see people struggling down the street with their dogs pulling them along and i always wonder why they dont train them, repetition is the key and treats are the best way, without the treats the dog dont think your interesting enough to come back to, but if every time you called his name you got his attention and give him a treat then it wont be long before he clues up that when he hears that word he knows to come to you as he is getting something more interesting than the dog he is trying to get to, bacon,chicken and sausage are the best treats i have found,

sorry for the long post, i just love dogs and spend lots of time getting the rewards for having a dog that is well trained, it is all about the treats, everytime you get him to sit when you say sit and give an action with your hands, i remember my last dog, i was talking to a friend and the dog was playing then i couldnt see him and he was by a main road, the road we cross to go home, he must of gone through the deep grass and lost me and decided to go home, he was about to go into a busy road and their was cars coming, i just shouted her name and said down and she just lay down on the curb, i told her to stay and then praised her and she stayed their till i got to her, obviosuly you can give the treats less often and swap the reward for a chase of a stick or a ball, dogs are clever and they will learn, staffs i find are the easiest out of all the dogs i have, my moms boxer is the hardest dog i have had to train, she cant walk her but im training her and the dog trainer are training her so my mom nad daughter can walk her without her pulling,
 
no no dont appologise donpaul!
This is very relavant to my life and its my thread =D
its a very good read and i can take valuable lessons from it...this dog is a bit feral when it comes to food. so training to eat out of the hand without taking the hand will come first ;)

but you can talk about dogs all day long in her bro, i have much to learn...my family breed staffs, but i been out of contact since a child..can only remember a little =/
 
just a quick update. my babies are looking healthy.
its a bit like an oven in my grow space at the moment and my plants are too bushy, the leaves keep drooping in the soil while i water...so i have turned off the CFLs and am only running the dual spectrum t8. hopefully it will drop the heat a little bit and cause a tiny stretch to clear the soil.
 
sounds like you need that co2 generator
 
feel you bro:)
 
gave them 3 litres of water each today with a full cap of liquid seaweed, topped up the soil first until it hits the coyty leaves. its the most ive ever watered them. had between 1/5 and 1 litre run off. will not water them tomoro, but will give them 2 litres on tues and see what run off that gives.

the shock of the broken stem slowed the monster down and now i cannot tell the 2 sativas apart. dont really care tho as they are all bushy as hell for their size. im dying to take clones off them so i can run them to flower and the real countdown begins ;)

if i can take 2 clones of each at day 40 and then take 2 clones from the clones again at 40 days ad infinitum, that should be a sufficient growth rate for my little farm.

i have a plan for my garden. with those air pots (will be trying the ones the size of coffee mugs soon) its impossible to over water if you leave at least a day between.

but basicly with thos lights i have..i want to put them in a row formation. like row 1 1ft high, row 2 1.5ft high, row 3 2ft high e.t.c
then my clones can go under the correct size light regardless of age...once they reach the end of the line, they either go into the flower room or return to the begining as new mothers.

the flower room will basically be a transparent cube of perspex with a single air in vent and anothoer for exhaust..on the other side of the plastic cube will be my lights...walls, floor, roof. and they will have a seperate air enviroment to prevent thermal contamination =D

im sure down the line i may switch liights type, but for now im going to push flouros beyond what has been used before.

my growing will pay for my grow room and eventually i intend to buy a piece of land with access to flowing water 'for the purposes of an energy farm' and i will harvest solar, wind and aqua kinetic energy, siphon off what my room needs and sell the rest to the grid =D

Ideally just 1 stream of power IE just the solar, will become a legit business and i wont use any of that energy for ill gotten means.
beneath it all will be my underground factory. im hoping to have a LARGE cave ajoining my bunker and i shall place all my waste stems in there. our plant can soak a lot of co2 in its life and if i can put it back in the ground like this, ill be doing the world a service...even if they never know ;)

and for those that think this is nuts...maybe it is, but if ou dont reach for the stars, you will never truly know how high you can fly =)
 
co2 generator is easy to make, jandre has great guide, all you need is a 2ltr pop bottle, pack of yeast, some sugar and some warm water, mix them up and let it fizz away and fill the room with co2, my plants nearest the co2 bottle had more growth and darker leaves, works great, as long as you use the right mixture you cant go wrong, i recon it only cost me £3 for all the stuff to make the co2 gen, nice and cheap and bubbles away for 4 or 5 days before you need to add more sugar or empty and refil, so its cheap and the plants will benefit from the higher temps,
 
donpaul.p said:
co2 generator is easy to make, jandre has great guide, all you need is a 2ltr pop bottle, pack of yeast, some sugar and some warm water, mix them up and let it fizz away and fill the room with co2, my plants nearest the co2 bottle had more growth and darker leaves, works great, as long as you use the right mixture you cant go wrong, i recon it only cost me £3 for all the stuff to make the co2 gen, nice and cheap and bubbles away for 4 or 5 days before you need to add more sugar or empty and refil, so its cheap and the plants will benefit from the higher temps,
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yeah i understand, but mine is no little cupboard. my current grow room is about w9'xl36'xh6'..and the air that enters by natural thermals could lift a kite...need a bit more than a few pop bottles ;)

i have to set up some serious system or make a grow room in a grow room for my 3 mothers...way too much hassle atm.
ive experimented with the yeast thing, but will need like oildrum size co2 factories to be worth while atm.
 
ok mini update

will add pictures tommorow. i have been holding back because im trying to sneak in a suprise that isnt quite ready yet, but ive been leaving you guys in suspense too long ;)

not a lot happening plant wise. the lesser haze is now much better developed than my monster, the bottom stems that i would take for clones are like 4 times the length on the weak plant than my monster. the monster does not look the worse for wear tho, it has survived its massive trauma. it just stopped growing for a time to heal...hope it picks up soon tho as i really want to clone her.
 
26-07-12 (day 26)

Yay its update night =D


firstly my bud porn lol

I got 2 gramms for £20 from a new source, and its bone dry, virtually no trash in the bag.
No idea of the strain, these guys are pretty commercial underground..no time for chit chat about the plants breeding, lol.
a strange mixture of couchlock and 'get up and go'. if you think about doing something you cant be bothered, but if an idea sneaks up on you, you can be halfway though before you realise you got up and did so, lol.





Next up is my plants...they have just been under that one striplight for about 5 days now as it was 100f in there with em all on. not seeing any over stretch or detriment to growth. and its such a cool bulb, can put your hand on it forever.








Finally we come to that little suprise i was holding back...
After my failed attempt to take a clone from the monster, i took one from the other haze. here is my first surviving clone and in a baby air pot too =D i just snipped and injected and straight into soil..no fancy works.
spraying it with a very low concentration seaweed mix several times a day.




And last but not least, a tantalising picture of what may be the future...ill give no explination at this time, want to see if anyong knows already =D
 
You are rooting a part of the plant without cutting it ?

You scrape the stem, apply rooting hormone and then wrap in soil until it roots and then chop it off.

Am I right ? ha ha

I do the exact same thing for rooting huge branches for Bonsai :)

It should be very effective

Keep up the good work

:peace:
 
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