GreenThumb J's White Widow Clone Run RTF/DWC

Hey dusty... your sig just got even better cause i'm super baked as an apple pie and i read your sig again, and didn't even realize that it rhymes!!!

i gotta give ya extra +reps for that!! haha made me laugh!
 
Okay Everyone!!


I finally picked up my AquaShield today.. I freaked out when i opened the box and only found THREE one Litre bottles of this liquid gold.

Like i literally was like RAAARGHHGR!! WHAT THE FUCK!.. then i remembered that when i tried to order FOUR 1L bottles, they only had 3 in stock so i was only able to order 3..

I quickly regained my cool haha.. after a bong toke :bigtoke:

SO, here it is, in case no one knows what it looks like.. By the way, All the american growers that want healthier roots on their plants, Botanicare changed the name of Aquashield to Hydroguard
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I think they did this so they could release it in Canada again. it used to be called Hydroguard until Agriculture Canada caught on to whats in it and then banned its import into the country. When a product comes out, it has 12 months to sell its product in any country in the world before the tests are done on whats in it and if certain countries will allow its import and export. At least this is what the Hydro store owner told me the second he got off the phone with the Botanicare rep. Like the only time i go into the store and I actually get some answers and feeling like i'm a valued customer. I came in asking why they couldn't get the aquashield in and the owner overheard the conversation and instantly called the Botanicare rep and asked about it. thats when the other guy was like yea i told him it couldn't be brought into Canada. If anyone remembers earlier in this journal, i mentioned they told me that Botanicare was out of stock or something. Exact words they said. now the guy says he told me it isn't allowed in the country? eff that!!

I never see anyone else in their store when i'm there. Also they are situated in like a residential area with a main street with shops along it. So, i'm not sure how many people in the area actually grow and use them as a resource. The other decent grow shop is also about the same distance away by car, but a longer bus ride, which i take when the GF isn't around to provide a ride to the store. but i've spend a hell of a lot of money there since March, and i think those fucks are a bit lazy. they're nice as hell, and sort of helpful. Like when i talk about Compost teas, Heisenberg Tea and well as the DWC growing shit i do, they dont seem very knowledgeable. When it comes to teas, beneficials, and live environments in hydro set ups, they are a bit out to lunch.

Anyways.. I just rely on what i have learned here on :420: which to my astonishment is actually a ridiculous amount of knowledge and some really good experience on my first grow (mainly fucking things up and learning how to overcome such a blunderbuss)

I have found myself actually giving lots of advice to people (which i hope is in the right direction!! :wood: ) and having lots of people either return the advice or thank me for helping put them in the right direction, or helping them sort out their problem.

What goes around comes around right? I believe in paying it forward. Plenty of smart people have taught me a thing or two about growing and why the plant does what it does, and all i can do is pass that knowledge forward to someone who, like me, didn't know their dick from their asshole when it came to growing!! I feel like a totally different person.. I may not SMOKE cannabis for medical purposes, but i sure grow it for medical purposes.. the therapeutic benefits of a hobby are as effective for some as medical marijuana or pharmaceuticals.. I work a high stress, high energy and physically demanding job as a chef. I dont have time to go out like my other friends do. I dont have much of a social life due to my work schedule, so i need to find some sort of hobby to make me feel like i'm doing something with my life other than just work, come home, sleep, wake up and repeat.

Growing cannabis has given me a new passion in life. Its absolutely amazing to watch this plant grow. How resilient it can be to our negligence and carelessness. The different stages of life it goes through. How you can clone it and be an exact replica of its mother. Ive never grown ANY sort of plant, so this is a HUGE new endeavor for me. And i really feel like i have at least grasped the basics and are able to be able to produce some seriously potent buds!

I cant imagine how amazing it can be for people who's lived are saved by this plant. How many people are able to go and live a normal life after medicating. how many amazing medical qualities this plant has.

Not only for people who benefit from its healing benefits physically, but also mentally for people like myself who may not experience physical need for cannabis, but more for the emotional benefits it can have, but who experience high stress jobs and require an alternative to alcohol, prescription and street level drugs.

God damn Conservative government tightening their assholes about Medical marijuana and instituting minimum mandatory sentences for marijuana offenses. WTF is this? facist government imposing War on drugs type propaganda. i read somewhere awhile back the DEA was trying to say that pets would be adversely affected by the legalisation of marijuana. My Gf works in the animal health field, and i'm certain that pot toxicity in animals doesn't really exist, they just freak out and get sick when they get too high, similar to if you consume too many edibles and "green out". Shes told me stories of how they have tripped out stoned animals just for a laugh (cause they're high!!) before inducing vommiting and putting them under observation while they sober up.. It usually consists of a bowl of a food a nap..

Sound familiar to us sobering up from being baked as hell? i know i will eat pretty much everything i can then pass out haha!

anyways.. back to taking the Cooltubes apart to take the blue plastic lining off the reflectors so i can actually set them up and use them! Once they are back together, i will be setting up the ballasts and getting the wiring finalized so that when the fans are in stock, or arrive from my online order that i will make, i am ready to plug everything in and start growing right away!

GreenThumb Out!
 
Cool!!! GreenThumb J~~:bravo: look your MMJ grow very good~:thumb:



Greenthumb J said:
Okay everyone, heres a little update just shortly after the lights went out in the grow box and the LED went out in the tent.


As anyone can read from my post above, temperatures soared to like 36.7 degrees today in the grow box with the Metal Halides in. I need to move the box i think as its cramped up against a wall and i dont think theres enough cold air in the 2 rooms right now that have my grows. I'm going to move it back to where it was, which was in my originally planned area for the Monster tent. Glad i didn't set the tent up in the living room, as the tent is very big haha!

Once the AC arrives tho, the grow box is going back into one of the 2 rooms and the doors closed to keep the cold inside! I'm hoping that with the box being in close proximity to the AC, it will draw in the super cold air and combat the ridiculously high heat in the box. The fans in the tents will do the same thing. I might add passive intake fans so that cold air is forced in to ensure that the tents stay in the right temperature range.

So heres my picture update for a few days basically. Everyone has seen a seedling or a clone. If anything exciting happens, i'll take some pictures!!

We will start with the seedlings, since i have less shots of them:
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And now the clones, which are doing really well!
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LST'd this one
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It was sitting awkwardly in the rockwool so i'm pulling it back with the pipe cleaner.

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I should be fully operational in about 2 weeks max!


Just seems like its taking forever!!
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Im in! Looking great GreenThumb! :goodjob::thumb:
 
thanks Radogast!

There are many benefits to cannabis other than the consumption of it. I happen to find it very relaxing and fulfilling to grow this plant as i'm sure other people do.

i used to play hockey competetively, go out with friends all the time, see all the shows that came to town... genuinely have an awesome life. Then the economy was hit hard, our government imposed this new tax, which was our old Goods and service tax, combined with provincial sales taxes as per each province. Called a Harmonized sales tax or HST. People couldn't understand that they now had to pay more tax on things that they normally didn't before. The restaurant industry was hit really hard cause people didn't want to go out and have to pay extra tax on their meals now that were already probably ridiculously over priced.

I got laid off and it was really hard to find a job, even with my experience and skill set. Eventually lost my place i was living in and had to bounce around living situations for a good 2 years while trying to work and make a living to survive. I even lived in my car for a bit! Eventually i couldn't take the nomadic, not stable living situation so i moved back home with my mom. Helped her fix up her house while i stayed there. Sorted out my finances while i was up there.. Government owed me like 3 years of income tax returns as well as all my HST refund checks for that 3 year period.

During this almost 9 month period, i attended job search seminars, workshops to become a better employee. resume building seminars, interview skill seminars.. just about everything that could make someone a class A employee, and still couldn't find a job in like 8 months.

It was extremely depressing. I lost my GF at the time during this period too due to having to move away and not ever being able to see her. The only thing that kept me going through this really rough and dark time was having a good bag of weed to smoke.

Once i blazed, i didn't care about my problems anymore. Well i did, i just didn't have the time to think about them. I focused on feeling happy. I would play video games on my ps3. They really keep my mind sharp, compared to feeling stupid when i sit around and just watch TV. the Video games require your mind to process thought as to what you are doing. Combine that with being stoned and i didn't feel as depressed anymore. While i was playing stoned, i would sit and reflect on my situation and how i could get myself out of it.

I knew what i had to do, i just didn't have the motivation to do it. I was so depressed that i thought something was seriously wrong with me. How could i not find a job? i have an amazing skill set and always hold down a job no problem (minus losing my job in the crazy economy shift) Why does no one want to hire me? I've done all these workshops and seminars and nothing has worked!!

I knew that where i lived, there was hardly any job market at all, and that i needed to move back to vancouver from the retirement community that i was living in about 2ish hours from vancouver. But i was in a serious funk at this time. Every time i applied for a job back in the city, no one would return my emails, i figured it was because of where i was living at the time. The thing is, if i landed a job, i would move back right away. Start the job once i'm moved back and settled in. The problem was, no employer wanted to wait for a possible employee to be able to start. Again, it was a very frustrating time.

eventually i got my finances in order, received all my checks from the government, gave my mom a few hundred bucks for putting up with me and my shit while i was there and found a job at a local bar and moved back to the city.

Combined with cannabis, the moving back to the city drastically improved my mindset and quality of life. I dont think i would have been able to make it through the times that i did without using cannabis. I'm sure that with excessive alcohol and drug use, i wouldn't be where i am today, most likely a quick and tragic end. But now i can happily say i'm loving life and have a stable job, a loving and caring GF whom I live with in a gorgeous high rise apartment.

And we grow this amazing plant that is so very helpful for so many people in a variety of different ways!

Alright!! that was a long enough life story there!

Just wanted to give everyone a little info behind GreenThumb J and his dependence on cannabis to maintain a healthy life. We all use it for a variety of reason. Maybe one day, Lady GreenThumb will explain how it helps her live a good life, as i'm sure everyone eventually shares why they use this amazing plant to their benefit.


Stay medicated friends!!
 
We can ne'er forget where we came from and all the obstacles and such we had to overcome to get to where we are today. I haven't had a super easy life, but it sure hasn't been a bad one! I had a childhood people read about in story books!
 
Hey everyone!

Just a little update on my Widow lady.

I took some pics of her the other day and i forgot to post them.

So here they are!

Shes pushing 6 months of veg time. The last picture shows how tall she is from the top of the 5gal bucket.

Heres a birds eye view. i think this is a great shot. I considered entering her on the POTM contest, but i'll wait till she's fat with buds in about 2 months!
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And the picture to show the height!
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Fans will be either picked up tomorrow from the place locally i got my tents from, or they will be ordered tomorrow from Scamazon and here by the end of the week, or monday!
 
Thanks guys!!!




GOOD NEWS!!!

My AC showed up today! Tripped the breaker on the outlet it was originally plugged into, but I've moved it and it didn't trip the breaker, so I just gotta move some shit around and my apartment will be nice and cool
 
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