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Hyena's Never-Ending Adventures In Growing
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mouser
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Im with the general consensus here. Very sad to see you go. I will miss your wonderful pictures and stories. Please pop in from time to time.
Best of luck in your travels,
Best of luck in your travels,
Just to clarify, 420 Magazine has no issues with anyone's political views or military status 
Tony Urban
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Wow bummer man, this is one of the best journals both for content and writing, best wishes for the future HM
I know.... peace secret grow lab. Gonna miss this journal
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Thanks to you all...
Richard Richardson had the courtesy to clarify my perceptions of bias are inaccurate. Okay I respect that, I'm fair.
Still I feel I've done all I can do here with regard to my orginal goal of writing and illustrating a comprehensive guide to indoor hydro growing. My original journal will continue to lay out everything someone needs to duplicate my results.
What I have realized is, I am honestly spending WAY too much time reading and writing and just browsing on this site. I was on Facebook for about a year and experienced the same thing...get high and browse and there goes four hours. Got off Facebook and found this place and now frankly it's six hours. I love to idly read (and write) and having a journal here is like a giant plate of cookies calling to me 24/7. It's seriously cutting into my productivity fairly often.
Know thyself. All things considered I'm taking a break.
I will check in. Thanks for being there my friends.
Peace, Hyena
Richard Richardson had the courtesy to clarify my perceptions of bias are inaccurate. Okay I respect that, I'm fair.
Still I feel I've done all I can do here with regard to my orginal goal of writing and illustrating a comprehensive guide to indoor hydro growing. My original journal will continue to lay out everything someone needs to duplicate my results.
What I have realized is, I am honestly spending WAY too much time reading and writing and just browsing on this site. I was on Facebook for about a year and experienced the same thing...get high and browse and there goes four hours. Got off Facebook and found this place and now frankly it's six hours. I love to idly read (and write) and having a journal here is like a giant plate of cookies calling to me 24/7. It's seriously cutting into my productivity fairly often.
Know thyself. All things considered I'm taking a break.
I will check in. Thanks for being there my friends.
Peace, Hyena
MagicJim
Creme de la Creme Photos: Sept 2016
Understood completely. Do me a favor though.
Keep in touch.
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- #929
Hi all...
Here again is a PROJECT 27 UPDATE!
I had to take a couple weeks and get over being pissed off.
I was honestly so pissed off about the February photo contest.
How we feel about everything in life...is the result of everything in life vs. our expectations. When I hear photo contest I get all excited. My expectations were way too high...get it? My mistake and I admit that. Anyone who cares to see my entry and compare it to what won will completely understand why I will never enter another of my photographs in a contest on this site. The end.
So no more photo contests...just friendly chat with friends about growing.
So here's the grow, as of today...
I must apologize, they totally ruined the photo features of this site when they did the redesign. The gallery no longer re-orients the uploaded photos and they now appear sideways.
MAYBE they will put down the bong long enough to notice but who knows.
ALSO, the photos appear as titles only when composing a post...that makes it very difficult to write an effective parsgraph since I don't know which photos are which as I write...ridiculous. And frankly too time consuming to keep posting if they don't get it fixed...
I'm all pissed off again.
Peace, Hyena
Here again is a PROJECT 27 UPDATE!
I had to take a couple weeks and get over being pissed off.
I was honestly so pissed off about the February photo contest.
How we feel about everything in life...is the result of everything in life vs. our expectations. When I hear photo contest I get all excited. My expectations were way too high...get it? My mistake and I admit that. Anyone who cares to see my entry and compare it to what won will completely understand why I will never enter another of my photographs in a contest on this site. The end.
So no more photo contests...just friendly chat with friends about growing.
So here's the grow, as of today...
I must apologize, they totally ruined the photo features of this site when they did the redesign. The gallery no longer re-orients the uploaded photos and they now appear sideways.
MAYBE they will put down the bong long enough to notice but who knows.
ALSO, the photos appear as titles only when composing a post...that makes it very difficult to write an effective parsgraph since I don't know which photos are which as I write...ridiculous. And frankly too time consuming to keep posting if they don't get it fixed...
I'm all pissed off again.
Peace, Hyena
425jesse
Well-Known Member
Hyena, I love how frank you are. The weird thing about the photos to me is for the first couple days, to maybe a week, the photos were orienting just like I took them on my phone. Now, like you said they get spun out of direction. We have to now turn our phones or whatever we are using just far enough to see the photo, but not so far that the window re-orients the whole screen. I feel your pain, but even more than that, I feel your GARDEN!! Looks great, hope my scrog will fill as even as yours, which is always a masterpiece. Glad to see you here, I second your frustrations about ease of use, as many do. Cheers Brother.
MagicJim
Creme de la Creme Photos: Sept 2016
You can re-orient the photos but must be done within 420 minutes of upload. I'm not sure why the time limit on the photo part.Hi all...
Here again is a PROJECT 27 UPDATE!
I had to take a couple weeks and get over being pissed off.
I was honestly so pissed off about the February photo contest.
How we feel about everything in life...is the result of everything in life vs. our expectations. When I hear photo contest I get all excited. My expectations were way too high...get it? My mistake and I admit that. Anyone who cares to see my entry and compare it to what won will completely understand why I will never enter another of my photographs in a contest on this site. The end.
So no more photo contests...just friendly chat with friends about growing.
So here's the grow, as of today...
I must apologize, they totally ruined the photo features of this site when they did the redesign. The gallery no longer re-orients the uploaded photos and they now appear sideways.
MAYBE they will put down the bong long enough to notice but who knows.
ALSO, the photos appear as titles only when composing a post...that makes it very difficult to write an effective parsgraph since I don't know which photos are which as I write...ridiculous. And frankly too time consuming to keep posting if they don't get it fixed...
I'm all pissed off again.
Peace, Hyena
Agree totally on trying to comment on a photo when multiple photos have been selected. There should be some way to make this easier on the poster.
The image uploading and posting is the top priority on the to do list now
It should be fixed soon
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- #933
Well, I would have thought me and Rich Richardson wouldn't be on speaking terms seeing as how I've let him have it a bit lately. Seems like he (or one of his staff) came in and re-oriented my post pix which is an ultra-friendly and somewhat disarming gesture after being a bit prickly to them in general.
I give you credit for a professionally thick skin, Richard. Props.
You've earned my renewed participation on your site. Don't really know how much I add but I'll continue to add it.
Peace, Hyena
I give you credit for a professionally thick skin, Richard. Props.
You've earned my renewed participation on your site. Don't really know how much I add but I'll continue to add it.
Peace, Hyena
425jesse
Well-Known Member
Keep adding fucker
. It’s to quiet with no Hyenas cackling in the grow room
. It’s to quiet with no Hyenas cackling in the grow roomHigh HM,
I'm glad your staying. Your grows are always over the top,and always so interesting! I would miss you if you were gone. I always try to stay positive (think SweetSue), so that negativity doesn't rule decisions I make. Very pleasant when the cosmos plays along, which is most of the time!
So, how about an update, lol.
I'm glad your staying. Your grows are always over the top,and always so interesting! I would miss you if you were gone. I always try to stay positive (think SweetSue), so that negativity doesn't rule decisions I make. Very pleasant when the cosmos plays along, which is most of the time!
So, how about an update, lol.
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- #937
Thanks you all. I'm mostly over myself now.
We all sometimes think we are more important than we actually are and I'm human too. Half human. Half Hyena.
Which is why I have to laugh.
Peace, Hyena
We all sometimes think we are more important than we actually are and I'm human too. Half human. Half Hyena.
Which is why I have to laugh.
Peace, Hyena
Itching for an update.... I bet it's some jungle in there now.
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- #939
Well...here it is...
The next PROJECT 27 UPDATE!
All is well in the secret grow lab...since you haven't seen a full shot in a couple weeks...
Today marks 10 weeks exactly since this photograph was taken:
Now here it is this morning:
Admit it...you hate me, don't you? I understand.
I have a green thumb. Just a way with plants in general, I think. But I also stick to a set of rules which I have outlined frequently that maximize the environment for my babies which IMHO is what that green thumb saying really means. Among them are light nutrition dosing (much lower amounts than label recommendations, like one tenth or something like that) and NEVER introducing a single pest or other goblin into the pristine chamber of dreams. That's why my frankly basic skills are all that are needed to produce sometimes surprising results for just a 5x7-foot grow area.
The various horses have separated into different animals in some ways at this point in the race. The left side, with the supplemental lighting turned on:
This left side was the most lush last time around and a lot of that I attributed to the additional side lights, but so far this grow the variety makes more difference than the lighting it seems. The two White Widows in the very back (you can't actually see them, but they are back there) are much less stretchy (almost no stretch basically) than the Big Nugs Fast plants in the middle and front of this picture, despite a lot more light than other areas. That's why there probably won't be any pictures of them for the rest of this grow unless I get a drone.
I think the extra light will still contribute a lot to extra bulk over there, it doesn't make a shorter plant any taller, now I know that.
The middle, with Sour Jack in the very back, and Hyena Berry in the center bucket, as of today:
The Sour Jack is busting ass back there like crazy. That thing looks like a forest by itself. The Hyena Berry, an unknown quantity pretty much in every way, at this point really seems like a decent grower and the structure and everything looks good. Not the stretchiest plant but i didn't expect that since it's made up of Indicas (Cheese Berry x Plush Berry) so hoping for a bunch of chunky colas that will put me down faster than a Joe Frazier right hook.
The two little autos in the front are still going, though no farther along in flowering than the regular plants since I truly flipped earlier this time, because I'm tired of dealing with too-tall canopies in general at this point. Simply keeping them alive was the challenge, if they give me three joints I will be surprised...
The right side is making me very happy...
The Big Nugs Fast in front, popping nicely. The Hyena Berrys in the middle are looking lush and bloomy.
But finally, in the back, the plant that has emerged as the best overall by FAR at this point (even though it started a WEEK after the others!): BLUE HYENA!
That plant is AMAZING. Ultra-strong structure, mega leaves, tighter than I expected nodes and insta bloom once I flipped the lights!
It's so funny how this beauty came to even exist! The seed for this original (gen 1) Blue Hyena fell out of a bud from the June 2016 harvest of PROJECT 21, one of the last delicious buds in the Hyena bud cellar from the single luscious plant which was the mother of all subsequent Blue Hyenas. It was a week after planting and I had one that had failed to sprout as you might recall. I was thinking about what to plant there since that bucket was open and I didn't want a blank in such a prime spot, and had to do it that day or it would be too late. Literally in the middle of that thought, I pull out this prize cola of Blue. I flex it to pull off some and roll a fatty for the purpose of thinking through this issue, when this huge seed just literally jumps right out of the chunky cola onto the granite countertop and bounces all the way across the kitchen, hits the fridge and bounces back to my feet. It was maybe the biggest seed I have ever seen.
Karma.
So now this seed has produced the best plant in the garden, and it almost never even had the chance...if it had bounced under the fridge which it barely avoided, I never would have thought about it again. God's plan...or just an amazing, random , happy accident like Vulcanization, Penicillin, and Daniel Craig playing James Bond? You tell me...
But I'm super stoked to see what kind of chunkers it will yield by the end!
Blooming taking place everywhere and it's so nice...
I have done some experimenting and can now say I am more than a bit intrigued with the technique of SUPERCROPPING FAN LEAVES. You heard that right...I'm thinking there might be something of value here. I've done it for awhile now here and there but not with any real continuity. But this time around I have been supercropping, instead of removing, key fan leaves. I've observed their lifespan and health after being altered in this manner and here is what I've found: I think big fans can be made to hang vertically without loss of function, thus allowing the light to reach blocked bud sites but still allowing these bigger fan leaves to contribute food to the plant.
Here's what it looks like (a fresh one):
Opens up the key space a bit more to light but we don't lose the leaf.
NOW, here are some which were done TWO WEEKS AGO...
Notice they have responded much like stems do, a separation of the tissue but no apparent loss of vascular function. Slight thickening of fibrous support tissue. Tips and both upper and lower surfaces still healthy and apparently functional.
If you are interested in adding illumination to the interior without the loss of important food producing leaves, and you are really, really stoned so you will find this interesting enough to actually do, I recommend trying this technique.
Now:
HYENA'S TIP OF THE DAY: I remind you nute aficionados, I have only applied nutrients four times in ten weeks, at roughly a tenth of the recommended dosages. Because the plants actually use very little, the vast majority of the stuff stays in solution in the reservoir, remaining available, despite the addition of several hundred gallons of water by now. My leaf tips on down tell the tale of very happy plants, my costs stay lower, and I really don't even have to flush my plants at all and they never have any chem taste, that's another big reason why I do it.
That's all I use.
QUESTION: Would I get even lusher, stickier, more massive budz if I used a bunch more junk?
ANSWER: Who cares?
Also I haven't mentioned another of my tricks to how I keep my babies growing so fast, especially in winter. I heat the reservoir to keep it close to as warm as the room itself, using an aquarium heater (basically an underwater curling iron) which turns on for 30 minutes every 3 hours. The amount of heat can be adjusted if needed by simply having the timer run a little more or less time "on".
I have a little thermometer that hangs in there so that I can monitor the temps.
Over 80 degrees would probably be bad but I have found a lot better growth rate keeping it about 65-70 degrees through the winter months than at the 50 or so it would be without supplemental heat. One thing, though: these heates get quite hot and would easily melt a nice hole in your reservoir if one touches it. I securely hang mine in the solution using a wire coathanger to keep it strictly away from touching anything.
Finally, look at the size of the leaves on these Big Nugs Fast plants...just wow!
I hope someday to make a movie about all this. Oh wait..they already did...
Damn. Get her phone number.
Until next time.
Peace, Hyena
The next PROJECT 27 UPDATE!
All is well in the secret grow lab...since you haven't seen a full shot in a couple weeks...
Today marks 10 weeks exactly since this photograph was taken:
Now here it is this morning:
Admit it...you hate me, don't you? I understand.
I have a green thumb. Just a way with plants in general, I think. But I also stick to a set of rules which I have outlined frequently that maximize the environment for my babies which IMHO is what that green thumb saying really means. Among them are light nutrition dosing (much lower amounts than label recommendations, like one tenth or something like that) and NEVER introducing a single pest or other goblin into the pristine chamber of dreams. That's why my frankly basic skills are all that are needed to produce sometimes surprising results for just a 5x7-foot grow area.
The various horses have separated into different animals in some ways at this point in the race. The left side, with the supplemental lighting turned on:
This left side was the most lush last time around and a lot of that I attributed to the additional side lights, but so far this grow the variety makes more difference than the lighting it seems. The two White Widows in the very back (you can't actually see them, but they are back there) are much less stretchy (almost no stretch basically) than the Big Nugs Fast plants in the middle and front of this picture, despite a lot more light than other areas. That's why there probably won't be any pictures of them for the rest of this grow unless I get a drone.
I think the extra light will still contribute a lot to extra bulk over there, it doesn't make a shorter plant any taller, now I know that.
The middle, with Sour Jack in the very back, and Hyena Berry in the center bucket, as of today:
The Sour Jack is busting ass back there like crazy. That thing looks like a forest by itself. The Hyena Berry, an unknown quantity pretty much in every way, at this point really seems like a decent grower and the structure and everything looks good. Not the stretchiest plant but i didn't expect that since it's made up of Indicas (Cheese Berry x Plush Berry) so hoping for a bunch of chunky colas that will put me down faster than a Joe Frazier right hook.
The two little autos in the front are still going, though no farther along in flowering than the regular plants since I truly flipped earlier this time, because I'm tired of dealing with too-tall canopies in general at this point. Simply keeping them alive was the challenge, if they give me three joints I will be surprised...
The right side is making me very happy...
The Big Nugs Fast in front, popping nicely. The Hyena Berrys in the middle are looking lush and bloomy.
But finally, in the back, the plant that has emerged as the best overall by FAR at this point (even though it started a WEEK after the others!): BLUE HYENA!
That plant is AMAZING. Ultra-strong structure, mega leaves, tighter than I expected nodes and insta bloom once I flipped the lights!
It's so funny how this beauty came to even exist! The seed for this original (gen 1) Blue Hyena fell out of a bud from the June 2016 harvest of PROJECT 21, one of the last delicious buds in the Hyena bud cellar from the single luscious plant which was the mother of all subsequent Blue Hyenas. It was a week after planting and I had one that had failed to sprout as you might recall. I was thinking about what to plant there since that bucket was open and I didn't want a blank in such a prime spot, and had to do it that day or it would be too late. Literally in the middle of that thought, I pull out this prize cola of Blue. I flex it to pull off some and roll a fatty for the purpose of thinking through this issue, when this huge seed just literally jumps right out of the chunky cola onto the granite countertop and bounces all the way across the kitchen, hits the fridge and bounces back to my feet. It was maybe the biggest seed I have ever seen.
Karma.
So now this seed has produced the best plant in the garden, and it almost never even had the chance...if it had bounced under the fridge which it barely avoided, I never would have thought about it again. God's plan...or just an amazing, random , happy accident like Vulcanization, Penicillin, and Daniel Craig playing James Bond? You tell me...
But I'm super stoked to see what kind of chunkers it will yield by the end!
Blooming taking place everywhere and it's so nice...
I have done some experimenting and can now say I am more than a bit intrigued with the technique of SUPERCROPPING FAN LEAVES. You heard that right...I'm thinking there might be something of value here. I've done it for awhile now here and there but not with any real continuity. But this time around I have been supercropping, instead of removing, key fan leaves. I've observed their lifespan and health after being altered in this manner and here is what I've found: I think big fans can be made to hang vertically without loss of function, thus allowing the light to reach blocked bud sites but still allowing these bigger fan leaves to contribute food to the plant.
Here's what it looks like (a fresh one):
Opens up the key space a bit more to light but we don't lose the leaf.
NOW, here are some which were done TWO WEEKS AGO...
Notice they have responded much like stems do, a separation of the tissue but no apparent loss of vascular function. Slight thickening of fibrous support tissue. Tips and both upper and lower surfaces still healthy and apparently functional.
If you are interested in adding illumination to the interior without the loss of important food producing leaves, and you are really, really stoned so you will find this interesting enough to actually do, I recommend trying this technique.
Now:
HYENA'S TIP OF THE DAY: I remind you nute aficionados, I have only applied nutrients four times in ten weeks, at roughly a tenth of the recommended dosages. Because the plants actually use very little, the vast majority of the stuff stays in solution in the reservoir, remaining available, despite the addition of several hundred gallons of water by now. My leaf tips on down tell the tale of very happy plants, my costs stay lower, and I really don't even have to flush my plants at all and they never have any chem taste, that's another big reason why I do it.
That's all I use.
QUESTION: Would I get even lusher, stickier, more massive budz if I used a bunch more junk?
ANSWER: Who cares?
Also I haven't mentioned another of my tricks to how I keep my babies growing so fast, especially in winter. I heat the reservoir to keep it close to as warm as the room itself, using an aquarium heater (basically an underwater curling iron) which turns on for 30 minutes every 3 hours. The amount of heat can be adjusted if needed by simply having the timer run a little more or less time "on".
I have a little thermometer that hangs in there so that I can monitor the temps.
Over 80 degrees would probably be bad but I have found a lot better growth rate keeping it about 65-70 degrees through the winter months than at the 50 or so it would be without supplemental heat. One thing, though: these heates get quite hot and would easily melt a nice hole in your reservoir if one touches it. I securely hang mine in the solution using a wire coathanger to keep it strictly away from touching anything.
Finally, look at the size of the leaves on these Big Nugs Fast plants...just wow!
I hope someday to make a movie about all this. Oh wait..they already did...
Damn. Get her phone number.
Until next time.
Peace, Hyena
High HM,
Nice forest as usual! Still very impressive using only 1/10 of recommended nutes. 10 weeks. Wow! I can only appreciate that talent.
Bending leaf petioles reminds me of supercropping. Different, but similar.
Last year I grew a White Widow. Turned to be the shortest and least productive/plant, but was some strong indica smoke.
Great idea about the resevoir heater. Later, man.
Nice forest as usual! Still very impressive using only 1/10 of recommended nutes. 10 weeks. Wow! I can only appreciate that talent.
Bending leaf petioles reminds me of supercropping. Different, but similar.
Last year I grew a White Widow. Turned to be the shortest and least productive/plant, but was some strong indica smoke.
Great idea about the resevoir heater. Later, man.