Let's Find a Mother! Hiking Through a Field of Mary Jane

[fish cake]

you suck I won!

OMFG!!!! I won.

I won I won I really really won. OMG I'm gonna call my mom and tell her the awesome news. Quick someone call NBC, CNN, and Howard Stern, I got some interviews to do!

 

[nobodyYOUknow]

...If we just look at the closest guess, it would be Fish Cake, with the very specific guess of 4.5379. If I look at the closest, without going over, it's Sl1ngblade, with 4.25....

Obviously, it needed a tiny bit more drying (or sampling )before the weigh-in.
therefore I win and deserve twice as much nothing as you gave them.

.

 

[mcloadie]

you suck I won!

Haha, both my horses did good, and I missed it by like a quarter oz........hahahalalala........atta boy fishy, you guys gotta remember tthat fishy has a fin up on ya.....hahaha...HA!

 

[Hiker]

LOL

You all won.

I thought McL woulda been all over some free papers. Guess nobody wants any. That's fine too. I know how awesome these limited edition nothings are!

 

[Hiker]

Quick update...

Sorry for the long delay. RL is kicking my ass right now. I was able to catch up on my subscriptions last week, but there has just been too much going on for me to finish up the special project I'm working on.

In the meantime, I'm posting a teaser pic.

The clones have been in the buckets for 3 weeks. As of last night, about half have been defoliated and tied down. Up until this week, I've mostly just bent the stems to manage growth. This will be their only round of tieing. They have been under 18/6. They moved to 15/3 last night, and I'm changing to 12/12 in a few days. I want to give them 2 days to recover after I finish the defoliation.

Everything is going well. The CGE is performing great. I'm seeing as much as an inch a day in growth. As they are defoliated, they also get moved around and their roots inspected. They look great. I did notice quite a bit of old root debris on the bottom of the buckets, so I'm going to give the system a thorough flush when I change the reservoir. I finally got smart and put a nozzle on my hose down there, so now I can actually just run the hose at the bucket to flush out the system. The brain bucket just pumps all that water back into the reservoir, where it gets drained out.

I'm pretty happy with how well the room is performing, but my res temps are warmer than I would like. The AC's exhaust is heating up the basement to ~73F, so the reservoir is hovering around 70-71F. I've started adding frozen bottles to keep the temps ~68-69F. The shorter light cycle will help this situation. We'll see what happens as summer heats things up further. I'm not going to get a chiller as this will not be an issue when I eventually upgrade my AC to a mini split.

Anyway... Things are going good. I should finish the defol tonight, and then they will go to 12/12 by this weekend. It's getting full in there already!

Can you tell which half I defoliated last night?

Sorry for the lack of updates. I've got something in store that I know everyone will like, but it may take another week to complete.

 

[jlt1202]

HAHA you cut like me ; P with a VENGEANCE!!!

lol i did that like 2-3 times THAT rough to my girls in the veg room, and im not even doing a sea o green and i got a ocean in ther haha glad to see your geting your shit rounded up and able to take time out of your busy scheduel to fill us in man ; P

KEEP ON HIKIN!

 

[BigIrishDoode]

looking fwd to see what ya got cookin

 

[wildbill38]

 

[NorCaliwood]

Glad to hear you filled your stash jars up. Looks like you're set for a second. I'll be looking back in to see what you got planed for all those sticks. It wood fill in a screen real nicely ++reps++ for ya and congratulations on the harvest,,,Keepem Green

 

[fish cake]

Hiker! good weed my friend

 

[BigIrishDoode]

ok ok who farted? i have been trying not to say anything but i keep smellin' some bust ass this morning first kver in my tent,and when i was looking at potm, now in your room, somebody needs to step outside or warn a homie at least! j/k sup hiker how goes it? fine meds my friend

 

[Vick074]

Nice strip tease!
Good to see you getting in some time to kick back with the girls after a nice hike.

Can't wait to hear about the surprise!

 

[mcloadie]

ok ok who farted? i have been trying not to say anything but i keep smellin' some bust ass this morning first kver in my tent,and when i was looking at potm, now in your room, somebody needs to step outside or warn a homie at least! j/k sup hiker how goes it? fine meds my friend

You sure some small fur bearin creature didn't bust up in your cloth shack and die under one a them pots bro?

 

[fish cake]

Have a Great weedend Hiker!
he who smelt it dealt it

 

[BigIrishDoode]

how did you know i found a dead water buffalo in the back of my tent? you been hackin my webcam?
geeze whats the surprise? you trying to give me an anuerisim?

 

[fish cake]

now a days there is no hiding the bull

how did you know i found a dead water buffalo in the back of my tent? you been hackin my webcam?
geeze whats the surprise? you trying to give me an anuerisim?

 

[mcloadie]

how did you know i found a dead water buffalo in the back of my tent? you been hackin my webcam?
geeze whats the surprise? you trying to give me an anuerisim?

That's the only thing that would fit the description you gave.........LOL.........sorta LOL!

 

[Hiker]

LOL

I'm glad you guys were entertaining yourself while I was away.

I deleted a paragraph bitching about how little sleep I've been getting, yadda yadda...

I'm always faced with the dilemma of using my limited 420mag time to update my own journal or try to catch up on a few of my subscriptions. I've always favored keeping up with subs, but I'm going to back off that preference. I've found I'm not updating my journal often enough. I've been mostly MIA since I started harvesting back in April, and that bothers me. I haven't settled on a schedule yet, but the plan is to choose one day a week for posting updates and one to catch up on subs. Any 'extra' days will be spent browsing forums for new threads or more catching up on subs.

The exciting news this week is, I'm officially flowering again! I've been tapering off the photoperiod from 18/6 to 12/12 for a week or so, and as of last night, they are on 12/12. Everything is going well. The canopy is pretty even considering there are 35 individual plants in the room.

There are a couple plants that still need a little bondage applied. I ran out of garden wire on, literally, the last plant. There are a few I didn't tie down. I was running a bending vs tethering experiment, and the bent branches are getting tied down. I think bending works if you keep bending and/or keep the plants smaller. I prefer tieing the plants down, but that takes more time. My experiment is over. For me, bending is not a permanent solution, but it did help buy me some time until I could take enough time to tie them down properly.

So other than tieing down those couple bent plants, I'm looking forward to a few weeks of relatively little maintenance in the flowering room. I'd like to say this will let me work on improvements elsewhere in the basement, but I'm lacking funds for any further investment in the basement. That issue now appears to be resolved.

Apparently there is a Cannabis Farmer's Market in Seattle! I was not aware of this until recently. I've been in contact with them and did some research into WA MMJ law. It looks like I'm going to be a provider at the market soon. I have mixed feelings though. I'm excited at the prospect of a legal venue to provide meds to patients, but after decades of living under prohibition, I'm quite nervous! While I think I'm legal under WA MMJ law, as we all know, even in the best of situations, the legality of growing is a grey area.

Assuming all goes as planned, my paperwork will be in order by next week, so hopefully I will be at the market by the end of the month.

Other then chemicals, I'm not spending anymore money on the basement until I can afford a mini split AC. I had planned to improve my veg area, but it's become obvious that portable ACs suck. I'm sorry if anyone disagrees, but we're all entitled to our opinions, and IMHO, portable ACs are not appropriate for a CGE. I can't imagine any of them being able to maintain a seal to preserve CO2 levels. The exhaust is also an issue in my situation. I can route a couple 1" freon (or whatever it's replaced with) lines much easier then an 8-10" exhaust opening! I'm hoping I will be able to do this upgrade after this next harvest in August.

That's it for this update. I regret mentioning anything about a surprise now. I'm worried it's building up a little more than is warranted. I'm just trying to post a video of my grow room. I've not worked with video much, so I'm having to work through a bit of a learning curve. I'm still evaluating software for video editing. So far, I can't find one that does everything I want. If anyone has a program they like, please share it here and I will check it out. I've shot several videos now, but as I've mentioned, I'm a little OCD, so it's taking awhile to get this first video out. The first video will include the ladies, but it's primarily a video to show off the whole basement. Future videos (assuming I learn how to do these to my satisfaction) will focus more on the plants and their flowering progress, ie like Jon's excellent videos.

Anyway, the vid is coming. I'm really trying to get it done this week, so I will be "ready" to post flowering progress vids later. You'll all just have to settle for my little canopy pic above in the meantime.

 

[cannasensei]

 

[fish cake]

howdy hiker the grow looks great! Oh and good weed to you
I feel you on someone having knowledge and paper work on your venture. that would bother me very much.
hope it works so you can at least recoup your time and efforts