McLoadie's Third Grow Journal

[mcloadie]

how long does it take to get a pistil after switching? id imagine fast since you veg to maturity? (3-4 weeks of veg gets them mature under a good growers assistance.)

They have pistils when they go into flower usually, if not it takes 7-10 days, I have seen it happen in as little as 4 days!

 

[mcloadie]

I noticed a couple gnarly looking spiders in my grow. My strategy is leave them alone. I figure they are going to eat loads of gnats. Also I got to see a gladiator match between a centipede and a spider the other day, and it was epic.

I had a giant spider on an outdoor plant last year, I thought it was a tarantula, but it was some other model!

 

[BigIrishDoode]

lol at the panty raid comment lol from spiffy and i both! i much prefer the terminology "open center training" to "mainlining" i have been saying main branching, i just dont like the negative conotations connected to mainlining, i was gonna do one like that i cut it but ended up thinining my flock, it looks productive and the final product looks sweet!, i always count from the day i put them in flower light, its easier to keep track, i also use the program "herb iq" keeps track of everything,heres a link to get it HERB.IQ - Home you'll.love it, you can keep inventory of everything from seeds to how many hours on a bulb, keep track of breeding,create detailed strain info w/pics,vidz,, and encrypt it all and save a backup of data whereever you want,im sure if ppl knew about it many more would be using it, well mcloadie things look & sound good in ur hood! im embarking on my next evolution in growing,high brix, and also experimenting with high brix in coco!

 

[mcloadie]

lol at the panty raid comment lol from spiffy and i both! i much prefer the terminology "open center training" to "mainlining" i have been saying main branching, i just dont like the negative conotations connected to mainlining, i was gonna do one like that i cut it but ended up thinining my flock, it looks productive and the final product looks sweet!, i always count from the day i put them in flower light, its easier to keep track, i also use the program "herb iq" keeps track of everything,heres a link to get it HERB.IQ - Home you'll.love it, you can keep inventory of everything from seeds to how many hours on a bulb, keep track of breeding,create detailed strain info w/pics,vidz,, and encrypt it all and save a backup of data whereever you want,im sure if ppl knew about it many more would be using it, well mcloadie things look & sound good in ur hood! im embarking on my next evolution in growing,high brix, and also experimenting with high brix in coco!

Mr. Bid, I am very interested to hear your thoughts and comments on the high brix method and product, it sounds lovely! Ya, open center is the term we used in school, it allows fruit that needs sun on all sides to achieve color, size, and sugar content. It's as common a thing as my own mother, when I lived in ca. I was from an area that is primarily agriculture, sugar beets, rice, wheat, alfalfa, olives/oil,corn, sunflowers........it goes on and on. I feel like I cheated myself by not growin sooner, but I didn't have a very stable residence for quite a few years. I mean every farmer that a person could know is an expert if they ever worked...LOL. In my generation one dramatic change in farming was that farmers kids went to college now, and came back with a few interesting tricks with irrigation, new kinds of crops, and the machinery and techniques changed a lot............and they also changed very little, same things getting done, just more efficiently....with less manpower also. I don't know a single farmer per se that grew weed!...LOL

 

[mcloadie]

These plants are happy! This is one of the mexikush, that meristem is 4" from the induction light, it looks so happy I can't bear to move it further away!

The supercropped afghan kush...recovered

The yeti

Purple kush

They've been lookin a little pekid for the last coupla days, and they were due, so I hammered em with a 3/4 min dose of triple sixteen, a teaspoon of calmag, and a teaspoon of sns 604b. They bitched when I first applied it, for around two hours....then BAM!, this is what they look like now! Those figures are for a 3 gallon batch of feed/water.

 

[wildbill38]

They look great MC.

 

[cnd420]

damnit man those girls are happy looking good man looking good

 

[mcloadie]

They look great MC.

Tanks a lot lil willie!

 

[mcloadie]

damnit man those girls are happy looking good man looking good

Thank you cnd! Every now and then even a blind squirrell finds a nut! I wonder how hard it is for blind people to grow? Does anyone know anyone who grows that is blind? I knew a blind guy that could roll the joint..............at least he said he was blind!

 

[b.real]

i want my plants to look this good.

 

[mcloadie]

i want my plants to look this good.

Thanks meat...me too, you know this is all a combined effort of everyone I ever learned anything from...all you guys and gals are a part of the whole maryjane!

 

[BigIrishDoode]

sometimes i feel blind ,usually after closing the tnt i can see a thing in my room! same phenomenon when i come inside after being in the greenhouses,hmmm maybe im alergic to plants or theres something wrong with my room? lol im just starting with the high brix but its already blowing my mind have a look at the posts i put up a bit ago

 

[Richard Richardson]

Ladies are looking lovely, Mc.

Good tip about putting 24 hr lit clones outside to flower.

I haven't stopped thinking about that all day

+Reps

 

[mcloadie]

Ladies are looking lovely, Mc.

Good tip about putting 24 hr lit clones outside to flower.

I haven't stopped thinking about that all day

+Reps

Thanks rico, I gotta get pics and show ya the ones in the ground now that are doin it. Ya, not allotta stretch yet......solid buds!

 

[Dasher]

happy healthy looking plants you have there mcloadie

keen to see the outdoor too, solid buds sounds promising.

 

[Legit Spam]

Looks great, it's such a proud & happy plant.....

 

[OldMedMan]

Can tell I'm going to learn some new things about growing in here Buddy. Great!

Glad I didn't know you back in the day. After you're post in my journal, I could tell we were doing the same things and having too much fun. Did you see that taking pink lizard?

 

[fish cake]

good morning and a fine weed to you and young Miss Loadie! MC

 

[mcloadie]

Can tell I'm going to learn some new things about growing in here Buddy. Great!

Glad I didn't know you back in the day. After you're post in my journal, I could tell we were doing the same things and having too much fun. Did you see that taking pink lizard?

IDK what it was, we used to get every kind, you know the names, there are sooo many compounds that vary ever so slightly and are so close to each other....I remember the gold stars....hehe.....the whole trip was giving me ideas about cryonics? Wierd shit, or 7 people getting like frozen....I mean like immobolized in stride...at the same time, the car stops and the road starts going underneath it....LOL....doin like 16-20 at a time...........each....lol.......brain damage for sure!....LOL...the older kids said the newer stuff was weaker....so we took more!

 

[mcloadie]

Can tell I'm going to learn some new things about growing in here Buddy. Great!

Glad I didn't know you back in the day. After you're post in my journal, I could tell we were doing the same things and having too much fun. Did you see that taking pink lizard?

Well Omm, right now you can learn not to do what I did on this grow, I'm done with the mexikush for a while, too many phenos....some are crappy...bad....combined with the fact that the light was overtaxed, I had to raise it to get the footprint and the crop suffered. This latest run should be better, only three plants per light, and I'm gonna keep it at about 9 or 10" (the induction light) from the tops....I'm a little disappointed at the penetration I get with it. I am excited about using hps for the first time, I just wish I had a brand new hortilux bulb for my maiden voyage.