Hey @Mdlroad hope you are well my friend.
-40 fek.
Finally got my truck going but wife's car isn't cooperating.
I can't feel my hands ,came in to warm up jumper cables they are frozen too.
Stay warm
Bill
Melville's Doug's Varin Winter Grow
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-40 fek.
Finally got my truck going but wife's car isn't cooperating.
I can't feel my hands ,came in to warm up jumper cables they are frozen too.
Stay warm
Bill
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Went to Mexico for a buddy's wedding, the temp dropped to 23C. We're all wearing shorts having a great time, while the hotel staff were wearing toques and rubbing their arms, lol.
I start sweating when it hits 20C!
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Wow! Coldest I've ever seen around here (without windchill) was -30, and that was back in the 90s!
Keep warm!
Mdlroad
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I'll turn on the AC in sympathy high today about 22°c
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I've got the weed and glycerin in the instant pot now. It's done heating up, and is cooking.
Got a bunch of seeds out of it too. The bud is plenty potent, even seeded. I sometimes wonder if the hippies who still want seeded bud are right. I'm tempted to pull the seeds out and put a bud through the grinder. Vape some. But I'd need some unseeded from the same variety to have a real test.
Maybe that'll be a project for this year's outdoor season, and next winter. I have some Jack Herer seeds, I can grow one outdoors, where it will inevitably get some seeds, and an indoor plant along with a Doug's Varin over the winter.
I can fit two 3 gallon pots in there as long as I don't try to train the plants. Or at least not too extensively. Maybe just a round of LST. I'd have to turn the plants daily at lights on or off, but that doesn't bother me.
Of course there is the argument over potency between indoor and outdoor plants which could skew the results.
Something to think about anyway. Maybe another local grower can collaborate. Someone who can grow outdoors somewhere the plants won't be pollinated, and we can do this in one season.
Got a bunch of seeds out of it too. The bud is plenty potent, even seeded. I sometimes wonder if the hippies who still want seeded bud are right. I'm tempted to pull the seeds out and put a bud through the grinder. Vape some. But I'd need some unseeded from the same variety to have a real test.
Maybe that'll be a project for this year's outdoor season, and next winter. I have some Jack Herer seeds, I can grow one outdoors, where it will inevitably get some seeds, and an indoor plant along with a Doug's Varin over the winter.
I can fit two 3 gallon pots in there as long as I don't try to train the plants. Or at least not too extensively. Maybe just a round of LST. I'd have to turn the plants daily at lights on or off, but that doesn't bother me.
Of course there is the argument over potency between indoor and outdoor plants which could skew the results.
Something to think about anyway. Maybe another local grower can collaborate. Someone who can grow outdoors somewhere the plants won't be pollinated, and we can do this in one season.
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Vegetable glycerine is on it's second run through the instant pot, as per @bluter's instructions. Really wondering how this'll turn out.
I may not drop the light after all. She looks happy with where it is now. Might be time to get a little more length out of her branches anyway.
I may not drop the light after all. She looks happy with where it is now. Might be time to get a little more length out of her branches anyway.
You have Geopots? How did you get them? I was told they were only sold in the US.
The DV looks good, too.
The DV looks good, too.
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Thanks!You have Geopots? How did you get them? I was told they were only sold in the US.
The DV looks good, too.
I got them from a growshop on the east coast. I'll DM their name to you.
Happy plant Melville! How long do you plan to veg?
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Thanks!
I usually like to veg for at least 60 days, but I sometimes go until the side branches have reached the ends of the sticks. Sometimes I clip them then, and any branches that have started to come up in the middle to even them out, but that's more of an outdoor thing for me. Gets extremely bushy for indoors, at least in a tent this small. I'm almost certainly going to flip at the end of January this time. That'll give me 12 weeks to flower before I start my seeds for this summer.
Sounds like all the DV growers will be flipping about the same time!
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You and VG are waiting until then? That would really be something, all three plants going at the same time!
I think she's waiting for hers to fill in some after transplant and I'm waiting for her, and working on my rectangle. 
We'll probably be within a week of each other either way.
We'll probably be within a week of each other either way.
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Sounds good. It'll be fun to watch!I think she's waiting for hers to fill in some after transplant and I'm waiting for her, and working on my rectangle.
We'll probably be within a week of each other either way.
This is looking good Melville, a bit more veg and they will produce fat, fattie, fattest colas
Keep calm and carry on Dude... love it
Keep calm and carry on Dude... love it
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Thanks! I've got almost 3 more weeks to give them. I've learned my lesson about sprouting seeds with a flowering plant in the tent. Hard to give them a good start in there!This is looking good Melville, a bit more veg and they will produce fat, fattie, fattest colas
Keep calm and carry on Dude... love it
The Fibonacci sequence appears frequently in nature, and you have 8 colas which fits into that sequence perfectly
Ever noticed buds form in a kind of spiral shape?
That is the Fibonacci sequence and if you photograph from above, you will see they are divided by precisely 45 degrees
You can observe this naturally occurring division in everything from shells to cats...
*edit* if you're having trouble with seedlings:
don't over water, better to under if anything
give organic nutes which are not so harsh
low power but dense light, like a cfl
blue/daylight colour temperature - 5600k or so
Works for me
Does that make sense? The Kush is kicking in...
Ever noticed buds form in a kind of spiral shape?
That is the Fibonacci sequence and if you photograph from above, you will see they are divided by precisely 45 degrees
You can observe this naturally occurring division in everything from shells to cats...
*edit* if you're having trouble with seedlings:
don't over water, better to under if anything
give organic nutes which are not so harsh
low power but dense light, like a cfl
blue/daylight colour temperature - 5600k or so
Works for me
Does that make sense? The Kush is kicking in...
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Makes sense. I'm not really having trouble with seedlings, but last year I germed some seeds while I had a flowering plant in the tent, and I had to MacGyver a little platform to keep them above the canopy. I thought "Right, never doing this again" and never came up with anything more permanent. Being along the edge of the tent kept the light intensity low enough for seedlings, but it was still a bit much for them. Problem was the canopy was dense enough that they would've stretched if they'd been any lower. Live and learn. If I'm timing things right I'll be freeing up the tent just as they're breaking soil. If it takes a little longer, no problem, as I do have a t5 seedling light that I can dig out.
I like how tight I can get those first few nodes under this LED though, so I would prefer to use it.
Edit: Cute cat
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Looks like I didn't get the transplant soil quite damp enough. Going to have to water this evening at lights on. I'm also going to be increasing the number of times I turn the fan on during lights off. The humidity is climbing higher than I would prefer, even for veg.
Why are you getting such high humidity when I'm barely getting up to 40% rH?