My First Time: AK47 & Gold Bar Kush

[MrGreene]

Since the ex had the kids tonight I decided to put together a carbon filter. I had all the materials sitting here and thought it would go quickly. I was wrong. Cutting the wire and folding the cut tips under so they don't make a run in the tights took quite a while. They got a run in them anyway and I had to make a patch from a pair of suntan pantyhose.


After fighting (for an hour) with stretching the tights over the wire, I realized two things.

1) Don't get tights from the most petite lady you know. Either find a very large gal to get them from, or just go to the store and buy the biggest size instead of the smallest.

2) These things are contoured to the shape of a leg. They are wayyyyyyy harder to stretch around an 8" diameter pipe near the toes than at the top of the leg. I wish Captain Obvious would have visited sooner.


I managed to get it together and filled, then went to the garage to find an old 6" duct booster fan I had laying around. It used to pull air from above the wood stove and I had it ducted to heat part of the basement. I guess it got too hot at some point and blew the thermal fuse that is hidden in the windings. I soldered a wire to bypass it and was ready to make a test run. It is pretty loud so I went back to the garage for a dimmer to wire up to the fan. That didn't work out very well. The fan only wants to run at full speed. It was almost midnight at this point and my phone rang. The ex had taken the kids to watch fireworks and locked her keys in the trunk. She didn't realize it until after the fireworks were over and they got back to the car. Did I mention that the place they went to was an hour away? Luckily for her I have one of her spare keys and even knew where it was.

So now I'm sitting here listening to this super loud fan, smoking, and thinking I need to research fans tomorrow.

Oh, I almost forgot to put up a pic. It isn't sexy but should do the job.

 

[Tony Urban]

Since the ex had the kids tonight I decided to put together a carbon filter. I had all the materials sitting here and thought it would go quickly. I was wrong. Cutting the wire and folding the cut tips under so they don't make a run in the tights took quite a while. They got a run in them anyway and I had to make a patch from a pair of suntan pantyhose.


After fighting (for an hour) with stretching the tights over the wire, I realized two things.

1) Don't get tights from the most petite lady you know. Either find a very large gal to get them from, or just go to the store and buy the biggest size instead of the smallest.

2) These things are contoured to the shape of a leg. They are wayyyyyyy harder to stretch around an 8" diameter pipe near the toes than at the top of the leg. I wish Captain Obvious would have visited sooner.


I managed to get it together and filled, then went to the garage to find an old 6" duct booster fan I had laying around. It used to pull air from above the wood stove and I had it ducted to heat part of the basement. I guess it got too hot at some point and blew the thermal fuse that is hidden in the windings. I soldered a wire to bypass it and was ready to make a test run. It is pretty loud so I went back to the garage for a dimmer to wire up to the fan. That didn't work out very well. The fan only wants to run at full speed. It was almost midnight at this point and my phone rang. The ex had taken the kids to watch fireworks and locked her keys in the trunk. She didn't realize it until after the fireworks were over and they got back to the car. Did I mention that the place they went to was an hour away? Luckily for her I have one of her spare keys and even knew where it was.

So now I'm sitting here listening to this super loud fan, smoking, and thinking I need to research fans tomorrow.

Oh, I almost forgot to put up a pic. It isn't sexy but should do the job.

Lmao sounds like something I would do. I would say time well wasted

 

[MrGreene]

I think I found a decent solution to the noise problem from the duct booster fan. I replaced it with a computer fan and taped it to the 6" connection on the filter. I had a 6" flange sitting here to tape to the outlet of the fan so I could connect some flexible duct to direct the air out of the closet. It is silent now. I'm not sure if it's enough airflow but it seems like it's doing ok. I'll know for sure tomorrow after work when I open up my room.

 

[MrGreene]

C99 has been getting tall. She's 31" above the soil right now. Another 8" and I'll be out of height.

C99 clone joined the GBK clone and Columbian Gold in the other tent. Something sure doesn't look right with Columbian Gold.

At least the carbon filter is working well. No hint of any odor when I got home today except for a faint carbon smell. I'm sure I should have rinsed the carbon first.

 

[Radogast]

C99 has been getting tall. She's 31" above the soil right now. Another 8" and I'll be out of height.

C99 clone joined the GBK clone and Columbian Gold in the other tent. Something sure doesn't look right with Columbian Gold.]

At least the carbon filter is working well. No hint of any odor when I got home today except for a faint carbon smell. I'm sure I should have rinsed the carbon first.

It looks like c99 is going to grow another 8-12 inches. If you supercrop 6-8" now, before the flowers set, your top branches will probably turn back upwards and grow normal colas. It also means you will be less likely to break off a bud if you lose a branch tip or two.

Unless you have a scrog net ready to go, supercropping sounds like a good choice.


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So sorry your Columbian turned out to be named Juan. I'm impatient with regular seeds these days. If I'm paying money, I'm paying for feminized seeds.

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You can wash your carbon filter when it starts to let aroma pass through. I did, and it improved the effectiveness.

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FYI: I hung your lights individually in the front of the flower area today. I can pull most of them up beside the rafters if I need a few exta inches

 

[MrGreene]

I was getting a screen ready when I realized that I may have enough height. As soon as I chop Columbian Gold, the 36" tent will be available to move C99 into if she gets too tall for the 32" tent. If she gets 8" taller the smaller tent is ok and 12" taller will fit in the other tent.

Juan the Columbian will get chopped sometime this weekend. I was really hoping that he was a girl.

That's good to know about washing the carbon. I kept seeing where people were saying that it would need to be baked in the oven after washing.

Your lights look good in there. I'm looking forward to updates over the next few weeks. Up in the rafters is a great benefit to hanging them individually.

 

[MrGreene]

Juan got chopped tonight and everything went in the freezer. I didn't take pics because I thought most of you aren't into dudes.

His pot got lifted off the swick to dry out some. That soil will be used to pot 7 C99 clones tomorrow evening.

I also started taking the glass lenses off the lights in the 32" tent with C99. I stopped when I decided I should wait a couple days and see if she will be moving tents. It's a pain to do when the lights are at eye level.

 

[SweetSue]

Sorry Juan was the one who came to visit.

Will you try another seed? You might try the banana peel trick wig the seed you want to plant. It could improve your chances. The only regular seeds I have were a gift. Like Rad, if I'm spending money on them they're feminized.

 

[MrGreene]

Sorry Juan was the one who came to visit.

Will you try another seed? You might try the banana peel trick wig the seed you want to plant. It could improve your chances. The only regular seeds I have were a gift. Like Rad, if I'm spending money on them they're feminized.

Thanks Sue. I really wasn't expecting Juan, I thought it was going to be Juanita. The hugs help.

I've been watching to see how the banana peel trick works for you. I'm very tempted to try it on the next seed. I'll probably wait a while before I drop one though. I need to see what these 7 clones of C99 want to do.

 

[MrGreene]

It has stretched as much as it can stretch and almost reached the zipper. Guys, don't go making a statement like that. I'm pretty sure the ladies won't be impressed.

Anyway, C99 seems to be done stretching and is right at eye level which also happens to be about where the zipper is. The lights are tucked up pretty high. I will try to see if I can get them just a little higher. She also got a dose of nutes two nights ago.

The biggest C99 clone is working on getting a bad reputation. She's in the tent with two guys. I have a pretty good idea what GBK and Columbian Gold clones want to do to her.

Most of the little clones are trying to get used to being in soil and should be happy soon. I lost one C99 clone. She didn't want to grow roots in the bubble cloner and didn't do well in soil either. There are still two GBK clones in there that want to breed with one of the girls and two Columbian Gold clones I haven't put in soil yet that will want to also.

 

[Radogast]

It has stretched as much as it can stretch and almost reached the zipper. Guys, don't go making a statement like that. I'm pretty sure the ladies won't be impressed.

Anyway, C99 seems to be done stretching and is right at eye level which also happens to be about where the zipper is. The lights are tucked up pretty high. I will try to see if I can get them just a little higher. She also got a dose of nutes two nights ago.

Rather than try to take the light up an inch and risk falling lights and/or branch damage - How do you feel about supercropping or LST on the tallest branches.

If you could find a way to pull down the tippy tops of the leaders to the canopy layer, that would be great.


The major difference of a leader branch growing vertical and growing horizontal is that the horizontal branch will grow a row of several buds pointed up instead of the one big cola you find on vertical branches. Odds are the lowered tops will grow back into a vertical position and form a cola anyway

 

[MrGreene]

I can for sure super crop and/or LST the tallest ones. I was hesitant to try that tonight because I didn't know if it was too late. That sounds like it would be pretty cool if I can get one to grow horizontally.

 

[Radogast]

I can for sure super crop and/or LST the tallest ones. I was hesitant to try that tonight because I didn't know if it was too late. That sounds like it would be pretty cool if I can get one to grow horizontally.

Here is a supercrop just about a week later into flower that I did in Nov 2015.

(11/22)

Over on the right side of the room, Snowcap Stacy's stretch hit about 20 inches, and the glass of the light.

In a flowering room first, I supercropped the top cola during early flower. I was not gentle.

The canopy is not even close to even, but it's better. Both as a single plant and as a grouping of 3 plants.

(11/27) Stacy would be even taller if I hadn't supercropped the heck out of her main cola stalk

(12/2) Snowcap Stacy. The supercropped main cola(right) is catching up!

 

[MrGreene]

Stacy sure is pretty. I studied her pics and tried to treat Cindy the same way. Lets see how she responds.

 

[Radogast]

I'll be watching to see how Cindy responds. Let's hope she takes this training as a challenge !

 

[MrGreene]

I'll be watching to see how Cindy responds. Let's hope she takes this training as a challenge !

Thanks Rad. She seems to be up to the challenge so far. I see a couple of the branches doing like you said. Another is pouting some still but I think her attitude will be 100% by tomorrow. I might have been a little rough with that one branch.

 

[Radogast]

Thanks Rad. She seems to be up to the challenge so far. I see a couple of the branches doing like you said. Another is pouting some still but I think her attitude will be 100% by tomorrow. I might have been a little rough with that one branch.

It seems like you were brave doing 5+ tops.

I guess I didn't say that it took something like 3 minutes for me to massage that supercrop on stacy - and she still made a sharp corner instead of the saggy bend I was hoping for.

 

[MrGreene]

It seems like you were brave doing 5+ tops.

I guess I didn't say that it took something like 3 minutes for me to massage that supercrop on stacy - and she still made a sharp corner instead of the saggy bend I was hoping for.

I'm not sure about brave. I think I was doing what was necessary and seemed right after I got started. I kept seeing one more that needed attention. Lol. I massaged an area on each one wider than my thumb until I could feel it flatten internally but she still wanted to get kinky.

Most are getting their strength back but a couple need some more time. I did start doing some defol down low tonight and have her looking a little better.

 

[Radogast]

Those supercrops look great. Hardly slowed her down !


How are you liking your lights?

 

[MrGreene]

Thanks Rad. All the other tops seem to have moved up a bit trying to get in the lead.

I'm pretty happy with my lights. I still want to remove the rest of the lenses and replace the two full spectrum cobs with 3000k. I don't see any improvement with the full spectrum and dislike the color. I'll leave the aluminum angle in the corner a while longer until I decide what to do about permanent frames.


How are your lights working out?