Captainblast
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One day I'll get you guys to teach me how to insert ramblings in proper places 
Oh No - It's A Green Hole! - Reverse Thrusters! - Dammit - Too Late!
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Conradino23
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You're a role model for many of us here Conradino.
I've never been slapped on the hand yet for anything LED related. Maybe I'll pay a visit to the LED forums soon. LOL!!
Let's not exaggerate
LEDBud
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Your plants are looking good cracker , I grew White widow ten years ago and all its leaves would yellow just like in the photo ,eventually they would drop off.
Don't be feeding it only use water from here on out, its normal as its life is ending.
Time to keep a eye on the trichomes , also the leaves may drop off before its ready , as my past widow plants were like that.
How long have they been in Bud again ?
Don't be feeding it only use water from here on out, its normal as its life is ending.
Time to keep a eye on the trichomes , also the leaves may drop off before its ready , as my past widow plants were like that.
How long have they been in Bud again ?
WHITE WIDOW.
This WW I'm growing now, sole survivor of the great September WW Massacre, seems a little different plant than the last one I harvested. The buds stand on stalks 10-12" high ( same as the PC only the PC refuses to stand it lays sideways). She's turning yellow quite quickly. I gave her a bunch of calmag along with her dinner the last couple feedings, to see if she'd stop yellowing, but it didn't help. So I guess she's just one of those yellowing plants
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thanks for the info LedBud. I believe it is at seven weeks so will be getting a strict water diet for the rest of its life. The buds aren't very big or succulent looking but I'm not about to try and change anything about them a this point as the plant seems to be naturally winding down. I'm done with White Widow for a little while as I've got other strains I want to make room for. Last I remember talking to you, you were having issues with a peeping tom/narc neighbor. Hope it worked out
LEDBud
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Nothing became of it , I did feel the pressure though.
Blue skies and clear sailing is the new norm.
Blue skies and clear sailing is the new norm.
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One day I'll get you guys to teach me how to insert ramblings in proper places
Thanks for visiting Captain and for the information. I liked that blue tint on the pineapple chunk. It's a strange strain, with those long stringy gooey buds. I like it well enough. Not completely bored of it yet, that is. And haven't grown anything stronger yet.
According to Seedsman, Mama Thai can reach 25% THC, although mine for sure doesn't. This suits me fine as I like to be able to smoke a lot more than a puff or two and still enjoy myself. The Malawi strain sounds very strong. Not so sure it will suit the patients as they are fairly crazy and like to be sedated more than stimulated. If I find anything else interesting I'll let you know for sure.
Hopefully I'll find something worthwhile to update soon! I'm sure what right now but I'll try!!...
Growlow
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For a first journal you sure come out swinging for the fences. Those poor fences... how you smashed em 
Lovely garden mate!
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Thanks Growlow. I've thrown in a disclaimer or two here and there about what sort of grow it is. A skin of the teeth- barely have any time to do anything much or even go to the actual grow very much kind of grow. I didn't start a journal for a long time because I didn't think it made sense when I don't have time to do it properly. Eventually got talked into doing it and documenting a 'not doing it properly/no F'ing time to do it properly' journal. Thought I would be showing lots of disaster pics because I've dealt with a lot of disaster over the years.
Since I started the journal things have hummed along with relative smoothness in spite of, or because of (?) my absence, and people are under the illusion that it's all working. Geez, I'm almost starting to believe it myself but don't want to tempt fate by saying anything.
I'll try and spice things up with some nail biting disaster tragedy porn as soon as it comes my way. Failing that, I'll have a few harvest pics now and then or ramblings and random chitchat, Lol!
I've thrown in a disclaimer or two here and there about what sort of grow it is. A skin of the teeth- barely have any time to do anything much or even go to the actual grow very much kind of grow. I didn't start a journal for a long time because I didn't think it made sense when I don't have time to do it properly. Eventually got talked into doing it and documenting a 'not doing it properly/no F'ing time to do it properly' journal. Thought I would be showing lots of disaster pics because I've dealt with a lot of disaster over the years. Since I started the journal things have hummed along with relative smoothness in spite of, or because of (?) my absence, and people are under the illusion that it's all working. Geez, I'm almost starting to believe it myself but don't want to tempt fate by saying anything.
I'll try and spice things up with some nail biting disaster tragedy porn as soon as it comes my way. Failing that, I'll have a few harvest pics now and then or ramblings and random chitchat, Lol!
Growlow
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Thanks Growlow.
Since I started the journal things have hummed along with relative smoothness in spite of, or because of (?) my absence, and people are under the illusion that it's all working. Geez, I'm almost starting to believe it myself but don't want to tempt fate by saying anything.
I'll try and spice things up with some nail biting disaster tragedy porn as soon as it comes my way. Failing that, I'll have a few harvest pics now and then or ramblings and random chitchat, Lol!
I think rambling and random chitchat is somewhat agreeable around here
So you're in the right kinda company. I look forward to whats's to come!
ClosedCircuit
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Disaster tragedy porn is my favorite! But I don't know if we are talking about the same thing...
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Not much to report this time around. The usual mad dash through the grow, looking uneasily at all the things I wish I had more time to do, like sweep the floor... .
Does anyone else have moments where they are fumbling around in there screwing things up, super grateful that the journal isn't a 24 hour live grow-cam journal? Ha ha. Wouldn't that be hellish...
Last week, stoned out of my head, I decided to repot the Thai Stick into a bigger pot. Found a seven gallon pot and figured that would have to do so plunked it in. Then decided that 7 wasn't going to be big enough for it. I'm short on 10 gallon pots and all I could find was a 15 gallon pot. So I plunked it in. Then I decided 15 gallons was too big as I'm going to grow it in the same size screen no matter what, and a 15 gallon pot would retain too much water and mess up my weekly watering schedule. (Sure I could put it the 15 gallon pot but use only 10 gallons of soil, but I'd already filled it up with 15!). So I put it back into the 7 gallon pot. Dirt and chaos everywhere. Then, tonight, stoned out of my head, I had a 'good idea'. Which was to take the flowering White Widow out of it's 10 gallon, plunk it into the 15 gallon as it was with no extra soil, and use the 10 gallon for the TStick.
The WW transplant went well, but the Thai Stick wasn't happy. It practically exploded. Dirt and chaos everywhere and I was glad there was no one there to laugh at the whole thing. I think it will be fine. It's shooting out a lot of fine roots and I didn't break many- just ruffled them up a tad.
PINEAPPLE CHUNK
Here are a few pics of the one Pineapple Chunk I have in flower at the moment. This plant could probably be counted in the top 100 worst Scrogs! Like my last batch of PC's, it grew too long while I was elsewhere running in circles. Furthermore, it's sooooo Floppy!
Check out how floppy this critter is.
To look on the plus side- if there was no screen there then it would be even floppier I suppose.
This PC is the one I decided to torture with the full strength Botanicare feeding schedule routine, as listed on the bottle. Well- almost full strength- more like 85% strength.
I'm getting tired of underfeeding my plants, overfeeding my plants, and especially tired of not knowing which of the two I am currently doing. Either way I get deficiencies. Simply put, I'm a bit confused so am fishing around for some baseline feeding routines to compare to.
So far it's done well. The buds are quite a bit bigger than any PC buds I've had before. A few weeks ago it was showing slightly burnt tips so I chickened out and cut the feeding to half strength. The problem worsened so... There we were again, right back into the same old confusion! Was it getting worse because I had burned the crap out of it from overfeeding for the previous six weeks? Or was it getting worse from the 'cure'- half strength food?
I said screw it and went back to full strength. It seems to have held steady since then.
Maybe next round of PC I'll be a little further ahead. Maybe I'll be dosing it up with silicon and get away from this floppiness.
If I get time I'll make another level of screen about 8-10" above the existing screen and use that system to try and get the buds hanging vertically.
(Will I get time???)
The bud are heavy and they're just laying all over the place on top of each other. It can't be good. Not an efficient use of the light at all.
. Does anyone else have moments where they are fumbling around in there screwing things up, super grateful that the journal isn't a 24 hour live grow-cam journal? Ha ha. Wouldn't that be hellish...
Last week, stoned out of my head, I decided to repot the Thai Stick into a bigger pot. Found a seven gallon pot and figured that would have to do so plunked it in. Then decided that 7 wasn't going to be big enough for it. I'm short on 10 gallon pots and all I could find was a 15 gallon pot. So I plunked it in. Then I decided 15 gallons was too big as I'm going to grow it in the same size screen no matter what, and a 15 gallon pot would retain too much water and mess up my weekly watering schedule. (Sure I could put it the 15 gallon pot but use only 10 gallons of soil, but I'd already filled it up with 15!). So I put it back into the 7 gallon pot. Dirt and chaos everywhere. Then, tonight, stoned out of my head, I had a 'good idea'. Which was to take the flowering White Widow out of it's 10 gallon, plunk it into the 15 gallon as it was with no extra soil, and use the 10 gallon for the TStick.
The WW transplant went well, but the Thai Stick wasn't happy. It practically exploded. Dirt and chaos everywhere and I was glad there was no one there to laugh at the whole thing. I think it will be fine. It's shooting out a lot of fine roots and I didn't break many- just ruffled them up a tad.
PINEAPPLE CHUNK
Here are a few pics of the one Pineapple Chunk I have in flower at the moment. This plant could probably be counted in the top 100 worst Scrogs! Like my last batch of PC's, it grew too long while I was elsewhere running in circles. Furthermore, it's sooooo Floppy!
Check out how floppy this critter is.
To look on the plus side- if there was no screen there then it would be even floppier I suppose.
This PC is the one I decided to torture with the full strength Botanicare feeding schedule routine, as listed on the bottle. Well- almost full strength- more like 85% strength.
I'm getting tired of underfeeding my plants, overfeeding my plants, and especially tired of not knowing which of the two I am currently doing. Either way I get deficiencies. Simply put, I'm a bit confused so am fishing around for some baseline feeding routines to compare to.
So far it's done well. The buds are quite a bit bigger than any PC buds I've had before. A few weeks ago it was showing slightly burnt tips so I chickened out and cut the feeding to half strength. The problem worsened so... There we were again, right back into the same old confusion! Was it getting worse because I had burned the crap out of it from overfeeding for the previous six weeks? Or was it getting worse from the 'cure'- half strength food?
I said screw it and went back to full strength. It seems to have held steady since then.
Maybe next round of PC I'll be a little further ahead. Maybe I'll be dosing it up with silicon and get away from this floppiness.
If I get time I'll make another level of screen about 8-10" above the existing screen and use that system to try and get the buds hanging vertically.
(Will I get time???)
The bud are heavy and they're just laying all over the place on top of each other. It can't be good. Not an efficient use of the light at all.
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WHITE WIDOW.
It occurs to me now that this plant was a bit small when I put it into flowering but I wanted to get it out of the veg room or something so moved it to flower. This explains partly why it's kind of thin on the screen and small.
It's growing on me a little. One cool thing about it, it's starting to live up to its name in that it's quite white. Still, the fact that it's white isn't enough to make me want to keep it.
RIGHT SIDE-
with the new formed jungle of the three plants I put into flower ummm... A couple weeks ago. White Widow happens to be front of the pic.
LEFT SIDE
Thai Stick in front looking unimpressive and trashed from its hard night. The White Widow behind it. Overgrown PC in corner where I tried to prop it up a bit. I moved the Thai Stick into flower. It's a bit small still but from what PotChimp has been saying, the TS is slow to flower and so I'm expecting it to grow plenty more still. Also, it may be a male so no point coddling it for another few weeks before flowering it just to find out later that it's a boy.
Yeah I know I keep shuffling plants around constantly so the pics of the room situation may be a bit confusing but probably no one looks that close anyway ...
It occurs to me now that this plant was a bit small when I put it into flowering but I wanted to get it out of the veg room or something so moved it to flower. This explains partly why it's kind of thin on the screen and small.
It's growing on me a little. One cool thing about it, it's starting to live up to its name in that it's quite white. Still, the fact that it's white isn't enough to make me want to keep it.
RIGHT SIDE-
with the new formed jungle of the three plants I put into flower ummm... A couple weeks ago. White Widow happens to be front of the pic.
LEFT SIDE
Thai Stick in front looking unimpressive and trashed from its hard night. The White Widow behind it. Overgrown PC in corner where I tried to prop it up a bit. I moved the Thai Stick into flower. It's a bit small still but from what PotChimp has been saying, the TS is slow to flower and so I'm expecting it to grow plenty more still. Also, it may be a male so no point coddling it for another few weeks before flowering it just to find out later that it's a boy.
Yeah I know I keep shuffling plants around constantly so the pics of the room situation may be a bit confusing but probably no one looks that close anyway ...
LEDBud
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Damn Weaselcracker that floppy plant still has me laughing lol really.
Fucken hilarious plant , I like it !
I am thinking some silica might help your green critter out.
Maybe put it on a stand like those drooping houseplants haha.
If you use silica PH it after words , it was silica that I toasted some seedlings with by not PHing.
Silica is what some people call silicone
Fucken hilarious plant , I like it !
I am thinking some silica might help your green critter out.
Maybe put it on a stand like those drooping houseplants haha.
If you use silica PH it after words , it was silica that I toasted some seedlings with by not PHing.
Silica is what some people call silicone
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If I'm going to keep growing the Pineapple Chunk I obviously do have to figure out something. The silica should do it, I'm hoping it will...otherwise some new-fangled sort of double screen system.
As usual, the true problem is lack of time. I should be in there rearranging the limbs into the scrog properly as they stretch. It's not going to happen though. It's not that kind of grow right now, and not that kind of journal.
I had noticed the high PH of silica. I used it for the first time last week, on the veg plants. Actually it works out well since I normally have to add PH+ to my water and nutes anyway. It balances things out nearly perfectly.
As usual, the true problem is lack of time. I should be in there rearranging the limbs into the scrog properly as they stretch. It's not going to happen though. It's not that kind of grow right now, and not that kind of journal.
I had noticed the high PH of silica. I used it for the first time last week, on the veg plants. Actually it works out well since I normally have to add PH+ to my water and nutes anyway. It balances things out nearly perfectly.
This is my favorite thing I've read this week. Thank you so much for the accompanying scream of laughter.
Weaselcracker, the next time you grow the PC why not try that super cropping technique Duggan has perfected to strengthen his branches? Hopefully the silica will help as well. You may need to just build a ring of poles, string them together and tie off to keep them from flopping. Geez, that sounds like too much work for a guy as busy as you.
Newb McNewbie
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Wow thats awesome man. I don't think I will ever have anything like that but one can dream.
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Thanks McNewb. It's really just a room, a few lights and fans and whatnot, though it's true it's taken me a few years and a lot of time to get it to this point. Maybe I'm just overly humble but I urge you not to be too awestruck! The amazingness of the situation is probably completely amplified and distorted by the time it reaches you through the internet.
Stick around, get completely addicted to growing, sink a bunch of time and your children's lunch money into it, make your girlfriend so jealous that she leaves (this means you'll suddenly have even more time for your grow, Yay!) and before you know it you'll have a room with a bunch of plants and gear too
Stick around, get completely addicted to growing, sink a bunch of time and your children's lunch money into it, make your girlfriend so jealous that she leaves (this means you'll suddenly have even more time for your grow, Yay!) and before you know it you'll have a room with a bunch of plants and gear too
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I got my MB machine! First impressions are that it has quality and class. I like high quality and class. Why else would I hang out with you guys?
I'm already plotting ways to misuse the machine. Specifically, wondering if I could use honey instead of oil. Imagine the amazing treats we could make. Any thoughts?
I like high quality and class. Why else would I hang out with you guys?I'm already plotting ways to misuse the machine. Specifically, wondering if I could use honey instead of oil. Imagine the amazing treats we could make. Any thoughts?
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This is my favorite thing I've read this week. Thank you so much for the accompanying scream of laughter.
Weaselcracker, the next time you grow the PC why not try that super cropping technique Duggan has perfected to strengthen his branches? Hopefully the silica will help as well. You may need to just build a ring of poles, string them together and tie off to keep them from flopping. Geez, that sounds like too much work for a guy as busy as you.
Thanks for swinging by, Sue. Geez I was beginning to think you were mad at me or something, Lol!
I do supercrop plenty during veg. I don't like doing it as much during flowering, because I feel like I should just let them grow to full potential at that point, or something...
In any case, the real issue is that I'm just not around much so can't be there to coddle them and arrange them properly through the stretch period.
There are lots of solutions to the floppiness, which mainly affects the PC. The one involving the least effort would be the silica so I'm hoping that works. My last PC harvest, which you may or may not have noticed and is probably 5 or 6 pages of blather back in the past by now, turned out great in spite of the fact that the buds spent most of their life in a horizontal position. It might be mostly esthetics. But I'm a big fan of esthetics and would like them not to look so ridiculous. They may be growing and doing what they should, but I want them to sit up in class, dammit!