Oh No - It's A Green Hole! - Reverse Thrusters! - Dammit - Too Late!

[lexort420]

Ya know its funny i been reading about the ph drift that hydro growers talk about and testing it out myself lol. I figured it makes sense that we should abide by hydro rules since technically we are doing passive hydro. Im still trying to figure out the sweet spot and how much my nutes drift at the moment but I'll figure it out one of these days. Sorry that you have had the misfortune of the droopy leaves problem like i have/do lol. All in all though weasel your garden still looks splendid lol take it easy

 

[Weaselcracker]

~MAMA THAI~

This one is 70 days in flowering now. A few more weeks to go.

 

[Weaselcracker]

Mr Am4zin the Pineapple Chunk is at 70 days, as are the other two plants here.

So it will be 4 or 5 more weeks, if I let it go as long as I did the other ones, which I probably will. The Blueberry and Mama Thai shown may take a week less than the PC (?)

 

[Weaselcracker]

The other side...
Two Malawis in front.

 

[Tead]

I always chuckle a bit when one of my colas falls over. I try to keep the plants strong enough to support them, but love to see them get so heavy they tip over.
Doing a bit of chuckling this morning over your huge tipped over cola. Awesome!

 

[Weaselcracker]

I can jump in there like Uncle Scrooge in his vault! Geez. Great work weaz, all I can say honestly. Good luck with the mold bud.

That would be a funny sight. I think you'd quickly regret it though! I don't even like touching that P Chunk stuff. It's like sticking my hand in half melted candy, and the smell lingers for ages and gets a bit sickening.
I saw what happened when a bee flew in and landed on a Mama Thai bud once. You'd be stuck like that bee and swearing a blue streak Mr Scrooge.

 

[Weaselcracker]

A dark and stormy night, rain beating down on my roof and I'm mixing up a few CDs of music to send to Sue when I next get it together to hit the post office.
A shot of the veg room.

That's the smallest Malawi in the closest pot at the right. Sunglasses are still in the pot. After the photo I put it into the flowering room, since I've now harvested the dangling Pineapple Chunk and had a space. The other two Malawis are shooting out limbs everywhere but showing no sign of sex so far. They look like they want to grow to be huge plants. Though hopefully they won't get the chance to, as I'm tying them down mercilessly and supercropping any limbs that get too bold.
The veg plants are pretty much straightened out and doing well now. The Mama Thai recovers a bit more each week and looks like she will be fine, which is a relief

I'm going on the theory that ph levels got too high at some point a few weeks back. So far my tests of the nute mixes show that the ph rises by about .6 to .8 a week. I don't know what effect the sunshine mix has on that rise- but all my runoff tests seem to show that it stabilizes in the pots at about 6.8. So I'm just going to ph at about 5.6 from now on and see how that works out.

I had a good stoner moment the other night when I was repotting a bunch of plants into 7 and 10 gallon containers. I had my Fiskar trimmers in hand, for some reason which I forget because I was too stoned, and after doing all the transplants... They weren't in my hand anymore! After looking everywhere I decided they would turn up sometime when I could see better. They didn't and I now think that I have planted them.
It's not like I can go digging through the pots looking for them! I'll have to wait three or four months now! In the meantime I'll save my money for a new pair of scissors. One of the little known drawbacks to growing long-flowering strains...

Congrats to all the monthly contest winners!

Mr Am4zin. - MOTM
Rifleman - POTM
Cola Monster - NOTM

Barring some unexpected weirdness that is - but midnight has come and gone where I live and the situation looks like this.
I hope to be able to grow well enough to win one of those monthly plant contests- someday! way to go guys!
Ps. I think it's amazing how few people actually vote in those contests...

 

[SweetSue]

I agree. I'd think more people would vote, particularly for the plants and nugs. The entries are stunning, month after month after month.

Hey, I'm gonna be watching to see which pot ate your trimmers. That's too good Weaselcracker. You're a sweetie about the music.

 

[Weaselcracker]

Yeah it's odd that turnout is so low. I know we get jaded about voting in the political system, but in this case not only are the contests related to a subject we all love, and contain a fair amount of interesting drama, but there are actual real prizes involved, not just four year appointments of disappointing pointlessness from pointy headed appointees, if you get my point.

 

[Kriaze]

Hey Weaselcracker it's great to see that everything is back on track over there,minus the missing scissors of course. It must have been a really nice smoke for you to have managed to bury those, are they organic? Wanted, biodegradable scissors for those special moments between a man and his girls. Maybe all your plants will now grow with scissor shaped buds screaming "FEED ME!". A vision of Little shop of Horrors springs to mind, which reminds me I must watch that again sometime just for the comedy value of imagining you looking around in a stoned gaze wondering where your shears are.

I'll second the congratulations too, although there may not be as many votes as one could expect there are plenty of worthy challengers, you would slot right in amongst them.

Sending you some good karma along with the echoes of me chuckling at your new transplanting methods. I'm going to experiment with grows such as these so I'll go wander around the kitchen later to see which utensils can be swiped without the wife missing them. As ever Weaselcracker I wish you all the best. Have a fantastic day mate

 

[Weaselcracker]

Thanks mate. You've posted some awesome rambles and updates on your journals which at the time I didn't have time to properly reply to and that's left me feeling just a little lopsided (unbalanced) in the Kriaze journal tending department. Actually most of my subscriptions have met the same fate over the last month or so. Ah well... I can't keep up- I'll try to make it good when I do pop in - better than blindly tending my journal subscription farm every day spouting random gibberish. Oh wait, that is what I do.
I never thought of the scissors falling into the evil clutches of a bad plant. Crap! It never crossed my mind. Though it should have. I've had nightmares about shit like this before. Things get a bit weird in the late at night high on Mama Thai and sometimes I've envisioned the door suddenly creaking closed behind me... and the plants slowly coming at me...
Now I'm wondering which of them has the bloody scissors! Problem is, I think it might be one of the Malawis. Those Malawis are big and strong looking. I am planning to kill the males too...
What do they know?

 

[lexort420]

Im sure you will win POTM and NOTM eventually weasel your plants are awesome!

 

[Tead]

I have planted them

Awesome stoner moment! Fairly benign, but way funny!

 

[electro gypsy]

Yeah it's odd that turnout is so low. I know we get jaded about voting in the political system, but in this case not only are the contests related to a subject we all love, and contain a fair amount of interesting drama, but there are actual real prizes involved, not just four year appointments of disappointing pointlessness from pointy headed appointees, if you get my point.

thanks.. i read that out loud and now i need to clean the screen

 

[Weaselcracker]

Now if only the political system could be cleaned up so easily...

 

[jojo677]

Those plants are looking awesome Weasel. The Malawi have much thicker leaves than I anticipated, but they look hearty. I'm kicking myself now because I forgot to order Malawi during my last order. Doh!

The buried scissors had me cracking up! Maybe you could run a magnet around the pots to find the scissors. They could be close to the border.. worth a try?

 

[Weaselcracker]

Yeah those Malawis aren't really like the sativas I know- they look quite large in every way and are very strong and vigorous. Would be fun to grow outside if I had the climate for it. We shall see what the future holds with them ...
When I transplanted that last batch I basically went from 3 gallon pots straight into 7 gallons, then plunked them into the flowering room. Normally I'd let them root for a week or two first, but in this case I was keen to unclog the veg room and figured the Malawis would cope fine with having to grow some roots in early flowering. If it slows them down a little that might be a good thing. It's a trial run with this strain. Besides which, they may all three be males for all I know. That Thai stick plant got babied for months and then turned out to be a boy so I'm putting a little less love in this time.
Oh yeah- the point being, there's a lot of fresh soil in those pots and plenty of room for the scissors to hide. Not a bad idea though with the magnets. I'll give it a try. It would be cool if I actually found them that way. Clink!

 

[nivek]

i am thinking one thing those scissors have for sure might be your fingerprints,,, if they want you,, there is no getting away from them things ,, ever,,

good to hear from ya pal,, down this way,, let me know,, cheers

 

[AKgramma]

WOW, WC! it took me all day to read your journal all the way through! Thanks for the journey! I understand now, why you understand sativas so well. I am partial to mine, too, altho it's not quite full Sativa.

 

[Weaselcracker]

Wow right back at you AK! I'm honored you'd go to the effort to read all the way through! I know what that takes.

Now, I'm not really a sativa expert that's for sure -I've yet to grow my Mama Thai through an entire flowering without having problems. But I'm working on it, and I appreciate the kind words.

I've come to the conclusion that the sativa high is the only one for me. I also like the idea of landrace strains. Maybe it's something about the history behind them. Not that the newfangled strains don't have history. Maybe I'd be more interested if I just knew what that history was and also knew all the drama behind how they were concocted/developed/stolen from other breeders, etc.

I'm quite averse to the indica high and I wonder if I will ever smoke Indica strains again. I do grow for some patients though, and they like it. It puts me at a disadvantage and causes me real problems that I don't smoke the indica stuff and can't test it out myself. Maybe you're in a similar situation?

I keep trying new strains only to get the thumbs down at the end of half a year of growing them By which time I'm quite invested in the strain with plants in flowering, veg, and clones, which I have to get rid of. To make matters worse my patients are certified crazy and don't make very good testers even for themselves, strangely enough. It's an ongoing gong show with them. Kind of amusing most of the time.

Even the Blueberry is now getting the thumbs down and is about to be phased out, even though it seems like a wonderful plant to me. All they want is the Pineapple Chunk it seems. That's taking me 100 days to finish and I wouldn't mind having something a little faster, and something that's not such a pain to trim. I'm not greedy or impatient, but it would be nice to have a faster turnaround. It would make the learning process a lot speedier. And it's just harder to keep a plant in good health for 100 days than it is for 60.

Oh well I think I'll keep throwing new strains at them anyway, because I like trying new ones. The bottom line seems to be that they like it Strong! So if anyone knows of a shitkickingly strong strain that finishes fairly quickly, I'm all ears.
For myself if I try indica again it will be to maybe try and find a good strain for pain relief and to help me sleep at night.

I'm hoping this Malawi will turn out as strong as it's supposed to. It'll be very fun and interesting to test it out on the victims, I mean uhhh... patients.