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

[Weaselcracker]

Hey JoJo. Don't worry, I'm 95% sure it's the supercropping. The older nodes do all look like that- but not the younger ones. They're big fast-growing plants and seem to have big juicy hollow stems. When I squeeze them they go pop and a bit of juice sometimes hits me in the face! The stem sometimes (ok, usually) breaks into strands. That's why the main stem looks like it has - been broken into strands and then re-glued itself. Yes it sounds a bit harsh, but since I can only handle so much growth from them- I'm not coddling them at this point and they hardly need it.
I'm pretty sure the swelling at the nodes is a stress reaction to torture. Anyway- they're doing fine. I don't know for sure what the microscopic plant bits, which I've been staring at over the last two days, actually are, but it sort of/kind of looks like all three might be female ....????

 

[Weaselcracker]

Your girls are looking great weasel! Love the picture that you took with the authorized personnel only thing in it lol. Ya i guess I don't always know what is gonna cross the line and erk off the moderators and i would hate to get kicked off this site so i usually play it safe lol try to atleast lol.

Thanks man. that's just a little diy reflector part- more stuff scavenged from the dump (the best store we have around these parts). I don't worry so much about being kicked out, more about being a pain in the ass and making extra work for them, and I try hard to avoid that these days as I think I've already done my share of that. I'm just a real slow learner when it comes to 'following the program'. A bit retarded that way, I am.
I You, 420 staff

 

[Weaselcracker]

~RIGHT SIDE~

~LEFT SIDE~

- Clockwise from nearest- Malawi, PC, MT, BB





~BLUEBERRY~ At 70 days

This elusive plant is very camera shy, even though I do constantly try to get photos. In real life she looks very nice, with large and frothy looking white buds. This is the closest I've gotten to a decent picture. Besides the beautiful sticky buds on this plant, which you can't really see in the photos, it is very resistant to my torture growing methods, and as you can see, at 9 weeks in flowering is still almost healthy looking. Amazing!
But the most incredible thing about this plant is the smell of blueberries. It makes me sad that nobody else gets to smell it. So far it doesn't have that same smell when it's dried- though at a couple months of cure it does start to appear a little.
The patients don't really want it though because it's 'only 2/3 as strong as the Pineapple Chunk'. And I'm probably not going to smoke it myself. Unless Kriaze's pepper method changes that somehow. I think it'll have to make way for something else.

 

[DankWolf907]

If you arent gonna smoke it..
Too bad you cant wrap it in a virtual,envelope and email it.

Speaking of smell. Is it odd and bad, or just sad that my 3rd week flower doesnt smell. Scale 1-10.. .5! Does that absolutely mean she wont smell good later, or effect taste/potency?

 

[Weaselcracker]

Hmmm... I want to say that it shouldn't relate to the potency, but I don't actually have the experience to know how much smell relates to potency and whether you can have an extremely strong strain that doesn't smell. Now you've got me wondering...

EDIT- oh I missed somehow where you said third week of flowering. No, nothing to worry about. It doesn't smell much in the beginning. I thought you meant it was fully flowering.

 

[Kriaze]

That Blueberry is looking amazing Weaselcracker it's a shame your patients dislike it's potency, had they been smoking a lot of it before? Keep pumping them full of the Pineapple Chunk until their tolerance has built up a little then give them some 'unknown' strain and see how they like it then if that's the case. Damn, you live in a beautiful place if they can afford to turn away what looks like beautiful medicine as that BlueBerry looks. Over here people are happy if the MJ has some THC in it full stop

Wishing you all the best

 

[Robert Celt]

Popping in to say Hi Weasel

Settling in with my new duties, I don't comment as often as I should, but wanted to say mate I am still following your's and my other friends grows

RC

 

[Mello136]

I definitely want to grow out a blueberry strain!! I'll be ready for one next grow. Weas, should I go photo or auto?

 

[Weaselcracker]

Popping in to say Hi Weasel

Settling in with my new duties, I don't comment as often as I should, but wanted to say mate I am still following your's and my other friends grows

RC

Hi Celt. I know you're out there. I hope the new job is working out well, I hear it's pretty demanding. This reminds me, I don't know if I ever saw the final trophy shots of your harvest. Off to ferret that out right now...

EDIT- ok I did find the sweet Halloween treats photo in your BM journal. (The local mothers must be real happy with you). The Kush seeds you're looking at sound very interesting too. Ah, I love finding 3 page journals.

 

[Weaselcracker]

I definitely want to grow out a blueberry strain!! I'll be ready for one next grow. Weas, should I go photo or auto?

That's a hard question for me to answer, Mello. I don't grow autos- haven't for a long time anyway, and it was back in the early days. Things were a bit different and there wasn't the selection or quality there is now. Probably photo growers will tell you to grow photo strains and auto growers will tell you about the joys of autos. I like photos because I can take cuttings and keep growing the best pheno until I (someday?) get it growing well, hopefully, in theory.

 

[Weaselcracker]

That Blueberry is looking amazing Weaselcracker it's a shame your patients dislike it's potency, had they been smoking a lot of it before? Keep pumping them full of the Pineapple Chunk until their tolerance has built up a little then give them some 'unknown' strain and see how they like it then if that's the case. Damn, you live in a beautiful place if they can afford to turn away what looks like beautiful medicine as that BlueBerry looks. Over here people are happy if the MJ has some THC in it full stop

Wishing you all the best

Thanks Kriaze. I imagine that there are enough good strains out there that I should be able to find something satisfactory. Probably there are people here desperate for any old thing to smoke, I'm not sure. I don't hang out with those people, if they exist. Mostly just 'kids' probably. Everyone I know is fairly tuned in to quality herb, though I don't personally talk about the subject of herb, or growing, very much, if at all, except to the patients, who don't give a rat's ass and just want the goods.
If I have to I'll give the Blueberry buds away, if I can find a discrete way to do it. I still have two largish ones in veg too, even though I chopped a big one last week to reduce the amount of Blueberry in my life. If I starve the needy patients of PC for a while, they'll probably come around a little. If I grew only PC for them, as they keep telling me to, they'd start complaining about that soon enough too, I'm sure. I'm very curious what the future holds with this Malawi.

 

[OlderGrower]

What can I say I am always late for everything, been trying to get caught up but that is a lot of reading. Hope you don't mind if I grab a beanbag over in the corner and enjoy the show.

I love the individual scrog idea.. wish I had done that on this grow. Hope I have time to come up with something like that before my 2nd grow.

Subbed

 

[Weaselcracker]

Hi OG. Make yourself comfortable. Catch up if you like, or just relax if you're tired out from too much 420ing. I can't think of any super important info you would need to catch up on- it's just kind of ..what it is. Actually, I've been wondering whether to end this journal in a while, and maybe start something new. I don't know what though- maybe focus on the sativas? As a seat of the pants peat moss grow effort journal- I think I've mostly documented what goes on. The main question is whether to carry on going an end up with a 300 page journal, or to end it while it's still readable. I haven't figured that out yet. Still having lots of fun. I do know it's hard to sub to longer journals though.
Yeah the individual scrogs have worked out well. I really didn't put much thought into making them either. They just got whipped together, but have been good. Space is at a premium when I get to shuffling the scrogged plants around- but it can be done, and constantly is.
I might flower a plant without a screen soon, because I miss that sort of thing.
Anyway- welcome!

 

[DankWolf907]

Forgot where i left this

Hmmm... I want to say that it shouldn't relate to the potency, but I don't actually have the experience to know how much smell relates to potency and whether you can have an extremely strong strain that doesn't smell. Now you've got me wondering...

EDIT- oh I missed somehow where you said third week of flowering. No, nothing to worry about. It doesn't smell much in the beginning. I thought you meant it was fully flowering.

I didnt think it was supposed to smell much in early flower either. Until my first plant. Was a 5or6/10 for smell since week 4 of veg, through her death 3rd week in flower. Her clone is the same way. Maybe 1ft tall and 6-7/10 smell.

Guess im just sad. She'll do whatever she does and ill be happy..

Top of tha morn matey

 

[AKgramma]

WC: I would love you to start a Sativa journal. The more I read about the "original sativa-heavy OG Kush" the more I think I have a very close strain, if not the real thing. It has the earmarks of the chemdog x lemon thai x afghani kush:

1) a bit difficult to grow and keep healthy
2) a 100 day flowering period, with a tendency to throw out more calyxes near end of maturation
3) a distinct progression of odors in cure, from diesel, to lemony, to invitingly earthy after 2 months
4) narrow to medium-narrow 5 fingered leaves and a tendency to grow tall even indoors, unless trained early on
5) Susceptible to spider mites.
6) gives a head high after only two puffs (according to my beta-smokers)
7) strong alternate growth pattern to nodes, thick woody stems, especially in clones
8) buds tend to dry airy and smaller than other strains, but very potent and sticky.
9) red stems in older fan leaves, buds dry green and faded orange

I want to see how you grow these sativas.

 

[Weaselcracker]

Good morning my Alaskan friends.
I've had some strains that really stunk up the veg room, DW, and never turned out to be worth much in the end. And my favorite smelling strains so far, a Girl Scouts Cookies cross, and the Blueberry, never hit it off with the patients even though I was very excited about them based on the incredible smell. There's a real disconnect between me and them though, as far as our cannabis needs and likes. I want to grow what I want to grow, they want to smoke what they want to smoke, the two things hardy ever meet in the middle, and I think the divide is widening. If I was just growing for myself it would be different. They trample on my excitement about the strains. Months of growing, being fascinated by the looks and smells, and 'That crap isn't strong enough!' It's all they care about. Strong.
I'm still just learning to grow, is the reality. And the sativas are newest to me. I feel the most attached to them though. So far the Malawi has been easy but veg is always easy. My second Thai Stick sprout is about 8" high now, I'll 12/12 it, or at least some cuttings of it, as soon as I can so I can figure out sex. That one looks trickier to grow for sure.

This journal was meant to show an example of how to grow with weekend visits only, and some of the other aspects of what I'm doing - sunshine mix, individual scrogs, and room for random babbling about whatever.
I don't feel any confidence about a journal of 'how to grow sativas'. But I could do ' trying to learn to grow sativas', or something, (and random babbling). Or I could just keep this one going.

I like the sounds of your plant AK. Though not the spider mite part.
You should be able to eliminate those bastards, no? They don't live in the wild here though they did overwinter in my greenhouse a couple years before I treated the whole place with neem.

 

[nivek]

Cheers weasely,,

 

[Weaselcracker]

~MAMA THAI~

Here is the one in flowering.

At nine weeks flowering now, I gave her a lower strength feeding last night, and that will probably be the last one. The MT usually seems about as ready as it can get at about 12 weeks. They don't finish like the indica strains and never give any appearance of sticky gooey oozing ripeness. They'll keep shooting out new pistil growth forever, but will get a leafy revegging appearance at the same time, if I leave them too long. I'm still feeling out the feeding schedule, as always. This one grew pretty well though. Leaves are less than 100% healthy, but maybe a little yellowing and leaf damage is to be expected at this point, so I won't be too picky about it.

The one in veg is finally (!) recovered and is growing large healthy leaves again.

In the pic it's in a seven gallon pot. I put it into a 10 gallon last night and might transplant into a larger one, depending how plans go and if I can drum up a larger pot somewhere.
I have some thoughts of not scrogging this one. The Mama Thai is quite wiry and maybe with the help of silicon I could grow one without the screen. I'm looking to Stage's incredible dog-fence Bubblegum POTM entry plant as an example. If things go according to plan, I'll grow it big enough to take up the space of two screens- so, a 2' x 3.5' rectangular area, and just leave a screen on it long enough to settle it into a candelabra shape, then remove the screen and hope for the best. I'm really longing to see an unscrogged plant in my life at this point.

 

[Mello136]

Looking good Wease! Question, why give up the scrog?

 

[Weaselcracker]

I'm not giving up the scrog Mello. At this point it's necessary -to keep the different strains at an even height, avoid a floppy nightmare and buds laying all over the floor, and to make the most of my electrical expenditure. I don't have any desire to go back to having the untrained jungle I did before I scrogged. I just get jealous when I see unscrogged plants. Someday when I get good enough I'd like to put plants in the POTM contest. It's something to dream about anyway. I don't think a scrogged plant will cut it for POTM. Unless it's just unusually Huge, or has some other extra special qualities. To me a scrogged plant looks like any other scrogged plant, and it hard to get a good photo of the entire plant. It always has that plain of bud look to it. Mostly I'm just looking for some variety. I haven't grown a single one of these strains without a screen, and would love to see how they look completely untrained. I don't think will be doing that anytime soon, but if I could grow a canna-bush instead of a canna-table, I'd be happy.