Our Ongoing Grows
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Hello old buddy Wood! I see you and J are still going at it strong. Awesome looking skunkish buds. I've just started an indoor but may or may not publish it as I'm an idiot and use the same name for my other business (pipes)! I'll be around looking at all my old friends grows at the least. All the best to you and yours!
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Hey Wood's, Sisco, Jon, and IGG, anyone else out there I missed, Hope everything is growing great in your worlds. Things here are the same as always. Growing.
Well I got a dry weight on the 3 vantages. Atad over a LB. 17 Oz's solid. And all great smoke. They all went a average of 47 days each. I still have 2 'large' bushes growing in there. These are big bushes which I can see about a 1/2 Lb on each. Rite now they are on day 38 in flower.
I took some down with me to the co-op buyers here in Portland and them fools want me to 'donate' it at a price that leaves them room for a large mark up on the price. They offered me less then half the retail price. Man they bumped their heads. I try to pass on the savings to the customer. I'd rather give it to the customer for half price on the donations rather than give it to the middle man. Middle men are what is ruining the pot market. When I first grew for the Oakland Co-Op growers back along time ago, they use to pay up to 4500 per Lb. Nowadays it's hard to get 2 grand a Lb. Yet the prices at the retail level are about the same. Someone is making alot of money and it's not the grower. Days of old, a middle man expected to make 25%. Like a free Oz on the quarter lb. But now they want to get rich. And charge 125% mark ups. BS.
Well acouple new things going on around here. First off got my new 'Shroom' in the mail. Suppose to be able to stop any mold spores from coming in the flower room. Sure hope it works. It seems to be true that it doesn't slow any CFM on the passive air intake I use. I have a 4"x12" opening on the floor with a Hvac boot to a 8" round opening. And one of these on top;
I also said I have 2 Vantages still going. This is about as large as I like to let them get. They don't do alot of stretching in flowering, so you can let them get this big. I did do alot of tieing down on this one. Seems to be working great;
I hate taking pic's under the HPS bulbs but here are acouple more to show how bushy she really is;
and;
Ok I also have 2 Berkley Blues going in the flower room. This is the one I call B-B-i;
and the B-B-s plant;
These are some more of the Stoney Girl Gardens stuff. Suppose to be a fat finisher. I sure hope so. I was impressed with the Cripit hopefully this carries on and keeps me happy. 35-42 day flower plant.
I also started a Arjan Haze plant. Along with the 2 P-91's I started. { one P-91 damped off on me}. I have some Bubba Kush growing out there to. Along with some Chronic and Star-47 too. I'll update some more this evening. Thanks for dropping in and Keep em Green
Well I got a dry weight on the 3 vantages. Atad over a LB. 17 Oz's solid. And all great smoke. They all went a average of 47 days each. I still have 2 'large' bushes growing in there. These are big bushes which I can see about a 1/2 Lb on each. Rite now they are on day 38 in flower.
I took some down with me to the co-op buyers here in Portland and them fools want me to 'donate' it at a price that leaves them room for a large mark up on the price. They offered me less then half the retail price. Man they bumped their heads. I try to pass on the savings to the customer. I'd rather give it to the customer for half price on the donations rather than give it to the middle man. Middle men are what is ruining the pot market. When I first grew for the Oakland Co-Op growers back along time ago, they use to pay up to 4500 per Lb. Nowadays it's hard to get 2 grand a Lb. Yet the prices at the retail level are about the same. Someone is making alot of money and it's not the grower. Days of old, a middle man expected to make 25%. Like a free Oz on the quarter lb. But now they want to get rich. And charge 125% mark ups. BS.
Well acouple new things going on around here. First off got my new 'Shroom' in the mail. Suppose to be able to stop any mold spores from coming in the flower room. Sure hope it works. It seems to be true that it doesn't slow any CFM on the passive air intake I use. I have a 4"x12" opening on the floor with a Hvac boot to a 8" round opening. And one of these on top;
I also said I have 2 Vantages still going. This is about as large as I like to let them get. They don't do alot of stretching in flowering, so you can let them get this big. I did do alot of tieing down on this one. Seems to be working great;
I hate taking pic's under the HPS bulbs but here are acouple more to show how bushy she really is;
and;
Ok I also have 2 Berkley Blues going in the flower room. This is the one I call B-B-i;
and the B-B-s plant;
These are some more of the Stoney Girl Gardens stuff. Suppose to be a fat finisher. I sure hope so. I was impressed with the Cripit hopefully this carries on and keeps me happy. 35-42 day flower plant.
I also started a Arjan Haze plant. Along with the 2 P-91's I started. { one P-91 damped off on me}. I have some Bubba Kush growing out there to. Along with some Chronic and Star-47 too. I'll update some more this evening. Thanks for dropping in and Keep em Green
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Thanks Jon. Hey I got afew new pic's I took while they were sleeping. These plants are all figure S'ed or whatever one calls it, works for me. You can train them into something like a scrog minus the screen. After you try down all the main tops, then afew ties on the support bamboo and the whole plant is tied into a nice flat top. Here's a screen less scrog. I just made that up but it does work;
All the tops have been topped and retopped. So the buds are abit smaller. But they make up the weight by getting alot of lite down into the secondary buds. This is what the whole top looks like;
Well I have these two plants under a 1000 watter HPS lite. Here's what both look like;
Vantage#1 and this is #2 ;
Yea they are getting big. I'm hoping for close to a half Lb apiece.
Well that's it for a minute. I hope everyones gardens are doing great.
Keep em Green
All the tops have been topped and retopped. So the buds are abit smaller. But they make up the weight by getting alot of lite down into the secondary buds. This is what the whole top looks like;
Well I have these two plants under a 1000 watter HPS lite. Here's what both look like;
Vantage#1 and this is #2 ;
Yea they are getting big. I'm hoping for close to a half Lb apiece.
Well that's it for a minute. I hope everyones gardens are doing great.
Keep em Green
Anyone ever told you that you have one big bush? Man... that is a big bush...Thanks Jon. Hey I got afew new pic's I took while they were sleeping. These plants are all figure S'ed or whatever one calls it, works for me. You can train them into something like a scrog minus the screen. After you try down all the main tops, then afew ties on the support bamboo and the whole plant is tied into a nice flat top. Here's a screen less scrog. I just made that up but it does work;
All the tops have been topped and retopped. So the buds are abit smaller. But they make up the weight by getting alot of lite down into the secondary buds. This is what the whole top looks like;
Well I have these two plants under a 1000 watter HPS lite. Here's what both look like;
Vantage#1 and this is #2 ;
Yea they are getting big. I'm hoping for close to a half Lb apiece.
Well that's it for a minute. I hope everyones gardens are doing great.
Keep em Green
Hey Sprout !
You talk pounds, I talk onces!
Way to go Buddy....turning them out as usual.
Yep, we are suppose to be helping folks not ripping them off!
You talk pounds, I talk onces!
Way to go Buddy....turning them out as usual.
Yep, we are suppose to be helping folks not ripping them off!
Beautiful buds, Bro! 
Looking fantastic, my friend.
Interesting on the markups - I agree that the grower seems like the odd man out in that scenario.
Middlemen ruin everything in all aspects of democracy it seems like. They take from their vendors, shaking them down and using their need to survive against them. Then, they sock it to the end consumer, all in the name of greed and a short-sighted view of the bottom line. It's not sustainable, because it creates resentment throughout the chain. But, it makes many a quick buck, before they alienate everyone and have to find new victi... consumers, to trick. Too few people realize the value of positive relationships as it relates to growing a business. It's the only way to have a business that will sustain for the long haul.
Interesting on the markups - I agree that the grower seems like the odd man out in that scenario.
Middlemen ruin everything in all aspects of democracy it seems like. They take from their vendors, shaking them down and using their need to survive against them. Then, they sock it to the end consumer, all in the name of greed and a short-sighted view of the bottom line. It's not sustainable, because it creates resentment throughout the chain. But, it makes many a quick buck, before they alienate everyone and have to find new victi... consumers, to trick. Too few people realize the value of positive relationships as it relates to growing a business. It's the only way to have a business that will sustain for the long haul.
I know one businessman on here that knows the value of positive relationships. He's growing his business as we speak doing just that. Supporting the cause, helping the grower, and giving advice were he can... Corey... wonderful man.
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Thanks for stopping in and making comments everyone. I do thank y'all alot. It keeps things popping. I love surfing thru grows but I seldom make comments. But I am out there looking. I'm glad to see everyone is doing ok out there in 420Land.
Well around here nothing changes but the date. And as dates pass, so do harvests. One thing about a perpetual grows, they are hard to follow. We forget whats what and I know I've got one of the scatter-est grows around.
Yea those two Vantages I played around with alot. She loaded with nice hard little nuggets. One thing about Vantage, you need to veg her out pretty good in order to get a bigger harvest because she doesn't produce 'Big' buds. Respectable nuggets, but not anything big. Here's what I pulled off those last three I harvested;
And here's a sample bud I took off one of the two bushes I still got going;
I also started afew new strain in the doghouse. Well this one I just dosed with bushmasters and threw in flower. I didn't feel like messing with clones off her, but I can get more seeds. It's a Fruity Chronic from Delicious Seeds. Suppose to be some
White Widow/Chronic cross. She looks like shes going to be a stretcher tho;
I also have those 2 P-91 going. I top young. Real young. It might cost me acouple extra days in the veg tent, but I wood rather have my main first fork as close to the ground as possible. Otherwise they tend to get top heavy with all the topping I do. So I hit her as soon as her first set of true leaves allows me too. The first set of leaves are the 1 leafer. Well on these I did it on the first and her second set;
Ok that the P-91, I also have a Arjans Haze going. Haze? that's alittle out of context for me, but I love a good haze. They just take so long to finish. Well I'll get a pic after awhile. I also started 2 more seeds this morning. They already have a tap root showing. Been 14 hours. Well these two are a Train Wreck and a Northern Lites X Big Bud. I'll update these when they are up and growing.
OK I also have 2 new contenders. First off there is a Blueberry Gum. She sound very interesting. She's from G-13 Labs and might be a good one for outdoors here. Well here her starting photo;
And I have a World of Seeds Feminized Legend Collection's, Star-47. Here she is;
Well that's it for the nite from here. I hope everyones gardens are doing great out there and may their stash jars runnith over.
Keep em Green
Well around here nothing changes but the date. And as dates pass, so do harvests. One thing about a perpetual grows, they are hard to follow. We forget whats what and I know I've got one of the scatter-est grows around.
Yea those two Vantages I played around with alot. She loaded with nice hard little nuggets. One thing about Vantage, you need to veg her out pretty good in order to get a bigger harvest because she doesn't produce 'Big' buds. Respectable nuggets, but not anything big. Here's what I pulled off those last three I harvested;
And here's a sample bud I took off one of the two bushes I still got going;
I also started afew new strain in the doghouse. Well this one I just dosed with bushmasters and threw in flower. I didn't feel like messing with clones off her, but I can get more seeds. It's a Fruity Chronic from Delicious Seeds. Suppose to be some
White Widow/Chronic cross. She looks like shes going to be a stretcher tho;
I also have those 2 P-91 going. I top young. Real young. It might cost me acouple extra days in the veg tent, but I wood rather have my main first fork as close to the ground as possible. Otherwise they tend to get top heavy with all the topping I do. So I hit her as soon as her first set of true leaves allows me too. The first set of leaves are the 1 leafer. Well on these I did it on the first and her second set;
Ok that the P-91, I also have a Arjans Haze going. Haze? that's alittle out of context for me, but I love a good haze. They just take so long to finish. Well I'll get a pic after awhile. I also started 2 more seeds this morning. They already have a tap root showing. Been 14 hours. Well these two are a Train Wreck and a Northern Lites X Big Bud. I'll update these when they are up and growing.
OK I also have 2 new contenders. First off there is a Blueberry Gum. She sound very interesting. She's from G-13 Labs and might be a good one for outdoors here. Well here her starting photo;
And I have a World of Seeds Feminized Legend Collection's, Star-47. Here she is;
Well that's it for the nite from here. I hope everyones gardens are doing great out there and may their stash jars runnith over.
Keep em Green
Hey Sprout! 
You and Miss J sure turn out some great meds.
When do you two rest?
You and Miss J sure turn out some great meds.
When do you two rest?
Very nice haul Wood and excellent branching. I too top early otherwise anything below is pretty much just undergrowth (not even secondary). I'm not as brave as you though, I'll wait for the second or third 'true' growth. I may try it your way this time around.
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Well I have these two plants under a 1000 watter HPS lite. Here's what both look like;
Vantage#1 and this is #2 ;
Yea they are getting big. I'm hoping for close to a half Lb apiece.
Well that's it for a minute. I hope everyones gardens are doing great.
Keep em Green
Man those are some beauties
They all look A1 brother grower...Stay down with your bad azz - Thread starter
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Thank you, thank you. Pop's I'll rest after I die. Hopefully I got afew more crops in me. But it's a labor of love anyways. I'm glad to see you got some nice ones going again. I'm so pissed you got one of the prettiest places in the world to grow and you can't because of some punk ass kids.
Woodman. If you don't mind slowing down the veg time bye afew days, it's the only way to grow. You get a nice fork at the ground level or close to it. I have grown afew way back when that I topped later in life, like the 8-10th node and after they flower out they get all wimpy and top heavy. I don't keep track of how long I veg. I place them in flower when they are ready is all. And if I need to cut one back abit I've been known to take the top half off a plant before, just to stall the flowerings beginnings
You got that rite there IGG I try.
Well the NL X Big Bud is taking off. She will be peeking out from the soil today. The Train Wreck looks like a derail. Her tap root started to show the next day. Then it stopped which to me usually means she ain't going to make it. So I dug into my seed stash and pulled out 2 more strains to play with. One of them is suppose to be one of the strongest strains around. LA Ultra from Resin Seeds. I also took out a OG Kush from Dinafem. And that plant isn't to shabby itself. Both are on a paper towel on top my cable box for germination. I'm thinking of Star Trek too. I found a MMJ place here in Portland that carries it on their menu. Costy price too. they want 12.50 per gram. This strain must be a local strain only because I can't find it on any seed bank. I got lucky and found afew seeds in the bottom of her bag. BIG FATTIES too.
Well I wanna wish everyone a great Easter. And Keepem Green
Woodman. If you don't mind slowing down the veg time bye afew days, it's the only way to grow. You get a nice fork at the ground level or close to it. I have grown afew way back when that I topped later in life, like the 8-10th node and after they flower out they get all wimpy and top heavy. I don't keep track of how long I veg. I place them in flower when they are ready is all. And if I need to cut one back abit I've been known to take the top half off a plant before, just to stall the flowerings beginnings
You got that rite there IGG I try.
Well the NL X Big Bud is taking off. She will be peeking out from the soil today. The Train Wreck looks like a derail. Her tap root started to show the next day. Then it stopped which to me usually means she ain't going to make it. So I dug into my seed stash and pulled out 2 more strains to play with. One of them is suppose to be one of the strongest strains around. LA Ultra from Resin Seeds. I also took out a OG Kush from Dinafem. And that plant isn't to shabby itself. Both are on a paper towel on top my cable box for germination. I'm thinking of Star Trek too. I found a MMJ place here in Portland that carries it on their menu. Costy price too. they want 12.50 per gram. This strain must be a local strain only because I can't find it on any seed bank. I got lucky and found afew seeds in the bottom of her bag. BIG FATTIES too.
Well I wanna wish everyone a great Easter. And Keepem Green
Got any wire laying around..my jaw drops to the floor each time I visit. Go get'em NCW!
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Thanks all once again. Well spring is here. The last couple flips inside are coming out great. PM was very minimal. These two Vantages were started after I put the Dustshroom cover over the intake. One bad thing about inside during the summer is temps go up. I am going to be growing alittle more toward the sativa's come spring and summer. I hope the room stays cool enough that I don't have to put a air conditioner in there. I plan on killing off one of the lites for the heat issues.
Well Miss J told me it's time to go spray the outside bushes, 'apple tree's, jap maples, etc' and low and behold in the front of the house, in front of one of the vents to the crawl space under the house, there stands a large bush. It's not looking real healthy for some odd reason. Sooooooo guess what? It's got a heavy dose of you guessed it,,,,,,,,,,,,, PM. Well I figure I'd get a pic and send warning to anyone using passive air intake, look around your sources of air. I think this is a direct reason I had afew bouts with it. Enough talk take a gander;
Scary isn't it? I sprayed the hell out of it with Organicide or something to that nature. IF it don't fix it after acouple spraying,,,,,,,,it's gone.
LOL Miss J is gone,,,, she's been smoking her fingers again. Well the Vantages are coming out. Shes a nice plant and she's at 45 days and crystals are 90/10. Cloudy amber.
This was last nites closet. I can't really tell, but for what it's worth, I give them at least a 24 hours darkness. With all the toppings I do, she doesn't produce any large main cola's, but, she kicks out alot of them thumb sized rocks.
Hey Wood, I think you should try it. Thats if you don't want the single big cola. Like something one wood, wood with a SOG grow. But you want bushes,,,,,,,,,,,, here's my new babies coming out. This is that P-91. One was topped at the first node, and the second respectively on the second.. ' glad they got spell check'
Just another day in the life,,,,,,,,,
Well the damn flower room looks empty again. Let's see, I still have a Yumbolt-47 going, and a #1 Skunker, this is a great smoking pot'. Ah and a Fruity Chronic, 'first run plant'. I just put a Bubba Kush in flower. And I got lazy and didn't cut a clone. My Bad. Then I have 2 Berkley Blues in there. They are the farthest along I have going. They are at like day 24 in flower. That's the list from this point. I'll update some of these pic's later.
The green house is starting to be used again. Got alot of veggies going on. Broccoli, tomatoes, ' cherries, beefsteaks, and patio ' pepper's, 'both bell's and hot's', and soon alot of salad makings, lettuce, radishes, green onions', 'sweet pea's' green beans, And the list goes on. Damn going to be alot of dirt this year.
Of course I'm going to start one or three outside. Leaning strongly to these local strains this year. I have 2 Cripit's going and a Berkley Blue. All three are about 3' tall already. I want to see how big these indo's can get. I'll update with my dirt and food regiments pretty soon. And these 3 are going in 5 gallon smart pots, so they should have some decent roots going. I'm not sure if I want to finish them in large pots, or directly in the ground in the greenhouse. Good thing I can leave them alone for afew weeks to decide.
Well I guess I'll find something else to take some pic's of later. Damn I wish I could get this microscope dailed in.
Ok peoples I send good thoughts and hope everyones gardens are green'
Keepem Green
Well Miss J told me it's time to go spray the outside bushes, 'apple tree's, jap maples, etc' and low and behold in the front of the house, in front of one of the vents to the crawl space under the house, there stands a large bush. It's not looking real healthy for some odd reason. Sooooooo guess what? It's got a heavy dose of you guessed it,,,,,,,,,,,,, PM. Well I figure I'd get a pic and send warning to anyone using passive air intake, look around your sources of air. I think this is a direct reason I had afew bouts with it. Enough talk take a gander;
Scary isn't it? I sprayed the hell out of it with Organicide or something to that nature. IF it don't fix it after acouple spraying,,,,,,,,it's gone.
LOL Miss J is gone,,,, she's been smoking her fingers again. Well the Vantages are coming out. Shes a nice plant and she's at 45 days and crystals are 90/10. Cloudy amber.
This was last nites closet. I can't really tell, but for what it's worth, I give them at least a 24 hours darkness. With all the toppings I do, she doesn't produce any large main cola's, but, she kicks out alot of them thumb sized rocks.
Hey Wood, I think you should try it. Thats if you don't want the single big cola. Like something one wood, wood with a SOG grow. But you want bushes,,,,,,,,,,,, here's my new babies coming out. This is that P-91. One was topped at the first node, and the second respectively on the second.. ' glad they got spell check'
Just another day in the life,,,,,,,,,
Well the damn flower room looks empty again. Let's see, I still have a Yumbolt-47 going, and a #1 Skunker, this is a great smoking pot'. Ah and a Fruity Chronic, 'first run plant'. I just put a Bubba Kush in flower. And I got lazy and didn't cut a clone. My Bad. Then I have 2 Berkley Blues in there. They are the farthest along I have going. They are at like day 24 in flower. That's the list from this point. I'll update some of these pic's later.
The green house is starting to be used again. Got alot of veggies going on. Broccoli, tomatoes, ' cherries, beefsteaks, and patio ' pepper's, 'both bell's and hot's', and soon alot of salad makings, lettuce, radishes, green onions', 'sweet pea's' green beans, And the list goes on. Damn going to be alot of dirt this year.
Of course I'm going to start one or three outside. Leaning strongly to these local strains this year. I have 2 Cripit's going and a Berkley Blue. All three are about 3' tall already. I want to see how big these indo's can get. I'll update with my dirt and food regiments pretty soon. And these 3 are going in 5 gallon smart pots, so they should have some decent roots going. I'm not sure if I want to finish them in large pots, or directly in the ground in the greenhouse. Good thing I can leave them alone for afew weeks to decide.
Well I guess I'll find something else to take some pic's of later. Damn I wish I could get this microscope dailed in.
Ok peoples I send good thoughts and hope everyones gardens are green'
Keepem Green
GoldenGoose7 has a nice remedy for PM in flower... here's the link. uses skim milk and water... AND IT ONLY NEEDS TO BE RINSED OFF to smoke!! Could also work on your plants outside near your intake.
It's a nice read, so read it all if you like.
GG7's Indoor/Outdoor Grows!
P.S. Have you a filter on your intake? To install an in-line HEPA filter would be a good investment in your case, I think.
It's a nice read, so read it all if you like.
GG7's Indoor/Outdoor Grows!
P.S. Have you a filter on your intake? To install an in-line HEPA filter would be a good investment in your case, I think.
Yikes on the PM, but good that you're on to it now. I'm with OMM, where do you get the time! Always seems like a lot going on in your world. 
Those Vantage plants really are pretty looking plants all bushed out like that.
Those Vantage plants really are pretty looking plants all bushed out like that.
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