Radogast's Hi-Brix Basement Grow - New Location - New Soil - New Experiences

[Radogast]

The Kind Pen


I have been enjoying The Kind Pen TruVa from 420 prize sponsor The Kind Pen for a couple of weeks. I take long slow hits on medium heat with almost no vape cloud on exhale.

It took me about the same amout of time to go through a bowl on the vape as it did a bowl in my pipe - but I was taking hits of pipes and my wife's vape too.



For getting high, for me, there is nothing like an edible. The APV (Already Been Vaped) from the Kind Pen and my wife's dry herb Wulf Vape (alot like the Snoop Dogg Vape) is being stirred into the butter and cream cheese frosting and brownie mix below. Made before and eaten after the Easter Dinner Feast with an 89 year-old relative. The Ham, cheesy potatoes, tomato slices, baked beans, creamed cord, and cocloate cake were sitting a little heavy and I was very lazy feeling when my wife suggested eating a brownie. It took about 90 minutes to kick in, jump started with The Kind Pen, then I've been going another 6 hours. Very pleasant hours with an AK47 flair to the high as if I had smoked it - sweet. It's supplemental stimulation like that that make it hard to rate the high of The Kind Pen. At the very least, I like the way it decarboxylates the buds for making brownies

ABV from The Kind Pen used for brownies

As you can see, the ABV is toasted medium to light brown with a touch of green. Nothing burnt, no burnt taste. near organic soil. Home grown, washed, ground, and toasted buds for long-lasting edible pleasure

 

[Dennise]

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[mostarda]

I like how you grow your plants and the use of defoliation.
Hope to do something similar!

 

[Tead]

I'd clip up that thick girl more. I have the same issues with my OGKs. Plus, always promptly remove dead or dying leaves... they pose a rot/mold threat and are doing nothing but blocking light.

Dropped my KindPen somewhere in the Qtr. the other day. I sure hope the person that discovered it can appreciate it. Put a leash on it.

 

[weenmeoff]

Looking good in here rad. Congrats on the Harvest! Do you have any stomach issues consuming that ABV plant matter? I've read it's hard to digest and have always cooked it in coconut oil tHen strained before cooking with it.

 

[Radogast]

Looking good in here rad. Congrats on the Harvest! Do you have any stomach issues consuming that ABV plant matter? I've read it's hard to digest and have always cooked it in coconut oil tHen strained before cooking with it.

We've done ABV brownies many times before, just not in about a year. No problems with anyone who has eaten them: not the epicure, the one who doesn't like new foods, the one with iritable gastric and bowel issues, or with other folks. I don't taste the ABV or notice the texture. We have always cooked the ABV in a recipe with oil.

 

[TheRedDragon]

The Kind Pen


I have been enjoying The Kind Pen TruVa from 420 prize sponsor The Kind Pen for a couple of weeks. I take long slow hits on medium heat with almost no vape cloud on exhale.

It took me about the same amout of time to go through a bowl on the vape as it did a bowl in my pipe - but I was taking hits of pipes and my wife's vape too.



For getting high, for me, there is nothing like an edible. The APV (Already Been Vaped) from the Kind Pen and my wife's dry herb Wulf Vape (alot like the Snoop Dogg Vape) is being stirred into the butter and cream cheese frosting and brownie mix below. Made before and eaten after the Easter Dinner Feast with an 89 year-old relative. The Ham, cheesy potatoes, tomato slices, baked beans, creamed cord, and cocloate cake were sitting a little heavy and I was very lazy feeling when my wife suggested eating a brownie. It took about 90 minutes to kick in, jump started with The Kind Pen, then I've been going another 6 hours. Very pleasant hours with an AK47 flair to the high as if I had smoked it - sweet. It's supplemental stimulation like that that make it hard to rate the high of The Kind Pen. At the very least, I like the way it decarboxylates the buds for making brownies

ABV from The Kind Pen used for brownies

As you can see, the ABV is toasted medium to light brown with a touch of green. Nothing burnt, no burnt taste. near organic soil. Home grown, washed, ground, and toasted buds for long-lasting edible pleasure

Does the ABV have that much potency leftover? I would think it would be negligible. I hope it isn't that strong because I just throw mine away. Yikes

 

[Radogast]

Does the ABV have that much potency leftover? I would think it would be negligible. I hope it isn't that strong because I just throw mine away. Yikes

The leftover ABV is potent. There is one good strong brownie hit per every bowl vaped.
When you consider an edible high lasts much longer than a vape high, I'd say half the potency is left in the ABV.

 

[Radogast]

Veg update


AK47 and Borderliner were repotted in 10gal GeoPots.


AK47 in second run soil. The Lego Metal Detector guy did OK the first run so I've got him training the Lego Radio dude and his slacker buddy.

Borderliner clone is in 1st run soil, (as is everyone else for awhile.)

The Taoist monk from Borderliner first harvest is playing peek-a-boo with fan leaves when the fan blows.

Veg area:
Back row: AK47 and Borderliner clones in 10gal GeoPots.
Middle row: CBD Critical Cure and Carnival seedlings
CloneBucket: Ace Mix, Bubba's Gift and Amherst Sour Diesel
Front row: Lilly

 

[bobrown14]

Thanks. I haven't been tempted much by LEDs due to high price and further distances from plants. BUT RECENTLY I have been seeing these modular COB lights with heat sinks cropping up in grow tents. Hang some rails, wire some ballasts and plugs, and away you go. Lower heat and electric bills. They say you hang them fairly close to the canopy. I'm watching for them to grow big juicy plants to decide, but they look promising. The prices seem to be low enough that they will pay for themselves in reduced elctricity within a year. I'd rather throw my money at LED COBs than at slot machines

For me... and I run ALL cobs cept for our seedlings for veggies and my canna seedlings.. so 2 lamps that are not COBs... and 8 COB fixtures.

I got a reduction of about $50 last month (compared to same time last year) ...

I just installed 2 more VERO29 cobs (3 COBs per fixture) this month. So we will see... thing I like is I can get a lot more light per 15A circuit. Also the COBs I'm using are white light not burple so it's A LOT more stealthy. That just in itself is a big game changer, not that I'm letting my guard down. I know who's growing with LEDs in my neighborhood tho... that color is distinct and harder to cover up than normal colored lights.

I'm very happy with COB LED .. I have 3 different types. The VERO29 is getting closer to a 600W HPS ... not quite as bright but close without any or very little heat.


Borderliner is looking good there buddy! Yeah ya just never know about finish time... I take the breeders description as a guideline. Sometimes it's good to be patient and pleasantly surprised. If you go a tad too long.. hey probably going to make that up in yield.

I think a little more stony feeling in there but sometimes ya just never know. I've gone too long with Chemdawg and raced my wife to bed... oye... ummm make that raced myself to bed! I'm tired ... no my pulse was like 95bpm... I.. yie .. yie.. not tired maybe a sedative is in order! hahahaha. Yeah so trichome colors be damned, man the torpedo's, full speed ahead.

Disclamer:
This post is just a dream... dreamed up by me and has no real meaning what so ever! Everyone ...we are on our own! and pass.

 

[bobrown14]

The Kind Pen


I have been enjoying The Kind Pen TruVa from 420 prize sponsor The Kind Pen for a couple of weeks. I take long slow hits on medium heat with almost no vape cloud on exhale.

Turn up the temp until you get a nice cloud... thank me later. Just adjust your intake timing so you don't cough... it takes practice, I'm here for ya to demonstrate and congrats on your harvest with many bountiful harvests to come!

If no cloudy exhale you're missing the bite about ta getcha! Just sayin...

 

[Blazinjones]

Borderliner Harvest


I harvested Borderliner today - 60 days in the flower area.
At 46 days her pistils were brown and trichomes were 100% cloudy, bud weight probaby 1.5-2.0 ounces,
then she grew new white pistils with new clear trichomes.
At 60 days her pistils were brown and trichomes were 100% cloudy, bud weight probaby 2.5-3.0 ounces.


Borderliner at harvest time

Borderliner branches went into flower fairly even and came out fairly even.

After trimming off the fan leaves with long petioles, her branches were every which way

Borderliner had more green fan leaves left at harvest than any previous grow.

congrats on the harvest guna have to let me know what the dry weight is wen its done drying tht is lol but yea lookn great buddy keep up the good work

I am naturally tempted to run Doc's soil as a no-till, but doc puts in another batch of amendment each round of growing, so it needs another round of cooking. That's what doc does. That's what doc says to do. As long as I am following an evolving recipe, I need to get the basic recipe working great before I even suggest tweeking the recipe - For me that could take years I rationalize that I am giving a month of fallow time between runs for the soil to recover.

My immediate goal is to limit the amount of cooking soil to a small enough size that I have a warm place to hold it in the winter. The other option would be to cook up enough soil outside (when it is warm) that I won't run out of pre-cooked chilly soil through the winter. In a couple of months I should take stock. I aim to average 1 harvest per month (not week.) If the system starts working, and I recook soil 3 times for a total of 4 rounds, I won't need another bale of Peat Moss for a year or two.

Outside in the garden, I marked out a planter bed on each end of the porch by defining rectangular areas with stone curb looking beams of bedded limestone. Earlier in the week I had defined a long bed in front of the porch with the same limestone beams. I used up exactly every limestone beam that was piled at the money corner of the house since we purchased as is - rehab supplies and all. The couple remodeling the house before us may have had other plans for the limestone, but I like my plans better.

I've also been trenching and digging up enough soil that it must seem normal to the neighbors to see me pull 5 cubic feet of soil (two small garden cart loads) out of the one planter bed area, use it to build up a berm, and replace it with topsoil from across the garden. By June, seeing cooking soil and used soil appear in the garden will seem pretty normal to the neighbors. Just with a few bulbs and garden features, we are already drawing more human, bird, and butterfly traffic to our side of the street

Can you tell I've been non-420 gardening?


Back to indoor.

After a prior engagement post harvest yesterday (4 hours + of auction,) I had time to oven dry/decarb 1.4g of trimmed popcorn buds at 170 for about 70 minutes. Smokes like a dream.


I hung the washed and trimmed buds that were in a mesh hamper since yesterday. The initial dry of the stems stiffened them, making for easy hanging.

Borderliner, washed, trimmed, and drying.

Two Boys

lookn tasty indeed I hope now with better lights and once I get this temp issue under control which with ur help and the dino neck starting to work better and a few upgrades ill be in full swing once I upgrade the dino neck with a bigger fan I hope things will be a lot better in the tent but got it down to 90 during the day today but today was kinda a cold day so lets hope tht It stays alil cooler out till my nex check comes lol but yea lookn gud brotha


At the top of Page 61 (this page, and 3 days ago, as I type this) Sue is using overgrown and my veg area in the same sentence... hold that thought.



The Grow room smelled different today, without Borderliner in the room, yes but also .... the smell turned out to be boys.


Hawaiian Skunk clone in the Flower area - is a boy.

Itty Bitty Hawaiian Skunk Boy Bits

This means Hawaiian Skunk in veg, scheduled to be next in the flower area in a month, is a boy too.

A nice looking plant to lose (I have another seed)

So the other large plant in veg, Tangerine Widow, is also unsexed.

Checking Tangerine Widow for sex

Tangerine Widow is also a boy - Widow, Stupid name for a boy (I might not have more seeds.)

Those little lego men don't seem to work near as well as those Taoist monks in the role of plant spirit.
The lego woman on the ATV protected her plant. Girl Power plant spirit.
Sure these were the only two unsexed seeds, but lego men, you are fired from the plant spirit guides.



Lego woman on her ATV, spirit guiding Bubba's Gift

Bubba's Gift before defoliation

Bubba's Gift after defoliation - 40% dead leaves, 30% little leaves, 30% future popcorn buds with a little frost.

There is nothing overgrown about my veg area today With my two largest girls gone to be with the boys (sleeping with the woms soon,) the veg area is down to 5 rooted plants and a few rooting twigs in the cloner bucket.

Ak 47 and Borderliner clones are now the largest, with Ace Mix and Delicatessen Lilly seedlings close behind. Just as close, a Lilly clone folowed by other clones coming out of the clone bucket.

Give it a month, 2 of these girls should be ready for flowering

Veg update


damn man sry to hear bout the males unless ur breeding or crossbreeding which I dnt think u r but I cud be wrong shit I no what ur thinkn me wrong lol yeah right an I no I'm not being modest I really have been wrong b4 lmao jus kidding I'm usually the one whos always wrong lol but yea hopefully u can pull out a few more females if u got the seeds it sucks losing a strain I think I mite have to chuck my pineapple skunk I uppotted alil while back and its still not lookn gud and now I think she is starting to look worse each day not better idk ima give her a few more days since I don't need to move her anyway and nuthn else isready to take her spot I'm jus leaving her in hopes she comes back but if not its not a total loss cuz I do have more pineapple skunk seeds which I believe thts one of the 2 new 1s I jus started germing 2nite its pineapple skunk and a strawberry cake the strawberry didn't take last time I tried it so guna try again an hopefully I don't fry it like what happened I think last time I'm not fully sure but it ended up all brown n toasty like so I think the lights where to much 4 it actually tht was what prompted me to make the xtra veg table along with wanting to get my perpetual grow on lol but yea man good luck on the upcoming babies

AK47 and Borderliner were repotted in 10gal GeoPots.


AK47 in second run soil. The Lego Metal Detector guy did OK the first run so I've got him training the Lego Radio dude and his slacker buddy.

Borderliner clone is in 1st run soil, (as is everyone else for awhile.)

The Taoist monk from Borderliner first harvest is playing peek-a-boo with fan leaves when the fan blows.

Veg area:
Back row: AK47 and Borderliner clones in 10gal GeoPots.
Middle row: CBD Critical Cure and Carnival seedlings
CloneBucket: Ace Mix, Bubba's Gift and Amherst Sour Diesel
Front row: Lilly

For me... and I run ALL cobs cept for our seedlings for veggies and my canna seedlings.. so 2 lamps that are not COBs... and 8 COB fixtures.

I got a reduction of about $50 last month (compared to same time last year) ...

I just installed 2 more VERO29 cobs (3 COBs per fixture) this month. So we will see... thing I like is I can get a lot more light per 15A circuit. Also the COBs I'm using are white light not burple so it's A LOT more stealthy. That just in itself is a big game changer, not that I'm letting my guard down. I know who's growing with LEDs in my neighborhood tho... that color is distinct and harder to cover up than normal colored lights.

I'm very happy with COB LED .. I have 3 different types. The VERO29 is getting closer to a 600W HPS ... not quite as bright but close without any or very little heat.


Borderliner is looking good there buddy! Yeah ya just never know about finish time... I take the breeders description as a guideline. Sometimes it's good to be patient and pleasantly surprised. If you go a tad too long.. hey probably going to make that up in yield.

I think a little more stony feeling in there but sometimes ya just never know. I've gone too long with Chemdawg and raced my wife to bed... oye... ummm make that raced myself to bed! I'm tired ... no my pulse was like 95bpm... I.. yie .. yie.. not tired maybe a sedative is in order! hahahaha. Yeah so trichome colors be damned, man the torpedo's, full speed ahead.

Disclamer:
This post is just a dream... dreamed up by me and has no real meaning what so ever! Everyone ...we are on our own! and pass.

yea I think purple kush is either a super potent indica or I went a tad to long in letting it grow cuz I some a bowl and its not even fully cured so I use my vape and I pass out after about 4 hits and I'm napping in my chair lol n shit it didn't even turn out th frosty so I can jus imagine this round she will be a freak lol I think I'm guna take it alil bit earlier this time tho cuz if this one was tht potent I cant wait for a frostier version lol I jus don't want it to put me right to sleep right away and if I pick it alil earlier then I mite be able to get a slightly uppy kinda high I'm not really lookn for an uppy kinda high but more of I'm able to be high an enjoy it an not pass out lol

 

[Radogast]

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yea I think purple kush is either a super potent indica or I went a tad to long in letting it grow cuz I some a bowl and its not even fully cured so I use my vape and I pass out after about 4 hits and I'm napping in my chair lol n shit it didn't even turn out th frosty so I can jus imagine this round she will be a freak lol I think I'm guna take it alil bit earlier this time tho cuz if this one was tht potent I cant wait for a frostier version lol I jus don't want it to put me right to sleep right away and if I pick it alil earlier then I mite be able to get a slightly uppy kinda high I'm not really lookn for an uppy kinda high but more of I'm able to be high an enjoy it an not pass out lol

That's a fun thing about taking clones. You can run it again, try something a little different, see if you like the effect.
When I switched my flowering timer from 12/12 to 11/13, I liked the difference.

The first time I ran borderliner (a different seed) I harvested after 46 days - she was a monstor at killing pain and was at 100% cloudy. (My wife usually doesn't like the sleepy time of amber.) This time she was the same at 46 days, but I noticed her trichomes were short (button mushroom) shaped so I watched daily and saw her put out a second wave of pistils and grow larger. The second time she reached 100% cloudy, her trichomes were looking more beech mushroom or enoki mushroom shaped - lots of stalk. Some of the stalks were also loosing their rigor which, like amber, indicates the girl had passed her peak THC moment. I feel good about waiting longer this time, and will do it again.

Purple Kush tend to be pure indica or act like pure indica, so if you got a powerful amount of THC, you might have to harvest at partly cloudy to stave of some of the sleepiness. You might also just power through the tiredness playing a video game. Growing clones you get to test how you can do better than last time


I was looking up Amherst Sour Diesel at HSO today, and they suggest indoor harvests in 65-70 days and 10-15 oz in a 3x3' space. My Amherst Sour Diesel is in the low 60 days, not gaining much weight and looks like she will fall in the estmated 2.5-3.7 oz range specified - so she is on track and the breeder didn't seem to lie - but I don't really know because i've never grown it before.

 

[Radogast]

congrats on the harvest guna have to let me know what the dry weight is wen its done drying tht is lol but yea lookn great buddy keep up the good work

So I went downstairs and looked at the hanging buds

The branch snapped so they are ready

I trimmed of a bunch of buds that look like this. They are heavy and hard.

All told, Borderliner weighed in at 114g - 4 oz.

I'm really happy with 4 oz in a gallon baggie.

 

[Radogast]

Carnival got her first nutes watering today (2 ml Growth Energy + .2 ml Tea)

 

[Blazinjones]

So I went downstairs and looked at the hanging buds

The branch snapped so they are ready

I trimmed of a bunch of buds that look like this. They are heavy and hard.

All told, Borderliner weighed in at 114g - 4 oz.

I'm really happy with 4 oz in a gallon baggie.

dam rad nice harvest lookn tasty indeed I'm currently vaping a bowl of the pk as I type this so here enjoy and I'm jus going dam I wish I had tht harvest lol well hopefully now with better lights I will be able to get close to tht kinda yield and potency I cant wait till strawberry cake gets going I wana get a few different strains going at once so I can keep it goin lol then ill always have a variety and tht is a gud thing lol but yea jus wanted to stop by and say congrats on the harvest its a over at rads place lol jk but yea

Carnival got her first nutes watering today (2 ml Growth Energy + .2 ml Tea)

ahhh shiz lookn gud on the new upcoming baby u got there they r jus so damn adorable at tht age lol idk I think I love my plants alil to much its prolly y I lost my last attempt at tryn to germ my strawberry cake I get it to pop a tail and then I put it under soil but it didn't grow so wen I dug it up it was all brown n shrivled looking so I'm guessing to close to the lights or maybe they were to strong at first but now I got my t8s set up over a table and I got some of my panda liner up around half of it ill take pics ina lil bit to show ya but yea I got my t8s now for babies and fresh clones till they get established then to the tent with the big girl lights but yea brotha ill post a pic of the setup ina lil bit jus wanted to say gud job on the harvest n lookn gud muchacho

 

[Tead]

Fresh bud at Rad's!!!
What's the story with those metal tags? I have wandering plant tag issues.

 

[Blazinjones]

Turn up the temp until you get a nice cloud... thank me later. Just adjust your intake timing so you don't cough... it takes practice, I'm here for ya to demonstrate and congrats on your harvest with many bountiful harvests to come!

If no cloudy exhale you're missing the bite about ta getcha! Just sayin...

dam nice pen I needed to c if my link I put in my sig to my new journal worked so figured id hit ur journal n post sumthn to find out lol

 

[Radogast]

Fresh bud at Rad's!!!
What's the story with those metal tags? I have wandering plant tag issues.

They are aluminium plant tags with aluminium wires, when you write on with a ball point pen the words are etched (repoussed) into the metal. They don't rust so good for outside and gardens. They were about $15-20 for a box of 100 a couple of years back.

I started out writing in planting dates and flowering dates - but I keep track of that stuff on a bulletin board - so now I am making tags with only the strain name . I can reuse the strain tags

 

[NorCaliwood]

Nice little girl,,, Looking good,,, Keepem Green