AKgramma
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I'm not keeping a blog, just a journal. Are they the same thing?
I'm not keeping a blog, just a journal. Are they the same thing?
AKgramma
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I'm not keeping a blog, just a journal. Are they the same thing?
( after following directions ) Nope, that is NOT what I wanted. I don't want to take care of 3 different sites (gallery, journal, and blog)
Kriaze
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I can see your point here but imagine that you're looking for some really good information about something that you remember reading in the past and want to find again. Instead of being like a book where you can fold the corner of the page to create a bookmark for future reference you would end up skimming through possibly hundreds of pages searching for the info that you require. Blogs are in effect those folded corners of the book, with titles too
When you next need info you literally look at your blogs and their titles for instant reference, they really do come in handy.Weaselcracker I'd settle on a tour of your garden whether you thought everything was perfect or not. No need to be so hard on yourself when there are people like me around that are wishing to learn about growing, it's good to see a bit of bad with the good and whether the problem gets rectified or binned. It's also encouraging to see that even experienced growers are not some form of green fingered demigods that turn everything they touch into pure top shelf bud. I've always admired your honesty and frankness when discussing your garden and in turn it helps me continue growing knowing that there are no 'elite' breed of cultivators looking down on me all the time, well maybe somewhere in a parallel universe but not since I jumped through that green hole and landed here anyway
I'm off to create some new ways to torture my girls, can I tie them down for the first time ever while they're in flower? Guess I should have asked first. All the best
Weasel, good to see you!
I don't use it as a blog, just as a handy reference for me to go back to useful info.
I got to thinking about this some more and I remembered Obi Wan is on a schedule like you want.... He's got great beasts going as always. Check out his grow..
Obi Wan Cannabinoid Presents - Jock vs Jack - A T5 - Hempy Grow Journal
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Ak, I'm sure there are a bunch of bells and whistles available in the blog department, but I've only used the 'blog this post' thing in the way that Mr Flip mentioned. It just takes a snapshot of whatever post I'm trying to save, and files it away. No need to maintain it or keep up with anything. Unlike with a journal, lol.
Oh yeah- I don't think White Widow is always a bitch. I've heard it described as an easy strain. There are a lot of versions of WW and I don't know what they all have in common, or if they are all different. The Seedsman variety gets good reviews too. I'm not sure what's going on - I guess she just doesn't like me.
Re the advice on cleaning pots. No I don't clean the pots much. I used to when I had the spider mite infestation, which was years ago.
I really just haven't had time to do more than the barest minimum there. This is why the grow gods are mad at me, because they hate to see me get a free ride and try to evade my quota of pain and suffering.
Without getting in to circumstances and all the nitty gritty of my life- these days I maintain two places (and some other concerns and waypoints, along the way) a hundred miles apart, and sorta zip back and forth between them. There's also a lot of other stuff going on- work and other such stuff which keeps me very busy.
Anyway- in a typical week I'll get to the place with the grow for one night- sometimes two. I usually can't get in to work on the plants till after 12pm, after a very long day, and then I'll work a few hours in there, till I'm too tired to focus, get up the next morning and mix up some food and water for them and throw it in the direction of the plants and run off again. So niceties like washing pots don't usually occur to me. It's kind of like I'm growing in spite of not having time to grow. I was growing before this situation arose. It's 'temporary'. Really it's amazing that I'm still growing. I expected this situation to implode long ago.
Oh yeah- I don't think White Widow is always a bitch. I've heard it described as an easy strain. There are a lot of versions of WW and I don't know what they all have in common, or if they are all different. The Seedsman variety gets good reviews too. I'm not sure what's going on - I guess she just doesn't like me.
Re the advice on cleaning pots. No I don't clean the pots much. I used to when I had the spider mite infestation, which was years ago.
I really just haven't had time to do more than the barest minimum there. This is why the grow gods are mad at me, because they hate to see me get a free ride and try to evade my quota of pain and suffering.
Without getting in to circumstances and all the nitty gritty of my life- these days I maintain two places (and some other concerns and waypoints, along the way) a hundred miles apart, and sorta zip back and forth between them. There's also a lot of other stuff going on- work and other such stuff which keeps me very busy.
Anyway- in a typical week I'll get to the place with the grow for one night- sometimes two. I usually can't get in to work on the plants till after 12pm, after a very long day, and then I'll work a few hours in there, till I'm too tired to focus, get up the next morning and mix up some food and water for them and throw it in the direction of the plants and run off again. So niceties like washing pots don't usually occur to me. It's kind of like I'm growing in spite of not having time to grow. I was growing before this situation arose. It's 'temporary'. Really it's amazing that I'm still growing. I expected this situation to implode long ago.
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Thank you Shigitty for those posts. Confirms what I've heard before about people cloning plants for decades. It must be a nice feeling to have an old plant like that around. Myself I haven't taken so much care with my cuttings- but I do always feel better about cloning when the plant is thriving.
On the bright side of prohibition - it's nice to be around in this particular time. Cannabis growing culture is basically like a bunch of people huddled in bunkers passionately trying to reinvent the wheel and carrying on secretive conversations with each other about whatever wheels we're currently working on. If this plant wasn't so repressed we wouldn't get to have this much fun puzzling this stuff out, because it would be good ol' boring-ass common knowledge.
On the bright side of prohibition - it's nice to be around in this particular time. Cannabis growing culture is basically like a bunch of people huddled in bunkers passionately trying to reinvent the wheel and carrying on secretive conversations with each other about whatever wheels we're currently working on. If this plant wasn't so repressed we wouldn't get to have this much fun puzzling this stuff out, because it would be good ol' boring-ass common knowledge.
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Thanks for that link Tead. I'll check it out.
It occurs to me that I already have enough coco to grow a few plants in now, while I slowly slither forward towards this idea of changing mediums. If I got a day to spend at the grow, then I could get some sort of simple DTW thing going on, easily enough. It'd be nice to switch things up a little in there,
and stop all this damn pussyfooting around!
smack!
Ouch!
Must sleep a few minutes. Have to get up early.
It occurs to me that I already have enough coco to grow a few plants in now, while I slowly slither forward towards this idea of changing mediums. If I got a day to spend at the grow, then I could get some sort of simple DTW thing going on, easily enough. It'd be nice to switch things up a little in there,
and stop all this damn pussyfooting around!
smack!
Ouch!
Must sleep a few minutes. Have to get up early.
i would be very interested in seeing you go hempy weaseley,, well for one i could call ya hempy weaseley,, that's cool enuf allready,, but i am interested in hempy as well,, not sure why,, just am,, cleaner maybe, dunno,, reading with interest friend,, cheers
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I'm working on getting some perlite without paying astronomical shipping. I'll spend some time on the phone today when stores open and see who can charge me least. Definitely not available here and I'll need it for soil mixes as well.
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Much cleaner all around. I credit the medium I run with my bug free environment. There's just no home for them anywhere. I do have one of those quick dart-y little spiders in my veg tent, but he seems harmless so far.
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Kriaze I personally enjoy seeing the dark side of grows. Makes it more real. I'm not really worried about the dirty shame of my crappy looking plants so much. Well, a little. But I can handle ups and downs and lulls in the action. Mostly have just been too rushed to really invest the time at the grow to even keep it nice, and was waiting for the next upswing which I figured would come some time after I got a day or two off to regroup a little. A lot of things stacking up here so I just thought I'd wait it out.
I'm just going to have to try and regroup on the fly for now.
Anyway- I'll try to put some pics in here. One big reason for my lack of photos lately is my hps sunglasses/state of the art camera filter technique (which I first learned of from you) has failed somewhat now that I got the Hortilux bulbs. These bulbs tend to give a weird pink tinge to the photos.
Oddly enough, the arrival of these new bulbs coincides with when all the problems began. I'm pretty sure i can't blame the bulbs ( or I would). I thought I would see my plants make huge leaps forward with new light- instead they started looking crappier than before. I decided to flush them- then they yellowed up a bunch and I got worried. So I added a little N next time. Then there were a few ph swings... Maybe. I don't know... Probably a combination of errors- though I didn't think I did anything much different than usual so it's a little confusing.
I think I pulled the Malawi out of the fire and it's passable if a little scorched and the buds are small. The Pineapple Chunk also I think is mostly past the issues now, though somewhat more scorched.
I descrogged this Malawi by cutting the screen off. It kind of bunched up after that. I'm hoping the buds will develop quite a lot more- at least in terms of ripeness if not size. In ten gallon pot.
The Pineapple Chunk. Three weeks ago it had purple stems and curly leaves. Now the newer growth is ok-ish.
My veg room is quite empty because clones haven't been rooting much. I forgot to get a photo of the whole scene, including my vegging Mama Thai, which is the hardest hit plant as usual. It's got that curly leaf medusa/bitch look that the solo cup White Widow had.
I'll try to get a photo of her on the weekend
I started some new plants after digging through my seed collection. Found one more Critical Cheese seed which I planted last week (little seeding on the right) and also an Exodus Cheese and I planted another Malawi. They are in coco which I'll probably have to set up to auto-water if they live and get bigger. Just winging it
The bent over plant behind them is a mystery plant that sprouted up in one of the pots. I'm guessing it's a Mama Thai/Thai Stick cross.
I'm just going to have to try and regroup on the fly for now.
Anyway- I'll try to put some pics in here. One big reason for my lack of photos lately is my hps sunglasses/state of the art camera filter technique (which I first learned of from you) has failed somewhat now that I got the Hortilux bulbs. These bulbs tend to give a weird pink tinge to the photos.
Oddly enough, the arrival of these new bulbs coincides with when all the problems began. I'm pretty sure i can't blame the bulbs ( or I would). I thought I would see my plants make huge leaps forward with new light- instead they started looking crappier than before. I decided to flush them- then they yellowed up a bunch and I got worried. So I added a little N next time. Then there were a few ph swings... Maybe. I don't know... Probably a combination of errors- though I didn't think I did anything much different than usual so it's a little confusing.
I think I pulled the Malawi out of the fire and it's passable if a little scorched and the buds are small. The Pineapple Chunk also I think is mostly past the issues now, though somewhat more scorched.
I descrogged this Malawi by cutting the screen off. It kind of bunched up after that. I'm hoping the buds will develop quite a lot more- at least in terms of ripeness if not size. In ten gallon pot.
The Pineapple Chunk. Three weeks ago it had purple stems and curly leaves. Now the newer growth is ok-ish.
My veg room is quite empty because clones haven't been rooting much. I forgot to get a photo of the whole scene, including my vegging Mama Thai, which is the hardest hit plant as usual. It's got that curly leaf medusa/bitch look that the solo cup White Widow had.
I'll try to get a photo of her on the weekend
I started some new plants after digging through my seed collection. Found one more Critical Cheese seed which I planted last week (little seeding on the right) and also an Exodus Cheese and I planted another Malawi. They are in coco which I'll probably have to set up to auto-water if they live and get bigger. Just winging it
The bent over plant behind them is a mystery plant that sprouted up in one of the pots. I'm guessing it's a Mama Thai/Thai Stick cross.
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Cheesy didn't make it. This is what the original harvested part weighed- 34.3 grams. I finally gave up on her and harvested the rest of the bud off her crispy carcass tonight. This part weighed in at 7.8 g. So altogether she was just over 42 grams, about an an ounce and a half. That's incredible for a tiny little thing in a solo cup. My regular scrog screens which are 24" x 19" average between 3 and 4 ounces each- but usually are closer to 3. They are soooo much bigger, to yield only twice as much.
I can't agree more. Perhaps it's time for a sea of solo cup clones.
Tead hears your words of frustration. Been there. In my case, I like to shift back to the basics tho last time it happened was what triggered my move to hempy pots. It can shake your beliefs. When I look back at my times of frustration, I see that I was usually "out there" trying non-standard things or trying to grow strains that were not a good fit for my world.
So... I believe small pea gravel might be a decent substitute for perlite. You'd have to bleach it first.
millertm
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Volcanic glass vs pea gravel. Not sure it's same thing. I'm not saying it won't work but if it did you see it in use more.
Cheers
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Cheers
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I think I have to reserve the right to disagree with you.
While smooth volcanic glass might be perfect for a recirc system, I believe it has a disadvantage in a hempy pots.
My medium stays damp thru the entire mix. I credit this to regular water migration from an area of water at the bottom of the pot and the relatively dry area up top. The small textured surface of the perlite allows for water to migrate between the microscopic pockets. I don't imagine it happening on a smooth surface of volcanic glass.
Of course, this is just my working theory based on my observations of hempy pots.
millertm
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Eh, perilight is volcanic glass
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Kriaze
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Great to see you managed to get some shots of the girls Weaselcracker, excellent update. One thing that's becoming apparent to me now is how perceptions can change depending on which side of the screen you're on. For instance when I look at your Malawi I see a nice robust plant looking well on it's way in flowering. When I see your Pineapple Chunk I think 'a bit of crisping at the end of the leaves there, nothing serious', yet if it was the other way around I would be ready for chopping everything down and starting again. Strange really but I'm beginning to realise this more and more nowadays as I read through threads. I think we're all our own worst critics and a little harsh on ourselves.
As for the problems coinciding with the arrival of your new bulbs have you not considered that it might just be the transitional period while the plants adapt to the new spectrum and environment? I noticed the plants would always need time to adjust when switching over from my CFL to LED and vice versa, it could be something so simple as that.
As for the Cheese it's a shame she couldn't pull through but damn didn't she do you proud? I agree with Tead, there should be more of these around for sea of green grows Long live the Cheese!
As for the problems coinciding with the arrival of your new bulbs have you not considered that it might just be the transitional period while the plants adapt to the new spectrum and environment? I noticed the plants would always need time to adjust when switching over from my CFL to LED and vice versa, it could be something so simple as that.
As for the Cheese it's a shame she couldn't pull through but damn didn't she do you proud? I agree with Tead, there should be more of these around for sea of green grows
Long live the Cheese!