The Hexapus's Garden

heya champ,, where ya been?? ahhhh, basking in the glory i presume,, dont blame ya,, you earned it with that baby pot/mega plant effort,, so impressive indeed,, more chedda than me one gallon pots,, amazing,, :bravo:

a q mr weaselcracker, iffin i might,, that mama thai reg is into week twelve now,, and surprisingly, to me, is going on a tear,, throwing out masses of flowers, mega clumps of em,,

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shows there or does not, take yer pick,, but that's er,, today,, every bud is exploding with new mega flower bunches,,,

is that kinda normal in your opinion?? any thoughts or facts to pass on?? should i let er go or harvest as planned in the next week or so, in yer opinion?

cheers friend,,

now,, the mama thai/thai stick is a whole other matter,,

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again, pic might suck,, but what a plant this is turning into,, colas four or five inches long,, several of them,, and fattening up too,, and just the beginning,, oh me,,oh my,, what to do??? enjoy,, that's what!!!!!

thanks agin friend,, and only the best karma sent to the islands,, indeed,,
 
You have some exciting ladies, nivek! Looks like the first one is going to beat the second one to the finish line.. Judging by the shape and condition of the leaves; the first one is a hybrid, coming into home stretch, and the second one is Sativa-heavy, still halfway around the track. But sativas tend to take their own sweet time getting there.
 
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You have some exciting ladies, nivek! Looks like the first one is going to beat the second one to the finish line.. Judging by the shape and condition of the leaves; the first one is a hybrid, coming into home stretch, and the second one is Sativa-heavy, still halfway around the track. But sativas tend to take their own sweet time getting there.
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wow, ak,, impressive words,, you nailed it,, i maybe should have noted the first one, mama thai reg is week twelve, of flower,, yep,, the mama thai/thai stick is merely into week , well, actually, i'm not sure,, but about week six maybe, maybe seven,, this one has the potential to be a fifteen weeker,, i hope not but might be,, maybe longer, maybe shorter,, only,, and only,, time will tell,, or mr weaseley,, either one

any way,, both plants unlike any i have grown before,, the mama thai/ thai stick is starting to get very sticky,, not yet smelly tho,, ant the mama thai reg has near no frosting, small trichomes close in to the buds,, and a week or so from ripe,, maybe,, that time thing agin,, cheers ak,,, we have near the exact same stats,, cool,, cheers
 
Hey Nivek. Yes that's normal. They do that right when you think they should be winding down. It's an evolutionary trick developed to throw cannabis harvesters off and confuse their tiny greedy brains while the plant races ahead in its quest to find a boyfriend so it can get pregnant and grow it's pups, or however all that stuff works. The Mama Thai is especially wily in this department.
The pistils usually settle down a bit in the next week or so, but they'll never stop.
I don't have any set time to harvest. You'd be surprised at how disorganized and unmethodical I am. I just always just seem to wing it. But generally 12-14 weeks is what it ends up being. There will never be a very decisive finish with the Mama Thai, in my experience. Probably if I cut the lights-on hours down to 10 or 9 there would be but I haven't tried that because I always have other plants flowering at different stages in there as well.
I've tried leaving them 15,16 weeks. But they just start doing a kind of sneaky, leafy, reveg thing, all the while putting out new decoy pistils.
If you really want to get a handle on it- the best way is to harvest part of it, more a week later, more a week after that, and so on. You'll get an idea of how she grows, and eventually -after smoking the herb, will see when is a good harvest time. In my experience it takes a few smoking sessions before discerning what you like more. It's always good the first time, then you start getting more picky. The sativas can be a little jittery sometimes. Like- it's generally a happy thing, not a bad feeling, but there's just not much time for lolling around and relaxing when you're busy multitasking and have so much interesting stuff going on. Mama Thai keeps me awake at night, more so than the Malawi. There is probably quite a bit of leeway there to play with in regards to the harvest window/effect.

As for the basking in the glory thing... Yes I guess a little ;) Mentally if not physically because I've been busy as hell. But it's been a lot of fun being showered with all those prizes and I had a good time last night looking up strains at Gorilla Seeds and Crop King, using up the gift certificates I won. I'm going to give most of the booty away. I'm sending the SNS stuff to Lexort, and I'll divvy up the rest of it when it arrives, including a nice care package for Snid, the runner up. Looking forward to putting that one together. I know just which herb to put in the 420 nug jar for him too.
It would be fun to see all those plants growing up in your journal. I've probably said that already though, and these are busy times. Journalling and 420'ing is a luxury I make room for, but technically 'shouldn't'.
 
The hash is dried out- so here you go Kriaze.

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To warm it up so I can shape it, I put the plates in the oven on 150- 200 degrees.
The sativa hash definitely seems less sticky than the other stuff. It's much drier and a bit harder to shape into a lump. Not sure how that works- I would think that one trichome would be as sticky as another trichome. Are individual sativa trichomes less sticky?
I wasn't sure how much different the effect of the sativa hash would be from the indica hash, but I had a puff of the former this afternoon and, as the kids say- Omg!
I went from zero to warp speed in a few seconds. Each individual atom in my body expanded as the protons and electrons screamed around their nuclei at maximum velocity, therefore causing me to grow six inches, seven counting that I was hovering an inch above the ground. In which state I rocketed around 'getting things done' for the last 6 hours. And I am still having trouble sitting still long enough to post this but hey, just trying to squeeze a little lunch break in before midnight strikes...
I did actually have a couple embarrassing accidents involving dropping things, and uhhh...another one which I won't get into, but both caused catastrophic damage to precious items of mine. An expensive instrument case and a handmade pipe were two of the casualties. A real reminder to smoke this stuff with caution.
On the bright side- I was cheerful and completely unfazed by the trail of personal destruction I left behind me. So wtf...
 
That close up looks awesome... Mite have to try that one day soon..
 
Next time I get some more trimmings together I'm going to do a side by side using the bubble bags vs the settling method and see if there is a difference in yield.
 
In the flowering room- the presumed Mama Thai/Thai Stick has sexed as a girl. :thumb:

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Note the hook that's developing. The exact same thing as the White Widow in solo cup showed in flowering. It's either early N toxicity and/or the early stages of the curly twisty disease that the vegging Mama Thai has. It'll get much worse unless I figure something out. All I can really think to do is start feeding at a higher ph. Probably flush it first...



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The Thai stick is still showing no sign of sex. I very much hope it's a girl because this is pretty much it for Thai Stick seeds now.
Stretching pretty fast... I lashed it down again.


Malawi thicket.
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Lookin good, Weasel!
 
No wukkers! Like your smoke report earlier, by the way.. I am waiting on my Ghost Train Haze as a starting point but I would like to "experiment" with some 'good' sativas... I've also got a couple Super Lemon Haze and an Arjans Haze for next grow maybe...
Exciting; having your own grow space! I'm finding, though, that the waiting is very difficult!
 
When you have a perpetual grow going on, all that impatience disappears. Or it did for me anyway. There are always plants coming, and I don't have a lot of time to harvest them. And I hate trimming, especially late at night in between work and... more work. So if a plant takes 18 weeks to flower - great! That's 18 weeks till I have to trim the damn thing. And with any luck I'll kill it and not have to trim it at all.
 
That's a good point about the sativa flower time!
I would eventually like to have at least separate veg and flower areas but available space is the thing so...hopefully soon!
The first couple of minutes trimming is always a joy.. Cos you're harvesting!! Goes downhill quite rapidly from there.
 
Hey Weaselcracker thanks for showing me the end result of the hash process, looks good but sounds even better. I don't have any true sativa trimmings as of yet but after hearing about the end result I'll be sure to keep them separate from my stored Indica remains. Talking of which I'm tempted to try these bubble bags now, I just never feel like I've saved up enough for it to be worthy. Nothing ventured, nothing gained though. Big THANKS for that write up, woke me up and almost had me warping myself just by reading that, great stuff! :)
 
GOOD trip report, man. Malawi really kicks that way in higher dose :laugh:
 
I did actually have a couple embarrassing accidents involving dropping things, and uhhh...another one which I won't get into, but both caused catastrophic damage to precious items of mine. An expensive instrument case and a handmade pipe were two of the casualties. A real reminder to smoke this stuff with caution.
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Awesome! We'll be filing that under the "you know it's good when...." category.
 
I want to try smoking it in a situation where things are a little less ...complicated. All the destruction wasn't because I was losing my mind or anything. It's just that at home I have so many little jobs pulling at me all the time - it's hard to stop working most days at the best of times. Actually I was doing great with it. It's just that I just got going so fast... like a whirlwind , multitasking dozens of things at once, while holding large amounts of information in my mental to-do list. Then I'd see a diversion on the way from A to B, and do a 90 degree turn to get that done too, and trip over something. Everything was working, I was just moving too fast to see properly.
It might be good stuff to try smoking if I was doing something like biking, kayaking, running- or basically in any situation that took mental energy but didn't have too many distractions. Or, on the other hand like Conradino said, at a party, where there are lots of fun distractions but it doesn't matter if you're a little manic.
 
Weaselcracker said:
I've probably said that already though, and these are busy times. Journalling and 420'ing is a luxury I make room for, but technically 'shouldn't'.
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You got that right! Feeling guilty not getting around to visit myself, but trying a little @ a time.

Reps for your latest my man!

:Namaste:
 
No worries Captainblast. 420 journals seem to come with a tiny burden of guilt sometimes -all those subscriptions and stuff popping up, and always worrying about keeping up and whatnot. It's not like that on my end at all though. I figure people will update whenever they damn well please-and they'll drop by here when they have time, or whatever. I just have to figure out how to apply the same standards to myself now... Working on that.
Anyway- nice to see you.

Meanwhile, in the grow room....
The Mama Thai/Stick was quickly going the way of her mother, and opting for that 'permed' effect to her leaves, which really brings out a Medusa-like look in the plants which I'm not real fond of. Reminds me of my ex actually, even though I know it's unfair to project such horrific images on to an innocent little plant.
Anyway- I tried to uncurl her. Like I've already blathered plenty of times- I suspect that this look may be caused by low ph- so I flushed her very well and fed her at a little higher ph than usual. 6.2 instead of the usual 5.8 ish.
Seemed like she needed a flush because the runoff was reasonably high ppm. I also flushed and fed the Thai Stick and the vegging Mama Thai this way, at 6.2 ph.
I went and looked at them later during lights out (using green led) and was horrified to see that those plants were more curly than ever! Aggghh!!!
I spent the whole day assuming that at lights on I'd be greeted by an awful sight. I was ready to start a thread over it and call in the big guns to help me diagnose this shit. But happily, by the time I went in and looked at lights on they were recovered and doing quite well. It's a bit early to say, but I'm pretty sure they're quite happy about their little pampering session at the plant spa, with deep-flush cleansing and ph realignment. The new growth at the tips has that bright green look that I see when plants are growing fast and well- seen more in hydro and coco growing than in...my plants.
Blah blah blah. Lol.
Or I could just be kidding myself. Tune in next week I guess...

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Mama Thai/Stick a day after the flush.




I'm pretty sure the Thai Stick is a girl. I don't want to get too carried away and hopeful about it though quite yet- even though the signs look good. If she -oops I mean it, is a girl that would be extra cool timing because PotChimp's Thai Stick plants are also just sexing and starting flowering as well- so we'd be on the same schedule.

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The ravaged Mama Thai plots murder from her corner of the veg room. I've hacked many of her limbs off for cloning experiments and stuff.
The new Critical Cheese in foreground.
 
Hey Weaselcracker I'm back alive and kicking after a night of debauchery and a good deep sleep at my desk, I was here last night and wanted to say Congorats! On what looks like a girl from here too :) Unfortunately my head hit the keyboard before my fingers.

Also with the mama Thai is that not just a genetics thing? I see her murderess mother in the corner looks really curly, almost like nitrogen toxicity without the deep green, and none of the issues by the looks of things. I think it reinforces what was said earlier in regards to plants looking worse on our own side of the screen, as over here yours look great, if a little permed but I kind of like that look. Could be a new fashion :)

Fantastic pictures too, I find it a pain when doing close ups such as the pre flower on that girl (if it's not a girl I'll go get a perm myself lol), swaying in and out of focus clinging to the tripod trying to hold her steady, or me for that matter. I never was very well balanced though, mentally or physically :rofl:

Things are looking good over there over here if you know what I mean, makes me want to grow those permy styles myself :thumb:
 
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