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Ha ha. Too much light. That's kind of funny.
You need to increase the size of your grow!
You need to increase the size of your grow!
lexort420
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Ya maybe i do but just not ready yet lol. See the thing is i had a good amount of light in there before i got the led panel for flowering so i ended up having extra cfls. Well i never thought throwing in a few extra cfls would even matter but apparently it did. killed a few lights and my plant is bouncing back finally shes still rough but is improving
The sinister Hexapus, nursing her brood of six young girls. She feeds them three times a day now, with her life giving fluids. The plants grow to serve her elusive master. She lives to serve the plants, and to serve her master.
And the master lives to serve the plants... Rumors persist in the Green Hole that the master actually has no clue what he is actually doing, or why.
It's strange situation. A closed loop of frantic plant support, growroom maintenance, and general confusion. Is there hope for understanding to be reached in this journal?
No, there is not.
Subbed, this post cracked me up... Maybe because it's so early in the morning or because I am baked... or maybe just really funny. Looks awesome either way or anyway. Def be following this one. I scrolled further down a bit, all of your pics that I have seen so far are awesome!
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Hey there, Weasel.. Sorry it's been so long. Those MT's are looking great. Everything looks great in that little space...
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Thanks Santb, and thanks for joining in, JakPot. 
It's been a bit of a lull in the action lately, I'm still slowly working towards restocking the flower room after the clone drought I experienced over the summer. I've been scratching up containers for six hempies to put under the hexapus. Not as easy as it would seem but I have a ragtag collection together now and hopefully tomorrow I'll get the next round of hex plants out of their solo cups and into their hempy pots.
~Veg~
The future hex plants, along with the Panama in front. I've been limping them along through my absences by sitting them in a tray of wet perlite. Is this what you call a swick? I think so. They're getting tall. I hope they aren't going to get too tall for the containers I'm putting them in. If so I'll have to find a way to keep them from toppling over when they really get into flowering.
~Flowering~
The right hand side of the room is kinda looking like the good old days of scrogging. Two Pineapple Chunk scrogs in front. Thai Stick in back on left (unscrogged) and a scrogged Malawi in the back corner.
On the left side is the last remaining hex plant from the last round, the Golden Tiger. This girl just keeps on going and going. I'm not sure how many days she's been actually flowering. I'll have to go back in the journal to find when she started budding. From pictures of GT I've seen in the past I expected the buds on this plant to be fluffy. But no. It's a great big heavy thing. I've got a stick in the pot holding her up. I considered harvesting her this week but I think I'll wait a bit longer in the hopes she'll develop that extra bit of colour and character, as they often do at the end. In behind her is one of the mystery plants which I lost the tag for. I'm thinking/hoping its a Critical Cheese.
Edit- as near as I can figure out right now, the GT has been flowering for about 13 weeks. Meaning that it may have another week or two to go. Ace lists the flowering time as 11-15 weeks.
Thanks for stopping by friends.
Oh yeah. I meant to mention a 420 contest that seems to be flying under the radar, but might interest some of you, if you like photography. It's basically a photo contest - where you enter up to 30 of your favourite photos. They don't have to even be your photos, you can just choose them from the 420 galleries. Not much for prizes so far but I think I've talked them into scaring up some free seeds to put in the winnings pot. Who doesn't like free seeds?
420 Magazine Social Networking Contest - October 2016
It's been a bit of a lull in the action lately, I'm still slowly working towards restocking the flower room after the clone drought I experienced over the summer. I've been scratching up containers for six hempies to put under the hexapus. Not as easy as it would seem but I have a ragtag collection together now and hopefully tomorrow I'll get the next round of hex plants out of their solo cups and into their hempy pots. ~Veg~
The future hex plants, along with the Panama in front. I've been limping them along through my absences by sitting them in a tray of wet perlite. Is this what you call a swick? I think so. They're getting tall. I hope they aren't going to get too tall for the containers I'm putting them in. If so I'll have to find a way to keep them from toppling over when they really get into flowering.
~Flowering~
The right hand side of the room is kinda looking like the good old days of scrogging. Two Pineapple Chunk scrogs in front. Thai Stick in back on left (unscrogged) and a scrogged Malawi in the back corner.
On the left side is the last remaining hex plant from the last round, the Golden Tiger. This girl just keeps on going and going. I'm not sure how many days she's been actually flowering. I'll have to go back in the journal to find when she started budding. From pictures of GT I've seen in the past I expected the buds on this plant to be fluffy. But no. It's a great big heavy thing. I've got a stick in the pot holding her up. I considered harvesting her this week but I think I'll wait a bit longer in the hopes she'll develop that extra bit of colour and character, as they often do at the end. In behind her is one of the mystery plants which I lost the tag for. I'm thinking/hoping its a Critical Cheese.
Edit- as near as I can figure out right now, the GT has been flowering for about 13 weeks. Meaning that it may have another week or two to go. Ace lists the flowering time as 11-15 weeks.
Thanks for stopping by friends.
Oh yeah. I meant to mention a 420 contest that seems to be flying under the radar, but might interest some of you, if you like photography. It's basically a photo contest - where you enter up to 30 of your favourite photos. They don't have to even be your photos, you can just choose them from the 420 galleries. Not much for prizes so far but I think I've talked them into scaring up some free seeds to put in the winnings pot. Who doesn't like free seeds?
420 Magazine Social Networking Contest - October 2016
I think swick usually involves a wick... but you seem to be doing the same function.
Gorgeous budsabre!
Spookies
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Sweet Jesus! Subbed
Kriaze
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That one bud plant is your next potm/notm already mate. Stunning 
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I started skimming through Sue's swick thread but...I'm not sure what happened but I didn't retain much. Anyway, this method is working fine. I know you mentioned the risk of rot with an open res contraption like that and I'm not ignoring that advice, just kind of pushing the limits for now. As soon as the hempy pots are ready I shouldn't need it, or if the hexapus was freed up, I could have moved it over into veg. So far so good though. This next time around the strains will be all mainly indicas and much more compatable. Plus I'll get smart and start new hex plants halfway through flowering so they'll be ready to go when the other ones finish, hopefully.
Three aspects to this hobby for me- supplying myself in herb, supplying the patients in herb and trading it for odds and ends, and having fun. The last aspect is pretty much the most important one, and what could be more fun than growing all kinds of new and interesting strains? The way I was doing it before, starting a new strain was pretty much like work- I felt the need to grow each plant large and take documented clones of each phenotype in case I wanted to save it. These ones I'm just going to let grow.
Thanks for visiting, Spookies. I'll take that as a compliment. But even if you're just some sort of wandering religious fanatic- welcome.
That one bud plant is your next potm/notm already mate. Stunning
I wouldn't go that far Kriaze, thanks though. I trashed the leaves on this plant pretty bad. But it doesn't seem to mind. It kind of reminds me of your White Strawbery Skunk in appearance. I'll have to chop this one up to fit in the jar too
. GT is a cross of Ace Malawai and a pure Thai (mix of several Thai landrace varieties I believe). My two favorite strains so far. Maybe it's that perfect smoke I'm looking for.
Trifecta under the names going to look good mate... We still got time to vote? 
all that's a statement, don't you answer or speak of, don't want to get you in trouble
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Grizz- you mean the photo contest? It gets decided by the mods, so that is kind of liberating as far as being able to talk about it.
You keep chewing those nails is what I mean that networking contest, not quite right format. They could have went with my idea of the flower contest, which is kinda what they doing.. I wouldn't have complained getting 420 reps and another jar & tee for coming up with it
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Got the younglings into their hempy pots, at the cost of completely depleting the local bleach bottle reserves. I measured and these are basically 2 litre pots after I've trimmed the tops down. Not sure why I thought they were gallon containers. Should be good for what I'm doing though, I think. I also figured out that I have another Peyote Purple going- thought that seed died but it turns out it was some other Seedsman freebie seed that didn't make it, which I replaced with Lemon Venom.
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Yes the photo contest. I'm not a facebooky one, so I kind of ignored it till I stumbled into it one night in my bored wanderings. Could be renamed. Even $50 worth of free seeds would seem like an awesome prize to me. And mostly it's fun to show off the photos. What else am I going to do with them?
Have I mentioned I love the hexapus? 6 buckets of perlite makes me think you prefer that as your soilless? Ever try the mini rock wool cubes? What's the advantage over coco IYO? Looking great sir! You're gonna love that lemon minty earthy Panama stink in a few months!
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Thanks Spitz.
I'm really looking forward to the Panama. You've sold me.
It occurs to me that I've never smoked anything from south of the US. I don't remember getting any Mexican pot where I lived, though probably I did and just didn't know it. It was always Thai or Jamaican. Then the California bud came in, it worked its way up the coast and then it became all local BC bud later on.
So Panama bud should be a totally new experience.
As for the perlite- partly it's just random. I'm trying one thing at a time,and I'll get to coco again later.
The long answer though- My whole grow revolves around me being away a lot as you know, and I often have trouble managing watering in the early stages. Coco in its water retention seems somewhere in between the Sunshine mix and the perlite. It's possible to overwater in the beginning, and possible to underwater later on, without automation. Makes it slightly harder for me to manage. The SM plants make it through a week between waterings but the coco dries out halfway through.
The perlite I can soak down as much as I feel like, from beginning to end. So that's a bonus. Plus the built in hempy reservoir makes it way more versatile re the watering schedule. I can water- or I can not water. Not sure if in flowering they'll make it through a week and be free of the hexapus, but during veg they'll be fine without automation or any special watery pampering.
Not sure if that reads as confusingly as I think it might.
Also I happen to have 4 large bags of perlite.
Also I know the hempies will gain me brownie points with Tead.
I've been bleaching down and saving used rock wool cubes for years from my zillion failed clones. Someday I'll try a big Cap'n style plant with them.
I'm really looking forward to the Panama. You've sold me.
It occurs to me that I've never smoked anything from south of the US. I don't remember getting any Mexican pot where I lived, though probably I did and just didn't know it. It was always Thai or Jamaican. Then the California bud came in, it worked its way up the coast and then it became all local BC bud later on.
So Panama bud should be a totally new experience.
As for the perlite- partly it's just random. I'm trying one thing at a time,and I'll get to coco again later.
The long answer though- My whole grow revolves around me being away a lot as you know, and I often have trouble managing watering in the early stages. Coco in its water retention seems somewhere in between the Sunshine mix and the perlite. It's possible to overwater in the beginning, and possible to underwater later on, without automation. Makes it slightly harder for me to manage. The SM plants make it through a week between waterings but the coco dries out halfway through.
The perlite I can soak down as much as I feel like, from beginning to end. So that's a bonus. Plus the built in hempy reservoir makes it way more versatile re the watering schedule. I can water- or I can not water. Not sure if in flowering they'll make it through a week and be free of the hexapus, but during veg they'll be fine without automation or any special watery pampering.
Not sure if that reads as confusingly as I think it might.
Also I happen to have 4 large bags of perlite.
Also I know the hempies will gain me brownie points with Tead.
I've been bleaching down and saving used rock wool cubes for years from my zillion failed clones. Someday I'll try a big Cap'n style plant with them.
It's a SWICK. The difference is the wide surface of perlite and no wick. In this case it's the perlite in the cups and the soil itself in the pot wicking the water up.
Weaselcracker, your garden is a thing of beauty.
Got the younglings into their hempy pots, at the cost of completely depleting the local bleach bottle reserves. I measured and these are basically 2 litre pots after I've trimmed the tops down. Not sure why I thought they were gallon containers. Should be good for what I'm doing though, I think. I also figured out that I have another Peyote Purple going- thought that seed died but it turns out it was some other Seedsman freebie seed that didn't make it, which I replaced with Lemon Venom.
Ok, I need to copy this wonderful thing you have going with the bottles. I cut the top completely off mine. I can see that was a mistake. The black paint is brilliant. Did you use regular black or the one made for plastic?
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Hmmm.. I'm thinking not the kind for plastic, because it does tend to scratch off easily. I was in a hurry. If you live in a 'normal' place with stores and whatnot you may be better off buying dark containers, if there is such a thing, and I'm guessing there is such a thing, out there in the real world. Really it would be easiest if I could somehow put a 2" cap or tight fitting basin on the bottoms of the regular black planting pots and make instant and reversible hempies that way. But again I'd need to go buy the right size containers to make them with. 
Around here it's mostly diy, salvage, or mail order.
Around here it's mostly diy, salvage, or mail order.
Yeah, and mail order gets pricey unless you have one of those prime accounts in the rain forest, something I'm currently blessed with, thank goodness.
You have me thinking. I have some pots that're about two gallons that might make an interesting candidate for a handle and the added reservoir you've suggested. I'll give that some thought and see what I can scrape up.
It's always easiest and more convienient to shop for it and have it delivered to the door. It's so much more rewarding to be inspired to DIY and have it work out, wouldn't you agree? .
You have me thinking. I have some pots that're about two gallons that might make an interesting candidate for a handle and the added reservoir you've suggested. I'll give that some thought and see what I can scrape up.
It's always easiest and more convienient to shop for it and have it delivered to the door. It's so much more rewarding to be inspired to DIY and have it work out, wouldn't you agree?
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