The Hexapus's Garden

SweetSue said:
Just wanted to stop in to congratulate you on the new title. You got the trifecta Weaselcracker. :high-five:
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Thank you Sue. Incredible isn't it? I wouldn't have imagined I would be able to do that within the next five or ten years, or ever. There are people everywhere here growing way nicer plants than me every day. Just was over at Grizzwald's place and his girls look so radiant they'd make a Geiger counter scream. I think mostly I've just had a few lucky ones fall out of the sky. The Roach said he had a dream of winning all three contests. I wish he was around here working on that. I never had any particular plans of anything like that, but when something special falls in my lap it's hard not to put it in the contests. Not about winning really, but if you accidentally grow a racehorse you're going to want to put it in the races I guess.

In terms of an update- not much exciting to update right now. Had a bit of a screw-up with some diy calmag concoction I made. Detailed here Anyone make DIY calmag? not that it's worth reading unless you're incredibly bored or are a closet diy calmag fetishist. My concoction involved lime, which raised the ph too high (duh) and some of the plants weren't really happy about that. I had to flush pretty much the whole grow using the dregs of my calmag bottle. I have more calmag on the way but it may take up to another month to arrive since mail is slow here. Not sure what I'm going to do for calmag in the meantime but I'm looking at milk, eggshells, Epsom salts, and molasses. Most of those things won't work in the hex reservoir but hopefully the hempies and my work schedule will be forgiving enough that I can get by with hand watering for a whole.
Here is the next wave of Hexapus fodder.

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They seem happy. I topped them a few days ago and I'm just waiting for a couple more days and a little more growth before putting them into flowering.
I'll drag the Thai Stick and/or the Malawi out and take some pics sometime. Nothing too exciting happening there either though- just creeping along slowly.
 
Thanks for the props mate. And here I am wishing mine looked somewhere close to yours :rofl: the grass is always greener or in my case looking at yours, a psychedelic rainbow, on the other side :rofl: you deserve it man, you won all of them.. I think that other comp comes with a title also. It's quadie time now :rofl: hope all is well mate.. :passitleft:
 
Im just stealing them, I can't photograph that well but hopefully I can download them before somebody else does :rofl::rofl: a certainty would be entering the potm and notm winners :rofl::rofl:
 
Looking great friend,, i have a great big bag of perlite, I really should do something,, hmmm, gonna think on this today,, even sue is doing hempies now,, that too sounds a bit obscene. Ha

Great stuff champ, chat soon,
 
Santa weaseley, a bit early, but who cares,??? I mean seriously???

You rok friend, just anyway, no related reason,
 
It's very fun playing remote-control mini Santa, but I am just a small and humble cog in the mystical workings of things here in 420-land. But thanks Nivek, and I'm glad you're happy with the SNS stuff Ak.

Edit - AK I cannot comprehend the blistering speed of your Alaskan mail system. Mr Teddy didn't even get the mailing info till early Nov2. It's now the 4th.
Something like that takes a month to reach me minimum.
WTF
!!!!
Is it ok to whip the huskies that hard????
have mercy on them.
Maybe America is superior after all...
Wow! :adore: :adore:
Go ahead and bomb us then, if you want- we submit :adore::adore: shit you can just send the bombs by American mail they will outstrip our Canadian made defence missile delivery systems.
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:hmmmm:
 
Did I hear mention of fire? It's Bonfire night here so I've been out playing with fire, beer, roasted chestnuts, toasted marshmallows and I've still got a jacket spud in those embers calling my name lol. I reckon that mail system might even be faster than these cheap rockets I've been lighting/dodging all night, congrats on the title you deserve the lot Weasel...just need to talk you into those yearly contests now or is it an automatic entry? Anyways, all the best to you all from the land of happy chappy ;) I'd like to share :passitleft:
 
:passitleft: Bonfire night in jolly old England.
I say Guy Fawkes yerself mate, until you're good and Fawked right up.
Yarr! :party:




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Put the hex girls into flowering today. Finally have a full house again. ;)
 
I talked myself into buying a high cbd strain, even though I was broke, and also was and still am confused about this high cbd/pain relief/health dope business. It sort of seems like other people are confused too, they're just not all admitting it. Only one way to find out what it's about- confuse myself with it in person. The one I ordered is CBD-Therapy- ratio of cbd-thc varies from 2:1 to 20:1. It's unclear to me if/how I will be able to tell the difference but if any of it results in pain relief I'll be happy about it. Anyway- those seeds came in so I put one in the sprouter just now.
 
I don't get it at all.. I still don't understand the high cbd thing or cbn especially, which what most seem to be after, with their amber trichs. Why not dry your plants under the sun on a hot day and get higher cbn? Cbd, this lunar landing I'm growing is apparently 17% thc 13%cbd.. I'm interested, heard its a great pain reliever. That has me growing it. I smoke enough of the stuff, might as well try and ease the sore lower back at the same time :rofl::rofl: or at very least, get stoned as per usual. If I don't get stoned but my backs alright, well, it'd want to feel really good, to justify growing the plant again :rofl:
 
Weaselcracker said:
:passitleft: Bonfire night in jolly old England.
I say Guy Fawkes yerself mate, until you're good and Fawked right up.
Yarr! :party:




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Put the hex girls into flowering today. Finally have a full house again. ;)
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This had me laughing Weaselcracker, I was well and truly Fawked up last night. Looking forward to seeing how the CBD plants work out :thumb:
 
Weaselcracker said:
:passitleft: Bonfire night in jolly old England.
I say Guy Fawkes yerself mate, until you're good and Fawked right up.
Yarr! :party:




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Put the hex girls into flowering today. Finally have a full house again. ;)
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WC: Question for you. I notice your flower room has a lot of shadows. Is that normal, or did you turn off some lights for the photo? I have to wear sunglasses when I tend both my veg and flower units. I have every square inch lit up with a mix of LED and CFLs.
 
I have two 600's going and it's quite bright to the naked eye. I wear sunglasses too. My photos are color filtered by holding my phone against the lens of one of my pairs of hps sunglasses. It makes it look different than it would without the sunglasses- but I'm also balancing the light exposure to try and make a better photo and show the color of the plants, or it would look very bleached out.
 
Ditto on sending best karma to yer cbd grow,, intetests me as well, Ithe missus and i take a drop of oil every day now, preventative medicine, so i am interested in cbd strains as well

Also interested in yer hempies,, thinkin I am going to try one,, need to find the right pot for the pot, and start a new seed, in a rockwool cube I think,, does that sound right to you? Starting the seed in rockwool and transplanting the rockwool cube into the perlite?

Should I rip the sprout out of the rockwool, with roots attached to the sprout still of course, then plant the bare rooted sprout into perlite?

Also, I have read about a perlite, vermiculite mixture,, any thoughts on that for hempies?

And iffin I plant a rockwool cube with sprout attached, I guess I initially just water the rockwool cube? Do I water it every day initially? Fert weekly as normal or every watering? Tiny bit every watering?. And ph important,, 6 to 6.5?

One more q weaseley iffin Ok,, when we exchanged Christmas presents, did you receive any seeds with the name 'sandy' attached? I thot you mentioned once you did,, well, I had the first attempt, for me, of growing that lemon haze/sandy plant hermie on me, so i chucked it, but i recently had one go all the way to nice harvest,, and wow, it is a beaut,, the trichomiest plant I have grown yet, and a fine taste and real fine smell too,, got the sandy plant diesel smell/taste mixed with the lemon sweetness,, very nice indeed, I will show you, I will smoke some for you, right now

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Cheers santa weaseley
 
I know that you know that I am not an expert and this will be close to my first round of hempies, but-

I would just plant the sprout, or seed if you prefer, straight into perlite. It works fine. Rockwool will also work, but, rockwool can be overwatered when a plant is small- and that's one more little thing to worry about. Perlite doesn't get overwatered. Might not be an issue once the plant gets a few inches tall but makes it harder to water before it does.

If you do use rockwool then definitely don't try to remove the sprout. Roots go all through it and will break off if you try to rip the rockwool away.
From what I've read it's best to skip the vermiculite and use perlite only. Vermiculite keeps things too wet.

The hempy has that reservoir space in the bottom below the little hole, and when you water- just pour it in the top wherever. Till it fills the reservoir and some comes running out the hole. Try and get a good bit of runoff out the hole. The perlite has the miraculous ability to wick moisture up from the reservoir. So just fill every few days or whatever it takes. If you have rockwool in there I would only water the perlite and let the wicking action take care of the rest.

I fertilize with every watering. I'm assuming that it always needs feeding because perlite wouldn't retain nutrients like soil does. It can only live on what's in the reservoir. I'm feeding light though - 1/2 strength max so far. Not sure about the feeding thing yet but feeding light and often has worked great with my other hex plants so I may do that where I set it up to water every day or two at half strength.

Ph to about 5.6 every time.

Hopefully Tead or someone will come along to tweak this info if necessary.

Yes I grew and harvested a Sandy Lemon Skunk and have been meaning to post about it, and will, just fallen behind on a few posting jobs. It was a first class plant and as good as anything I've got from a seed bank. Making some first class bud in the curing jar right now.

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The hempy fever is real lol. Weasel you pretty much covered everything so not really anything to tweak lol
 
I think one area where there is room for tweaking, depending how you want to do things- is whether to feed lightly with multiple feedings, or feed heavier and less often. That also probably depends on the size of your hempy pot in relation to the plant within. I don't think mine will go a week between waterings so I'm going to set them up on auto-watering at 1/2 strength every couple days or so. I think Tead feeds full strength. Maybe I'll have to bump up the feed for these indica strains- I'm not sure yet.

A question re hempy for whoever. I got the feeling that it may be a bad idea to let the hempy run dry. I just have the feeling there might be concentrated dregs in the bottom of the res that would be best not sucked up by the plant. Not sure if I'm just making that up. The hex plants took a downturn a few days ago as they got close to running empty. Not sure if they just ran hungry, or if they encountered some nasties in the bottom of the res at the last minute. Those ones did get a dose of the diy calmag, though I tried to flush it out. They seemed fine all week though, till the last minute.
 
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