The Hexapus's Garden

Stage said:
Weaselcracker,
I cant believe I have been away from your yard this long.:cheertwo:
So glad I saw these comments.
I know these are from months ago but if I was an inspiration, thank you Wheeze!:Namaste:
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Totally, Stage. It was a real breakthrough. Thank you!
That dog fence inspired me to get free of the scrog. Once I figured out the dog fence tech, I moved on to just using a shitload of lst with pipe cleaners, and figured out that I can tame even the stretchiest sativas that way. I'm reserving the scrog screens for the plants that like to get droopy and floppy on me, like the Pineapple Chunk, and for when I'm short on time.
With so many great journals to sub to, I end up following the ones that relate the most to how I'm growing now. I follow a couple outdoor grows, but they make me so jealous...
When I get the time and money to order up a high-brix kit I'll be seeing more of you and Shiggity and the rest of you guys who've disappeared and flitted off to cannabis never-neverland.
 
Ya know weaseley, I forgot to mention something when I was chattin about weaselhead hash, or weaseleys easy ice in a jar hash method, for thems that aint in the know, like near everone,, anyhooo, when I am finished draining off the liquid from the settled trichomes, i use a tissue to soak up the last visible liquid, then, because my soaking wet trichomes are in a small glass bowl, that is where I put the liquid mixture in the first place, the small glass bowl goes onto a little hotplate I have, on the lowest heat, and gets played with and mixed up and chopped up till its nice and completely void of any moisture

Its easy to tell when the moisture is gone because the hash mixture will stick to ones fingers when just the slightest moisture present,, but when dry,, no stick sticky to the fingy, zero.,, with the heat on the lowest setting, can take a couple hours to get it just right,, then form into a ball, a tube, a teardrop, a pair of lips, whatever,, and near watch it harden up as it cools

Just a bit of the enjoyment I get from growing me own mj

Add a couple beers and some wifey time whilst the concoction concocts, and, life is good friend,,

Cheers
 
I'm so happy you've gone and run with that hash technique Nivek. I certainly didn't invent it, of course, but at the time it was passed on to me by a stoner friend I certainly hadn't heard of anything like it and never would have dreamed of making hash that way. In fact, though we smoked a lot of hash in those days when we could get it (it came in cycles and often there was none) it's funny that we really didn't even know what hash was. I mean, we knew that it was cannabis resin, but beyond that it was kind a mystery. A mystery we didn't try too hard to solve, we just smoked it. Rumors said that hash was made by naked people running and frolicking around in fields of pot, whence they got very sticky and were later scraped down. We all wanted that job but didn't know where to apply. When buddy showed me his mysterious hash making technique- I was shocked. Sometime in the late 80s/early 90s when local bud started taking over and imports slowed, hash became difficult to find and I would render the indica pot which made me paranoid into hash which didn't (as much).
 
noob1457 said:
looking buds do you dry the plant whole or cut it into smaller buds before drying
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I usually trim the buds to their final state when I harvest, with a little extra stem perhaps. I wish I had the time and patience to trim entire plants on their stems intact, and hang those to dry. They look cool and I'm sure they dry better too. I don't, and I also don't have space- my drying box has several levels of screens and not enough space to hang whole plants. Usually I'm in a hurry so it's a matter of trimming late into the night and putting it away to dry and running off again. Otherwise I'd probably wash buds more often too. Bud washing seems like a good thing.

noob1457 said:
most feeding schedules say to use micro,grow, and bloom at same time. (i have emerald harvests 3 part series.Feeding Charts | 2-Part/3-Part Base Nutrient Series

I also want to use Advanced Nutrients cal mag plug and possibly roots organic bud swell. Should i feed the way the chart shows or are other ways generally recommended?
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This question is one I can't really answer very well except to say I haven't had much luck going full strength according to the bottle. I haven't used those 3 part nutrients (much). Certain plants that I would consider heavy feeders- which generally seem to be heavy indica strains, can handle full strength in my grow, barely. But generally I run at about 3/4 strength max even for my heavier feeding strains. And less than half the reccomended bottle strength for the sativas.
But this doesn't mean I know what I'm doing. I'm constantly confusing myself over this issue and trying to learn how to manage feeding levels better.
I use an EC meter (measures ppm) to mix my nutes, and that helps a lot to keep track of the strength I'm feeding at. Measuring by the ml/gallon method is fine too, especially once you get a bit of experience at reading how your plants react. (I'm still working on that)
Best general advice I can give is -
-keep records of all feedings, etc
- don't make sudden drastic changes or do too many new things at once because then you won't know what to pin the next confusing issue on (you probably won't anyway, in my experience)
- feeding low to start is better because you can always raise the levels slightly and feed more if they seem hungry, but once they get nute burned the leaves get damaged and they're harder to read after that, and they're damaged so they aren't functioning as well and react differently. Once they get screwed up they're hard to unscrew up.
- in my experience if you ever get a chance to do side by side tests (for example- two clones- one fed heavy and one fed light) you'll learn faster than going through many cycles of; grow grow grow, screw up, get confused, screw up more, limp them home to harvest, repeat-*

*this pretty much sums up my entire growing strategy ever since the time I started.
 
Measuring by the ml/gallon method is fine too, especially once you get a bit of experience at reading how your plants react. (I'm still working on that)
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Haven't used the ppm pen in at least a year. It was a super cheapie, so it's probably kaput.
I really prefer this method and find it quite natural.
I just watch the new growth vs old growth colors. The new growth should be much more lime green than the older dark green growth.
Leaf tip burning, clawed leaves, dark new growth, rubbery looking leaves.... all signs that you've pushed too hard.
 
I heard organics were much harder to burn plants with nutes, although I've only gone and managed it on one of the girls. She's as withered as an old crone at the minute after I overfed her Calcium and locked out Potassium. Definitely better to stay low strength in my opinion, although I find it hard to hold back :thumb:
 
Kriaze said:
I heard organics were much harder to burn plants with nutes, although I've only gone and managed it on one of the girls. She's as withered as an old crone at the minute after I overfed her Calcium and locked out Potassium. Definitely better to stay low strength in my opinion, although I find it hard to hold back :thumb:
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One of my now favorite quotes is right here at 420mag. Village Idiot - "Sure I've got knowledge. Doesn't mean I stick to the rules." :rofl: I'd so use that as a sig if the software would let it link.

If wisdom is the ability to apply knowledge, then that's it right there. Discipline is the key to wisdom. :Namaste: Do I adhere to it? Oh hell no. Not always lol. But when I do.. Is dude ever coming back from Mars or what?

Anyways, :passitleft: sorry. Testing one of the crosses. She's really something :)

While I experience a Zen moment, if I might suggest, :smokin2: try a water only soil grow at least once. Succeed or fail. It will change your outlook on nutes. Maybe not enough to stop burning plants lol, but at least you'll know all about why. :geek:
 
electro gypsy said:
One of my now favorite quotes is right here at 420mag. Village Idiot - "Sure I've got knowledge. Doesn't mean I stick to the rules." :rofl: I'd so use that as a sig if the software would let it link.

If wisdom is the ability to apply knowledge, then that's it right there. Discipline is the key to wisdom. :Namaste: Do I adhere to it? Oh hell no. Not always lol. But when I do.. Is dude ever coming back from Mars or what?

Anyways, :passitleft: sorry. Testing one of the crosses. She's really something :)

While I experience a Zen moment, if I might suggest, :smokin2: try a water only soil grow at least once. Succeed or fail. It will change your outlook on nutes. Maybe not enough to stop burning plants lol, but at least you'll know all about why. :geek:
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I did a water only soil once and it was ok except for calmag deficiencies, didn't manage to burn that plant :)
 
I think it's a great idea ElectroGypsy. I learned way more about growing in peat moss when I started growing DTW in perlite and coco. Sometimes you have to take a new route and look at things from a different angle instead of dragging yourself down the same old road.
I've gotten quite stalled on sourcing fancy organic mail order ingredients, and I've been focusing more on the DTW plants lately. I'll take the organic soil quest up again when I've got more time and money and/or something evolves and lands in my lap. I think my best bet re a simple soil grow would be to try to find the best quality bag of whatever potting soil is available here and run with it. Not that there's much available, especially this time of year.
 
~Golden Tiger~


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Harvested this one today. Like I said before, she was a heavy plant. At the time she started bending over, I jammed a stick in there to help support her, but she still drooped till her tip was almost touching the floor. This actually suited me ok as after that she was horizontal under the light.
The trimmed plant was sticky and heavy- like holding a large dead eel or fish, perhaps? If a dead eel was sticky? Big, heavy, limp and floppy. You can really smell that Thai in her. I curled the carcass in a circle to fit it in my drying box.

Rereading this it all sounds a little obscene somehow...
 
eel, yep, sure is, a sticky slippery eel,, ewww

i mean yummm,, er ewww, yu,,dunno, confused now
 
Cheers friend, great nug, nugs, plant, plants, forests,, proud to be a fellow b.c.er,
 
hey thanks for answering all my questions! I appreciate it. I transplanted 3 days ago from 1 gal into 3 gal using same soil. Is it better to hold off on feeding for a few weeks? Does new soil have enough amendments to feed plants my size? btw i use black gold soil
 
Hey.
Not a soil grower, but yes I'm sure there are plenty of nutrients in the black gold. Probably mostly in the form of veg nuts though (heavier on the N). Best to examine the writing on the BG bag, and maybe do a little googling on the subject of that soil. But I suspect they will be good for a while, with an extra 2 gallons of fresh soil to feed off of.
 
Just wanted to stop in to congratulate you on the new title. You got the trifecta Weaselcracker. :high-five:
 
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