Thirvnrob's Power Plant - TLO Soil In SIP Containers

If it's mushy and brown it's definitely bud rot. If it's powdery it's mold of a different sort, not that it matters in terms of what gets tossed.
 
InTheShed said:
If it's mushy and brown it's definitely bud rot. If it's powdery it's mold of a different sort, not that it matters in terms of what gets tossed.
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These buds are like rocks - anything but mushy. I'll keep trying to upload the pics. As I said, there more dense than anything I've ever seen. A few of the stems on the buds are black. I really hope they're just more purple than I've seen before...
 
Chrondocious said:
Not the first pic at all. Maybe the second pic, but hard to tell
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Yeah. it's hard to tell from the pics I've been able to upload, but I'll keep trying.
 
Carmen Ray said:
Congrats on the successful surgery. I hope your wife's healing journey is swift. I hope that you don't have bud rot!
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Thanks Carmen! I'm happy she's on the mend - almost back to her old self! I know this because she may be even more concerned about the bud rot than I am!
Hopefully I'm wrong about it - still trying to figure it out
 
Thirvnrob said:
Three weeks ago my wife had a mitral valve repair. For six weeks prior to that we were on what we dubbed The Medical Mystery Tour (who gets it?) because she was presenting with anomalous symptoms. To make a very long story short, everyone finally agreed on a course of treatment for her - she finally had the surgery & is recovering as expected. We live a couple hours away from the nearest “big city”, so much travel was required, as was a week long stay in said city. I put the journal & the grow on the back burner as I would expect any of you would do.
Life is slowly but surely returning to normal so I’m back at it, but this post is just for Tammy…
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:hug:Feel better Tammy :circle-of-love:

If your bud is nice and rock solid there's a good chance there may be no rot or very little! Like Shed mentioned, bud rot makes them go all mushy and or powdery. Actually making a nasty mess of a nice bud.
 
The problem I'm having with pics is with my phone. I gotta get a new one but until then, my amazing narrative abilities will have to do. It was a dark & stormy night when the seeds broke ground...
I posted pics of both girls before the afore mentioned medical mystery tour. I'm gonna make another post just for Tammy, (she's doing well) but since I already started this one here we go.
Absence is not conducive to pest control in my grow room. Dilligence is required to keep these little suckers at bay. SNS 203 does the trick if applied regularly, so we had that going against us with being out of town as much as we were. We got home after lights out on most of those excursions. I use the big old yellow glue cards & hang them from my lights but I stopped using the ones that you stake into the soil, because lizards kept getting stuck on them & dying. I'd rather they help me keep the bugs at bay. I make sure they have water to drink so they don't go away. but the big yellow glue cards trapped 400 zillion of them. I suppose with no photographic evidence I should just say they kept a bunch of 'em off the girls.

I stated earlier that I believe one of them expressed her Indica genetics more prominently. Sour Diesel is 60/40 Sativa dominant, but this girl was an Indica from early on. I've wondered if there may have been a mix up at the seed bank, but I think the conclusion I've already drawn is a lot cooler to contemplate. Her leaves were always short & wide & during flower they turned purple. I've never even seen buds so dense. I was worried about bud rot, but I think the buds are just purple.

In the other tent is the one that grew exactly like I expected her to. I filled up a 3'x3' with her & she more than doubled in height in flower. I literally had the lights as high as I could get them & had to dim them a bit to be in the ppfd sweet spot.

Both of them took on the appearance of being finished at 57 days, although the breeder said 70 days - 10 weeks.
Under my highly sophisticated magnification device, I detected a forest of milky white trichomes, with a bunch of amber. I can't guess how much of it was amber, but suffice it to say that it was significantly more than 15%. So I killed them.

The one that was clearly Sativa dominant produced 8-1/4 zips, my biggest yield ever from one plant. The other one isn't finished drying yet. but my guess is 6 from her.

In spite of using super soil, in spite of top dressing, in spite of my efforts to control the environment, I had leaves dying on both plants before they should have. I believe all things considered though, it was a pretty good outcome. I have a big enough stash from my last grow that I want to let this cure before I smoke any. I know you'll all be waiting with bated breath for the smoke report, but you'll just have to suffer bitches!
 
So Tammy is recovering nicely. She was in afib which prompted her Doc to prescribe a med for it but it had side effects that required another med to counteract those side effects, & so on. Long story short, her meds are slowly being decreased with the intention of eliminating all but a couple. I'm really proud of the way she face this - head on & assertively. No nagging was ever required on my part. She's a shining example of doing what she doesn't feel like doing to recover. I'm so proud of her I could pop...
 
Go Tammy go! :cheer:
Thirvnrob said:
the big yellow glue cards trapped 400 zillion of them
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Great narrative and I believed every word of it. :thumb: What bugs are you finding on the traps, because if they're fungus gnats, the answer is mosquito bits/dunks.

Here is @Carcass' method of dealing with gnats:

Mosquito dunks in a 5 gallon bucket of plain water. Leave them for 24 hours to fill the water with good bacteria and then use it to water your plants (and mix your nutes if you're using them). Keep adding water to the bucket and the bacteria will multiply and replace the ones you take out, so you won't need more dunks for a couple of weeks.
 
InTheShed said:
Go Tammy go! :cheer:

Great narrative and I believed every word of it. :thumb: What bugs are you finding on the traps, because if they're fungus gnats, the answer is mosquito bits/dunks.

Here is @Carcass' method of dealing with gnats:

Mosquito dunks in a 5 gallon bucket of plain water. Leave them for 24 hours to fill the water with good bacteria and then use it to water your plants (and mix your nutes if you're using them). Keep adding water to the bucket and the bacteria will multiply and replace the ones you take out, so you won't need more dunks for a couple of weeks.
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That's one of those things I'd forgotten. I used to add mosquito bits to my water & to my soil, but for whatever reason, I quit using it. And yes, fungus gnats are the culprits. I have to minimize their access to my laboratory & then slay those who dare penetrate...
 
Tammy & I went to a farmers market today & they had purple hull peas already shelled. She had planned on pork chops, peas & corn bread for dinner, but she ran out of energy & deferred till tomorrow. When I offered to prepare the meal, her response was "oh, hell no". I guess I'll stick to growing weed...
 
Thirvnrob said:
Tammy & I went to a farmers market today & they had purple hull peas already shelled. She had planned on pork chops, peas & corn bread for dinner, but she ran out of energy & deferred till tomorrow. When I offered to prepare the meal, her response was "oh, hell no". I guess I'll stick to growing weed...
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She's feeling good enough to know better huh? Fantastic! More of that!
 
I got the second plant dried & weighed & I’m happy to say my prediction of 6 zips was a little shy. She produced 7.4 oz for a total of 15.6 oz - 438 grams. This is my biggest yield ever & from just two plants. I wish I could show pics…
 
Nice haul!
 
Winner Winner Rob! Nice to get big weight like that!
 
If this works, I can share some pics. I can’t send pics via email, but I can send them via text. Discovered that by sending this to Tammy’s phone, then she emails it to me. I can then download to my laptop (I hope) & upload (I hope) to here. Drumroll please…
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Oh yeah! This bud weighed in at 8.3 grams. She’s dried for 6 days & is in a jar with her sisters & maintaining 65% rh. If Tammy will participate, I’ll have some pics up tomorrow. I’m hoping I can get some retrospective advice. I think I need a mentor. I’ve learned just enough to be dangerous if left unattended…
 
Thirvnrob said:
If this works, I can share some pics. I can’t send pics via email, but I can send them via text. Discovered that by sending this to Tammy’s phone, then she emails it to me. I can then download to my laptop (I hope) & upload (I hope) to here. Drumroll please…
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Oh yeah! This bud weighed in at 8.3 grams. She’s dried for 6 days & is in a jar with her sisters & maintaining 65% rh. If Tammy will participate, I’ll have some pics up tomorrow. I’m hoping I can get some retrospective advice. I think I need a mentor. I’ve learned just enough to be dangerous if left unattended…
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fabulous! That nug looks like a rock :drool:NOTM candidate
 
I think I can upload some pics now. I’m gonna try two at a time. If it works, I’m gonna show the one who behaved herself like a Sativa dominant hybrid should. Okay, one at a time. She looked pretty happy here in spite of her trunk being split in a bigly way. I think she was about two weeks into flower, but that split occurred a few weeks earlier when we were out of town. When I noticed it, it was too late to do anything about it…
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