Vick's - OG Kush & Ambrosia Grow - Coco-GH-HPS-Wiw!

b.real said:
looks like youve knocked back the ppms a bit? plants look amazing..my outdoor plants are much more stressed than yours. i want that cotton candy mom REALLY badly. i asking jamaica seeds if they would send me a cotton candy or jamaican chocolate seed. well see.

just learned from the jamaica seed breeder that blackout kush is g13 x ogk (chemd x kush). SWEET.
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Thanks B!
Yeah the salts in some of my recycled coco had my PPM's pretty damn high.
But flushed it all way and we're on our way again.
I'm really excited to see how this Cotton Candy is going to do.
I lucked out and got an exclusive cut of the original B.C. strain.
But its a 14 weeker which is going to have me waiting for a long time to sample these beauties.
worth the wait ..

Blackout Kush! wiw!
 
runewulfsong said:
Sweet... literally, lol... so, do you attribute the increased quality/potency to the machine itself, or to the amount of ingredients used or the amount of reduction of glycerine volume or a combo of these things? I'm just curious as I wasn't sure about that machine since it's basically just automating a process of grinding and cooking and distilling.

I've noticed a lot of people don't take the cleaning steps or the grinding or decarbing steps when making their tinctures and butters/oils, which lowers potency and/or yield or just flat makes it taste like merde, lol. I'm trying to determine if the machine is actually worth it if you know how to and are willing to manually process the same way.

Right now I'm looking at water distillers to make honey oil.
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Hey Rune!
Attribute the increased potency 100% to the quality and amount of quality ingredients.
I used only my best sweet leaf trim, along with about 3 ounces if I remember correctly of OG kush bud.
I did a half to half ratio with the glycerine to distilled water on this go.
The machine does an amazing job of cooking and mixing.
Having the option to set the temps in paramount when making tincture too so you don't cook off any of the good stuff.
That's the rad thing about this machine, it does it all for you!, cooking, mixing, decarbing.
I remember Buckshot saying he was making a tincture the manual way, in alcohol.
Then he was going to throw it in the machine after that!!
Blows me away to think how potent that batch is going to be, fak!
It's funny, I was never really an edible kind of guy. I liked to smoke, and vape.
And I originally begun this tincture journal to help out my dad, but after testing this stuff for the past week, I'm in love.
Such a great alternative to smoking, and such a clean beautiful high!

I'd love to make some honey oil!
Let me know when you get er done!
 
cotton candy! wtf? i want that holy pooplumps! if it taste like its name im sold yesterday!,everytime i see your pics i get this sharp pain in my frontal lobe! makes me wish i had not busted my camera,i was getting good with it,now i have to find another cam and the $ for it lol can you rec any good inexpensive bridge cams, i was looking at some nikons on a-m-zon round a c-note, love the veggie pics too!
 
BigIrishDoode said:
cotton candy! wtf? i want that holy pooplumps! if it taste like its name im sold yesterday!,everytime i see your pics i get this sharp pain in my frontal lobe! makes me wish i had not busted my camera,i was getting good with it,now i have to find another cam and the $ for it lol can you rec any good inexpensive bridge cams, i was looking at some nikons on a-m-zon round a c-note, love the veggie pics too!
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Yo BIDDY!
Thanks man!
It does taste and smell just like its name.
Feel really lucky to have a cut of it!
pure sativa 14 weeker!
:)

I'm pretty partial to Canon camera's in particular, so I can't really say much about the nikons.
This is the only one I would recommend that falls in your price range.
Amazon.ca
 
Budjedi said:
Great journal so far.
Just got signed up here and read a few pages and will finish it now..
OG Kush is my favorite smoke.
You do it well!
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Cheers Budjedi welcome to :420:!!
 
Awesome gardens Vick, I got purple tomato's too!! :cheesygrinsmiley: I think they are called indigo rose

Very cool!!!
 
Hey Vick,

I know you said it before, but could you go over how you prepared our tincture with the glycerin?

Thanks :)
 
Buckshot said:
Awesome gardens Vick, I got purple tomato's too!! :cheesygrinsmiley: I think they are called indigo rose

Very cool!!!
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Thanks Buckshot!
Oh Man, Indigo Rose! I wish I had some of those in my garden too.
We got, Black Krim's Cherokee Purple, Beefsteaks, and Honey cherries.
Don't know if you've ever experienced a thing called "flower abortion" before?
Pretty sure t was from too much nitrogen and not enough calcium..
The flowers go brown and shrivel up. We lost a few flowers before I figured out what the hell was going on.
Now I feed them Cal mag, every other week, and things are looking good again.
Tomato nubs are popping off everywhere!
 
Hiker said:
Hey Vick,

I know you said it before, but could you go over how you prepared our tincture with the glycerin?

Thanks :)
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Hey,
no sweat buddy.

Pretty straight forward:
Used the Magical Butter machine.
Loosely chopped up all the sugar leaf and popcorn bud that was stored in the freezer. (About 3 ounces worth.) and added to machine.
Then dumped in about 2 ounces of pure OG Kush Bud. Then filled with about 400ml's of Organic vegetable glycerine, and topped off the rest with distilled water. (about 500 ml's to reach the max line. Then added flavorings, gave it a good mix. Put the lid on, let it sit in the container for a while so everything came up to room temp.
Turned the machine on, selected 190 degrees, and set it for 4 hours..
When it was done, waited for it to cool down a bit, (about an hour.)
Used cheese cloth to strain it all out into a glass mason jar. Let it cool, then into the fridge it went.

voila!
 
Quick Update:
I'm really disappointed with the progress of these Cotton Candy's.
These photos were taken at day 12 since flip, and they really seem to be lagging.
Hopefully they're just late bloomers, and the fact that they're 14 weekers makes me believe they have plenty of time to get there. I'm just impatient is all.:cheesygrinsmiley:
They look like they're gearing up to explode with pistols, within the next week they should double in size.:wood:
Another thing that might have something to do with the slow progress, was dealing with some heat issues as well. You can probably see some saw blades on some of the fans. It seems one of my digital fan timers wouldn't turn fans back on from 9:00-11:30 PM. So temps were climbing quickly, without exhaust. Couldn't figure it out until I came in after 9:45 one night and it was like walking into a sauna. The problem's fixed now with a new timer. And temps are pretty much right where I want them while feeding CO2 every hour.
Have had to do some serious supercropping to keep these babies from stretching too much. Using GLR up until flip has really helped to keep those stretchy sativa's from tripling in size during stretch. Luckily the climb is coming to and end and I think we'll be ok height wise for the rest of the grow..
That is unless I get impatient with the progress, pull them all, and clone my outdoor Ambrosia's to do a SOG run.
I know that's a little bit harsh, but if these don't start to shape up, they might get shipped out, and replaced with something that's going to produce in a shorter time.

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On the other hand, the outdoor girls are doing great. Getting bushier by the day and have had 2 weeks of non stop sun..:cheesygrinsmiley:
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Ambrosia Mum in her 35 gallon pot.

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Ambrosia babies

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Cotton Candy Mum

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now these plants are looking good! how many times do you feed the outside girls now?
 
Drive by duck my friend. Plants are looking fantastic. I know your growing inside and out, but man outdoor always rocks. Plants get all the sun they want even lower branches. Never need to lolly pop anything. Congrads on the harvest. One day I need to get your recipe for your concentrates. Those machine do work, the majic budders, I also have one and the Old Lady makes some screamer brownies with it. She over does it alittle on the amount of herbs she uses, I use all my smaller buds for butter and the sugar leaves etc. for hash.
Plants are looking great Vic ++ Keepem Green
 
b.real said:
now these plants are looking good! how many times do you feed the outside girls now?
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Thanks B!
Feeding them BPN 2 part with, cal mag, seaweed, humic acids, and silica once a week.
Some Botanicare teas every once and a while on water only days, just to give em a little taste of something different.
Then just plain water in between when needed.
Going to be starting transition nutes pretty soon here after a week of flushing.
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Norcaliwood said:
Drive by duck my friend. Plants are looking fantastic. I know your growing inside and out, but man outdoor always rocks. Plants get all the sun they want even lower branches. Never need to lolly pop anything. Congrads on the harvest. One day I need to get your recipe for your concentrates. Those machine do work, the majic budders, I also have one and the Old Lady makes some screamer brownies with it. She over does it alittle on the amount of herbs she uses, I use all my smaller buds for butter and the sugar leaves etc. for hash.
Plants are looking great Vic ++ Keepem Green
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Thanks Wood!
Growing outdoors is the best! Wish I could do it year round here. Love how easy it is!
Plus it's a great when you can just keep your mother's outside, and let mother nature do her thing.
A few posts up I explained to Hiker how I make my tincture with the Magic Butter machine!
Super easy! Set it and forget it!
Then take some, and you forget everything shortly thereafter..
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Vick074 said:

Thanks B!
Feeding them BPN 2 part with, cal mag, seaweed, humic acids, and silica once a week.
Some Botanicare teas every once and a while on water only days, just to give em a little taste of something different.
Then just plain water in between when needed.
Going to be starting transition nutes pretty soon here after a week of flushing.
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i dont want to be rude but dont go overboard with the nutes again. they actually grow worse that way. they look picture perfect right now..wish i could nail it like this here. once a week..got it.
 
b.real said:
i dont want to be rude but dont go overboard with the nutes again. they actually grow worse that way. they look picture perfect right now..wish i could nail it like this here. once a week..got it.
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again?
If I know it's going to be pure sun for a week straight, I'll maybe go half strength.
I would never go full strength unless my plants were 10 feet tall and in 100 gallon containers..
Trust me, I've learned my lessons in over ferting too.
Especially with outdoor..
Like a lot of things in life,

"Less Is More"
 
These Ambrosia's are really nute sensitive which I've learned by now.
Funny how every plants is differently sensitive.
 
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