Thank you very kindly for all the compliments friends. I didn’t do anything to deserve them but Carnival is dead now (I killed her) and can’t talk so I’ll take a bow in her place.
Apologies for the late replies but that’s sort of the way it goes around this journal- life having me by the ass the way it does.
Really this plant grew itself, stuck in a back corner untended and uncomplaining. It even made it through the recent ph crisis without much fuss.
IDK if you've ever washed your buds, but I do mine every harvest and if I trim when the buds are still semi wet, almost no trics or pistils stick to my gloves or trimmers.
I did try that, a couple times in the past when Hiker ( at least I think it was him ) first brought the idea around into the forum. I loved what it did to the buds but don’t seem to have found the time to make it a routine. Most of the time I’m too damn frantic around here. I know most of the time I wouldn’t be able to organize the extra steps involved. But I could manage to do it once in awhile, and I feel like I should..
Stumbling block #1 is- where do I hang them to dry after washing? I don’t understand where people find the space. The only secure place I could hang the wet buds is the flowering room, which is very bright, crowded, warm/hot. Would this work?
I have the same colours on my Gift of Fire F2.
They do look similar hey....I’m thinking that pic of the buds in the jar, that you quick dried. Keep taking photos like that mate and your 420 lighter shortage should ease up eventually.
I need 15 gallons of the soil you got. Maybe more lighting helped too!
I’m using soilless - Sunshine Mix. And bottled nutes courtesy of Monsanto. Thanks for everything Monsanto. At least till I get around to changing systems. So it’s nothing special. Sort of like the wonderbread of grow mediums, upon which I dump some sauce once a week. Though to be fair the nutes seem to be pretty much naturally derived- kelp and fish based stuff.
Actually I feel like my whole setup, the nutrients and the lighting, is just
barely good enough. Some strains do well because of better genetics, some not so well. I feel like I can
almost see that extra 15% of resin that the plants want to produce, just behind the veil. So close but so far. That feeling you get driving an old Honda Civic up a hill with the pedal jammed down...press as hard as you want to but... there just ain’t no more.
Jealousy is pushing me to look at different lights- Q boards like the cool kids all have now- even if it’s just for a small section of the grow.
WC I see you like to rough handle the ladies a fair amount.
I like to think it’s mostly the other way around
A good thing too, because the first way would be politically incorrect.
...to see if you have posted a pic of that og. x/mak. plant yet,
Right here Nivek, that floppy little thing next to the lighter.
Keep in mind my veg plants, generally a mess anyway, have been pretty much frozen in time the last few months. The new bulb has perked them up now and they’re starting to grow again. This OGx looks like it wants to grow large.
———-
I’ve given up on the current aerocloner round. Third round in a row.
Well- not quite given up. What I do in these cases is plunk them in a tray of perlite under a bulb just in case... They’ll sit there a month or more, languishing but not dying. Usually I get one or two to root in the perlite setup after all else has failed.
So that’s one
mission for the night- go over the cloner again and sterilize it... This next round I’m going to set it up in the wine/jamming/trimming room- just in case the cuttings are happier there and the dreaded zoospores are less numerous.
I’m also going to hit up my rainwater cisterns with a little bleach tonight. Thith pythium busineth is thrarting to pyth me off.