Weasel Forges Ahead

Yours turned out a little fatter and a lot frostier than mine. What do you think is the reason the leaves were drying off like that? Environment or nutes or both?
 
Dankman_420 said:
Beautiful plant weasel! I keep wanting to try breeding but I'm scared shitless of polinating my whole area :laugh:
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Thanks dankman :)
It really shouldn’t be difficult...
I screwed up my old bag of pollen by letting it get damp. I figured it was not going to work anyway so I was awfully generous with the way I handled it.

Skybound said:
Yours turned out a little fatter and a lot frostier than mine. What do you think is the reason the leaves were drying off like that? Environment or nutes or both?
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I think mostly the fact that it’s been starved for the last few weeks, combined with its flowering age. The plant consumes the available nutrients within its leaves and seems to get a lot frostier when that happens. My thinking is that this starvation in late flowering sends a signal that it’s fall, and time to ripen. Fruit that ripens on the vine is the tastiest.
Not sure if this has a solid basis in science but it’s just how I think of it.
The plant flowered for 11- weeks. 78 days.
 
I base my harvest times on the same thinking I use when picking fruit. When it ripens on the vine it takes on a succulent colourful glow that says just says ‘eat me, I’m ripe and delicious’. For some strange reason I can’t bring myself to harvest bud before it at least starts to approach that stage. Trimming it up when it’s crisp and hard and bright green feels all wrong to me -like picking a green tomato or a rock hard peach in mid summer. My instincts all tell me not to do it. I realize that this is different to how almost everyone else harvests.
I might be better off just checking trichomes, like a normal person, and could save myself a few weeks flowering time. But I don’t feel like resisting my gut feelings about it
 
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I’m going to make up a couple different nutrient mixes to test out. Most of the prisoners will continue to get the regular old Botanicare mix. Not perfect obviously but they survived ok with it.
I’m just throwing darts really so if you have any fancy ideas skybound feel free to let me know.

I forgot to grab some clay but will do that soon as well.

Exp. mix 1-

N- 100
P- 80
K- 195
Mg-50
Ca-120


Exp. mix 2-

N- 100
P- 100
K- 180
Mg-50
Ca-140
 
They both look like good regimens and I expect you'll do good with both, though I expect better from #2 due to the closer K:Ca ratio. Also, I've read Mg can in some cases be even to Ca in ratio, but it's been widely held to be the generally accepted Ca:Mg 2:1 ratio, so I would try to keep it at least half your Ca as Mg isn't an easy deficiency to correct.
 
I would, or prove an effort to in the results. I realize small adds like that adds up on your EC, but still my small bit of research reflects that. I briefly experimented with 75% and ran into problems, but that could easily have been from other factors and some day I would like to revisit experimenting with a Ca:Mg ratio.

Here's an excerpt from the Hydro book about Mg. It's good info.

Function
Magnesium is a major constituent of the chlorophyll molecule (Figure 5.1),
the substance in which photosynthesis takes place (see page 14). Magnesium
is also an enzyme activator for a number of important energy transfer processes.
Therefore, a deficiency will have serious impact on plant growth and
development. Magnesium is related to a specific enzymatic function particularly
associated with C3-type plants that when Mg is deficient, CO2 fixation is
reduced, and therefore the production of carbohydrates required for active
plant growth declines. Magnesium uptake, like Ca, tends to remain fairly
constant with time, but it differs from Ca in that Mg is more mobile in the
plant. While Ca is mobile only in the zylem, Mg is mobile in both the zylem
and phloem.

Deficiency Symptoms
Magnesium deficiency symptoms are quite distinct as an interveinal chlorosis
that appears first on the older leaves. Once a Mg deficiency occurs, it is very
difficult to correct, particularly if the deficiency occurs during the mid-point
of the growing season. In those plant species that have a high Mg requirement,
the deficiency may be triggered by various types of environmental and
physiological stress. Deficiency can result from an imbalance between K+ and
Mg2+, Ca2+ and Mg2+, or NH4+ and Mg2+ cations. Of these cations, Mg2+ is the
least competitive for root absorption. The Ca2+ and Mn2+ cations show a
competitive effect on Mg2+ uptake and increased Ca2+ uptake ensures a
concentration of divalent ion capacity sufficient to maintain cation/anion
balance and proper functioning of physiological activity. When Mg is deficient,
the increased uptake of Mn2+ prevents total failure of the biochemical processes
of energy transfer, forestalling the collapse and death of plant cells.
The uptake of Mg shows a number of interactive effects, both synergistic
and antagonistic. An interesting side effect of Mg deficiency is a possible
increase in susceptibility to fungus disease infestation as well as the incidence
of blossom-end-rot (BER) of fruit.

Excess Symptoms
Under normal conditions, Mg excess is not likely to occur. However, some
investigators suggest that Mg concentrations in the nutrient solution, as well
as the plant, should not exceed that of Ca in order to maintain the proper
cation balance for best plant growth and development.

Accumulation in the Rooting Medium
With each application of a nutrient solution containing Mg and P to the rooting
medium, whether inorganic (sand, gravel, perlite, rookwool, etc.) or organic
The Essential Elements 49 (pinebark, coir, peat, etc.), a precipitation of Mg with P
begins to occur, forming in the rooting medium an ever increasing accumulation.
Being colloidal in physical form and in eminent contact with plant roots, a portion of
this precipitate is dissolved by root acidification and the released Mg and P
as well as other elements trapped in the precipitate provide a major source
for these elements for uptake and utilization. This partially explains why the
effect of applied nutrient solution on the composition of the plant with time
becomes less a reflection of the nutrient solution composition for most of the
precipitated elements, both major and micronutrient. although the common
recommended practice for control of the nutrient element content of the
growing medium, determined by EC measurements (see page 106), is periodic
water leaching, leaching that will not remove accumulated precipitates.

Concentration in a Nutrient Solution
Most hydroponic formulas call for Mg to be at a concentration around 50 mg/L
(ppm) in the nutrient solution, although that concentration may be too low to
meet the requirement for some crops, such as tomato and cucumber. Magnesium
is present in the nutrient solution as the divalent cation Mg2+.

Nutrient Solution Reagents
The primary reagent source for Mg is magnesium sulfate (MgSO4•7H2O). Natural
waters may contain a substantial quantity of Mg, as much as 50 mg/L (ppm).
Therefore, when preparing a nutrient solution, the quantity of Mg contributed
by the water should be determined so that the Mg concentration in the nutrient
solution does not exceed that recommended.
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heya friend,,s

weaseley,, amigo,, sheesh,,

them nugs, that frost, your skill, my aspirations,,

all summed up in any dern one of them pics of that pc.

:adore:,, seriously

i harvested me first hempy a day ago,,amigo

the blueberry,, as you mentioned earlier,, perhaps the mildew issue was a blessing with a mask on,,

i now see so many issues with the way i was growing my weed

anywho,, a blueberry plant, mildew free, a bug or a hundred, all hempy , in the tent with the rapid led light for 64 days,,

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still has fan leaves to turn yeller, like you mentioned that that seems to enhance a touch, the trickes, a rare sight for me,,

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this does it for me friend,,

"mount blueberry"

cheers tyger
 
Looking good Nivek nice to hear you’re back on track. Hmmmm, yeah....blessings with masks on... I run when I see them in dark alleys or anywhere else. ‘Blessing in disguise’ is what we call it later after we’ve been been buggered and need to save face.

Things have been pretty f’n manic around here. While winter squashes everything down into a few hours daylight and a whole lot of dark and rain, summer stretches reality out into endless daylight and endless amounts of things to do, make, and harvest. I start up slowly in the morn like a wind-up doll, faster and faster all day until I get a little time to chill by the fire after midnight and pass out around 2am when it’s as dark as it’s going to get. It’s a mini marathon each day.
The bats get home around 4:30 and I sleep with a pillow over my head. No mosquitos here thanks to those noisy little fuzzy f’n flying mice in disguise.

I have to make a bit of hash today as a friend requested some. I may try to document the settle vs bubblebags harvests again.
I documented and measured the hell out of it at one point last winter. But when I was done doing all that - it all amounted to something like this-

The settling method gives about 30% higher yield than the bags. But somewhat lower quality overall. Not nearly 30% lower quality though.
Settling it seems to collect a lot of trichomes that the bags don’t catch. I’m guessing maybe those busted and smeared trichomes that I see all over my buds, which are too small to be strained out by the B- bag mesh.

I can take the dregs leftover from a run of bubble hash, let it settle, and get another 25-30% weight of fairly low grade but decent hash.

Is it less work? No it’s about the same. But there are pros and cons. I may do a proper write up or start a thread.
 
Been out in the FAQs a bunch lately. Always a dirty business. Or, usually good but sometimes aggravating and by the end of a day in the FAQs you’re feeling dirty more often than not.
Someone starts a thread, on a topic with an interesting question. You try to address the question. Random wanker drops bait saying you’re totally wrong, then you have to write whole essays of shit to try to disprove the baiter. Find out later that nobody cares about the facts of the actual question anyway, maybe not even the OP. Everyone just wants to yell their opinions, and we all feel like wankers in the end. Unsubscribe and ignore. Beware the master baiter, is all I can say.

One called me a cracker. Not sure 100% what that means but it can’t be good. Been thinking about just becoming Weasel- I’m getting too old to want to crack weasels anyway.

The Great White Slug slithers through the yard slowly. Sluggishly
Moby

Moby



The new PC drying in the jar.
PC3

PC3



The last two cuttings from the batch I took on May 1. One is dying. The one on left actually has some roots but they’re very weak and I’ll probably toss these both. Which means only two casualties among the entire batch after sitting in that tray for two whole months. Totally amazing for my grow and the Z7 has to be what made the difference.
Cuttings @ day 61

Cuttings @ day 61

 
BTW Nivek I thought I might have pissed you off permanently with my silly raptor comments. I actually have almost no idea what you’re talking about but I’m sure it’s the sports. Last winter friend of mine ‘could not believe’ that I didn’t know there was a very very important hockey game that night. I was like, how would I know? He was like- how wouldn’t you know. I was like....

I swear on both of my dead grandmother’s graves that I have never heard anything whatsoever about the raptors either before your comment or since. The closest I’ve maybe come is at one point I was driving down the road and I saw a great big truck with a little flag sticking out of his window and I thought maybe that has something to do with Nivek’s raptors.

I’ve known some wonderful people who worship the beauty of the game(s) though. No issues here, I’m just busy with other things.
 
Weaselcracker said:
Random wanker drops bait saying you’re totally wrong, then you have to write whole essays of shit to disprove the baiter. Find out later that nobody cares about the facts of the actual question everyone just wants to yell opinions and we all feel like wankers in the end. Beware the master baiter, is all I can say.
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I've come to think of them as "blurters". :straightface:

It's all about the Blurt. They should call it Blurter instead of Twitter. How does that Beavis and Butthead laugh go? ... hu hu hu. Blurt ... hu hu ... blurt blurt. "Too many words, man."

Congrats on the cloning breakthrough! :thumb:
 
ok, well, i am no expert but the game is played with a ball and a hoola hoop i think. invented by mike nesmith from the monkies,, or his mom,, she also invented white out,,

true story

cheers,, go raptors go,,

oh, maybe they already gone,,
 
hehehe...both you and TS had me chuckling in one particular FAQ thread... ;):thumb:...cheerz...:high-five:...h00k...:hookah:...
 
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