Weasel Forges Ahead

So I harvested the PC, at 94 days, before it could start to go mouldy on me.
What I thought was going to be some nice colour was pretty lackluster. Probably more just from me screwing it up with nutrient issues than anything else.
Leafy and doesn’t look that great but I’ll cure some and see.


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Going to harvest the last Carnival now. A little early but I want to make sure it has some energy left for a reveg.
 
It doesn’t look that bad yer right. But for what it is I feel it should be different. Stickier. It feels like a bit of deficiencies going on in the way it developed, or didn’t develop.
94 days in bloom, yes.
 
We must have vastly different phenos. I've been taking mine right at 56 days +/- a day and the trics are vastly cloudy with a few ambers, just the way I like. Here's the one I chopped yesterday.

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I got tired of pollinating bananas so ended the banana male- reversal experiment. No pistils that I noticed, after a month.
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Made some hash. I did more tests with the settling vs bubble bags methods and this time they were closer to equal. I got a little bit more weight with the settling method but otherwise they were about the same thing. I don’t know why I got such different results last time.
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Went and grabbed some peat moss from the ditch next to my place. Only small roots to chop through with the shovel so it was pretty fast digging. A little over five minutes & I filled up 3/4 of a 40 gallon tote. Very wet and heavy. Put it away to dry for a while.
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Oh yeah. I reset all four of my digital timers to the correct time on July 10. Will check back later to see how deviant they are.
 
Harvested the Carnival at day 74 of flowering and put the remains back in to reveg.
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you guys reveg more on a plant than I harvest .
 
Got three seedlings PCx
 
ya baby,, lookin so nice weaseley,, wow

i gots me a carnival a couple weeks from goin to flower,, a hempy carny,, this gonna be good,, i know it,,

i sent the shell and some little coconuts,, an lemon haze / afghani cross,, from way back in my earliest accidental breeding,, an accidental hermie but on purpose pollen distribution with a paint brush

several different phenoes from these seeds,, but about fifty percent of em have insane trichome coverage,, unlike anything i have ever grown,, pics will show up, i promise,,

the other fifty are still as nifty,, indeed

as in this one, just harvested today,, no full plant pic,, but this bud,, bud,, oh my,,

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never have i grown a bud even half this big,, funny too, cuz this is still a soil plant,, even tho looks hempy on top. nope, soil

this one near bug free but still has some mildew in the middle. the mildew follows the soil so i am wanting this to be the end of my mildew problems,, mostly.. yay

i now know where i saw someone else using the cages like i use now,, great method indeed

cheers for now friend,,
 
Skybound said:
Things like switching back and forth for daylight savings, or brown outs, or grower errors, all are overlooked if the errors are minor and not too frequent. 5 seconds a day is a lot for the timing of critical operations, but I doubt that kind of accuracy could even be appreciated in a grow room.
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Me too... me too exactly.
Every now and then I roam the newbie thread and see someone worried about a 5min power outage. I just chuckle and move on usually.
There is a drawback to the general thought process tho. You're going to notice if there's a problem quicker if your obsessing over the timers and whatnot every day.
Damn... maybe we're both just lazy.

Weaselcracker said:
It relates back to an incident a couple months ago when a sort of stoner ‘friend’ I know asked for some because, he said, his friends were looking. Sounded good to me. So I gave him all my Y Griega and a large pile of Carnival, cause everyone loves Carnival. A few weeks later I called and asked him how things going and he spat out very bitterly, and savagely,

‘It’s like fucking smoking fucking air!’

So that was disappointing. A couple weeks later I finally got sort of pissed about it and asked for my air back and... well I’m sure you all know how this story goes :laughtwo:
After a long confusing runaround in the mists of Stonerland it eventually emerged that- yes, there was no more air. Poor suffering buddy had vaped up all the ‘fucking air’ in his fancy expen$ive brand new volcano vaporizer. Probably after selling enough to pay for the volcano I’m guessing.

And that was that. Goodbye air. Goodbye stoner ‘friend’. And goodbye Carnival and YG cause who wants to grow air, my stash can only hold so much of it.
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Weaselcracker said:
You know when there’s a four year old and they whine to their mom all day cause they were promised an ice cream and then finally they get the ice cream but drop it in the dirt and they’re already on their way home and mommy won’t buy them a new one? It was like that. He’s a real head case. Just the way he is. My fault for being involved - no big loss.
So he will feel guilty, and avoid me for the next year. When I do see him I’ll have to listen to his sad tales of woe. Someday he will make it up to me by giving me a half dozen salmon and his change collection.
It’s just the way he is. He only likes the stuff that makes him forget his name, slump in a corner and drool. Literally. TBH he’s got a bit of a problem.
Carnival is a great happy daytime smoke. Easy to grow, a nice straightforward strain that’s hard to find anything bad to say about. At least he’s the only one I’ve heard. Everyone else I’ve given it to likes it as their favourite.
If you only like super strong heavy indica stuff then it’s probably too airy.
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How does love turn this vile so quickly? Doesn't it just shake your faith in your fellow man. Oh it sucks. Your point about the childish nature of it all seems really spot-on.
I suspect it's really the fact that weed to some folks is more equivalent to money then the love we feel when sharing it. Doesn't it just piss you right the fuck off that one of your friends took that opportunity away from you?
Me too. Been there, done that. Many times. Many friends. Many I don't see anymore that were once very welcomed and frequent visitors in my world.
I'd give ya a hug... but feel free to let your sweetie stand in for you if you feel uncomfortable at all.

Weaselcracker said:
5.5 would seem pretty good to me. @Tead runs them at around 5.6 I believe. I don’t think you can mess up too badly if you stick at 5.8.
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I was married to 5.5 doing the Osmo diet. These days on the powdered stuff and at lower temps, I've settled at the 5.7 - 6.0 range. Not much of a change.


Weaselcracker said:
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Music between plants?
I wonder what's playing on Weas's guitar these days?


nivek said:
never have i grown a bud even half this big,, funny too, cuz this is still a soil plant,, even tho looks hempy on top. nope, soil

this one near bug free but still has some mildew in the middle. the mildew follows the soil so i am wanting this to be the end of my mildew problems,, mostly.. yay

i now know where i saw someone else using the cages like i use now,, great method indeed
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Wow! Fun words baby!!!
I'll have to roam over to your place next and see what's shakin.
 
Tead said:
Me too... me too exactly.
Every now and then I roam the newbie thread and see someone worried about a 5min power outage. I just chuckle and move on usually.
There is a drawback to the general thought process tho. You're going to notice if there's a problem quicker if your obsessing over the timers and whatnot every day.
Damn... maybe we're both just lazy.
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I spent years obsessing about timers, such that I taught myself how to code to program my arduinos. When 420 ditched the blogs, I lost about a year and a half of logged obsession, but then I have easily another year beyond that, to the extent that I damn near finished my fully automated grow room to include 3 temp/RH sensors, an independent clock, all of my sub pumps were fully programmable to be activated in accordance with time, or me toggling a digital button on the screen of my smartphone from somewhere else over the internet, and 8 dosing pumps to inject nutrients into the plumbing circuit. I am very proud of myself for getting as far as I did, but I crashed when I could find, or design/print 2 way plastic servo valves. The whole damn thing was dependent on those valves, but w/o them, I just got burned out mentally and had to let that dream go. But if you have any electrical experience and can build circuits, here's my code.

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I admit that I am lazy, but I use my lazy to guide me on how best to accomplish a task without me doing the work.
 
Skybound said:
I spent years obsessing about timers, such that I taught myself how to code to program my arduinos. When 420 ditched the blogs, I lost about a year and a half of logged obsession, but then I have easily another year beyond that, to the extent that I damn near finished my fully automated grow room to include 3 temp/RH sensors, an independent clock, all of my sub pumps were fully programmable to be activated in accordance with time, or me toggling a digital button on the screen of my smartphone from somewhere else over the internet, and 8 dosing pumps to inject nutrients into the plumbing circuit. I am very proud of myself for getting as far as I did, but I crashed when I could find, or design/print 2 way plastic servo valves. The whole damn thing was dependent on those valves, but w/o them, I just got burned out mentally and had to let that dream go. But if you have any electrical experience and can build circuits, here's my code.

Skybound420/Skydroponics

I admit that I am lazy, but I use my lazy to guide me on how best to accomplish a task without me doing the work.
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Crazy story.
I actually took a bit of time and rolled thru your code quickly. I'd never seen pumps addressed in code before. It all seemed very simple and straight forward. I roamed thru the various schedules and other functions. I'm impressed by how well documented it was.
I'd be the kind that would port it all over to a DB or other data structure of some sort and build a quick interface in something super easy.... like an Excel spreadsheet connected to a DB with cells that change color when various conditions are met.... ya know... the butt dumbest but easiest way to build an interface. I might step up and use Access... but that seems a bit much.
 
The front end used is Blynk, it's a free app in the Play Store that'll send GETs and PUSHes to the device that has the correct passkey in the code so you your cell phone can receive data or send commands. I was able to read the temp or RH and trigger on something plugged into the 110VAC. I also had feed times for each of the pumps, but also had to ability to remotely turn on the pump which was convenient for res changes. The RO res's pump was coded to pump out in increments or fractions of a gallon. The RO also has an override button in the phone app in case the user ever needs to kick on the RO. If you look at the website Atlas Scientific, they have every probe that growers use and libraries for Arduino and rPi too. Blynk also has a free local server that you can put your grow and your phone into constant comms over the web, but this is more complex and I never quite figured it out. I estimate that I accomplish roughly 80% of my intended goals so there's plenty there for someone else to make something of.
 
Skybound said:
Blynk also has a free local server that you can put your grow and your phone into constant comms over the web, but this is more complex and I never quite figured it out.
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I had to go check it out. Ya know.... always curious. Of course, the real problem is that I'd absolutely need the local version and I'd closely monitor it in some external way. Setting up a server along with a real firewall... plus all the monitoring. Oh gawd. The entire thought of real security would just be too much for me even to attempt.
 
Tead said:
obsessing over the timers and whatnot ever
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Skybound said:
obsessing about timers,
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Y’all should know by now that I’d be the last person to obsess about the time. Discipline is slack. You think I tell you all the embarrassing shit I do around here? Well I don’t.
Nevertheless, I’m still impressed at the non-accurateness of my digital timers. I zeroed them all on July 10. So about two weeks ago.
One timer for each of the lights and one for the dehumidifier to run during lights off. I unplugged them all and pulled their batteries so they should be within ten seconds of each other. This is what I got tonight at the crack of 8:26 pm by my phone.
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Check back in six months and things are getting wonky enough that it does matter.
 
The deer get extra hungry this time of year. Fawns are growing fast, days are getting shorter, and now is the time to eat as much as possible
I’ve got three compost piles like this one made of fencing rings, and they like hopping up there and eating everything they can. They ate all my little cannabis seedlings this spring.Large amounts of trimmings from garden harvests go straight down their throats. What’s more concerning is that from up there they have a great view of the main garden and like to stare down into it longingly.
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It’s a time of heavy deer politics right now as they have to make room for the next generation.
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This year there is only one more set of twins, with two of the regular moms not having had fawns this spring. So I have about 8 regulars, since there are a couple that seem to have now been banished.


The usual apologies for lame journal maintenance. It’s been hectic
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