Weasel Forges Ahead

Rider509 said:
I still have hash pucks
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You might be surprised. Yesterday I smoked some of one of those Ace Mix plants- they sometimes include the seeds as freebies. I grew that particular bud back in 2016. Been stored in the cool and dark ever since. I was surprised to see how much punch it still packed - though of course I am a lightweight.

Mainly- it was speedy back then and I guess somehow I thought it would grow less speedy over time. I’m not sure what the thinking was, mathematically. I guess I thought it would somehow slow down over the years? Makes perfect sense right?

Anyway... no...
It was still speedy as hell. :laughtwo:



Graytail said:
zippy African kind of high.
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That sounds exactly like what I want!
 
Rider509 said:
I’ve noticed the same thing. It’s very different here today than it was three years ago. I’ve taken to answering unanswered threads just for fun and to welcome new members. I wouldn’t have had the time or inclination to do that in the past.
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You guys are right. I remember barely being able to keep up with journals and even mine as a newer grower were packed with people. Totally different now, but more manageable too. We need a but more chatter.
Weaselcracker said:
I like the looks of this Zamaldelica. Anyone grown this one before, maybe Graytail? (My phone just au
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Very nice Zama. I was going to purchase these at one point when seeking out landraces, but I opted for kilimanjaro. I will have to grow this one again as my last one was consumed by aphids.

Plants are looking great weasel!
 
Reave said:
ace seeds mixes
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I had a lot of fun growing out the two I grew. It was entertaining to figure out the genetics from their appearance. Which was pretty easy in my cases. Somewhere on their website I think they list the likely genetics behind the latest mix strains.
dick23rk said:
Plants are looking great weasel
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Thanks! Yeah- amazingly, actually I agree at the moment. They are on a veg formula so far. I expect I’ll screw them up as usual once I switch to a flowering mix. Sometimes I wonder if I should switch at all...

Looking forward to that LOS mix being ready. I should try another victim in it soon.
The cult brought their main gigantic heavenly death machine back today and are ramping up the obliteration of life as we know it locally, so I am increasingly inclined to move out of here for the summer. If I could get the LOS functioning it would make it so much easier for a caretaker to deal with my plants.
 
I'm sorry to hear about you asshole neighbors. That is terrible to hear. Times are strange for sure. I can't believe Half my family is doing the Trump thing and everyone else I know is just staring on watching the world burn down and trying to make the worst of a pretty shitty situation. A lot of my best friends are going thru some of the hardest times in their lives.

Those poor trees. What do the assholes plan on farming? Do you have a pic of the old growth?

Cheers Friends,
 
Thanks Lazyfish. I suppose I could put a couple up hopefully without breaking rules. Yeah it’s some really creepy shit to be honest. But I don’t wanna fill my journal with complaining about it. What’s going on here right now is like something out of a movie. I never would’ve imagined it happening in this spot in this way.

People are pretty weird and as far as I can see it’s best to just hang onto the rare ones that are actually cool and actually get it.

My plants in flowering under the LEDs just kept getting bigger and bigger. I finally got suspicious two days ago and went over everything and the timer above those ones was set to 18 hours -so I’m going to have some pretty large plants to deal with on that side but I guess that’s OK. No pics right now cause I’m away.

After all my years of defending HPS I have to say I’m really impressed with these lights. The growth under them has been amazing. It also gives me a better chance to bring my Kittylight panels into action as well. Slightly less impressed with @Atreum Lighting not answering any of my emails for a month now, but I will continue to have faith and wait, because they seemed like good people when they were talking, LOL.

These aren’t the biggest trees in that area or anything like that - there are lots of massive cedars and spruce- just a few photos that I happened to take in my stoned wanderings when checking out the invasion there. The one with the hole in it was burnt in a forest fire over 150 years ago but still growing fine. It won’t survive the next few weeks though it looks like.
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I’ve gotten in the habit of taking a photo on my phone after I put my cuttings in the cloner. That way I know what date I started them and I can see how long it takes for them to form roots. New record today- 4 days and 11 hours. :theband:

Thursday 7:48

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Tuesday 6:38

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The left side under LEDs which had the timer set wrong...
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After all my arguments with @bluter about led vs hps...
I’m gonna be facing a jungle here pretty quick. The plants in front from left to right are Durple Pream, Blue Dream, and Zamaldelica. In regular Promix and Fauxmix.

The other Blue Dream which I put into the LOS mix early is pretty much fried but I’m hoping the LOS stuff is almost ready by now. I put a small PC plant into some yesterday so we will see how it goes. I am really hoping I can get all the plants into LOS in the next few weeks so I can GTFO on the ocean and sail away from the madness for a while :D


Hope everyone is coping well.

Pro coping tip of the day- blow up your TV.

Bonus tip- throw out your radio.
 
That’s some fast rooting on those cuttings! It’s funny that we all cut the bottoms out of those rooting cups. You’d think the manufacturers would catch on and alleviate us of that onerous task.
The rest of the girls look good. Luv the looks of that Zam. Such a beautiful sativa. I’m looking forward to seeing her flower out.
 
You know I never thought of that. That’s a very good point why don’t they just cut the bottoms out?

Thanks rider. Yeah I have a feeling that Zama is going to be a bit of a runaway for me but that’s OK -I will have to wrangle her somehow
 
Weaselcracker said:
After all my arguments with @bluter about led vs hps...
I’m gonna be facing a jungle here pretty quick.
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lol led works good if you got decent rigs

wth is going on with the neighbours ? are they chewing up the forest for a pig farm ?

you should invite them over, have a couple beers, then tell them how happy you are that someone is finally developing the place after all the murders that have occurred there over the years.

your white floors and renos are flipping great. white is actually easier to take care of. there is a floor paint you can use that will clean easier. polyurethane base. there's some old school oils that do ok as well.

if you got land i'd go further in to the bush as well.

i lived for years without a tv. i was never better informed. i could do it again.
hell, i lived most my life without a cell phone. and serial killers never came for me. i probably creeped them out.
 
Weaselcracker said:
I have a feeling that Zama is going to be a bit of a runaway for me but that’s OK -I will have to wrangle her somehow
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Wrangle, hahahaha, yes you will. Those sativas want to reach for the sky. When I was in high school my parents brought back a boy from Saipan. (long story) He showed me Polaroids of him standing next to sativa “trees”. Three inch main trunks and pushing 10 feet tall. Ideal growing conditions can produce amazing results. My predominantly sativa grow is over five feet tall at two months from breaking out of the seed starters.
 
Weaselcracker said:
You know I never thought of that. That’s a very good point why don’t they just cut the bottoms out?
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they're meant for hydroton. i've used them that way before.
there is a rdwc method that doesn't use a bigger basket too. kinda like a rdwc sog. looks a lot like a trough grow.
 
The so-called neighbours hardly deserve that nice of a label Bluter. Put bluntly, it’s a super aggressive fundamentalist American survivalist cult, which somehow found us on the map and realized we were an easy target. They have bought up hundreds of acres here and have been actively flattening the land for the logs and putting up greenhouses and building huge commune infrastructure, obviously with huge amounts of American church backing and huge amounts of heavy machinery. Clearly with an eye to bringing up hundreds more. They basically made a small town that we didn’t even know about till recently. Most here still don’t realize it.

They’ve been hyper aggressive and also extremely sneaky about hiding their doings- all dress and look the same, mostly self sufficient, all drive black vehicles, have a fringe of trees hiding their communes, discourage outsiders, etc.
In this quiet isolated spot they kind of wormed their way into the middle and here they are all of a sudden in their new promised land/wild west fantasy, here to take from our land, and bring us a little taste of apocalypse. :(

Honestly I don’t want to get into it very much on this journal because it’s a bit all-consuming for me at the moment and I’d be better off sticking with talking about my plants here.

So that’s about the summary of it and I’d like to leave it mostly at that because otherwise it’s just going to get too dark talking about it all.

Basically I’m actively working on trying to figure out how to move out of here to our ‘extra middle of nowhere’ spot. Logistics are daunting. It will take time.




Thanks Rider. So far I haven’t really had trouble calming the sativas. I just keep super cropping it and tying them down.

Partly because everything has been a bit out of control around here it has been kind of spooky to see these ones taking off like this under the LED Especially when I realized I wasn’t even on 12/12 lighting like I thought I was :laughtwo: So now I realize the stretch hasn’t even begun yet.
 
That sucks Weasel. Where my sister lives, something similar is happening with seventh day adventurists buying up all the land around and then squeezing everybody. Plus they qualify for charity status so they pay f*ck all income tax, man something's wrong with that. Anyway, I can appreciate you not wanting to rile yourself up any further about it, so I'll get back to plants! They were some lovely pics of the trees. And I also want to try some of the ACE strains, I am currently think Hon x Pan, Malawi x Ethiopian, Zama, Golden Tiger (the new one with the stronger Thai influence). They sound great, but for growing outdoors I am a little concerned with how late they will be to get to harvest. Anyway, I hope things settle down for you and you can focus again on your garden and family without the other unwanted crap going on.
 
Weaselcracker said:
The so-called neighbours hardly deserve that nice of a label Bluter. Put bluntly, it’s a super aggressive fundamentalist American survivalist cult, which somehow found us on the map and realized we were an easy target. They have bought up hundreds of acres here and have been actively flattening the land for the logs and putting up greenhouses and building huge commune infrastructure, obviously with huge amounts of American church backing and huge amounts of heavy machinery. Clearly with an eye to bringing up hundreds more. They basically made a small town that we didn’t even know about till recently. Most here still don’t realize it.

They’ve been hyper aggressive and also extremely sneaky about hiding their doings- all dress and look the same, mostly self sufficient, all drive black vehicles, have a fringe of trees hiding their communes, discourage outsiders, etc.
In this quiet isolated spot they kind of wormed their way into the middle and here they are all of a sudden in their new promised land/wild west fantasy, here to take from our land, and bring us a little taste of apocalypse. :(
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mawtherfawker ... wth ? has anyone talked to anyone in gov't about this ? ... this is why there are elected officials to bother.

even better ... media if you really wanna get under their skin. idiots like your neighbours really hate cameras. i for one would be really interested in hearing why your premier is allowing another cult to establish, considering BC's history.

Weaselcracker said:
Basically I’m actively working on trying to figure out how to move out of here to our ‘extra middle of nowhere’ spot. Logistics are daunting. It will take time.
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maybe make a trade lol ... tell the neighbours the whole area is slated for development ... lotsa eyes hanging around, cops and hookers and blow .. but if they really want to get away ... :cheesygrinsmiley:

then make them deal with logistics, and you get a chunk you can use as a future buffer.



Weaselcracker said:
Especially when I realized I wasn’t even on 12/12 lighting like I thought I was So now I realize the stretch hasn’t even begun yet.
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if you have enough rig you can cut back to 11/13 two wks in. then 10/14 about ten to 14 days after til finish.
 
There’s always hope, and thank you kindly Stunger. I always wanted to buy the latest ‘extra Thai’ version of GT. But the credit card wouldn’t allow it to happen, and I’ve gotten lazy about working my way around it buying bitcoin or whatever I have to do My favourite smoke ever was a Thai leaning GT. But I kept growing GTs out and never found the same one again.


bluter said:
you can cut back to 11/13
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I put them on 11/13 once I realized what was going on. I’ve been running on 11/13 for the last three or four years now, but got the bright idea to switch to 12/12 for this time. That’s when I managed to screw up the timer setting. So back to 11/13 it is.

The ‘aggressive white settler’ story does not sit well here, to say the least. Private land law is pretty firm in Canada though, it seems. But there is always hope.
To be honest I expect serious conflict. But I think it will come too late for my place
 
if it comes to it sell your place to the worst folk you can for the highest price possible.
mexican cartel looking to relocate or globalize comes to mind ...
 
Been too busy. I hope you kids are well.

I am attempting to get the plants into the LOS soil mix so that it can be water-only, because that makes everything so much more simple when I leave here. Even if I have to bail on the flowering ones and put them all outdoors, there’d hopefully be something left alive when I returned. Auto-watering indoors... maybe an option if I order more gear.

The catch is that I don’t think the LOS is ready yet.
The other catch is that it’s sort of now or never either way, for me to transplant. The flowering plants were flipped about 10 days ago and are all just in the stretch period now. Best chance for them to still expand their root system.

So I’m taking large plants in early flower, trying to remove the Promix they’re entangled in, and relocating into an immature LOS mix. Stupidest idea ever? :hmmmm:

I transplanted five day before yesterday. They were mostly in 5 gallon pots. I put them in to 7 and 10 gallon pots.

I tried washing the promix off the roots with a hose but that didn’t work well at all. Way more efficient to just shake them.

Here are before and after pics of a Carnival.
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It took over ten minutes of washing with a garden hose to get to this point.
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Like I said, I found it way faster and easier to just shake the promix off when dry. What I’m left with is a fluffball of roots with no weight to it.
Here’s a before and after of the Zamaldelica. I put her into a 10 gallon pot.

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Zamaldelica

Zamaldelica




The Kali China also got re-mediumed.
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Kali China



This is the first Blue Dream I put into the LOS mix about four weeks ago. The mix clearly wasn’t ready yet but I had hoped she would straighten out over time. This hasn’t happened. She hasn’t seemed in danger of completely croaking, but hasn’t grown bigger either. I actually think she has gotten smaller since the transplant into LOS. The (presumed) iron deficiency is eating away at the leaves and they’re sort of dissolving into dust.
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Let’s hope the rest of them don’t do the same. Here‘s a pic of the LED side last night, 24 hours after the drastic transplant. The closest five plants are in LOS now. So far so good.
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Weaselcracker said:
So I’m taking large plants in early flower, trying to remove the Promix they’re entangled in, and relocating into an immature LOS mix. Stupidest idea ever? :hmmmm:
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Why do you feel you have to get the roots out of the Promix for?
 
Because I am trying to change the medium from Promix to LOS. I do not have many pots larger than 10 gallons. I don’t want them to be sitting in five or 7 gallons of nutritionally empty peat mix with only a tiny bit of LOS around the outside. I want them to be in mainly LOS.
 
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