yeah thats the one mate. they really are great, only downfall is once roots devlop u have to put feed/water through very slow or it pisses out the holes. def get better plants from them. the larger pots are only useful if u run long veg periods.
Xlr8's Quest For The Best - 2012
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YES! agreed, once you let the media get pretty dry once or twice the resulting shrinkage makes the coco pull away from the holes slightly which does indeed cause some peripheral pissage. It's a great size, like you say and I'd use them every time now with hand-watered drain-to-waste plants like this.
That is a beautiful plant X!
So you're saying farewell to the JTR a?
Are you going to try and get any seeds from her before she's gone?
So you're saying farewell to the JTR a?
Are you going to try and get any seeds from her before she's gone?
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Thanks Vick!
No, i don't think so. Though, I've thought about leaving part of her in bloom for an extended period, which can result in "selfed" seeds. (Female seeds that are often similar to the plant they came from.)
I have a lot of seeds from crosses I made with the JTR male I had, which is good enough for me at this point. I do have several more JTR seeds from the breeder pack, too.
I just have a lot I want to try, and not enough time/space to do everything I'd like too.
UrbanGrower
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your shit always looks primo X. looks kinda like your big bang only a lil better 
Right on.
Well you did her proud X!
It always comes down to not having enough time to do it all..
Well you did her proud X!
It always comes down to not having enough time to do it all..
HomeMedGrower
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Maybe I'll have to try out the air pots. I really liked how well plants grew in smart pots with coco just not liking the square plastic pots I have now.
RickyW
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ima be along to see as well! keep up the great work bro
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your shit always looks primo X. looks kinda like your big bang only a lil better
UG - Really appreciate that brother!Well, not better yet - but I'd be really happy with that eventually for sure.
It's a slow bloomer too, and is just getting started with blooming. The cutting I grew out from it had several flowering "spurts" and was one of those that had ideal harvest windows that opened and closed. It really didn't start bulking up until very late compared to most plants, so I'm hoping this one will have much more size to it by the time it's fully ripe/harvested.
This is also the first time I've flowered out one of my coir plants too - I'd only used coir for moms/veggers so far. I'm just giving it the same BPN mix as the Flo N Gro plants are getting. Literally just watering it out of the Flo N Grow reservoir. How's that for simple?
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Hi HMG -
I like Smart Pots too, quite a bit. The air-pots are a bigger pain to use in the sense that you have to really pack the little pockets in with your media, but they are wonderful other than that part. Smart Pots were always a little tricky with roots growing out the bottom if you didn't find a way to keep the bottom from staying moist. Airpots have a bit of space above the bottom/tray so this isn't an issue. I like Air-pots best overall, but "air-pots" and "smart pots" both require much more frequent watering due to quicker drying of the media (similar to Smart Pots). Those little 1 liter versions are great for mini-moms/bonsai moms.
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Thanks! Nice having you around again buddy Ricky. By the way your nom de plume/avatar was part of the GREATEST TV SHOW, EVER. Ricky rules.
Great Ricky quote:
"The thing with kids and growings and getting learnings and stuff is that... You can't lie to them. Basically, if you wanna tell the children they can't do something they're gonna want to do it more. When I was young I did all kinds of crazy shit and I turned out wicked. That's because my dad was fuckin' cool, he let me do shit. I was allowed to drive his car around the park, basically took my dirt bike to school, let me grow dope in his shed in grade 7. You know, that's what good parenting is all about. You gotta let them have a bit of freedom."
your ladies are gorgeous broJack the Ripper - Day 40 Bloom:
I forgot to take pictures of the Jack the Ripper that I have in coco coir (Airpot). I feel like she never gets as much attention in my photos due to her position in the tent, so I wanted to take her out and photograph her and give her a little more love.
She is a great plant/mom and would have been a real winner as a long-term keeper mom, but I have such limited space and so many other things I want to grow, too. It was a tough decision though, because this is definitely a keeper pheno. JTR is a great haze strain - nearly pure Sativa. This pheno of it is short with really stacked nodes and doesn't stretch much - even with this being a former mom with a lot of veg time, it didn't stretch much at all. It has a tendency to really get bushy and needs a whole lot of thinning/attention, but it's pretty cool to have a fantastic haze plant that wants to stay under 3 feet.
As I've mentioned before, it's also very high in THC-V, similar to THC but with slightly different effects and medicinal properties. THC-V is involved in numerous ongoing studies and Jack the Ripper is very rare in how high it's THC-V levels are amongst commercial strains. Initial studies have found THC-V produced weight-loss results in lab rats, and may be effective at reducing seizures.
From an experiential standpoint, THC-V is also psychoactive but a little different experience than a typical THC high. The high is definitely unique with my Jack the Ripper. Of note is that this is the biggest creeper weed I've grown... by a LONG shot. You keep toking because it hasn't hit you and then - BAM! Once it does hit it's quick and you are really "up" and giggly. It affects the senses with things like enhanced vision and acute hearing.
JTR tastes like lemonade - this one a bit like Pink Lemonade. I believe this is probably the phenotype that Subcool actually calls the "Pink Lemonade" pheno. This is the mom that I grew a clone from in a previous grow, so I'm very familiar with her already.
To get some better pictures I took it out of the tent (it's tough to get good photos in the tent based on it's positioning). I've decided not to move on with Jack the Ripper in favor of finding something new.
She is being fed Blue Planet Nutrients 3-part, just like the plants in the Flo N Grow. Also like the plants in the Flo N Grow, she's getting the new Vita Blue, Seaweed and Early Bloomer additives from Blue Planet, too.:
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your ladies are gorgeous bro
Thanks Jon, and really appreciate you bumping the pics up, too.
can i say it again
them some sexy girls i tell u what
them some sexy girls i tell u what
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Hi Jandre -
I think he meant "Forks over Knives".
Never heard of it. Guess that's another I'll have to boob-toob.
UrbanGrower
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Ricky: Guys, just let me have one kitty to protect my weed plants!! hahahah .I actually got to meet Bubbles and Randy about two years ago at the main city center here!!
BigIrishDoode
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hey x have you heard about using hemp seeds to cross with reg cannabis to create high cbd strains, aparently hemp is uber rich in cbd and crossing it with high thc plants is how some of the current high cbd types have been created,hard to find viable hemp seeds i have only found one seed bank that sells them here thought you might find it interesting,
i have one airpot and a bunch of smartpots i really like em, the drawbacks with airpots are as you guys mentioned and for me the storage of them when not in use i have a small house, and i dont like trying to keep track of all the pieces if i tear them down, smartpots seem to grow the same and storage is easier cheaper too, i threw dirty ones in the washer on gentle looked new after a cycle, i think they are easier to water also, to water the air pot i finally out of frustration put it in a 5 gallon bucket and let it sit in the feed water after that i just did that every few waterings
i have one airpot and a bunch of smartpots i really like em, the drawbacks with airpots are as you guys mentioned and for me the storage of them when not in use i have a small house, and i dont like trying to keep track of all the pieces if i tear them down, smartpots seem to grow the same and storage is easier cheaper too, i threw dirty ones in the washer on gentle looked new after a cycle, i think they are easier to water also, to water the air pot i finally out of frustration put it in a 5 gallon bucket and let it sit in the feed water after that i just did that every few waterings
i remember years ago when my mom had some pet budgies, she used to buy these packs of seeds from the pet shop and on the back it said contained hemp seed, now been young we thought it was going to be some nice bud, so we spent ages picking all these seeds out the bird seed and planted a few, and damn did they grow quick, but really tall lanky plants, not like the plants we want to grow, ended up out growing the wardrobe we was using, stunk the place out as well, never did get them to flower, but never really tried, didnt have the space and did not want to take the risk, not once we see how quick they grew