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Ahhhh...ski, I know hon.
It feels different to me too. But I hopw you'll keep posting to this thread. I seriously want to watch the rest of this grow....I know some others out there do too.
So just because HD's gone dosn't mean you can be a slacker ......got it... :D
9ski9 , Very nice grow you have there.
I am new to these forums and even I understand the loss of HARDDON to you all. He was a smart guy from what I read of his posts, and a cocky one none the less :D.
Life will go on, As will your grow. Cant wait to see the harvest man, good luck.
Props -Starseed
Thanks Clever and Star...my 250w MH arrived today...new stuff is a good thing. I'll post an update when I get it installed. I'll have to really watch it as far as how much more heat I'm throwing in there.
I love getting new stuff......it doesn't matter if it's a new hairdryer....it's new and it's mine.
How much longer do you have in flower......I know you must have said already.
(Don't think for one minute that he wont check.......curiosity is a powerful thing... :) )
Just a quick Flower Day 38 update...
Yeah, new stuff is fun, Clever. Getting new stuff and growing something is double the fun.
HD had said these may be as long as 70 to 84 days of flower. My plan has been a 56 day flower, but I'll go by what the trichs tell me.
I installed the MH, so they now have 400w HPS and 250w MH, as well as a couple of low CFL's.
It really hurts your eyes to open the door...I can only imagine 1000w systems...
But it stills sucks without HD around....
boy oh boy 9ski that looks so very very nice. i cant wait till i live in my own house, but i know thats a long way away.
im very sad to see Hard leave he had such a weath of information and his love for light hopefully printed on others besides myself.
keep up the awsome work those are looking so so so nice, dare i say juicy?
Thanks, DaBuh...just 9 hours of added MH and there's already a difference. I was almost ready to kill this grow when Hardonna turned male.
Juicy? Juicy, wet, sticky...all are good.
hi ski ive sat there an read your thread from start to finish an all i can say is wow was devastated for u with hardonna but at least the rest of the crop as come good an it looks fantastic i only got chance to ask harddon one question an just by some of the replies hes give an the responses from the other members he sounded like a really cool dude the updates are amazin kepp them up mate because i'll definately b keepin an eye out for them mate
ski .....that middle picture is just......wow...... :D
are you sure your gonna have a enough space.....because you still have a way to go yet.
I actually set my computer wallpaper to the middle pic last nigth :D. Any chance we can see some REAL close up pics? I'd love to see the trichomes develop :o.
Ha, thanks, Mono, I don't think you could give a grower a nicer compliment (especially a newbie like me)! Would you believe I have three macro lenses, but all are for 35mm film cameras? As far as digital, I swipe my wife's point and shoot for these pics. I'm working on a converter, though. The trichs look pretty cool at 60x.
Clever: vertical growth has slowed to less than 1/4" per day. I definitely have enough room for all but two of the kolas. Those two might have to undergo some creative bending. I was worried right at the end of veg, but I'm now more psyched about my smallish grow area than before. If I'd bent and tied these like Hardonna, there would be no issue at all.
Chillin: yeah, it was like a pet died when 'she' turned male. And it was like Santa Claus died when HD left us. But I guess we just buy a new pet, convert to Judaism, and life will march on...
And Mono, my bro, I foresee a cold, snowy epic day on the horizon.
I figured you had macro's but couldn't figure out why you weren't using them. It all makes sense now.
Cold :D Snowy :D Epic :D
Count me in :)
Just a quick Flower Day 40 update...
Who was it that told me to add an MH?
To quote a line from the movie Tommy Boy: "I can just hear you getting fatter."
Maybe the timing of a growth spurt was cooincidence, but about 30 hours of added MH has shown a noticeable fattening of the buds.
wheres my flower 43 update? ur plannin on a 60day flower right?
Ha, I've been on a screwy work schedule so I've just been seeing them enough to check the trichs. I had planned on a 60 day flower until HD started talkin' a possible 10 to 12 week flower...
Jeez , 70 to 84 days? That's as much as another 40 days. If the buds really are going to keep fattening up for 40 more days, then great, I guess. I can't even picture the buds 40 days bigger, but it's a nice thought.
Just a quick Flower Day 43 update...
Just 1/4" per day growth.
well as long as the trichs need is how long i would flower and im sure they would get insane by 80days of flower. is there anyway u can slow the trich maturing process so u can get huge buds with a more active high(only reason i say more active is high is cuz i have heard the less mature the trichs the less couchlock/burnout u have)?
I believe HD had said that to have your plant reach it's genetic potential you give it ideal growing conditions---light/dirt/nute/ph/temp/etc/---and then just follow the trichs and nail the ending. What you do through veg sets up what you are able to do in flower. And it's true, since my girl that I did extra fan leaf tying to expose secondaries has much better secondary buds.
I'm starting to see some cloudy trichs, so there's no way they are going another 40 days.
Just a quick Flower Day 47 update...
I fed the last nutes a few days ago with just a very weak shot of 1-7-6 Cactus Juice...I suppose they've shifted to using up nutes in the fans, which are dying off fast. Everything looks pretty ragged right now. Trichs on some buds are getting cloudy. They are also using less water.
Ya know ski I was gonna say last time that they looked a little droopy compared to the pictures beforeâ?¦..I didnâ??t say anything because I thought it was just me and I didnâ??t want to make a stupid ass comment.
Iâ??m so proud of the way youâ??ve handled this grow. He would be too
Iâ??m also pretty fucked up listening to sting right nowâ?¦.(shape of my heart to be precise) So excuse any sentiment that may seep trough.
Your girls look greatâ?¦.I think you will remember this grow.
(I miss hdâ?¦â?¦â?¦â?¦â?¦â?¦â?¦â?¦â?¦â?¦â?¦â?¦â?¦â?¦â?¦â?¦ .Itâ??s weird because I canâ??t make up my mind how to feel about it. On one hand it rolls off my backâ?¦.I guess because I think itâ??s supposed to.â?¦â?¦.and on the other hand I feel like he stole something from me and I canâ??t decide whether to be sad or pissed offâ?¦.lol.)
Those buds are already hugeâ?¦..I canâ??t even imagine what they will look like before harvest.
Firstly, sorry Clever (and DaBuh and others that were following this) for disappearing, but work has been nuts and I've been happy just to keep the girls watered and alive and haven't had time to post.
Okay, I was being lazy.
This is Day 99 of this grow. 46 days veg and 53 days of flower. I have four girls left alive.
I killed my first girl tonight. Trichs had gone all cloudy and I wanted this mostly-indica girl to be heady instead of a body stone.
I did a quick manicure (I'm going to separate them further, but wanted to get a quick pic) and have them hung.
I weighed the main kola (obviously the one next to the vodka bottle). Any guesses as to the wet weight?
Wet weight.. idk.. mabye 9 oz... not sure though. Definitely a good Oz. or two once drying is complete though :D awsome job and congrats. Was this your first try? Anyway KICKASS
Thanks, Rasta! This is my second grow, but first with HD cracking the whip.
Hehe the wonders of cactus juice :D .. damn I can't wait till my little LR's start flowering... they're only a few days old so we still have a few weeks till any sex parts show up, but i was sceptical about adding 2-3 drops a liter of cacus juice like you said, I mean lowryder never really gets the chance to mature so I though mabye it'd burn 'em.. Mabye I should start weak and work my way up to the right amount, or test a male with 2-3 drops and see what happens? Hope you have some insight to this.. I REALLY don't wanna fuck up.. and I'd love to have a crop half as beautiful as yours :thumbsup: That main cola ain't prettied-up or nothin' but looking past the little fan leaves.. OMG that stuff looks mouthwatering. What strain is it :confused: I love the varying colors, so trippy..
I used a test plant throughout...a runt female in the back of the grow room that I always hit really hard with things first===like three days ahead of what I fed the others. I wouldn't risk leaving a known male with your girls, though. Go super easy with the cactus juice. Since I abused the runt with testing nutes, she has tall, skinny buds that are airy and have almost no weight.
HD always said that good soil eliminated the need to use a whole lot of ferts.
WOW! Thanks for the heads up ski. That cola looks awsome. I'm gonna go ahead and say 6 oz. I'm gonna guess around 2 once dried. How long does the drying process take? Wanna walk us through that?
Hey Mono!
I just rely on what HD told me...
Cut your plant down and leave it mostly intact, although you can separate and cut apart secondaries so they aren't touching (avoids molding). Ideally, you cut right at the dirt and hang the whole thing, but my secondaries were really close together.
Hang it upside down in a dark place in the low to mid 70'sF. Light degrades THC at this point. The processing of sugar is coming to an end (I guess like Fall and the end of a tree's chlorophyl processing cycle, but this part made me sleepy and I forgot it). The slow hanging method also allows for an even drying.
I'll be hanging them for about three weeks, then doing the final trimming and separate them even more. I'll hang the kola and secondaries for another few days, until the stems are brittle and 'snap' when you bend them.
Then I'll cut the small buds off the stems and put all the buds in canning jars. I have a bunch of those jars with rubber lips and metal wires that seal them airtight. You pack them full, but not tight. The less air the better, but not crushing them.
Once a day, I'll dump them out on a paper bag and give them a toss around to make sure there's no moisture. I have a dark, cold room where they'll stay for about four more weeks.
And the wet weight of the main kola is 188 grams, or 6.7 oz...
Could I possibly pull three ounces out of each of these five girls? Holy shit! That's 15 ounces!!!!
Now, if I don't fuck up the dry and cure then I might have almost a pound of half-decent weed.
Holy shit!
well thats just awsome and yeah i was about to post where the hell you had gone.. this'll probably be my last post cuz my user name and the whole google thing is bad for me incase a loved one or someone else sees it, might make a diffrent account or might just skim the boards every so offton who knows. Gee ur feminized white widow came out pretty good huh ;). half pound, thats about enough to last me a good 4 months maybe more well good luck everyone
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Ha haâ?¦I could actually see you smiling when you wrote that.
Ski itâ??s so good to see you update. And it looks great.
Got any picâ??s of the girls that made it.
Hiya Clever! Here's a pic of the 4 remaining girls. They probably have a couple of weeks to go...this is Flower Day 56...
As a matter of fact, I fed them a weak drink of cactus juice today, so they'll have to go at least 2 more weeks. I added a third fan yesterday, since they're creeping closer to the really hot HPS.
And, yes, I've been smiling. I was happy during the first killing...it felt like a full circle; a completion. This is overall day 102.
Sweet........I'm having trouble deciding which bud I like best.....:D
I'm so amazed that all those leaves died off......I knew you said they would fall off but I had no idea that they would FALL OFF like that.....excellent work ski.
I thought maybe your trigger finger was getting itchy.....:)
good job you.
can cactus juice only be used during flowering?Quote:
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Ha, thanks, Clever...I used bag seed from three different bags and ended up with four varieties of plants (the mostly-sativas were all males). One just matured much faster and was the girl that was killed...
Well, cactus juice is very low in nitrogen, which is the most important nute in the veg period. I'm still just a learning newb, but I'd have to guess it wouldn't do what is needed at all.
well im going to get some bat terds, how much should i add to make the tea? like atleast a gallon...? thanksQuote:
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sorry to butt in and ask questions about my grow on your thread :o
Hey, ask away...no prob...
I usually used a good two or three teaspoons per gallon. Shake well, then let stand for anywhere from 10 minutes to overnight. It's all good. And I was unable to overdose/burn my test plant with it. It's GREAT stuff.
cool, thanks a lot 9...i think its the only thing im lacking right now. my baby has only begun to get her taste of superthrive and i can already notice heavier growth all around :)
goodluck with your grow!
Just a quick Flower Day 63 update...
Man, 63 freaking days of flowering and counting. What ever made me think 8 weeks an out? The last of the fan leaves are dying off as they are being used up...trichs are 50% clear and 50% cloudy, but just a really slow change. Kolas are all sticky as hell. One more week for the last of the cactus juice to work out of their system, then a flush and just maybe it'll be time.
Again, 400w HPS and 250w MH, along with a few CFL's. Four girls still alive, with one hanging dead drying.
I realized after posting about using HD's hash oil recipe, that I'd also used Hardonna in the scraps. So all of Hardonna has now been smoked, except for a sample I'd passed along to a friend.
damnnnnn nice grow bro keep it up
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Damn ski.....for bag seed you sure wouldnâ??t know it.
I was thinking just today wondering when you were going to update.....your ears must have been burning.
They just get a tiny bit fatter every day. Not much change.
I've always wondered how much different healthy seeds from crappy bud compare to really good bag weed seeds. HD talked about reaching genetic potential in your grow and that most grows could simply have been done better and the bud cured for greater potency.
I'd love to grow some of the frosty looking monsters you see in the gallery, but I'm more into sprouting seeds from bud that I really like. I keep track of what the buzz was like on the containers that I save my seeds.
If I can duplicate some of the pot I've bought from a friend recently, then to hell with buying from a seed bank. I'm sure that sounds pretty ignorant to a seasoned grower, but it's just the way I look at it...