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Ok, well, my girlfriend says I should not be so 'needy' asking people for reputation points. That's tacky...
She's right, as always. ;)
So, here's my secret weapon avatar...if this doesn't work, nothing will!
LOLOL
Cheers to pointless reputation blocks! hehehe
:jointsmile: :rastasmoke: :D ;) :stoned: :rasta: :pimp: :cool: :smokin:
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TGF
DAY 133/56/48
Welcome back to the show.
Another week has passed (since the last update) and we??re gonna start this update off with some nice dried harvest bud pics!
PIC#1: Dry box one week after harvest. Look how much they shrunk!
PIC#2: Plant #9a (dry w/stem) = 6.0g
PIC#3: Plant #2a (dry w/stem) = 5.3g
PIC#4: Plant #1a (dry w/stem) = 7.0g
PIC #5: Plants # 1a, 2a, 6a, 9a
I don??t know what I did with 6a??s weight pic dry w/stem? I??ll find it.
For now, here are these.
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TGF
Pics dry w/o stem
1 - #9a = 3.8g
2 - #1a = 5.0g
3 - #2a = 3.6g
4 - #6a = 3.5g
5 - All bud in jars for cure. Remember, this is only 4 out of the 10 that were in the Rubbermaid box! More to come!
Note: The buds were a little drier than hoped for, but maybe we'll do 5 or 6 days drying instead of 7. That dry box kicks arse.
I gotta take a break for a few, but I'm gonna try to go back and get the wet weights and post them next to the dry weights with and without stems to clearly show the weight drop. I think it was about 1/4 to 1/5 or original wet weight.
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TGF
OK, now that we've cleared through the riff-raff, onto the updates. I typed most of these at another time, so bear with me. :D:D:D
NOW back to TheGreenFogTV! We're gonna get nice and foggy up in here. Oh yea!
Okay, guys and ladies?glad that everyone is hanging around. I wish I could be here more too, but hey, time waits for no man?or something.
OK, lets get this show on the road, people. I appreciate all of your comments and hope you are here for the madness that is about to ensue. Lol :blueknife:
We??ll just start where we left off on the last page. We had harvested 4 of the 13 plants in the Rubbermaid box and they have dried for 7 days in the dry box.
ATTENTION: We have smokeable cannabis? :yippee:
We have removed the stems and thrown the weed into jars to cure.
Sinsemilla?no seeds. Decently compact. Meh?for a side experiment. 15.9g so far.
And that brings us to now?
Here is what we have left today on DAY 56 (8 weeks exactly) of flowering the Rubbermaid box. We have removed 4 plants and dried them to cure. Now we shall look at claiming more victims.
1 ?? The lot minus 4.
2 ?? Closeup.
3 ?? Meh?
4 ?? Dunno wtf happened to this poor sucker. Will most likely chop her in the morning?it is DAY 48 for her, as she is one of the 3 that are lagging behind.
5 ?? Another shot of the lot. Sure will miss ??em. :(
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TGF
HARVEST time, she comes?
Plant # 13a
Here is the very reason I am chopping down some of these early. MOLD. :mad:
Look at the top bud. I thought it was spidermites at first, but now I??m fairly certain it is that white mold that ??they?? talk about.
I almost considered lighting a matchbook in the box as a poorman??s ??sulfur burner??, but got talked out of it?and then just forgot. :stoned:
So now she??s coming down. Not sure if we should smoke the moldy bud or not. :confused: Oh, and the mold is only on the one, by the way.
:rastasmoke:
TGF
Number 4a, a.k.a ??The three-headed moster!? She looks like Olive Oil?skinny body, big head. Damn, cutting her down and just NOW naming her. :stoned:
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GFog
*finishes whacking it to fog's new updates*
Sry to hear about the mold man, but other than that they look delectable. It was definitely worth the wait, awesome as always.:joint1:
WEIGH IN!
Pic 1 - Plant #13a ?? 22.6g (wet w/stem)
Pic 2 - Plant #4a ?? 33.3g (wet w/ stem)
Pic 3 - Plants in dry box. That??s some hash leaves drying at the bottom in the baggie. Should you dry them then freeze them, or freeze them straight off of the plant before you make hash? ANYONE?
Pic - 4Dry box on high?dark?air circulation?pimp?:pimp:
Pic 5 - Here is what is left after chopping #13 & #4.
Be back right after this :jointsmile: break?
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GFog
DAY 133/56/48
OK, here is the clone room. I went back to try to figure it out and these should be about 26 days from clipping off the 2 huge mother plants we had to chop and dispose of for space reasons. These are 4 clones of #5 and 4 clones of #10. They are ready to come downstairs. :abduct:
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TGF
VEG ROOM
Pic 1, 2 ?? Veg room. Overflowing. :eek: The big mother is taking up a lot of room.
Pic 3, 4, 5?? Mother plant?trying to turn into a Bonsai Mom. :)
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:rastasmoke: RastafarI
TGF
VEG ROOM
View without motherplant hogging all the light.
The plants that were brought down here before, and LST??d are ready to get the :giggity: out of here. We need room! We don??t have room for all of them anywhere. We do, however, have plans for these three (11d, 11e, 6d)! We will call them the 3 Y??s, because that seems to be the shape they??ve taken from the LSTing. And off they go?
...to where you might ask?? That is the next surprise! :D:D
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TGF
It??s still DAY 133. We??ve harvested what we could, and now it??s time to tinker with some toys.
TODAY, WE HAVE A SURPRISE!
Out goes the ??BodomBox???in comes the CAB OF LIFE to accompany the CLOSET OF LIFE.
The BodomBox worked great. Very easy to manage. But what an eyesore! We did make some mistakes [i.e. not filtering intakes?not transplanting to full hydroton (we left in the plastic wrappers of the 4 x 4 ??rubix cube??) ;)?not protecting against algae on top of the rock wool?not vegging long enough, ete.] but overall it was a successful grow. The full final weight pulled will be posted in graph/table form?I hope. ;)
So?now, onto the Rasta Flowering Cab aka the Cab of Life. I am thinking of starting another thread for this cab, maybe in the cabinet/closet section, but I??m not sure if I want to keep up with 2 threads, with as many pics as I have. Whew?What do you guys think about me making a separate thread for this one cab? Granted, if I do that, I will NOT post the pics in here too?they will be separate.
Well, for now, they are going here because there is transplanting to do.
And, down with the curtain, here comes the show!
:rastasmoke: RastafarI
TGF
Right on man, got the girls livin' it up in style now. I'm sure they'll appreciate the change in scenery. I loved the box, but bigger is always better :greenthumb:
Yea, man...I loved the box too, but she was an ugly biach. I had to dump her for a younger, prettier one. :pimp: That's just how I roll. You should save your 'wanking' until after the update is done, unless you're one of those who can do it over and over...you friggin' perv. ;)
Ok, well, I'm :stoned: enuff for some more updates, how about you guys??
Here we go again...DAY 133/56/48 cont'
We did a lot on this day. Join us for the fun...:yippee:
:rastasmoke:
TGF
Ok, here we go. Buy a cabinet. Put it together. Seal cracks as well as possible. Install power strip.
Install fans in a very nifty way. Sorry, no real pics to show the process, but they were done better than on the Bodombox. Streamlined. No duct tape here.
EIGHT - 23w ??Full Spectrum? Compact Flourescents
This is equal to 184w of real light and 800w of so-called ??equivalent?? light output. I believe they are 1600 lumens each (8 * 1600= 12800). We??re experimenting. We??ll see about the heat with these fans
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TGF
PUT MOTHER PLANT BACK IN after we pulled those three Y??s out and put them into their newly renovated condominium.
TGF
CAB OF LIFE
DAY 133/56/48/1 (more #'s that mean more to me than to you)
We put the three Y??s (11d, 11e, 6d) from the left side veg area of the Closet into the Rasta Cab of Flowers today
Add some hydroton clay pebbles (always cleaned thoroughly before use!) and some rockwool light-blockers (black underside & white topside) to prevent mold.
The planters (plastic totes) are temporary. The goal with this is to go to an automated ebb & flow system like the main flowering room.
DAY ONE (FLOWER)
SOME MORE NEWS (Splifted, this news is dedicated to you! Lol)
We busted out the expensive seeds.
NL & BG
Northern Lights & Bubblegum
Gotta love that gummi flavor... I can??t wait to see what the NL does!
DAY ONE (GERMINATION) NL & BG
We added a couple drops of Superthrive into some pH??d water and dipped our papertowel in that for germination.
Enjoy. Oh and yes, those are the 1st harvested plants (1a, 2a, 6a, 9a) curing next to the germination tray.
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TGF
UP NEXT: The main flowering room...can't wait to seem them beauties! :cool:
I can't wait to pop some good seeds man, those Rhinos I tried all crapped out on me, and from what SA was saying, the WRs from nirvana standard might be prone to mutants/hermis, since I had that one mutant and she's had lots of probs with them. So I'm not too excited about sprouting anymore of those, but I have 10 seeds so I'm going to anyway. I also have some AK-48 and some kinda sketchy lookin "mystery mix #1" freebies that I think had a cigarette package cellophane holding some seeds :weedpoke:
MAIN FLOWERING ROOM
DAY 48 of flowering. (~7 weeks)
Everything seems to be going alright. The broken one is recovering, and fattening up. All the others are getting fat and crystally, ??cept number 1 up in the middle there, it??s pathetic, you can barely see it.
There should only be 4 in there, but there are five and the one in the middle was smaller than the others, so she is getting all her light blocked from above. Maybe she??ll catchup.
Harvest should be coming soon on these girls. They are seven weeks, but we are seeing some definite sativa traits so they might be longer.
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TGF
7 week old buds under a 400w HPS cooltube
Some bud pics from the main flowering room ?? 7 weeks.
400w HPS, cooltube stylie
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TGF
MORE WEEK 7 pics.
Showin?? ya around the flowering room. You guys can help me spot bugs and stuff (Eye have bad I??s)
See the last one with the thermometer? Those 2 buds there are from the little plant in the middle.
:rastasmoke:
TGF
Last pics of DAY 133/56/48/1
DAY 133 from inception (start) of grow
DAY 56 (flower) in the Rubbermaid Flowerbox
DAY 48 (flower) in the Main Flowering Room
DAY 1 (flower) in the ~new~ Cab of Life!
DAY 1 (germinate) for the NL & BS
Wow, that was a lot of work to do on DAY 133. Have you ever built one of those cabinets? Can we say ??time consuming???
Well, we have at least accomplished getting more room in the veg area, plus now we have a new flower area. When the BodomBox (Rubbermaid Box) is finished with all of it??s flowering, we will most likely retire the eyesore.
Wow, now it??s time for me to smoke some herbage.
I packed myself a bowl of #6? It??s been dried & cured about 3-4 weeks. I??m gonna hit it now?
5?4?3...2?1? ??Fire in the bowl!? :smokin:
:baggie: + :pipe: = :D
Wow, that was much better than I was expecting. Still taste a bit of ferts, need to flush better next time, not necessarily longer, just better.
But it was still a real good hit?and I??m definitely feeling it from the one hit. NICE.
Well, I??m gonna go roll a fatass j of this stuff mixed with some other dankass sh*t I have, then be back with DAY 136! [size=?1?](edit: well, I might hold off on DAY 136 just yet. This was a bigger update than I thought. I??ll give it some time to simmer.)[/size]
Tell me what you think. Questions? Did I not explain something clearly enough?
:rastasmoke:
TGF
You sure have been busy there fog. The new cab is awesome, the same idea i was going for, for the next grow or so. I'm savin' my pennys for a big boy light and a similar cab. Everytime i walk through wally world now and look at the furniture i say to myself "that would make a great grow cab" unfortunatly i wouldn't be able to fit those bulky ass tubes in there, so if anyone would like to get me a 1000w switchable setup for Xmas, i promise i've been a good boy. Anyhow i loved the update man keep it comin'
Lookin good fog my man.. keep up the good work how much longer till harvest on those big suckers?
Looking good, nice update. I would halp with the quest for 2 squares but i must spread it around a bit first.
Hey, guys. Thanks for the words.
~voyager~
Yea, me likes the new cab also. Lacks mylar, but that will be installed shortly, I'm sure. 'You might be a grower if...' ...you visualize every piece of furniture as a growcab...!
~budbreath420~
Hey, man, when you gonna get a growlog going? "budbreath's adventures in hydroponix/soil"? Those big ladies should be coming down anytime now. They are at 7 weeks as of this last update.
~legalizdahurb~
No worries, man. I'm just really joking about the rep points. It's something to pass the time. Now I want everyone to PLEASE LOOK AT ME! (see avatar) LOL....hehe That thing cracked me up when I found it. I couldn't stop laughing...had to use it. There is good news, though...the JOURNAL has been upped to 5 stars again! :D:D
So, is it time for DAY 136/59/51/4 update yet?? They're ready and waiting. :jointsmile:
:rastasmoke: RastafarI
TGF
I totally love that you found a use for those cheesy/crappy 4-light fixtures... sweet and a good idea.
The girlies are looking happy soaking up the rays!
Go enjoy your herbage... you certainly deserve it!
Hey, stinky. Yea, those fixtures are pretty interesting. We'll have to see how well they work and how much heat they cause. I do think they were a good find, for the purpose, that is. It is most definitely an upgrade from the Rubbermaid Box, though. Just needs mylar now.
As far as herbage goes...I sure will smoke some...RIGHT NOW!
:baggy: :baggy:........
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Yea...thanks for the idea, girl. Damn, I would've forgotten all about it! :p
;)
Ok, well, these boards are seriously getting dead around here. I'm considering finishing the updates and getting myself banned for a while. That's sexier than just leaving. :cool:
Just kidding...I don't think I'll do that. I have some things to say but I will stifle them because I enjoy being here, even when it IS slow.
Ok, enough of that. ONE more post and we will be on yet another page of the JOURNAL...and you know what that means....MORE UPDATES! :clap:
Any minute now... :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D
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TGF
P.S. That new avatar of mine sure didn't last long...Well, at least "I" thought it was funny... here's a new one I jacked from someone today...;)
Beautiful buds,
I'm wainting....
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Peace
Damn it, hemlockstones, you ruined it! I hate you!
Just kidding, man. You the man. iloveyou.
:pimp:
Ok, let me get my ducks in a row then, here go the new updates. YEA!
:rastasmoke:
TGF
Kickin' Ass!!!
I like how you grow in Rockwell and rocks. So neat and tidy. My gf would love the no dirt part.
Do you just let the roots grow into the rocks? What about water pooling in the bottom below the rocks? It looks like a good way of growing.
Looking awsome.
kd
Hey, KD. What's crack-a-lackin'? :smokin:
Well, yea the rockwool & hydroton definitely makes for a laboratory-type environment. I like it clean. You should try it someday. If it were soil, I'm sure it would all be swept up and kept clean also. :)
*sparks spliff*
So here's how it works. Obviously you use the rockwool as a medium to grow in until the roots start popping out of the rockwool. Then, yes, you just remove the white plastic around the rockwool and set the block into a bed or a pot of hydroton rocks. The roots grow into and around the rocks.
Different systems have been used here in the JOURNAL with regard to the watering and the rocks. In the veg, there are some POTS with the same set up and those are hand-watered. The other plants in there are also being hand watered. Any runoff runs into a drainage system setup. Check out the earlier pics, I'm sure they will show it. If not, future pics will. :)
In the main flowering room, the 5 plants are all sunken into a bed of hydroton and it is set up with an Ebb & Flow system. For those of you who are unfamiliar with that term, that just means that there is a special set of drains that allow water to be pumped in to fill up the planter up to a certain point where it reaches an overflow drain. Then when the pump stops running, all of the water runs back into the resevoir. This is run 2 times daily for approximately 15 minutes, or however it takes for the resevoir to fill up and give the plants some time to drink up. It also soaks the rockwool cubes they are in, so they don't go completely dry.
Hmmm...what else. That's about it. :jointsmile:
Updates? DAY 136? I think.......yes.
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TGF
DAY 136/59/51/4
Ok, welcome back homies. I??m still toking on some sweet sinsemilla. It??s niiice. :rasta:
I also have 2 cookies and a water?FYI. :D:D:D
SO, THREE days have gone by.
Bodom box is at more than 8 weeks. Main flowering is in the 8th week, and we got lots of other exciting stuff to play with! :yippee:
As much as I??d like to have a beautiful system of displaying pictures, or some fo --- damn it! I lost my lighter! ?(pause)?ok found it. Whew! Under my leg. :p Had to roll the girl off me. ;) Didn??t mean to wake her. It??s 3am.
So I was saying?
Here is the main flowering room. In the eighth week. Oh, yea, and we??re flushing now.
:rastasmoke: RastafarI
TGF
Next we have the VeG room! Yea, I love how vegging plants look, don??t you?
Pic 1 ??Veg from above
Pic 2 ?? The mother is blocking all the other ones.
Pic 3 ?? How??s the LSTing? Looking like a monster yet?
Pic 4 - Clone action. I think these are actually 29 days from first clipping off the mothers. The mothers of these clones were the 2 big suckers we had in the left side veg a while back. We cut them down and threw them out :( on DAY 107. ANYWAY, here are their babies. We will evaluate their worth and see if we will make a mother out of one of them again. :D
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The Fog
MOVING RIGHT ALONG?
Still DAY 136/59/51
Let??s look into our Cab of Secrets?
Downstairs?what do we have? Hmm?
4 jars of icky! Gotta open the jars to air them out?mmm. They still smell a bit like nutes or chlorophyll?or something.
And here is a germination tray. It has been 3 days since they were placed in the high-tech, top of the line, one-of-a-kind paper towel/baggie-in-tray system.
We haven??t had to add any water to keep it wet since it was first ??wetted??. If you zoom, you can see each of the 6 seeds has a small taproot!
Much better than last time. Caught it right as the taproot has come out. That??s all you need. Time to bust out the rockwool cubes. ~rubs hands together~
Clean some rockwool and get ready to SOW!
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TGF
Edit: Gotta take a short break from updating. Be back later. :D
Sowing our pricey seeds. :D:D
3 on one side, 3 on the other. In you go, little ones. Go ahead? :weedpoke:
Now put them under a humidome, and leave them to sprout. They don??t need light ??til they??re out of their holes! Then, close flouro to keep ??em short.
It took 3 days to ??pop?? from seed to taproot.
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TGF
Edit: I don't know what I did with the picture of them under the humidome, but you "get the picture."
DAY 4 FLOWER
NOW we move onto the Cab of Enlightenment. The three Y??s. Nothing special except that this is the 2nd CFL flowering of the JOURNAL. That's pretty good stuff! Temps are a little higher than would like. 86F :( The fans seem to be working ok. It might have something to do with the huge gaps in the doors that have not been sealed yet. :p
These babies are now, however, on their 4th day of flowering! I wonder how many days it will take to see the first pistils?
Oh, and I just thought of something. Yes, we will most likely be putting up mylar inside soon. :D
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TGF
DAY 59 Flower (8.5 weeks)
TO the BodomBox! It??s been 59 days since they were flipped. We??ve harvested 6 so far, I believe. :confused: Losing track of the numbers. :p
This small one in the front got burnt or something. I have no idea what happened to her, but she??s crispy and therefore, getting culled.
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TGF
We need that Rubbermaid box. Room, room, room.
So, there here??s what we??re doing?
First, we took the 2 we AREN??T chopping, and we put them in the Cab of Life (CoL) to finish out.
And then?
NUMBER UNKNOWN
I can't seem to find out which # this is. :(
Anyway...
This one had to be tied down, it was so tall. BiG top cola. Branchy?very branchy.
So far, the heaviest weighing in at 40.0g wet.
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TGF