JOURNAL OF A MADMAN

Hey, canuck, yea...I just looked, it's actually like 183 pics. Dunno if I'll post all of them, but it sure will be close to that number because there are not very many 'bad' pics...and every pic shows something new...I like to let everyone see EVERYTHING so you feel as much as a part of the grow as I do. :)

Hey, Kb420Kb, looking forward to your log. I'll keep up with it. Make sure you post lots and lots of pics! :D Good luck with that one plant. I would be terrified to only grow one plant. If if is male, you have learned how to grow...kind of...then you have to start over. If it dies, you have no back up. Plus, the main reason, is that with only one plant, I believe people tend to over-care for the plant and kill it with kindness.

I'm not saying in that any of this will happen to you, I'm just giving you my take on it and maybe giving you some things to think about when growing your one plant. Good luck, again! :D

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The Fog

DAY 146/69/61/14

Well, here goes some updates, guys. Iâ??m going to start with the â??roundsâ?? first, then weâ??ll get into the harvest.

Veg room

Plants doing ok. LST is doing good.

There are 10 plants downstairs. Three large ones being LSTd and 7 others that are smaller and vegging. These 7 are from the 3rd round of clones.


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Clone Shelf

There are two of the 3rd round of clones in the backâ?¦they are up here because of space concerns. The others are â?¦.what do ya knowâ?¦the NL & BG. These seedlings are 13 days old from papertowel today.


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Mother Box (former Rubbermaid bloombox)

Sheâ??s still alive. Sitting in there chilling. Getting a big cramped in there for her. Not quite the size of a bonsai, but weâ??ll work on that. Part of the experiment is just to see how long we can keep a mother alive. I donâ??t know the exact date she was cut from the original #11, but it wasnâ??t too long away from DAY 1. Iâ??ll figure it out soon and let you guys know how old she is.


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Cab of Life

Ok, well, we have our three subjects in here, they have been LSTâ??d and flowered back on day 133, I believe. That would make them about 14 days old {in flower} as of today.

They are definitely showing sex and starting to bud. You can see the white â??hairsâ?? (pistils) in the pics. There is also a number 11 still left over from the BodomBox in here. We have attempted to follow the trichome color on this one to harvest it. It is taking foreverâ?¦:( This also worries us because that means our Mother plant will also take that longâ?¦and the two plants in this COL on the right side are also number elevensâ?¦sigh.

Maybe we can speed things up by breathing on them more oftenâ?¦;)

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More pictures of the COL. Take a look at the pistilsâ?¦the LSTingâ?¦and the ....other stuff. :D


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Taking a quick smoke break from updatingâ?¦not cigarettesâ?¦but oooh that would be niceâ?¦Ahhh no, I mean NO. :(

Now that we have made our rounds, itâ??s time to go to the main flowering room. We are chopping today. Go back to page 28 to see the updates I just posted. ;)

As a small recap, they have gone 61 days in flower as of today. One of them was snapped (and then taped back upright) a while back, and we believe that this contributed to this particular plant becoming a hermie. It grew bananas (male hermie flowers) and pollinated the whole crop. We will chop them now in hopes that we do not allow the seeds to mature within the other plants. We might be too late because weâ??ve already seen at least one seed inside the bud of the shameful plant.

I will start off with some final pictures of the main room and then move on to the harvesting pics. I will bring you through every step, with lots of pics, of course. It might take me a minute to get it all gathered together, but it will hopefully be up by tonight or tomorrow at the latest.

Be back in a while with more good stuff. ;)

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The Fog

Well I managed to sit down and read this entire thread from beginning to end today. Not all at once, but in 2 sittings. I think 3 joints is a good guess for how long it takes. :) Looking forward to see what's next, especially now that I know everything that's happened to your ladies!

-canuck :jointsmile:

looking good fog :)

dude you really need to mylar in that cab of life, if you cant get some man ill gladly mail you some for free :)

another thing......i dont know if you looked into it or not but your plants in the cab of life would take off like a rocket if you added a small aquarium air pump to bubble the water in the bins.

look into it, it will only cost you maybe 20 bucks for all the supplies needed to do it.

Ok, here we go.

~canuck~

Hey man I'm glad you took the time to read through. I'm glad at least some people have more of an attention span than a toddler. ;) I know now that you have finished, you are pacing and walking in circles trying to figure out what you're going to do now...

No worries...I have good news...HERE COME the updates. Ping! ;)

~Invision~

Mylar, yes, I know. Airstone...well, they are hand watered, so...

Thanks for the suggestions. Hope your plants are doing better.



NOW ONTO THE UPDATES. w00t!

Let me go grab a joint or two, and we'll get rolling...ha! Get it?! :p



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Ok, guys, here you go. Harvest Picsâ?¦get your googlies out. :smokin:

DAY 61 of flower in the main flowering room

We have 5 plants in there total (#13, #9, #1, #2, #4)

You can barely see number 1 way down in the middle thereâ?¦but sheâ??s there. Getting no lightâ?¦completely overshadowed by the others. Noteâ?¦five large plants is too many.

Our first thought was to chop the top colas and leave the bottom buds for a week or two more to fatten upâ?¦butâ?¦

We have decided to chop the plants today due to the fact that they have been pollinated (by hermie number 13) recently and we would like to prevent any developing seeds from having a chance to mature. Plusâ?¦it would be a pain to chop just tops, etc. Cutting main stalks this time.

Letâ??s first take a good last look around the closet before it goes emptyâ?¦(sniffle)


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Bud shotsâ?¦not High Times materialâ?¦but aspiring to be. ;)


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The buds are getting heavyâ?¦weighing down the branches.


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Noooooooooooooooooo

Choppinâ?? Broccoliâ?¦.choppinâ?¦choppinâ?¦choppinâ?¦choppinâ ?¦.brooooccooli.


Number 13 time to chop. Bitch pollinated the whole cropâ?¦she was a bad girl. Argh! Time to come down.

Cut at the anklettes.


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Hermie pics. Look at those disgusting bananas. I never want to eat a banana again in my life. :(

And there is a pic with the tape still on the stem from where it snapped. Look how it grew back under the tape. Eww.


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Still on #13

One more herm pic.

Look at the walking stick.

Number 13 covers one large kitchen trash bag.

Not trimmed up yet. Just cut the branches off the stalk.


One downâ?¦4 to go.


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#9

Ok. Now weâ??re gonna do #9. She is in the back. She seems to have caught a LOT of pollen. Seeds everywhere. Frigginâ?? gross. Eww. All of the seeds I see are white and do not look mature. Looks like they matured just enough to be a nuisance.

Not sure why I cut this one branch off the plant before it was cut down, but it shows the seeds clearly. The buds with the seedsâ?¦well, they just donâ??t really look like developed buds. The seeds ruined the buds. :(


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#9
Pic # 1& 2 - I just like these two pics, especially the second one. Chomp #9.

Pic #3 - Then, we have plant #2. It was only topped once, obviously. Nice big tuning fork this one was in the right near cornerâ?¦it seems to have been somewhat protected from the flying pollen. The buds seem much fatter and you canâ??t really see many seeds on the outside.

Pic #4 â?? just a picture of the joint where the two tops came out. Those joints amaze meâ?¦they are like an arthritic knuckle.


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#4

Pic #1-4 â?? Plant #4. This one was in the far rear corner and looks like it was the most protected from the pollen. Itâ??s buds seem the most dense of all and it is most definitely the one with the most trichomes. It is sticky on the fingers alreadyâ?¦and thatâ??s just the stem.

Pic #5 â?? The only one left is number 1. It looks so crappy. This one was stuck in the middle of the other four. It was getting very little light and looks as such. Itâ??s buds are very small, yet have a decent number of trichomes. We have decided to let this one go a little longer, mostly due to the fact that I donâ??t really have the room to chop itâ?¦:eek:

Darn, itâ??s getting to look quite empty up in there. Sad, yet happy all at the same time!


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Here are some more pictures of chopping #4. I love how many trichomes this biach has on her. So fuzzyâ?¦so stickyâ?¦so lovely.


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Last pics of #4. I told you there were lots of pics. ;) I have about 15 pics of the individual buds, but Iâ??m not going to put those on here.

Iâ??m seeing good things in #4â??s futureâ?¦unfortunatelyâ?¦I have no clones of her. :( Maybe I will get some good viable seeds from herâ?¦although they will be crossed with #13. Meh.


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Would anyone like to come sleep on this bedâ?¦? :D *raises own hand* hehe

These are not trimmed yet. Just cut off the stalks (except for #2, which is obviously standing up there).

Almost forearm sized buds. I guess if you were a girl, theyâ??d be. Ha.

Trimmed up #13.

Trimmings from the plants (fan leaves - left) and close trimmings from #13 (for hash â?? right)


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More trimmingsâ?¦sticky scissors.

FAT CALYXESâ?¦w00t!


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Four walking sticksâ?¦

Bed full of cannabis. Don't worry. That's not where I sleep...but I wish I did. ;)


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More trimmed harvest pictures.

Seems more than I thought it would be.


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Number 9 WEIGH IN.

369g wet


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Number 2 WEIGH IN.

197g wet


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Number 4 WEIGH IN

302g wet

Pic #4 â?? 2 dry boxes with # 2 & #9 in the far box and #4 in the near box.

Pic #5 â?? some random buds that fell off of the plants. Mixed buds. A bud medleyâ?¦of sortsâ?¦blah.


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Number 13 WEIGH IN

313g wet

This is the hermie, fyi.


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Di Ganja Farma

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Oh, one more thing. #12, the last one that was pulled from the BodomBox/COL is dry.


Ok that is it for DAY 149/69/61/14

Enjoy. I'll be back later. That took forever. Whew.


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Hey fog, I packed a big bowl :bong: for this update. HUGE! :D

That is one nice cornucopia of bud! Really nice photos too, I felt like I was there, and wish I was :). Whether or not High Times publishes them they got me hard. Ha ha, not really but pretty close. #4 is a sexy bitch.

Reading your log was fun, and you worked a lot to post it all it's a waste to pass up the opportunity. Now that I know a little more about the process it was very engaging. I too snapped a plant's stem albeit not one as big as that. We knew we could only keep a few though so regardless of what sex it may have been we tossed it. Not in a salad. ;) RIP

I don't like bananas anyway, except in milkshakes and shit. I found one on Lucy. Fucking bananas! :( Where that stem healed it looks a lot of a human scab eh? It was nice to see #13 hang, that hermaphrodite whore.

That's really too bad about the seeds. Looks like some of #9 is basically unsmokeable. You should burn a white seed to see if they pop. Someone here probably already knows.

So that's around 1185g wet right? You ain't doin' too bad if you get 20% of that dry man! That's around a 1/2 lb if my stoned math is right. I said, nice one bruv! Fuckin' nice one! BRUUVVAAAAAAAA!!! :thumbsup: :D

Seriously, congrats on a great first harvest! I'm impressed. :)

-canuck :jointsmile:

Fucking Amazing...
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wow wow wow wow wow wow Am stuck for words TGF truely amazing and inspiring for little grower like myself.When i grow up i want to grow like TGF your a bad influence man LOL :) :jointsmile: :D

Take it easy man, :cool:

absolutely incredible grow man. Nice buds dude, seems like a success, I hope to get that much yieldage off 4 :P Later !

Rofl, I thought I invented the cardboard box trick ;)

you should have harvested diff parts of the plant at diff times...
but FUCKING ENJOY

you are awesome!

Hey, guys & gals. Thanks for the words, for sure.

canuck, thanks for the nice reply post. I'm glad you are thorough like me. :) I'm gonna have to do some researching on your thread soon. Seems like you haven't been updating much recently.

ridethefire, thanks for the ovation! I thought I was special, but then saw Splifted got the same one. :( j/k thanks man. Keeping my eye on your grow.

floyd2zapper, don't be modest. You know that you are the bad influence here. ;) You're gonna pull more than that measly little stash. Anyday now, eh?

Kindbud, thanks. I don't see why you couldn't. With all the info on here...whoa!

faithlessxxx, yea...I'm sure you did. And I invented post-it notes...:p Where'd faithless go? Upside-down beagle?

xblackdogx, read post #705. Thanks, man! :thumbsup:


BUT, just when you thought it was over...there is more...oh yes, there is more. I'm not sure if I will keep this thread going or not. I will most likely start a new log (maybe in the log section) about the NL & BG, and also already have the Cab of Life thread up, so we'll see. I think this thread might become a monster eventually...:p What do you guys think I should do? Still got lots of JOURNAL left. New thread...keep monster thread?


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I think if you start another thread it should also be a 'madman' thread!!
Wow, those harvest pics are ummmmmy and I want to sleep in that bed too! You got a lot of bulk off those plants!

Well, it feels like I've mist a major cultural event like Star Wars or Night Rider, guess before I start asking questions I should go back and read the whole thread to get an idea of your trials and tribulations so I can relive them with you, kind of like little house and the prayery, LOL.
I will venture to ask one question, why didn't you guys pick off the bananas? Be careful with any clones from that plant because hermyism, new word,, can be genetic and past down threw the offspring. I know you said you think it is from the snapping, but just keep a heads up on it, but I am sure if I go back and catch up on the earlier episodes I will find out that the girl was JR Yuing's daughter by Bobby Yuings wife and she was stressed out when she didn't get to be invited to JR's funeral so she jumped out of a 2 story window and broke her arm, and so on, Dallas if you didn't know.
Adieu