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Bear- grab them while you can. There's almost none left anywhere.
BTW my Smashberries showed sex only 4 DAYS into 12/12, and they hadn't even gone alternate yet! Holycrapola.
Keeping the males, and I put the most vigorous female back into veg and pinched her to be a mother.
My bluemoonrocks showed up and I got ANOTHER packet of godbud X for free... actually I'm happy, they are growing VERY evenly.
Thanks for the tip. Gipsy had a fall out with BOG and Seed Boutique isn't carying them any more, but I think that sacred seeds is?
Adieu
Fall-out, really?!!! I was simply under the impression the old fart finally hung up his hat after years of hard work. Sacred had a real limited supply of BOG this summer, call them to see if they restocked. I think also that they will not mail seeds to the US. Bear, you're in Alaska, am I correct?
Hey all, I did a bit of transplanting this morning before work.
As you can see, the seedlings are stretched a bit taller than is considered good form, but whatever; they will root from the length of the stem so I don't give a rat's hiney.
The following pics are from my transplant routine, 1-5:
1 and 2) Before transplanting I get all my materials together- soil, labels, pots, and very important, I sprinkle Diatomaceous Earth in the bottom of the kitty litter tray that the pots will go into to catch runoff. This will keep pests from breeding UNDER the pots, something that is easy to forget about as you concentrate on keeping them off the LEAVES.
3) Here's a shot of the roots poking out. I think these babies want a new home!!
4) To transplant from nursery 6-packs, let the soil become somewhat dry. To release the plugs, turn the 6-pack upside-down and support the dirt in the cells with your fingers. With your other hand, sharply tap the base of the cell that you want to release. It should either slide right out, or drop out with a gentle tug of the stem.
5) Here's what the plug looks like out of its container. Note that the roots are white and hairy, and are starting to get pot-bound.
These pics came out really fuzzy, sorry.
Here's the rest.
1) Once the plug is out, place it on the soil that you have half-filled your pot with. Support and protect the stem with one hand while you pour the rest of the soil around the plug and stem with the other. A stretched seedling can and will sprout roots right up to the cotyledons, but you have to make sure it doesn't get a fungus from burying the stem in too-moist soil.
2) The last transplant step is watering-in. Don't press the soil with your fingers, but let the water do the work of settling it around the plug.
3) Here's a good shot of my protection, on the lookout as always for someone to drool on.
So anyway there's that.
The White Rhino are not germinating as I would like them to. Only 3 have popped after a week, and I'm concerned.
I started Super Skunk Saturday, and as of this morning, 9 have already popped and are in dirt. The last was kind of runty-looking. I managed to drop it in the dirt bucket, oops.
I found 1 more male from the BOG mix, and all the others look female that I've put into 12/12 so far, so that's um, 6 males out of 8, a healthy ratio in my book!
I think that's it; you know, just waiting for more plants to ripen. I took down a couple stragglers that looked like they were not going to really do anything to make space for more vigorous plants. There are a few massive colas in the flower room that I have to go in and check on a few times a day because they smell so damn good, and they've been falling over a lot.
Bud shots tomorrow!
Falling over? Hmm, I was a catcher in little leag, LOL. Maybe I could be there to catch the fruits of your labor? How long do you keep seedlings in those 6 packs?
That BOG thing is a big deal over on IC mag, I guess BOG caught wind that Gipsy was making F2's of Bog's strains and reselling them as Bog's breedings, so in the long and short, Bog was getting put over on, so they say.
Adieu
Uh... if that is true, I think I just lost my main source for seeds. That's fucking BS IMO if Gypsy was doing unauthorized breedings and selling them as BOG; I'm going to look into that because now I feel uncomfortable about giving them my business.Quote:
Originally Posted by BlueBear
Bear, if it isn't too much trouble I would like you to post a link to that discussion under the 'where oh where has the BOG gone' thread in strains and seeds, because it would certainly clear things up!
This is from BOG and can be found at www.icmag.com/ic/archive/index.php/f-19.html under Good by from BOG.
Goodbye from BOG
BushyOldGrower
MY forum will be closed soon because BOG Seeds will no longer be sold here and as Gypsy says, "Why keep your forum open then"?
I quite agree. Because we no longer have an agreement it seems a no brainer.
In fact you may not see much of me at other sites either for some time.
Don't anyone be mad. Its just a change and the reasons are just business concerns. My online presence will be much reduced in the long term as well but
the need for a new secret location is paramount now. The book sales are quite robust and the book will be my main business.
When this forum closed please dont be angry at Gypsy or DG or myself. I am sorry about this. BOG This is the link www.icmag.com/ic/archive/index.php/f-19.html to the archive of the BOG forums, if you go down to What and Where is BOG you will see some stuff like this, "Thats funny,last i heard Bog was at BCBD and has recently made quite a few posts,he is not retiring and is coming out with yet another run of sour bubble.he
has also said that there should be no stock of his left at the boutique and is claiming that Gypsy was making f-2's of his work and selling as Bogs."
plan b at bc bud depot
"Like rabbit said, and i do apologize on BOG's behalf! To make a long story short, BOG was suppose to be exclusive to gypsy, but too many lies and production
of fake seeds left BOG no choice! BOG has never had any problems with BCBD, or Canadians, or anything! BOG is a loyal person, and that is why for a long
time he never left gypsy, but now that gypsy is selling fake seeds and lying about stock and stuff, it was best that we spread our wings to honest people."
In the long run, who knows, but we just want to be as informed as we can when we are doing business with these companies, hope this helps some Stinky.
Adieu
Couple quick updates...
-All the Super Skunk have broken dirt. One seems to have run its taproot into a pebble or something and the whole palnt lifted out of the ground. I re-set it but think it's going to die anyway.
-The slowpoke White Rhinos that I moistened like 2 weeks ago... one more popped today! WTF. They are at a good 76-78'F, moist, in the dark... shouldn't be takig this long but I'm thankful at this point to see them germing at all!
-Just started my freebie 'gypsys gum' from seedbay; bubblegum X somango.
-ordered a bunch of sweet tooth and SWT crosses from seedbay lst night.
-Topped a whole bunch of stuff that is technically not supposed to be part of this log, but some of it was the BOG mix and Smashberry, so it's going in here.
Here's what I did:
I've got NO space whatsoever left in my flower room; to the point, I've been reduced to putting 2 plants in one bucket if they lok runty, even though I usually think that is a bad idea!
So anyway, usually I pinch rather than fully top plants with the exception of breeder males. This time, since it's going to be a couple weeks before space opens up anyway, I topped off the terminal 3 nodes plus stem down to the 4th, and put them in my *NEW!!!!* ex-cloner. I hosed the plants down with wilt-pruf then with neem and gave them a drenching at 9AM, and after 12 hours took clones at 9pm. I sprayed them once more wioth wilt-pruf once they were on the cloner. This morning there was no sign of any wilt even though as I've said my humidity is like 35% and I'm not using a dome. I've just got one small CFL on them. Whatever, they should be fine.
What else... oh yeah, a bud shot as promised, with my favorite beverage as comparison. Yay, local microbrews!! Yay, IPA!!!
So the biggest news in my growing misadventures is that I ran out of space entirely and took over the dining room closet for mothers and clones. Who needs table linens anyway! :D
Here's a pic of the ez cloner that I picked up from the guy who I got the chocolate chunk from. I got it for $100 plus weight of some of my juicy yummy homegrown.
As you can see, a couple of the slips that are in it ARE from budded plants- kind of an experiment to see if I get better results rooting flowering plants with this thing. When I got flowering plants to root in my old wick cloner, they came out really lame and just sort of sat there with no new growth until the damned thrips ate them.
The last 2 pics are
-4 week old plants vegging happily
-another Afghan pic for Bear. Plant porn! Too bad my camera sucks, but the whole plant including the smaller fan leaves looks like it has been dusted with snow. And for all the newbs wondering what plant is hardy and easy to grow, note that this girl has been flowering about 6 weeks and shows NO SIGN of insect damage or deficiencies. That's very unusual in my garden, as I stop treating for insects after 4 weeks flowering.
Did you say you were 28 in the Growers Lounge? Just wondering.
Adieu
Yup. I graduated University in 2000, moved to Alaska (worked out of Dutch Harbor... WOW what a place.), moved back, got a job in academia, and bought my house in spring 2004. Never looked back.
My job and the apartment that I rent downstairs pays for the mortage and car, my little garden pays for my food and heat. That's why I get so bent out of shape about punks saying, "oh, I found this plant growing wild, think I'll take it...." Bottom line, steal my plants, steal my heating fuel, my gas gets shut off, tenant moves out, lose the house. No brainer.
Well, sounds interesting. If all of those bad things ever happen to you, you can move up hear and we'll open a garden store with an Alaskan Seed/Strain business, LOL.
I have some college, history major. Had too many family obligations, but maybe I will get to finish some day, history, philosophy or literature, who knows.
Adieu
Sounds fantastic, or we could get a bunch of people together and do a for-profit tourist-trap organic farm/dude ranch with fly fishin, horseback trekking, getting eaten by 2 pound mosquitoes, whatever it is that tourists in Alaska enjoy!
Hey why wait on school, you sound well-spoken, time to start your novel instead! :D
LOL, that may work. I hear you can get 20 acres of tundra for pennies on the dollar and the land is already stocked with the state bird, I mean mosquitoes.
Novel? What are you a psychic? I have a few unfinished projects laying around. I think that I live in the past a little too much to stir the imagination of our fast food, gimmy, gimmy generation, not that I am as deep as the ocean yonder, but who knows, perhaps I have an old soul or something.
Well Adieu
Tundra, mud, skeeters, mmmmm..... sounds like the LIFE!!!! Plant a couple trees for me now so when I retire they MIGHT be just big enough to hang a hammock between with your 3 week growing season ;)
Man, every time you say 'adieu' it sounds so... FINAL... like we're never going to hear from you again! How's about 'a bientot'?
Okay, we have to think what you can do with 20 acres of tundra... other than sit on it and listen to the mud gurgle.
I guess I'd better update my grow log too to stay sort of on topic...
The Gypsy's Gum I moistened day before yesterday is popped and in dirt.
Clones look excellent; they are living in the new addition to my grow empire at 71 degrees F and 50% humidity, a lot higher than upsatirs.
The very most exciting thing is that this morning I found LADYBUGS in my indoor garden!!!!! This is just super awesome. I consider it very good luck for them to find your plants, rather than having to bring them in yourself.
So they are in there wandering around, I imagine feasting on thrip larvae, and just looking kind of cute (for a big).
� bientôt? Well, with my vision problems, I don't use many frases like See you later.
I hope Adieu isn't too dramatic, just a habbet at this point.
Adieu
Little did you know Stinky, but I've been waiting to see some plants from you lol. They look lovely and your grow room looks so neat and nice. Excellent work :D.
I think the grow room looks neat because my camera is so bad, lol!
I'm really glad you dropped by to this log!
Yeah this is A good log. I love reading in this one. Its very distracting from my work. hahahahhaha
Right now I should be editing this TV Show... My garden and yours is way to distracting to keep me working. Plus I just got the new Tragically hip album and its rocking right now at the studio.
kd
Over the weekend I started 3 seeds of each of the following:
BOG Black Indica
Some supa dank 'headie' bagseeds
Hindu Kush
and something else I forgot.
The cloner is chugging along and there are good roots forming now, after 8 days.
Dark temps in the growroom are dropping to the point where one of the afghan mixes I harvested this morning was showing some purpling of the bud leaves.
The silly dog got into the plants again and did some topping for me. She only ate some shitty bagseed experiments that were about to get culled anyway, as they turned out to be WAY too much sat-leaning.
The first of the smashberries went into its final big bucket, and so did a couple of the unknown BOG mixes, and one of them has this UNBELIEVEABLE grapefruit odor when you brush the leaves. If the buds are near as fruity, that's gonna be a mom!
Any hope that you'll send me a thanksgiving care package and accidentally spill some beans in it. It would be a real thanksgiving to remember.
Adieu
Yeah, I'll send you a crock of gool ole' Boston baked beans :D Well maybe beans that will get you baked anyway.. Still looking for nice cold-hardy strains... wonder if there are any local unnamed strains in AK that fit the description.... ??? heh heh why don'tcha send me an email!
What's the addy for a email? Post in the 907 area code forum if serious, less trafic.
Adieu
sweet thread. im amazed at the scale and precision in which you are growing! what are u doing to control odor?
Nothing, nada, rien.Quote:
Originally Posted by dutch.lover
It's a stinky attic! :D
Seriously, It's on the 3rd floor of a house built into a hillside with a walkout basement, so essentially the 4th floor... high wind area... only neighbors are yuppies... can't smell a thing from the yard, and if you got close enough to be snooping my bulldog and my tenant's mastiff would eat you.
So the answer to privacy is, scope out your grow spot with that in mind.
Here's some bud porn for the morning! First pic is the first half of this week's harvest, and the second is a nice bud shot from a bud I took down before work today.
Next is some of my other crop! Mmmmm... cherry bombs!
The last one is for all you Aqua Teen Hunger Force fans out there.... my BF, my friend Khaki, and myself got baked Wednesday night and built ourselves a BroodWich.
Looking Sweet Ass,.,,,,,,
Well nothing much is going on in the grow room but...um.. growing...
The Matanuska Thunderfuck stash seeds that a helpful Alaskan expatriate sent along have popped and broke dirt this morning. Just about the right time of year too because I have much less control over temps in the winter up there in the mostly UNINSULATED attic... aargh. So a cold-hardy variety is going to be in order.
I'm a total space case, but I'm going to try to list what I've got going in there in order of age, oldest to youngest.
My own mix (lots of plants)
A friend's 4-way knockoff- just 1
A friend's Haze x- also just 1
A couple Afghans, one topped, one 'natural'- the natural one is much nicer looking
All of the above are within 1-3 weeks of harvest
In flower, not really developed yet are:
A crapload of my own crosses
3 BOG plants- 1 smashberry, 2 unknown
Then more of the same getting sexed
Then in veg, I've got these that will be ready to force within the next couple weeks:
More BOG mix, recuperating from having clones taken
More of my crosses
Some assorted bagseeds... some that look too sat-dom are getting culled tonight, for real, I keep putting it off!
6 Papaya
10 Godbud x dreamweaver
10 Gypsy's Gum
Then the little guys
White Rhino, just a few- had problems with germ rate on those
3 Chrystal
9 Super Skunk
And finally the babies!
3 BOG/PlanB Black Indica
3 BOG Bluemoonrocks
3 Hindu Kush
All of the above are hinting at purple traits!!!
12 Matanuska Thunderfuck
Plus a few bagseeds from a friend that I expect to be FANTASTIC.
So this is how I keep things interesting, just starting a few different seeds every weekend.
Oh, and I caught aphids and greenhouse whiteflies because I was fucking lazy and forgot to run the new pots I scrounged out of the dumpster at a local nursery through the dishwasher first. I mean, WOW, I'm a friggin moron this week.
So the biggest excitement in my life for the next few days will be battling the hungry hordes of leaf-sucking insects....
I can only count my blessings that I only got 3 of the 'big 4'.... no red spider mites. Thank goodness.
Just for everyones' info, though, my preventative neem oil treatment, spraying all the plants down at least once a day, is working. The bugs are only eating my basil and hot peppers. No damage on the ladies.
Sounds like you ahve been doing alot of things,, mainly typing hahahaha just kiddin'
please please Never call yourself a Space case or a Moron... you have tought me pretty much all the main important shit I know. You deserve more respect than that.
kd_special
No really, if you hung out with me on a daily basis and saw me this week you'd call me a space case too. I'm really off my game for some reason. I've been trying to cut back on the caffeine and I think it's hurting my ability to even function normally. I give up... someone get me a shot of espresso....
*gulp*
I used to rock lots of coffee... but It makes my gut rot... We havea swet espresso machine and coffee maker at work.. I can have as many as I want.. I used to love the half hot choclate and coffe mixes
Now I drink mad Green tea... like I mean close to 10 or 12 a day... im sure they are loaded with Caffeen. We had a asian Coop student helping here at the studio and she turned me onto it. i think its better for me than coffee but I could be totally wrong. ither way it don't give me gut rot and its awsome first thing in the morrning....
I never really liked the taste of coffee untill I drank like 3 in a row.. then they started tasting soo soo good. kinda like Cigarettes but Im super glad I didn't keep pulling on those fukers in high school.... I'm so happy I don't smoke butts... i can't stand them.. Seen them kill so many family members..
kinda oof topic of growing but whatevs.... ahhaha sorry for the RANt!
kd
I think green tea is much better for you than coffee even though it still has caffeine. I used to work at a Korean-owned steakhouse and my boss told me that every day you should drink green tea, and eat fresh raw ginger and garlic, and a teaspoon of sesame seeds for your health.
Weedman, thanks! Pics are coming up tomorrow once I charge the batt on my camera.
I'm ordering a HPS 600 from InsideSun today and toying with the idea of going to a SOG perpetual setup using 6x6x8 pots on tray tables. I have to think aout it some more. The 3-gallon buckets are a pain to lug up the stairs and move around, not too bad, but enough, and I am having a hard time keeping the canopy even.
We'll see. It will be easier once I pick out a few good moms and have an endless supply of cloned to work with.
lol, what's that mean?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mer_de^Vert
Hey, if you can call me stink in a tick, I'm going to have to start calling you MERDE de vert!!!! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Mer_de^Vert
I've gotta run but everyone have a good evening and enjoy the good herb.
Are you doing a 600 digital? Please consider it if you havent already. Cooler temps, less energy, more lumens...horah!
I want some pictures!!! Sounds like you have quite a list, love to see some of em.
You're going to laugh at me but I actually WANT more heat. Right now at least...brr.
I was kinda surprised the the 600 at Inside Sun is so pricey comapred to other lights... I might go see if the guy at my fave growshop, Liquid Sun in Holyoke MA has any used trade-ins. And if he has any more habanero pepper seeds!!!! Mmmm! Everyone LOVES peppers.
Okay, here's some pics.
#1 is the papaya kids at however long it's been since I started the thread.
#2 is a BOG unknown at only 10 weeks.... thing is vigorous, lol. To her right in that pic is my pretty little afghani girl gettin' frosty.
#3 is those godbud x dreamweaver freebies. They've sent me like 60 seeds so far and I have to say they look pretty good, so who's complaining? :D
#4 is a tomato plant and some hot peppers that got ravaged by aphids last week. Fuckers.
#5 is my growing seed collection. The 'foxy' packets in the bottom L corner are my own design.. kind of putting the cart before the horse, but I got stoned and creative and made the woodcut for it- all without cutting any fingers off! I'll post a better pic of the design if anyone's interested. A couple peeps will be seeing it soon enough anyway.
So in the mail yesterday I got some more beans from seedbay and seedboutique:
Hashberry
Moroccan x Afghan
Purple Star (started last night, in dirt this morning!!! Wow!)
Bogglegum F2s
Spice of Life seconds.. supposed to be Sweettooth 3&4 and Blockhead
Then freebies....
MORE godbud x rofl
More stonehedge
More gypsys gum
and AKITA... it's supposed to be (annac x stakonia) can't find info on either. But I moistened them last night. BIG healthy spotty beans that look like they are gonna be some real hardhusks like the white rhinos.
I'm expecting something from Rushman this week too... we'll see if he still had what I wanted in stock!!! Can't wait.
Oh, the pest infestation is under control. Phew. No damage to the cannabis, but my peppers are hurtin'.
I really enjoy your thread. Keep up the good work.
Peace
:smokin:
Thanks Hemlock!!!
Well last night I had a look at the most recent acquisitions and as expected, the Purple Star popped and the Akita did not, so I took the seeds out of the vial and scraped along the root edge with the blade of my pruning shears... sure enough, this morning, I've got evidence of germination! Wow, those were some big gnarly tough beans. I hope they have a tough plant inside! :D
Sweet grow! Hopefully my Papaya's luck is as good as yours,but I only have a 400w hps for flowering. I am also growing Bubblicious, so I have 4 Papaya and 4 Bubblicious about 11 days old. I had planted a KB seed I got from a friend and it showed signs of germination but never grew once in soil. Ohwell. Heres my babies.
Well, it's time!
My 2 month seed-to-forcing schedule is right on track.
Some space opened up in the flower room over the weekend and I put the 3 largest Papayas in flower this morning!
:D
Let the countdown begin!
Hey Weed4Life, you're going to have a much higher watt-per-sq foot number than me, I've got 35-40 cannabis plants plus a bunch of garden vegetables under only 2x400 bulbs in the flower room right now! Don't worry, you'll get buds.
...during my first grow...I transplanted from 4 to 6, to 8 and then 10 inch pots for flowering. I love transplanting (gives me a chance to see the roots)...but I have read, this is not needed? opinions? Go directly to 10 inch?
I think a good grower should be able to transplant without shocking the plants at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dutch Pimp
I also like to look at root development, and pat myself on the back when I nail the transplanting time... lots of roots showing, but not real rootbound yet.
IMHO the most efficient use of space in an indoor grow is to keep the canopy as full as possible... so keep the plants in small containers until they are just busting at the seams! Well not THAT long... :D
I just don't want to walk into my grow room and see DIRT in between the leaves. Just solid, leafy green. I've even been a very bad bad girl and put 2 plants in the same big bucket for flowering if the plants are too scraggly and runty. Spank me!!! :p