They are looking great bertox!
they sure started getting frosty over the last couple weeks eh
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They are looking great bertox!
they sure started getting frosty over the last couple weeks eh
@subzero - You didn't miss the Kali Mist man, it was more me but I thought all the seeds I had were all AK-47 and that back plant has been different than my front and middle AK-47's the whole time and I just thought it was some wierd genetic abnormality or something and after showing pics to the place I got the seeds from told me that there had definately been some Kali Mist with the AK-47 received and the seeds must have been mixed together so that back plant turning out to be Kali Mist explains alot of why it smells/looks/and has been growing different this whole time. I looked at that gypsy place you told me about that had the female seeds and their flowering time listed for AK-47 for the serious seeds listing says 7 weeks...thats where I got that from...but another place has 9 weeks like you said too. Its probably 9 weeks cause I would say only 30-40% of the calyx's have turned orange so far. I'm thinking maybe my 35x digital camera's LED lights are creating to much light refracting on the resin glands and making them look milky. Again, I was going off Zandor's statement that he harvests his bud when they are at 50% clear/ 50% milky. I can say for certain that at or around 30% is milky...or maybe again its an optical illusion created by the LED's on my camera...I don't know. I have however noticed alot of new bud growth with fresh white calyx's so I think your probably right that I do infact need more time...at least a couple weeks. Only thing that makes inconvienient for me is that they will be un-attended for 4 days while I'm out of town here soon which could be a PH/PPM disaster because it seems to change daily and I'm having to add at least 1 gallon of water every day at this point. Have any suggestions? Also, what I think is Calcium defficiency is getting worse....if I do plan to grow these out for a couple more weeks, my water change I plan on doing tommorow I'm going to add probably 100ppm of CalMag to the mix (believe it or not my damn PPM pen came calibrated 100PPM in the positive off so my tap is actually between 100-200ppm and now that I'm using nutes here in the bloom cycle with no Calcium I'm pretty sure thats whats going on...it definately looks like pictures of Calcium deficiency).
@syde00 - Hey Syde! Yes they are....the pictures honestly do not do the amount of trichomes on these buds justice but the 35x camera does I think! I'll have to check yours out again I've just been busier than hell these last few weeks.
Hi bert,
I just noticed you got rusty banned, good on ya. Does he really think that everyone who starts posting here is a inexperienced newbee? What is his problem? I would love to meet this guy, is he for real? Anyways.......
If you plan to start your flush the day before you leave with ph'd water only they should be fine for 4 days, the ph might be a bit high when you get back but you will have much better end results than chopping early. as for the kali being in the same tank, just let it flush for the additional week or 2.
If you are going to flush soon you are going to see lots of defficencies because thats what you want from a flush. I don't think adding good old cal mag would change anything at this point, but it ain't gonna hurt either.
Done good bert and thanks for watching my back, i'm with ya if you need me mate.
Subzero.
no worries bertox, honestly nothing too exciting happening with mine over the last week or so... the ladies have just gotten hairier and starting to get frosty, looking forward to another week or 2 when i;m caught up to your latest pics though :D
@subzero - I think I'm going to go ahead and go with what you say (it really makes alot of sense), especially after looking at my buds yesterday and noticing some newer growth you know...its worth the wait if I can get a significantly higher yield. NP about Rusty man...I thought what he was saying was uncalled for especially since honestly, really really honestly, I wouldn't be growing right now I don't think (aka given up) if you hadn't helped me out...and really thats just been one of a list of things you've helped me out with since I started this grow so I most definately have you back!
@syde00 - They look alot bigger since I looked in on em with teh button buds, they are going to be very nice! You'll definately have to tell me how those babies taste..I'm especially curious.
hey bert,
shit man, i go on a rafting trip and come back to your 20oz a&w donkey dicks. way to go brother!
love the new camera. a buddy called me to say he ordered one the other day, i'll let him know how cool they are...he paid $99. where'd you get yours?
you got rusty booted? lol! i miss all the fun! that puss was a non-stop shit talker.
so, im reading about the lost clones and thinking "maybe you should try rappidrooter" and 2 posts later you say the same thing. i couldnt get my shit together enough to presoak my rockwool in 5.5 so i stopped by and picked some RR myself...seeing as im a GH guy. they dry out a little faster and you cant set them down because of the rounded bottom but they do work great. im sold on them. i also changed 2ft t5 floros. another thing that helped me cloning was rereading about transpiration. i now leave the lid on for a week to ten days but remove it every day and fan the cuttings. i leave the dome off longer and longer day by day.
i really think the scrog was the way to go with my BC but once again i couldnt get my shit together. i cant wait to see how you fill in that screen on the next run.
what up sub,
once again im in total agreement with your thoughts and advise....almost total agreement...calmag.
i normally wait until theres about 70% red hairs and the tops are falling over each other. the second growth (more white hairs that end up creating multiple nobs growing out of the tops) normally happens with about 2-3 weeks left.
i was thinking the same thing...kali mist? wtf? how long was i gone?
watch out with the ozone generator, i hear its nothing you want to be around.
4 days of flush sounds like a much better idea then an early cut. this is when they gain a lot of their weight.
i also think you should think about getting an hid for winter, in the mean time keep up the good work and think of how to vent a hood.
keep an eye on the mold. i normally see it in the cluster of mid size buds about a foot down from the top.
im sure theres more but i need to clean my res.
one more thing sub- ive never mothered before and now i have one phenotype BC mom. i was going to stick her outside but now im looking at her and the internodal spacing is much tighter then the normal looking mom. how often do you get a pheno with beneficial characteristics? im not sure if its even worth taking a few cuttings off of her and growing them to finish in the off chance shes a rock star.
by the way, this BC is crazy. the stems are heavily covered in crystals and a lot of the fan leaves have crystals out to the tips...and i still have 4-5 weeks to go. never seen anything like it. :D
BC rapidrooter pic
Bert,
Your on the right track, no real comments but great work! :thumbsup:
Icbh,
If your clones from the clone guy came from the same mom, all the pheno's will be the same anyway. Because I don't have unlimited space, I grow out 10seeds, clone em and pick the two best females as moms. if I had room for 100 or even 1000 obviously the chances of finding a really special one would be greater and then you would have more selection for breeding if you wanted to go that route. I am really a hobby grower and like to make my space as efficent as possible. I wouldn't want to explain why i had 1000 seedlings in the aircraft hangar down the road! Also when it goes wrong with lots of plants it is heartbreaking.
Excuse my ignorance but can you explain to me how this clone guy business works. Although cannabis is fairly well tolerated here there is no medical structure, hence no clone guy! or what?
Good to have you back.
Subzero.
see now thats what i was thinking i remembered from biology class but in reading wikipedia's definition i was wondering if environmental factors can bring out recessive traits causing a new phenotype. i really need to take some biology classes its been too long and i never really did too well in that class anyway. so heres what they say:
A phenotype is any observable characteristic or trait of an organism: such as its morphology, development, biochemical or physiological properties, or behavior. Phenotypes result from the expression of an organism's genes as well as the influence of environmental factors and possible interactions between the two.
i guess this one clone could be from another mother than the rest of the clones i got. or im thinking it was stressed at some point early on and just has not started growing normal yet. the fan leaves are smaller, the nodes are stacked tighter and theres less purple streaks in the upper stems and branches. it really looks like a different strain. maybe its kali mist...;)
so cali's law (prop 215 hb 420) is a state wide max of 99 and i think min of 6 plants per MJ patient. then counties set their own numbers. sonoma county (the 707) is 30 plants and no more than 3lbs per card but used to be the state max of 99 plants, mendo county changes its numbers every year it seems. some counties like el dorado county were written by law enforcement and cannabis advocates and are more detailed, 10 vegging and 10 flowering and i think 1 or 2 mothers for indoor, outdoor is 10 to mid summer and 10 to the end of fall. i think that was for seed growers to have time to weed out the males but it could also work for forced flowering through light deprivation. if you are not using your card to grow you can sign your grow rights over to another card holder in either a cooperative or a collective. cards are obtained through almost any doc and some are easier than others. clubs sell everything pot related. it looks as though cali is going to pass a law next year that will make it legal for anyone 21 or older to walk in off the streets and buy an oz and the state will take a $50 tax on that oz. growers will pay a one time $5000 fee and an annual $2000 fee. the last poll had it passing with 56%. :):(:wtf:
so hey sub- i just bought my tickets today. i'll be in germany from aug 5th-26th. amsterdam for a night or 2...or 3 around the 7-11th and england the 15th. hope we can hook up.:thumbsup: