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daihashi, I hope you get everything sorted from Ike. Herricans ain't no fun - trust me I know what I'm talking about. I hope you are able to keep your girls alive, but more importantly I hope the rest of your life comes back into smooth order. Take good care out there, my friend!

damn ike sucked. my rents are still down in houston. pretty crazy. daihashi, check out my grow log. my northern brights are lookin mighty fine. gl on ur grow.

well.. still no power. I'm down chilling at an ice house on my computer.

A number of my plants are really starting to look pretty sick. I'm going to give them a feeding and ph the water. It looks like lockout situation almost. I'm guessing they didn't like the 7.2 ph tap water my g/f fed them after she ran out of ph'd water.

I'll flush them out and feed them later today.

In the mean time I'm going to enjoy a few beers.

Quick update.. don't want to go into detail because I'm exhausted, sick, and worn out... so here we go

I have electricity

Plants aren't looking to great. They are kind of yellow/Green from lack of light and nutrition. It appears a couple of the plants are suffering either from lock out or cal/mag issues. I'm going to go with calmag since I'm growing in coco and it's notorious for leaching it out.

I suppose it could be worse considering I didn't really do much to try to keep the plants alive.

There is some spotting, but I anticipate that the plants will bounce back.

I have 2 seedlings that will make it definitely if nothing else and I can mother those.

I wish I had taken pics of the plants before the storm hit so everyone could see how beautiful they were looking.

I'll probably take pics in about a week or so once they've had some time to recover.

I flushed all the plants with ph 5.7 water and then I fed with the following

3ml Canna Coco nute A
3ml Canna Coco nute B
5ml Calmag
1 gallon of tap water (yes it's safe where I live).

After I flushed the plants I fed them all with 8oz of nuted solution ph'd to 5.8

We'll see how they're doing soon. Their leaves are pretty thin and soft feeling; hopefully the new growth will recover.

On a positive note the root systems of these plants are looking fantastic. :thumbsup:

They will bounce back m8 don't you worry.
And isn't it just insane how the roots grow in coco man?

Just make sure you always water with a bit of runoff to ease on the salt build up and fluch once every week or every 10 days when you up the nutes above 1300ppm or so.

Waiting for those pics.

Puffzter

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Originally Posted by Puffzter

They will bounce back m8 don't you worry.
And isn't it just insane how the roots grow in coco man?

Just make sure you always water with a bit of runoff to ease on the salt build up and fluch once every week or every 10 days when you up the nutes above 1300ppm or so.

Waiting for those pics.

Puffzter

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I do have to say I am truely amazed at how coco effects the root system. These roots look very strong and healthy. And I also have alot more roots than I would normally have in soil after 3 weeks (2 weeks if you subtract my week without power).

Despite the problems from the hurricane, I have to say I am VERY pleased with coco. It is fantastic stuff.

Fed the plants today:

1 gallon of tap water
6 ml of CalMag
4ml of Canna Coco Nute A
4ml of Canna Coco Nute B
Ph'd to 5.8 - 5.9 (kept fluxuating between these two for 3 minutes.)

I believe I found my mother plant. This plant, despite all the crap that has happened, is a very good looking plant. It has secondary growth and it's root system looks fantastic. Everything about this plant oozes Awesomness... all I can hope for is that it's not going to be a hermie/male dom plant (these are feminized unstable genetics... so hermies are a very real possibility).

I will give the plants another week or so and then I will give them a week of LST before I cut clones from them all.

The other plants are still looking kind of rough, but that's just because of the damaged leaves. I fully expect all the plants to recover.

One more thing I learned about coco today... you can FEEL how much the plants are drinking!!! This is something that was fairly difficult to do with soil because it occured over a course of days; however with coco you can feel it over the course of 1 day!

The plant I expect to turn into a mother drank a considerable amount of water when compared to the rest of the plants; furthermore this plant was the furthest from the fans/exhaust so I know that the plant actually utilized the water and it was not just wicked away from air blowing over it. I am very pleased with this.

Different plants had different pot weights. This was something I had never noticed before because I had never let the coco get very dry before; however after flushing the plants and then feeding it became obvious that they utilized more water/nute solution than before .

While I will still use an EC/PPM meter to determine how much they're eating.. I would have to say you can probably get a good guesstimate just by lifting the pot when growing in coco.

Do the benefits never end with this medium? I am loving it more and more every day.

It feels like these plants have been in veg alot longer (by veg I mean since they popped through the soil), but they've actually only been in veg about 18 days or so.

I'm a strong DIS-liker of coco myself I'm afraid.

How about photo of the mom in contention?

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I'm a strong DIS-liker of coco myself I'm afraid.

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What kind did you use? I've been checking it out a lot lately... and there are a few that have been getting awful reviews. Low pH like a muuuuuufunka. On the other hand... some people are saying it's the best thing since goosefat :rasta:

And did you use coco specific nutrients?
- actually, can you use soil/hydro nutrients in coco? I'm assuming you can use hydro nutrients since it is soilless.

Edit: Dai... just saw your post below. I feel ya bro. I wasn't defending a side... just an idea. You know you, know what's up :rasta:. Don't stress... let Mary J do her thing.

BUUUUUUUUUNGGGGG...

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Originally Posted by Weedhound

I'm a strong DIS-liker of coco myself I'm afraid.

How about photo of the mom in contention?

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Sure.. why not.. She has some blemishes but I don't think the camera will even pick it up..

sigh; just got out of a frustrating thread. Seeing your post, for some unknown reason, has lifted my spirits. Let me bust out the camera... BRB

There's two things I want in my grow: control and control.

coco: not enough control to be hydro......too much work to be soil. And I've heard of tons of issues with it......I think Dai just did his homework and headed off a lot of of its potential problems. I think if he'd not had hurricane Ike he most likely would not have had any grow problems at all but that's true I'm sure for ANY medium......not just coco.

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What kind did you use? I've been checking it out a lot lately... and there are a few that have been getting awful reviews. Low pH like a muuuuuufunka. On the other hand... some people are saying it's the best thing since goosefat :rasta:

And did you use coco specific nutrients?
- actually, can you use soil/hydro nutrients in coco? I'm assuming you can use hydro nutrients since it is soilless.

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It depends on the process they use to make/sterilize the coco. Some coco you have to soak in ph'd water; but if you buy a quality coco like Canna or b'cuzz (I think bcuzz) they do not steam their coco to treat it.. the coco never touches the ground and it is free of pests.

Canna coco is certified by some horticulture agency (pretty big/important from what I last remember but I forgot their name and acronymn).

I have an entire video on coco from Canna explaining the good/bad of coco depending on how it was processed. I'll see if I can encode it and get it up on youtube. It really gives alot of insight even though a large portion of the video is just a commercial for Canna.

Ha....I'll go get a pic of my gal as well and we'll compare......:D

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There's two things I want in my grow: control and control.

coco: not enough control to be hydro......too much work to be soil. And I've heard of tons of issues with it......I think Dai just did his homework and headed off a lot of of its potential problems. I think if he'd not had hurricane Ike he most likely would not have had any grow problems at all but that's true I'm sure for ANY medium......not just coco.

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Never done hydro so I can't say much for it, but as far as it being too much work for to be soil.. well I have to strongly disagree. Yes I have to water once a day, but for the lack of problems and incredible growth I've seen in compared to a soil/peat based grow I have to say coco beats it hands down.

I think a lot of the hit/miss people are having with coco is the brand they buy (different manufacturers process differently. You don't want a coco that was processed by steam.) and that they don't understand that coco wants to complete for calcium and I believe more on the slight side.. Nitrogen.

Using coco specific nutes helps with this in addition to supplementing a little extra than usual with calmag. Treat the medium as if it were hydro ( I feed between ph 5.6-5.8 now) and she will do you great. I think a number of people try to treat it like a soil grow and see mediocre/average results.

Had this hurricane not come through I think all my plants would be twice as big and without a single blemish on them. It's a shame ike came through.

However when I make my move into my house in a few weeks I will begin mothering some other strains. Can't wait to see how it performs with no power outages or extreme circumstances preventing my grow from being all it could be.

Pictures coming up. I need to resize the images.

ha ha....I'll say the same thing to you......if you use quality soil you'll have a lot less issues in soil as well, same as coco so I think its a matter of the quality of your equipment.......and with a good soil like FFOF all I really need to know is how often to water.

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ha ha....I'll say the same thing to you......if you use quality soil you'll have a lot less issues in soil as well, same as coco so I think its a matter of the quality of your equipment.......and with a good soil like FFOF all I really need to know is how often to water.

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Different strokes for different folks. I actually used FFOF during flowering and I was not impressed at all. The soil was too hot for me to start out vegging in, and really I felt it was hyped up once I started using it in flower.

Even with perlite it retained a ton of moisture, came prenuted (which I guess is good if you don't mind not knowing how much of each nute you have total sitting in your medium) and was really friggin heavy. It didn't release moisture fast enough for me to water twice a week like I needed to. All in all I was not impressed; at the time though I thought FFOF was pretty good.

Now that I've touched quality coco FFOF looks like crap to me.

Another benefit to growing in coco is... well. it's very hard to outgrow your pot, create ph lockout issues or make conditions where your plant will die.

Had I been growing in soil I am confident I would probably have a number of issues.. Soil pests, stagnant water retained in the soil, root issues (due to not being able to care for the plants).

The coco created the ideal environment for my plants while I was unable to care for them. I don't think I would've had the same luck in soil. After I get this plant turned into a good mother I'll do a side by side Canna coco VS Fox Farms Ocean forest grow. Everything will be identical with the exception of the medium.

And finally.. here are the pics; the plant didn't look as great in the pictures but she looks beautiful in the light. Especially considering what a horrible week she's been through:

You can see her first set of true leaves... They look thin and worn; this is probably due to lack of air circulation, light and other things. There is some very slight calcium def. spotting but the camera didn't pick it up well (you have to be very close to the plant in person to even notice it well).

Considering she didn't have air, light, fresh water or any proper care for a week I'd have to say she's looking kind of sexy.

I'll post new pics of her in about 4-5 days to show how much she's recovered/grown.

2 days ago her leaves were yellowish, she's gotten greener since I fed her/put her back under HID.

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Edit: Dai... just saw your post below. I feel ya bro. I wasn't defending a side... just an idea. You know you, know what's up :rasta:. Don't stress... let Mary J do her thing.

BUUUUUUUUUNGGGGG...

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I know dude.. I don't harp on people for having a point of view, that's everyone's right. I was pissy because I was trying to initiate a genuine discussion with that guy and he was just being a douche purposefully back to me.

He got a rise out of me.. which I should not have given into. Don't worry, I have no qualms with you or really pretty much anyone on Canna.com despite what people may think about me.

Lol how funny! Well that's why they make both chocolate AND vanilla my father always used to say. :)

That is a nice plant dai.....no signs of that curly crap that these gals sometimes give me. She should make a great mom.. :thumbusp:

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Lol how funny! Well that's why they make both chocolate AND vanilla my father always used to say. :)

That is a nice plant dai.....no signs of that curly crap that these gals sometimes give me. She should make a great mom.. :thumbusp:

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Thanks, I have plenty of the curlies as well.. lol I was going to chop them but I figured I might as well finish them while I'm mothering this one plant. It will give me some bud I wouldn't ordinarily have.

I have 2 other potential mothers. They are just babies in comparison to this one. But they came out great and are not doing that swirly crap either like most of the other ones.

We'll see. :hippy:

Do let them finish if they are growing. One in my thread named Curly.....go figure.....really picked back up in bloom and while her yield won't be huge.....it WILL be a qualtiy stone. ;)

Hang in there with those plants D!
Just got done reading that other thread, holy sweet jesus, I am glad I wasn't around for that one, I would have probably gotten banned, again.:D

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Hang in there with those plants D!
Just got done reading that other thread, holy sweet jesus, I am glad I wasn't around for that one, I would have probably gotten banned, again.:D

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Then I have to say I'm glad you missed it. Wouldn't want you getting banned. I'm just sorry I fell for the bait that guy left out for me.. I'm usually better than that. Ugh.

I think the plants are going to make it and I have a pretty solid looking mother. If nothing else my harvest has just been delayed; not a big deal in the grand scheme of things :thumbsup:

lookin great D! I am germing 6-8 SNLxNH again on fri, going to seect a mum outta them. 60-80% of the ones I have popped so far do the color/curling thing too...bastards. But WH has me convinced to fight the bastards for a couple of good ones...buzz is supposed to be amazing....
Gad the plants made it through...was worried about ya man... had 2 hurricanes wipe me out over the years, lost my house to one in 96...
whiskeytango

chopped one of the HK girls down...check the trichs on her next time your around my threads:jointsmile:

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lookin great D! I am germing 6-8 SNLxNH again on fri, going to seect a mum outta them. 60-80% of the ones I have popped so far do the color/curling thing too...bastards. But WH has me convinced to fight the bastards for a couple of good ones...buzz is supposed to be amazing....
Gad the plants made it through...was worried about ya man... had 2 hurricanes wipe me out over the years, lost my house to one in 96...
whiskeytango

chopped one of the HK girls down...check the trichs on her next time your around my threads:jointsmile:

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Which one is she in?

I think I'm going to mother a few more strains to keep on hand, but I can't decide.

I'm thinking:

Master Kush (though the seeds are kind of pale looking. Not sure if they'll root but they were a gift. So we'll cross our fingers and see. Either way I'm excited),

Church

White Widow

Although I may swap out the Master Kush if it doesn't root for Purple Power Plant.

My next log will be a mothering Log; should be interesting for those people who are wanting to learn how to grow/keep a mother. I want to keep them in no bigger than 1 or 2 gallon pots. Preferably 1. Once I get them to their established size I'll move them under a 150 or 250watt HID. I don't think I can keep more than 3-4 mothers at a time.

My flower room will initially be 4'x4' with a 600 watt HPS. This should give me room for about 12-16 plants. I may build out a second 4x4 area at a later date; but that will come when I save up some more cash.

I don't think I'll ever expand past my 3'x3' room w 400 watt MH for veg. I just don't see the need;

But ahhhh this is a story for another log. Which will be coming soon :thumbsup:

EDIT: WT, which thread is the triched out plant at? bleh screw it I'll read them all. I'm behind on my grow logs anyway :jointsmile:

New growth on the plants looks great. They are looking green and vibrant. The prospect mother is looking just gorgeous. Her secondary growth is really shooting off as well as her top growth. She's just so healthy and vigorous.

The 3 seedlings had a mini growth explosion. They are coming along beautiful and are also potential contenders for mothering.

Fed them about 15 minutes ago:

5ml Canna Coco Nute A
5ml Canna Coco Nute B
6ml CalMag
1 gallon Tap water
PH'd to 5.6-5.7

Run off ph read at 5.7-5.8

Plants are looking beautiful considering the hell they went through. Hopefully all will be well.

I am going to switch the plants back to 18/6 for some stealth. I have some repairs I need my landlord to do (yes I know this landlord very well and his habits. I practice safety as safely as I can. There is no threat here.. trust me. He never shows on property unless someone calls and they are at their residence. He's pretty respectful of peoples privacy.).

Pictures will be posted by the end of the week. I'm hoping for some great growth to show you guys. I think at the end of this week I'll go ahead and LST 1 time on all my plants. Just bend it down once and let it grow like that. I don't want to really get into it like last time.

Next grow when I can get a bunch of clones will be an attempt at SOG.. but for now I want to try to get the most bud out of this that I can.

I am so happy with coco. :hippy:

Fed half the plants last night and the other half this morning:

5ml Canna Coco Nute A
5ml Canna Coco Nute B
6ml CalMag
1 gallon Tap water
PH'd to 5.6-5.7

Run off ph read at 5.7-5.8


So plants are again looking great. I now have 2 larger plants that are potential mothers as well with the first mother in contention still being my #1 pick. In addition 2 of the seedlings seemed to have a growth explosion. Looking great.

On a down side I dropped 1 plant twice.. in less than 5 minutes from at least 5ft off the ground. Sigh.. on a positive note it was a plant that's been lagging and doesn't look so pretty anyway. I picked it up.. re packed the medium and put it in the cabinet. I suspect the root system is a little stressed now. Hopefully it will get over it or keep on going without missing a beat. We'll see.

Pictures coming this Friday or Saturday. :thumbsup:

Fed again today

5ml Canna Coco Nute A
5ml Canna Coco Nute B
6ml CalMag
1 gallon Tap water
PH'd to 5.6-5.7

Run off ph read at 5.7-5.8

It's worth mentioning that whenever I feed the plants that I am only feeding them 6-8oz of water each. This gives me about 15-20% run off and the plants utilize majority of the water. Allowing for plenty of air to get into the medium and promote a healthy root system. So I am not always mixing fresh nutrient solution. 1 gallon will last me about 2 - 2.5 feedings. For the moment. I suspect by the end of next week I will put all their plants in their final containers for the next 8-12 weeks. I will be going with 2 gallon pots. I feel this should be more than adequate to complete my grow and allow me to keep my waterings down to once a day... MAX.

I will be building a home made drip ring system for my plants sometime after the transplant. It would be a pain to hand water all the time.

We'll see, be expecting pics friday.

On another note, I got the final word and I'll be closing on a home I am purchasing tomorrow @ 2pm.

YAY ME!


edit: It's hard to believe that this is day 21 of veg. The plants are looking great considering they almost an entire week without power or any type of care. I wish I could see what they would look like had I been there to care for them and if I had power to give them proper lighting.

I have a coupe of plants now that look like they would be very nice moms. It's going to be hard to choose.

I will begin LST once I transplant into the 2 gallon containers.

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You ARE closing on a home with roof and all considering Ike right? :D

In your OWN HOME you can do everything but grow them from the ceiling in every single room if you want so you'll be able to see them do ALL SORTS of different things. :D :thumbsup:

Hey I'm about to start a few Master Kush myself.....that's going to be one of my standard hydro growers. Try it....you'll like it. I've used some light looking seeds before and I've never seen it affect germination (unless they were immature seeds to begin with and that's why they were white)

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You ARE closing on a home with roof and all considering Ike right? :D

In your OWN HOME you can do everything but grow them from the ceiling in every single room if you want so you'll be able to see them do ALL SORTS of different things. :D :thumbsup:

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I had the inspector go out and reinspect the house since my lenders required a reinspection after the hurricane. Contrary to what you see on the news, mainland houston wasn't hit THAT bad. Galveston and the water front cities that are on the outskirts of Houston did suffer, but that was to be expected.

Yeah, I'm very excited. I've already dedicated one of the 14x14 rooms to be my grow and work area for the plants. :)

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Hey I'm about to start a few Master Kush myself.....that's going to be one of my standard hydro growers. Try it....you'll like it. I've used some light looking seeds before and I've never seen it affect germination (unless they were immature seeds to begin with and that's why they were white)

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Good to know. As soon as I get settled in I'll be starting another log for all my mother plants.

I'm so excited to have a legitimate grow area now as opposed to being confined to a 3x3 cabinet (which I'll still use to veg/mother plants). I'm thinking of building 1 4x4 or 5x5 flower room.. and then building a second 5x5 flower room at a later date.

2 flower rooms and a mother/clone area.
*drewl*
I would pick up breeding then. It would be so nice to have areas like that to play around with.
Lucky you. :D

Puffzter

Few things.

I am officially a home owner. I closed on a house yesterday and as of Thursday 4pm I became the proud owner of a 2504 sqft home, 2 car garage, massive back and decent sized front yard, 4 bedrooms, 2.5 bath, large kitchen and living areas with a formal dining that luckily already had french doors on it (which will become my personal study).

I got electric, gas and water connected already.

Onto a grow note:

Fed the plants when I got home last night at around 11-11:30pm. Fed with the following:

8ml Canna Coco Nute A
8ml Canna Coco Nute B
6ml Calmag
1 gallon of water
PH 5.7

Plants were a little more thirsty than usual and were visibly bigger. I should try checking on them only once a day more often. Seeing the growth is very encouraging this way as opposed to checking on the plants 2-3 times a day.

I just like to look at them. It's a flaw of mine. A bad habit I've been trying to break.

Today I'm going to try to hit up the hydro shop to see if they have any cannazym or rhizotonic in stock. I would really like to promote some decent initial root growth and health when I trans plant them to the 2 gallon containers.

We'll see.

Pictures will be posted up this evening. Probably around 9pm-10pm or so.

I still have a few more house errands to run but for the most part I'm set to go. I'll be throwing a bbq there this weekend for my friend who recently lost his Schnauzer, Oscar, to old age.

Oscar was 15 years old and a hell of a dog. He will be missed.

Also I will be refraining from most other forums other than my growlog and the grow forum in general.

I've not felt myself lately and feel that I need to spend more time taking care of my health than I do on the forums. I was extremely concerned yesterday and someone spoke to me and really made me feel much better. I thank them tremendously for that and I give a thanks out to them. You know who you are :thumbsup:

As I feel slightly more refreshed today and in a little bit (key being little) of a better mood I think I will continue what I've changed to try to bring balance back to my health.

Also I've been dry for sometime and I do have some bad social anxieties; which I've realized how bad it actually is when I'm not intoxicated. It's probably for the best as I smoked too much to begin with. I need to start smoking from more of a medical approach and even when it's recreational I need to cut back.

You'll still see me on the forums; but mainly the grow. :jointsmile:

Few things:

CONGRATULATIONS on your new home! :thumbsup: Big BIG step if it is your first and it sounds like a damn nice one to boot.

If you are looking for better STRONGER roots get rhizotonic.....cannazym won't help your roots grow. Cannazym does something to the dead roots so that they don't rot and start off root rot in your plants. It won't help your roots grow, but Rhizo will. ;)

third: I've learned your same lesson the hard way. There are several things I completely stay away from on cdot because if I put my nose in them I'll just plain flip and thats it. Quite a while back people used to talk up and down about how they would get their animals high......let them eat weed etc.......as a vet tech this kind of bullshit being posted would absolutely make me CRAZY!!! Very luckily the site owner and P4B made a rule to forbid that kind of terrible talk and I thank them for that to this day. But my point is the same as you said........I couldn't take the heat and had to learn to stay out of the kitchen. Sometimes that's not very easy.

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Few things:

CONGRATULATIONS on your new home! :thumbsup: Big BIG step if it is your first and it sounds like a damn nice one to boot.

If you are looking for better STRONGER roots get rhizotonic.....cannazym won't help your roots grow. Cannazym does something to the dead roots so that they don't rot and start off root rot in your plants. It won't help your roots grow, but Rhizo will. ;)

third: I've learned your same lesson the hard way. There are several things I completely stay away from on cdot because if I put my nose in them I'll just plain flip and thats it. Quite a while back people used to talk up and down about how they would get their animals high......let them eat weed etc.......as a vet tech this kind of bullshit being posted would absolutely make me CRAZY!!! Very luckily the site owner and P4B made a rule to forbid that kind of terrible talk and I thank them for that to this day. But my point is the same as you said........I couldn't take the heat and had to learn to stay out of the kitchen. Sometimes that's not very easy.

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It's my social anxiety that really screws up my usual well thought out posts and makes them seem as if they're coming from a condescending point of view. I can acknowledge it may seem that way and that's my primary reason for refraining from other forums.

I have the unfortunate ability to absorb information as if I were still a 2 year old (their minds are like sponges after all) and I spout this off in hopes of *informing* others. Sometimes I've noticed when I'm feeling particularly anxious I may say a comment that may come across snide even if it's not meant to.

It's frustrating to me that people will not take information and actually interpret it with their own brains as opposed to just regurgitating what's spoon fed to them, but that's for another forum at another time when I'm feeling myself.

In addition to the social anxiety I've had some physical ailments such as loss of balance (when I normally had far above average balance due to my Boxing background) headaches, moodiness and a few other minor ones. Today admittingly I'm feeling about 30% better than I have over the last 2 weeks and I'm hoping I was under stress even if I don't realize it (I tend to push myself because I don't like putting things off onto other people. I like to take responsibility for as much as I can). Combined with Ike, poor eating, and poor sleep.. i think this may be my problem.

The house is very nice. I have some pics I can post up but I may wait until tomorrow. my friend took pictures but they don't give a good depiction of the actual size of the house. I am very happy for it being my first home.

In regards to your vet tech history. I actually rescued both of my pets. My dog, Molly, was at a kill shelter and was on her last week there. I couldn't bare to see her put down so I adopted her. My cat, Annie, was abandoned by it's mother when it was 2 weeks old. I suspect someone touched it when they should've left it alone and the mother rejected it. I found her under a friends trailer and bottle fed her.

I've also saved a pigeon from being hit by a freight mail truck.

My dog was also paralyzed for some time due to a disc that ruptured into her spinal cord. I couldn't bring myself to put her to sleep per the Vet's opinion. So I got her a doggie wheel chair (which she hated.. she prefered to crawl around instead). Over the course of a year she started twitching her tail; which at the time I thought I was just seeing things. Over the next 2 months it turned into a full wag. Then over the next month she started standing on her own, but fell down right away. Then she would be able to walk a short distance, but her back was shaped like an upside down U. VERY ARCHED and unhealthy looking. Over the course of the year following that her back slowly got flatter and flatter and now she's 100% better. You would never have guessed she was paralyzed.

While she was paralyzed I had to express her bladder and help her defecate; which was not a pleasing task at all.

The way I saw it was.. I wouldn't put my mother to sleep and I sure as hell wouldn't do that to Molly. She is my best friend and I love her with all my heart.

Pictures of the plants coming tonight! Stay tuned.!!! :thumbsup:

As promised.. Pics

Pic 1: Mother Plant Sept. 20th
Pic 2: Mother Plant Sept. 26th
Pic 3: Mother Plant Sept 20th
Pic 4: Mother Plant Sept 26th
Pic 5: Random shot of the mother. Tried to get the secondary growth in the image.

Pic 1: Overall shot of all the plants. Some plants are elevated to try to create an even canopy without topping. I'm hoping these smaller plants will catch up somehow.

I just wonder how big these plants would be if they didn't miss out on a week of light. They look so good now. I may go ahead and veg these out to 6 weeks. I still don't have alternating nodes despite starting the 6th/7th set of leaves/node.

Either way I'm pleased with the health and appearance of my plants. This one will become a beautiful mother.

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