Tempting Fate ................

Hello Kush, Happy :) ............ well I've made one last attept to save the little "buggers" :o http://boards.cannabis.com/showthread.php?t=58536


It was three plants in different compost "Happy" and I'm affraid to say that all have been affected :(

To be honest I think it's something to do with the growroom, I didn't disinfect it out before this grow :o ......................... I am of the mind that Zandor hit upon something when he mentioned "possible a fungus." ;)

I also think that I'm going to lose this grow, the new growth is coming on but within a short space of time the tips start turnig brown and it just keeps spreading ;)

The only thing I can do at the moment is allow further growth and see what happens. However there on probation now and if there is no inprovement within the next few weeks, I'll abandon yet another grow :rolleyes:
I'm definately moving the growrooms for the next one ;)

Hello Kush, Happy :) ............ well I've made one last attept to save the little "buggers" :o http://boards.cannabis.com/showthread.php?t=58536


It was three plants in different compost "Happy" and I'm affraid to say that all have been affected :(

To be honest I think it's something to do with the growroom, I didn't disinfect it out before this grow :o ......................... I am of the mind that Zandor hit upon something when he mentioned "possible a fungus." ;)

I also think that I'm going to lose this grow, the new growth is coming on but within a short space of time the tips start turnig brown and it just keeps spreading ;)

The only thing I can do at the moment is allow further growth and see what happens. However there on probation now and if there is no inprovement within the next few weeks, I'll abandon yet another grow :rolleyes:
I'm definately moving the growrooms for the next one ;)

Hmmmm I didn't mean to submit that ........................ still pics to load up :o



Here are some pics showing the discolouration starting on the tips of new leaves :(



Thanks guys ............................ love mand xxx:)

Oooopps, sorry about the repeated posts above, I really don't know what happened ................................ Sorry :o



love mand xxx:)

Hey Mand hows things? I'm just here focusing on the heat like always instead of the plants:mad: I've been trying different setups with fans and ducting etc.... and nothing I managed to drop a few temps with the door closed but nothing:( I will do my last attempt this weekend if it fails then this would be my last grow untill I resolve the problem dont know if that would be possible:o I just cant have this MH/HPS blazing the light in my eyes every night its annoying the crap out of me:mad: I mean my last grow I focused alot of time trying to fix the problem and never did so as far as my so called "stealth grow" its not stealth and I cant grow unless it is. I guess I'll just have to wait and see what happenes:confused:
I'm glad u got ur problem with ur plant resolved by the way. They are looking good, so do you still plan on letting them veg till June

buck have you not thought about,using black speaker covering and putting it over the door, you could velcro round the door and put it up that way,it would dim the light down and keep the temp from rising as much, just an idea,mand sorry for hijacking your thread ,i deeply apoligise,hope your plants recover,the postman.

:rolleyes: ;) Hello Buk :), Hmmm the heat problem :( ............... I wish I knew what to tell you ????
Sounds like you need a new grow space, somewhere out of the way and un-obtrusive. I notice you said "I just cant have this MH/HPS blazing the light in my eyes every night" ................. it's not in the bedroom is it,: If it is Buk, how do you sleep with that thing glaring away .............:eek:

You know Buk I often think this growing lark is just "pain in the arse" (it's alright I can say "arse", it's not really swearing, my Dad used to say it all the time ;) ). . Anyaway I asked my lads to checkout the current prices of Skunk yesterday, they were told £25 an eighth for good quality Skunk :eek: ............ at those prices it's worth growing you're own;)

I'm affraid the problems with the grow aren't yet resolved :( , I'm trying drastic measures to rectify them though .............. talk about shocking and stressing them, I'm terrifying the little f*****s ;) :) .


Anyway Buk love, this is one of my posts that says alot about nothing I'm affraid :o . I'm having one of my quiet nights and have just been watching the new film "Hostel" ...... one of my lads gets copies of all the latest releases, not the stuff filmed in the local cinema but some very nice pre release copies;) .................. It's ok but there are too many bare breasted young women in it at the begining for my liking and the torture scenes aren't all that good :rolleyes:


Hello Dave :), please don't apologise, honestly love hijack it with pleasure :)

Thanks ................... love mand xxx:)

Sweet going Mand ...Keep growing man!

I'm Trying Easy Roller but there really "testing" me :o


Well I haven't yet managed to stop the problem but I think that I may have "slowed it down".
It's all quite a bit of a shame really if it wasn't for the problem I've had these would have been pretty nice looking plants by now :o

Never mind some pics from today ................. three weeks plus a day old.

Oh the last pic is the little runt ;)

love mand xxx:)

Nice Mand, I still havent repotted:o I am getting to it as well as to what would be the outcome on the heat prob. For some reason I'm 99% sure it wont work because everything I try doesnt go thru, O'well last shot here goes nothing:o

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I'm Trying Easy Roller but there really "testing" me :o


Well I haven't yet managed to stop the problem but I think that I may have "slowed it down".
It's all quite a bit of a shame really if it wasn't for the problem I've had these would have been pretty nice looking plants by now :o

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Keep at it Mand. A lesser grower would have killed those plants by now. You're going to make it, I have absolutely no doubt about that:thumbsup: .

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Nice Mand, I still havent repotted:o I am getting to it as well as to what would be the outcome on the heat prob. For some reason I'm 99% sure it wont work because everything I try doesnt go thru, O'well last shot here goes nothing:o

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Hello Buk :) , you sound a bit like me there, always doubting that something is actually going to go right and work :o ................ stick with it Buk, I'm confident you'll sort something out ;)

What if you put an air vent in at the top of the closet, "just thinking outloud here Buk :o". Anyway heat rises so if a vent was put in at the top then maybe that would allow cooler air to be pulled in from the bottom.

I'll just tell a story that gave me that idea :) ...................
I once visted a "Blue John" mine in the peak district of Derbyshire, Blue John is just a blue type of stone that is found nowhere else in the world except for there, it's nothing special but it just looks pretty ;).
Anyway these mines were ventilated very simply, at one shaft the miners used to always keep a fire burning which caused the heat to rise up the shaft but this also caused cool air to be bought in down another entrance and so provided the miners with cool fresh air :)
Now I'm not saying that you should light a fire in the bedroom :eek: but if there was a vent to let out the hot air at the top and a vent to allow the cool air at the bottom ......................... would this be feasible :confused:

Hmmm prehaps I'd best shut up :o




Hello Gin :) Thanks for that vote of confidence ;)
I've not cured the problem yet but I think that I have managed to slow it down. I have done everything that may be frowned upon to try and get these plants "back on track" so to speak :o .
Firstly the fan and the thermometer have gone out of there, I've never used them before so why bother now ;).
I re-potted into different compost, prunned them of two nodes each and the bad leaves, sprinkled neat plant food on the top and drenched them to overwatering :o
They are looking better but atill not right yet, so it's just waiting to see how they turn out ;)



love mand xxx:)

been to those mines mand they are cool, that blue stone as you say it aint worth much but it damnn sure looks cool , they have it in most of the shop windows in all the little villages around there as we traveled around derbyshire, buxton,spa,macclesfeild dove holes,and all the little shops had wicked orniments made from this stone, and the growers around that way must love it as they have a fresh water spa in the town centre were they can help themself to mountian stream water with a ph of 6.8 lol buxton water its known all over the world, the postman
had to post that sorry lol.

Hello Dave :) , It's funny how Buk's heat problem reminded me of trips into the peak district :)

I quite often used to go up around the Castleton area with my Mum and Dad on Sunday afternoons for a picnic. We went down the mine were you walked down however I believe there was one that you went underground on a small boat, never did go on that.
I'm showing my age now Dave, but I can remember that on the drive back home I used to persuade my Dad to put top of the pops on radio 1 on. There used to be Slade, Bay City Rollers, David Bowie, all that kind of thing on then and my Dad did nothing but moan about the so called music and the "long haired wierdos" in the charts :)
Oh and when we got to the town of Bakewell, there always seemed to be a cricket match on which my Dad used to make us stop for and watch ................. I was so bored, I've never liked or even understood cricket :o .
I realise now though that they were prehaps the happiest days of my life, young (teenager ;) ), innocent (well innocent-ish :o ) and not a care in the world ;) .



love mand xxx:)

ahhhh they were the days mand .david bowie slade, i was a sex pistols sort of guy myself, lol,now my sons, laugh at all the music i was into, i tell them that their kids will think the sound of artic monkeys will be real funny when they grow up,but they dont listen, anyway hope your grow picks up pal , later the postman.

Oh Dave :), when the Sex Pistols came out I was the original rebelious young "punkette" around these parts :) ................... Honest :o

I loved the punk era :) , I used to try and get the "Souxie and the Banshees" look but never quite managed it, always ended up with the "Mortica Adams" look :o


love mand xxx:)

lol lol mand you should have seen my sid vicous look it suited the name lol, but your right pal they were the days, i have some great memories of the earlie 80s they were great times but sadly we all have to grow up,thanks for the blast from the past later, the postman ,man they were the days . the banshees rocked by the way

mouse jammed

sorry double post

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lol lol mand you should have seen my sid vicous look it suited the name lol, but your right pal they were the days, i have some great memories of the earlie 80s they were great times but sadly we all have to grow up,thanks for the blast from the past later, the postman ,man they were the days . the banshees rocked by the way

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Ah Sid :) . Now there was a boy who had a certain style and class all of his own :) .................. and the ultimate self-destrutive nature as well :eek:

Hmmm, the growing up part does "suck" doesn't it :(




Anyway last update for a while, my camera is going off on it's travels again, well why should the kids buy on when they can "borrow" mine :o

Hopefully the discolouration has stopped (I really hope that I don't tempt fate too much by saying that :o ). All the new growth since my little temper tantrum with them seems to be coming along clear and if they carry on behaving then I should be "pinching them in about a weeks time.

The first pic just shows a little oddity the grouping has eleven leaves, I've never had that before, also the last pic is the little runt that seems to be "picking up" a bit ................. well at least she is holding her own ;)


love mand xxx :)

I reiterate Mand, everything is going to come together for you cher. Looking at your pictures its apparent that your babies are getting their attitudes corrected and coming about quite nicely. Keep doing what you're doing.

wassup mand jus droppen by show some support safe growen!

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...All the new growth since my little temper tantrum with them seems to be coming along clear and if they carry on behaving then I should be "pinching them in about a weeks time..

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Yes, they do look a little better now than prior to you cleaning them up. Great job, Mand. You're making a believer out of me. :)

I see you also mentioned something about pinching, which was the most immediate thing to catch my attention. I hope they shape up in the way you intend so you can do just that -- the pinching I mean. :)

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..The first pic just shows a little oddity the grouping has eleven leaves, I've never had that before, also the last pic is the little runt that seems to be "picking up" a bit ................. well at least she is holding her own ;)..

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Yes, that is a little oddity, but nothing to worry about. Consider those extra leaves an advantage to those plants without them; they provide that much more photosynthetic potential to the plant.

And the runt! Every runt that I've ever had turned out to be a very healthy female in the end, so I wish the same for you.

Mand, they are looking beautiful keep up the good work..................damn they are lookin so good i might just have to fly over there and help you test it out when its time to harvest hahahah much love ...................NaZtY

Hello gin4dub :) Thankyou ;) ........................... I don't like to say anything and tempt fate but the discolouration seems to have stopped.
I also must say that I do like these seeds (Dutch Passion), if this lots goes on ok then I will try some more next time. I'll see if they have any Durban Poision or Afghani ;)


Hello SkillzRemix :) well at my age I need all the support I can get ;) .................. you know gravity always wins in the end :o

Take no notice love, just my attempt at a bit of late night humor :o

Thanks love nice to hear from you :)




Hello Kush :) Yes I think I'll let them grow one more node each and then pinch them. After I'll just see how they go for a while and then induce them.

To be honest I wanted to give his grow a long vegitive growth and maybe give them a couple of pinchings/toppings. However I think I may get them to flowering a bit sooner. I'm affraid the "decent bud" situation here is starting to look a bit low :o . I have plenty of forced dried resinous leaves and small buds, they are adequately potent but they are also "eerrgghh" to smoke ............... very harsh:o. It looks like I might have to cut down the time on the veggitive growth.

The funny leaves, there healthy enough so it's fine. It does look wierd though it has eight leaves and then three more underneath.
Isn't that just true about the runts, they are always female, I can't actually remember every having one a boy.
You know a few days ago I nearly trew her out because she looked so poorly, but now she's really looking ok .................. still very small but ok :)




Hello Hungry :) I hope you're right ;) , I really fancy a different smoke for a change. Just lately all I ever seem to grow is Sensi Skunk or Skunk#1.
Also I had to abandon the last grow and the one before that wasn't very good quantity wise, so something half decent would be nice this time :o




Thanks guys ....................... love mand xxx:)

oh mand you poor thing :(
Having to smoke forced dried small buds & leaves no matter how resinous is not nice! surprised there's not been any offers to send you some quality budz.
Guess i'm just old fashioned in thinking romantic proposals should be sent with flowers from all your suitors on here ;)

Glad to know your babes have picked up a liittle :thumbsup: the quicker these WW are flowered the sooner you can start something new.
Varitey is the spice of life & weed is it's herb. :smokin:

Take care mand, hope the smoke situation picks up soon.
alch :)

Hello mand, first off I would like to tell you that your plants look very healthy and I would love to have the very same ones. However, I have 4 Nirvana white widow growing right now. I was just curious, have you had any of the stems turn purple on you yet? Mine started at the bottom of the plant and is now just shoprt of turning all of my leaves a nice light hugh purple. Have you noticed anything like this on yours?

Good luck on keeping those babies alive! And I would go with pinching/topping your plants at least twice before they go outdoors, I always found it beneficial.

MEME

hey mand iam back, lol

Hello alchemiser :) I know they are quite horrible to smoke :( . I always take all the small buds that aren't worth hanging up to dry and the resinous leaves, cut them up and place them on top of the ballast in a cardboard shoe box to dry them. They usually dry within 2-4 days (depending on the amount), but they really are eerrgghhh to smoke :( .

Eeeerrrr :eek: "Romantic proposals" , that reminds I have a wedding to go too in June. After the experience of my own marriage I have a little bit of a phobia about the whole thing. It offically ended over fourteen years ago but I still cringe to think about it :o



Hello MEME :), No I've not had any purple stems, I had the problem of discolouration and the dying off last week but I hope that little problem is cured now (fingers crossed it is ;) ).

Oh there not going outdoors, I will just put the HPS bulb in there when it comes to inducing flowering.
Although I will only pinch them once, I would really like the time to be able to do it a few times and make them more into a "bush" effect. However due to the bud situation I have been forced to make this grow a bit quicker than I would have liked too :o .


Hello Mobay :) Thankyou for stopping by, it's always very nice to hear from you :)






Update ................. well the camera has come back early so I'll just upload a couple of pics.
The health of the plants has improved no end, there not perfect but they are ok and I'm happy enough with them.
They will be four weeks old tomorrow and they would look a bit better if I hadn't had been forced to remove so many of the dying leaves :o

The heater has been put back on as well due to the temperature dropping again, we have had a couple of frosts the last few nights.




love mand xxx :)

Hey Mand, It looks as my box might actually work after all:eek: I was surprised but that means more grows to come hopefully ;) I also managed to repot 5 out of 8:eek: I'm on a roll:D I'm actually taking care of them and not giving up as I thought I was going too:D I thought they were gona get root bound but when I repotted the 5 none of them showed the roots on the sides only a little at the bottom. That just goes to show "me" how the CFLs compare to the MH, my last grow at this time I was already a few days into flowering but I'm going to give them maybe a week or 2 untill I go into flower;) Just some insight on my grow hope u dont mind:o Anyways Mand all is going well for you which I just read except for the shortage on the stash but dont worry ur nice buds should be here in now time:D
So are you going to do another Dutch Passion seeds grow or are you throwing in those White Widows for the next 1?:thumbsup:

"...I have been forced to make this grow a bit quicker than I would have liked too."

I could've bet ya a bazillion dollars that you'd hack it down before it's time Mand! Suggestion. Why don't you just harvest the majority of them (when you just can't take it anymore :D ), and leave a couple to fend for themselves? Even with just the little light they'd get from the MH when you're growing new babies they'd still fill out more so give ya more...stuff. Just a thought.

Hello Buk :) Don't even think about giving up, you know what I said last time, I'll be over here and slap you're legs if you do ;)
I'm pleased that something has worked out ok, you did a super job last time so you really must keep growing.
I know what you mean though, when you keep trying you're best to make something work and it doesn't, it really makes you feel like throwing the towel in :o
Do I mind you teling me how the grows going ? ..................... absolutely not, I'm missing the regular updates on you're journal.

What to grow next time ? ....................... I'm honestly not sure Buk, I have plenty of Skunk#1 seeds in but I'm a little bored with growing them so I'll just see what's around when the time comes ;)




Hello Marc :) Hmmm a bazillion dollars ................ I think you would be making a safe bet there love :o .
Not to worry Marc, I can promise I wont harvest them untill I think there at their peak ;)

Anyway Marc, you'll have to excuse any incoherence in this post love, I've had a hell of a day, not been at work but I wish I had. I've been running round and not got a thing acomplished ................... just one of those days :o . Mind you I've had a little smoke and a couple of my usual drinks and now it's relaxing time :)

You know Marc my youngest is off to Amsterdam next month with a group of his friends, anyway I said to them "Oh can I come", well my lad said straight away "no you can't" but all of his mates said "yes" they would love that ;) .
You should have seen my lads face, the thought of going to Amsterdam with his Mum :) ................. I was only "winding" him up ;) .
Mind you I had a some Mothers day cards of a couple of them signed to our other Mum ................... well I always end up cooking them dinner when there around here :rolleyes:



Well a little update ................. I know I said I was going to pinch the plants when they got past the next node, well I changed my mind and did them earlier :o
I tried to get some pics with my fingernails actually nipping them but they went all out of focus and looked rubbish.
So I'll just load a few after pics of the pinched plants.



love mand xxx :)

looking good mand, looks like you got it liked, i done a thread in plant problems if you need any info on problems have a look loads of good info there , the postman.

Way to go Mand, keep up the green work.

Hello Dave :) I've had a look at the thread and have to say it's very well done lovely imformation ................ Excellent work Dave, super job :)


Hello Gin :) I'm trying love, honest ;)





An update ..................... Well four weeks and two days and they are starting to look like Cannabis plants :). I always think it takes a while before they look "proper" :o .

The weather has turned from Spring into Winter again, snow, sleet and quite cold, so I have the heater running all the time.
The only plant that hasn't been pinched is "litte runty", but she is starting to get swamped by the rest.
The leaves are uneven and very different from what I am used too, but I think they look more "natural" ;)

Oh last one is "little runty".


love mand xxx :)

Thank you mand it was all mostly cut and paste but some of the pics wouldn't upload. Your plants are looking good and i know what your talking about with the weather.Thought we had seen the last of the snow but it came down for 2 hours today then turned to sleet.Our weather its a pain in the arse(sorry about the language,oops.the postman

LOL hey Mand so whacha cooking? Whats ur our favorite dish (man I really sound like an obeast preson right now LOL but I'm notLOL) I'm just hungry anyways yeah I will start doing more updates but my darn camera broke and I just never got around to fixing it. I mean I love pix and with out them well I dont really see the need for that many updates:o That was funny:D about the whole Amsterdam son thing:D . Yeah I'm doing fine, just another Monday:( ahh the worst day of the week. I hope to start 12/12 by friday what about you?

Well mand I gotta go shower then catch some ZZZzzzz:eek: .

Looking good Mand! Hey take Runty and put something under 'her' to get her a little closer to the light. I bet she catches up if you do.

Hello Dave :) It's ok to say "arse", I say it quite a lot. Well I say a lot worse than that but I try to avoid it on here or in public :o .

I say Dave if you are a postman I bet you "knew about it" this morning, we had a pretty severe frost here, I was hoping that I could put away the heater last week but winter seems to have returned :(




Hello Buk :), What am I cooking ? :)
To be honest Buk I am actually a reasonable cook even if I do say so myself :o . Mostly traditional things and if it's with chips that's even better ;) .
Although I do make a pretty good curry;) .

I know what you mean about posting without pics, I'm that used to adding them now I think a post looks "naked" without them :o .

Hmmm Amsterdam, I've been a couple of times and to be honest even if there wasn't any weed there, it's would still be a very intresting city. Also it's quite small as cities go, so it's very easy to get around;) . If ever you get the chance to go Buk, go in Summer, it's absolutely freezing in Winter :o .

I'm not sure when to start flowering as of yet. I was hoping to let them have a good vegitive growth but the bud situation here is encouraging me to start the inducing soon ..................... I'm just seeing how they go ;) .



Helo Marc :), Now did you read my mind or did I read your's. I put a brick under the "runt's" pot earlier today to get her level with the others :)

You know I was just comparing the pics of how she looked to how she is now.............. I didn't think she was going to last at all but I'm pleased she has proved me wrong ;)

I know I've posted these pics before but I'll just repost them for a comparison :o



love mand xxx :)

My pet hates mand. Cold weather and damn dogs,The little f*#@rs are the worst.Oh and also rubber bands and old fat horny housewifes. lol.The postman.