My Grow ( In case anyone cares)

Gorgeous, those early scrog pics look like you'd just want to go over and lay in them! AAAHHHH!!!
Nice work though.

Thanx sweets... and you can lay in my patch any time your heart desires.. I just cropped Stan and made a nice center piece on the bar and will put up a few snaps as soon as I get a chanch to resize the pics for the site..

Tip of the hat to the lady fair

Center Piece Of Stan

Looks really nice...:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

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Originally Posted by Quantummist

Well thanx fellers for the kind words.. Ok since ya asked.. I start out by digging a big hole in what is pretty much clay Ky dirt and it holds about 20 gal of fill. I fill each hole with a big bag of Pre nuted potting soil and a big bag of Pearlite for holding a bit of water. That Miracle Grow bagged stuff. I nute using regular Miracle Grow all purpose High N until I see flowers and switch to Miracle Bloom at that point. Nothing fancy as I figure that all the micro nutes will be available from the soil around. I also make it a point to clip tips early on and I know I've been told a doz time that clipping will hurt yield but I have found that I get smaller buds but a bunch more of em.. and in the long run clipping until flowering starts has produced about a 15% greater yield than letting it grow naturally . I'm a disabled Vet and actually use it instead of taking all the pain killers the VA keeps pushing on me. At the rate I'm seeing in Stan I think she will be about 11 feet tall at finish and Ollie will top out about 7 feet and yes I have avaraged around 3/4 lb per plant in the last 5 grows. and this one is following the same rates so far.

As for scrog I have a very limited space so I thought this year I would try it and it seems to be doing peachy. I keep spreading the limbs to fill the wire frame until it starts to flower and then start clipping the tips to force branching and get a good full flat bud mat across the wire..

I have tried many nutes from buying individual nutes and mixing to none at all and have so far found I do just as well with good old fusion Miracle grow as with all the fancy stuff. I haven't had any bug problems and that mainly due to an abundance of lady bugs and birds that pop the snails and creepy crawlies around. I had a fear that Stan was just a Fiber Hemp plant due to its tall early flowering but the other night I snipped a couple new growth buds and its not rope hemp.. Kicked my old ass.. and I did some trimming and did the Butane extraction thing and got a gram or two of hash and it was very sweet in flavor and as good as any I've had in a long time.. So other than the one plant that has a problem with what I think is a Mildew type mold forming on growing tips I have no issues.. and they are looking very purdy when I go down in the cut and sit and watch the humming birds whizzing about .

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MacGyver I tell ya! Definitely innovative. Rock on!

i wanna know your final dried yield...that looks like a pound+ for sure!



i wouldnt know what to do with a pound of personally grown weed...i might just smoke blunts till i fall over

Ok Folks.. Heres the end game report....


Scrog

Total Yeild...
10oz, Small very skunky buds, strong hash taste,
1/2oz hash from reflux extraction of shake

Ollie
Total Yeild...
9oz, Small very tight buds, strong vinilla taste,
1/3oz hash from reflux extraction of shake

Stan
1oz, Big Huge Buds, bag dope taste, not great but good buzz
Note that I have been pluckin Stan a while so I musta taken a couple OZ's off her since she poped up..

So Total harvist is 1lb, 4oz rollin dope and almost an OZ of some really bomb hash, in two flavors and 3 rollin tastes..

Anyone interested in setting up a Soxflet Reflux extractor let me know and I will detail the equipment needs and how it works.. I use it to extract all kinds of stuff besides makin hash. great for extracting herbs from the mountains and I make my own massage oils and lemon extract with the set up...

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Originally Posted by Quantummist

Anyone interested in setting up a Soxflet Reflux extractor let me know and I will detail the equipment needs and how it works.. I use it to extract all kinds of stuff besides makin hash. great for extracting herbs from the mountains and I make my own massage oils and lemon extract with the set up...

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YES! I'm interested in a multi-use essential oil extractor for not just herb but rose oil, lavender, rosemary, and sage. If you start a thread on that it would be NEAT. Esp if it's a DIY project... winter is coming, I need something to stave off boredom. hahaha!