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Nice plants dude, how long till harvest??
Thanks. I'm not sure when these babies will be ready to harvest, but i'm keeping an eye on them. The Mango's are pretty quick bloomers while the Tai strain is much slower.
I'll try to get out there this week for some pics.
Peace!
Here is a pic of a patch. Not trying to hijack your thread :p
Only camera I have is on my cell phone :(
Nice looking plants. How many do you have? The leaves on the foremost plant look like my Thai Stick plants. Very broad, long, kind of funny shaped leaves.Quote:
Originally Posted by SouthernGuerilla
Looks good, let me know if anything new develops.
Peace!
Just a hand full or two of plants. Just sack seed plants, looks mostly or pure indica, I suppose... About 1-2ft tall and already starting to bush out. They are about 2months old.Quote:
Originally Posted by dgsgandalf
I just sprayed down the leaves with espom salt water(1 tablespoon to 1 gallon of water) this morning. In a week or two depending on if it ever rains here I'm going to apply some more black strap molasses and urine to the soil. I will probably end up applying a thin layer of hardwood ash(again) on top of all those pine needles to help with the acidity.
Unlike you I started them outdoors so I'll be waiting awhile before they start to flower... :|
lookin good dg!!! i remember when they were weeee babies...lol
whiskeytango
Well, I guess if you don't expect much, you won't get disappointed much. Your plants are looking real nice, maybe a little stretchy from all the shade, but that's part of growing in the great outdoors. Mine do that too, when I try to get them out of the rain and under a tree. When you plant outdoors, you should realize that there will be a certain amount of loss. Sometimes you don't loose much, but sometimes you do. There are lots of bugs, diseases and herbivores that you just can't control like you can indoors.Quote:
Originally Posted by dgsgandalf
All in all, wow, what a difference from the beginning of this thread. Nice, real nice. Congrats, you'll soon be able to enjoy the fruits of your labor.
A quick word of advice or 2. If it starts raining, check daily for bud rot, especially on any varieties that tend to have tight, dense buds. It would be better to harvest early, than let bud rot begin to spread. If you get it, don't smoke it, very bad for you. Also, now that your plants are getting tall they are also getting heavy around the buds. Especially if it rains, and probably even if it doesn't, some of the heavier buds may break at the stems' weak point if they are not somehow supported. If I get a real big bud going, before the rains come I want to be sure to tie it up to a neighboring bush, steel spike, or something else.
Did I say "nice"?
These pictures make me sick, my plants are so small and the oldest is a month and a half old at barely a foot and not many leaves.
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Originally Posted by Opie Yutts
"Many medical cannabis opponents note that smoking cannabis is harmful to the respiratory system. However, this harm can be minimalized or eliminated by the use of a vaporizer or ingesting the drug in an edible form or other non-smoking modes of delivery like tinctures. Vaporizers are devices that vaporize the active constituents (cannabinoids) and the fragrant aromatic substances in the preparation without combusting the plant material and thus preventing the formation of toxic substances. Studies have shown that vaporizers can dramatically reduce[31] or even eliminate[32] the release of irritants and toxic compounds.
Aspergillus fumigatus
In order to kill microorganisms, especially mold, occasionally found in low-quality cannabis, the scientists "Levitz and Diamond (1991) suggested baking marijuana in home ovens at 150 °C [302 °F], for five minutes before smoking. Oven treatment killed conidia of A. fumigatus, A. flavus and A. niger, and did not degrade the active component of marijuana, tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)." ---- Medical cannabis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Does anyone know if vaporizing kills all harmful substances in moldy material?Quote:
Originally Posted by SouthernGuerilla
AGAIN! :thumbsup:
In order to kill microorganisms, especially mold, occasionally found in low-quality cannabis, the scientists "Levitz and Diamond (1991) suggested baking marijuana in home ovens at 150 °C [302 °F], for five minutes before smoking.
I would assume this would kill all mold and leave you with some very dry bud.
Yeah but...
Once the mold is dead, doesn't it still have harmful spores or whatever? Dead mold is smokable, and live mold is not? And doesn't mold die when it is lit on fire in the bong? Why would that be an unacceptable death, while baking it is fine? Not trying to be a dick, just trying to understand.
Baking for 5min is sketchy, I would personally do it for longer or compost the molded bud.Quote:
Originally Posted by Opie Yutts
The idea here is to bake it for however long to get an ambient temp of 305 degrees F. The idea with baking is to have the air and your bud at 305 degrees F. The Shroomery or some other site might explain this better.
It probably would be better off to take 90% or better rubbing alcohol(200 proof alcohol or something at least 150 proof should work also) and extract the THC out of the molded bud than it would be to smoke it. *shrug*. :wtf:
Here goes a possibly bass ackwards analogy. Boiling water for 30min is supposed to kill anything harmful in it and is then considered "safe" for human consumption. Like water out of a creek. Taking a lighter to your glass of creek water isn't gonna cut it.
The molded bud needs to be thoroughly cooked to kill the mold, just like cooking hamburger meat well done so you don't get E Coli or whatever other funky stuff is growing in the hamburger meat.
hey dg how about an update?
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nobody even knows if inhaled mold is harmful penicillan is mold at a point who knows maybe since cannbis kills cancer cells maybe its mold will cure aids as long as it aint a giant fucking mold ball smoke it. cannabis has stuff that keeps you from getting lung cancer from the tar it gives off
So my fears were confirmed. The mango's are heavily seeded by the master kush male. The Thai Stick plants are still sinsemillia and should produce a nice harvest but i probably won't get any good bud out of the mango's.
On the flip side, i was planning on doing a Mango/Master Kush cross, and now it's done for me! If the buds produce a lot of seeds i might have a few to give away ;)
Here are some pics...
beautiful! how long till harvest on the last pic?
Nice pics. Pick me some black berries when they ripen! The Mango is in the first pic? Mango X Master Kush or "The Gandolf Special!" :p
One patch of my sack seed plants are really starting to smell like lemon/citrus, makes my mouth water. :D They're showing preflowers, and bushing out fairly well. Not any monsters but they are looking good to me. My biggest babies appear to be female. Since this is the 1st time I've let any cannabis grow this late in the year I'm not totally sure. But I'm fairly positive from what I've read and seen on this forum and else where.
I found a pill bug/rolly polly on one of my plants just walking around on the leaves. Just an odd tid bit.
uhhhh, what, really?Quote:
Originally Posted by phatsesh101
Hey dgs, looking good. Forgive my ignorance, but are mango and thai autoflower strains, or why are they flowering so early?
I'm not sure actually. Mango tends to grow huge buds like Bigbud, so this one could be just getting started. The trich's are all clear still so it has a good way to go.Quote:
Originally Posted by dj00140
Lol, the blackberries are delicious! I always eat as many as i can get to when i go out there. The thorns also help deter anyone who might be interested.Quote:
Originally Posted by SouthernGuerilla
All the pics are of Mango. The first one is the oddball plant that is growing much more like a sativa, but it was looking pretty bad. It might have been the heavy rain of that week, or it could be that there's not enough nutrients in the soil. I'll figure it out sooner or later...
I've found some strange/brightly colored aphids on my plants. They don't do much harm, so i usually just leave them.
Neither are autoflowering. The Mango is an fast bloomer (6-10 weeks) but i'm not sure why it started so soon. The Thai isn't flowering just yet. They have only shown female preflowers. I was actually thinking about taking some clones from the Thai plant and increasing my total output, but it would be pretty hard to take clones outside, move them inside, grow them a little, then put them back outside. It'll take a lot of time, and i've been feeling pretty lazy lately. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Opie Yutts
I'll prob post another update in a week or so.
Peace! :jointsmile:
ahahha verry nice man, theres a shit ton of blackberries where i have my plot growing too...i love summer =]
Nice grow dgsgandalf, I have just moved to GA and am thinking about doing the same thing as you, if you have any pointers I would really appreciate it.
One more thing I forgot to ask, is it too late this year to start growing???
It's probably too late to start growing unless you can get some clones or autoflowering varieties. You probably have 4 months at the very very most before the weather gets too cold and destroys your plants. I would recommend trying some LowRider crosses that only take 2 months to bloom out. They don't produce as much but the smoke is good and they'll be ready in time for winter.
Recommendations for GA... replace the shitty red clay with good organic soil and make sure you keep your plants watered. If you get out there once a week and check ground moisture you should be fine. During dry spells you may have to check more often.
If you have any more questions, feel free to ask and i'll do my best to help you out.
Peace!
Thanks for the reply dgsgandalf, I am also interested in meeting new people in the area instead of driving to Ohio every time to "meet" my friends. Let me know if you are looking for some toker buddies. I also have some items that you may want to plant if you are interested....GREAT strains. Let me know as soon as possible. I am in the Buford/Cumming area are you anywhere near me?
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The strains are White Widow and Blueberry Kush both are feminised and I also have Afghani but those are not all females.
Also, do you think if I planted these strains right now....would it just be a waste because the season won't be long enough? I have never grown before and wanted to know if I plant these and they don't don't fully bloom, would the smoke even be worth it? I really appreciate all of your help.
By the way, I just finally had time to look at ALL the pics you have posted and it is absolutely amazing...keep up the great work!!! I have been wanting to grow for awhile now and those pics get me even more amped!!!! I had a question about your grow also, how bad is the smell? I have an idea where to plant but there is a walking path and wanted to know how far into the woods I should go so that no one will be able to see/smell from the path.
Peace and be safe!
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My babies are flowering!
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6 of 10 definately have female flowers. The other 4 are a bit puny and a month or so younger than the 6 biggons. As I'm writing this I'm trying to sort out when exactly is a flower not a preflower and when is it "bud". I'm determining sex with my naked eyes and a cheapo magnifying glass.
I am noticing some very different traits from these sack seed plants that came out of the same sack. Like the leaves aren't quite the same and the damn sure don't smell the same. The herb smoked the same. *shrug* Brick weed.
Like some leaves are a tad more serrated than other plants and some smell more like lemon than the others. Their stems are sticky like rubber cement glue sticky.
I'll start my own thread and stop trying to hijack this one. :p Its just my first full outdoor grow here in GA too.
Think of it this way. Most marijuana strains take 2 months to show preflowers and at least another 2 months to bloom. I would just wait until next year or grow those puppies inside.Quote:
Originally Posted by jay420
Smell really depends on the strain. Skunk #1 is famous for being smelly up to a mile away, but my strains are undetectable from 50 yards. If smell is a problem, don't go planting Skunk or AK or Chem Dog. Plant something un-smelly. :)
Preflowers have only 2 hairs per node. When your plant starts blooming, you'll see tons of hairs start to grow all together.Quote:
Originally Posted by SouthernGuerilla
Brick weed often has many different types of plants all squished together in one sack. The quality of brick weed is usually poor enough that you can't tell a difference in the smoke, but the seeds will grow into a nice variety of plants. I've even noticed a huge difference in individual plants of the same strain. Some might look like sativa's and some might look like indica's. The different looks are called Phenotypes.
Peace guys!
lookin good DG!!!! how tall are they?
whiskeytango
Thanks dgsgandolf. I'm just past ready to roll one up and smoke it. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by dgsgandalf
I forgot to comment on early picked buds. You certainly can pick buds early and they will definitely get you high, but you're sacrificing a ton of weight. A lot of strains put on a lot of weight in the last few weeks of growing, so picking buds 2 weeks early might be cutting your output by a lot.
I actually should have picked my Mango buds last week, because last week it rained heavily and one of my outdoor plants is now covered in mold. I didn't get any pics of the moldy bud, but it's worthless now. Damnit...
Here are some pics of TS. This is the one i'm hoping to harvest a lot from. These plants are each 6 feet tall.
Awesome dgsgandalf, I was happy to see your response and look forward to toking a bong sometime soon!!! Also thanks for the advice on the plants as I cannot get anything but schwag, this may be my only option and as long as the THC content does not increase too much throughout the end of the growing process I should be ok with a smaller quantity. I only smoke about a bowl or two a day so I do not need quantity...just quality. I am trying the white widow and will keep you updated on the progress and smoke of my grow.
I usually play basketball a couple times a week and I see blow deals all the time in the parking lot.....I wish it was weed deals...lol. I will never do blow again...same reason as you dgsgandalf.
Anyways looking forward to your email and thanks a lot for your help. And sorry about the mold in one of your plants that really sucks, I never knew that could even happen until I read about yours. Good luck with the rest of the crops and look forward to your updates.
Told you so. Hey people look at this, then be sure to check your outdoor plants daily after it starts raining.Quote:
Originally Posted by dgsgandalf
Real sorry for your loss. Looking good overall though.
your plants are looking great mane, post your dry bud shots when these are done..if u get the chance that is
Yeah, i wish i could get out there every day, but it's a long drive and i'm sure everyone knows how bad gas prices are these days. I'll def get some good seeds out of the remaining bud, but as far as smoke goes, i'm pretty much out of luck with the mango's. The Thai Stick plants (which i found out are actually Skunk x original Thai sativa) are looking great though. The big one is about 7 feet tall now and should give me a good harvest if i watch out for it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Opie Yutts
I'll post some pics if i can get out there this week.
Peace!