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My basement is part lab, part grow op, and part studio. I do all of my own printing, matting and framing of my photography, which is a little side-vocation. At times I have a pretty dense lab setup down here. I have a distillation and extraction setup for purifying essential oils and terpenoid fractions. All for fun, of course.
Have you ever used it in a way to try to breed/seed the 'unmentionable plant'? Just a thought. I'm thinking some plant growth hormone should be able to induce flowering/ reproduction? Maybe you & Crystal could get together on that as a project? She has lots of the plant.... you have access to various hormones/ chemicals? But then again, I have food poisoning, so I could be delirious. :)
I do all my own stuff too. Most photogs take their work to a mat/frame shop, but I'm too picky. And then again too, I do know photogs who can't cut a mat to save their lives!
-- For fun? Chromo, .. are you trying to tell us you're a.... a GEEK!?!? (Of course you are! That's why we love you!) :)
No, but if I can get them healthy I'm going to try flowering. I will have access to a controlled enviro growth chamber, so I can probably pull it off. Food poisoning? From what?
Matting is a bit of an art, that's for sure. I have piles of screwed-up mats that I don't want to throw away, but I don't know what to do with them. I do mostly B&W prints with an Epson Stylus 4880. Phenomenal printer. With good quality paper it makes stunning prints.
I'm iced in here. I can't get out, nobody can get in. Not knowing when I'll be able to get to the store, I decided to make a bologna sandwich with mayo. Both old & should have went in the trash can. Now its my head that is in the trash can!
-- Damned! I hate winter!
-- I love b&w film! Tray printing on kodak fiber based paper! Rich, deep blacks & awesome silvery grey tones! As soon as I got my digital camera, my house mate ran down in the basement & gives my enlarger to her boyfriend for scrap metal without even asking. But then again, as soon as the glamor photgraphy studio I worked at closed down, she gave him my camera, that's why I got the digital to begin with. She did a lot of shit like that. I kicked her out minus one front tooth! But anyway. Miss my old slr & my dark room. :(
Boy I'm going to raked over the coals for this I have a feeling...last night I went crazy in my bud room and did some heavy thinning. What finally got to me was how much the buds seemed to be drowning in an ocean of fan leaves, most of which are yellow or yellowing rapidly. It was just so dense that large areas of branches, pretty much only the tops, are really receiving good strong light. And all these damned dying leaves blow around in the fan stream and abrade the buds and trichomes. I know many of you are proponents of leaving the fan leaves alone, but in this case I realized I was only a few days from harvesting at least the top stuff, and I want the buds and sugar leaves to get a full dose of light while they swell. I didn't cut much that was green, but I did thin out a lot of overlapping greens. Anyway what's done is done.:error: Feel free to explain to me why what I have done is stupid and I will add it to my "learning the hard way" folder which is fairly well stuffed.
The one thing this DID do was show me in no uncertain terms just how much material I have. If the calyxes keep swelling at the rate they are now, in a few days I'm going to be a very happy farmer (unless removal of leaves causes catastrophic failure in which case, um, well I'm not sure what kind of farmer I'll be).
And finally, while in there with my scythe, I accidentally hit the "off" button on the timer which controls the lights. Flipped on the green light and carefully turned everything back on and checked connections. Nothing seemed worse for it. The next morning I check it at 8:30 am just to make sure everything's as it should be, as I do every morning. The light is supposed to go off at 6 am. IT WAS STILL ON :mad::wtf:. Somehow turning it off the night before had caused the program to become altered so that the "off" setting changed to "on". :mad: :wtf: THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE IDENTICAL TIMER WHICH RUNS THE LIGHTS IN MY SALVIA ROOM, AND WENT UNNOTICED FOR 2 MONTHS CAUSING THE PLANTS TO GO HAYWIRE. Stupid digital timers. I'm going back to my old clunky analog timers. I may not be able to tell to the exact minute what I am setting it to, but at least off is off and on is on. Sheesh. Pics tonight!
BTW, I have read some interesting debates about the issue of removing fan leaves and when. Also their is a fair bit of scientific literature on the subject. What I have gleaned is that it all depends on when you do it, what you do it to, strain, and scale of removal. Some say the old leaves suck energy from the plant. There is no evidence that I know of to support this. However, there is at best conflicting evidence of the benefits of a yellowing/dying leaf. While some carbohydrate can be gleaned from these, it seems to me that green calyxes and sugar leaves are fully capable of producing what they need at this stage. These buds are swollen to the point of popping. There is a lot of photosynthetic surface area there. What I am most concerned about is stressing the plant by removing too much at once. It wil be interesting to see if swelling markedly slows now or if the plants seem to not notice. Pretty sure I'm going to get a spanking from Weezard for this.
When your this far along & leaves are yellowing, its okay. Plenty of bud leaf for photosynthesis. I swear there is something in the air! Everybody is suddenly having some sort of equipment failure all within 3 days! Today the ballast died in my veg closet.... :( I'm in the middle of installing my T5's in there (I'm on break right now. Crampy tight spot making my back h u r t !). Going to 12/12. Too many plants! Had to change all my grow plans, & no clones. No room for them.... Guess it Crystal & Rangers turn for some kind of glitch. Oh no wait, Ranger already had his. My damned lights were only 2 months old. Lights of America S U C K!
-- I hope you're right about what caused the issues with your other plants & they come out of the slump ok. They should. Keeping my fingers crossed! :)
A two month old ballast is dead? What crap. Most of the electronics coming out of China (which is about 99% of what we have) seems to be getting crappier and crappier all the time. Stuff just breaks, almost immediately. I try anymore to stick with German or American made, but that really jacks the price, if you can even find it. Can you get a replacement right away?
I spoke with my Major Professor about the 24 hr light thing. It's curious because obviously people have success growing cannabis under continuous light. But the Circadian clocks in plants do more than simply time-keep for the flowering process, they also regulate hormone pathways and gene expression/suppression, which changes with the plant's development. I'm not sure how Cannabis gets around this problem, but studies have shown that C3 plants (which is most plants other than desert plants, which are C4) will not develop properly without a dark cycle to set their clocks by. In some cases the plant cannot reach maturity if given continuous light.
What comes in threes?
No worries Chromo, it will be fine. They are tough plants. On the edge of my seat waiting for those pics buddy!
OMB my pics didn't turn out. Forgot to turn the fans off and everything is blurry. That's what happens when your stoned at 2 am and trying to do something which requires thought and attention. I'll get some more tonight. The de-forestation wasn't as bad as I thought. I left most of the green fan leaves at the top but really cleared a lot of junk out of the mid canopy. The swell is in full gear now. The calyxes in some areas look like they're turning inside out! Also found a banana-shaped male flower poking out of the top of one of the big buds. Looks just like the picture in Rosenthal's Guide. Another sign I'm getting to the end.
Oustanding Chromo! Our "Patience" is paying off finally. :thumbsup: I yanked the T5 girl's Monday night, off with their heads tomorrow night. Looking forward to the pics buddy.Quote:
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I know African Violets won't….it was a simple oops- it never made it to the uh oh stage with them…..;)Quote:
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Still can't seem to get good representative photos, but I'll try shooting from a ladder tonight.
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Some of the stretchier, nuggety colas are still slowly filling, but there's probably no chance they will completely fill in. Still a lot of material as some of these colas are approaching 3 feet in length! Attachment 298091
I decided last night that they simply aren't ready. I see additional swelling every day, and a lot of new, white pistils forming. Trichomes uniformly cloudy with smaller clears. I'm betting another week, though a couple of the bigger upper buds may go by this weekend.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but it still can't beat being there, many be its the smell!!
Looks like that one on the right should feed your hunger for a day or two.
The hardest part of the whole process- holding off til you know it's time….. hang tight - it's almost here! ( sample one for me! ;) )Quote:
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Wow chromo! 3 FEET of bud!?! Amazing....all hail the new guy! Great pics, great grow buddy, more please. :)
Let's go find mama catbuds and celebrate!
3 feet, but a lot of gaps. The nuggets are starting to get dense and are really sugary, so despite the stretch and gaps, it should still add up to a decent harvest. Some of this is due to the variance in these f1 seeds. A couple of the plants have a distinctly tall, lanky habit, maybe reflecting the Sativa in their father's genes. But I also think heat stress caused some of this and that is something I must work on when rebuilding the grow rooms.