Bored, need some activity... lets debate? Or trivia type questions.

Starting this thread because I'm sitting around bored, watching TV, and too lazy to continue working on my garden tonight. So basically... if there is any sort of topic/grow method/anything you'd like to debate to hear some different perspectives... post it here and I'll be sitting around ready to respond to you instantly, at least for a while tonight haha. Or if you have any tricky trivia type questions about cannabis or the cultivation of said plant, you could post those as well and I'll see how I do, or anyone else for that matter could try answering.


Hopefully there is some life out here this evening, I fear I might soon have to find the motivation to get up and be productive to end my boredum... and I just don't want that to happen tonight. I'll try to think of some sort of topics as well eventually and post them I suppose... perhaps I can come up with something creative during my 'space out' session.

Yes I would like someone to say ' brainstorm' with me about the pros and cons of an outdoor grow that could be grown like other row crops, perhaps trellised like grape vines. What do you think?

Interesting subject.. I'd have to say that the pros and cons to debate, would simply be the pros and cons to indoor gardening vs outdoor gardening. If you're going to grow outdoors and have the ability to grow using trellises to form a nice, wide, even, canopy to produce a monster yield... I can't see any problems with that haha, sounds like fun to me. The only problems I see with that is that you sound like you're talking about "farming", and thats a lot of work unless you've got helping hands all the time. If you can handle all the labor work of it and all that, then go for it, with a little fine tuning and practice you'll have a pretty insane garden, at least based on what I'm picturing in my mind. Other downside could be visibility. That intense of a grow outside would attract a variety of preditors, I would think, such as thieves and destructive rogue humanoids. Not to mention the legal aspects of it if you aren't growing in a legal state, under the guidelines laid out by your state government. I always forget that there is a large portion of the country where there is no such thing as medicinal marijuana programs or laws, and people live without ANY ability to legally obtain or produce their medicine.

Anyways... I'm sure I could think of some more on it after a while here but I'll start with that.

Of course the positives of these gardening styles you're talking about are focused around the yield and quantity of bud you'd harvest.. which could potentially be tremendous, haha. Also I know a lot of people don't like outdoor grown bud for some reason, or just like to think they don't like it.. but I believe outdoors can produce some of the best buds in the world.

Lemme know what you think about this stuff as well, I'd be interested to know more details about exactly what kind of garden setup you're thinking of.

Thanks 'snowta'. those are very good points, and yes, it is farming. We had 24 in one grow and 18 in another (all legal). It is some work keeping up on that many plants, but I must warn you all not to make the same mistake that we did. Don't try to do the Heinz 57 varieties thing and try to grow 17 different strains of weed. Every girl seemed to be doing something different all the time throughout the grow! Made for some head scratching I'll tell ya. The main reason that I'm thinking of going this way is that it's pretty low tech. Small trencher, long trench, amended soil etc. and then just water like grapes. The other benefit of this method is that the buds do get more even light and grow more uniformly and best of all you get to see your plant much better. As far as preditors go, had mites indoors before, so outside not too much of a down side. But I never had cut worms indoors! Damn why must they only eat the best buds! We do get visited by fly overs from the sheriff, we just wave. Thank God I live in a grow state. Have another question you could have good input on. I get the point of using clones (should be certain of sex and variety) but, we grew from seed 5 different strains about 12 plants and all of them outgrew all of the clones untill very late into veg growth. Do you think it was only that the seed grows had root systems designed by Mother nature or what? Anyway the grow I saw like this one did very well, was much easier to work with and best of all made some very very medicinal smoke.

Bored again on a friday night.... trivia time. I'll use a recent subject I dealt with for the question...


Scenerio is... Your plant which is grown in a quality organic soil is suffering some type of damaging stress factor on the leaves and you find out your soil runoff ph is too low at around 5.0, alkalinity is moderate/low at 40-80, and has a very high score in the water hardness catagory. What is the reason for this issue? And how would you go about fixing it?

All guesses are welcome, don't be shy. Honestly I think it might be a tough one for a lot of people to answer so don't feel bad. All the info you need to figure it out should be available here in my post unless I forgot something. If I did let me know, I tend to do that sometimes... can't figure out why, haha.

Enjoy! Feel free to post any other questions/scenerios for trivia type discussion. Who knows... there could be a prize involved.

Might be an easy one but here ya go: Why is it impossible for one to die from "over-dose" of marijuana, if there is such a thing? A physiological answer would be best.

And I have some random trivia: Where (location) are the smallest bones in the body?

Ear, and there are 3 of them.

Edit: Prize plz? :D

very nice, name them. and not their stupid nicknames(hammer, anvil and stirrup) try not to use the google-machine first. lol

Another one. Can you name the most common blood vessel used to perform a triple by-pass surgery? And how can they use a vein to repair an artery?

Hint: It's found below the waist.

I didn't use the google machine for my first answer, but unfortunately I cannot name them... at first I thought of those nicknames haha I don't know if I've ever heard them called by their real names, so you shot down my enthusiasm at the possibility of being able to answer part 2 of your trivia question.

I have a trivia question for you, here it goes...

There are 3 small bones located inside each human ear.... what does this have to do with cannabis or the cultivation of said plant?

uuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hhhh. I got a very well thought out explanation. Because cannabis is thought to disrupt balance and balance/equalibrium is maintained by our inner ear. Small channels within the ear filled by fluid that determines body position relative to the ground!. How'd I do lol.. And you think you're bored. I'm 4 beers in and 3 bowls down with nothing to do but sit and mess around online...what a fu#kin nerd!!!

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I didn't use the google machine for my first answer, but unfortunately I cannot name them... at first I thought of those nicknames haha I don't know if I've ever heard them called by their real names, so you shot down my enthusiasm at the possibility of being able to answer part 2 of your trivia question.

I have a trivia question for you, here it goes...

There are 3 small bones located inside each human ear.... what does this have to do with cannabis or the cultivation of said plant?

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Excellent answer though because really only anatomy major geeks know their real names.

Didn't see your question about the blood vessel... and im brain fartin' on that one right now. I know that answer, I know exactly where it is... I can see it in my head right now like you'd see in an anatomy book with a skinless human model. I am thinking it is in the middle of your thigh area running along your femur? If I am wrong about its location then I am completely wrong in what I am thinking. Damn it, I also refuse to google trivia questions so I may have to give up on this one... but gimme a little while longer to think. As for how do veins help to repair arteries.. that one I have no clue on I've never heard it before. However, if I were to take a guess.. it would be that they can remove a vein and tie it into existing arteries as a replacement for the damaged section. I also have one other guess but I'll wait to see how I did with the first one.

Incase I am misunderstanding you.. by repairing an artery are you talking about a structurally damaged artery such as a tear or rupture? Or are you referencing/including clots and things of that nature? If I misunderstood you and got the answer wrong, please clarify and allow me to reanswer the question.


Also, you got my question incorrect... maybe. At least incorrect for what I was thinking the answer should be, which in my head was... Nothing, why are we talking about ear bones on a weed forum? hahaha but I guess there has to be some relation so I guess I'll award you half a point haha

And speaking of 4 beers deep.. its time to get started! lol As for bowls... I'm about to test something new out. Have you by chance looked at a thread I started a little while back called.... http://boards.cannabis.com/basic-gro...50w-hps-2.html

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I just posted new pictures in there today so even if you've seen it before, check out the new pics, and I'll let you know how that goes.

So for my next trivia question... What do you think my reaction is going to be like from the first rip of this freshly harvested bud based on the pictures?

ok. vein question is specific to the vessels feeding the heart tissue only. (coronary arteries). So not all arteries can be repair/linked with veins. only these ones. The donor vein IS in fact in your thigh/leg (great job). Its called the great saphenis* (spelling). And you can use the vein in a bypass because the coronary arteries get their blood supply from 2 tiny holes in the Aortic valve that blood flows through at a "constant DRIP" so there is LOW pressure in these allowing for the use of vessels with less pressure tolerability.

I have no idea why I brought those questions up lmfao. I was bored as hell! Still am. To answer your question, I think you'll be feeling might good after hittin those frosty nugs

Ah, you're back, lol, which also reminds me... you never answered my initial real trivia question haha. I was waiting for someone to attempt that before moving onto my next official problem to solve.

And damn it I knew thats what it was called.. the saphenis vein. FYI I have no college education and as far as actual grades go I absolutely barely passed high school. I just never did a single thing for homework cuz I figured out I could just take the tests and as long as those were almost perfect all the time, I would scrape by with a passing grade and absolutely no homework haha, so to continue down the road of anatomy questions may lead me to a dead end in the search for answers. I like to believe that I can think very logically and analytically, while having a pretty solid long term memory so I enjoy figuring things out that I don't know based on minor information I have on the subject, piecing it together in the way that makes the most sense, and throwing out my best guess haha. Being that you're an anatomy major I think you'll have me crushed in that catagory lol.

P.S. - I was feeling mighty fine after I ripped that. I planned to smoke a couple pipes in a row quick to really get the clear effect, however I ripped it once and spaced out for a long time so I forgot about the pipe. Now that I'm on the forum again I was reminded.. "oh yeah, i'm obligated to smoke dat shit". At any rate, must have worked well enough haha.

Ha HA . Spaced out! I love it. I actually did laugh out loud when I read that. Reminds me of that one Afroman song. " I was gonna go to school, but then I got high" My major is actually Kinesiology but it entails quite a bit of anatomy. and btw, college is a joke anyways. I was the same as you in high school. I had the most amount of absences allowable in each class before they kick you out. I had Saturday detention every sat of my senior year for some reason. I dont even know how the hell I got sat detention the first sat of the school year!!!

The original question: I have no experience based answer but I'll take a swing at it. I'm gonna guess it has something to do with Calcium? since hard water is determined by the amount of Ca+, I'm gonna say excess Ca+? OR I dont know what soil run-off should be but is 5 too low?

I realize now I left out one key piece of information but I figured you probably assumed it anyways, that is that the water going in was ph'd at 7, and came out the soil at 5.0. But anyways yes 5.0 is low, when running water through the soil you can test the ph before and after to look at how it reacts with the soil. If it goes in at 7 and comes out at 5, that means your soil ph is far too low at 5 or perhaps even lower. Also yes, calcium does have something to do with it.

Do you grow in soil or hydro?

I grow in soil but luckily I've never (knock on wood) had any difficulty with plants due to water/nute/pH issues, just gnats which I took care of with gnatrol! Amazing stuff btw and I had Thrips once. I never measure soil pH. I just kinda look at the plants and if they appear green and are growing I never mess with anything. The only thing I regulate is my temp at the canopy and the pH of water I put in.

Does too much calcium prevent uptake of some other vital nutrients?

Just a couple of my plants over the last few harvests. I'm a picture freak. Sorry to post my pics on your thread but I just gotta show how lucky Ive been!! lol

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I encourage people to post all the pics they want in any threads that I'm involved with, I don't need to have a thread focused around me, I just like discussing everything about cannabis. So by all means continue posting all the pictures you want. I am a picture freak as well, every couple days I take probably 100-150 pics, sort/label them all and remove any low quality pics and store them in a database to keep records on my grows. It helps me to look back and see what went on during the grow that I could change/fix, or things that worked really well, or just keeping track of time with different strains so I can properly plan out flowering/harvests to be done when I want them to be done.

Perhaps I should start a new thread of just random cannabis pictures of any sort that anyone wants to post. Just general pictures, nothing too specific where you're looking for help/advice but just to show off whatever people have going on in their gardens.

My bad I didn't see your post before the one with pics, but that is a pretty good strategy, people need to learn to do more of what you do with just watching your plants and letting them tell you what they need. Too often people look at different factors to determine if there is a problem and then they go about fixing something that isn't necessarily broken, when really all they need to do is look at the plant to see that it is indeed healthy in the conditions it is in. I do however still like to run all kinds of tests just so I know what is going on incase a plant decides to start looking sickly. It helps me to keep track of changes in conditions so if there is a problem, I can typically tell where/why it started, and easily make the necessary adjustments.