New location, New strains, New adventures, and New Problems

[justanotherbozo]

once again you describe a situation i'd have loved to witness, lol, just don't tell your husband.

lol, and if anyone asks, just say the dryer was there when you bought the house and you just left it when you moved, lol

The Dryer! You know I couldn't get it up the stairs when we moved and I had leave it behind? I can only imagine what the new owners must have guessed iot was for all frankinsteined and all. I didn't have room for it here any ways.

"Lordy, Lordy, it be pouring!
I be dancing to the song of the rain!"

We have buckets falling from the sky in quick 15 minute bursts. I can't remember the last time I was this excited about so much rain. It was so nice the last few days I put my rain catchers away, so when it started I was zooming so fast to get it all set up again and emptying bucket after bucket cause it was coming down so fast. I forgot I was wearing my white top and gauze peasent skirt! Needless the say the neighbors must think I am mad, H sure got a kick out of it though. I love it when my husband thinks I'm sexy. and I love the rain!

To those of you who this doesn't make sense to don't worry you'll get it once my log is current.

[Chronic Chrissy]

Here's a rough pic of my room layout for now.

[Shovelhandle]

Your a good writer, Chrissy.
I hope your future grows are much less adventurous and more productive. I'm sure they will be.

Irie,
Shov

[Chronic Chrissy]

Your a good writer, Chrissy.
I hope your future grows are much less adventurous and more productive. I'm sure they will be.

Irie,
Shov

I haven't heard that in years! Thanks alot. You know things would be going alot better if I would have just listened to myself instead of everyone elses ideas about manure, and hard water being safe, and alot of people pushed me to fertilize and feed differently. It's not that any one of these things really caused a problem(except of course the water) but when you have so many variables in a new setup with new strains it's hard to isolate where exactly you went wrong without guessing, trying, and checking. That takes time to run through the list.

On a good note through I'm really starting to see a difference again especially with the plants in early flower, we are back to the point of rapid growth and the yellowing has not progressed. I'm suprised how quick I saw an improvement.

[Rusty Trichome]

I don't know why but when you are up and running everyone is giving you seeds and clones, but when you have nothing everyone seems to be dry, go figure.

There's an old saying from decades ago..."weed will get you thru times of no money, better than money will get you thru times of no weed."

Still holds true today. :jointsmile:

[killerm8r]

I know what you mean about only being able to find stuff when you don't need it. I've got friends that owe me money and it seems that whenever I really could use the cash they're nowhere to be found, but when I've got plenty of money they get in touch.

It's like the dating thing: people seem a lot more interested in you when you're already dating someone. When you're single it seems like no one else is, and when you're spoken for there's available people coming out of the woodwork.


Looks like this will be one of the fantastic grows to watch, I'm looking forward to it.

[Chronic Chrissy]

Hey Guys I have not forgotten about you or been lazy, just very busy so I'll try to fill you in.

The water issues are undercontrol for the time being. We are still using Rain water and I feed about once a week. My plants kept getting progressively smaller though and I couldn't figure out why.

Then it made sense. My mothers were suffering just as much as everyone else, but I kept pushing them and taking clones to early then rushing them to harden off to keep up with my cycle. Needless to say they gave up on giving me new clones. They have been recuperating for the past 3 weeks and being let to grow out after being transplanted up and tied down.

Before my plants were ending up to tall so I thought small clones were the way to go but kept puttingthem in smaller before I saw the results of the ones already in there.

In the meantime I needed more clones.

I never got around to telling you about my out door grow. Back in Feb I planted 2 sative unknown one per pot, and 12 indica unknown 2 per pot. We had a very late spring thaw in June. And by then the poor plants were root bound, and all sorts of sad shapes and colors, about 24" high.

I figured I wanted to use them as an experiment to see what they would do so I planted them in the garden right in front of the house. I ran a rope from one end of the garden to the other ans stked it down, then twisted the plants around the rope sideways keeping them very low. It took them a while to settle in and even turned a little purple from the cold nights but after a while they just took off. They turned into a huge bushy hedge about 3 feet tall all the way across and a foot and a half wide.

I took tons of clones and filled up my trays which are now blowing roots every where.

At the same time I stopped my cycle and didn't put any other plants into flower to give them all a chance to catch up and because we were having huge heat issues in our room.

Because of the heat I eventually had to shut all the lights down...
(I'm going to post this before I get side tracked and pick up right where I left off. please feel free to post comments and questions but I'm going to wait till I catch you right up to respond to them all. Don't worry it just gets even more interesting.)

[SnSstealth]

There's an old saying from decades ago..."weed will get you thru times of no money, better than money will get you thru times of no weed."

Still holds true today. :jointsmile:

A-Fucking men!!

In the nature of experiement, I didnt grow that much last grow. My point is, now between harvests, my broke ass is barely staying high each day...20 plants going, nothing to smoke...lol
Anyway, your posts are very entertaining Charlie Charlie, consider me subscribed!:greenthumb:
WhiskeyTango

[Chronic Chrissy]

So heat issues I figured the outdoor plants were doing so well that I started to move eveything except for the clones outside. I hade 1'x2' grates that fit about 6 pots each and started my daily practise of moving them in and out every day. OK I lied I didn't figure the grate thing out right away and carried two plants at a time in and out.

After a while I just left the vegging plants outside because it just made sense with the length of day and not only doi I have to carry buckets of water everydat but plants themselves(my arms and shoulders are gorgeouse now!). And the flowering plants went back into their room just before dark cycle every night.

Then the phone call came! My Neighbor,(who knows and doesn't care so long as it stays on my side of the fence and she doesn't know about it.)called me up and said her whole house reeked! That day it had rained alot and I wanted the soil to dry out on the late flowering ones so I opened the garage door for light and put them inside. However theis means it was closer to her house, and it was a humid day with no wind. So I put everything back in the room and left a light on during the day(instead of the 3 that I needed). I then decided that the flowering ones all had to stay inside under the light except the early flower ones under 4 weeks.

The plants in the front were alread concerning us before because of their size and the size they would finish at and they hadn't even started to flower. We were planning on making a curtain about 30'x10' to induce them but after this scare I thought the smell would be so strong.

So what did I do? I dug them up, lol, and cried while doing it. They got planted into the largest pots I had and spent a few days outside well watered to adjust to their new pots since there were definately roots cut. FYI one of the sativa had and still has an ant colony living in the roots so they are a new addtion to the grow room as well, yippee(yeah right).

(Oh! I forgot to tell you about the outdoor sativas! WHen they were inside before june in the veg room with 18/6 they started to flower on their own! So when I planted them out there I figured they were auto flowering and would continue, but they didn't the reverted back to veg. So even though they are covered in bud it is all thin and stretched out. Now they are under 12/12 though)

My lovely plants were so sad and were starting to spring back vertically so all the tips were faceing the wrong way and crowding without the support of the rope. I ended up tieing a branch them running the rope under the pot to the other side to tie the other branch. with a little adjusting I got them pretty spread out.

So here is where I am.

All the outdoor plants are in the flower room under one 400w HPS. It was very hard to arrange them all in there. And I had to leave enough room so my other short "indoor"plants could get in there for the dark period. I have about 12 of those left to finish flowering and most should be done in the next few weeks.

The clones have been catching up and we take all the time we need to get them strong and move them outside with the other vegging plants.

The vegging plants are doing great and growing strong, about a foot high, with no discoloration or signs of abuse except a few locust munches out of a few leaves and one stripped clone the new puppy thought he would try and gobble before he learnt not to touch them.

The mothers are bushing out and and much happier.

On Aug 7th we are going out of town for 2 weeks. My MIL will be here every 3 days to water. The veg and mothers will stay outside and keep growing untill we get back, and hopefully by then all the clones will be out there too. If there are clones left over they will be trashed. I took them all at the same time and haven't taken any since so that should work. The flower room will have to outdoor plants and MAYBE a few of the "indoor" ones to re-evaluate when we get back. Then when we get back I will have about 20-30 1 1/2' plants to throw into the flower room at night intil the sun gets to the right day length to leave them outside, if it doesn't then once the outdoor plants are done hopefully it will be cool enough to move them in there permanently and turn a second light on and eventually a third. Then when the cold weather comes I might be able to upgrade a light or two to the 1000w hsps I have.

Anyways that's about all I can think of. Feel free to poke and probe and ask for more details about certain things. I hope my camera drys out soon so I can put up some pics.

[Chronic Chrissy]

A-Fucking men!!

In the nature of experiement, I didnt grow that much last grow. My point is, now between harvests, my broke ass is barely staying high each day...20 plants going, nothing to smoke...lol
Anyway, your posts are very entertaining Charlie Charlie, consider me subscribed!:greenthumb:
WhiskeyTango

LOL we are harvesting two plants every 3 days and still have to buy weed, lol. I'm only bringing in a few grams per plants and we are lucky if they aren't full of seeds because remember most of my "indoor" plants are white rhino right now. The new out door ones are just being transplanted out of clones, and there are only a few juicy fruit that are still in veg. I can't wait to be able to do away with my white rhino strain.

Oh(as I jump up and down in excitement) I set up a deal between two buddys over a few Kush clones, and once they grow into females my fee is to get my own supply of clones. It will take a few months but I'm excited!