happys grow,

[newgroweroldsmoker]

they are looking good man.....i can't wait to see them filled with buds, i wonder how they will look like, they are like bushes , i see green everywhere

[the happy chappie]

thanks newgrower,
yeah they dont look bad concidering what they were like a week or so ago, i am hoping that they dont go hermie again. its funny how the same plant growing outdoors can look a completely different plant, as long as they respond well before our winter weather sets in they should give me somthing, i have saved white widow f1 (my strain)
and widow/braindamage, and some chronic, i lost everything else, even my best males, so no seeds for me this grow, i still have enough seed to keep the genre going seed i have ten plants out side that look like there gonna be ok, i cant grow nothing in doors at the moment as i cant get upstairs to tend to them, so no point me sowing any just yet. i look forword to seeing your next grow mate, ... you sounded a little dissapointed in your last grow, what was up, i did not see the end of your grow....
............. peace .................. happy ...................

[dialtone420]

You said no seeds huh? If your plants go through enough stress i heard they tend to do selfing. Thats when a female produces pollen and therefore produces seeds i think? What do you think?

[newgroweroldsmoker]

no man, on the contrary, i am more than satisfied with the result, only one thing though....i did sale and smoked almost all of it to my friends....i made well over a pound of bud, around 20-22 oz in total....this paid all the bills, seeds,lights etc plus some more money which i invested almost all of it into the equipment and strains for this grow plus i've been smoking as much as i felt like almost everyday for 3 months now....i am dissapointed only because i've got left six joints and i will need to buy a couple of oz as i do not expect more bud before the end of October.....shit,sounds too long.....otherwise i'm fine

[the happy chappie]

hi dailtone/newgrower
yeah dialtone, thats when they go hermie, thats just what you dont want, seeds from a hermie plant will produce a higher ratio of hermie babys, my seeds have to be pure, its taken me a long time to grow the pedigree into my plants, i would rather throw away hermie seeds, the more refined a plant is the more subseptable it becomes to changes in its inviroment thats why my plants went hermie, i just had no choice but to put them outside halfway through a indoor grow, i have plenty of pedigree first class seeds, i just cant get to look after them for a while, i shall plant them when i can........but hey thanks for the infomation, ....

hi newgrower, it will take time to get your setup producing exactly what you want, although it sounds like you have got it about right and doing ok, from my ten plants i will get enough weed to keep me going untill about 1/2 months after i have harvested my next grow, i like to have that much as i like to realy let em stand and mature for about two months to cure and sweeten up a little, strong indicas can be a little harsh on the lungs and taste rather green without proper curing. i dont sell my weed, i have been working on increasing its medicle caperbillities, and purifiying its genre for some years now,
........ peace ...................... happy .....................

[J DOG 6000]

At what stage did you see the male balls?
Also the catapillars end up there cause the butterflies drop there eggs in the bud and let it hatch there.
Catapillars turn into butterflies not the other way around.

[Torog]

hi all again, here are those pics i promised..... i managed to save ten plants, i have another couple of real sad looking buggers, aint got the heart to chop em up, so i have give em a helping hand growing them on top of a compost heap, if they pick up then i will pot em up, i was realy gutted when they went hermie on me, it took a lot of constant attension to get them back, every 2/3 hours plucking off any male gender seems to have done it, aint seen to many male ball bags hanging on em for the last two days, there is still a little hermie in em, but nothing bad, you can see clearly the mass of single leaflets, i do get a lot of single leaflets on the top of my plants but this is normaly around finishing time, i am hoping this is just becourse of the light cycle confusion, they are still trying to produce female flower, the bud that they had grown indoors is still there, all the male gender apeared at different nodes, so it was quite easy to spot and remove, i have now got to wait till they finish around end of sept, they have got to finish then realy as our weather gets too unpredictable any time latter, i have a green house and as you can see i will keep some in there, i have to keep all windows and doors open becourse of the heat, i will get probs with insects i know, but i should be able to conrol some of it with stick bug tape, i also have a totaly organic spray i can use if things get bad, the worst probs i will get will be caterpillers, man they love this stuff, they fly in as butterflies and some how end jup as caterpillers in the bud, its very difficult to see, i only normaly find them after they have hached out and started to munch there way through my best buds, i will pay perticular intrest in looking for these little buggers as i know only to well the damage they can course. sorry for not replying personly to all of you, i have reasonatly smoked a big fatty and its nocked me on my arse again, i will get back when i come down a little ....... peace ....... happy ......

Howdy Happy,

Thanx for the pics ! Those are unusal looking leaves,but heck,,they're all healthy as can be !

I hope that your health is improving daily,your words are an inspiration to the rest of us and are greatly appreciated ! Thanx for sharing your experiences with us..I know that I have learned a few new things and I look forward to learnin more .

Have a good one !

[the happy chappie]

hello torog, hi j dog

the male gender started to apear soon after i went into hospital, the light cycle was left to its own, and they recieved about 1, weeks constant light nobody could turn em off, i then got a mate to stick them in the garden, i knew they could not be left under artifcial lighting, so at least if they were in the garden they could get a natrual light cycle, he told me about how they had all gone hermie, since then they have been very heaverly pruned and been plucked of there balls as they apear, they are deffinatly not showing as much male gender, and the female pistels have slowed down, they have vegged lovely, better than i thought they would,

hi torrog mate, hows things, hope all is well, yes i feel a little better now, proberly becourse i have toped myself up with my medicine, i can stand a little longer now the inflamation has gone down a little, but yeah thanks doing much better, i feel much better now that i can smoke a jay or two.
i will always help where i can mate, there are some on here far more knowledgable than me, i prefure to grow in soil, i have tried other methods, but i guess i am just an old fashioned gardener, i am all for mod cons and things that make our lifes a little easier but ya cant beat mixing up ya dirt and planting them seedlings then sitting patiently waiting for them pop up , lol, i hope to carry on where i left off realy i will take some better pics tommorow if the weather is better, just now its chucking it down,
if i can help torrog then i will mate no probs,
peace ........... happy .......

[the happy chappie]

hi all.
sorry kevin and jadiouse some how i seem to have missed and not answered your questions, firstley

kevin, .... yes cats can be a pain in the arse around plants, i think they are atracted to its aroma, i know they like catnip that drives em wild, so it is poss that the scent of weed does the same thing, i had the prob of my cat shiting in one of my pots in the grow room, i just rubbed his nose in it big time, and kicked him up the arse and now he wont go nere them, that left me with the horrible job of clearing up the cat crap, i got rid of it all and replaced the spilt dirt with fresh and the plant seem to not realy be affected......

jadeous,.... sure mate, that sounds like a cool idea, if ya wanna, i am happy with it, you do what ya like mate no probs, i aint a good writer or speller so it would be best if somebody did it that can spell hahaha,.....

gonna take pics today as it looks like it aint gonna rain,
........... peace ............ happy ................

[jadeius]

cool...i'll wait until your grow is done though and you've pretty much finished this thread...also I might wait until I can find some adderall or percocets because I'll get it all done in one sitting if I take some first...probably just gonna copy/paste ... the plants look great by the way! looking forward to seeing the buds!

peace