my camper closet grow

[catbuds]

Shovel, before topping & thinning, my plants looked like Growbitches, but longer stems on sunleaves, totally blocking light & air to new sidebranches. The pic is in basic growing, 10X Dutch Dragon by Growbitch. I'm still posting pics to photobucket, but still don't know how to get them to my grow logs. Hoping to change that pretty soon.

[catbuds]

Giggletwig, don't stay away so long! New friends on the forum I think you'd find interesting! We've been using an old thread by a banned person as a chat room. Its here on grow logs, thread, THENEWGROW, so come on over & hang out with us! It seems to be ok with the mods that we're doing this, they haven't said anything, but it could be because most of the ones using the thread this way have been 'badgering' them to give us PMs or a chat room! Lol! Not only that, we keep it clean & have no discussions of taboo topics per forum rules. Our conversations are pretty educational. Chromophore is a bio-engineer, working with plants, their trichromes & terpinoids (legal ones) in a high tech lab setting. I like asking him leading questions & putting him on the spot to talk more about his fascinating work! Yeah, I'm bad! This is his first grow, but he has a natural green thumb & much scientific plant knowledge. His plants are awesome! I teased the shit out of him after his first post! His problem was just the opposite of most new growers.... it was like, help me! I'm running out of ceiling & they won't slow down! I think he was a born grower just waiting to happen. You'll like him. You'll like OMB too. He's another natural. Sweet, happy & friendly & it shows in his plants, cause they're happy too!
-- Glad to see you're interested in RSO. I'll be trying my hand at making my own after next seasons out door crop, since my indoor will always be sm, just keeping me in supply from one harvest to the next. After what you've been through with your health, you should have been on RSO from the start. I've read many wonderful testimonials about it saving peoples lives. Try dissolving a sm dose in some hot, milky chamomile tea at bed time. It will amaze you!

[giggletwig]

Hey Catbuds! Had so much fun reading this topic. Loved the part where you beat the bad catnapper/killer guy up and ran over his legs. And you've been a writer, a photographer, and are purely amazing, far as I can see. I hope your luck changes with the new year and your troubles are put behind you. Get another shotgun - sounds like you need it with all those thieves.

I'm still around but been busy doing my annual xmas freaking out. I go to pieces this time of year. Very stressful, very difficult. Much toking going on. It's getting better now that it's all over.

My plants are looking amazing. Waited for the clones to catch up some before putting them all into bloom and now my Tangerine Dream (mostly sativa) is over 6 feet tall! I've had to bend it over and tie it so I can keep the lights at a normal level. This grow has been an interesting experimental lot. The Blue Cheese plants are lush, bushy and strong plants. They have numerous buds and I can't wait to try them.

I need a reason to grow more plants, so I'm going to try making RSO, as you saw in my post to GrowGoddess. When I harvest my current batch, I probably wouldn't need to grow for another year, and that just won't do! I love growing them! It gives me something to do. Wish I was in a legal state where I could grow meds for people who need it.

How are you and the cats and little plants doing?

[tlranger]

Whatzz happening??

[catbuds]

I guess everybody has noticed the males usually stretch above the females. This is a survival thing in nature to make sure the pollen falls on the female to perpetuate the the species & not get wasted. So it seems I may have 5 males, two possible blueberry type phenos (which could be either sex) & 3 females. If I'm right, as soon as they sex, the females will go back in veg for a couple weeks & I'll grow them bigger than first planned. Then re veg my best girl for a clone mother, but start another batch of seeds 4 wks befor harvest. Of course I'll save pollen from best male for seeds for this coming outdoor crop. Trying to always have something in flower.
-- Yeah Giggletwig, I've been a lot of things. Too many intrests to pick just one & sacrifice the others. . It made life fun, but didn't prepare me for my 'golden years'. Spent too much money going back to college all the time, so no nest egg & no retirement check. But things would have been better financially if I hadn't ended up on a small disability check after being smoshed by a dump truck at 40. Didn't plan for the future. Thought I'd just keep going forever. Aceing every college, thought I'd be a millionaire. Boy was I ever disappointed!
-- Kicky cats & smooch pooch fat & spoiled. Took some weight off Tigger, but it came back with a vengeance! Now he even has fat rolls on his face! Poor cat has a triple chin! Sam squalls all the time now cause he can't make Tigger play. But he will settle for pissing him off! Then Tigger will chase him to try & whip his ass, & Sam will turn & jump completely over Tigg. I swear I have a circus act in the middle of my floor! I turn the tv on but end up watching them! So.... does that make me the crazy cat lady? LOL!

[catbuds]

BTW, the tangerine dream sounds awesome, but that blue cheese will. Kick. Your. Butt! Ed Rosenthal once said marijuana isn't addictive, but growing it is. Guess most of us can support that statement!

[budbro28]

come over and make sure im doing shit right lol

[tlranger]

[quote=catbuds]I guess everybody has noticed the males usually stretch above the females.

That being said and very true, sometimes there's that little one that you keep around because it's got to be a female cause it's so small, after the rest cover it and your not paying close attention(or can't see it well, or is a volunteer at the base of some female) and bang little f+#king male and lots of seeds.

[catbuds]

[quote=tlranger]

I guess everybody has noticed the males usually stretch above the females.

That being said and very true, sometimes there's that little one that you keep around because it's got to be a female cause it's so small, after the rest cover it and your not paying close attention(or can't see it well, or is a volunteer at the base of some female) and bang little f+#king male and lots of seeds.

-- So right! The sm one I have now is sm because Sam ate the sun leaves off when the new branches were tiny still, & didn't have any leaves mature enough to make energy for much growth. It sat there & took a while to start growth again. I'm thinking IF its female, this stress could cause it to hermie. This may be the one I end up chucking. Dont see it as a great loss since I'm hurting for space, but it was the widest, most indica leafed one of them all, & the shortest stockiest from the begining. I'm still hoping its female & doesn't hermie. It was the one I wanted to pollinate because of its heavy indica traits. Since some stretched so fast, I've been giving them all a close look 3-4 X's a day, expecting pre-flowers soon, so it would be darned near impossible for a male to blow his stuff all over any females. Now once they're too big for me to sit in the floor with the pots in my lap for closer observation, that would be the time time a hermie could get me. Think I already put this in a post, but since I'm now expecting less than 50% female, I'm going to let them get bigger than first planned. In the future, planting less seeds & going back to doing the ethylene gas thing, only omitting the ethylene when I need pollen. Since it freezes well, I expect that to be about every third grow.
-- They just went from coffee cups to party cups. Remember, I was doing the root constriction to TRY & slow growth. Was planning on not going bigger than 1/2 gal for that purpose, but fewer plants, so as soon as I sex them, the females are going into 1 gal pots. What this would normally do is, as soon as the new roots hit the sids of the pot, is EXPLODE in bud growth ( just like they explode in plant growth when in veg). Since I'm stepping up drastically in size, that should also drastically increase bud size. I'm speaking from personal experience with my own strain I had grown for years, but sometimes sticking with one variety so long just gets you stuck in a rut. These guys have such a different growth habit that my little tricks may not have the same effect.
-- Just four days ago, I'd posted that they still weren't growing as fast as before the pruning. Well now I have to take that back. They've grown about 2" since yesterday & are crowded again! As soon as I'm done posting, I'll be going in to raise the lights again. I saw two crumpled leaves actually growing into & vining around the tubes. I turned them so they weren't touching & they've already started straightening out. Theyll be fine since they didn't scorch. Haven't really decided, but I may cull the little one. Would hate to, but I'm needing the space to spread them out a little. Ehhh, Ok... I've talked myself into it. Gonna cull that one!

[catbuds]

Well I culled 3. The little one & 2 of the ones I thought were probably female. I had NO intentions of letting anyone local know I was growing, but being stupid, I forgot to lock my door & Pat Smith marched his unwelcomed ass right on in & back to where I was tending my plants. Then he had the nerve to TELL me to get rid of the two growing lop-sided (they had grown to fit the shape of the space since they were crowded). Perfectly healthy & most likely female, I threw them in his face. I'm yelling shit at him like who in the hell said you could march your ass into my home without knocking on my fucking door, & at what point in time did I hand you the authority to make decisions about HOW I do WHAT I do!?!? Despite what I just said, he picks up the 2 plants & said he'd take them home & dry & smoke them! I slapped them out of his hands & punched him in his big ugly nose. He starts yelling at me for being a bitch & said I should be grateful he stopped by to see me! Well once I catch somebody stealing from me & kick them off my property, I really don't expect them to come back! & if they do, they need to expect to be treated like shit, because that's all he's ever been in my book anyway! Its only been three months ago I broke his nose with my cane when I caught him slipping my dead fathers pocket knife into his fucking pocket! I think he had a lot of nerve even coming onto my property, much less walking in on me without even knocking! I hate, hate, hate my fucking neighbors! Now I expect the plants, lights & EVERYTHING to be stolen the next time I have to go to the store! I'm ready to set the whole damned place on fire & just walk away!