cactusman's time machine

[cactusman23]

heres my little bubble setup, I use the bottoms of my 6 inch pots to line the bottom of my 3 gallon tub. the bottoms of the pots make good "channels" for the air stones. I didnt have any hydroton to fill the bottom of my pots like I wanted to and I didnt want to get any at the moment. so I filled the bottoms of the pots with about 1 inch of perlite, that helps get plenty of oxygen to the roots. then I'm using a really airy mixture of potting soil and perlite as my medium. 3 to 1 perlite to soil. and i'm starting with tap water with superthrive, and once the medium has soaked up some water i'll drop in some seeds and wait for something to happen. I've never ph'ed any of my grows, but I plan on getting a tester soon. and there you go, now lets hope for a girl or 3

[cactusman23]

I opened up my cab yesterday and to my surprise, there they were. 2 seedlings from my hydro had sprouted and 1 had not yet and my soil plants turned out males. 3" male plants. They were stinky little shits to boot. I should have taken pics but I just didnt. Oh well. With the extra room in the cab, I put in another bubble setup with some seeds my wife and I called "creeping death". The first bubble setup has some seeds from a bag of some reddish sticky bud, that had a nice taste and high. We havnt come up with a name for that one yet.:thumbsup:

[cactusman23]

Alrighty folks, I finally got my ph kit in and let me tell you, it surely has opened my eyes to another whole aspect of growing. Both of my tubs tested around the 8.5 to 9 range. I added one tsp. of ph down to each tub. I'm going to retest later in the day, so as to give it some time to adjust. In the meantime, I decided to run a rough test of what my ph is from the tap. What I got was about a 6.5. Now this is based purely on what I perceive to be a match to the color chart. After adding one tsp. of superthrive I retested the ph, and found it to be about 7.25-7.5. I proceeded to add two tbsp. of mother earth bloom tea and tested again and I gathered this one to be about 7-7.25. With Cal Mag plus added the ph tested about 7. For each test I used three drops of ph test fluid. Before I put up my testing stuff, I decided to test one more time after adding one tsp of ph down. The solution tested at 5.75-6. Strong stuff. I wont test the solution again till I have to use it, which will be awhile. Oh before I forget, I used a gallon of water.

[cactusman23]

heres my only babies, my chances are slim of getting a female, but, oh well. I've been vegging these with my 400w enhanced hps. It's pretty cool. They're nice and short and very nody. I like the fat leaves.

[cactusman23]

OK, just a little update for the buds, my 2 3 week old subjects are useless males. They are somewhat smelly and sticky though, I've already destroyed one of the subjects in my blender. I'm trying my hand at hash making. I'm gonna do some searching regarding pollen storage, this looks like some decent genetics to work with. STAY POSITIVE BITCHES.

[cactusman23]

just dropping in to say whats up. I am currently doing absolutely nothing with my cabs, though, they are in a semi ready state. Just waiting and plotting my return.

[cactusman23]

here's two little 2 week old seedlings, and I've just popped four more beans in the bubbler setup, hoping for females, temps have been really good, I had some ph problems at the beginning, but i've since resolved that. I have this in my "little" cab. Its way more stealthy than my big cab, which btw, is still being worked on, nothing elaborate, just some ventilation and filtration stuff.

[cactusman23]

heres a little update, just vegging away, problaly be poppin some more beans this weekend, one of em is looking like a male

[turtle420]

Looking good cMan, looking good!

[cactusman23]

well, just got done destroying my plants again, more fucking male plants