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Oggy
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My state legalized growing the stuff this summer, but not the sell of seeds. Do the seeds people buy online actually make a difference in potency? I would love to grow a plant and store away buds for several years. I hear that is a good way to make a smoke specifically for sleeping at night.
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Re: Cannabis Growers [Re: KenInVic]
#25340497 - 07/22/18 12:10 PM (5 years, 6 months ago) |
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i acquired a bag seed clone once upon a time and now that my state is legal i have let it flower.
i dont think its a hermaphrodite because i have stressed clones before with 6 hours of low light immediately after transfering to a pots while they had like only 3 individual roots on their stems and they just flowered normally until i forgot about them and they died.
i know nothing about cannabis, only sexing and what their individual baby makers look like. can someone tell me what these bud-looking things are? the plant has been flowering for nearly 3 weeks.



same plant material but no camera flash and from the side:

[edit] this clipping is from pruning the lower branches this morning. figured since they don't get much light they won't amount to anything so i clipped a lot of them.
Edited by Oggy (07/22/18 12:13 PM)
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nuts, sucks to hear. didn't expect much from anyway but have been treating it as a learning experience.
the rest of the plant looks okay, but maybe experienced eyes can see better


the white blotches were burned by the light. the plant shot up half a foot the first week i switched the lights(seemingly overnight tbh)... wasn't expecting that lol.
would it be a good idea to trim up the big branches by removing the rest of the micro nodes?
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Re: Cannabis Growers [Re: Icon]
#25340750 - 07/22/18 02:34 PM (5 years, 6 months ago) |
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the flower box is super dry, low humidity. i can drive it up if it makes a difference though. the plant has grown in low humidity for the majority of it's life because i am afraid of moldy flowers. if i had to guess, i would say humidity is below 40% before a watering. i will look into de/humidifiers though, that sounds like a great idea.
while it was in vegetation i only watered it when it was very dry and on the verge of wilting. since the switch i've been keeping an eye on it and watering before it gets too dry.
i haven't given it much fertilizer over it's life time. a week after switching the lights i gave it compost tea because of yellowing leaves. today(day 18 since switching the lights) i actually just gave it another feeding with a mix of seaweed powder(0-0-17) and bulb feeder(3-8-8).
should feeding the plant be a thing while it flowers? if so, when does the feeding stop? i've always heard these plants were heavy feeders but i have no experience with them other than the vegetation phase.
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Re: Cannabis Growers [Re: Ran-D]
#25344413 - 07/24/18 01:18 PM (5 years, 6 months ago) |
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Neem oil is the best thing but don't spray plants that can't be washed off later. Just stick to a schedule and not even spider mites will be safe from your unhinged genocidal tendencies. My schedule(even for indoor plants) is a thick spray every 3 days. At the first sign of insect damage I keep this schedule for about a month. Get one of these things, it will make the entire process a lot easier. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0039EEN0M/
I waited 2 days before cutting back my flowering plant so I could assess these unidentified balls better. None of the trimmings had any bananas and a large percentage of these balls have pistils coming out of them. They don't look like bananas at all and most of them are arranged in a star pattern(made up of 5 balls). So I am not yet convinced it is expressing hermaphrodite traits, but I am inexperienced and immediately think if hermie then bananas.
sorry for the pic spam, I am just wanting to know what the crap these could be at this point.


same clipping at different angles:


pistils coming from the balls:



never noticed how frosty it was getting until today..
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Re: Cannabis Growers [Re: Marmie]
#25346182 - 07/25/18 12:46 PM (5 years, 6 months ago) |
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i wouldn't do anything to a plant i intended to smoke. you could turn it into edibles though. bugs are only extra seasoning.
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wouldnt 60% be a bit too damp? or is curing different from the drying out phase?
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I think this is the 30 or 31st day of flowering for my first grow.

They look a bit thin, but they're covered in pistils. does weed bulk out later on in flower or when does it stop?
[edit] i dont know why it's covered in 3 finger leaves. The plant has only ever had 5 fingers max, even the outdoor clone that is still not flowering. Almost as tall as I am, though.
[edit2] help i have weed finger count envy
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The flowering plant is a 1st generation clone, the outside plant is a 2nd generation clone. The original mother has died to death. Now I have a 2nd generation clone that will become a bonsai mother plant for keeping as a memento. Does generational cloning effect these plants much?
Also I've noticed some of the flowers turned brown/grey on smaller nodes, exclusively starts from the tip of the nodes. I have chopped most of it off or plucked them with my fingers. Should I just chop an entire branch if one develops that? The box gets hot as heck(maybe 85-90f) from the LED light, so it's probably super humid after every watering. I bought some ph testing fluids to see what it's sitting in, but mostly for the next grow. This poor bag seed is getting experimented on and used.
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Re: Cannabis Growers [Re: openmind]
#25364531 - 08/03/18 02:21 PM (5 years, 5 months ago) |
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My plant has only ever had 5 leaves max. Even when the original mother plant was young and alive it never grew out any more than 5. But massive, thick leaves that could cover my entire hand, though.
When I sexed it and revegged, it went from 5 to 3 to 1 to 3 back to 5 fingers. Kind of disappointed it never had two leaves to fit into the fib sequence.
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Holy crap, 5 days later and I think she has started to really let herself go..!




Are these the makings of them fabled buds everyone talks about?
I flushed her today, to test pH. Quite acidic, around 5.0 possibly lower. I flushed with only two gallons of water because I couldn't lift the pot to remove the water collector anymore, and didn't want to risk damage due to its tiny home.
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I'm not sure what is happening to my plants, but they started to look brown/burned/dried up closer to the lights. Can someone confirm what this is? I believe it's just light burn but I am inexperienced obv 



The buds farther away from the light are doing fantastic still with none of these burned out leaves. This is an experimental plant so I don't mind losing smokes off it. I am thinking I should cut off the burned ends and attempt to dry it out.
I plucked off a piece from one of the biggest burned colas to see what the inside looks like and it is a very light shade of green underneath. It was also very dense while wet and my fingers were glued together. I haven't touched sticky weed since my first ever toke.
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Re: Cannabis Growers [Re: Psilosion]
#25381799 - 08/11/18 02:35 PM (5 years, 5 months ago) |
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that is weird, i flushed it 4 or 5 days ago and haven't watered or fed it since. I have been waiting for the pot to dry out before I did that.
[edit] here is a picture of the bud I plucked off. maybe that will show it off better.
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Re: Cannabis Growers [Re: MeanGreen]
#25381829 - 08/11/18 02:54 PM (5 years, 5 months ago) |
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I thought I have been very easy on the fertilizers. I think I have only fed it a total of 4, maybe 5 times in the 6 weeks it has been flowering(counting from the light switch). Makes sense though, I did give it quite a lot of potassium over the flowering period. Maybe 25ml per gallon of water. I guess the flush only succeeded in pushing the fertilizers down into the roots. It was looking so good before I flushed it.
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Re: Cannabis Growers [Re: MeanGreen]
#25384677 - 08/12/18 11:18 PM (5 years, 5 months ago) |
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It's 6 weeks into flower, and not all of the colas look that way.
We ended up quick drying the bud I plucked off after I had cleaned it up. I wasn't expecting much from it but it was an extremely smooth smoke and left behind the whitest ash I've ever had bud leave behind, also there was no grassy hay taste from the oven dry which was incredibly surprising. It was mostly tasteless.
The high was weird, though. No headaches, and no seeds. I don't know what the heck went wrong. I think I just didn't flush it completely and flooded the roots with pushed down fertilizers. I ended up running more water through it and the run off was not colorless.
I think I just need to cut it down and try again with a fresh clone. The plant itself is incredibly old, at least 18 months old now. It was quite tall to begin with before I switched the lights... then the stretch became a pain in my ass. Also, all of the branches minus the new stretched growth is all woody now.
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Re: Cannabis Growers [Re: pur3bind]
#25386598 - 08/13/18 08:41 PM (5 years, 5 months ago) |
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thats no boy, thats a man
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Quote:
rocketsurgery said: Oggy are you hand watering? Not favoring one particular area of your growing medium when watering ? This is just a wild guess strange that only a few colas are affected
Yes, I was watering by hand and from the top and as evenly spread as I could. I ended up cutting the plant down yesterday because it wasn't improving. It was wilted, floppy, and the soil wasn't drying up after like 5 or 6 days of no water. When I pulled it out of the pot the roots were a light brown and easily ripped. It was pretty well seated in its pot but it wasn't root bound, more like the soil became compacted towards the bottom.
There were some weird things that I would love to have clarified by someone with more experience. First off, I'm not sure if the roots had died since I have no idea what root rot looks like on cannabis, but if they were then how did they die? I never kept it constantly watered, only watered when they needed it(either checked by weight or signs of leaf wilt). In flower it was drinking quite well and needed water every 3-4 days, but I never let it wilt.
Secondly, when I was messing with the leaves after pulling it out of the box I noticed that the leaves would break off quite easily and usually mid way down the leafs stem. Very little force was required but they would just snap off cleanly or pop right off after a slight tug. They were still green, though.
I'm just ready to take what I've learned from attempt #1 and apply it to the next attempt Definitely not watering from the top and definitely going to use fresh clones that aren't 1.5 years old before I put them into flower.
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How well do T5 setups work? Do they use a lot of electricity?
I just bought a 100w LED to go inside of my flower tent. I'm not really sure if I needed it or if I could have solved the light penetration problems by just spreading the branches out with some sort of training. But I figure it won't hurt anything, and since I want to have two flowering plants then it would probably be required sooner or later anyway. Pairing a blurple with a quantum board will hopefully give me some great results.
I am worried it will get too hot in there now, but I think the carbon filter should cool things down quite a bit once it has been installed.
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Edited by Oggy (08/18/18 06:16 PM)
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Re: Cannabis Growers [Re: Ran-D]
#25403918 - 08/21/18 08:16 PM (5 years, 5 months ago) |
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My outdoor plant is just starting to bloom. Hopefully it will be warm enough until October.
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RIP My first time also ended in regret, but I gained valuable experience that will hopefully prevent failure by death. I am terrified of mold. Do you have any metrics like humidity/temperature and things? For my first grow I kept humidity around 40-50%, but everyone seems to suggest high humidity for cannabis. Personally it did great in the low humidity and only started to mold/die when I bumped up the humidity.
My outside plant has finally left the preflower phase started to show me what she's made of! It has the prettiest pink stigmas, which is weird because the indoor plant didn't express pink at all, only red and white.
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