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Croptober is alllmost done for me lol.
I have one plant still going and it will be taken down today, in just an hour or two here actually. It is the "Moon Boots" (White Tahoe Cookies X Moonbow) (Moonbow=Zkittles X Do-Si-Dos).
This plant was the most itty bitty tiny lil clone out of all the cuts I got this summer, but it ended up just as big as everything else. It was the last to start to flower and def took the longest to finish.
And I still have one plant hanging to dry, the Sparkle Face, though that will be ready to be jarred within a day or two.
Working full time, I can't wait for this to all be done and in jars lol....Though I still have hash to make too.
I've been smoking on some of the Rainbow Belts 2.0, such a great rich smoke and high, good medicine for sure. The stuff gets me super baked, makes my body feel great and has a really nice mellow but focused headspace. Really thick resinous smoke...The RBB-2.0 is def one of the top 3 best strains I've ever grown, it really stands out, at least in regards to the over all quality of the flower/resin/smoke/flavor. (Up there with the MAC1 I've grown, and Slymer). Relatively small flowers but ridiculous amounts of thick resin, on that level of almost nothing but resin.
I've said it a few times already, and I'll likely say it a few more times lol...but I'm very impressed with the Rainbow Belts 2.0 and Moonboots from Archive, as well as the stuff I grew from Twenty20 Mendo, I will absolutely be growing more of their stuff in the future! ...Though the beans from Archive can be pretty damn pricey lol.
Still waiting for it all to be jarred and cured a bit before I give my full rambling review on everything I grew this summer .
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Re: Cannabis Growers [Re: DERRAYLD] 5
#28550424 - 11/20/23 02:52 PM (2 months, 6 days ago) |
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ouuwee said: Hello, it's time for a thanksgiving giveaway!   Today the lucky winner will receive a yield producer. If having big sized buds and big yields without sacrificing quality are your goals, let's hope that you win 
How to enter/requirements 1) To prevent spam, post a picture of your grow 2) Answer the question: What are you thankful for? 3) Claim a number (numerical order) 4) Must have at least 50 posts 5) USA DOMESTIC ONLY.
***SEEDS ARE FOR NOVELTY PURPOSES ONLY***



I'm thankful for my fam & friends that have helped me out with getting up on my feet in life. Thankful for the plants, the fungi, the roots & seeds.
Claiming #10
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DERRAYLD said: Putang (star pupil x tangie f1)

Cool!
That's one I've def wanted to grow out.
I'm interested in a handful of strains from Mass Medical.
I just smoked some of the Moonboots I grew this summer (White Tahoe Cookies X Moonbow). Nice balanced high, gassy & kushy with a lil bit of a cookies-essence, occasionally I'll get a lil whiff of floral/incense note.
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So I took down the Tatooine Donut #9. She was the one in the middle, not in the pic. I took down a branch a few days ago to test it. It dried fast, but we smoked a joint and it was good. Super frosty, taste sweet and creamy but still not rightly dried would of been.

What size tent is that?
And what sort of yields/weight do you get from plants that size, give or take?
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Re: Cannabis Growers [Re: Towns77]
#28622437 - 01/15/24 05:29 PM (12 days, 16 hours ago) |
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Leftfield420 said: we had 30+ days of 100-110°F last summer and I couldn't carry enough water to my plants, plus drought... couldn't get to my plants for 5-6 days sometimes
Damn, I had no idea!
Well, we don't even get remotely that hot!
Yeah, cannabis can not survive without water in conditions like that. I think we only saw about two weeks worth of 90's.
We just have drenching humidity here, with average temps in the mid to high 80's in the summer.
Just a lil anecdote from what I've seen with the plant....
About 6 years ago I had 2 plants that sprouted from some seeds I pulled out of some SFV-OG I grew the year prior...I forget if the plants turned out to be males or why I didn't want to grow them out all the way, but I stopped watering them one day just to see how long they could go with out water since I wasn't planning on growing them out/flowering em.
The 2 plants were in a 25 gallon fabric pot together, the soil/substrate was "roots organics original". The plants received direct sun almost the entire day from sunrise to sunset. Daily temps were around 95F to 105F with humidity around 15% to 25%.
Even after a full week of no water the plants were still looking healthy. IIRC around day 9 they started to droop a bit and showing signs of needing water. I think I pulled em' around 10 or 11 days after no water, they were looking sad/droopy but still could have perked back up with a watering.
No doubt the strain/genetics play a big role in it all, some strains/genes being more tolerant to heat/drought than others...but in general it seems like the plant is pretty tolerant to drought/heat IME. I've never had a plant become stressed from heat, or at least it never visually displayed any signs of such, even with a week+ of 100F to 110F temps. The summers where I used to live/grow were basically 90f to 100f from mid April to late September, some weeks/heat waves around 105f to 110f, a few days up around 112ish.
From what I've seen growing outdoors, the plant can really take a lot of heat & low humidity....tho of course the plants are much happier basking in 80 degree temps versus 100+, they can take the heat with little to no issue.
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LizardWizard said: It's funny that Openmind mentioned his little experiment, cause that experiment overlaps with another one someone else did; some scientist decided it was a great idea to give his plants a good drought to see what it would do, in a proper scientific setting. Turns out the 10-11 day mark, right when the leaves start drooping, is kind of a universal mark, with only little variations between strains, to how long a plant will go without water after normal proper watering. The thing most interesting about it, is what happened in the buds. The drought (but only after 10/11 days) caused the plants to put out more terpenes. And what's even more interesting, the time when the drought was applied determined which terps' production was enhanced.
So by applying droughts willfully you could produce some great tasting cheeba.
Not saying that kind of weather is easy to grow in, it's hard as fuck, and it's a lot more likely to fail.
What can be done about the time you're growing in? Can you move it up or down?
I'm not living in the perfect spot for outdoors either, but that don't mean we can't try!
Yup!
I've heard that about plant pumping out more terps/aromatics/resin when experiencing some drought, or when grown relatively "dry".
"Dry farming" is actually a thing that some cannabis-growers do around my area. Where they don't water their plants all summer long. It takes a certain micro-climate along with certain soil profile/composition, but it can be done in some areas. Those farmers also note an increase in the richness of terps/resin/cannabinoids when dry-farming.
https://www.dryfarmedcannabis.com/
https://hightimes.com/culture/dry-farming-in-humboldt/
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connectedcosmos said:
...Also sprouted a autoflower been having good luck with the water in a shot glass tek
....Loving seeing all your awesome plants , one day I'll be growing some gnarly ones too
Cool!...I'm looking forward to seeing your "grow" and grows down the line, progress .
Just my 2 cents on germinating auto seeds. Dunno if anyone else feels or thinks about this the same way I do lol...
...but I'd say germinate auto seeds directly in the pot/soil/substrate they are going to be grown in and don't bother with transplanting.
Autos and their tap-root/roots in general seem to be sensitive to space/restriction and many speculate they have an influence on how soon the plant will flower. Most autos seem to transition to flowering around 25 to 30 days after sprouting, but there are many stories/reports of autos becoming "stunted" and flowering sooner when their roots are impacted or restricted in one way or another.
No big deal tho...No doubt it is totally possible to germ/pop an auto seed in water then plop it into a pot/soil and have no issues with it stunting or flowering early, I know some folks have even transplanted autos with out issue, but knowing that the tap-root with autos is a bit more sensitive/plays a role in flowering I prefer to just start them directly in the soil/pot that they'll flower in. When I grew them outdoors a few years ago I placed the seed right in the middle of the 20gal pots they were growing up in and that's where it sprouted.
All my seeds really, photo or auto, I've always germinated them directly in soil....Many ways to skin a cat tho, and I know lots of folks like to germinate in some water or a moist paper towel before moving the germinated seed into soil/substrate.
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connectedcosmos said: I've got 2 other autoflower seeds , this one is "royal runtz"
Interesting OM , now I'm wondering should I have planted that auto into a solo cup 
That bagseed I posted a picture of sprouted November 16th or so it's so small for its age I feel like ... it's been thru some shit 
I can't wait to get a tent and light 
I'd say start the auto in a 1 to 3 gallon pot, what ever pot it is going to grow up & flower in. Tho of course you can grow a plant/auto in a solo cup. I have a bunch of old bag-seed from over the years and I'm thinking about growing some of them in solo cups, just for the novelty/hobby of it all.
Starting the seed in a shot glass of water is no biggy tho...I'm just always a bit concerned about disturbing the tap-root/roots with autos & potentially stunting them, and part of me likes to start directly in soil.
Yea that one bagseed plant is rather small considering it sprouted on Nov 16th, could just be lack of light and/or ideal nutrition...I've had some small plants/runts that take off once they're happy with the soil/nutes and receive enough light/warmth. More often than not, at the end of summer/come harvest time, most of my plants end up around the same size even if some of them were super tiny and slow and stunted in the beginning of their life.
What sort of light/conditions are they under right now? Just ambient light from inside your house/room?
I too can't wait to get a tent & light...I've still only grown outdoor...Probably won't be until next fall/winter tho since I plan on doing another little outdoor/porch grow this summer, don't want to deal with 2 dif grows at the same time...but yea, I'm excited to see what I can do indoors and experience another way of growing the plant.
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Pluviophile said: I agree.
Also though the Nectar for the Gods One Shot Granules have been a great slow release for me for the past couple of very rainy years.
Speaking of Nectar for the Gods...
Mr. Piggy...I vaguely recall you mentioning you were going to use NFTGs for the first time for a grow you did sometime in the last 2ish years? Or maybe I have you mixed up with someone else...but if so, I'm curious what you thought of the stuff?
I used their "Medusas Magic" last summer and it was the first time I've used a "bottled" nute (besides fish emulsion), I've always just used dry amendments and teas.
...Other than amending the soil with some Dr. Earth and compost about a month before planting, all I fed the plants/soil was the Medusas Magic and magnesium sulfate and a calcium supplement. I went a bit heavy with it a few times and no issues.
Plants turned out pretty dank, great resin...there's so many variables in the mix though, along with the climate I'm growing in now being drastically different compared to where I used to live/grow, that I can't really give a true opinion on the stuff.
That said...I do plan on sticking with that brand and getting some of their other nutes my next grow.
I fed some leftovers to some of my cactus & succulents and they became much more vibrant and vigorous, lushed up real nice.
Stoned ramblin'....just smoked some Rainbow Belts 2.0 from last summer's grow. I'm down to like 3g already lol , already smoked up most of the "dank" stuff I got from last summer (smallest photo-period plants I've ever grown, limited by space and sunshine/warmth). I regret giving away the other clone I had of the Rainbow belts 2.0, same with the Pecan Pie and Sparkle Face F2, I would have loved to have more of them all rather than the other strains I grew. Had I known how dank those were going to be I would have chosen having less variety but overall more dank (I had to keep my # of plants on the low).
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Re: Cannabis Growers [Re: Mr Piggy]
#28637125 - 01/27/24 04:32 PM (17 hours, 37 minutes ago) |
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Those of you that grow in a tent...
How are you controlling humidity? I don't think I've seen any dehumidifiers in the pics of the tent grows here.
Or do you all just live in a very dry climate? Or do y'all just run a dehumidifier in the room with the tent, and the airflow/exchange through the tent is enough to keep the humidity/moisture down inside?
I finished 6 plants in my bedroom last fall. Since some early season rains were rolling through and most of the plants needed another 10 to 14 days, I pulled em' inside into a corner of my room and had them finishing under a 1000w light.
With no dehumidifier running the humidity in my room with the plants in there was up around 75% to 80% (not ideal for flowering). The first day I had em' in there before I got the dehumidifier running, when walking into my room I could feel how "thick" and moist the air was. Once I got it going I had the dehumidifier running several times through the day to keep it down around 50%...and that's with the plants in my open room with tall ceilings/lots of volume/space, I can't imagine how humid it would be inside a tent/small space with plants.
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Re: Cannabis Growers [Re: Mr Piggy] 1
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openmind said: Or do y'all just run a dehumidifier in the room with the tent, and the airflow/exchange through the tent is enough to keep the humidity/moisture down inside?
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This. Inside of the tent is wildly impractical for a dehumidifier and if you have proper air exchange it wouldn't make a difference anyway. I set my dehumidifier in the room to the rh level I want, and then work out what setting I have to set my inline fan to in order to keep my tent's temperatures and humidity ambient. You will be able to keep a much more stable growing environment by stabilizing the RH and Temps of the room the tent is in. This will allow you to really dial in the tent.
Gotcha.
That makes sense .
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