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Re: The Official Cannabis Growers Thread [Re: koods]
    #26236196 - 10/07/19 06:26 PM (4 years, 3 months ago)

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Since this plant smells so strongly, Ive decided to dry it in a sealed huge Tupperware storage bin over a saturated salt solution. It’s the same device i use to dry mushrooms and has a little fan in it.

My choices of salts are

Ammonium nitrate which produces a fixed relative humidity of 64%

Magnesium nitrate: 54%

Potassium carbonate: 48%

Saturated salt solutions provide very tightly controlled humidity levels by absorbing water  from the air whenthe humidity is above equilibrium and releasing water when it is below. I just need to chose an appropriate humidity level.






That's a nifty way to dry :thumbup: . I've done something similar with anhydrous magnesium sulfate for drying mushrooms/keeping them dry in storage.

If it is sealed well I'd think it would still need to be opened up at least once a day for fresh air....because aren't there also some gasses that plants release as they dry out & breakdown a bit (?).

I think either the Mag nitrate/54% or the ammonium nitrate/64% would be the best.

Depending how dense the buds are.

I've heard 60% humidity is a general rule of thumb for humidity when drying & curing.

Most folks seem to aim for a drying period of 7 to 10 days, so whatever you feel fits that drying time the best I guess.




It's pretty dry in my area (mostly below 50% per 24 hours and down to 20% during the day) and most of what I harvested last year and so far this year seems to be dry enough for trimming around 5 to 6 days (hung as full branches with only some fan leaves removed, drying in shed outdoors and my closet)...then I slow the drying down in jars for another week or so before I feel cozy leaving them sealed up for a while.





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Re: The Official Cannabis Growers Thread [Re: mushroomnate] * 1
    #26243060 - 10/10/19 04:06 PM (4 years, 3 months ago)

So I've been playing the game of, "one more day" lol.

...I was going to harvest almost a week ago but I'm glad I've waited on these last two plants because they're looking mighty prime now. I was planning on doing so early this morning before sunrise, but when I woke up at 4am this morning to chop em' I was still in a sleepy haze...Then I walked outside and noticed it was still pretty windy outside, and after feeling that cold wind on my skin after coming out of a warm bed I said "fuck it" and went back to sleep lol...So I'm letting em' live for one more day lol.


They will for sure be harvested before sunrise tomorrow though.




"Thin Mint" ....A warm, sweet & spicy essence. Peppery. Sweet earthy/doughy. A bit Skunky. Some cocoa notes. A little gassy/chemy too...Really complex aroma, lots of layers in there...The peppery note of Thin Mint along with that dough-like/fresh baked note always makes me think of "biscuits and gravy" lol, but it is sweeter & more baked-cookie-like. I can't get enough of the aroma that the fresh resin has on this plant....It's like if you took the best smells from the earth and the forest and someone turned it into a baked good lol, very earthy but also very scrumptious/spicy/sweet. 


















Underdog Urkle...A pungent gassy/chemmy & floral essence...Some acetone notes up front, with notes of berries and flowers...Smells "purple" & "OG"...Some sourdough bread-like notes...Reminiscent of Purple Urkle for sure but I also notice a lot of the Underdog-OG in there as well.












I smoked some of the Thin Mint last night from the plant I already harvested, such a potent and euphoric smoke. Lifted my mood and made my body feel sooo gosh darn good, silky/relaxed & warm....As "hyped" as the cookie strain(s) is, Thin Mint really does "hit the spot" for me and always has. I find it to be pretty medicinal. And I thoroughly enjoy its essence, I'm super stoked that this plant turned out with the exact essence that I know and love. (I had my doubts at first, but seems like the "real deal" to me :shrug: )





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Re: The Official Cannabis Growers Thread [Re: jellyfish]
    #26254214 - 10/15/19 03:08 PM (4 years, 3 months ago)

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Nice flowers dude!
Frosty AF!:rockon:






Thanks man . I'm pretty happy with how things turned out this time around :yesnod: .







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:snoopyes:





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lol that snoop gif always makes me laugh.

I'm looking forward to making some hash with that stuff. Even the smallest/larfy buds are super resinous and actually pretty dense.








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remember to soak your outdoor buds for a minute to get all that dust off

i realized how shitty weed makes me sneeze all the time cause of the dust in it






Trimming buds makes me super sneezy at times :yesnod: . My nose is actually rather itchy/sneezy feeling at the moment from trimming last night.

I don't feel it's because of dust though, at least for myself/my situation....I feel it's because of the small little hairs that are on the stems/stalks and other fragments of the plant becoming airborne. Some of the dust on the plants likely contribute somewhat, but I feel the little hairs are what really does it for me...The cannabis plant in general makes me pretty itchy and irritates my skin & sinuses. Like when I have to get my arms up in the plant to do something, my arms get itchy very easily just from contact with the plant, assuming it is from the small hairs on the stems/branches/stalks.

I've got three of my plants trimmed up so far, trimming last year was much more sneezey & irritating to my skin/sinuses for me for some reason....I was taking a shower after trimming one night last year and sneezed about 30 times in a row while in the shower, I just could not stop, and that was after several dozen sneezes that occurred prior to getting into the shower...I absolutely love a good sneeze but damn that was getting annoying and really uncomfortable.

I was intending on getting a simple dust mask to wear for trimming this time but never did.





I'm about 1/2 way done with trimming...2 plants worth left to trim, but they're also the two biggest plants I grew.

Then once those are done....'tis the season for hash making :smirk: . And I'm really hoping to find someone that has a rosin press or access to one, going to start asking friends & acquaintances if they know anyone that has one.






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Re: The Official Cannabis Growers Thread [Re: Ran-D]
    #26289959 - 10/31/19 02:20 PM (4 years, 2 months ago)

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Those fall colors...







Beautiful colors.

What strain is that? Just wondering because most strains have finished up by now (tho I know some varieties can go well into November).









The first Thin Mint and Underdog Urkle plants I took down were definitely harvested a bit early...I should have let them go a bit longer.

The second Thin Mint and Underdog Urkle plants I took down about 10 days after the first are much more prime, but even those I feel like I should have let go a lil bit longer.

I just felt in a pinch because I had to be out of town for a week at the end of this month so I wanted the herb to be dry enough before then so it could sit in jars while I'm out of town with out being burped for a week/with out any concern for mold...That combined with the aphids, I had to harvest a bit earlier than I wanted. I really should have let those first plants go longer though.


Everything is starting to cure up decently....More flavors are starting to come through in the smoke and the aromas in the jars are becoming a bit more refined. I recall last time around most of my herb seemed to be the best around 2 to 4 months after harvest/curing.

That Thin Mint turned out quite potent tho...My tolerance has for sure gone up a bit since harvest but I still don't take any more than two bong rips of the Thin Mint per "session" lol. I pack a 3rd rip but always end up saving it for later lol. That stuff can annihilate me when smoked later in the day.






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Re: The Official Cannabis [Re: Lophosaurus]
    #26292229 - 11/01/19 02:39 PM (4 years, 2 months ago)

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LA Pop Rockz. They were flipped late.





Gotcha.







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I have to brown paper grocery bags filled with 50% frosty trim and 50% dried buds. I want to make some kind hash and don't have any equipment. What is a good method that doesn't need a lot of expensive equipment? Should I get bubble hash bags, or is there a cheap rosin press or something I don't even know about? I've made QWISO before that was tasty and almost shattered. I could do that again maybe?

What do you guys do with your trim? Mine is too much for edibles unles I get it down to a tincture.






Didn't you make some bubble hash last year? Or was it the QWISO. I vaguely recall you making some sort of hash.


A set of bubble bags can be had for pretty cheap (less than $50) depending on the "brand". I have a full set of the "Vivosun" brand bubble bags, they're a cheaper brand but the bags seem to be made decent enough and they do the job :shrug: .

To increase efficiency a bit and for less effort/work on your part, a miniature washing machine can be used to wash the material/break off the trichomes....I'm on a tight budget though so I just went with the ol' classic wooden spoon and a bucket with some elbow grease to do the stirring/washing lol.



I made a little bit of QWISO last year too....it turned out alright, I was dabbing it mostly and it didn't feel all that potent for some reason :shrug:, and I didn't like the flavor it had . It was made from the frostiest & most resinous trim I had too. It was my first go with QWISO though and I feel I could have done it a bit better.


A rosin press would be a nice investment. A press can be made at home pretty easily & cheaply, and I've seen "personal" sized rosin presses/kits for like $300+ and up...Though with rosin I feel it's best to press flower or hash/kif, I don't know how well sugar trim does in a rosin press. So the best way to go about it, I feel, would be to make some hash or dry sift from the trim first, then press that material into rosin. I really want to have/make my own rosin press someday. I love the stuff...One can make some damn fine "extract" in an instant with a press & flowers.




My self though....I'm going to be running all of my trim and small buds through my bubble bags. And if I can find an acquaintance/someone local with a press I might press some of my buds and some of the hash I get from my bags into rosin.

Sometime today, actually, I'm going to attempt to press a few grams of my buds using a hair straightener and parchment paper lol. Not very efficient at all but it works for a small amount.





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Re: The Official Cannabis [Re: Morel Guy] * 2
    #26367223 - 12/07/19 03:44 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

To answer staytrippy....

I decarb around 230f for about 20 minutes.

I use about 1 tablespoon of coco-oil for every 1g to 2g of sugar trim/larfy buds (depending how sugary/frosted the material is, I never actually use quality/smoke-able buds for edibles unless making a single serving/dose)

I put an equal amount of coco oil & water in a pot.

I place the herb into the pot with coco oil & water (sometimes I'll have the herb wrapped up in a cheese cloth when infusing it into the oil, other times it's just mixed in loosely with the oil/water and filtered off at the end)

I keep it just below a simmer, probably around 200f degrees, for 1.5 to 2.5 hours

Then filter off the herb material.

I let the oil/water cool and separate in the fridge, once cool/separated I'll poke a hole in the solidified oil to drain the water.

If there is a layer of "nasties" (mostly teeny tiny fragments of plant mater/dust/dirt) on the bottom of the solidified oil (the portion that was between the oil & water) I'll scrape it off with a knife.

Done & done.

I love the taste of my canna-coco-oil...To enjoy the taste of the herb itself I like to slather the oil onto some good toasted sourdough bread with a sprinkle of sea salt on top :drooling: .





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How do you guys prepare your canna coconut oil?





....Most people decarboxylate their cannabis or hash before infusing, i feel like the double boil does a good enough job of that though.





I've always wondered about that, how much the herb/cannabinoids will decarb during the "infusion" process alone, and again during baking/cooking if one is making edibles with the oil.

Because if one decarbs before infusion, the cannabinoids are exposed to heat again during the infusion, and if one uses their coco-oil to cook/make edibles it is exposed to heat again for a 3rd time.

Because of this...I've always wondered it it's possible to just skip the initial decarb of the herb before infusing, thinking that there's enough heat/time involved during infusion and cooking with the oil after infusion for it to be pretty well decarbed.

Every time I make canna-coco-oil I am always wondering how thoroughly I decarbed, and/or if the THC/cannabinoids have been exposed to heat for too long and are breaking down into other components since the cannabinoids are being exposed to heat 3 different times (decarb, infusion, cooking).

I mean my edibles do the trick, sure they get me stoned :shrug:...but I can't help but wonder if I'm getting the "full potential" of the available cannabinoids or if I may be breaking down/losing some from multiple exposures to heat.








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...Never tried the water cleanse trick but it makes sense and I've seen pics.





It helps clean it up a bit for sure. The oil comes out a bit less green and not nearly as dark in color. The taste is "cleaner" as well.






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Re: The Official Cannabis [Re: karode13]
    #26403373 - 12/27/19 05:49 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

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Organic or Synthetic does not matter. Phosphorus is the exact same chemical structure in either form


A lot of you need to brush up on basic horticulture 101.






Phosphorus is Phosphorus.

But wouldn't an "organic" fertilizer/source that is high in phosphorus be something like bone meal and certain bat/bird guano, etc etc...which contains a lot of phos it but needs to be broken down to be available to the plant? (or is the phos in organic sources actually readily available/soluble?)

Compared to "synthetic" fertilizers/sources of phosphorus which would just be straight up phosphate/phosphorus in a salt form?



Phos is Phos...but if one is trying to create a living soil and grow organically, isn't phosphate and other "synthetic"/salt based ferts not all that great for the life in the soil?

And wouldn't phosphate/phos in salt form have more potential to be damaging to local soils & waterways than an organic source would be?





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Re: The Official Cannabis [Re: bw86] * 1
    #26468622 - 02/04/20 02:26 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

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anybody banking reversed pollen ?





Check out "strainly" ...someone on there might.

It is a website/platform for folks to share/trade/buy cannabis genetics in various forms (seed, clone, pollen, tissue culture).





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Re: The Official Cannabis [Re: koods]
    #26532820 - 03/13/20 02:01 PM (3 years, 10 months ago)

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I’m thinking I should start germinating for this year’s crop. I intend to grow outdoors. Is this a good time?





Days are still a bit too short, I think.

I'd expect young plants to go into flowering early if started outdoors with no supplemental lighting at the moment.

I'm not sure where abouts you are/what latitude, IIRC you're somewhere around the east coast....but I've heard a general rule of thumb is to wait until there is about 14 hours of day light. With less than 14 hours of light, most varieties will likely start to flower.

My plants usually start to flower outdoors around the first week of August, and that's right around the time that days start to drop below the 14 hour mark.


I'll likely be germinating seeds next month around bicycle day/4-20...For my area, I think the days will be long enough soon after then for the plants to stay in veg and not flower early.




The weather has been so warm and mild in my area over this past month or so that I've been itching to get some things sowed and growing, but I don't have any lights to work with to give the plants some supplemental light to prevent early flowering.

I've considered popping some of the seeds I've got from my own plants/buds, likely self pollinated but not positive, and maybe putting some of those into an early season light dep grow...just for the sake of growing something...But I'd have to be around every day for 2+ months to put them into light dep at the same time every day and I might be out of town at some point or another over the next few months so probably not going to do that.

But man...I've been wanting to get something going considering how nice the weather has been (though with that said, lots of rain and colder weather is heading towards my area next week).





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Re: The Official Cannabis [Re: koods]
    #26535109 - 03/14/20 03:54 PM (3 years, 10 months ago)

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I'm not sure where abouts you are/what latitude, IIRC you're somewhere around the east coast....but I've heard a general rule of thumb is to wait until there is about 14 hours of day light. With less than 14 hours of light, most varieties will likely start to flower.




So the further north you are the earlier you can grow outside?

What happens when you are so far south you never get 14 hour days?






:shrug:

I've never been, and I've never grown that far south.

I have always wondered about that myself though...for folks that are close to the equator, how do they go about growing the plant and what is their typical growing season/calendar like..?..Since the days aren't nearly as long as they are farther up north.

I know a lot of the landraces that naturally grow close to the equator tend to require very long flowering periods, like 3 to 4+ months/16+ weeks of flowering compared to the usual 2 month average of most of today's hybrid varieties. I can imagine the strains that grow naturally/wild near the equator go into flowering when the plants are still small/young and early in their growing/life cycle, and they are flowering/developing buds for a long period of time through out the year.



I vaguely recall some stories about folks trying to grow some of today's hybrids close to the equator experiencing their plants going into flowering early/when the plants are still young & small because the days aren't long enough...I'm not sure what the technique/growing schedule is for folks living close to the equator.

I assume one way to grow near the equator would be to veg the plant indoors under lights with 15+ hours of light, then move them outside once they are as big as you want and they'll go into flowering once they are moved outdoors....

...or, growing the plants in a green house and using supplemental light for a few hours each day to prevent early flowering. Then when one wants the plant to flower they just stop giving it the supplemental light.



But yea...with most of today's varieties, I do feel that they'll start to flower early if started outdoors right now (around the U.S.) with no supplemental lighting.

If plants go into flowering early the plants will switch back to veg eventually, but it's kinda a waste of time/energy for the plant, going into flowering then switching back to veg causes the plant to kinda "stall" a bit. Basically just time/energy wasted when the plant could be vegging and growing up that entire time.

I feel early flowering is an even bigger concern with clones...When clones are growing up under 16+ hours of light indoors, when they are moved outdoors during the spring time the shorter amount of light and/or the different light/dark schedule can trigger clones to flower early.

Plants can be started outdoors right now, they'll just need some extra hours of light.



With all that said...I'm still relatively new to growing the plant (this will be my 3rd time around) and I've never tried starting plants this early so I can't speak from direct experience...But from what I've gathered, plants started this early outdoors will likely start to flower early.

In my area, those that get a super early start usually start their seedlings indoors sometime during the winter...or they do a green house with some supplemental lighting...when they move their plants fully outdoors during late spring they are usually already big plants, 3ft to 5ft+ tall.



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Re: The Official Cannabis [Re: LizardWizard]
    #26535119 - 03/14/20 04:03 PM (3 years, 10 months ago)

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You need 12/12 light/dark hours for initiation of bloom.





My outdoor plants always start to flower long before the hours of day/night are at 12/12.

Around the beginning of August is when most varieties will start to flower in my area (west coast, northern cali), and that's when the days are just starting to dip below 14 hours.





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Re: The Official Cannabis [Re: Howefarmsmedicals]
    #26557334 - 03/25/20 03:53 PM (3 years, 9 months ago)

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I would think that for the couple of weeks the plant doesn’t really care that much about the light cycle. In nature they are germinating before there is 14 hours of daylight





What do you mean "for the couple of weeks the plant doesn’t really care that much about the light cycle"...?...I assume you are talking about the first couple weeks of the plants life?...If so, yea I don't think they care much about the light cycle for the first couple weeks/as seedlings. That is something I've wondered about though.

In nature they will germinate long before the days are 14 hours long, lots of folks here in California have had seedlings pop up around their yards in the middle of the winter (from random seeds dropping, being tossed out, falling from plants grown in those spots the year prior, etc)...

...but in nature the plant just wants to grow and reproduce, it doesn't have a goal to develop big sticky dank buds with out seeds. Cannabis seeds germinate pretty easy/quickly, but just because they germinate doesn't mean it's the right season for them to be growing (if the goal is large dank buds).





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8a, you can get away with mid april here most of the time.....As long as the photo plants were in an ascending period they stayed out of flower....






I did some more digging around on the topic, and yea it seems that the consensus (at least for my region) is that seeds started in spring when the days/sunlight are ascending should be fine (even tho the days are still relatively short). Some genetics/strains might go into early flowering, but as long as the days are getting longer most plants should stay in veg.

Late March/early April seems to be about the earliest that people start seeds outdoors in my area (northern-Cali) with no supplemented light.





I'll be germinating some of the seeds I've saved from my two previous grows sometime before this weekend. I'm assuming the seeds are from self pollination because I didn't have any males around, I never spotted hermi-sacks or male flowers or bananas on any of my plants so I'm really not sure how they got knocked up or where that pollen came from :shrug: ....Those plants will be put into the ground around my yard and not part of my "main" grow, just some plants to have on the side (if they were self pollinated, those seeds are likely going to grow more plants that self pollinate, so I don't want them near my main plants). I'm mostly just curious to see what sort of traits show up in those plants, the plants/buds the seeds came out of were pretty dank I just have no idea who the father was.

I have some "Lemon Wookie Glue" seeds from "Equilibrium Genetics" that I will also be germinating this week, any ladies from those will go into 30gal fabric pots. I grew this strain from seed last year.

And I'll be filling out the rest of my fabric pots with clones....Not sure what varieties yet. I def want to grow one of the cake strains. And def one plant that is more on the uplifting/heady/sativa side, most of what I grew last year is more on the stoney side of things.



I want to get a hold of some clones ASAP considering what's going on with the virus....but clones put outdoors right now would for sure go into flowering early, and I don't have any lights.




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Re: The Official Cannabis [Re: Allium]
    #26573535 - 04/02/20 03:33 PM (3 years, 9 months ago)

I was going to germinate my seeds earlier this week since it was looking like we were going to have a nice week+ long stretch of sunny skies & temps in the mid 70s...

....but a decent storm is in the forecast for this weekend so I'm holding off.

Since I'm starting my seeds outdoors under the sun right from the get go and not under lights, I'm waiting until we have a solid stretch of clear skies & warm temps....As of now I'll be soaking the seeds Monday night and sowing them on Tue.



Can't believe it's already time....time flies these days.





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Re: The Official Cannabis [Re: koods]
    #26577565 - 04/04/20 03:52 PM (3 years, 9 months ago)

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I planted outside two weeks ago. They just grow slow, but they can handle temps in the high thirties just fine. They don’t stretch like they do inside which is nice





I know the seedlings can handle the cold temps ...

...but the seeds are not likely to germinate anyways in the cold & dark/cloudy conditions this weekend and I don't want the seeds sitting in cold & wet/saturated soil during the storm this weekend.

So I'm just going to wait a few more days until the storm has passed. I like to have my seedlings soaking up direct sunshine from the day they pop open.

Next week looks like an increase in temps and sun each day, mid to upper 70s by next weekend, so I'll be starting them on Monday.




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Outside vs. inside.
Planted the same day







:thumbup:

When did you start last year? You getting an earlier start this time around too?




IIRC I didn't start germinating seeds until around May 5th last year, so I'm looking forward to an entire extra month of veg-growth this time around and hopefully ID'ing the males/females sooner.

And I didn't get clones put into my pots until like the middle of June last year. I plan on getting some clones next week and just keeping them under my porch lights from around sunset to around 8:30pm to prevent them from going into flowering.

So my plants should have 30 to 60 more days of veg-growth this time around :awesome: .



I'm going to start an actual grow-journal this time around too, writing down & documenting everything I do as well as the weather each day.




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Re: The Official Cannabis [Re: Ran-D]
    #26580498 - 04/05/20 09:00 PM (3 years, 9 months ago)

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Been so busy working the past few summers that I haven't done much personal growing. The seed collection is piling up.



Not to mention all the random bagseed I've saved over the years. Time to get some of these wet.






Nice collection to select from  :raisemyglass:  .







I'm about to soak & pop a bunch of random seeds I've picked out of my own herb (likely self pollinated) and some bag seeds from over the years. And some of my Lemon Wookie Glue from Equilibrium. I'm really considering trying out a light dep with a few plants. Mostly just out of curiosity with seeds I don't care too much about but also because I'm going to run out of smoke from last summer's grow soon so it'd be nice to get a little something mid to late summer lol. The LWG I'll grow out fully, but I'm thinking I'll try light dep with seeds from my own buds.

I don't have much material to work with to make a light dep space...So I was thinking about trying to keep the plants pretty small, maybe 3gal pots, and put them into the dep/flowering cycle after only about a month or so. I can make a simple structure & cover with plastic pipe & tarp underneath a tree/in the shade. I was thinking keeping em' covered 8pm to 8am, maybe down to 8pm/9am towards the end.




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Re: The Official Cannabis [Re: LizardWizard]
    #26581855 - 04/06/20 02:20 PM (3 years, 9 months ago)

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You can take the cover off at night so they're getting air flow. If sunrise is 6AM pull the tarp at 6pm then take it off whenever it's completely dark out. Unless you have other lights around that would disturb them of course.





I realized that a little after making that post last night lol, that I don't need to have them covered all night lol...That I'd really only need to have them covered for a bit during the evening then I could remove the cover once it is fully dark out.

Because that was another thing on my mind, fresh air flow. I was thinking about the plants sitting under a tarp all night and was thinking I'd have to have a small fan or something in there to keep some fresh air moving around lol....I know the general idea behind light dep but never actually thought it out much or read about how people go about it lol, now I realize all I need to do is cut out a few hours of sunlight during the evening then I can take the tarp back off....That was a total brain fart/derp moment lol.

It's never 100% dark in my yard because my neighbor has a super bright metal halide light way high up on a pole that's on a sensor so it turns on right at sunset and it is on buzzing about all night long :nonono: . I fuckin' hate that thing....but the past couple years I just block the light with a tarp-wall from directly hitting my plants, seems to work because my plants flower just fine.






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I got dat luxury problem too :blush:







Nice :thumbup: .


There are so many seeds/genetics I want to have on hand and grow out lol. Realizing there aren't enough years/summers in my life to grow everything I want to grow lol.








Allium....That Kudzu really is a perfect camouflage!







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Re: The Official Cannabis [Re: Zifozonke]
    #26584171 - 04/07/20 02:18 PM (3 years, 9 months ago)

I let my seeds soak overnight and they'll be sowed into soil outside this afternoon.

5 seeds from my Tangieland
5 seeds from my Thin Mint
4 seeds from my South Fork Kush
3 seeds from my Slymer

Those are all from seeds I've picked out of my own buds from my own grows the past couple years. The best looking ladies from those will be put into light dep, might save one or two to grow out all summer. But I'm expecting those to have hermi traits or a tendency to push out some nanners and self pollinate....I'm really curious to see what actually comes out of those seeds because I do not know who their daddy is/where the pollen came from lol. I am mostly just satisfying my curiosity with those and using them to play around with light dep, if I get something worth smoking that's a bonus lol.



Also, 4 Lemon Wookie Glue seeds from Equilibrium Genetics...I germinated 5 last year from my pack of 12 and only one female came out of those, so I'm hoping to get at least one female again this time around. If I get two females, one will be put into a 30 gal fabric pot and the other will go directly into the ground (hoping gophers don't fuck with it).




I got a hold of my clone source and they'll be ready in about 2 weeks :awesome: .

As far as clones, I'm pretty certain I'll get getting...

-Permafrost (Trainwreck X White Widow)
-Wedding Cake
-Yolo Berry
-Gorilla Glue X Green Crack

...and maybe a couple others.


All of my clones will be going into 20 & 30 gal fabric pots.

This will be my 3rd time around using the same soil :thumbup: .







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Re: The Official Cannabis [Re: openmind]
    #26584177 - 04/07/20 02:19 PM (3 years, 9 months ago)

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They installed a super bright street lamp about 10 feet from my plants last year about a week into flower. Most of the plants were not illuminated directly, but they ended up getting tall enough the tops got blasted with light. Also there was reflection that dimly lit a lot of leaf area. The plants were fine and flowered normally.









Weren't the plants on your porch also directly underneath a porch light? I kinda remember something like that going on.

That's how my plants have been the past couple years, they aren't illuminated directly but a few of them have got tall enough where parts of their tops are getting hit with light.





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Whoa. It looks like a cluster of male flowers. Radical.





I thought the same thing.

Before I expanded the pic, I too totally thought it was a pic of male flowers lol.

Super cool mantis! I haven't seen one like that before.





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Re: The Official Cannabis [Re: Ran-D] * 1
    #26585115 - 04/07/20 09:35 PM (3 years, 9 months ago)

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That Permafrost sounds very nice.
People now days hate on Trainwreck. I personally miss it. I swear some of the herb I was getting 15 years ago was so much better than what I see now. Like stink up your whole house with a gram bag dank, and literally too sticky to roll a joint.





It does sound nice :yesnod: !

I've been meaning to confirm if that is indeed the parents/if that's the strain it is, or if it is something else with the same name. But everything I've looked around online points to it being TW X WW . The only other thing I've seen is that it might also be Kali Mist X Trinity Snow, which I'd also be equally stoked on lol.

I used to get Kali Mist back around 2006 to 2009-ish . I loved that strain and haven't seen it since back around then....Same & same with Train Wreck too. TW is an old favorite of mine for sure and holds some nostalgia for me. The very first time I ever got super lit, basically full on tripping, was with Trainwreck lol...it was the 3rd or 4th time I ever smoked and that stuff sent me off lol.


And I hear ya and concur about herb being better 15 years ago. I've talked about this with a few friends of mine and mentioned it here and other forums...Back around 2005 to 2010-ish is the time I saw the best herb. Not to say stuff like that can't be found now, but back around then everything I crossed paths with was consistently top notch stuff. And not only that but the varieties that were more common around then I enjoyed a lot. I remember the herb always being sticky or greasy/oily in the fingers, and super loud/pungent aromas that could not be kept under control with many layers of bags and would linger for days lol. Flavor that lasted to the roach of a J, and I do remember times that my friends fingers would be too sticky & greased up to roll a J.

Back around like 2006 I specifically remember a time where I got an 1/8th, it was some super chunky and very sticky purple stuff. Still some of the best purple flower I've had to this day. I don't recall the strain but prob GDP or Urkle or something along those lines, very gassy & skunky and "purple"...I had the stuff in a medicine bottle, and the medicine bottle in two ziploc bags, and those in a drawer of my dresser in my room and the door of my room was closed...I was out around town doing something with my dad for a while and when we got back home and walked through the front door there was an immediate thick dank/skunk smell in the air lol. At the time my dad kinda knew I smoked but he still wasn't all that kosher with it so I was like daamnnnnnn lol. And I was always a paranoid/super cautious toker back then so I tried to make sure there was no way the smell would seep out, but it was so stanky it funked up the whole house :lol: .

It was more expensive back then tho, could be because I was young then and didn't have a good connect price wise. I do remember prices being more than today...but it was dank :drooling: .

I mean I do dig me some Wedding Cake lol, and some new strains around today. But there are lots of strains I miss from back then. Classic OG, TW, Afghani/hash plant, Kali Mist, Master Kush, Bubba, Hindu, this "Sour Lemon Diesel" that was crazy pine-sol lemon/pine drenched in gas and ultra skunky lol...Snocap...Classic Jack Herer...Bubblegum...Romulan...lots of others I don't really hear about often these days.

I really do hope that Permafrost is the TW X WW.


I'm stoned & buzzin' on kratom and didn't realize how long of a ramble that was lol.




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    #26593470 - 04/11/20 01:08 PM (3 years, 9 months ago)

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Yep, they are Thrips, you gotta good eye!

I would not toss it, just spray those bastards off!



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100% thrips.:thumbup:

TheMallacht did a write up on these somewhere. Also for common pests indoors. Use the search engine.





So those are what thrips look like eh'..?

The past few years I've had a few tiny critters on my cannabis plants (outdoors) that I thought were thrips, but they are much smaller than the bugs in those pics jellyfish posted, like barely visible with the eye (maybe what I've seen on my plants are also thrips, just a different type).




Last year I started to get aphids on my plants (outdoors) during the last 3 weeks of flowering. I always dreaded getting aphids on my cannabis plants because of the nasty mess they make from their excretions, when I first spotted them on my plants I was like "oh noooo!" and briefly devastated lol .

...Since the plants were in flowering I didn't want to spray them down with the hose. Koods (IIRC) made the suggestion to use a paint brush to swipe them off, and that's what I did. Every morning for 2 weeks I'd go to each of my plants and lift/turn over damn near every leaf and swipe off the aphids from the undersides of the leaves, it was tedious but it worked great. It kept their population in check and after the first few days of doing that there wouldn't be many on the plants the following mornings.

I know we're talking about a different pest here, and indoors vs outdoors (when aphids are knocked off a plant outdoors it's unlikely they'll make their way back onto it, that might not be the same for thrips/indoors)...but just thought I'd share, using a paint brush worked great for me and had no impact on the plant itself.





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