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chief bigsmoke · Jun 2, 2012

Sweet Skunk, Silver Kush, BC Hashplant, Chem4, Garberville Purple Kush and mystery blue... w/ UVB, BLUMATS, Vert-Donuts, LEDS, Royal Philharmonic Plant Music...

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WELCOME to my New Journal
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About this thread: "A beginners mindful and meta-physical journey through the mysteries of the natural world we grow in"

I'm also a second year horticulture student and that's means absolutely nothing. The more I study the less I seem to know. This thread will give me the opportunity to regurgitate some of the information in efforts to try and wrap my head around some of these topics. As a bonus my Uni has allowed me to use my garden and specifically Cannabis in most of my projects.

About Us:

We are a very small garden that exists solely to produce Free meds for my amazing girlfriend. Who suffers from Crohns Disease. WE have very limited experience and often fly by the seat of our pants, but one thing is for sure we are very serious about keeping things legit. We are not cha$ing pound$. We are simply producing enough meds for my lovely lady only. We often refer to our garden as a "Artists Studio" not a grow op. My growing philosophy is simple.. stay true to the plant and do your best to understand it.

Much love from our garden to yours...

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My New Soil Recipe:

35% Black Gold Premium Potting Soil
20% Recycled soil - containing some extra slow release ferts like greensand
15% Compost (1/3 Mushroom, 1/3 Manure, 1/3 Food)
9% Earthworm Castings
5% Locally sourced soil from deep in the forests of the PNW
4% Glacial Rock Dust
2% Quartz Crystals
1% Alfalfa Meal
1% Kelp Meal
1% Greensand
1% Fine Dolomite Lime
1% Peruvian Seabird Guano
1% High N and High P Bat guano
1% Charcoal
1% Organic Fert consisting of Fish meal, Soybean meal, Neem cake, Rock phosphate, Natural potash and Humic acid derivatives.
1% DE
1% Neem Meal

*Trace amounts of coffee grounds, egg shells and feather pieces

- Treat Each hole with MycoMaximum during each transplant for lots of helpful microbeasties.

- Treat each container with white clover and ornamental grasses. To help fix nitrogen, act as a living mulch, add porosity to the soil and lots of organic matter and so much more. Use the ornamental grass again in late flower to use up a bit of the leftover N sources.

Species being grown:

- BC Hashplant - first run
- Silver Kush - special edition - third run
- Chemdawg 4 - 1st and last
- Garberville Purple Kush (swerves) - 1st run
- Original Sweet Skunk Clone - 4th run
- ECSD - had lots of troubs with pm with this cut. have decided to hold back until I fix my environment.
- Mystery blue - 2nd run and still trying to make it pop. I know there is lots of potential but I'm not hitting it yet. wonderful blue smell.

Strains Grown within the past year: Cheesedog (Conn Gen), Tahoe OG (Cali), Strawberry Alien Kush (dankhouse) and Grandaddy Hazes (Conn Gen)

System:

- Small veg tent w/ t8's and ionizing cfls
- Medium flower tent w/ one air-cooled 600w full spectrum HPS and supplemental 26w UVB bulb
- A Stereo that always plays the Royal Philharmonics Plant Growth Album
- Automatic Fire Extinguishers
- Lots and lots of security
- Even more Love...

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Why shouldn't a feeding schedule be EASY

Water Method

- 8x Blumat auto watering units
- Others are water by Hand to Drain. Wet - Dry Cycles
- Always Double/Triple water - water once, then wait 10-20 mins then water again for more accurate water coverage
- With only pure Reverse Osmosis water. Courtesy of a HydroLogic stealth 100gpd RO filter w/ the upgraded catalytic filter for filtration of more heavy metals
- Always let water distill at least 24 hrs before using to let remaining chlorine evaporate
- Aerate if possible
- Plain RO for last couple weeks of maturation

Aerated Compost Teas:

Resupplying the legions of beneficial microbeasties that break down the organic matter into useable forms for the plant to devour. Apply once a week, until the final weeks of maturation.

ACT and Botanicel Tea Recipes:

Seedlings:

1L of RO, 1 TBS of EWC's, pinch of Alfalfa/Kelp combo and a 1/2 tsp of Blackstrap Molasses

and

3L of non-chlorinated RO water
1/8 cup of Aloe Vera gel harvested by Mrs.Chief
1/2 tsp of kelp meal

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Veg and Flower Teas: * rotating schedules

3L of non-chlorinated RO water
1/8 cup of Aloe Vera gel harvested by Mrs.Chief
1/2 tsp of kelp meal

and

1.5L of RO, 1 TBS of EWC's, 1 TBS of Compost (1/3 mushroom, 1/3 steer manure and 1/3 food), pinch of Alfalfa Meal and Kelp Meal and 1 tsp of Blackstrap Molasses

and

2L of unchlorinated RO water
1 tsp of MYCOMAXIMUM for designed microbeastie production
1 TBS of Blackstrap Molasses

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Tea for the preparation to switch to flower mode

2L of unchlorinated RO water
2 TBS of Neem Meal
1 TBS of Kelp Meal
1/4 tsp of Pro Silicate

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Super Growth Booster Foliar Tea

1.5L Unchlorinated RO water
1/8 Alfalfa Meal
1 tsp of Aloe Vera
1/2 tsp of Kelp Meal

Added Growing Techniques Used:

- Training with clothes pins
- Light super cropping
- Lolly-pop bottom of plant for better air flow and lass flarfy buds
- Early topping
- lots of love including talking to plants and thanking them for their sacrifice

Plant Protection:

- Neem Oil
- Pro Silicate
- Sticky Traps
- Hydrogen Peroxide
- Sodium Bicarbonate
- SNS natural spider mite spray
- SNS natural fungicide
- Top Dress with D.E.
- Safers Defender for veg issues w/ mold

Additional Nutes:

- Full line of General Organics nutrients (used) - thanks to the sales rep, Drip Clean and Kool Bloom

Seed vault:

- Banana OG x Sour Bubble reg
- Qleaner f2's reg
- Strawberry Alien Kush reg
- Grandaddy Haze reg
- Strawberry Fire
- Sweetdawg

Mucho respect to the following ppl for helping get to where I am today. You know who you are...

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To all my loyal friends who have followed along since the beginning I would like to begin this thread with this gift from my culture as a blessing of knowledge to share with the world.

Hidden Knowledge - This story has been protected in our families for many years and once long long ago it was common knowledge to everyone in the americas that we all originally came from these three stars.. study the story and it may just "fill the gap" in your understanding of the world

"The three stars that line up in a row facing south during the summer moon are the places we come from. (looking south from Wild Potato Lake in Partridge Crop)

The Paypaytahbun, The Memaywaysuh and The Anishinawbe came together on a craft that traveled by thought and as quickly.

We are all relations here on Atukeemon but these three are closer because of this. (My sister and I were in the swamp at the back of the cabin at Crilly when Grandpa popped a mushroom that gave off a cloud of dust (spores).He said the mushroom ate the dark to live and all the other plants ate the sun to live.) Because the Paypaytahbun, the Memaywaysuh, and the Anishinawbe had subtle characteristics different from each other and this planet earth demanded a certain kind of attention when events and alliances converged, the three types melted into their own realms to maintain the balance in this place. Each had a special connection to groups of beings that were already here before us.

We could visit each other but under certain conditions or times. The Paypaytahbun always visit us at the time of waking up or going to sleep. They look like a deep dark shadow with green, red, orange, yellow or purple eyes and when they touch us they freeze us in what feels like terror and cold. They are taller then most Anishinawbe

(next day grandpa Pete took me and my sister to the same spot and we saw hundreds of baby mushrooms growing where the day before there was only one.) Sometimes they can visit us during the day through our shadow or any shadow. When they are here with us in the Anishnawbe realm, they are many but it is only one. One of them can exist simultaneously in many identical forms here in our realm, much like a single source of light being broken up into many slivers of light by a ripple of water. The fish sees the many lines of light and the Anishnawbe sees the single source of light and the many slivers of light. The Anishinawbe can jump into the water and temporarily live in the fish’s world and so can the fish jump out and for a moment be in the Anishinawbe’s world. We can see the Paypaytahbun sometimes as dark humans from a distance and if we get close you can observe a flash of things swimming in their form. Just like us, they have families and certain families have awareness of earthly families and there is great ceremony to commemorate this.

The Paypaytahbun live in raw copper and the Memaywaysuh live in all kinds of rock. The Memaywaysuh are generally shorter then the Anishinawbe, about half to three quarters shorter at least. When they leave their places in the rock to visit us here they have to come in twos or threes. They have to hang on to each other and stay together but if they separate, they keep their form for as long as we can stay under water and then they have to go back to the rock or else they cease to live here and die. The Paypaytahbun only die in their world, the copper. The different Paypaytahbun have been called the Sasquatch, Yeti, Abominable Snowman and so on. Sometimes, you can find their footprints, elbowprints or buttprints that they melted into the rock.

Memaywaysuh are commonly called Fairies, Pixies, Leprechauns etc.They too leave behind evidence such as hand and body impressions melted in rocks and trees as well. Anishnawbe know some of these places as to where they had met for a reason and pow-wow. Wherever you see carvings or rock paintings, this is where the doorways are from where the great relations came through from their side.” Grandpa Pete used to tell us this all the time.

Miigwetch

chief bigsmoke · Jun 2, 2012

Highlights of last thread - Table of contents

Highlights of last thread - Table of contents

First Grow Last Year: Cheesedog

TABLE OF CONTENTS:
From the distant past to the current

With over 11,000 views and counting on my old thread. Things became too cluttered and hard to navigate. So this is an effort to create a link page to most of the useful information from Chief Bigsmokes Fantasy Factory - rest in peace

TOPICS

Sweet Skunk

TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR THIS THREAD
always have a way to easily start where you left off...

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Above: Silver Kush si

(above: Amoeba)

(Left: Flagellates)

chief bigsmoke · Jun 2, 2012

Please Watch

Please Watch

How plants feed in nature - A story of an true partnership

Plants like humans need energy to live. Plants instead of eating a salad, receive their energy directly from the sun through the process of photosynthesis. It is at the end of this process where the plant creates carbon inside itself. The wise plant will then put this carbon straight to work. Creating new shoots or repairing broken or stressed tissue.

Life would be too easy for the plant if all it needed was energy from the sun, but we know life is not that easy. It must also source a variety of macro and micro nutrients from beneath the soil surface. The plant uses its own root system to stretch out and seek out these buried treasures. When a part of the root system finds a source of nutrient like N its often hit with a dilemma...

Sure it has found a source of N but it is the wrong form. No matter what the plant tries, nothing works. This is when the plants enlists the help of the nearby microfaunae to discuss a beneficial agreement between the groups.

The plant decides it will then trade some of its precious carbon through complex interactions between the nearby microfaunae and microflora in the rhizosphere.

above MK Ultra

The Microbial Nutrient cycle:

The carbon is excreted out through the root system > Bacteria/Archaea eat the carbon > Bacteria/Archaea Multiply > Protozoa (consisting of amoebaes, flagellates and ciliates) and bacterial feeding Nematodes consume the bacteria > produced in their waste is a useable form of nutrient like ammonia (N). Which is easily absorbed though the plants root system.

How Chemical Fertilizers work:

Most chemical fertilizers are simply pollutants. Which causes the mass death of the beneficial microfaunae and microflora populations. Without the presence of balanced numbers of these beneficial critters the soil is left open to pathogens like powdery mildew and fusarium. Plus the runoff from the chemical fertilizers is very harmful to our natural ecosystems and bodies. So not only is it toxic, it may lead to you having to use other chemical fertilizers in an endless battle against nature. Bad news.

Don't Worry there is a Solution!

Start with a well balanced soil with an ample amount of compost and/or organic fertilizers. Avoid a monochromatic mix: layer and spike your soil. Different microbeasites prefer varying living conditions like different pH's etc.
Inoculate with one of the readily available beneficial microfaunae/microflora products (optional but recommended)
Water with unchlorinated water (Chlorine kills). Leave most drinking and plant water out for at least 24 hrs before using
Build your own Aerated Compost Tea Brewer:

DIY your own cheap ACT brewer
- Small narrow based container. Cone bottom is preferred but a simple milk jug will suffice
- Aquarium pump ($15 and up)
- Aquarium hose
- Air stone
Brew your own Compost Tea – Multiply and raise millions of beneficial microfaunae and microflora to work seamlessly with your natural feeding cycle. Add material rich in microflora and microfaunae and add food/carbs and lots and lots of dissolved oxygen. Leaving as little areas of low/zero oxygen as possible where “bad” microbes can multiply. Brew for 12-72 hrs at room temperature.
Find a high power microscope and check your tea. The proof is in the pudding. You should see your tea teeming with microfaunae and microflora that are ready to partner up with your plant. In a beautiful and natural relationship.
Dilute with water (preferably reverse osmosis) and feed to your waiting plants
READ the TEA articles in the organics soil section... anything by microbeman and CTguy. I still have so much to learn from each of them.

Reference: Tim Wilson Research/Scientist - http://www.microbeorganics.com
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I found this great video called "Compost Extract: video microscopy of beneficial soil microorganisms found in compost extracts" to explain it way better than I can. Plus there are great images of all the microbeasties in action.

Damn Nature, you awesome

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chief bigsmoke · Jun 2, 2012

Fair Trade Carbohydrates? hehe

Fair Trade Carbohydrates? hehe

Plants and Fungi Play the 'Underground Market'

ScienceDaily (Aug. 21, 2011) — Plants and fungi co-operate and trade with each other on a biological 'underground market', changing their trading partners if they don't get a fair deal.

The finding was made by an international team, including Oxford University scientists, examining how plants trade energy-rich carbohydrate they make using photosynthesis for phosphorus fungi collect from the soil. They found that plants use their roots to actively search out fungi to trade with but will attempt to avoid 'cheating' fungi which 'hoard' phosphorus instead of paying their fair share in return for carbohydrate.

A report of the research is published in this week's Science.

'This is one of the first recorded examples of a 'biological market' operating in which both partners reward fair trading rather than one partner having the advantage and exploiting the other,' said Professor Stuart West of Oxford University's Department of Zoology, an author of the paper. 'We've shown that both plants and fungi can be choosy, 'playing the market' and looking for a better trading partner if they aren't getting a good deal.

'The team used the plant Medicago truncatula, which is related to alfalfa, and then observed its interactions with three different species of fungi; Glomus intraradices, Glomus custos, and Glomus aggregatum, which exhibit different levels of cooperation. They used radioactive tags to track the carbon produced by the plant and the phosphorus harvested by the fungi. The results showed that not only was more carbon supplied to the more cooperative -- 'fairer trading' -- species of fungi but also that more phosphorus was supplied to more cooperative plants.

'We think that this sort of biological market, reminiscent of a market economy, has arisen because there are so many different individuals either partner could trade with,' said Professor West. 'Rather like with human traders, if they are given a chance both plants and fungi will go elsewhere to get a better deal

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110821210224.htm

chief bigsmoke · Jun 2, 2012

Smoke Report - Mystery RED

Smoke Report - Mystery RED

So last night my girlfriend had the pleasure of testing a nug of the curing Sweet Skunk after a couple weeks of chilling.

From her hazy state this is what I could get from her: hehe

- The dried hazy looking flowers smell like sharp Lime rind. She was looking at the smell chart in Ed Rosenthals Growers Handbook and she described it as Citrusy > Lemon> Lime
- No distinct taste yet, she just said it was ultra smooth with a slight citrusy taste and all the white ash was proof enough for me. F*** commercial sources and your crappy poison taste.

Which hints at the strong presence of the terpene Limonene. Which is one of the most prevelant terpenes that smells like the rinds of citrusy fruits and flowers. Limonene repels predators like flies and works as an anti-bacterial, anti-fungal and anti-cancer agent.

The way the Limonene effects humans is special too. It quickly passes the blood brain barrier which results in increased systolic pressure and some results of increased alertness and some restlessness.

Which would explain why Mrs.Chief described her high as almost immediate and noticeably racy.. but not a sketchy racy. She described it as being very comfortably with the pace. Like as if you're on a rollercoaster and you're set for the trip. She felt gitty and a STRONG body effect and she felt her face go a bit fuzzy. Then she reclined into the couch and I never saw her get up for close to 2 hrs. when she got up to eat.

Then she went back for some more couch. She also pointed out that its a real easy rise to the clear and racy high but it eases you very slowly and with care back to earth. :huggg:

Overall very uplifting but heavy at the same time. One of the best "highs" my gf has experienced and we have so more refining to do.

she later commented that she had zero tolerance buildup and it kept on getting better and better.

silver hawaiian · Jun 2, 2012

Found it!

chief bigsmoke · Jun 2, 2012

Photo Update

Photo Update

3 Sweet Skunks are in the final 2-3 weeks of flowering and 2 Pinks are >2 weeks away as well.

In the batters box - getting used to the bright lights are Silver Kush a 3rd gen SS and 2x 2nd gen Mystery Blues

Enjoy!

chief bigsmoke · Jun 2, 2012

I Heart Manly P Hall

I Heart Manly P Hall

Read It !

Alongside my horticulture studies I am also trying to squeeze in some very interesting books. If you're ever wondering.. wtf are you thinking Chief.. well I might be off in some other world soaking the knowledge from Manly P Hall. (Insert creepy x-files theme song here hehe) I've been listening to his lectures and I've just started reading his old classics like The Secret Teachings of All Ages 1928.

View and Download Complete Lectures >Here<

An Esoteric Journey into life's questions. *hitchhikers guide to the universe

BCMaster · Jun 4, 2012

whacha groovin to?

chief bigsmoke · Jun 4, 2012

groovin

groovin

BCMaster said:
whacha groovin to?

hmmm groove eh... the Fleet Foxes album was the latest groove to be played over here while studying... Here's a helpful chart as a reward for your radness:

BCMaster · Jun 4, 2012

Bon Scott!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYou7SqyDdo

btw, I put up a thread in the coco section. Check it out man

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killerweed31 · Jun 4, 2012

SUBSCIBED!!!
Much respect to you "chief bigsmoke" for all , this is a lot more then only grow, i believe in that interesting things and cant wait to watching your perpetual groove.

"RESPECT and KUDOS" to you my friend!!!

Nader · Jun 4, 2012

I'm definitely pulling up a super comfy couch for this one.. one big enough for all of our stoner asses to fit in!!!!

Dude, you need to find some bastnasite crystals asap. They're kind of hard to find, but very incredible things have been going on ever since I got mine, especially in relation with our herb! The specific bastnasite crystals that I refer to are the ones from Zagi Mountain, Pakistan... They're very paramagnetic, peizoelectric, just very unique properties and they just feel wonderful.

chief bigsmoke · Jun 4, 2012

Nader said:
I'm definitely pulling up a super comfy couch for this one.. one big enough for all of our stoner asses to fit in!!!!

Dude, you need to find some bastnasite crystals asap. They're kind of hard to find, but very incredible things have been going on ever since I got mine, especially in relation with our herb! The specific bastnasite crystals that I refer to are the ones from Zagi Mountain, Pakistan... They're very paramagnetic, peizoelectric, just very unique properties and they just feel wonderful.

what? bastnasite crytals... never heard of them... what an awesome secret. but holy expensive... http://khyberminerals.com/bastnaesite.htm :biggrin:

I would also like a nice DE source from this side of the pond too

heady blunts · Jun 4, 2012

AHHH the nerdatorium. nice.

last front row seat? :lurk:

chief bigsmoke · Jun 5, 2012

Bacillus Foliar

Bacillus Foliar

Maryjaneismyfire mentioned that they notice a difference when applying a bacillus based ACT foliar spray for veg and early flower so I thought I'de give it a try...

I just took my regular ACT recipe and I added the last 1/2 tsp of a bottle of Aquashield (chicken compost) that was sitting around.

Aquashield product composition : Bacillus subtilis, Paenibacillus polymxa, Bacillus circulans, and Bacillus amyloliquefaciens

Fingers crossed and the young ladies will have a nice control application sometime tomorrow after I've brewed up billions more microbeasties.
:blowbubbles:

Also Maryjaneismyfire also mentioned that I should add some extra light in my flowering room and I totally agreed. They actually reccommended HP CFLS but all I have is a 400w and 600w lying around. So I took the helpful advice and I hooked up my 400w MH to give the room an added boost. I might just have it on for 4-6 hrs a day to keep the temps low and still give the plants some of that precious energy... The ladies look happier already :biggrin:

gtgio · Jun 5, 2012

Awesome thread. You're a boss and a half, bigsmoke. The last one was great too. Stoked to see this show get on the road

chief bigsmoke · Jun 5, 2012

What's your guess?

What's your guess?

Anyone recognize any of the characteristics of the Mystery Red cut? MYSTERY WAS REVEALED: SWEET SKUNK = Sweet Pink Grapefruit X NL/Haze

It has a citrusy Lime zest, earthy smell with a fruity undertone. 11 week strain. and knock your socks off potent

Being a rookie horticulturalist I haven't had the pleasure of viewing and experiencing a wide variety of strains. I can only study and make shot in the dark guesses. hehe but we are into the 2nd generation of this cut and I'm starting to refine it, bit by bit closer and closer to its true form. All I know is that it came from a very special garden and is considered the Choice selection from 1000's of individuals. The donor has moved and won't be back for sometime so in the meantime all I have is guesses. Once I master the cut, the donor will honor me with the true names.

I've been looking at a lot of pictures and I'm guessing something Hazy, Thai maybe?- Thai's are known to be citrusy and earthy, some type of sativa dom hybrid.

- NL5/Haze?
- Flo - floral line... who knows... I don't

Any guesses? and similarities to any strains you've grown?

heady blunts · Jun 5, 2012

i was thinking it looked quite hazy.

super lemon haze maybe?

Nader · Jun 5, 2012

those are top shelf specimens of bastnasite, you can find cheaper crystals on Ebay

I got mine for $30ish

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