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The Hashasin
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Super Business...
Super Business...
Super Cropping Cap,
You are becomng a bit of a legend for your tremendous low power super crops. I am watching and learning your trade as closely as possible.I see this as my way forward to gaining a constant stash of meds under my limited growing area. Good luck and best wishes Cap...
Super Business...
Super Cropping Cap,
You are becomng a bit of a legend for your tremendous low power super crops. I am watching and learning your trade as closely as possible.I see this as my way forward to gaining a constant stash of meds under my limited growing area. Good luck and best wishes Cap...
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Guest
>>so i know you told the lights in veg at the begining, but could u translate lumens to watts? i do a perpetual as well and do alot of my veggin under lots of flouros. then flower with 2 x 400 hps, and i float a 400mh between the flower and veg depending where its needed.
Hey bb, nice setup yourself! I need an aerocloner but I'm just too damn lazy to make one.
That veg light is 36,000 lumens, 480 watts covering 12 sqf. I'm impressed with fluoros ability to keep plants short in the stretch, although the compactness I'm seeing may be genetic
>>Cap is it possible to get 9 fingered leaves on pure indica mothers? I have no problem doing 9 leaves on my sativa doms but not been able to on my pure indicas.Thanks Cap,Mike
Pretty sure it is. Indicas outdoors go to nine and eleven fingers due to having so much veg growth.
Steal away deZerTomB! My intellectual property is everyones intellectual property. Feel free to PM me if you need too.
>>This thread just keeps gett'n betterer 'n betterer...
Nine fingers, eh? Good info, and concept!!
Thanx!
Thanks Bob. Yeah, isnt that a simple concept? A serious forehead slapper if it works out. That clone has it's roots out and will be transplanted soon. A new mom is on the way
Hey sunnyside
>>Super Cropping Cap,
You are becomng a bit of a legend for your tremendous low power super crops. I am watching and learning your trade as closely as possible.I see this as my way forward to gaining a constant stash of meds under my limited growing area. Good luck and best wishes Cap...
Aw, shoot, I only show you the stuff that makes me look good. You should see all my growroom dirty little secrets. Seriously, good luck with your grow. Glad the thread helps. My main advantage is that I dont have a limited growing area.....
Hey bb, nice setup yourself! I need an aerocloner but I'm just too damn lazy to make one.
That veg light is 36,000 lumens, 480 watts covering 12 sqf. I'm impressed with fluoros ability to keep plants short in the stretch, although the compactness I'm seeing may be genetic
>>Cap is it possible to get 9 fingered leaves on pure indica mothers? I have no problem doing 9 leaves on my sativa doms but not been able to on my pure indicas.Thanks Cap,Mike
Pretty sure it is. Indicas outdoors go to nine and eleven fingers due to having so much veg growth.
Steal away deZerTomB! My intellectual property is everyones intellectual property.
Feel free to PM me if you need too.>>This thread just keeps gett'n betterer 'n betterer...
Nine fingers, eh? Good info, and concept!!
Thanx!
Thanks Bob. Yeah, isnt that a simple concept? A serious forehead slapper if it works out. That clone has it's roots out and will be transplanted soon. A new mom is on the way
Hey sunnyside
>>Super Cropping Cap,
You are becomng a bit of a legend for your tremendous low power super crops. I am watching and learning your trade as closely as possible.I see this as my way forward to gaining a constant stash of meds under my limited growing area. Good luck and best wishes Cap...
Aw, shoot, I only show you the stuff that makes me look good. You should see all my growroom dirty little secrets.
Seriously, good luck with your grow. Glad the thread helps. My main advantage is that I dont have a limited growing area.....
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Guest
Been harvesting for the last couple days so wont be around much as things settle down. I can tell you this:
-I had a mite infestation that I seem to have caught at the very earliest stages.
-The odor from the plants was so huge, it completely overpowered my carbon scrubber. The wife comes home in a panic after being able to smell the grow 150 feet away. I have had to shut down the room exhaust and quarantine the house from visitors for the last four days.
-I'll never grow a full room of plants like this again
Many pics to follow
-I had a mite infestation that I seem to have caught at the very earliest stages.
-The odor from the plants was so huge, it completely overpowered my carbon scrubber. The wife comes home in a panic after being able to smell the grow 150 feet away. I have had to shut down the room exhaust and quarantine the house from visitors for the last four days.
-I'll never grow a full room of plants like this again
Many pics to follow
WOW ITS ABOUT TIME!
AHHHHAAA! I was waiting here for you to say "Omg it stinks!" Praise the green goddess you caught those mites early! Good Karma on your side
AHHHHAAA! I was waiting here for you to say "Omg it stinks!" Praise the green goddess you caught those mites early! Good Karma on your side
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Lets hope I got em ff. I'm watching my first generation Ortega very closely. They are HUGE and present a challenge in checking them. I'm tempted to just kill em, bag em and not take any chances that some remain a\or got by me. But not yet
Maybe some ladybugs?
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Some more on the soil recycling
first, I have a tub. It's lined with a piece of my old waterbed liner. I have made more pieces of my growroom out of that thing.....
I digress.
Next I have a screen basket I made myelf out of some rabbit fencing I use for my garden. A few diagonal snips and some bending togethe of the cut ends along with a bit of duct tape and it's all set.
My soil is thoroughly flushed using hot, warm and cold water. Hot and warm water better dissolve out the excess salts remaining in the soil. I stack the planters you see here three high to make the water do as much work as possible, expecially the warm and hot. I probably run the same amount of soil in all three planter through each one, in this case, about nine gallons. Flushing the soil is a thousand times easier with a dedicated three tub commercial sink in the room
{IMPORTANT!}
Do not attempt soil flushing with roots removed. If you do, the soil and conditioners like perlite will separate and a muck will form in your drainholes that impedes water flow. You should flush the soil in the original planter as is within three days of harvest and remove roots soon thereafter. Waiting will allow the roots to soften up, tear apart and go through your screen. This pic is after flushing
I use my little rake to break it up and spread it out in the screen, and then I just shake and slide until the soil falls through
My pic of the rootball didn't come out at all, but you can imagine it's a large, one piece mass with the end of the cut stalk on one end. This shot shows some of the residual roots in the screen. It takes about 20 seconds to screen a plant
Add the rest of the dry soil in th reclmation box (notice the liner being used. Tough stuff) and stir occasionally.
The Hashasin
Member
Recycling...
Recycling...
Cap,
well done man, thank's for the excellent details and great pics...
Recycling...
Cap,
well done man, thank's for the excellent details and great pics...
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Guest
No problem Hashasin, glad to have a place to archive all this, dontcha know
Here are some pics of the mites I found. I used my Radio Shack pocket microscope, standing upright on a leaf over the freshly killed mite. Then I put my digital in the tripod and aimed it straight down the scope lens. It worked better than I could have possibly hoped for. Cant wait to try for trichome shots. Just have to get the lighting right.
You can see the white spots on the leaf. The cut finger is what I'm taking pics of
Here are some pics of the mites I found. I used my Radio Shack pocket microscope, standing upright on a leaf over the freshly killed mite. Then I put my digital in the tripod and aimed it straight down the scope lens. It worked better than I could have possibly hoped for. Cant wait to try for trichome shots. Just have to get the lighting right.
You can see the white spots on the leaf. The cut finger is what I'm taking pics of
The Hashasin
Member
Mites Damn...
Mites Damn...
Hey I'm glad you caught these critters in time Cap! The Scoped Pic is amaising and turned out tremendous. It's an old trick I learned with my Vid Cam and a Hand Magnifying glass... Using the Hand Mag in a Vice and the tripod Cam above... As you correctly said the lighting is the most difficuilt part of the process. Your Trich shots will be outstanding! What's the Scope please your using Cap? I had a Tandy Job 100 X variable back light packed in... Its a small LED so I can not fine an equivelent value for replacement. As it was only 10 Bucks I am waiting to get another when they are back in stock. Sorry about the infestation and I am wishing you the best of luck? Is it neam your going to use...
Mites Damn...
Hey I'm glad you caught these critters in time Cap! The Scoped Pic is amaising and turned out tremendous. It's an old trick I learned with my Vid Cam and a Hand Magnifying glass... Using the Hand Mag in a Vice and the tripod Cam above... As you correctly said the lighting is the most difficuilt part of the process. Your Trich shots will be outstanding! What's the Scope please your using Cap? I had a Tandy Job 100 X variable back light packed in... Its a small LED so I can not fine an equivelent value for replacement. As it was only 10 Bucks I am waiting to get another when they are back in stock. Sorry about the infestation and I am wishing you the best of luck? Is it neam your going to use...
iluvtogrograss
Member
Nice thread Cap. You sure have packed a lot of plants into that space. I have been doing the perpetual harvest thing for a while now. I use a lot more light and space but I have the timing down pretty well. Consider neem oil for your mites. I have found that this works quite well. It takes a bit of time but it does work. Good luck with the grow. AWESOME THREAD!!!!!!
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Hashasin, that's the Raido Shack pocket microscope. $10. I just love that little thing. You can just make out a piece of it in the leaf shot above
thanks iluvtogrograss, sounds like a nice place you got as well. The timing is criticle, I know. IO'm currently having problems establishing a pattern right off the bat. Gotta get the size and time down just right.
thanks iluvtogrograss, sounds like a nice place you got as well. The timing is criticle, I know. IO'm currently having problems establishing a pattern right off the bat. Gotta get the size and time down just right.
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Since I'm sending my current clone mother throught the flower room soon in order to replace her with a more mature plant, some preparations had to be made. She has been in this planter for several months now and the stretch would certainly rootbound her. A major surgical operation was in order.
This is the before shot
She is removed from her plastic bag in the crate
Roots look just OK, the soil is currently very dry for this procedure. The growth spurt common after fresh watering of a dry mdium will help her blow right through any shock issues.
Stab that knife in and saw away!. I sharpened it nicely with a wetstone before doing this, so it lid very easily through
Just an inch off from all sides, including the bottom
Put a new bag in the crate, wait for soil to poke holes. Dont forget!
Slip trimmed off plant into the new bag with a couple inches of new soil on the bottom. No problem fitting her but you may have to hold her in place as the new soil goes in to keep her centered
Pack the soil in and around evenly, going around to all sides and gently packing it down till it's full
Water her thoroughly inplace with a standard strength fertilizer solution, heavy on the superthrive for shock reduction. This is a real use for it!
She looks pretty good for having just undergone major surgery. we'll see if it lasts
This is the before shot
She is removed from her plastic bag in the crate
Roots look just OK, the soil is currently very dry for this procedure. The growth spurt common after fresh watering of a dry mdium will help her blow right through any shock issues.
Stab that knife in and saw away!. I sharpened it nicely with a wetstone before doing this, so it lid very easily through
Just an inch off from all sides, including the bottom
Put a new bag in the crate, wait for soil to poke holes. Dont forget!
Slip trimmed off plant into the new bag with a couple inches of new soil on the bottom. No problem fitting her but you may have to hold her in place as the new soil goes in to keep her centered
Pack the soil in and around evenly, going around to all sides and gently packing it down till it's full
Water her thoroughly inplace with a standard strength fertilizer solution, heavy on the superthrive for shock reduction. This is a real use for it!
She looks pretty good for having just undergone major surgery. we'll see if it lasts
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Guest
And the first 24 hours gone by and things look fine.
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Guest
48 hours
72 hours and new growth has clearly begun and quickly. New soil is very sweet
72 hours and new growth has clearly begun and quickly. New soil is very sweet
Nicely done cap. Ur flower room looks to be about the same shape as mine, although, possibly not as long. I think the shape works out well.
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This hasn't turned out to be miuch of a diary for a simple reason......my mites have returned. Today, after battleing to save my room for a week, I have come to the conclusion that a clean wipe is necessary to remove the borg from my life. All plants will be killed and trashed, even a group of Ortega two weeks from harvest that would have yielded a QP easy. Five others two weeks into flower will also be killed. Six others nearing the end of veg will be killed. My old clone mother will be killed.
Ill keep some cuttings, closely inspected and my second generation mother, which is only six inches tall.
It's a good thing I harvested all that bud, this will set me back four months. Maybe I should do another grow from seed since this is a clean start. I run through my genetics and see whats in the cigar box that looks tasty. Maybe some Rosetta Stone or Skunk #1.
Sadly singnng off from this thread for awhile
Ill keep some cuttings, closely inspected and my second generation mother, which is only six inches tall.
It's a good thing I harvested all that bud, this will set me back four months. Maybe I should do another grow from seed since this is a clean start. I run through my genetics and see whats in the cigar box that looks tasty. Maybe some Rosetta Stone or Skunk #1.
Sadly singnng off from this thread for awhile
Early Pearl
Member
I´m sorry... But sometimes one has to do radical things to save the future. And I´ll say that in three months you have allready forgot this having nice healthy and spidermite-free plants.
But sometimes one has to do radical things to save the future. And I´ll say that in three months you have allready forgot this having nice healthy and spidermite-free plants.
