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CrazY
Howzit just checkin in seein what is new and.. ya snuck in a coupla updates.. hhehe.. Sharon widow sounds good still.. hehe.. I tried to win a pack of the dsd but noooooo! hehe great thread if i havent said so by now.. peace.
sack
Howzit just checkin in seein what is new and.. ya snuck in a coupla updates.. hhehe.. Sharon widow sounds good still.. hehe.. I tried to win a pack of the dsd but noooooo! hehe great thread if i havent said so by now.. peace.
sack
JohnBudd
Active member
What I love to see is how your growing style and skills have come so far, in such a short time. I also have tried many different styles of growing, e&F,NFT,aero. Had great luck with them all, but always come back to organic soil mixes.(rotation is much easier)
I wanted to personally thank you CC for sharing your skills and experiences with this great plant.
I have learned much from you over the years, and I do appreicate it.
Keep loving the plant and sharing the knowledge.
Much respect!
I wanted to personally thank you CC for sharing your skills and experiences with this great plant.
I have learned much from you over the years, and I do appreicate it.
Keep loving the plant and sharing the knowledge.
Much respect!
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Awesome thread CC! Definitely going to keep pics from all my grows to see the progression
Learning the megaflush
Learning the megaflush
To some, a green leafed plant at harvest time is a mark of success. I learned that having green leaves at harvest isn't as good as having yellow leaves at harvest time... IF the yellowing is due to nitrogen deficiency. There are other reasons leaves might yellow, and not all reasons are good reasons.
I learned my minimalist techniques one autumn when I harvested a single White Widow from between two pine groves. It was an experiment. I wanted to see what a plant could do if it were left completely alone all season, not even fed or watered once. The results were not huge... very small... I think I got an eighth from the plant. HOWEVER... this plant taught me some very important lessons.
The Widow tasted --slightly-- of pine... and I knew this clone well... it does NOT smell like pine. This showed me that pot WILL taste like the soil it's planted in, to some degree.
Also... the pot burned perfectly! To this day, it may have been the best pot I've ever smoked. It got me extremely high, burned perfectly, and that one eighth lasted me over a week! It was so gratifying, I didn't need much to be satisfied.
This one experience was a very important piece to the puzzle that I had been toiling on for years. I wanted to know how to achieve a consistently great burn, while tasting pot and ONLY pot. All too often growers produce pot that tastes like pot AND like the nutrients and/or soil they used to grow it.
The Widow in the Pines showed me the light, it presented me the piece of the puzzle I needed.
From then on it was my mission to figure out how to feed these plants so they would get all the nutrition they required to produce fat buds, and then starve them at the end of flower. This is the best of both worlds... feast, then famine.
It was about this time when I started using soiless mediums with organic nutrients. The theory was that I could control --exactly-- what the plant had access to. If the nutrient can be poured in... it can be flushed out. True organics (real soil) are not as controllable... they are often too fertile, and will not be nutritionally depleted by harvest, when you want the soil depleted. So, at the time, soiless medium with liquid organic nutrients were the answer. I continued to use this technique for years, along with many other techniques, but the soiless organics was my main emphasis.
For me... the holy grail of indoor growing is true organics. It's very easy to grow with true organics, however, it's not so easy to meet my personal criteria of clean burn, and tasting ONLY the pot in the smoke. The trick was to come up with the perfect organic soil mixture, a mix that would feed the plant and provide a healthy, biologically active root zone, but be depleted of nutrients by harvest time. This is like walking a tightrope. I'm STILL working on it... probably will always be trying to perfect it.
These are pictures of plants from around 2004, shortly after the Widow in the Pines lessons. My dope's quality increased exponentially around this time.
The yellowed leaves are the topic here.
orange kush:
double sour diesel
Bog's lifesaver
big money (a Lonestar exclusive) April of 2005
As you can see... the lessons were proving successful. The burn could hardly be better.
Learning the megaflush
To some, a green leafed plant at harvest time is a mark of success. I learned that having green leaves at harvest isn't as good as having yellow leaves at harvest time... IF the yellowing is due to nitrogen deficiency. There are other reasons leaves might yellow, and not all reasons are good reasons.
I learned my minimalist techniques one autumn when I harvested a single White Widow from between two pine groves. It was an experiment. I wanted to see what a plant could do if it were left completely alone all season, not even fed or watered once. The results were not huge... very small... I think I got an eighth from the plant. HOWEVER... this plant taught me some very important lessons.
The Widow tasted --slightly-- of pine... and I knew this clone well... it does NOT smell like pine. This showed me that pot WILL taste like the soil it's planted in, to some degree.
Also... the pot burned perfectly! To this day, it may have been the best pot I've ever smoked. It got me extremely high, burned perfectly, and that one eighth lasted me over a week! It was so gratifying, I didn't need much to be satisfied.
This one experience was a very important piece to the puzzle that I had been toiling on for years. I wanted to know how to achieve a consistently great burn, while tasting pot and ONLY pot. All too often growers produce pot that tastes like pot AND like the nutrients and/or soil they used to grow it.
The Widow in the Pines showed me the light, it presented me the piece of the puzzle I needed.
From then on it was my mission to figure out how to feed these plants so they would get all the nutrition they required to produce fat buds, and then starve them at the end of flower. This is the best of both worlds... feast, then famine.
It was about this time when I started using soiless mediums with organic nutrients. The theory was that I could control --exactly-- what the plant had access to. If the nutrient can be poured in... it can be flushed out. True organics (real soil) are not as controllable... they are often too fertile, and will not be nutritionally depleted by harvest, when you want the soil depleted. So, at the time, soiless medium with liquid organic nutrients were the answer. I continued to use this technique for years, along with many other techniques, but the soiless organics was my main emphasis.
For me... the holy grail of indoor growing is true organics. It's very easy to grow with true organics, however, it's not so easy to meet my personal criteria of clean burn, and tasting ONLY the pot in the smoke. The trick was to come up with the perfect organic soil mixture, a mix that would feed the plant and provide a healthy, biologically active root zone, but be depleted of nutrients by harvest time. This is like walking a tightrope. I'm STILL working on it... probably will always be trying to perfect it.
These are pictures of plants from around 2004, shortly after the Widow in the Pines lessons. My dope's quality increased exponentially around this time.
The yellowed leaves are the topic here.
orange kush:
double sour diesel
Bog's lifesaver
big money (a Lonestar exclusive) April of 2005
As you can see... the lessons were proving successful. The burn could hardly be better.
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I totally agree with you CC. The first year I grew, all my plants had yellow fans at the end of flowering and the smoke was all tasty and smooth.
The last year, I encountered numerous problems; multiple teardowns, multiple equipment malfunction/failure. The light problems I had didn't encourage the plants to use all the available nutrients in the soil (I pre-mix soil and only water with tap), so hardly any of my plants had yellow fans at the end of flower and they were all smaller in size/yield.
Now everything is running normal and I'm on my first 'normal' crop in a year and I'm looking forward to seeing those yellow fans again on my finished plants.
The last year, I encountered numerous problems; multiple teardowns, multiple equipment malfunction/failure. The light problems I had didn't encourage the plants to use all the available nutrients in the soil (I pre-mix soil and only water with tap), so hardly any of my plants had yellow fans at the end of flower and they were all smaller in size/yield.
Now everything is running normal and I'm on my first 'normal' crop in a year and I'm looking forward to seeing those yellow fans again on my finished plants.
Nice thread, man.. I like the cured big money pic, where its all yellow/gold, you can really see all the remaining chemical compunds are breaking down, for a tasty non-harsh smoke.
The Strawberry Cough
The Strawberry Cough
This was one of my best all-time yielders per gallon of soil. This is a 5 gallon Home Depot bucket, and the plant yielded 7 ounces. Not my favorite smoke, but it was one hell of a blast to watch it pack the weight on!
Grown with my soiless organic method, likely fed Pure Blend Pro liquid organics.
The Strawberry Cough
This was one of my best all-time yielders per gallon of soil. This is a 5 gallon Home Depot bucket, and the plant yielded 7 ounces. Not my favorite smoke, but it was one hell of a blast to watch it pack the weight on!
Grown with my soiless organic method, likely fed Pure Blend Pro liquid organics.
My first Sour Diesel grow
My first Sour Diesel grow
I still consider this one of my staple garden plants. The ECSD clone is very tasty pot, yields respectably, and is a real joy to cultivate.
The buds are from my first ECSD grow, the spliff in this post is my very first joint of ECSD... grown by me. A historically important event in my growing career.
I had smoked ECSD at a gathering of well-known growers and breeders prior to growing it myself, but there's something special about smoking your own... as you all know.
My first Sour Diesel grow
I still consider this one of my staple garden plants. The ECSD clone is very tasty pot, yields respectably, and is a real joy to cultivate.
The buds are from my first ECSD grow, the spliff in this post is my very first joint of ECSD... grown by me. A historically important event in my growing career.
I had smoked ECSD at a gathering of well-known growers and breeders prior to growing it myself, but there's something special about smoking your own... as you all know.
My own, personalized piece.
My own, personalized piece.
An OG member going by the name of Potologist wanted to make me a pipe with my initials, so I agreed. Pretty cool.
See the CC in there? hehehe Very nice of him. If you're still around, Potologist, let me know... I might want a new piece.
My own, personalized piece.
An OG member going by the name of Potologist wanted to make me a pipe with my initials, so I agreed.
Pretty cool. See the CC in there? hehehe Very nice of him. If you're still around, Potologist, let me know... I might want a new piece.
The Lonestar gifts
The Lonestar gifts
Lonestar used to get some of his buds into my hands to sample from time to time.
Here are a few of them... a little walk down memory lane with the resin monk's own handy work. You don't see Lonestar's personal stash too often, I can guarantee that.
Alexis:
Devastation:
Comrade:
The Lonestar gifts
Lonestar used to get some of his buds into my hands to sample from time to time.
Here are a few of them... a little walk down memory lane with the resin monk's own handy work. You don't see Lonestar's personal stash too often, I can guarantee that.
Alexis:
Devastation:
Comrade:
Purple Urkle, traveled far and wide
Purple Urkle, traveled far and wide
This Urkle was grown in Humboldt, brought to NYC and smoked there by myself and Chemdog on a lower Manhattan rooftop. T'was good shit.
Purple Urkle, traveled far and wide
This Urkle was grown in Humboldt, brought to NYC and smoked there by myself and Chemdog on a lower Manhattan rooftop. T'was good shit.
The HOG
The HOG
I can't remember who offered the HOG... but I got some, and tried it. Interesting smoke, not too overwhelming in any way, but the taste was very light and hashy... I'd remember it if I had it to smoke again.
I figured I'd post it up since it's not too often seen.
The HOG
I can't remember who offered the HOG... but I got some, and tried it. Interesting smoke, not too overwhelming in any way, but the taste was very light and hashy... I'd remember it if I had it to smoke again.
I figured I'd post it up since it's not too often seen.
My first Sour Bubble
My first Sour Bubble
BOG had gotten some of his own Sour Bubble buds into my hands to smoke, and I was totally floored by the taste and stone. I'm still very fond of the smoke, although the plant itself is a little slow to harvest. Takes a long time in veg. I remember BOG growing one that got something like 19 ounces? Someone will correct me on that... but the yield was insane. He must have vegged it for a year before flowering! hehehe
My first Sour Bubble
BOG had gotten some of his own Sour Bubble buds into my hands to smoke, and I was totally floored by the taste and stone. I'm still very fond of the smoke, although the plant itself is a little slow to harvest. Takes a long time in veg. I remember BOG growing one that got something like 19 ounces? Someone will correct me on that... but the yield was insane. He must have vegged it for a year before flowering! hehehe
A wonderful gift (outdoor cali Sweet Tooth) from Shmoe. We're thinking of you, brother. Every day.
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smokesalot420
Member
Thanks for sharing CC, appreciate you teaching the lessons you have learned over the years!
