He said She shed

[midwestkid]

I think it's time for me to start sharing my experiences.
I came to this site years ago to "window peek" I think I gravitated to this site because of pictures of sativa dominant plants. I would try to read anything I could find about grow reports and strain descriptions.
this plant really stole my heart. After a while I got to feeling like I could see more pictures if I joined here.
But that just seemed so taboo. I was taught to not talk about growing. Don't take pictures. Burn the evidence. Etc. etc.
so much has changed in such a short time. I feel like I can now safely show a couple pictures here and there without living in a constant state of fear.
Anywho. I hope to create a fun thread here.
I want this to be a friendly thread! So, if you don't like me or what I'm saying, hopefully you can just scroll on by.
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[midwestkid]

Bear with me as I attempt to get this bird off of the ground. I'm not very tech savvy as I was raised in a home without a computer. I've only recently started interacting with this site. Have patience. I will hopefully get it figured out.

I've just moved to a new house and have been trying to get the new shed dialed in.
I have 4 630W CMH lights running now. And 2 tents with T5s for babies, clones, veg.
I'm just making it all up as I go.
I'm a soil guy. And love it and love learning about it.
I try to put everything in there from the start, but still add some things here and there as I feed/water.

 

[midwestkid]

I will start adding some pictures soon. I like popping seeds and hunting for unique plants. So there's going to be a lot a variety in here. I would like to run a mono-crop someday, but I don't know if it will ever happen because variety is the spice of life?

 

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[Brother Nature]

Nice thread mate. Some of the best threads on here are the shoot the shit and share weed photos ones. Hope this turns out well for you.

 

[gizmo666]

Good looking growing area
Good luck on your adventures
Peace

 

[BobChronic6505]

your plants look awesome. any secrets of success you can share with a noob?

 

[HempKat]

One thing I would point out or suggest, if all you're doing is a relatively small grow that's pretty obvious it's just for personal use you're not going to come up pretty high on anyone's radar. That being said if that one photo is of you and your family those are the kinds of pictures it's best not to show. If anyone does decide they want to come after you there is no sense in making it any easier on them by letting them know what you look like or where exactly you live.

Now if you want to be really security conscious the main thing to be careful with about pictures is the possible metadata that phones and cameras can add sometimes just automatically. Fortunately most decent image editing software like Photoshop or Paintshop can be or already are set to strip the metadata automatically just by importing the raw images from your camera or phone, and resaving them as a .jpg or other image format you prefer to work with. Metadata can and does contain info such as time, date and geographical coordinates of where an image was taken.

As far as any troubles you might run into due to lack of computer skills this site isn't that difficult for people to figure out how to use but if you run into troubles just ask and I'm sure you'll get multiple people offering assistance on how to solve said problems. Anyway looks like you're off to a fairly good start, good luck going forward, I'm sure you'll do just fine.

 

[midwestkid]

your plants look awesome. any secrets of success you can share with a noob?

I'm pretty green honestly. I don't think I'm really a guy to ask for advice. My room is a constantly evolving experiment. I think there are too many variables in here right now to recommend my methods.

I do a custom soil mix with a laundry list of dry ammendments added into the soil.
soil is promix or peat, homeade compost, worm castings. Perlite. Biochar.
I guess that's the base.
Then kelp, rock dust, blood meal, bone meal, etc etc.

Then the feed/water is kinda tailored to whichever plant and how far along it is.
right now things are 34 days on 12/12. So I do some L.A.B., molasses, high phosphorus bat gauno, a small amount of fish hydrolysate (feel like I spelled that wrong) little bit of Epsom salt on a couple of them...
and this run I added some of that gro-kashi. And recently added some Sea-90 per someone's recommendation on here.
So a tiny bit of everything?
im definitely learning as I go..

This particular run is my first one in this room.
I just moved and that's why everything is so damn leggy. I had to put the move first and the grow second.
so lots of stretchy plants went through an unintentional stress test. Hot room, cold room, super humid, super dry. Then a mystery bug..
it's been a learning experience for sure.
not everything in there is healthy, but I'd say 70% are.

Thanks to all of you that took a look.

 

[big315smooth]

nice clean setup for sure. dang you clean them bottoms right up there. must be no larf in your grows just be big ole top nugz

 

[midwestkid]

One thing I would point out or suggest, if all you're doing is a relatively small grow that's pretty obvious it's just for personal use you're not going to come up pretty high on anyone's radar. That being said if that one photo is of you and your family those are the kinds of pictures it's best not to show. If anyone does decide they want to come after you there is no sense in making it any easier on them by letting them know what you look like or where exactly you live.

Now if you want to be really security conscious the main thing to be careful with about pictures is the possible metadata that phones and cameras can add sometimes just automatically. Fortunately most decent image editing software like Photoshop or Paintshop can be or already are set to strip the metadata automatically just by importing the raw images from your camera or phone, and resaving them as a .jpg or other image format you prefer to work with. Metadata can and does contain info such as time, date and geographical coordinates of where an image was taken.

As far as any troubles you might run into due to lack of computer skills this site isn't that difficult for people to figure out how to use but if you run into troubles just ask and I'm sure you'll get multiple people offering assistance on how to solve said problems. Anyway looks like you're off to a fairly good start, good luck going forward, I'm sure you'll do just fine.

Thanks for that HempKat. Yes. That's the kind of stuff I worry about. But as you said, hopefully Noone wants to mess with such a small fish? I sure hope my troubles with law enforcement are behind me!
I got a couple DUIs and finally quit drinking because of that stress. I wouldn't drive hammered drunk, but I was raised in the 80s when things were looser then they are now. Now if you have a beer between your legs you're going to jail.
Anyways, I think I definitely picked up some PTSD from my run ins with them. So worry is always there unfortunately.
having said all of that and given yet more hints... I am legal now and hope I never have to sleep on a cot again.
Thanks for commenting. I think that's all very good advice you gave.

 

[midwestkid]

nice clean setup for sure. dang you clean them bottoms right up there. must be no larf in your grows just be big ole top nugz

I had a bad run a couple years back and spent way too much time with Larf. So much so I was making rhymes about never trimming larf again. Dr.Seus style stuff.

So yeah I shaved legs with anger and resentment in my heart this time

 

[flylowgethigh]

I'm pretty green honestly. I don't think I'm really a guy to ask for advice. My room is a constantly evolving experiment. I think there are too many variables in here right now to recommend my methods.

I do a custom soil mix with a laundry list of dry ammendments added into the soil.
soil is promix or peat, homeade compost, worm castings. Perlite. Biochar.
I guess that's the base.
Then kelp, rock dust, blood meal, bone meal, etc etc.

Then the feed/water is kinda tailored to whichever plant and how far along it is.
right now things are 34 days on 12/12. So I do some L.A.B., molasses, high phosphorus bat gauno, a small amount of fish hydrolysate (feel like I spelled that wrong) little bit of Epsom salt on a couple of them...
and this run I added some of that gro-kashi. And recently added some Sea-90 per someone's recommendation on here.
So a tiny bit of everything?
im definitely learning as I go..

This particular run is my first one in this room.
I just moved and that's why everything is so damn leggy. I had to put the move first and the grow second.
so lots of stretchy plants went through an unintentional stress test. Hot room, cold room, super humid, super dry. Then a mystery bug..
it's been a learning experience for sure.
not everything in there is healthy, but I'd say 70% are.

Thanks to all of you that took a look.

I am also in soil and trying those kind of carbs and adding K to make trics.

What do you suppose that grow-kashi stuff is good for? What time in the cycle? I have some but haven't used it yet.

This site is supposed to strip off meta data on your pics.

 

[VerdantGreen]

looking good, i'll be interested to see what you're growing !

VG

 

[midwestkid]

I am also in soil and trying those kind of carbs and adding K to make trics.

What do you suppose that grow-kashi stuff is good for? What time in the cycle? I have some but haven't used it yet.

This site is supposed to strip off meta data on your pics.

I've been really happy with my results from this set up. As far as smells and flavors and trich. Development I feel like I'm producing some really healthy clean flower.
ofcourse you see a guy in coco just yielding like a hog and it will really make you question your methods...


I think kelp is good for K right?
I've been taking a couple hand fulls of kelp and throwing it in my water buckets as they sit and wait for water day. But I read somewhere that kelp was popping people for arsenic when they were getting their flower tested in Oklahoma?
I need to have some tested and see what they find
I think the consensus was that it wasn't harmful, but I still think they were rejecting it?

As for the Gro-kashi, that's a good question and it's a question I asked Alan Adkisson via email.
I don't have a good short answer. I think it has something to do with anaerobic situations and I know it's produced from a fermentation.
I will say between the Gro-Kashi and L.A.B. that the run off that is caught in the buckets in that room does not stink at all. I stick my head in the bucket when I'm draining them (once every couple weeks) and am always surprised that it doesn't reak.
(One piece of information that Alan told me was to not reapply the Gro-Kashi as a top dress in the last few weeks of flower because that for some reason stops the flowers from properly ripening)
So based on that advice I usually stop with the L.A.B. a few weeks before the finish of flower as well.

Once again, I'm just experimenting!

 

[midwestkid]

looking good, i'll be interested to see what you're growing !

VG

Thanks for stopping in. I will do a picture of all of the individual plants this week.

 

[BobChronic6505]

I've been really happy with my results from this set up. As far as smells and flavors and trich. Development I feel like I'm producing some really healthy clean flower.
ofcourse you see a guy in coco just yielding like a hog and it will really make you question your methods...


I think kelp is good for K right?
I've been taking a couple hand fulls of kelp and throwing it in my water buckets as they sit and wait for water day. But I read somewhere that kelp was popping people for arsenic when they were getting their flower tested in Oklahoma?
I need to have some tested and see what they find
I think the consensus was that it wasn't harmful, but I still think they were rejecting it?

I believe they say kelp is a dynamic accumulator and is full of sodium and other heavy metals. Shit it collects from the ocean. But I also believe it's one if the fastest growing plants in the world and is chock full of natural growth hormone and nutrients. It's a key ingredient in a lot of home grow consumer level soil mixes.

It seems like these legal cannabis markets undergo ridiculous testing and are held to ridiculous standards that even the food industry isnt held to. You can have all this copper iron zinc aluminum in tomatos or what the fuck ever, but a small percentage isnt allowed in legal cannabis? They're allowed to have so many bugs or rodent shit per can of soup, which is fucked up, but a small amount of naturally occurring metals and minerals arent allowed in weed.

 

[flylowgethigh]

I consider kelp meal to be another green, like barley or alfalfa. I feed them to my microbes while the soil cooks between runs. Is that wrong? I was top dressing some grow kashi in early flower, along with all the other crap I put on top and water in.