Holy shit... d95 to d... why didn't i think of this @Shevchenko
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Leetdood's growing struggles
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Continuing watering
HiRo#7 I believe this is tk leaner, she burns up easy. Lowered to something like 3 ec, give or take, by feeding to excess. I am still using 60% strength feed unless stated otherwise.
Tahoe Jr likewise. She's looking good. Not sure if she can be up potted before flower but we will see.
Checking flower tent soon, may be able to take pics
I likely messed up by putting the clones under the 100w, it's too much for unrooted cuttings. Need to see what clones need to be re taken. I have had clones fail before though, you just take more and try and spare more time for it. As I am making tons of progress I definitely will have much more attention and time to spare on the clone trays. Shall put them under gentle lighting instead of the 100w. My mistake, I forgot about light intensity and excess humidity etc.
Things are progressing well in general. I just continue to take bite sized chunks of work when I can. My adhd medication (concerta) helps me complete tasks consistently but it's not a magic bullet. My autism and depression (the depression is much better though) can make me feel very anxious and overwhelmed if everything isn't going perfectly, on top of my upbringing. So the worse things get or the more I work without visible results, the more overwhelmed I get.
One huge coping method that worked for this was to simply complete the most immediate tasks in manageable chunks. I actually think someone called this "chunking"? But for example, if I need to fill a bucket or mix feed, then I do that and see how much I can do, then take a break. Then I focus on what's left like, if I filled 3 buckets of water at 9am maybe at 930 or 945, because I'm not a morning person (hehe) I can mix feed into those buckets, then if I am up to it wander around and see what needs watering or attention. Sometimes I see things that need cleaning or moving, and spare the time to do that. Then again, I sit down and smoke and take a break then 1015 or something I go and water the plants I've collected near my watering station. If there's time or energy to spare, I can cut the plant back and removed any damaged foliage. With the pest issues, I remove dead leaves as soon as I can to be disposed of. No human being can realistically have total 100% output of productivity, especially with people with needs (job, bills, children, etc) or disabilities (autism, mobility like back or wheelchair, tendinitis, etc) or anything like that. So I work on improving my self care and my daily routine to remain productive and improve things where possible. I also document all this to help myself and others, to see where problems appear and how they can be attacked, delayed, avoided, or worsened. Etc.
Overcoming years of depression is a huge task, but every person and grower has their own challenges. After all, an abundance of resources does not make you happy. A change of mindset and overcoming your fears and challenges does.
HiRo#7 I believe this is tk leaner, she burns up easy. Lowered to something like 3 ec, give or take, by feeding to excess. I am still using 60% strength feed unless stated otherwise.
Tahoe Jr likewise. She's looking good. Not sure if she can be up potted before flower but we will see.
Checking flower tent soon, may be able to take pics
I likely messed up by putting the clones under the 100w, it's too much for unrooted cuttings. Need to see what clones need to be re taken. I have had clones fail before though, you just take more and try and spare more time for it. As I am making tons of progress I definitely will have much more attention and time to spare on the clone trays. Shall put them under gentle lighting instead of the 100w. My mistake, I forgot about light intensity and excess humidity etc.
Things are progressing well in general. I just continue to take bite sized chunks of work when I can. My adhd medication (concerta) helps me complete tasks consistently but it's not a magic bullet. My autism and depression (the depression is much better though) can make me feel very anxious and overwhelmed if everything isn't going perfectly, on top of my upbringing. So the worse things get or the more I work without visible results, the more overwhelmed I get.
One huge coping method that worked for this was to simply complete the most immediate tasks in manageable chunks. I actually think someone called this "chunking"? But for example, if I need to fill a bucket or mix feed, then I do that and see how much I can do, then take a break. Then I focus on what's left like, if I filled 3 buckets of water at 9am maybe at 930 or 945, because I'm not a morning person (hehe) I can mix feed into those buckets, then if I am up to it wander around and see what needs watering or attention. Sometimes I see things that need cleaning or moving, and spare the time to do that. Then again, I sit down and smoke and take a break then 1015 or something I go and water the plants I've collected near my watering station. If there's time or energy to spare, I can cut the plant back and removed any damaged foliage. With the pest issues, I remove dead leaves as soon as I can to be disposed of. No human being can realistically have total 100% output of productivity, especially with people with needs (job, bills, children, etc) or disabilities (autism, mobility like back or wheelchair, tendinitis, etc) or anything like that. So I work on improving my self care and my daily routine to remain productive and improve things where possible. I also document all this to help myself and others, to see where problems appear and how they can be attacked, delayed, avoided, or worsened. Etc.
Overcoming years of depression is a huge task, but every person and grower has their own challenges. After all, an abundance of resources does not make you happy. A change of mindset and overcoming your fears and challenges does.
Day 28 flower (25 for HiRo#4)
As24, hiro4, gmo in that order. 3.5, 3.5, 3.1 ec runoff. HiRo4 was fed to excess.
HiRo4 likely was up potted to too large of a pot so it's not really taking off IMO. Remains to be seen but that's my initial thoughts. Took a bunch of larfy growth off.
As24 pretty decent of a plant. Let's see how an exceptional run does.
Most excited about sherb really.
Shevchenko
Active member
Sounds great!
It would be an interesting cross!
I have now bloom D95 #3 as well as #7
I am glad that I will replenish their stocks soon ...!
Shevchenko
Active member
By the way, HiRo is i95 x chimera 3
Therefore - I95/Chimera 3 x Chem D BX4/I -95 also sounds very sweet!
Therefore - I95/Chimera 3 x Chem D BX4/I -95 also sounds very sweet!
The cuttings I sent may not make it due to bad weather. Fingers crossed but it's no big deal just try again if it fails.
Still dealing with a bunch of grow issues etc taking up most of my time. Need a break but just gonna continue to make progress by doing bits over time.
Catching up on watering. With how many plants I have, this shouldn't surprise you
Fed to runoff to excess. Went hard. Ss cbg 2.9 ec, HiRo#7 mom 2.1 ec.
Been nursing plant on the right for a while. It went into lockout full stop and I've been giving it lots of light and letting it dry back fully then feeding the 60% HARD to flush out the stuff thats locking it out. But some plants are very very slow to recover especially if rootbound and abused. It's coming back though.
Still dealing with a bunch of grow issues etc taking up most of my time. Need a break but just gonna continue to make progress by doing bits over time.
Catching up on watering. With how many plants I have, this shouldn't surprise you
Fed to runoff to excess. Went hard. Ss cbg 2.9 ec, HiRo#7 mom 2.1 ec.
Been nursing plant on the right for a while. It went into lockout full stop and I've been giving it lots of light and letting it dry back fully then feeding the 60% HARD to flush out the stuff thats locking it out. But some plants are very very slow to recover especially if rootbound and abused. It's coming back though.
Shucking seed for someone i owe and @Shevchenko
Thought I would post it here for posterity.
So far the names are
Underbite
Underdog OG (Lhb) x (motorbreath 15 x (motorbreath x wedding crasher)) called mb bx below
Curdled Garlic
GMO x mb bx
Grandma's Washer
Irene OG x mb bx
Rest are unnamed for now.
All shucked and ready to mail
Hope you guys like the names.
@Shevchenko I recommend you run Money OG, Grandma's Washer, or Underbite. But it's up to you, of course.
Only one person so far (Crab Commander) also has money og, and I only sent him a bit. You get the most!
Hope you guys like the names.
@Shevchenko I recommend you run Money OG, Grandma's Washer, or Underbite. But it's up to you, of course.
Only one person so far (Crab Commander) also has money og, and I only sent him a bit. You get the most!
Shevchenko
Active member
Thank you, my friend!
Looking forward to it!
This will be the second exclusive in a while... I'm waiting for a package from Sam (Baked Beans)
He also sent me one of his works that no one else has yet.
I think it's Purple Dream x Choco Kush
I'm going to run them together...
two exclusive varieties in one run, should be great!!!
Thank you!
Looking forward to it!
This will be the second exclusive in a while... I'm waiting for a package from Sam (Baked Beans)
He also sent me one of his works that no one else has yet.
I think it's Purple Dream x Choco Kush
I'm going to run them together...
two exclusive varieties in one run, should be great!!!
Thank you!
Unbelievable, the work you have been doing! Those crosses are looking great, piece by piece and I'm sure someone will have an awesome hunt going through them! Those names are just right. Brilliant to see you and @Shevchenko are friends, I like to see you both running projects and I am looking forward to see the results 
Just catching up lately, my health is not allowing me to be more active. I'm grateful for the beautiful content you keep sharing and always look forward to see what's next. Take care and good luck with your projects my friend!
Just catching up lately, my health is not allowing me to be more active. I'm grateful for the beautiful content you keep sharing and always look forward to see what's next. Take care and good luck with your projects my friend!Take care my friend, I know how hard it can be to have health struggles. Yes Shevchenko is a wonderful soul.Unbelievable, the work you have been doing! Those crosses are looking great, piece by piece and I'm sure someone will have an awesome hunt going through them! Those names are just right. Brilliant to see you and @Shevchenko are friends, I like to see you both running projects and I am looking forward to see the results
Some clones are alive, but they were neglected because I assumed they were doing worse than they were and focused energy elsewhere. That's okay but I need to re take some. Gonna catch up on watering and making feed tonight and take the 4th tray tomorrow. It's that type of rigid clone dome that you can use height extenders with. I didn't realize it's slightly smaller than a regular size dome. But that's alright let's see how that goes.
Anybody know why clone plugs would grow green mold? It's just some of them that I disposed of.
Watered some plants between today and yesterday etc. Was up a while to finish stuff and dentist appointment then crashed for a good long rest. Chemd today etc and tried to get both to a reasonable EC runoff. It's why I've been using like 7 to 12 gallons (guesstimate) a day. Maybe more, hard to really say. Irene too. Just been trying to take the time to get each plant healthy with more and more normalized runoff ec.
Plants in the tent likely need something like 2.0 ec feed soon and transition to PK. I'll link an Athena schedule I found later. I'm not following those numbers at all, mind you, just was looking their fancy easy to understand pdf over, to understand the numbers they shoot for. I may have mentioned notsodog and crybaby both rapped about how these guys are gilding the lily on 80s Dutch agri tech. But they do make some nice pdfs. If I can find the crop steering one I'll link it too. I don't always have a good understanding of this stuff but it's very important to process and understand over time to really understand the "basic recipe" of a solid plant nutrition program and how it's achieved in a setting where they follow a set program by the schedule maker, Athena in some cases.
Ummm I'm pretty stoned but basically the idea is the schedule said I'm using too low ec and need to push pk for bulk soon! I think? Gonna confirm with homie. He's always stunned I'm using media that's so far from the norm that my numbers are all over the place. He said its not scientific and I said I'm using guesswork. He's not wrong though. That's why I wanna normalize my media and get more when possible. Unfortunately I run my budget very very thin. I'm passionate about clones and genetics. Had to put a complete stop to buying seeds for the most, located a pack of blue power for my birthday next year though. I hate to ask guys to hold packs for me, because most people who do that are total time wasters who don't follow through, but when they do I'm so grateful. Rapped a bit with sin city. I'm digging sherb and as24 as potential crosses. It's a bit counting the grand-eggs before the chicken even arrives, but it tickles me to just throw ideas at the wall and see what sticks mentally.
So uh I'm gonna water more plants. Woop
Anybody know why clone plugs would grow green mold? It's just some of them that I disposed of.
Watered some plants between today and yesterday etc. Was up a while to finish stuff and dentist appointment then crashed for a good long rest. Chemd today etc and tried to get both to a reasonable EC runoff. It's why I've been using like 7 to 12 gallons (guesstimate) a day. Maybe more, hard to really say. Irene too. Just been trying to take the time to get each plant healthy with more and more normalized runoff ec.
Plants in the tent likely need something like 2.0 ec feed soon and transition to PK. I'll link an Athena schedule I found later. I'm not following those numbers at all, mind you, just was looking their fancy easy to understand pdf over, to understand the numbers they shoot for. I may have mentioned notsodog and crybaby both rapped about how these guys are gilding the lily on 80s Dutch agri tech. But they do make some nice pdfs. If I can find the crop steering one I'll link it too. I don't always have a good understanding of this stuff but it's very important to process and understand over time to really understand the "basic recipe" of a solid plant nutrition program and how it's achieved in a setting where they follow a set program by the schedule maker, Athena in some cases.
Ummm I'm pretty stoned but basically the idea is the schedule said I'm using too low ec and need to push pk for bulk soon! I think? Gonna confirm with homie. He's always stunned I'm using media that's so far from the norm that my numbers are all over the place. He said its not scientific and I said I'm using guesswork. He's not wrong though. That's why I wanna normalize my media and get more when possible. Unfortunately I run my budget very very thin. I'm passionate about clones and genetics. Had to put a complete stop to buying seeds for the most, located a pack of blue power for my birthday next year though. I hate to ask guys to hold packs for me, because most people who do that are total time wasters who don't follow through, but when they do I'm so grateful. Rapped a bit with sin city. I'm digging sherb and as24 as potential crosses. It's a bit counting the grand-eggs before the chicken even arrives, but it tickles me to just throw ideas at the wall and see what sticks mentally.
So uh I'm gonna water more plants. Woop
Also, forgot to say UPS was mad clutch. Beat the hurricane and took 43 hours from me to homie. They don't always do that good but I wrapped it all in like mylar bubble wrap and taped all that shit up and said it was like, decorations.
It's like I said to this canadian dude who had customs seize his incoming shit
You wanna make it look all normal and like whatever the fuck you declared it as. No plants, no regulated items, no phytosanitary items. When hochi sent me not hp13, dragon hammer, and underdog, he said some shit like Christmas decorations, that stuff kinda looks like a bunch of leaves and stems or whatever.
Don't say like model car if it doesn't look like model car on the xray, right?
And I had this dude who always told me, he would watch these customs reality shows, they'd always go for shit that looked concealed. You send some shit, wrap it up in a shirt, they're like what the fuck is this dude smuggling?
So you want to look like you're wrapping it because you're real proud of over packaging and using a lot of tape. They don't wanna cut your shit open and find out you were sending regular stuff, they'd get a lot of backlash. So make it look normal, but deter them hard as fuck to open the thing. Mylar, whatever, tape, you get the idea. I used to wrap up vac sealed p's I'd get back in like 2021, 2022, whatever, in a grocery shopping bag then a sweater or long sleeve shirt and wrap that up or tie the sleeves and shove it in my backpack in the bottom and and grab a bunch of likely smelly clothes that I had sitting around on the laundry room floor, like underwear, and stuff it in there.
That kinda sounds silly right?
That's what I thought until homie and I walked back from the police station to find every zipper and pocket on my backpack open and searched.
So, uh, they didn't find that big bulky pound of marijuana? That dumb trick kept me out of jail?
That's pretty much when I stopped selling actually, cause I decided I don't wanna rely on dumb tricks to keep me out of jail and just decided to quit when I was ahead because I wasn't neadly street smart enough for that game. But I mean, growing weed is legal here now and my paperwork says I can grow like almost 200 plants. It's not like I'd stop at this point anyway, but my paperwork says I'm Gucci.
So yeah, ups was clutch and hide your shit like you're hiding it from your momma.
It's like I said to this canadian dude who had customs seize his incoming shit
You wanna make it look all normal and like whatever the fuck you declared it as. No plants, no regulated items, no phytosanitary items. When hochi sent me not hp13, dragon hammer, and underdog, he said some shit like Christmas decorations, that stuff kinda looks like a bunch of leaves and stems or whatever.
Don't say like model car if it doesn't look like model car on the xray, right?
And I had this dude who always told me, he would watch these customs reality shows, they'd always go for shit that looked concealed. You send some shit, wrap it up in a shirt, they're like what the fuck is this dude smuggling?
So you want to look like you're wrapping it because you're real proud of over packaging and using a lot of tape. They don't wanna cut your shit open and find out you were sending regular stuff, they'd get a lot of backlash. So make it look normal, but deter them hard as fuck to open the thing. Mylar, whatever, tape, you get the idea. I used to wrap up vac sealed p's I'd get back in like 2021, 2022, whatever, in a grocery shopping bag then a sweater or long sleeve shirt and wrap that up or tie the sleeves and shove it in my backpack in the bottom and and grab a bunch of likely smelly clothes that I had sitting around on the laundry room floor, like underwear, and stuff it in there.
That kinda sounds silly right?
That's what I thought until homie and I walked back from the police station to find every zipper and pocket on my backpack open and searched.
So, uh, they didn't find that big bulky pound of marijuana? That dumb trick kept me out of jail?
That's pretty much when I stopped selling actually, cause I decided I don't wanna rely on dumb tricks to keep me out of jail and just decided to quit when I was ahead because I wasn't neadly street smart enough for that game. But I mean, growing weed is legal here now and my paperwork says I can grow like almost 200 plants. It's not like I'd stop at this point anyway, but my paperwork says I'm Gucci.
So yeah, ups was clutch and hide your shit like you're hiding it from your momma.
Day 32 flower. HiRo4 is uptaking more, I can feel by weight. Couple pics to show the explosive progress compared to before. So I know i can do better with this. More drybacks, nail feed, up pot in stages. Couple pics Wedding Cake. Came out 3.3 ish ec initially, fed hard. Put away, forgot to measure. Less suspicious now and more sure that me and wedding cake just don't like each other. If i want a robust triangle hybrid seems like i95 is a powerhouse in some of my plants outperforming cake. Or heck, even strawberry Gary, sherb, anb, gmo, or as24 uptake much better like some are literal monsters. Cake was sold to me as a beast but it's seeming more like an old production triangle hybrid that's been taken around the block to make much better imo. Not gonna toss her or anything but I'm just not impressed so far, you know? It's been worked much further than this raw diamond.
Guy in Colombia liked my random chucks from before so im gonna send him the mb work to see how it goes. He's very eager.
Gonna catch up on watering but flower tent seems good and most of these are already watered. So I'll get some nice relaxing and smoking in. Turns out if you shuck underdog, irene, pink kush, hiro6, Khalifa mints, and mix it together in a big Ole dry weed salad, that's still gonna get you high as fuck. So I'm having a pretty nice time, man.
