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Leetdood's growing struggles
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Basically got lucky just following lcs soilless mix, ceramic metal halide 400w bulbs, cold concrete basement. Thanks again to @Burn1 for
https://www.icmag.com/threads/organics-for-beginners.48694/
https://www.icmag.com/threads/organics-for-beginners.48694/
Forgive my shitty plants and pictures
But here is goji margy #3, a male pheno. The daddy likely will get culled since the clones are doing well. Probably take photos first for posterity.
It has a lime/lemon raunchy stem rub. It's pinesoul x frozen margy so that tracks. Frozen margy is a mouthful but it's all sour chem and og.
I have dragon hammer, doc d made it and it's nobody's nursery selection, so I told them I might pair the two. Gonna send doc d these pics. It's nice and robust for a heirloom Mashup. Very sharp and raunchy smell, exactly like I wanted. So gonna keep the best parts of pinesoul and all the other cultivars involved. But have it be robust and good for production. Possibly wash, even. Still need to wash DH after a solid run.
But here is goji margy #3, a male pheno. The daddy likely will get culled since the clones are doing well. Probably take photos first for posterity.
It has a lime/lemon raunchy stem rub. It's pinesoul x frozen margy so that tracks. Frozen margy is a mouthful but it's all sour chem and og.
I have dragon hammer, doc d made it and it's nobody's nursery selection, so I told them I might pair the two. Gonna send doc d these pics. It's nice and robust for a heirloom Mashup. Very sharp and raunchy smell, exactly like I wanted. So gonna keep the best parts of pinesoul and all the other cultivars involved. But have it be robust and good for production. Possibly wash, even. Still need to wash DH after a solid run.
Trying to describe what a legal (white) market looks like to homie in Ukraine. It's really an odd situation, where growers proclaim stuff like "Make Weed Illegal Again."
Humidity seems to be staying above 50% so I'm gonna chop the plants in a short bit, hang dry, and try and manage the temperature to drop a bit. Made 2 buckets feed to continue watering and cutting plants back after I do that.
Recommended homie grow the following:
Fems
Airlock (as24 x trop cherry)
Bolo runtz x permanent marker
(Rainbow belts x apple Mintz) x trop cherry
Regs, 10
Papaya punch x peach ringz x strawberry meltshake
To get an idea of what some view as "cutting edge" in this market. Any thoughts? He's already grown some stardawg, i95, Mac, alien sourz, and AnB s1s. But I'd love some feedback on what you guys think is prevalent in this legal market that's worth growing out. Ukraine might be getting more dank!
Humidity seems to be staying above 50% so I'm gonna chop the plants in a short bit, hang dry, and try and manage the temperature to drop a bit. Made 2 buckets feed to continue watering and cutting plants back after I do that.
Recommended homie grow the following:
Fems
Airlock (as24 x trop cherry)
Bolo runtz x permanent marker
(Rainbow belts x apple Mintz) x trop cherry
Regs, 10
Papaya punch x peach ringz x strawberry meltshake
To get an idea of what some view as "cutting edge" in this market. Any thoughts? He's already grown some stardawg, i95, Mac, alien sourz, and AnB s1s. But I'd love some feedback on what you guys think is prevalent in this legal market that's worth growing out. Ukraine might be getting more dank!
I took a lot of pics so it's a 2 parter
4 to 5 hours after end of day 66 (so day 67 but only those few hours of darkness)
This is strawberry gary
As predicted it was difficult and tricky but do able to extract the plants. I have to re arrange the plants in the tent later but they're all stable as is. Tried to get some whole plant shots etc in there but I'm not good at taking photos with my tablet camera.
Very good quality, swell, fade
Not amazing yield but it's good by my standards surely, with only a 1 gal plastic pot. I find the plastic pots sometimes let me go a bit smaller in volume and have fast dryback where you can kinda feed hard or crop steer. Not sure how to describe that otherwise. But you can see the results right?
4 to 5 hours after end of day 66 (so day 67 but only those few hours of darkness)
This is strawberry gary
As predicted it was difficult and tricky but do able to extract the plants. I have to re arrange the plants in the tent later but they're all stable as is. Tried to get some whole plant shots etc in there but I'm not good at taking photos with my tablet camera.
Very good quality, swell, fade
Not amazing yield but it's good by my standards surely, with only a 1 gal plastic pot. I find the plastic pots sometimes let me go a bit smaller in volume and have fast dryback where you can kinda feed hard or crop steer. Not sure how to describe that otherwise. But you can see the results right?
Both sherb (x2) and as24 come down in three days. So that'll be half the tent crossed off and done. Smoke samples next, of course.
For now as I mentioned I try and manage the environment and continue the cutting back. Hope to make that list I mentioned.
Also need to prep for upcoming washes
For now as I mentioned I try and manage the environment and continue the cutting back. Hope to make that list I mentioned.
Also need to prep for upcoming washes
dood i feel you on the drying process! something i don't rush and just keep parameters in check. if it snaps it goes in the bag. don't like when it is drying too fast 
vacuum bags with boveda work for me and jar or ziploc for temporary storage
tempted to try those terploc bags to check if there's any notable difference 
do you trim dry or wet? what's your storage method?
thanks for delivering blasts from the past, first successful organic grows
do you plan to flower the males and do some stress testing?
will end the lengthy reply here
happy growing dood!
vacuum bags with boveda work for me and jar or ziploc for temporary storagetempted to try those terploc bags to check if there's any notable difference do you trim dry or wet? what's your storage method?
thanks for delivering blasts from the past, first successful organic grows
do you plan to flower the males and do some stress testing?
will end the lengthy reply here
happy growing dood!
dood i feel you on the drying process! something i don't rush and just keep parameters in check. if it snaps it goes in the bag. don't like when it is drying too fast
do you trim dry or wet? what's your storage method?
thanks for delivering blasts from the past, first successful organic grows
do you plan to flower the males and do some stress testing?
will end the lengthy reply here
happy growing dood!
The Grove (terploc) bags work amazing but
A) you need to be *extremely* careful with the zippers. They will tear.
B) I realized I had the tendency to seal them up like a ziploc. But how they work is they regulate the internal environment via the material, in theory. So what's the point if you're gonna squish all the bud together and restrict air flow? Gotta leave the buds a little loose, is what it seems like.
C) I probably need hygrometers.
I trim dry, because in my experience wet trimming is inferior. It's easier, I guess, but the result is essentially fresh open wounds all over the bud. Not saying you can't do that, do what works for you, you know? Facilities do it. But I definitely prefer to hang whole plant dry when possible. Sometimes a stalk breaks off or you gotta cut a plant into sections, that's ok. But hang whole plant dry is generally what seems to be craft standard.
Just means you need a careful steady or gentle hand for trimming.
I do plan to flower the males but right now what's important is finishing the immediate jobs, overgrown plants etc. I made the clone list, seems like underdog and some sour apple jaxx need cloning at least. Double Burnout #2 too it looks like. But there's 16 pairs (or more each) of rooted clones. And something like 17 types rooting. So overall lots getting done, just gotta make sure every plant is properly backed up. Don't want to start flower and find out something was overlooked in a rush.
Also something someone said to me, regarding trimming or drying or curing or whatever, we shoot for an ideal but it's gonna all smoke fine in the end. People used to dry on paper plates and in paper bags and sold that just fine. No need to get too particular if it's a waste of energy or effort.
