midwest growers unite

[Bababooey]

Bobblehead Jed: I started off with schwag too. Good ol' Mexican brick. Brown, seedy, stem-y, and compressed until the buds were flat. The first time I saw a homegrown, green and orange bud I couldn't even recognize it as weed, I was so used to the mexi-brick.
Which is not to say all mexi was bad. Some was surprisingly decent. Also, having vapes makes it infinitely more bearable toking on that stuff, if i had to...

Jonny B Good: Good tips on doing the perpetual. I'm sure Ill come up with a system if I ever do the perpetual thing... right now, with my setup as it is, i have to veg for 2 weeks to get a good yield. I'm sure the perpetual is in my future, though...

I Do really try: Yeah, I think keeping an even canopy is key: every plant is equidistant from the lights.
Sounds like you're quite the handyman. Building your own little rolling cart out of 2x4's and wheels; im sure its not hard, but I have little carpentry experience, I have trouble making a straight cut lol. I do have a circular saw but no proper workbench or table... Eh, im sure it's not too difficult if I put my mind to it. Maybe looking for basic carpentry tutorials on line or at the library would help ('build your own bookshelf', etc).
Good to hear the NYCD was good in the Dam. Speaking of which, is anyone going to the Icmag cup for 4/20? I hear flights overseas are real cheap now, what with the downturn in travel and all...

Smoke 1 sun: I can't quite picture what your unit looks like, but id have to say, if its a passive flow i dont think the water will go up 3 stories. Maybe you could have a rez downstairs and have a pump and some tubing to pump that water up to another rez upstairs? Anything to avoid carrying heavy buckets up a lot of rickety stairs.

 

[idoreallytry]

well thx bro,, but i am jst lazy i figure if i can learn to do one thing i can't do once and it will keep me from working harder in the future i am down for it, but it is real simple,,, but i tell you walmart or an offfice supply store will have lil square rolling casters no building anything,,,plus the good thing about them they are low to the ground just wheel high off ground but then you can stack stuff to make it as high or as low as low as you need,,,i wish we could go to the dam for 4/20 but i am so broke i coldn't go over if they gave me the ticket lol,,,peace fellow mwers's

btw smoke 1 just buy a garden hose that will reach up to the grow hook up with a connector and a couple clamps or sometimes you can find spigots with the male threads to connect a garden hose to, when you need to change res out and just fill a couple of gallon jugs up for top offs,,,just a suggestion sounds dumb but it will suffice till you come up with a surefire plan it seems to me having water pumped three stories would take a decent size pump but its definately doable i would say, i know they make pumps big enough for it,,,good luck in your project hope you find an answer,,,peace

 

[PhilCuisine]

thank you, thank you very much....

thank you, thank you very much....

Ive always enjoyed ya work in them Phototrons Phil, I remember you fro my days over on OG ya always had awesome grows in the trons, you never cease to amaze me with ya grows buddy
I'll never give up my SWC/TRON grows...ever.

PhilCuisine: Trons are looking good as always! Looks like you're going to have some frosty nugs to harvest within the next month. Never underestimate the power of the trons!

The Rainbow Kush, Ms. O'Wreck 2, Matanuska Thunder Fuck will be chopped these next 2 weeks...
I use Chicago tap water, it's about 7.0 ph and 150-200 ppms; it's pretty good water, as far as tap goes. Lots of midwest peeps get their tap water from the Great Lakes and dont have any issues with it; I know PhilCuisine doesn't
Chicagoland tap water rules bro...no and's if's or but's it just straight up rules...

Here are some pix....Hope this helps.


2 1/2 to 3 OZ's of Rainbow Kush...a lot of the buds are the size of handballs..



My set it and forget it method with no meters or res. changes at all period. These are the root system of the Rainbow Kush. Proof that Chicagoland tap water rules, nuff sed.

 

[greenisgold]

Well, here we are at day 28 and the plants are doing very good. Two of the white ice experienced some leaf drop due to not enough N in the soil, so I hit them with some veg nutes and that has stopped. Besides a SOG, this is the first time I have really grown using such small pots (1 and 1.5 gal) so it's tough to judge nute uptake. I'm realy impressed with the nirvana super girl feminzed seeds as they look awesome for such a short veg time which was 3 weeks from seed. Very short plant and for only 28 days they are covered in resin already. I have a ww that is pretty sativa dom so it looks like it and the C4 will go longer.

 

[El_Professor420]

El Professor: Nice budshot! Those look like perfect, frosty little indicas. How's the yield on those?

I got 4 nice plants 2 are very indica dominant (OG Kush) and 2 are sativa dominant (SD IBL) , do not know the yeild on them as its the first run and theyre fully seeded , so yea ill maybe get 4g of nuggets when all is said and done and prolly over 500/600 seeds


Ill take some more shots tonight and post them up after

 

[dontstepongrass]

tonight i will be poppin some master low f2's, purple phreak, mazar-i-sharif and some yummy d's...

 

[El_Professor420]

Jus a few for ya mates to peep, mmmm look at all the seed pods in pic 2

 

[lc00p4]

you guys know how to grind hard like me on my snowboard... we call this a frontside noseslide. peep the swag... MA-HURDDDAAA

 

[abirdintheair]

its a shame we got racist pricks posing in our ranks... might be time to tighten the all inclusive list...

 

[lostinethereal]

What's up Murda?

I pretty much finished the cab these last few days. Just a few last quick and easy things and it's ready. This has been a long process in the making, it was quite some time ago that I came up with the rough designs. I even did a mock-up in google SketchUp before ordering the components to make sure everything would fit. Anyway, this could have been finished awhile ago but better late than never. I'm very satisfied and impressed with the results of my work thus far.

Right now I'm running everything to see how it works for an extended period, going to go at least 18 hours, since this cab will never be subjected to any more than 12 at a time. The 150 has been going for around an hour and the tube is warm but not hot to the touch and the exhaust coming out the back of the cab feels cool. I'm also test fitting the lone JLP SDxOG F2 in her (I really hope) new home. She'll be getting the flip probably tomorrow now that the cab is basically done. I need to find a slightly larger pot for her, that's tomorrow agenda.

Now, the pics:

I'm so excited to finally start contributing something worth showing to this great thread.

 

[Bababooey]

I Do Really: I think Home Depot carries the little caster wheels too, that place has everything. That and Walmart, that's all a grower needs. Well, along with a hydro store or website.
I'm not going to the Dam either but I figure if there were anytime to go it'd be now, with travel costs supposedly being so cheap. But im sure you can do it almost as cheap even when the economy gets better...

Phil: Sweet looking harvest! Yeah, at first impression the buds dont look that big but then you see that it basically takes up the whole shower. Buds the size of handballs: didnt you say you liked the ball shaped nugs better than the long colas, because they tend to be frostier and more potent?
I love the Chicago tap myself. I think I have my system in equilibrium: i havent had to use as much ph correction recently...

Green is gold: Plants sound like they're doing great!

El Professor: Plants look frosty! How sativa do the sativa ones look? Cause all mine look pretty indica. All i know is they're vegging pretty slow. I hung another cfl over them to get those buggers to grow.

Koopa: That picture reminds me of how much i DONT miss the snow.

A Bird: What?!? Who's rascist? How would you know?

Update on the closet:

NYCD's are continuing to bud but they're not swelling as fast as the Flo does. The Flo literally reaches max bud size 6 weeks after first buds appear. These NYCD's look like a 70-80 day strain.

Got some cuts in the Aero Garden. I once rooted some cuts in here, once out of 3 tries. I'm giving it another go, with a few dropperfuls of GH nutes, SM90, and a drop of Superthrive. They seem happy so far, which ill take for now....

 

[theratings]

the jelly jar one is nightmare diesel!

lol i love these two pictures. what the fuck is guava jelly? i'm from the midwest too. there's great weed here.

 

[El_Professor420]

Sativa

Indica

 

[lc00p4]

who is being racist? def not me cuz i'm prolly one of the only non-white people in this group. i bleed vietnamese all day...

 

[jonnybgood29]

lol i love these two pictures. what the fuck is guava jelly? i'm from the midwest too. there's great weed here.

thanks for the compliment.... anyone here from the ohio area?

 

[idoreallytry]

O-H-
hey guys been lurking for awhile checking you all out and just recently posted a couple times i am from the midwest, i grow a lil ganja, i love to smoke, i am willin to give a lil advice (and need advice just as much lol) if its something i know but i am no where near an expert, i have grown a lil hydro and am currently doing perpetual soil grow with CH9 and Female seeds,,,just wanted to tell a lil about myself b4 i just started posting in ya'lls thread too much more,,,well i hope its cool,, and i hope to meet a lot of cool people,,,peace all

baba,,, the depot rocks as well

 

[PhilCuisine]

Tons Domina Kush 13 seeds

Tons Domina Kush 13 seeds

Phil: Sweet looking harvest! Yeah, at first impression the buds dont look that big but then you see that it basically takes up the whole shower. Buds the size of handballs: didnt you say you liked the ball shaped nugs better than the long colas, because they tend to be frostier and more potent?
I love the Chicago tap myself. I think I have my system in equilibrium: i havent had to use as much ph correction recently...

I forgot I seeded this with Domina 13 pollen...so now i gots more seeds to pass out to the less fortunate growers in my hood.

Black Domina X Airbourne's G13 = Domina 13 male pollen
Domina 13 X Rainbow Kush = Domina Kush 13

I wanted a total couchlock.....Hope this helps.




Vietnam Thunder Fuck...one was male & the other is female....tossed the male out.

 

[lostinethereal]

Yo bird, who's the racist pricks?

 

[dontstepongrass]

 

[joluvs2gro]

What's up everybody, detroiter here checkin in. Been around for a minute but hadn't seen this. Right now I got some good bagseed going+some hawaiian sweet skunk x oldtime moonshine and also some pink kush and some pink garlic bud. I just obtained some auto hindu kush that I am poppin right now though. The auto hindu kush are from a local guy, he has alot of them so when I know how good and viable they are, I will be able to get as many as needed. I just started with 15 of them for now. Paid $40 which is fine for me since it is local and I don't have to deal with customs and all that bullshit for more money ya dig?