Pandy's Pod

[PandyFackler]

Hello to all Ace growers, future, present and past.

In this thread I'll display and share some thoughts about the Ace strains I've been working with.

First some info about my methods -

Vertical 1000w hps
Organic soil using peat based soil mix with added -
Perlite
Worm castings
Garden compost
Blood meal and feather meal
Alfalfa meal
High P bat guano
Composted kelp and kelp meal
Crab meal
Oyster shell
Gypsum
Green sand
Glacial rock dust

I apply molasses and humid acid weekly and sometimes make ewc or alfalfa teas. I also use neptunes harvest fish and seaweed blend 2-3-1 and neptunes harvest seaweed plant food 0-0-1 a few times during the flowering cycle. I have found the fish/seaweed to be too hot for the finicky sativas, perhaps the nitrogen is just too readily available.

I have a constant 11/13 lighting schedule in my flowering room (The Pod) and perpetual harvest. I'm fairly new to vertical growing but I enjoy the freedom it allows when growing plants of greatly varying heights.

Here's a couple shots of my room from a few months ago. It's tricky to get a decent pic but here we go.

Next up - Strain reviews

PF

 

[Ncali]

Cool set up, is that a fan below your light? Exhaust fan? Only one, or is there some more ducting above to cycle out hot air. I like the idea of perpetual harvest and ability to grow plants of varrying heights simultaneously...

Good looking setup, got a seat to see some more!

 

[deepwaterdude]

Nice set up, Pandyfackler, looking forward to your report on the strains

 

[PandyFackler]

Cool set up, is that a fan below your light? Exhaust fan? Only one, or is there some more ducting above to cycle out hot air. I like the idea of perpetual harvest and ability to grow plants of varrying heights simultaneously...

Good looking setup, got a seat to see some more!

Thanks Ncali! That's actually just a regular fan sitting on an upside down bucket. I'm using it to dissipate the heat of the bulb and in doing so, I can get my plants really close to that bulb. Much closer than one would ever want to when using a reflector. I feel that this is important when growing vertically because your lumens are being spread around a much larger area, rather than being focussed by the reflector.

 

[PandyFackler]

Nice set up, Pandyfackler, looking forward to your report on the strains

Hey dwd, thanks for stopping by!

 

[Old Toker]

Nice setup PandyFacker! I also grow vert and hopefully you can answer a question for me? On the base of your light there is a flat metal piece.....did you make that or purchase it? I may go to double vert bulbs in the future and I would need a couple of those. Unfortunately I have limited tools and handyman skills so if you bought it I'd sure appreciate a source. Thanks!

 

[Guest]

The Pod!Hehe...
Love the setup,especially the perpetual harvest and unlimited height.
Nice you'll gather all your plants/reports in one thread.I'll be tuned!

 

[Levitationofme]

Very nice, it seems you have it dialed in.
Growing in a interesting soil as well.
Ill be checkin in to see how it goes.

 

[PandyFackler]

Nice setup PandyFacker! I also grow vert and hopefully you can answer a question for me? On the base of your light there is a flat metal piece.....did you make that or purchase it? I may go to double vert bulbs in the future and I would need a couple of those. Unfortunately I have limited tools and handyman skills so if you bought it I'd sure appreciate a source. Thanks!

Hey OT thanks for the kudos. Actually that bracket comes from a cool tube fixture that I had lying around. I needed it because the cord is held on to the bulb fixture using marrettes. Usually I would just tie the yo yo hanger onto the cord, that's what I have done in my veg room which is also hung vertically. So it's possible you might find something like this at your local hydro store? If not I would have no idea where to look.

Thanks to everyone for stopping in. Sorry I've been putting off the promised reports, I've been occupied the last few nights playing with my new toy - a rosin press.

The rosin I've been pressing is unbelievably strong. Stronger than any shatter I've ever tried. Then again, I've never had shatter made out of Malawi or golden tiger....

PF

 

[Levitationofme]

That is some press there.
another WOW

 

[Old Toker]

Actually that bracket comes from a cool tube fixture that I had lying around.

Thanks Pandy!
Nice press!
I'll probably try to find some aluminum flat piece somewhere and use a metal drill bit. Won't look as professional as yours...but I doubt the plants will complain.

 

[PandyFackler]

That is some press there.
another WOW

Thanks man. It's been pretty fun messing with this thing over the last couple of weeks but I will say this, being only a one ton press greatly limits the amount that can be pressed at one time. It's taking me about an hour to get 1-2 grams and I'm getting around a 10-14% return. Not a bad yield considering the quality of the concentrate im getting, but it does take some work.

 

[PandyFackler]

So I've been pretty tied up the last couple weeks, but I'm gonna slap some budshots and reports up right now because I'm starting to get a backlog of things I need to post haha

Panama -

This has been very popular with my friends, the smell in the jar is gorgeous, honey lemon which gets more candied as the cure goes on. Great high, clear enough to let you function but up front enough to let you know you're baked. It comes in pretty quickly with warmth in the head and behind the eyes and with a large enough dose, you get a nice soaring head feeling. Pretty euphoric and comforting, not much anxiety at all.

 

[PandyFackler]

The Pod!Hehe...
Love the setup,especially the perpetual harvest and unlimited height.
Nice you'll gather all your plants/reports in one thread.I'll be tuned!

Hey papa Syd, I don't know how to put music up on here so if it's not too much bother, slam up some ween brother!

Thanks for the post, love your grow show dude

 

[PandyFackler]

Purple Malawi-

This has to be one of the prettiest purple buds I've grown. The smell in the jar is of blackberry wine . Amazing smell to accompany a beautiful bud. It's quite airy but also has a surprising weight to it. The calyxs are sort of sparse but heavy if that makes sense. The high is interesting because it is fairly up but narcotic at the same time. Not really in an indica way though. I wouldn't call it clear, but it's not couch lock. It's psychedelic for sure, muddles the mind but not in a scary way. As long as you don't have to think too hard, it's pretty comfortable and the narcotic swing comes in more at the end of the high. The more it cures the heavier it's been getting. Makes really nice rosin.

 

[PandyFackler]

Fruity carrot Malawi -

While growing, this plant smelled so much like carrots and tropical tangerine. It's such a good smelling plant and has a graceful weeping willow appearance at the end of flowering. Now that it's cured it has lost much of that fruitiness and turned much more perfumed and sharp, almost to the point of an acrid (I don't want to say it but..) chlorine smell. Not really any sweetness or earthiness that it had when growing. Not unpleasant but also not crazy awesome. Anyway, the high. It's very strong. It comes on with a rush of clarity that soon turns into an enjoyable but intense head high. Its great in a comfortable setting, at home doing chores etc, but the other day I vaped some at work and was like holy crap, nobody look at me, nobody talk to me. Ain't nothin smart coming out of my mouth right now. Less narcotic than it's purple sister. Lasts for hours and gets pretty intense if overdone. As a side note, this plant has a skimpy yield compared to its sister, making many small airy buds. It yielded about 60% of the purple Malawi.

 

[PandyFackler]

Here's a peek at a lower branch of Tikal that I'm harvesting. The smell is fantastic.

 

[PandyFackler]

This is about a gram of tasty rosin I made from zamaldelica flowers

 

[Levitationofme]

Wow, that is looking sooooooo good.
I bet it's deadly powerful.
That looks like a lost couple of days on a stick.

 

[PandyFackler]

Wow, that is looking sooooooo good.
I bet it's deadly powerful.
That looks like a lost couple of days on a stick.

It's seriously powerful Levi. Almost too much for me. I'm mainly making it for a friend who had eye trauma and gets a lot pressure building up in his eye. It helps him a lot and the shatter he's been using in the past is dirty in my opinion. Yuck. This stuff is clean and you get a proper full spectrum high from it. But holy moly, just the bud is strong enough for me. I'll only touch this stuff when I want to visit other planets or dimensions.