The Warden is pulling the plug.....

[Murphy]

so is it that wifey doesnt want you to grow at all, or just not in the house? i mean yeah if you got kids then you just gotta take it outside somewhere, but other than that, why would one have to quit "totally" ?

you have a passion and conviction, not to mention talent/ knowledge, thats obvious so why just give that all up? doesnt seem fair though. i mean "water curing"? hell ive NEVER seen, heard or thought of ANYTHING like that b4 in all of my years on here!!!-

i told my wife upfront what it was going to be wiht me. i aint one of those "cats on teh corner smokin like i have nothing else to do". once she saw that my passion was real and more so my conviction, she realized how much it meant to me. i mean i made a deal that it woudlnt get too big, but i grow for me mainly and wanted to just try a bigger grow, but thats all of a 4x4 closet. bigger yes, bu the feds aint gonna come knockin no time soon, thats for sure.

i dont know man, if its causing like mad problems i can understand, but if its for the sake of the children then you can still do your thing outside, but that would be a DAMNED shame for you to just stop cold like that. any chance of something happening in the future atleast. i honestly have studied cannabis for about 4-5 years, off and on/ hear and there, before i decided to start growing, so i cant see someone throwing or inhibiting all that knowledge.

i dont know, maybe im rambling cause im high, and i kinda can see this sort of thing coming my way after a while, but im fightin it tooth and nail damnit!!!

I love that Avatar man, they need to do more movies. When it all started is was agreed to be a temporary thing with a 6 plant max. She was thinking along the lines of something like a 2 foot floro light and a couple of half dead plants in a box.....she never saw any of this coming. She understands that I'm more like a novice on an advanced level (hopefully, that's not oversteping it) and she knows I love it.....she doesn't like the time I spend doing it but, she is understanding, the problem is, she see's the time it takes to get a set up going and dialed in, she hasn't seen once everthing is done that you just leave it alone for the most part. She's read comments people left like your's and the others and it may help my chances of getting that shed!!!
Thanks for all the kind words guys!

 

[Bababooey]

Here's Nite Tiger's water curing post:
http://www.icmag.com/ic/showpost.php?p=403347&postcount=28

In the second paragraph he mentions not closing the container and keeping it out of direct sunlight.

FWIW, I've seen other water curing threads where, like you, people used jars. Those seem to be people's first attempt at water curing, like you. Obviously, a good idea to try it out before taking a cooler and dumping your whole crop in...

You might want to make some breather holes, as this guy did:
http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=7482

I'm not saying it'll make any difference, but others who have tried it seem to believe that evaporation is necessary, so what the hey?

On a side note, you're saying that the Thunk popcorn nugs aren't that great? I have a Thai Stick sativa going and if that smoke doesn't fly me to the moon it won't be worth it; damn thing is 6 feet tall, still stretches, and looks like another 2 months to finish.

 

[Murphy]

Thanks for the info Bababooey! I sent Nite Tiger a pm to see if I can get him to chime in also.

Here's day 4, down to 37 PPMs! The the water had a stronger odor today.


I also mounted the carbon scrubber tonight.....it was tight getting it in the room, needed a good bit of prying, pushing and ass to get it in there. I hadn't thought of this before I ordered it but, I got it there. I made a bracket out of a 36" piece of 1/8" X 3/4" alunimum. The back end rests on a support.




Lastly, here a few shot of the overgown veg cab. You can see how I have to sink some of dixie cup plants in with the others in 10 inch pots. Hopefully this isn't going to be to big of a problem later with roots. I need about 4 more days and I'll be able to shift a few into the flowering room and spread the other out. All of the plants in 6 inch pots are Grape Krush in the dixies cups in with other plants are Grape Krush and Ata Tundra, I forget the count for what I have of each......or how many plants I have crammed in there.

 

[Murphy]

Day 5 Water Curing Update
Down to 29 PPM's



Here's a few random lights out pics from a few minutes ago.

The screen is looking good, I had to spread some out, I think I have them packed in to tight. These are a few days short of 4 weeks.


Here are the AK's, I'm not sure what happened to the large on, neut lockout? I thought it was a PH issue last week but no other plants were effected. It's close enough to finishing that it should be alright.

....and we can't forget out the THUNK and it's last 2 arms.

 

[Murphy]

Day 5 of the Water Cure
Down to 13 PPm's from 214 from Day 1, and with that, I'll start drying. I know I've seen some that go 7 days or so, I just don't think it's going to make that big of a difference to go another 2 days. I sat them on a small fan that I use to suck air through my ballast, the buds just damp at this pint and the ballast doesn't run hot at all.


Here's that AK-47 that was looking a little burnt or whatever.....LOOKS DAMN GOOD NOW! Rock Solid Buds!



And a little finger hash rolled up after the trim.....I'll rip this through the bong tonight, first time I've smoked it. Sorry for the blurry pic, more so for size then anything else. It's rolled in a ball so it is larger then it appears in that pic.

 

[Murphy]

yeah, that finger hash is real nice!

 

[Wonderon]

Looking good, enjoy the fruits of your labor.

 

[FRANKENBLUNT420]

I love that Avatar man, they need to do more movies. When it all started is was agreed to be a temporary thing with a 6 plant max. She was thinking along the lines of something like a 2 foot floro light and a couple of half dead plants in a box.....she never saw any of this coming. She understands that I'm more like a novice on an advanced level (hopefully, that's not oversteping it) and she knows I love it.....she doesn't like the time I spend doing it but, she is understanding, the problem is, she see's the time it takes to get a set up going and dialed in, she hasn't seen once everthing is done that you just leave it alone for the most part. She's read comments people left like your's and the others and it may help my chances of getting that shed!!!
Thanks for all the kind words guys!

dude. . . . . . .. you jsut really dont realize how similar we/ our situations are my friend. . . seriuosly. she almost shit a brick when she saw the 4x4 closet i am building (hell, i almost shit a brick when i saw it up, its one thing to say it and have it on paper, but DAMN once its up, its up!! lol)

yeah our situations are the same especially when the temps start to fluctuate, between heat and cold, then yo uREALLY gotta start payign close attention and checking otherwise all that hard work goes to pot. .. .. uh yeah pot (mrs. murphy please dont take that the wrong way )

anywhoo please tell the wife that its a hell of a hobby to get into and maybe you can fit some things in teh closet for her to grow of her own and then you can watch them for her.

my wife bought some herbs (the literal kind) and i was growing them ok (although she started them without me and she didnt mark what seeds she put in what peat plugs) until we got into and argument and she went into "i dont want him thinking i need him for anything" mode an tossed them all away. they were doing fine too, pissed me off thats for sure, and i had some peppers going (god i hope your wifes not a taurus too, jesus they are stubborn as all fuck and they think its "sooo" ok to be that way whoooo bwoy, makes me jsut wanna but i love she, so never any of that)

weve had our share of over the time i spend in there and have hashed it out, but ultimately she understands that it literally is a part of who i am and shes seen me when i wasnt keeping occupied by growing, i basically started to .

its never anything to get kicked out for, but i guess your wife and mine may be the same. for excample mine is always thinks that there is alwasy some sort of gustapo out to get us, and is terrified when the neighbors kids crossover onto our part of the drive way (its shared). and i quote, "i dont want nobodoy suing us over they kid, just becuase they cant ride a damned bike !" or the " thats all we need is someone to come onto our lawn and sue us and take our house!" its due to teh fact that i am more of a free spirit and she is stalin reincarnated. (joking)

all i can say is that , thank god shes not incharge of the new world order otherwise even the guys would have to wear purses and matching shoes, sheesh.

well tell the wife shes not alone , but at the same time theres nothing to fear but fear itself. i dont know how far fetched it may be for you guys but "THE SECRET" is something i have been meaning to check out, maybe its worth a look see for her aswell, it may calm the nerves about what "drawing the wrong attention" can really mean.

peace murphy


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[James-Bong]

Sounds like it's time to move things outdoors.....

Here is a purpled up Abusive to cheer ya up....

 

[Don Cotyle]

Hi Bro, things are looking great!!! HAHAha the Thunk is still going strong, I let mine go for what felt like ages till it finally finished up. I finally hit day 65 on the Burmese Dream and decided it was time to trim her out, not to shabby for a Bonsai







To hell with the Warden, Keep on Keeping on!

 

[Murphy]

Looks Good Don!
....The Warden's on me a little bit right now......if you saw the way I was running the cab right now, you would understand why. I have a larger plant sitting in a 10" net pot basket in a trash can with another trash can beside it, I have to move the plant and manually feed/water from one to the other. The cab is way over crowded. I still have 6 plants in the clone cab that are running at 1100 ppms, sucking up 1 1/2 gallons a day, the problem is they are in a 3 gallon cloner. The roots are going to be fun to pull apart. I'm trying to wait it out on the remaining buds in flower but, I'm out of space, gotta chop 'em soon.

 

[Murphy]

Last night I took the plants out so I could rearrange them better.....it's easy to see how crowded things are.


These are all DJ's Grape Krush

The 2 on the left are AK 47 clones, on the right is a Grape Krush

All of the rest are AK 47's or if you look into a few of the baskets, you'll see an indica.....it's either Grape Krush or Ata Tundra, still in plastic dixie cups, all out of room for pots......

A few closer shots......I am trying to get Clowntown and a few other experienced people to start a thread on Liquid Light, I have it, I use it, I've never had a problem from it, these all have been getting it about twice a week. It makes for easy cloning! See any problems? People are looking at Liquid Light as if it's another "bigger bud" product, it's not. What it will do is force faster growth. If you run SOG, the stuff is great, if you want to shorten the veg time, liquid light will give you a larger plant to start the flowering process so you will come out with a larger yeild. Anyone else interested in seeing a test done? I can use all clones from the same plant but I'll betcha the Liquid Light plant produced more total yeild in the end.

 

[Don Cotyle]

I wish I had your problem of to many plants...LOL I have the other bonsai going its kust a bafseed thru the log =P. I was just gifted a foot tal clone from a friend that I gave my freebie Menage A Twois to, so at least I've got 2 getting ready to start flowering! The Grape Kush will be germed and a suitable mom will be found and cloned, then vegged as long as I can stand it and they'll be turned into big trained bushes!

Sorry never tried the liquid light myself

 

[NiteTiger]

Sorry I'm late Murphy, I've been neglecting IC this summer.

How'd the water cure turn out? I'm betting you've still got a bit more taste and smell since you didn't go the full 7, but I suspect you have noticed quite a bit of smoothing. Am I right?

The reason to leave the top off was to allow some evaporation/transpiration in the mix, is how it was explained to me. My main thing was I tried it both ways, and the covered stuff just didn't turn out as good as the uncovered.

Hope you liked it!

 

[Murphy]

Sorry I'm late Murphy, I've been neglecting IC this summer.

How'd the water cure turn out? I'm betting you've still got a bit more taste and smell since you didn't go the full 7, but I suspect you have noticed quite a bit of smoothing. Am I right?

The reason to leave the top off was to allow some evaporation/transpiration in the mix, is how it was explained to me. My main thing was I tried it both ways, and the covered stuff just didn't turn out as good as the uncovered.

Hope you liked it!

I had the chance to smoke it side by side with bud from the same plant and I have to say, it was WAAAAAAYYYY smoother. I think you were right on your thread, you loose a little weight but it's perfect for a growers stash! 5 days was enough for me to continue doing it.Thanks for the thread and for checkin' in!

 

[Murphy]

....and some lights out flower room shots





A few THUNK shots.... this thing went into flower on 3/10...5 months later, it's still going.


Light bleeching from having the light to low

 

[Maj.PotHead]

looking nice in here everything seems under control 4sure theres been several shed grows even a bunker grow. lol duder put a shiping container in ground used metal shed as cover and enterance
http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=11455&page=1&pp=15&userid=4715
now thats some chit mang lol pretty much whole how to

 

[Wonderon]

Looking nice man. Hows the coco pad doing for ya, any better with the roots. Seems they sell pads for this use, I never knew but here they are:
http://www.bghydro.com/BGH/itemdesc.asp?ic=GMBB44&eq=&Tp=

 

[bonecollector]

Well I sure wish I would have listened to my warden about 5 years ago. But like yourself, this was my passion. I got popped by the way with 192 plants. No big deal with the State but the Feds pick up my charges, 5 to 40 minum man for anything over 100 plants, I did three years in the federal pen in Miami, Summer camp really but still away from family sucked. Hang tight my man.

 

[Wonderon]

Well I sure wish I would have listened to my warden about 5 years ago. But like yourself, this was my passion. I got popped by the way with 192 plants. No big deal with the State but the Feds pick up my charges, 5 to 40 minum man for anything over 100 plants, I did three years in the federal pen in Miami, Summer camp really but still away from family sucked. Hang tight my man.

Thanks for sharing that, made me think twice, now I know I will be sticking to a maximum of only 5 plants at a time. Hopefully we learned from the past, and good luck to the future.