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[Weezard]

I can help with this.

I can help with this.

Hello HempKat,

I just got a microscope as I am gonna chop in a week or 2. Not used a scope before to tell me when to chop, could you give me any advise or point me in the right direction. Ideally i wanna look at some pics so i can compare with mine.
Any help is appricated, your doing a great job on here thanks.

Aloha M. Y.

These should help a little.



I like an "up" high so Mostly cloudy was just right for this strain.




Here's a close-up where we see that it's not as "cloudy" as it first appeared. Water clear caps have little THC and very little CBD/CBN



If you want "couch lock", look for the amber caps.
The more, the thumpier.



Once you "know" a strain, your nose can tell you as much as your 'scope. The scent changes as the caps tan.
It's subtle, but useful.

Got more pics if ya need 'em.

Weezard

 

[obscuredbycloud]

What type of magnification do you need?

 

[Weezard]

A 30X loupe is sufficient.
Or use a cheapie "stylus scope" from da R Shack.

I got lucky.
Had a cyber friend gift me an Eyeclops.
Sweet little macro camera.
It has 100x 200x and 400x lenses and saves the pics to a thumb drive
They run about $20 - 30. but will put your buds on da big screen.


Aloha,
Weezard

 

[atomicfield]

hermie help, was hoping anyone could tell me if this is turning hermie on me,if so what do i do,sorry for bad pics, but if you look at tip its got like pouches of yellow,please help and thanks

 

[High Country]

hermie help, was hoping anyone could tell me if this is turning hermie on me,if so what do i do,sorry for bad pics, but if you look at tip its got like pouches of yellow,please help and thanks

I can't see the pics.

 

[atomicfield]

sorry here is pic

 

[atomicfield]

the bud seems to be thinning at top too.

 

[High Country]

Can't really tell if it's a hermie or not.

Look for little yellow banana shapes along the flower.

Cut them off.

See Grow Tutorial Sexing. It shows pics of male flowers.

Hope this helps a little bit.

 

[atomicfield]

high country, thank you very much, i will do just that, right now!!

 

[obscuredbycloud]

A 30X loupe is sufficient.
Or use a cheapie "stylus scope" from da R Shack.

I got lucky.
Had a cyber friend gift me an Eyeclops.
Sweet little macro camera.
It has 100x 200x and 400x lenses and saves the pics to a thumb drive
They run about $20 - 30. but will put your buds on da big screen.


Aloha,
Weezard

Cheers, I'll have to look around.

 

[aim-9sidewinder]

You can remove the screen for stretch if you want but I'm thinking that might mess up the ScrOG.

wooooo ho thanks.. time to go make a new screen now.

 

[cfo]

I just got back from Negril (Jamaica) today. Yes, you must be careful with brownies. I picked up some "space cake" from Tedd's Shroom Boom shop in Negril. I thought I had a pretty high tolerance level so I ate 1/2 of the brownie. One of my traveling companions ate about a 1/3 of the brownie. The rest went in the trash later. We were sitting around by the ocean waiting to eat supper. I felt the effects after about 1 hour. I whispered to my buddy sitting next to me "I don't think I can walk". He just laughed. I should've asked for help to my room at that point but I didn't want to disappoint the wife so I managed to maneuver very slowly to the buffet. I was following my wife around because I couldn't remember where our table was. I had lost most of my coordination so I needed her to put food on my plate. When the 8 of us sat down, I could barely operate a fork. I was getting very messed up and I knew right then that I had made a terrible mistake in attempting to function in a public setting.

After playing with my food for about 30 minutes, I just dropped my fork and told my buddy, "I think I need to go". One of my other companions made the statement that I looked pale. Next thing I remember, I'm laying on my back in the restaurant with a couple of EMT's checking me out. I had gone into convulsions and scared the shit out of everyone. Apparently, my eyes had rolled back into my head, and I had slumped over in my chair. I was out cold for about 5 minutes (so I'm told) and my body was twitching every so often.

I was escorted to the nurse's office and asked what I had taken. I told him it was a pot brownie and that I had only eaten half. He left the room to the call the doctor and my wife took the remaining brownie (wrapped in foil) from my pants pocket and threw it in the garbage.

I was eventually released that night with 2 friends helping me back to my room. I was still feeling the body effects through most of the next day.

Would I do it again? You bet yer ass! But I'd be in a private setting where I could lay down and relax, maybe just listen to some awesome music.

Oh yeah, the woman who ate only 1/3? She went to her room with her hubby shortly after I passed out. She laughed and cried intermittently throughout most of the night. Her hubby thought it was pretty funny.

 

[mellow yellow]

Extremely helpful just what i needed thank you. Just cut an branch put it under the scope and compared with your shots, they are not ready yet so i will be back comparing again in a week to see how they are getting on.

Thanks again

 

[FreezerBoy]

so i was wondering is there a way around this ( rigging the electric)

Thievery and tutorials thereon are not allowed here at IC. Pay your bills or move your plants outdoors but, STOP asking how to steal and stop NOW!

 

[HempKat]

Mr HempKat

Do you think it's appropriate for a 51 y/o divorced single male, no kids, employed to devote so much time to the cultivation of this plant?

Mind you my job is propagating plants of a legal kind.

I guess I'm just a simple gardener.

If what you do makes you happy, doesn't harm others or infringe on their rights and it doesn't consume you so much you neglect other obligations then I see no harm in that.

 

[HempKat]

Hello HempKat,

I just got a microscope as I am gonna chop in a week or 2. Not used a scope before to tell me when to chop, could you give me any advise or point me in the right direction. Ideally i wanna look at some pics so i can compare with mine.
Any help is appricated, your doing a great job on here thanks.

I myself don't use a microscope, I find them too difficult to use because I got big hands and the controls are small, plus when looking thru it it's very sensitive to the slightest movement. What I do is use my digital camera, it has a very good macro mode that lets me see all I need to see.

Basically you want to look at the color of the trichomes. Clear means the THC in that trichome is not ready. Cloudy means the THC is at it's peak of ripeness or readiness. Amber means that the THC is over ripe and has begun to break down into other cannibinoids (THC is also a cannabinoid).

If you look carefully at the pic you should see examples of clear, cloudy and amber. Now you might think amber is bad because it means the THC is breaking down. It isn't necessarily bad though because these other cannabinoids it breaks down to contain the medicinal properties medical users look for. Like for example, one of those cannabinoids is an excellent anti-inflamitory which is why marijuana has been known to relieve some aches and pains. These cannabinoids also help offset some of the less desirable effects of THC. Pure THC tends to be a bit racey and cause paranoia, one of the cannabinoids helps take the paranoid edge off. Also these cannabinoids in conjunction with each other helps to give some weed that narcotic like effect we call couch lock. Many people like that effect and feel that the more narcotic like the better.

Ultimately there is no precise thing I can tell you to look for as it all depends on the kind of high you like. Ideally you want most of the trichomes to be cloudy with some amount of them being amber. How much amber depends on how much of that couchlock effect you like. Me personally I like the up racey kind of high more then the narcotic like high, so I shoot for mostly cloudy with maybe 10% amber. This seems to give me the up high without much or any paranoia. People who like a more narcotic high tend to shoot for about 50% amber and some go for even more amber.

Unfortunately for new growers they don't know yet what combination gives them the best high and so they have to go thru a period of trial and error. The best way to do this in my opinion is to be growing several plants of the same strain and harvest each at different times one mostly cloudy, one with a little amber, one with a moderate amount of amber and one with alot of amber. Be sure to keep them seperated and then try each one on different days and compare the high until you find what works best for you. Then in the future do all your plants like the one you liked.

 

[HempKat]

wooooo ho thanks.. time to go make a new screen now.

Well if you've already removed it the damage is done, because you had to undo all the training you did. If you wait until after stretch to put it back there will be no additional growth of the stalks and branches to assist in retraining it into the screen.

Now that's not to say that you've ruined the grow. If the plants were trained into the screen for any decent length of time (more then just a few days) The plants should maintain roughly the shape the screen trained them to and so you could just leave them be. The real problem will be in how much it stretches. Likely just certain grow tips will stretch and some will stay more or less where they're at. This will create an uneven canopy that might force you to raise the light for some buds and making the light too far away for other buds. The main purpose for the screen is to help ensure an even canopy.

 

[HempKat]

I just got back from Negril (Jamaica) today. Yes, you must be careful with brownies. I picked up some "space cake" from Tedd's Shroom Boom shop in Negril. I thought I had a pretty high tolerance level so I ate 1/2 of the brownie. One of my traveling companions ate about a 1/3 of the brownie. The rest went in the trash later. We were sitting around by the ocean waiting to eat supper. I felt the effects after about 1 hour. I whispered to my buddy sitting next to me "I don't think I can walk". He just laughed. I should've asked for help to my room at that point but I didn't want to disappoint the wife so I managed to maneuver very slowly to the buffet. I was following my wife around because I couldn't remember where our table was. I had lost most of my coordination so I needed her to put food on my plate. When the 8 of us sat down, I could barely operate a fork. I was getting very messed up and I knew right then that I had made a terrible mistake in attempting to function in a public setting.

After playing with my food for about 30 minutes, I just dropped my fork and told my buddy, "I think I need to go". One of my other companions made the statement that I looked pale. Next thing I remember, I'm laying on my back in the restaurant with a couple of EMT's checking me out. I had gone into convulsions and scared the shit out of everyone. Apparently, my eyes had rolled back into my head, and I had slumped over in my chair. I was out cold for about 5 minutes (so I'm told) and my body was twitching every so often.

I was escorted to the nurse's office and asked what I had taken. I told him it was a pot brownie and that I had only eaten half. He left the room to the call the doctor and my wife took the remaining brownie (wrapped in foil) from my pants pocket and threw it in the garbage.

I was eventually released that night with 2 friends helping me back to my room. I was still feeling the body effects through most of the next day.

Would I do it again? You bet yer ass! But I'd be in a private setting where I could lay down and relax, maybe just listen to some awesome music.

Oh yeah, the woman who ate only 1/3? She went to her room with her hubby shortly after I passed out. She laughed and cried intermittently throughout most of the night. Her hubby thought it was pretty funny.

Either your tolerance level is nowhere near high but rather extremely low, or there was more in that brownie then just pot. I guess you saw my earlier post where I made brownies with about a quarter pound of pot in them. That's way more then what should be normally used. I gave two to a friend who ate both. We both got really really high and had trouble functioning in public but neither of us passed out and the effects were gone in less the next day.

 

[HempKat]

Thievery and tutorials thereon are not allowed here at IC. Pay your bills or move your plants outdoors but, STOP asking how to steal and stop NOW!

Yes I agree, stealing electricity is about the dumbest thing you can do. You might get away with it for a little while but everyone I've heard of that does that, gets busted because of that eventually. You think the electric company can't tell? You think they'll sit there, see a spike in electric usage and not look into it? Stealing electricity is one of the surest ways to get yourself busted and if you do get busted that way not only will the courts be harsher on you but you also give the people against legalizing marijuana more ammo as to why they shouldn't.

 

[ericcalif]

I myself don't use a microscope, I find them too difficult to use because I got big hands and the controls are small, plus when looking thru it it's very sensitive to the slightest movement. What I do is use my digital camera, it has a very good macro mode that lets me see all I need to see.

Dude, that's a great shot. What kind of camera was that taken with? I have a kodak, not an SLR but the high end of non SLR's. It has a great optical zoom, and does things I like (like shoot RAW) but it doesn't get nearly that close in macro.