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Crazy Composer

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Well I finally got some meds to quell my tooth pain, and wouldn't you know it, I got in the mood to take some shots of the garden.

These are grown in pro-mix and fed with the Earth Juice line of organics only.

There's nothing BUT pro-mix in the pots, this is soiless organic gardening here. This method allows me to adjust the feeding to a very low rate to yield tasty, delicious herbs.

I like to call this red stemming, or keeping the leaf stems red/purple (a sign of impending Nitrogen deficiency) and keeping the leaves a pale green. If I were to skip feeding these ladies just once, the stems would redden further and the leaves would go a lighter green/yellow. If I skipped feeding again, I'd lose a few leaves from the bottom, the stems would get fully red and the leaves would lighten further.

Of course, I don't ever want to get to that point, so I walk a very thin line between enough and not enough food - as nature would do in most instances. The result of never feeding enough to get dark green foliage is that the final product tastes sweeteer and burns better.

Some of these ECSDs just might make it to the IC cup this year for judges to judge... No promises, but it looks like I'll have enough to send... Hopefully :smile:

G'nite. cc












 

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A few more to cap things off...

A few more to cap things off...

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There will be lots of flowers in a few weeks :wink: Lots of interesting things to photograph with my fancy new camera :smoke:

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Flowerman

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CC, a wicked grow as always. Damn, I love how clean the area is as well. And I'm sure they will be some tasty buds. :canabis:
 

Dr. D

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Thats a nice lookin garden u got there CC, wots in this Pro-mix soilless mixture ur using i see alot of people using it on here but its not availible in the UK i was wandering wot it consisted of...peace
 
Good clean setup you got going there CC. What is Schrom and Sharon? I've heard of Schrom, but no nothing about it's "fruitiness" if you will...etc indica/sativa, mom/pops etc. What stage are they at in the pics?
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HOT CARGO

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verry nice cc

cant wait to try that big money,hehe grow looks killer man

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CC, I know you said that you only have pro-mix in there. I am assuming that means you add nothing to it. I just put some killer apollo cuts in just plain pro-mix and they have just exploded. I normally use Bog's soil recipe but after seeing this I may change my mind.

Mo, :wave:
 

Crazy Composer

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Thanks for popping in everyone!

Dr. D, Pro-Mix is just peat moss, perlite, and dolomite lime. It's very light and airy, and allows for excellent drainage. The key inngredient is dolomite lime. The lime helps buffer the pH levels inside the soil - which means that the soil will always be trying to adjust the pH towards 7.0. Which is great because many nutes raise the pH in the soil considerably.

MsHerbalivation, The Schrom is a Columbian X Romulan done by a fellow called Schrooomy420. The Sharon is a White Widow selection discovered by Lonestar of the TRC (Texas Resin Co.). He sent the clone to me a couple years back, and it's been tied with ECSD as the favorite smoke in the collection.

Schrom has a lemon pledge smell, but on steroids. The taste is very distinctive. I've certainly never tasted smoke like Schrom's before... Everyone who's had Schrom knows when Schrom is being smoked, the smell of the smoke is very memorable.

Sharon is a very VERY potent White Widow. During flowering, she smells of rank peaches. In the stash she'll give off a peach/slight licorice smell. Whenever I want to become totally oblivious to the world, Sharon it is... Sharon is superb meditation herb too. You smoke a half a joint of Sharon and you can't help but meditate :smile:

Bigmo, yup, there's nothing BUT Pro-Mix in there :smile:
 
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Boy they're big! Lookin' great! Glad to see your feeling better too! Later Oh
 

shaolin730

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Yeah, I've had my eyes on finding a Schrom cut for a while...especially after seeing Ograskals Schrom. Talk about high yielder...

Goodluck Crazy, as if you'll need it. Your growing feeding method is very intresting and it looks like you've worked out all the kinks over a few times using it ey?
 
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Holy shit, those look awesome, the Big Money pics look really cool, it has such a definitive shape!

I am so glad I heard about this method from you, since I have switched I have been much happier, I used to grow BOG method, but now I will look forward to some fully flushed organic weed!


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Now, let's not get me in trouble with my good buddy BOG!!! :biglaugh: This is just a minimalist method I like to use to achieve a delicious, organic, potent harvest. There are many methods to the same end I believe... Or close... I just prefer this one. I prefer it because of a lesson that Mother Nature taught me last season... She taught me to supply a constant, but very limited supply of appropriately-timed organic nutrients - and to apply them to soil devoid - or nearly devoid - of resident nutrients (i.e. organic material built into the medium, such as bat guanos, chicken shit etc...) When you're done supplying nutrients, you can flush whatever you don't want right out, and be left with a medium that is (nearly) devoid of any source of nutrients... Once the medium is clean, it's only a matter of time before the plant will exhaust it's stored resources - and THAT'S the point of flushing, to make the plant shed not only it's stored nutrient, but it's stored starch reserves (which makes some herb taste so bad)... You want the plant to nearly starve, as plants starve during the late summer/autumn time in nature.

Not to mention the total control you get over the nutrients the plant gets introduced to. With a soiless mix, the ONLY nutrient the plant will ever see is what you introduce via a watering/feeding. And since that nutrient can flow INTO the medium, it can also flow OUT of the medium, should you require it to. Very much the same concept as hydroponics, but with the added benefit of a soil-like medium, which translates into clean, tasty, organic herb. So much fun, these plants :smile:
 
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Great Info, and nice picks Crazy. BTW, which pheno of lifesaver did you put in the Heads article?

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Nice work CC, always a pleasure to see what your up to. I too grow soiless and love the results. Even though I'm a heavier feeder than you. Will those SD's be ready and cured by 420?
 
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AAAAAAAAAh HHHA!!!

CC knows the true-th,ya buddy ive been starving plants all my life!
The last thread i did with white widow tells how i stop feeding at a month
into budding and skip every other week feeding even in veg.......outdoors!
Ofcorse i wanna flush the MG ferts out ant it works well, my buds taste BEST!
LOUGREW!
 

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Elkslayer, Which pheno? I think it was the more sativa pheno... But it wasn't a quintessential lifesaver - it didn't have a lifesaver smell to it. Other ladies in the same seed pack were fully lifesaver-ish in smell though. THOSE are the ones I like :smile:

Smokey, hey bro, good to have ya pop in on me :smoke: Yeah, I don't really know how the ECSD will be by cup time. We'll have to play it by ear. As you can see though, there ought to be plenty IF it can be ready in time. Smokey, you know ECSD, imagine this... Those ECSDs above were transplanted from 2 gallon pots just yesterday!!! Imaginwe those monsters in 2 gallon pots, that's what they were in just yesterday hehehe. Them sativas just don't like to get dry feet!!! Now they're 1/2 way through the stretch, and they go into 5 gallon buckets. I can't wait to see the results of all that new root space!!! It should be fun!

Lougrew!, Kewl, you starve em too!!! So many folks disagree, but the proof is in the puddin' You always want to starve them, or the taste and burn just won't be superior - it might be good, but not connoisseuer herb. You obviously know :smile:
 
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Yes my buddy agreed!

The lighter green the better and i HATE pot with wormygreenrottyfert dirt?
Light and woody also i found that stress under heat or extream cold tricks
push out for protection!Only with some strains though? perrrrrty cool anyway!
Ya buddy LOU.
 

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Yeah man! I like to let em go completely dry just before chopping them! Total stress!!! That makes the resins explode!!! The get so sticky, it's down-right erotic!

These are the things that culminate to produce the very finest herbs.
 

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Nice shrubs there CC.... I want to see some of that new TRC stuff....wink wink.

You are right that there is a fine line between starving the plants and getting the plants enough food for healthy growth.

I do find that if I have overfed them around harvest without some flushing, that the smoke can be headach producing(Excess Nitrogen???)

On my soil mixes I use all organic foods in the soil and just add rain water through out veg and flowering cylces. Depending upon the strain, the mix usually starts to run out of Nitrogen at around 6-7 weeks of flowering. The last couple waterings I overwater and toss the run-off.

The super-soil mix to me is just a hugh time saver way to grow IMO.
 
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