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I’ve got a Canon T3i body as well, which I purchased around 2011. I think they got up to the T8i model before dropping DSLR in favor of mirrorless-style cameras a year or two ago.

I bought mine when I sold a house and pocketed a nice chunk of change. I picked up some very nice Canon glass (17-55mm and 70-200mm zooms, as well as some prime lenses). Back then I took pictures of animals (lived on a farm) and concerts. When I started growing weed 2.5 years ago I picked up this macro lens, currently $469 new: Amazon.com

It’s the only non-Canon lens I own. I’m pleased with its performance. You could save some $$$ by shopping used…

I dropped a ton of cash on a new camera system (Panasonic Lumix mirrorless) because I needed to shoot 4k video. If I didn’t have that project I’d be totally fine with the T3i. It is a little bulky compared to the mirrorless but I think the lenses are better.

Edit to add some pics I snapped a few minutes ago with that Rokinon macro lens on the T3i:
JOTI Pure Blueberry #2, about 30 days into flower

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JOTI Pure Blueberry #3, about 30 days into flower
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Mephisto CannaCheese auto, day 31 under 18/6 lighting (last one I grew went 75 days)
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Cavity Crush, day 36 (pardon the errant hair…)
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These have been very slightly edited (crop, straighten, fix light & color) using the Photos program built into Windows 10 - nothing like stacking or Photoshop…

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I’m just hear to join the creeper weed fan club :crazy_face:

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damn it’s hard to keep up in here. I read 20 posts, come back a few hours later, and there’s 60 more posts. So I’m rolling all my replies into a single post here as I catch up on the thread.

It could be the combination of straw and biochar. Biochar can carry too much nutrients. Sometimes straw can make your soil a little acidic or a little too hot. Worst case scenario, it can start active thermal composting in small pots and literally burn the plants. basically the biochar could really get the compost process started, and the straw mulch is feeding that chemical process.

I had this problem growing in small containers with too much mulch. it was around the time I started growing indoor and a bunch of crap I read on the internet about no-till organics made me think I had to use different methods indoor and outdoor. I used biochar, malted barley (stupid idea!), and straw. My pots started thermally composting and literally roasted my plants.

After that I just filled my pots up with soil from my vegetable plots in my outdoor garden, and it’s been smooth sailing ever since.

I keep my soil mix and grow methods simple. Just aerated and lightly amended native clay mixed with a little organic potting soil for humus. I top dress with compost and seaweed/kelp as needed, and occasionally top dress with organic kitchen scraps like mushroom stems, and leftover organic herbal tea after I brew it.

The native clay soil gives the plants all the mineral nutrients they need, and it has a high cation exchange capacity which basically means it buffers the ph and absorbs excess nutrients. So I never have to check ph, and if I use too much mulch or compost, it gets absorbed by the clay and won’t burn the plants.

I’m with you 100% on that. I generally enjoy all kinds of exploitation movies including sexploitation like “Barbarella” etc.

But it’s ridiculous that people insist “Game of Thrones” is high brow art. it’s mainly just torture scenes and people boning their stepsister. Lots of torture, lots of cringey sex, and for some reason people act like it has artistic value.

It reminds me of that old cliche when guys with families and kids used to openly keep playboy magazines in the family bathroom along with a newspaper and financial magazines. “just for the articles” or just “keeping up with popular culture to stay in the moment”

yeah right.

as a mass culture are we really expected to cover for these guys by saying
“oh game of thrones is so amazing, and so artistic. I only watch it for the articles.”

Like just go watch elf porn, I don’t give a shit if that’s your thing I’m sure the internet has plenty of shit like that… just don’t expect me to mindlessly praise game of thrones so people can maintain their closeted sexuality.

Seriously, if you love “Game of Thrones” I challenge you to overcome your sexual hang-ups, and rebuke american sexual puritanism and denialism,

by publicly announcing that you enjoy elf porn.

I got mango smells from the ethiopian banana x omg, and light citrus smells from the goji raz x omg.

PS- if the game of thrones analysis and rant caught you off guard, remember that I am both a film major, and a major hippie. hahaha

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hell yeah mines is older a lil, t2i so one generation older or just a cheaper model, i feel you on the no programs to export thru, shove the card in the computer and copy paste, anything more than that is crazy talk! and you don’t need macro shots, they are cool tho

your weed looks and sounds awesome

haha, no

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I only shoot with a prime (fixed focal length, not adjustable) macro lens because the bulk majority of pictures I take would fall into the macro or portrait category and additional lenses are too expensive to justify the cost for me. Those ultra 4-1+ Trichome shots are insane but feel like way too much time and effort goes in to those unless you’re using them for promotional purposes or something. I feel like the bulk majority of pictures here in this thread would fall under the category of macro and the shots look really good already to me with your current setup. You made the right choice saving your money in my opinion!

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The thing about all of that photography stuff, lenses etc is that I reeeeeallllyyyy don’t wanna get into it haha. I mean, actually, I could get into old-school-type shit, like developing my own photographs in a darkroom and whatever. I really liked doing that in high school and that seems to me to be more “artistic” haha than using a computer to fuck with your photos is. I don’t know anything about it, but it seems to like any asshole can make their pics look good using that software.

Still…. If I start getting into it, I’m reeeeallllyyyy gonna get into it; that’s just what I do, with anything, all the time. Whatever I’m into, I’m really fucking into it. And I feel like I don’t need another expensive hobby right now haha. I’m trying to scale shit back, if anything. And anyway, I kinda like my low-rent-looking, shadowy pictures haha.

Your plants (and pics) look great, btw. Are you logging your grows? I’m gonna take a look right now and follow along if you are.

This is interesting to me and something I didn’t know. Or maybe I read it somewhere and forgot haha. I will say, though, that I’ve been mulching my starts in those little pots for at least four years now and never had a problem with it until I added that fucking biochar to the mix last April, so I’m pretty sure it’s because of the char. In any event, I’ll never add biochar to my soil mix again haha! Fuck biochar.

No way, dude! Not at all! “Caught me off guard”? Please… I thought it was funny as shit. And extremely accurate.

Actually, when I was reading what you wrote, I remembered overhearing some dipshit I worked with like six years ago, last time I had a job, saying,”I just watch Game of Thrones for the titties!”

First of all, any grown man who refers to tits as “titties” will rarely get laid. Secondly, you do realize there’s tons of porn on the internet, right? Thirdly, strip clubs exist, you can always go to one of those. And if you’re not a total fucking moron, odds are good you’ll bring at least one of the dancers home with you, if not two or three (or I did all the time, anyway, back when I was single).

Like, seriously? That’s why you watch Game of Thrones? For the occasional glimpse of a naked woman? Something’s wrong with you haha.

I don’t mean YOU, @zephyr. I’m talking about the morons that you were referring to, the dipshits who kept Playboy in the bathroom “for the articles.”

Yeah! That’s what I’ve gathered. But not even good torture scenes haha. Just kidding, I really haven’t ever watched more than a couple minutes at a time while my girl was watching that back in the day and then House of Dragons more recently. But every time I’d walk through the living room or whatever, it’s always just, like, screams of agony and people yelling at each other in big-ass stone rooms with echos and shit… War scenes… Like I said, I don’t get it haha. I’m not sure why my girl likes those shows. She might just be a closet “fantasy fan” and maybe she doesn’t want to tell me. I won’t ask her why; if she wants to watch it, that’s fine with me. I don’t wanna watch it at all, though haha.

Gimme Repo Man or There Will Be Blood or The Big Lebowski over a gawddamn episode of any fantasy bullshit tv show every day of the week… And I’ll take a strip club over all of those thing haha!

Edit: I’m just glad to see you around, @zephyr haha. You are free to talk about whatever you want here, you’re one of my favorite people on OG. And anywhere else, too.

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Yeah, all that stuff sounds too complicated haha. Honestly, I was reading your post and all I could hear in my head was,”Bleep bleep bloop bop bop errror error error yaaarrrgghhh!”

But I may look into that computer photography shit at some point… haha!

Just fucking around. I like how you do your pics. I think I’m just much more of a,”Snap a shitload of pics and let’s see what happens,”-type of dude. I dunno. I feel like the weed growing is enough of a hobby; I think about it a lot. I don’t wanna think about too much other stuff haha.

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Just wanted to update something here real quick, mostly for my own records or whatever. It was four Malibu Pure Kush x Lemon Thai seedlings that fried up, not four Santa Cruz Pure Haze/A5Thai seedlings; still have three of those that I was able to save, along with one Mountain Temple, one MPK and three Nikahs. I’m certain one of those Nikahs is a male, though. That was the one that was up outta the soil in 24 hours and just kept chugging along, despite the shitty-ass biochar soil. Definitely the most vigorous plant growing right now and has been from the get-go.

And I started soaking five of Bodhi’s Zap!, five of nube’s Pura Vida f2’s and four of Doc’s Sour Diesel x Dragon Energy this morning, pretty stoked about those. I may not start another grow until like next August/September, so might as well have a ton of different stuff growing…

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Sad it was the mpk x lt that fried :pensive: but least you still got those Santa Cruz x A5Thai! Plus the zap and Pura vida’s, the sour d, mountain temple, nikah, man… excited to see all those grown out and you’re definitely gonna have a nice variety when it’s all done.

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Yeah, the SCPH is definitely the thing I’m most interested in, although I’m pretty dang interested in everything this round haha. I woulda soaked more of the SCPH today, but I wanna make sure this new soil mix is all good before I start planting things that I don’t have a lot of. It seems like the mix is good, the eight seedlings I saved (outta 25 :weary: haha) look great now. Still… I just wanna be safe.

We’ll see if the one Mountain Temple and the one Malibu is a female… I fucking hope they are haha.

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One other quick update haha: I forgot I planted three more SCPH x A5T and two more MPK x LT seeds ten days after the initial round of planting until I looked at my notes this morning. So I guess I did lose quite a few of both of those during the initial round of planting haha. Two of the SCPH and the lone MPK that are growing right now are from that later round. Shit…

Most of the Sour Diesel x Dragon Energy already have tiny tails emerging, less than 24 hours after getting them in water/fulvic. A couple of the Pura Vida f2’s do, as well. The Zap seeds I think are gonna take a little longer; they have really dark, almost black shells or whatever they’re called, no striping, pretty cool-looking. But I suspect they’re gonna take a while. Either way, I’m planting everything in a couple hours, pretty stoked about it haha.

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Sorry for your loss(es).

If it’s not too much trouble, how and why do you do that? I just had some trouble with the fall box PCK’s, and would love to change that!

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There are different types of straw too. The kind that can be used for animal feed has a lot of nitrogen, and easily composts and breaks down. The kind that is used for animal bedding has no nutrients content, and can’t compost.

It looks like you are using the no nutrient kind, which probably won’t feed a thermal composting reaction. it’s good as mulch to keep the soil from drying out too fast.

It was definitely the biochar that got your soil out of whack.

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Never too much trouble for you, @HorseBadorites.

I’m not sure why I decided to start soaking seeds haha, never done that until like three grows-ago, maybe? I used to just plant them in the dirt and never really had a problem, but maybe I had an issue with germination last year that I can’t remember right now that made me think,”Alright, I’m gonna try something different.”

Supposedly, there’s some kind of benefit to adding a little fulvic to the water that you use to soak your seeds in, like increased germination rates or something. I dunno. I’ve never not added it to the “soaking water,” so I dunno if it’s actually helping more than soaking in straight water would. It seems to work pretty good; every time I soak, there’s tails sprouting outta the seeds within 24 hours, usually. Whether or not that has anything to do with the fulvic is a mystery haha. And I don’t like the idea of using the “paper towel method,” just because of the bleach on paper towels.

Anyway… I use BioAg’s fulvic. They recommend like two tablespoons per gallon of water for seed-sprouting, but since I’m never soaking enough seeds that I need a friggin’ gallon of water (really only need like three- or four-shot glasses-worth), I just put a half-tablespoon in about a third-of-a-gallon of water, fill the shot glasses and then give the rest to this little butterfly succulent I bought a while back.

If you’ve never seen a butterfly succulent, btw, check it out. They’re really fucking cool-looking. And they attract pollinators in the spring, so… Bonus.

So, yeah, I dunno. It seems to work pretty good.

I got a gigantic box of barley mulch from BAS a few years back, barely made a dent in it haha. I dunno what kind of barley mulch they’re sending to people (I’ve seen the story about the “chicken farm down the road,” so I guess it’s Chicken Farm Barley Mulch haha). That’s really all I’ve been using since I’ve started growing, so, yeah, I think it’s okay. I also re-use it. Like, every time I chop, I just throw that mulch back into the box, seems fine.

Like you said (and I said haha), I’m like 99.9% certain it’s that gawddamn biochar. I’ve considered calling the dude who sold it to me, just to be like,”What the fucking fuck did you sell me, motherfucker?!?” but I don’t really feel like doing that haha. I’d rather save my energy for things that actually matter…

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At what ratio did you add your biochar to the mix I heard it can cause microbial collapse and have antagonistic effects on soil at more then 5 percent by volume in one of the living soil podcasts I listened to awhile back heard less is more with that product but haven’t used it myself yet @minitiger very well might of been the cause and did you buy it charged already or did you inoculate it yourself?

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Yeah, I’m aware of all that stuff. Like I said earlier, I listened to some dude on here who just kind of showed up, started a thread (he was growing genetics that I was interested in, so I followed it) and was talking about how he was going heavy as fuck on the biochar with less actual aeration, like pumice etc. Started talking to him about it, made sense, so I stupidly decided to do the same thing with my soil mix. I really couldn’t tell you why I did that; I usually just scoff at anything other than my own soil mix haha or anything that sounds “different” than what I already know to be true and effective.

I haven’t seen that dude post in MONTHS, btw haha. I can’t even remember his screen name or the thread. He seemed genuine, though. I don’t think he showed up here just to fuck with everybody’s soil mix or anything haha. He was also growing in big-ass 100-gallon pots, no till, which may have been the difference. Maybe it works in pots that huge, but it doesn’t in seven-gallons haha.

It was supposedly charged, but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t. I think I might’ve charged some myself, too, after I saw how the plants from the first round in the new soil mix fried up. But I can’t remember. I’ve charged my own in the past, though, always worked great.

Again, I really think it was just a matter of, I added way too much biochar and went light on the pumice, on the advice of that dude who’s screen name I can’t remember and who’s thread I’ve totally forgotten haha… I fucked up.

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Totally off-topic here, but do you guys tip your plumber? My RO unit started leaking water all over the kitchen floor this morning, so I called a plumber. Luckily, I was already planning on switching out the units, just because I haven’t really been happy with my old one for a while now (the last two or three times I switched out the filters, the TDS levels somehow increased), so I already had the new RO unit ready to go. All they had to do was switch out the old one for the new one and then check to make sure that that’s where the leak was actually coming from.

That cost $440 for maybe an hour of relatively easy work. It’s not like they even had to drill the hole in the counter for the tap. Everything was already set up.

Anyway, when they were finished, the main dude was kind of lingering and I got a vibe from him for sure, like he was waiting around for some cash on the side or something. I even gave him a few fat nugs for his wife, who he said had all kinds of health problems. But, I mean, for real, was I supposed to give him some cash, too? $440 for a job that took an hour that I could’ve done myself if I wasn’t so gawddamn lazy? PLUS cash on the side?

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Plumbers charge a shit ton for the work they do and I am not saying they don’t deserve it as they literally have to deal with shit for some of their job, but I don’t ever tip for that kind of work because you pay out of your ass just for them to show up and then they likely charge at least $60 an hour or more, I can’t remember but I know it’s a pretty good wage.

I think you can safely add up to 10%, that’s roughly what I do but you may as well play it safe.

What did the biochar look like? Was it broken down into a really fine material? If you were using biochar that was bigger chunks, that may have been an issue as I see that being more of a problem over smaller fines mixing into the soil.

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no way. I remember one time after we paid for some work, the main guy asked for a tip for his crew. We didn’t give them any additional tip. In my opinion, it was ridiculous for him to ask or expect that. If he’s not paying his crew well enough with the money he made from the job, that’s his responsibility, not mine.

I’m not going to shell out just so a guy can continue to treat his crew badly.
And if the guy’s not giving his crew a decent cut of the money from the job, are we really supposed to trust him with their tip?

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Yeah, man, I mean, $440 an hour? That’s, like, “attorney rates.” It’d be one thing if they were doing some serious job, but just switching out one RO unit for another? That is not a $440 job. I paid it, obviously, but I’m not gonna fucking tip them, too, especially after I gave him like a quarter-ounce of weed for his wife.

Yeah, for sure. I even smashed it up a little extra, too. Appearance-wise, texture-wise, whatever, it was all good.

Doesn’t matter. I’m never adding any to my soil mix again haha.

Yeah, I’ll usually give each guy on whatever job they’re doing $20 or $40, like, directly to them. And then a bunch of weed, too, if they smoke. When we replaced our sliding glass doors last spring, I must’ve given those dudes at least an ounce of the C. Gold x DE, Bandaid Haze, Soar etc. And that job cost $7200 haha. Plus, one of the dudes was a grower who was having trouble drying and curing his weed, so I spent like ten minutes explaining how to do that (and his grow was way bigger than mine, said he was using his entire garage and growing like 100 plants at a time).

Anyway, yeah, I dunno. I for sure felt like Larry David, though haha. All like,”Okay, thank you, job well done! Have a good day! Yes? Is there something else?” I couldn’t get this song outta my head after they left:

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