No problem man, glad to help out. Frimpong is an awesome dude with a passion to grow and share. He has some of the best stuff out there without a doubt. I need to upload some pics onto the Freak Genetics page willie started soon. He has some amazing work with lots more in the pipeline.
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Is the one you call Don a Don Mega? My daughter found a seed in a strain she bought that was called The Don Mega and I’ve grown it and self pollinated it and used it as a cross. I have 2 that are almost a month old and it’s knocked it out of the ballpark every time I grow it! Looking Great my friend I hope all is going well with you. Take care.
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Hey brother, hope all is well, and yes, I believe the Don Mega is one of the parents of the Don Johnson, so yes, kind of, lol, Ive just called the DJ ‘the Don’ but I know I make things confusing, easy to do when Im sorta perpetually confused myself. Thats awesome that you have the original, Im sure others here will be happy to hear that you have/run that lineage. Its so much fun tracking down all the branches of the family tree. Hanging in there myself somewhere now! Earlier this spring I used light deprivation to flower out a male Banana Berry Muffins and crossed it to this DJ clones mother, thats a mouth full but yeah, got lucky and have a few of those fresh beans that Im gonna try indoor soon. After a good sanitation around here of course. Stay up brother!
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Hope Everyone is having as good a day as these slugs were this morning…
Was checking out the other, other spot before I get contaminated from the other one, those pm infested ladies are hanging in there, but yeah, Im not holding much hope out for them, just kind of using the situation to learn as much as possible, I figure everything is already contaminated, so after every single plant I have is culled or harvested, I will then really sanitize everything I can as much as possible, indoor, outdoor, tools, equipment, etc…clean house for real! But in the meantime, Im not gonna waste everything that is going, some is too far gone, or not even developed enough, like the Ginger Grant, she is gone, wasted. I had her in a bad spot to begin with, I thought she would out grow the others, but she stayed short, which would be great indoor, so I probably stressed her alot, too much, by trying to get her to grow a certain way when it was my fault for putting her back there in the first place, geeze, I do realize how stoned I am at the moment…when the other girls were looking so bad, I decided to cut bait on this potted girl way early, all dried up now but she is from some S1 seed that Ive talked about, hermed before, but in a steady environment, she was fine, I even over fed her once, stunted her abit, but she is super sativa fuel, not the best grow but she doesnt care, her job was to have my back incase I fell on my face with the big girls, and yeah, she’s something else. Not much to see now…
But when I get my sanitation taken care of and do another round this fall/winter indoor, Im definitely gonna give her another shot for helping me like this. Didnt bother to trim it up much, for multiple reasons. This is some ‘go on a five mile hike shit’ right here. About to use it to get the grass cut, Ive been slacking on pretty much EVERYTHING these days, just staring at the big girls and apologizing telling them next year, next year. I am still dumbfounded at how fast a problem like that can move over not just one but three plants in a matter of weeks. And just the cannabis and I dont meet up with alot of people, this problem still has me somewhat confused, but Im just excepting that its pm from multiple mistakes and bad weather It felt like days to me but I know I first noticed this around 28th of August, so it had to have already been there so then at least three to four weeks of time I could have done something. Even with the regalia, its too late once the problem gets out of control like it has. Its weird because I feel like I know all this, Ive seen it, not pm I guess, I thought I had, but other problems in other areas of life, I just dont know why I didnt listen to my insticts and purchase something like regalia before hand. I was actually told about regalia over a year ago, I just didnt listen, and I obviously have just gotten lucky over the past few years. Still am getting lucky here and there…lol…but yall know what I mean, shit, I doubt anyone reads this crap of mine, but if you are, I appreciate your sympathy and time, all Im saying is that its very easy to get comfortable in this lifestyle and forget alot of the basics. The end product should not be the whole objective, every step of the way should be done correctly and with purpose. I get that most if not all people here realize all this, I just need to remind myself and if this scares anyone into getting their IPM figured out in all areas, then Ive done good. I see a million reasons that I failed these plants, but as a whole, in a nut-shell, I got lazy and cocky. I am going to have to humble myself and begin again. Not cracking anymore beans until I get a few things in order, supplies, body, mind, and soul. I have no idea how someone grows outdoor, for multiple years, and not get this problem. And I do not want to imagine getting this indoors, Im hoping that the environmental information on this problem is true and that as long as we control humidity and all that, we’re good, its just that I have a new found understanding of how terrible this problen can get and I definitely see why people get very paranoid about this and throw out all used medium, the whole space suit, in and out, changing shoes, you name it, I get it now.
Really starting over next spring, I wonder how many times those words have been said…I for one will never give up!
How I feel about all infestations right now.
But yall are pretty cool so…
A few trichs getting started up good on the BBM x ECK, thanking myself on this one for the foresight to create some fast flowering beans, until I get the pm all figured out, these will help the mind and the wallet …
Stay up my Friends, and Happy Harvesting!
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Looks like that was a good watermelon 
Is that the Northern Cheese Haze you’ve mentioned, maybe harvested about a month ago? I’ve been working on having a nice Sativa-leaning stash collection to help me do chores as well (maybe make chores more fun). It’s nice having the Super Lemon Haze for daytime, albeit super light, consumption. We had a local town festival yesterday and I was feeling good and social, a rare thing for people that know me. POWERED BY CANNABIS 
That BBMxECK is looking nice!
I understand wanting to wrap stuff up before you go sterilizing everything. My only comment here, is that when I’ve learned when I’m doing something wrong and figure it out, it’s always best to start doing the right thing NOW, not later. I tend to jump on the solution aggressively and have had decent results.
I relate to the complacency growing as the experience does. It hasn’t really happened with the pot for me, but this isn’t my first hobby. It’s a real phenomenon and it happens to everyone. It’s all good man, you’ve learned some important lessons.
I think the common outdoor problems, bud rot, powdery mildew, broken branches, theft, are going to happen to everyone at some point, especially if they are running organic out in the open. I’m glad I’ve learned some very important lessons watching you treat yours. I mean, don’t take that the wrong way - it sucks what happened, no doubt there. But you posted and helped some other people learn too. Without that transparency hardly anything would be gained, but now there was actually quite a lot gained.
To hopefully less problematic seasons next year!
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The environment does have an effect on the mildew. The drier it is, the faster it spreads! The facts about that parasite are harder to fathom than the misinformation lol! I cranked my grow down to 25% to test it and that was not a good idea. I welcome you to try it and see the truth for yourself!!! Once the parasite is toast it doesn’t come back, that’s the secret. You can only get re-infested by bringing in more infested material that starts a new colony.
Edit: The colony started about 40 days before you could see it with your eyes.
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Yo bro! Yes, was one of the best from all year. An offering to the Melon Gods. It looks as if they are appeased. To many more melons for many more years! 
Not the haze, so this is from one of the two self seeded plants Ive talked about, hermed plants from last years hard lessons on light dep. Also what got me into hash. Id say alot of us take a similar path…lol…mistakes leading to better methods and ways to get where we want to go. One cultivar is a very speedy, long leaflets, citrus cleaner, energetic type smoke and the other a super frosty berry hype hybrid of some sort that smells and tastes like jelly or jam in your bowl but will shut your lids. The sativa leaner is the one pictured. Its also related to some of the girls from last years grow shots in previous posts. The sisters of the mothers did fine, so thats why I knew it was solid genetics and most likely mistakes in light schedule that caused the herms, I call it ‘old school fool’, the berry like hybrid is ‘mountain weather’…lol…you eventually have to call any new seeds something, right? Ive only Ive done a few test runs now of each and can say, that this one, the sativa leaner, is fairly stable under perfect lighting, I decided to cut her down early as she was within feet of the disaster but had not yet shown visible signs of infection so practicing what I preach, I cut her down a few days ago to have something at least, Im glad I did, as Im seeing the first signs of this in other areas. As stated, waiting to finish this grow, some plants are fine for now and will make it. I always do the usual cleaning and such, I guess I just ment the actual sulfer or whatever I have to do to ‘kill’ this off, throw out used soils, stuff I just cant do yet. I am still believing that this stuff is everywhere, no amount of cleaning will rid us of it, just proper practices and healthy plants are able to fight it, keep it down. Though, I have no real opinion on this stuff because it is my first time dealing with it. I am starting to think that it is because of improper disposal of past cannabis plants. So I have cleaned up all dead everything but its still too early for me to make a decision on what to do next. Im wiping down with alcohol, sterilizing as much as possible, tools, supplies, but I know this will just come back if I start again too soon. Really going to take my time, the farm and I will be reborn. Whatever it takes, Im blessed to be able to take my time on this and think it through. Just trying to move on yet fix the problem. A fine balance.
Aye! And feel free to help me cheer this place up, lets see a close up of some of that fine flower your drying now?
Any preliminary findings of effects? You know what they say about the cook…ya got to taste it first…
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Went out and cracked open the cabinet just for you, buddy! Smelling great now, the edge of burnt rubber is fading from the Avenue, it’s smelling quite dank now. Honestly some of the best smells I’ve ever smelled 
Top one is Avenue of the Giants, Hella Jelly the two below.
Apologies for the not great camera work, my phone is awesome in many ways but the camera isn’t the best, especially for macros
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My Dude! Those are Amazing Brother! 
A great supply in the bag so to speak and even more as back up, gettin even thicker and juicier? Oh yeah, Hella Jelly for sure!
Hopefully, from the looks of it, I’ll have some of the side projects work out on my end. Once everything is cut, I’ll share, but for now, there tomatoes!
Btw, the oil came out nicely, real amber honey, lots of straining but its legit for a home grow/personal. So feelin good 
Picks look great! I know how it is with these phones, hard as shit to type too! I just try to get up real close and then zoom in and wait for a clear second to snap em…Haven’t had the patience as much lately but I’ll be back in there soon, I always am! Thanks for hookin it up bro! Really got some excellent flower there, Proud Papa! Cant wait to see whats left and how it grows, yields for you. Im expecting an even bigger pay out for yall! Definitely keep us posted here as well as your own thread, ya know, untill I get the program back on track.
Hope all is well, looks like it! 
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I actually never had to throw anything out, or clean up anything else. The story for the greenhouse is this:
In the spring I went in there and I sprayed all downed plant material and the plant materials I could see laying in the pots. I planted the plants and the mildew never came back. I didn’t actually have to treat the plants or clean anything up, in that scenario. The mildew is really located on plant material, not on the fans or vents or your shoes.
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The fight continues…probably going to cut for hash and edibles before any further damage. On the plus side, I have spied a few seeds in the Don Johnson, a good reason not to just freak out and cut down everything, these were definitely some big ol beauties though…looking forward to an indoor grow again…
Wierd how other stuff is still doing somewhat fine(i think i over fed p and k, just one on right, maybe lack of n?) no visble signs of pm on these…
As the world turns…much appreciation on everyones help, Hope everyone is feeling good today✌
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Those look good! Not quite the disaster I expected from your talking about it.
Maybe a little heavy on the clawing girl bottom right, but not too shabby at all!
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looks good to me great growing man 
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You’re on the final stretch. If trimming gets tedious and tiresome, just think back to when you didn’t have any smoke at all. Now you will have literally more than you know what to do with.
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Warning: obsessive, barely coherent ramblings ahead…Thanks for the positive vibes All, been meaning to explain myself here, you know, what I’m ‘actually’ doing, not just ‘wanting’ to do with these plants, did way too much worrying, reading, begging for help, pulling myself up and thinking things through, so once I got my game plan…which is still basically shootin from the hip, all I can really say is I believe I’ve kept the buds free from the crazy chemicals(eagle20, stuff like that, not doing it, ever), I’d say thats the most important part, right? The desperation of seeing beautiful buds slowly take hold of PM is unsightly but I feel that next year, I should be much better prepared. I do see what yall are seeing, they look fine in certain photos, but trust me, its easier to hide this stuff than I thought! Lol…I’ll definitely always question constantly wet pics from now on…every morning they look absolutely stuning, then they dry out…and its just sooo sad…all jokes aside, Ive been stripping them of the worst leaves every three days or so, as I would be doing every five days or so anyway, but now, just making sure I get up real early and soke them down real well with about 1% hydrogen peroxide/water spray, I would probably increase the ratio, but I cant buy enough bottles! I tried to give the regalia a shot first but I just waited to long, it just kept getting worse, going to try that as preventative next season, I didnt really think I needed something like that, maybe I dont, will surely be giving it another go if Im above ground, time of year is surely an issue, we had a horrible wet humid last couple of weeks, wish I knew what I did better/different last two years or so, but since we can only move forward, going to
probably move to a different, more open sunnier spot on the property that gets as early morning sun as possible, this spot isnt the best on that, also, obviously working on finding my own pm resistant varietals, I have so many kinds, but these ones should have been fine, it certainly was something I did or didnt do, not there fault, I just think I must have hurt these plants somehow for all three to get it so bad and nothing else around? Not trying to beat myself up, Im over all that, lol, its like a messy public divorce or something having a grow go to hell online…and yall are like, is he just imaging all this? Haha, but anyway, heres the thing thats so confusing, other plants are fine, so far! So you know, stuff just not adding up, all sorts of contradictions, jeeze have I been obsessed with this, have read so many past threads, all similar, no wonder no one wants to talk about this, the fear of pm is deeep lol
just another pm thread here now, did you known you can get pm just by reading about it or looking at photos? Haha…seriously though, I wonder what I did to lower these plants immunity so much, perhaps there was still alcohol in the last batch of fermented tea feeding, I was kind of experimenting, yes, definitely a problem here, I simply did too much to them. Even for someone who has grown before, I went from not doing enough, cramming them with the other veggies, a spot that gets low light, to overdoing it when I first saw the pm, I should and will remove a plant with pm at first sight next time and not mess with so many different things that seem to hurt the flowers in the end much more than the pm does, and Im of the belief that this stuff is indeed unsightly, should never ever be sold or unknowingly given to anyone, but I cant find anything that says I cant use this for edibles myself. Possibly hash, as I would think the processes would eliminate most of the contaminants, sucks to talk about my meds like this but I honestly dont care, meaning that Id rather talk about it now and find a better way, still using this situation to learn as much as possible…jeez, all that classic rambling to say, I definitely waited too long, got to do preventative measures. Whatever those may be…going to be thankful when everything is wrapped up one way or another very shortly. There are parts of the plants that look really close to being done and are healthy looking so I guess I just take what I can, my issue has been more about the inability to solve a problem, So far my indoor is fine, low humidity really does seem to be all one needs to avoid this. I wont be surprised if I see it soon though. My bad, could ramble on about this crap all day, Damn, got carried away there, nevermind that, hope all is well brother, how is the drying going? Girls all bouncing back, probably didn’t even slow em down! Getting ready for round two and three? Part of me is glad im gonna throw alot of that away, so much work!
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Whew man give yourself a break today breath Breath BREATH 
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Have you ever considered that maybe this season you just had a bad run of luck, or chance?
I can beat myself up all day (and night) about mistakes I’ve made and things I would do different if time went backwards. But it doesn’t. Like you said, it only goes forward. I’m not one to say this often, because it would be hypocritical, but maybe you are thinking about it too much? I mean…I over-think, over-analyze basically everything I do or touch.
Guess what? EVEN IF, and that’s a big IF, this years crop is totally destroyed, next spring will arrive just as it has done for millions/billions of years. And you’ll plant further apart, with a little more attention to avoid contamination, with a little more sun. And, chances are, it’ll be beautiful. Outdoors, we’re all gambling with the weather, pests, infection. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. I could come out tomorrow evening and everything be chopped and taken away by thieves. I could get PM or any of the hundred other things that ruin the season for me. Gardening has done more for me to appreciate what farmers do than anything else in life has. They have to deal with shit like this every season, there’s not much choice. We chose to gamble, and we like it (for the most part )
Maybe smoke some and think about something else for a few hours. Something other than your plants. Think about how far you’ve come and accomplished. Maybe watch a stupid movie. A few plants are in the noise man. Smallest blip on your life radar. Chill, brother. I wish you only the best, hopefully those weren’t the wrong words to ramble out. It’s gonna be OK.
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This is my second outdoor grow. I lost two plants in July last year they both became chic’s with dicks in July. “swacked em” The shiskaberry I had left I burned when it was a baby sprout with LED’s being to close. This plant grew but half the plant was yellow and weak all the way to harvest. The one Mac was really the only plant I managed out of four. Great flower and killer buzz tastes like Ass. I took what went well about my grow style and started planning for spring. Killed everything I put out early-mid April 60.00 dollars of name brand FEM seeds. That I started inside in Feb and 100.00 in clones. Killed them in less than a week. Learn something every single time you grow. Curve balls keep coming. This Indiana bubblegum. I won’t grow outside here again. 10-week bloom, late to flower and you can’t be aggressive with foliage removal or it slows even more down and becomes weak to handle any stress. Plan your next season. Select proven outdoor winner strains for your area. Think about getting them up off the ground in fabric pots and away from other vegetation this will all help with being able to remove foliage freely and really help to decrease chances of PM and Insects “Coco” insects hate it. Get some cages to zip tie them. These are things I just learned a year ago. Still lost a bubblegum and the other remaining bubblegum. Prayin to the climate change Gods. I knew this because I read up. I knew that IB was gonna be a problem here, but I wanted to grow it. Should have got two DJ shorts Blueberry nursery clones instead. Next Year!! Take what you can out of that and leave the rest brother. Peace
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I feel what yall are saying and I appreciate you guys, I’ll try and chill and focus on these instead…
Possibly do something that has nothing to do with cannabis today, after a dab or two, of course…
All part of the healing process
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Don’t be so hard on yourself man, it was a tough outdoor year for a lot around here. I’d be happy to share some clones/seeds with you to help get a jump on the indoor anytime. Enjoy the day, it’s a nice one.
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