Wow that’s a great setup for an isolation box, and i love your idea for repurposing!
I’m glad you were able to save the sensi buds ha. Good job on immediately doing the task, I ALWAYS struggle with procrastination so mad props for getting it done. 
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hello min stalkin ya 
loookin really good man love ya male isolation chamber (stealing ideas 
) not got any room for keeping males at the mo so that could work, normally just cut flower tops before they drop and hope to get something in cutting mode
one love 
~lime~
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you can be really quite brutal to them and they will bounce back and love you for it (its like they are a little bit sado 
) i use a lil pair of round nose jewlers pliers and just flop everything and tie it down if necessary, oh and top at least twice normally more like 4 times depends how quick i need em
just use a thumb nail for that
~lime~
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I’ve tried multiple things, my thumbnail has always worked better for me. I let it grow a bit until top time, then cut it and 2 weeks later its top time again
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yeah mate k.i.s im a 3rd gen farmer always taught to use what ya got keep it simple and if it aint brooke well you know
(that’s a real farmer not pot )
~lime~
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Guess it depends how much pot you’re growing. 
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thanks lime! yea, that big cardboard box has been a life saver for me… or at least for my durban 1, lol! i’m able to keep him alive in there (barely, i think) with that small led light. i see his flowers are still ripening and he’s still dropping pollen.
i check up on him every time before i leave for work and when i come back home, and every time there’ll be a couple of pollen sacks that are ready to be harvested. it’s gotten to be a nice process. i’m getting better about collecting his pollen now too. here’s what i’ve collected from durban 1 in the first day.
i figure he’s got a few more days left of pollen to give, so i should have a “not bad” amount by then. after that, i’m hoping to be able to either throw him back into the tent with my females (once all his sacks have been removed) so he can get maximal light again, and i’ll see what happens after that. or i figure out how to create a separate 18/6 light area for him and my next batch of plants. maybe i can build out this temporary isolation box into something semi-permanent.
i also chopped the tops off of my other two males (durban 4 and cindy 3), which i’ve sectioned off in an unused drink cooler that i had lying around. i put a similar led light and small computer fan in there, but there is much less activity from those pollen sacks for now.
that goes to show me how awesome my durban 1 male is, considering that c3 and d4 have both been up-potted into 3 gallon bags, whereas d1 still has his old 1 gallon shoes. knowing what i know now, i probably would not have up-potted any of my males, and in the future will likely keep my males in smaller pots.
right now, my c3 and d4 male plants are just sitting around in their 3 gallon pots, not in the main tent and not in an isolation chamber. i haven’t the heart to kill them off yet, and i’ve been lazy about figuring something better for them. so they just sit, ignored. as long as they don’t drop any more pollen, i’m okay keeping them in stasis.
from the durban 4 top i cut off, i have gotten barely a whisper of pollen even though he has more sacs than cindy3. c3 has been better, but i still feel like i have only enough pollen to dust a branch or so. that’ll be enough for me though. if i can get some cindy x cindy seeds going, i’ll be happy and perhaps ColeLennon will be happy too. lol!
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this definitely felt brutal right here, although it wasn’t as bad as when i snapped my tropical 3 in a very similar fashion. that snap felt sharper and crisper, maybe because she had a thicker stem at the time.
but this is my durban 3 taking a break from things. she was getting too tall, so i was training her and she bent. maybe they need more agsil?
even though it’s still pretty early (it’s just the second week of flower), i love how the flowers are starting to come in. i think i even see some frostiness starting up on tropical 1, which is the shortest squatest female i have. in the close-up zoom, you can see the trichs dotting the leaves.
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Dude, I’ve been eyeing your box all day.
I only have a flower tent in my non environmental controlled barn so I’m running at night, but I’m wanting a bonsai mom/clone/seedling area that can be stealthy indoors so the wife don’t get too mad.
I’m trying to decide between just a little Rubbermaid tote, a small cabinet, or an actual clone tent(there’s some for like 50$ that are perfect size).
Idk, I am in the weeds a bit, but I feel you on the wanting more sectioned off areas
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some general tent photos from a few days ago. it’s not that long ago, but it feels like the plants during this stage change so quickly.
with all of the males out of the tent and two of my six females off to new homes, my 3x3 tent is now at a good capacity (ie. not overfull). durban 3 and cindy 2 in the front. d3 is the tallest if it weren’t for tropical 3’s training.
d3 and cindy 2 exhibiting similar structures, but that’s probably heavily influenced by their containers. still, relatively similar height, similar-ish leaf shapes (although c2 may be slightly fatter).
i’ve got a makeshift cloning area in the middle bottom that i’m doing a pretty good job of ignoring and not tending too. but hey, at least it’s there and being used for lazy experiments.
here we can see the tropicals in the back. tropical 1 being an interesting short hybrid (or something) with a fairly compact structure, although showing signs of frostiness already. i have her on a riser and she’s still shortest in the tent.
tropical 3 is definitely a beast and drinking a lot of water nowadays. her leaves never greened out quite like her siblings did. probably different feeding and uptake with the earthbox.
fortunately, the ladies are mostly on auto pilot, just waterings and weekly feedings. i’m thankful for that, as it really gives me time to focus on the males right now. again, i didn’t think the males would flower so quickly, but i suppose seeing how the ladies have been flowering all this time, it makes sense. even durban 1 busting early would have juiced some of the ladies.
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Very Nice Man!!! 
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yea, for the low-cost of buying my tent kit (lol) i have a pretty nice little isolation box. what i like about the box is that it can be tall, so it works really well for my topped male right now. it’s awesome for an impromptu solution and i might be able to make it work as a more permanent solution with some more jury-rigging.
a cabinet would be cool too, you just have to get one. i do like the cabinet form, as you have doors that you open to look into, whereas something like a rubbermaid you would open it up and be looking from above. but either way, if my males hadn’t been so close to popping, i probably would’ve dragged my feet on making this box.
i’ve been imagining building out a clone tent so i can have more control of the environment, but i’m sorta glad that necessity pushed me to make things happen right away, rather than planning and re-planning things in my head. if you have the means for a clone tent though, i’d say that’d be a great way to go. it would be more conspicuous than a cabinet, but with a small tent, you can easily throw some fabric over it to hide it (pick something that the wifey likes). that’s what i do with my big tent. you’d be surprised how it really quiets down the profile of the tent. the tent should also have all of the vents and ports you need, whereas the cabinet would be a little bit of modding.
either way, just do it! 
the possibilities it’ll open up to you will allow you to do more.
also, ahem… this quote… lol! only on overgrow…
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Lmao, to true on the quote 
Aye, speaking of Agsil, how long does it last on the shelf, I assume you mixed the powder yourself?
i’m not a well-versed academic regarding agsil or really any of these products we’re throwing at our plants. but from my casual reading, some people are saying it will last forever (or long enough, i suppose).
i purchased the powder from build-a-soil, and i add like a 1/2 teaspoon into a gallon of water. i think i had done one or two foliar sprays with it early on, but mostly it’s been soil drenches as the foliar sprays are sort of annoying for me right now because i have to clear out my tent, spray each plant in the tent and then handle the excess spray and water afterwards. soil waterings are just neater and easier to clean up.
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@highminwin you’re on a roll! Nice looking plants!
@Dr.VitaminGreen from the master of hacking shit(me), if you have the $50, get the little tent haha. Hack things are never truly finished for most people, and if your wife is concerned about the aesthetics, the tent comes looking finished lol 
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good morning sir min 
was just doing my weekly letch at baked beans thread and you popped in my skull (as your a bit of a bean hound) @SamwellBB check him out if ya havent he get rave reviews from peeps that grow his beans (i’ve been coveting his work for some time )
your tent and green thumb sams beans 
<<not a rep for BB and have no affiliation with sam (other than love for his work) just had 4 bongs on the spin and was thinking 
one love 
~lime~
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oh thanks for thinking of me, lime! you ain’t wrong about my bean proclivities, lol. although i’ve really kept my purchases tampered down since my big 4/20 spend. economy ain’t looking so hot right now and inflation is rocking the boat like a truly hungry hungry hippo (have you seen gas prices?). so i’ve been mostly trying to keep my bean spend to a minimum.
that doesn’t mean i can’t go window shopping though! anything from baked beans you’ve seen that has the people all in a tizzy?
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Actually glad to hear u say that! U went apeshit for a while! Now to sit back and see them get grown out 
Once you got big ole ladies to take care of they get jealous when ur checking out the menu, but not ordering anything had to keep my ladies happy by focusing on them for the season, hopefully it feels the same before u get em knocked up
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i know, i did didn’t i? it was sooooo fun though! but now i’m totally good for the next few months. and it felt good giving away a lot of seeds to overgrowers. i still have a few that i have dozens of seeds for which i’ll get around to giving away one day (why do i still have 30+ seeds of sunshine 4 x bye-ya?). but it has been really nice not having to go to the post office and package seeds and the whole she-bang for a minute now.
speaking of getting my ladies knocked up, i think in the next few days my tent’s gonna be a-rockin’ and some tops are gonna be a-poppin’, so don’t come a-knockin’!
pollen collection for durban 1 is coming along swimmingly! i don’t think i’m too concerned about having enough of his magic plant jizz.
i was more concerned about pollen from cindy 3 since he was a bit smaller and didn’t have nearly as much pollen sac development. but i think i was able to collect enough during his last round to get some cindy x cindy seeds going. we’ll see. i wish i was setup so i could get a cool video of pollen collection at this zoomed in, macro level you see in the photo.
one other thing, HAS MY CINDY 2 BEEN ACCIDENTALLY SEEDED ALREADY? see picture below.
i thought i had read somewhere that the pistil hairs darkening and shrivelling was a sign that they had been pollinated and were going to start making seeds. just wanted to confirm.
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Don’t underestimate how little it takes, I gave someone a vial with about a rice grains worth of pollen and they got 100 seeds with it dusting a few branches with a toothpick
Open pollenation and a plant that would yield up to a couple oz of smoke would give you well over a thousand seeds in there but not much worth smoking
Yes curled hairs like that is typically a sign, coulda been as simple as u collecting pollen and walking into your room with your ladies and it being on your shirt, pollen is meant to fly everywhere possible any means possible to get to a flower and can travel up to 2 miles typically
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