Yep that is a Macho Man!
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You can always tell it’s a male at this stage because there are multiple preflowers at each node. Like a little bundle of male pods.
As soon as you see more than one sex organ forming at one of the nodes, you know it’s a male. Females never form more than one preflower calyx at each node.
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Wow, ten days since I last posted in my spare bathroom. I mean that’s just ironic considering I do most of my posting in my spare bathroom. There’s no way that I’m the first person to have high-speed internet throughout the home.
Meanwhile
The LSD is two weeks into flower now. Looking around on OG and seeing so many nicely trained plants makes me wish I’d put more thought into training. Not the plant isn’t trained, I just winged it and tied the stem aound the diameter of the pot so that it grows in a spiral.
Have your credit cards ready
Finally, installed for your amusement, the shower cam. Now you can tune in here to see these ladies in the shower.
Needs a bit of fiddling yet, but I’m sure most shower cams involve some amount of fiddling.
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ROFLMAO… Thats funny…
I see you have an ESP 32 cam… Home Assistant user by chance?
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Had no idea what Home Assistant was until now. My setup has far fewer moving parts at the cost of appearing… inelegant.
The ESP32CAM runs on micropython. A cron scheduler captures jpegs, uploads the data to my PC over FTP, and also saves a copy to the SD card.
Soliloquy ensues - The GPIO availability is really lacking on these boards, disappointingly so. Trying to use any I2C sensors along with the camera or SD card causes unpredictable behaviour. Although I’ve never had any real use for the contents of the SD card, given the board’s wacky disposition I don’t see myself adopting the SD GPIOs it for anything mission critical.
On my PC a cron job sorts the files into dated folders, and another script makes daily timelapse videos with ffmpeg. Images and videos are served locally with nginx for convenience. Finally, for the ‘dashboard’ experience another script renders SVG graphs on demand using gnuplot. I used to generate the SVGs programmatically from the esp sensors themselves but gnuplot does a prettier job and now my graphs are all in one place.
No javascript, no bootstrap, no systemd. Mostly python and shell scripts.
I actually just use the ESP32CAM to look at my thermohygrometer. I kept getting burned on BME280 sensors so this is my only way to check humidity.
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Memories of Summers past
I recently passed on my DSLR camera to someone with greater appreciation for consumer electronics. As it turns out I am not much for photography.
The camera was in my posession for a good five years and these were the only photos on the SD card along with a few cactus pictures.
I’m glad I at least got these photos of my finest outdoor grow before neighbourhood theives ran off with my plants in the night.
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Well, the ones you took are great!
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Awww man, I am really sorry to hear that brother. I hate thieves!!!
Those pictures look amazing though 
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The Aftermath
They even left their scissors behind.
Waste not, want not.
But alas, you have all stolen a place in my heart…
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very nice agriculture gpas goona make my pgTips England 
blacktea in my stainless steel cup goona stay ontopic.
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That is horrible they took yours.
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Been a wild week or two, I feel like the bathroom hasn’t received the attention it deserves. Though I may have forgotten to post updates, I have not forgotten to water the plants. Incidentally I also discovered that my spare bathroom is the only flood-proof room in the basement, so I guess that’s a blessing.
The LSD is looking a bit worse for wear on some of the upper leaves, ravaged by either deficiency, the last week of record setting relative humidity, light intensity, or maybe all three. On the bright side the ravaged condition only appears to have afflicted the uppermost leaves, the foliage underneath is green beyond all expectations. I’m still confident I will get some buds from this fragrant little bush.
The peyote cookies on the left is coming along swimmingly. The lighting and camera settings do no justice to it’s rich emerald hues. It may appear a little spindly in the photo but those big fan leaves obfuscate the thick bushy build lower down the stem. I thought the plant would maintain the squat demeanor she posessed all through the vegetative phase, but as soon as she got under the bright lights she startd to reach.
This grow has been for the most part water, though I did topdress with some kelp meal and Gaia Green 4-4-4 in the first week or two of flower. What appears to be doing wonders for one plant leaves me wondering what to do for the other.
PS- please disgregard any unsightly bathtub rings. Thank you
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This is a hijacking. Everyone be cool.
With the weather turning foul, all signs pointed to “go harvest right now”. I’m certain I’m not the only one to hear this call. Behold my modest harvest.
This was my first time washing a harvest. Given all the iridescent nonsense floating atop the water and the cloudy appearance of the contents of the wash bucket, I’m glad I decided to wash. I washed first with hydrogen peroxide then rinsed with water, and none too gently either.
After a battle with powdery mildew I had very low expectations for this outdoor harvest. I’m likely going to turn all of this into a topical rub. Life is too short to smoke questionable weed.
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Oops
Great news, in the last six days the Peyote Cookies grew 10 inches! Alright- it was more like 25 centimetres. It’s an impressive growth rate all the same.
Imagine my surprise when the lights came on this evening and I see that she had grown right through the light. Eager to remedy this situation I thought I would try to induce a little lean and tie down the main cola below the light. Situation remedied.
This is either an inadvertant foray into supercropping, or I just decapitated the healthiest looking plant to ever grace this bathroom. I decided to quit touching anything before I can make anything worse, this is how I left her:
Today is day 18 of flowering. I’m not really accustomed to inflicting this kind of abuse on plants. Mine is usually more of the psychological or emotional variety that comes with being locked in a dark bathroom twelve hours every day.
At any rate
What else should I do, nothing? Is the main cola done for?
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Naw, she’s looking ok cuz! I’ve bent em over a lot worse and they come back ok. She’ll be looking for the lights again in no time.
If she does start to sag a bit, you can just prop her up until she heals better. Then no worries for sure.
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Been there done that! Good job!
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So much askew about nothing
Fortunately it turns out that doing nothing was an excellent decision. The next morning I woke up feeling refreshed, and checked OG over tea. After reading the replies I ventured to the bathroom to reassure my girl.
I whispered to her softly “Don’t worry baby, @JohnnyPotseed says-”
She snapped to attention just like that, unbelievable! Almost took out my eye. I had to break her back over to finish my sentence.
“Everything is going to be allllll right.”
Imbued with a new sense of hopeful optimism her leaves and colas turned to the light, and all was well.
I appreciate all the support, all my concerns have been put to rest.
What else you got?
If my wife only knew how many girls I have on the side… How could I forget about the LSD from Barney’s Farm? I feel just awful every time I look at her and see all these ravaged leaves.
I’m starting to think most of the problems in the garden stem from my actions. I’m even starting to think this phenomenon extends to more than just my garden, but there’s no sense in playing the blame game.
This girl is starting to stack up. The buds are nice and sticky and smell like grape candy. She may not look like much now, but then I remembered she has another five weeks to put some more junk in the trunk. I don’t think there will be any envy-inducing colas from this harvest, but there should be some modest colitas to enjoy.
Whatever I did wrong it’s much less noticable after some defoliation. A handful of worms from the garden have also agreed to keep her company in exchange for shelter from the recent rain. It must be working as all the new growth is lush and beautiful. I don’t call her for a few days and her mood instantly picks up, go figure.
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lol A bit dramatic… but glad she did like I thought cuz! Her and the rest of ‘your ladies on the side’ all look great!
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Good to see the @JohnnyPotseed pep talk worked! 
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