Hello friends. I figured I’d post up a bit about my garden. Been growing 16 years now. I think I’ve made about every mistake a person could make in this journey. With that being said, I am a bit more adventurous than most in trying new and different things growing styles, nutrients, etc.
I IN the flower room I have a 1K watt LED COB fixture from BC Blondes. Got it on sale as it was a model being discontinued. U run shorter plants under it. I also run a 4 foot cool tube with a 1K HPS in each end, and the whole thing is mounted vertically. I can run 5 foot tall plants placed around the vertical cool tube - indoor trees if you will. The room is cooled with an 18k BTU fujitsu mini-split and exhausted through 8 inch ventilation that runs out of the room and through an inline ozone generator (Uvonair) and then out of a basement window. smell tends not to be an issue.
Veg room holds a Mammoth Lighting 6 bar LED, a Mars Hydro LED, and chinese made Apollo 8 full spectrum (my favorite, honestly - thing is a beast and the plants love it,. runs about $300 on Ali Baba), and an 8 bulb T5 fixture and a 4 bulb T5.
Curent Nutes:
Veg: Heavy 16 Veg A&B, Prime, and Finish, with Voodoo Juice, Azos, Sensizym and organic Molasses. Feed every time with 10% runoff.
Flower: Sensi Coco Bloom A&B, B52, Big Bud, Sensizym, Organic Molasses, Signal (TPS), and then Flawless Finish at the end. Note; I use ONE, only ONE dose of Flawless Finish. I’ve heard nightmare stories of folks giving it to their plants for the whole end of flower flush and things being really screwed up in the final product. I use ONE dose at the beginning of flush and I can quick dry some buds at the end of flower, grind em, roll them up and smoke them and the smoke is so smooth and tasty, ridiculously so in fact. I don’t smoke chemmy buds, period, which is why i generally won’t smoke other people stuff.
strains: I have a bunch.
currently in flower - Berry Noir, 1988 G13 Hashplant, Blueberry Yum Yum, Mad Martigan
currently in veg - LA Confidential, White Lotus, 1988 G13 Hashplant, Blueberry Yum Yum, Tokyo Snow, Hippy Slayer, Shit, and a few others I cant remember at the moment. I’m a stoner.
a coupe oither notes: if you are going to post in my thread about how much you hate AN or my lights or me, please don’t bother. click click click past me. I’ve been doing what I do for a long time and guess what, snowflake, it works very very well for me.
The 2 most important things I’ve learned in growing cannabis are this:
1)You have to be in your garden every day to grow excellent buds.
2) When you find something that really works, run with it. Everyone is different and things work differently for different people. You do you, I’ll do me.
My cloning method is stupid cheap and simple. I’ve tried the aero cloners, blah blah blah. I use 9 ounce clear plastic cups from Walmart, filled with veg nuted coco, trim the cutting, dip in Clonex, put it in the coco, place a 16 ounce clear cup on top for a dome. Then i take the domes off every couple days for fresh air and I usually get roots within a week or two. I get as close to 100% success as you can without being 100%. I can post a tutorial if you want. And yes I reuse the cups until the UV makes the cups brittle and they break.
A little bit about me: I’m a professional waiter. I work in a fine dining steakhouse. I know food and wine like the back of my hand and I treat cannabis like a fine wine - all the different flavors and nuances in buzz are amazing. I’ve been married twice. That was enough of that shit. My 2nd wife ripped my heart out and I’ve been pretty numb for a lng long time. I stopped dating when i started growing and have been celibate for 16 years. Honestly I love it because my life is beautifully drama free and I do not even miss being with a woman. Like I said, my life is beautifully drama free. So for any snowflakes out there that think i’m some sexual deviant, you’re barking up the wrong tree. Get over yourself. and yes, i can be a bit blunt at times.
anyway, I’m happy to be here and to gain and share some knowledge. I can’t guarantee I’ll keep this thread updated in a remotely timely fashion - i’m a busy guy basically working 2 full time jobs - weed and my other job. I’ll post some pics when i figure out how to do it here. I’ve been on quite a few forums in my time and hopefully there’s a few folks here that i know and I am looking forward to making some new friends as well.
be kind, be well, be strange.
Freak
ps - my screen name comes from the plants I would grow out that were something of mutants - strange leaf configurations, growth tendencies, etc. I had quite a collection at one point
if it grows the plant im here to sit n learn.
