Yeah. This plant didn’t need it until I knocked it over… Bright side: Its not the 1st time. Down side: Probably not the last. At least I don’t get totally freaked out when this happens anymore. I know it will fix…
The smallest limb definitely needed a stake as well as stitching. I am also going to put it into a larger pot as well. More root space seems help when this happens.
When my last shed grow finished, something like 5-6 ounces worth, I thought I was weed rich and got uber lazy. I put off starting another grow immediately, and fuck me if I didn’t pay for it. I ended up having to buy for 3 months before it dawned on me to get off my ass and start another grow. So a total of 3,000$ in black market meds. An expensive lesson for sure and I regret not starting seeds as soon as I harvested lol.
Had a little barbecue / seafood boil. I did the salads and pulled pork and left my cousin with the seafood.
I never salt the water cuz it’s served with salted butter, so it didn’t even occur to me that he would. Didn’t think twice about using it on the garden.
@Jellypowered,
I used to find it easy to get lazy about chores. I didn’t keep much in the line of records, move a plant when it looked like it needed it. Made it much worse. I’d get 4 clones done so I didn’t make anymore for (was supposed to be) 2 weeks. I finally snapped out of it when I had only 2 plants in veg and no clones. I suffered each time as well, I’d have to tighten up my belt on how much I used, and end buying dealer weed.
I started keeping better records, but I found them wholly insufficient when I was trying to determine the actual cause of what was my thrip invasion. Since I literally completely changed how I grow as a result, I decided to keep thorough very records. I started that in April '17. I am keeping a database. I put myself on a set schedule. Also, I’ve been growing continuous harvest ever since my 4th grow. That helps a bit. There is still much to do after I harvest 1 or 2 plants.
Now I check my database to see what needs to be done next in each grow. Everything I do with each individual plant is recorded. I thought I’d had everything I needed to record about each plant when I first finished setting up my tables, but I am always finding something new to add to it and backtrack to fill in the old stuff if I can.
I don’t know why I didn’t do this sooner. It sucks getting into the habit recording everything when all you want to do is water your plants and get very high while hanging out on OG. But now I have a 10 month old database and I’ve learned to write forms and reports and I am never sitting down with my head in my hands trying to remember what happened months ago to that plant I took right from clone to flowering. Or when did I apply nematodes last and at what mixture rate. Or how much pH up do I have to put into my 5 gallon drink cooler of Ripe feed to get the reading I want.
All this stuff is now easily found.
Lately I’ve even started photo documenting 8 plants up to flowering. It doesn’t make sense to take pics there all my my biggest camera is still a cheap entry level type with built in flash and the flash can’t hold its own against the 750 hps. But a DSLR is more like a next year expense, unless I end up finding a deal I can’t pass up.
Look into a used Fuji finepix s700 or better, they are purty good as far as entry level photo gear, the s700 is pretty old now, I’m sure there are a lot better/newer models but I know that those are decent enough for our purposes.
I actually am using a FujiFilm Finepix that I’ve had since Christmas 2012. Its an AX560. It is small, 16MP, HD movie camera and takes good pictures. I think I’d probably like the s700. Thanks for the suggestion.
My 750w just turned off. That’s my cue to call it a day.
Holy shit, cbay! wow, thats going back to the good old days! U never have enough space, no matter how big, it sucks, having to sophie’s choice which beans to germ and which ones to shelve… i did a lot of traveling, strain hunting and trading, got tons of stuff that I never got arund to growing… its sad when i think about it…
Thats how i started, i collected bag seeds and then i’d seed a plant or two for next year…my partner is 2nd gen outdoor, thats how his fmaily got next yrs crop int he 70’s and 80’s, he made seeds… thats how landraces are traditionally “bred” since the dawn of time… aint nothing wrong w/ that man.
i was growing for like nearly 6 years making seeds and whatnot, before i got a copy of MJ botnay and got into actual breeding… we all started in the same humble place, making beans simply out of necessity, with our best bag-seed plants…
@anon32470837 and @Scissor-Hanz thank you for that advice. I’ve been working using non-toxic solutions. Pest strips was one I thought of, but felt I could get better coverage using more yellow cards. I would have eventually added them to my grows if I hadn’t gotten the flyin’ fuckers undder contorl (and apparently, now, gone! ). It never would have occurred to me that pests strips emanate toxins (I think I thought of them as fly paper on steroids). That being the case, I won’t use them anywhere. Ever.
Neville’s haze (my kid and his friend’s liked that one, I didn’t feel any effect)
Blue Widow (a favorite)
White widow (also a fav)
Thunder 47 (I called it Russian Thunder, I thought is sounded better. Excellent buzz, very short, bushy plant)
California Orange (Liked it better than the Neville’s Haze)
They always at least $100 less than online seed houses, often much more. If always amused me that Heaven’s Stairway was the shipper of these bargain seeds.
I had even crossed a White Widow male with a Blue Widow I called it Baby Blue Widow (BBW or Fat Chick for short). It was my absolute favorite of the strains I had. I kept this one alive the longest. I’d not made any seeds for this one in 8 years when I lost it to what I now was insect attacks in winter 2012/2013. I tried every trick I could find to germ at least one seed. Sadly, they all went to seed heaven.
Bought weed and grew out seeds from the bags. Most of it was crap weed. One day my kid gave me a seed from a bag of weed his friend had. (He brought his weed to our house, filled a bowl, popped out a seed…) I grew that one out. It was quite good. It is the one I call Blonde, for lack of an official name). March 2015, my son’s girlfriend (now fiance), went to Milwaukee to visit her brother and came back with a bag of very purple weed. It had 4 seeds. One seed failed, the remaining three sprouted and are what I call Purple. Once a year I make sure to get seeds. I have to make a herm to do it as both strains are feminized.
My BBW was an accident. I had grown the male White Widow in the kitchen window until it burst. I had a 2 White Widows and a Blue Widow under the hps. I brushed pollen on a side bud on each White Widow, expecting a small bud full of seeds on each plant. Apparently when I turned the fan back on a few minutes later, pollen blew around. Each White Widow was covered in seed over about 25% and the Blue Widow made about a tablespoon of seeds too. I ended up liking the BBW so well and had so many seeds, I didn’t worry when the White Widow died out. I had let the Blue Widow go away a year earlier. Fast forward about a year and a half. I’m tired of smoking just my Fat Chick and put some Blue Widow seeds into germ. I only had a half dozen of the original Blue Widow seed purchase and none popped. They were 10 year old seeds, so I wasn’t much surprised. It was why I did them first. I was surprised by the White Widow seeds not sprouting, they were only 6-7 years old.
Looking back, I probably should have pre-cracked the White Widow seeds, I’d been growinf solong from clones, I forgot the tricks I learned here about seeds. Also, at the time, I didn’t think my seeds were old enough to worry about.
That’s my sad story about what happened to my CBay strains. Man I wish CBay was still around. I’m not paying more than $50 for seeds.
Aside from the aforementioned first aid supplies, she’s not looking any worse for wear. I expect she will make a fine recovery.
Also, I’m not sure if my top post made it clear. What I regretted about drilling my pots was the fact that I was so sure it was the sure fire fix that I drilled every single container I had.That took most of a week. I could have been doing something fun with that time. And I regret that I was so certain it was the fix I needed that I wasn’t being as vigilant as I needed to be. If I’d have paid more attention, I’d have bought new pots earlier. Switching to solid pots (and not adding more drain holes to the solid pots) helped reduce the problem somewhat.
Today I re-potted all 4 pots in Veg. None of them showed any indicators of insect activity.
When I did the smaller 2, I decided to go back to the nets (drilled pots). This time last year I was insect free until the last half of March. I assume I will remain that way now until the outdoor plant life awakens. Should be at least 4 weeks more of pest free growing.
Yeah, I know, @99PerCent, I’ve been through it before. I still feel like a clumsy oaf for doing it though. At least I don’t get all panicky about it anymore…
yeah it happens. ive broken more branches than i can count… ganja is tough, so no worries… in a week or two, the break will have healed into a a tough knot… duct tape is my go-to for accidents… 4’ stakes for big splints, popsicle sticks for the little ones…
@Jellypowered, here is a Purple plant harvested. I’m going to let her litter sister keep going for a few days as her trichomes haven’t changed color yet. I’ll leave her until I need the space or her color changes, whichever is 1st. The 2 plants I put into Flowering last night are small enough that I can probably let it go for almost a week.
Hello OverGrowers. I thought some of you might be interested to find out what happened to my #64, “first aid” girl. I harvested her 4/13/18 after 53 days of Flowering. Edit: She was 23.5" tall.
Aside from the long stem leaves, I removed 70.6 (wet) grams of sticky leaves. These will probably weigh about 16 grams when dried. The cleaned plant weighed 233 (wet) grams. I expect about 1.5 oz of smoking flowers and about an oz of the small stuff that I will use for hash. Not bad for a girl with a broken arm.
We all have that one fuck up, maybe more but we can start with the most memorable fuck up and what others can learn from it.
Mine comes with the message if you have a sump pump and you grow in the basement make sure that fucker is plugged in! What i learned always have fill on a timer when filling reservoirs, second plug that sump pump in! And just as back up you can purchase a water alarm for $15. And not go up to see if the pizza guy is there and space you left the hose on, went downstairs about 2 hours later to find about 6" of water in basement. Spent 2 hours shop vacn all the way into grow room only to find hose still on! Learn from my mistakes, if you tend to get a little blazed invest in the water alarm and a hose end timer.
Letting the RO system fill a 5-gallon bucket for an hour. Upstairs. Only realizing it when taking a crap downstairs and seeing water dribble out from behind the mirror…
a while back, all my plants abruptly and mysteriously started going to shit (awful health, awful yield) in a room that had been pretty well dialed in (see: operating flawlessly) previously. for months, it drove me nuts trying to figure out what was going on. long story short, it turned out the caps on the burners of a CO2 generator i got from a friend were covered in a black gunky substance (presumably from never being cleaned) that gave off sulfur dioxide when it burned (not a big deal in small quantities, code red in large regularly applied quantities i.e. as often as a CO2 generator would run). another long story shot, it was essentially choking the plants, not to mention causing respiratory difficulties for me. everything went back to normal when i replaced that CO2 generator
morals of the story: always thoroughly inspect used gear, regardless of where you get it, and regularly check the burner caps on your CO2 generator
Some inexperienced brothers helped harvest as I was in bad shape and had to be horizontal for a bit. They did a wonderful job of big leafing and hanging several large plants.
They had also been making some bubble with fresh material. Someone decide it would be good to put some bubble in the vac chamber. Not sure why…they just didn’t know.
The vac pump had an exhaust hose for the outlet that I would run outside when in use. They did not. Pump was turned on and door was closed. Pump ran for at least an hour in a small shed. I wasn’t there but was told that when the door was opened…the shed had a visible haze of vac pump oil in the air…along with the freshly hung cinex.
Couldn’t find any info on possible dangers of inhaling mineral oil smoke when combusted. There was a residue on all hard surfaces in the room. Assumed it was on the hanging flowers. I didn’t feel right about smoking it or passing it to patients.
Had other irons going and needed to dispose of it. Ended up burning…in a bonfire…the remainder of the harvest.
Newbie kinda, did some outdoor long ago. Painful carried giant filled pots to a field edge 20 out of 100 plants. (J.Herer) CAME BACK NEXT DAY all small plants eaten by deer. the next 20 planted into a forest with a decently open area with sun coverage. The sun moved substantially in a few weeks leaving those twenty in the dark. next 20 canoed them along with several 3.3 cubic feet grow bags then walked plants and bag almost 60ft of river edge put them in pots came back looked eye hight to find them only to realize the water level rose and the were literally floating sideways beside me lol ( They actually did all right once the pots were placed on tree stumps above the water line and they dried out. Next 20 got help from my friends cottage neighbor to help place plants in a mini island among a swamp area ( all in the same area ish.) only competing with cat tails and not trees they got plenty of sun and ripped off by that neighbor. he said he didn’t no but I know he did. The last 20 on a rocky hill that drained way to fast and they remained painfully small. Now I am waiting on my med license and have been practicing on some bag seeds.
Practice is going well. Super cropped, topped, Good at it , very good I should say! 12+ tops barely 2 inch hi. I have one Cookies and Cream doing very well and the rest were hermi or male. Took a cutting ( hermi) it did well HOWEVER I now know when I convert a large storage box into a mini green house with tuck tape and vapor barrier to let it vent and not to let the base of the clones touch the collected water at the bottom or expect mildew. I have set Cookies n Cream under a 1000wat hps solo. I now know I think the amount of training I did is ideal more for those using a smaller grow tent as I have a whole room and could have let the plant be taller. 25 days into veg now out of the cup 20 days. Time will tell.
). It never would have occurred to me that pests strips emanate toxins (I think I thought of them as fly paper on steroids). That being the case, I won’t use them anywhere. Ever.
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