the clones looked really bad yesterday, after a couple hours of being out the 2 blue dream clones started perking up, when i peaked in this morning all 4 clones were looking much more vibrant and alive!
Monday, May 31, 2010
Sunday, May 30, 2010
clones moved to dirt, pollen bag taken off the thai - may 30 2010
i moved the clones into dirt today, they were happy in their sealed little cups, when i took them out the quickly began drooping, there are roots growing, but the clones just don't look good, i hope they work out!
here is the thai bud that was pollinated, i took the bag off of it, hoping to get a seed or 2
here is the thai, in this shot it's easy to see the bend from training the main stalk
here's another angle
group shot
blue dream
mystery bag seed plant, we're trying some fan leaf pruning to see how it works out
here is the thai bud that was pollinated, i took the bag off of it, hoping to get a seed or 2
here is the thai, in this shot it's easy to see the bend from training the main stalk
here's another angle
group shot
blue dream
mystery bag seed plant, we're trying some fan leaf pruning to see how it works out
Saturday, May 29, 2010
pollinating thai with lowryder #2 - may 28 2010
pollen from a lowryder #2 male plant has been applied to one of the lower buds of this world of seeds wild thai girl, will we have some thai ryder in the near future? this makes me think of a dog breeder crossing a small terrier with a great dane, quite curious, i do not claim to be a breeder of any real magnitude, this is in fact my first time pollinating anything, this is a test, this is only a test. i turned the fan off in the cabinet, i put my finger into the container that containing the pollen, i then put my finger all over the lower bud being sure to get all up in the hairs, i did this a few times, then i grabbed one of the pollen sacks and held it over the bud lightly shaking for a bit. after all of this i carefully placed a plastic grocery bag over the bud and it's length of stem, i taped it around the stem not too tight and not too loose, i will leave the bag on for a few days, i am hoping this will keep the pollen only on the bud which i applied it to, we shall see!
Thursday, May 27, 2010
white rhino grew balls and got chopped as did it's clone, the clone had roots though so the other clones must be doing well
1 quick update!
this morning i checked the small beercup plants that were from seed for balls, i do this twice a day, lo and behold we saw balls! the balls were on the white rhino from bagseed, went ahead and culled that biatch
i had 1 cutting of the white rhino, obviously it'd be lame to keep her/him/it around too, but this gave me an opportunity to open the beercup cloning biosphere and rip open the rockwool, we did indeed see roots! so the good news is that my cloning worked, i have failed twice with taking clones, with some hands on training from a friend and a few slight changes to his method i have finally produced clones! hooray!
i will leave the remaining clones in their biobeercup for a few more days and then transplant to soil. by then it should be time for me to take at least 1 more cutting, this time from one of the small thai plants in the veg cab, i really really want to keep the thai going perpetually so i can get a lot of experience with it, it's something i really enjoy and feel that there should be more of it in and around our southern california medical marijuana scene, in essence, i feel the thai is special, is this world of seeds ko'chang wild thai super special? i hope so, i'll know for sure when the big girl has flowered fully and is harvested, until then we'll do our best to keep at least 1 cutting going in veg state at all times
if it turns out that the thai is just okay, and nothing special (highly doubt that), then i'm debating trying another kind named full moon thai, i believe sensi seeds carries it
man i wish the chocolate thai i bought over a month ago had some seeds in it, i'm down to .1g left of it, perfect daytime herb, 1 toke of that chocolate thai is good for me from morning till lunch time, i'll stop rambling now and sign off
this morning i checked the small beercup plants that were from seed for balls, i do this twice a day, lo and behold we saw balls! the balls were on the white rhino from bagseed, went ahead and culled that biatch
i had 1 cutting of the white rhino, obviously it'd be lame to keep her/him/it around too, but this gave me an opportunity to open the beercup cloning biosphere and rip open the rockwool, we did indeed see roots! so the good news is that my cloning worked, i have failed twice with taking clones, with some hands on training from a friend and a few slight changes to his method i have finally produced clones! hooray!
i will leave the remaining clones in their biobeercup for a few more days and then transplant to soil. by then it should be time for me to take at least 1 more cutting, this time from one of the small thai plants in the veg cab, i really really want to keep the thai going perpetually so i can get a lot of experience with it, it's something i really enjoy and feel that there should be more of it in and around our southern california medical marijuana scene, in essence, i feel the thai is special, is this world of seeds ko'chang wild thai super special? i hope so, i'll know for sure when the big girl has flowered fully and is harvested, until then we'll do our best to keep at least 1 cutting going in veg state at all times
if it turns out that the thai is just okay, and nothing special (highly doubt that), then i'm debating trying another kind named full moon thai, i believe sensi seeds carries it
man i wish the chocolate thai i bought over a month ago had some seeds in it, i'm down to .1g left of it, perfect daytime herb, 1 toke of that chocolate thai is good for me from morning till lunch time, i'll stop rambling now and sign off
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
thai 32 days flowering, 3 beer cup bagseed and blue dream 6 days, veg cab update and clones - may 26 2010
first up is the thai plant which is at 32 days into flowering with about 52~59 days remaining; following are 2 bagseed plants (1 from a bag of white rhino, the other from the mystery bag of mystery bag seeds) and 1 blue dream clone from a dispensary, all of them are at 6 days flowering and the plants from seed are beginning to show sex, mystery plant is showing mostly female parts and the white rhino is still too early to tell (please no herms!)
4th pic down is the veg cabinet, the 2 thai clones get it all to themselves for now, i can see some brownish spotting which i think is from over watering (oops!), in a couple weeks we will take clones from these clones and then move these 2 into the flowering cabinet so maybe i can get a perpetual thai harvest happening
lastly you can see an experiment in making clones, hope this works out! it's a super simple and space saving way of going about the process, cuttings were taken 6 days ago, i'm going to give them 4 more days before i check for roots
4th pic down is the veg cabinet, the 2 thai clones get it all to themselves for now, i can see some brownish spotting which i think is from over watering (oops!), in a couple weeks we will take clones from these clones and then move these 2 into the flowering cabinet so maybe i can get a perpetual thai harvest happening
lastly you can see an experiment in making clones, hope this works out! it's a super simple and space saving way of going about the process, cuttings were taken 6 days ago, i'm going to give them 4 more days before i check for roots
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
auto watering worked, babies blowin' up - may 18 2010
we were gone for a few days so we got to do a real test of the auto watering system
we came home, zero flooding, plants were not dry, everything seems just fine! the only changes are, a lot less water in the reservoir, plants in the small baby box got bigger
we came home, zero flooding, plants were not dry, everything seems just fine! the only changes are, a lot less water in the reservoir, plants in the small baby box got bigger
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Saturday, May 15, 2010
ghetto automatic watering - may 15 2010
i've setup a basic automatic watering system, so hopefully i can leave for a few days and not have to worry about plants drying out like what happened a month ago. here's the breakdown on how i set it up
supplies:
1 electrical timer that can turn on/off to the minute, hour or 1/2 hour won't be enough ($15 @ osh)
1 small aquarium airpump, i'm using one suitable for 10 gallons or less ($12 @ fish store)
1/4" drip line ($4 / 50' @ osh)
1/4" drip line t connectors, cross connectors, extenders, this is up to you
1 gallon + jug full of you favorite water, leave an inch or so at the top of just air
the idea is this:
1 tube running to your plants is jammed into the water jug plastic so as to be airtight, this tube's opening needs to be touching the bottom of the jug at the maximum water depth.
1 tube running into the top of the jug where there is an inch or so of airspace, this will lead to your aquarium water pump. even though this is super safe, i still would recommend raising the airpump higher than the water jug.
when the airpump is turned on by the timer, air is pumped into the water jug, this creates pressure which slooowly forces the water out of the other hose which drips into your plants!
this will take some playing with to dial in, mine isn't dialed all the way in yet, but so far it seems like i only need my pump on for 2 minutes every day, that actually might be more than enough.
i am not using any emitters on the drip lines, just drip hose ends directly over the dirt where the plant stalk is going in, i figure there is less chance of something clogging up the line this way
here it is:
there is a timer next to the power strip on the right turning the airpump on each day at 8am and off at 8:02am, the airpump is on top of the white box in the bottom of the picture, line going out to top of arrowhead jug pushes air into the jug, a line going out from the left side of the arrowhead jug is going to a splitter, one end of the splitter leads into the flowering cabinet on the upper left of the picture, the other end is going into the white baby veg box that the airpump is sitting on top of, this splits off to the 5 small plants inside
supplies:
1 electrical timer that can turn on/off to the minute, hour or 1/2 hour won't be enough ($15 @ osh)
1 small aquarium airpump, i'm using one suitable for 10 gallons or less ($12 @ fish store)
1/4" drip line ($4 / 50' @ osh)
1/4" drip line t connectors, cross connectors, extenders, this is up to you
1 gallon + jug full of you favorite water, leave an inch or so at the top of just air
the idea is this:
1 tube running to your plants is jammed into the water jug plastic so as to be airtight, this tube's opening needs to be touching the bottom of the jug at the maximum water depth.
1 tube running into the top of the jug where there is an inch or so of airspace, this will lead to your aquarium water pump. even though this is super safe, i still would recommend raising the airpump higher than the water jug.
when the airpump is turned on by the timer, air is pumped into the water jug, this creates pressure which slooowly forces the water out of the other hose which drips into your plants!
this will take some playing with to dial in, mine isn't dialed all the way in yet, but so far it seems like i only need my pump on for 2 minutes every day, that actually might be more than enough.
i am not using any emitters on the drip lines, just drip hose ends directly over the dirt where the plant stalk is going in, i figure there is less chance of something clogging up the line this way
here it is:
there is a timer next to the power strip on the right turning the airpump on each day at 8am and off at 8:02am, the airpump is on top of the white box in the bottom of the picture, line going out to top of arrowhead jug pushes air into the jug, a line going out from the left side of the arrowhead jug is going to a splitter, one end of the splitter leads into the flowering cabinet on the upper left of the picture, the other end is going into the white baby veg box that the airpump is sitting on top of, this splits off to the 5 small plants inside
Sunday, May 9, 2010
baby cabinet update, 3 26watt cfl 1 cheapo ebay led panel, it's workin' out! - may 9 2010
cabinet is 14" x 14" x 14", just for sprouts and vegging and clones, 2 26watt 2700k cfl bulbs, 1 26watt 6500k cfl bulb, 1 14watt cheapo led from ebay, a small desk fan outside of the cabinet blowing air lightly in
things seem to be working out, i'll post 2 closeups of plants that have lived their entire life in this mini grow cabinet; the first plant is from a random bag of herb and is 25 days old, no idea what kind at all, this is for fun, the next is from a bag of white rhino and is 32 days old (it did almost die when it was smaller from lack of water as i was away for a couple days, this is the only one that made when that happened, it's small but i'm fortunate it's doing great now, lol watch it turn hermie on me in the end hahaha), i grew another from that same white rhino bag out and it was a big 'ol hermaphrodited mess so who knows what will go on there
following are 2 shots of the whole cabinet, the tallest is a blue
dream clone obtained from los angeles patients and caregivers group in
west hollywood, the blue dream is an oaksterdam nurseries cut, the 2
squashed looking ones are clones from the thai in my bigger flowering
cabinet, thai was grown from seeds obtained from attitude seeds which are from the world of seeds seedbank, i'm not sure what the heck he did when my friend took the
cuttings and made clones, but they look trained super low, it sucks that
they are so low! i have had to cut a few of the lower branches as they
slowly died from hitting the dirt far too much, i have toothpicks up on
one kind of holding the lowest branches out of the way and up from the
dirt, i hope they pull through either way, there is new growth on them
so i think that they will be just fine in the end, i want one to be a
mother for thai clones!
things seem to be working out, i'll post 2 closeups of plants that have lived their entire life in this mini grow cabinet; the first plant is from a random bag of herb and is 25 days old, no idea what kind at all, this is for fun, the next is from a bag of white rhino and is 32 days old (it did almost die when it was smaller from lack of water as i was away for a couple days, this is the only one that made when that happened, it's small but i'm fortunate it's doing great now, lol watch it turn hermie on me in the end hahaha), i grew another from that same white rhino bag out and it was a big 'ol hermaphrodited mess so who knows what will go on there
following are 2 shots of the whole cabinet, the tallest is a blue
dream clone obtained from los angeles patients and caregivers group in
west hollywood, the blue dream is an oaksterdam nurseries cut, the 2
squashed looking ones are clones from the thai in my bigger flowering
cabinet, thai was grown from seeds obtained from attitude seeds which are from the world of seeds seedbank, i'm not sure what the heck he did when my friend took the
cuttings and made clones, but they look trained super low, it sucks that
they are so low! i have had to cut a few of the lower branches as they
slowly died from hitting the dirt far too much, i have toothpicks up on
one kind of holding the lowest branches out of the way and up from the
dirt, i hope they pull through either way, there is new growth on them
so i think that they will be just fine in the end, i want one to be a
mother for thai clones!
what are you smokin'? seeded sensi star, earth og
wanted a couple new flavors, got something on the super hi end and something on the low end pricewise, eden therapy in hollywood is the place i often go to, today i got 1/8 of seeded sensi star for $25, 1g of earth og for $25, there was a percentage off so each was $23.
i'm collecting the sensi star seeds, the female budtender at eden therapy said she had collected seeds too, she showed me about 10 she had gotten already, you go girl! so hopefully these will turn out and not herm, sometimes i will buy a bag of herb at eden just because they have seeded stuff for cheap, so i get some decent smoke and a bunch of seeds to play with for a lot less than it is to order seeds, i know it's less reliable and more prone to hermaphrodite but who knows, i may find a diamond in the ruff some day!
here are some pictures of each, sensi star first, earth og second:
i'm collecting the sensi star seeds, the female budtender at eden therapy said she had collected seeds too, she showed me about 10 she had gotten already, you go girl! so hopefully these will turn out and not herm, sometimes i will buy a bag of herb at eden just because they have seeded stuff for cheap, so i get some decent smoke and a bunch of seeds to play with for a lot less than it is to order seeds, i know it's less reliable and more prone to hermaphrodite but who knows, i may find a diamond in the ruff some day!
here are some pictures of each, sensi star first, earth og second:
Thursday, May 6, 2010
power consumption
i made a spreadsheet to calculate how much power i'm eating up per month, pretty fun to see the numbers at the end of a year
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
bouncing back, stretching the thai out and a blue dream clone - may 5 2010
we have a change in direction on this grow, fortunately for me the thai has not had a major flowering mode growth spurt yet! so i have a little bit of time still to train her out a bit since there is so much more room now! i started yesterday, and have been able to make pretty good progress so far, i'll post a lot of different angles once it is really stretched out and flowering but for now here you can see the main stem very bent and pulled down, we're going to pull her down and kind of spiral to the right then out from there, trying to get it pretty level with a few of the nodes directly below. nodes below that are mostly being stretched around one way or another to get more light that would otherwise be covered partially by canopy, hopefully we can increase yield a bit. last thing i'm thinking, is that it may be wise to get a planter that is much wider, taking up 1/2 of the grow space just for her
here you can see 2 thai clones in the front, a white rhino from bag seed (please don't hermie!), mystery seed behind that, and the very back right plant, the tallest, is a blue dream (dj short's blueberry x haze) cut from lapcg, it is an oaksterdam nurseries cut, the top is about 1/2 inch away from the led panel, i'll start training her down for lst once she shows signs of being comfortable in her new home
here you can see 2 thai clones in the front, a white rhino from bag seed (please don't hermie!), mystery seed behind that, and the very back right plant, the tallest, is a blue dream (dj short's blueberry x haze) cut from lapcg, it is an oaksterdam nurseries cut, the top is about 1/2 inch away from the led panel, i'll start training her down for lst once she shows signs of being comfortable in her new home
later on hermies, at least you gave me some more tea and spice type use material! - may 03 2010
a friend and patient said he would like the hermed plants, so i set them all up in a different area under a weak light for the day. at the end of the day he decided it would be best to not pursue hermaphrodited plants, here is a pic before they got killed
it wasn't a total loss, i chopped a ton of leaves off of all 4 of these plants; i have since enjoyed them on salad, spaghetti with romona cheese and some basil, as well as in a tea with a dash of honey and a spot of milk. here is a picture of the bag of leaf, as well as a mason jar with some dried shake from the last harvest
it wasn't a total loss, i chopped a ton of leaves off of all 4 of these plants; i have since enjoyed them on salad, spaghetti with romona cheese and some basil, as well as in a tea with a dash of honey and a spot of milk. here is a picture of the bag of leaf, as well as a mason jar with some dried shake from the last harvest
Monday, May 3, 2010
Saturday, May 1, 2010
chocolate thai from eden therapy in hollywood - april 30 2010
do you think it looks legit?
last time i had chocolate thai was about 16~18 years ago, i was a teenager and my friend's mom had this older hippy-ish friend of hers over. he had this bud that was wound in a spiral around a twig, he broke off a small amount and rolled a pinner, the taste was definitely chocolate, no mistake about it, the high was up and head in the clouds, very clear and clean, you were elevated for sure, you wanted to go do things and figure out a project to work on or maybe just go ride bikes!
eden therapy got some in the other day, i bought 1g, loved it! went back yesterday and got the last 3.1g they had, score! unfortunately it looks like zero seeds, c'est la vie! this stuff doesn't seem 100%, but it seems very close to me, the taste is not nearly as pronounced, with this it is just hints of chocolate, but the effect is definitely there, this stuff works for me for several hours, i will take 1 or 2 tiny little solar tokes before work at 8am, i am GOOD till about lunchtime, 12~1pm, after about an hour you start feeling that your eyes are RED AS ALL HECK! haha
eden therapy of hollywood was the dispensary, price was 50$ 1/8, since there was only 3.1g left i got it for 40$ (love eden therapy...i also picked up some great mids for 20$ 1/8, yes 20$, perfect for rolling a bunch up before a party or something, i had some of that cheap stuff this morning and am feelin' great, nice buttery after taste left on my mouth, sunshine is what they're calling it, looks like good outdoor mex...i'll stop rambling and post the pics now)
here are a couple pictures with different lighting
last time i had chocolate thai was about 16~18 years ago, i was a teenager and my friend's mom had this older hippy-ish friend of hers over. he had this bud that was wound in a spiral around a twig, he broke off a small amount and rolled a pinner, the taste was definitely chocolate, no mistake about it, the high was up and head in the clouds, very clear and clean, you were elevated for sure, you wanted to go do things and figure out a project to work on or maybe just go ride bikes!
eden therapy got some in the other day, i bought 1g, loved it! went back yesterday and got the last 3.1g they had, score! unfortunately it looks like zero seeds, c'est la vie! this stuff doesn't seem 100%, but it seems very close to me, the taste is not nearly as pronounced, with this it is just hints of chocolate, but the effect is definitely there, this stuff works for me for several hours, i will take 1 or 2 tiny little solar tokes before work at 8am, i am GOOD till about lunchtime, 12~1pm, after about an hour you start feeling that your eyes are RED AS ALL HECK! haha
eden therapy of hollywood was the dispensary, price was 50$ 1/8, since there was only 3.1g left i got it for 40$ (love eden therapy...i also picked up some great mids for 20$ 1/8, yes 20$, perfect for rolling a bunch up before a party or something, i had some of that cheap stuff this morning and am feelin' great, nice buttery after taste left on my mouth, sunshine is what they're calling it, looks like good outdoor mex...i'll stop rambling and post the pics now)
here are a couple pictures with different lighting
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