[MEGA] Every Year's Community Growing advice, tips, tricks, & experiences
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Wise420
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It looked like scale when I saw it aswell.
I posted a link to your original post in the grow thread a few days ago JS.
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Yeah, I just like autos due to their short flowering time, I mean, yeah, you usually only get one main cola, but, its not to bad of a size if you know whats going on, and the smoke from them isn't too bad really. I enjoyed it.
I just would think it would be expensive to buy enough Auto-Flowers to continue to use them, unless its like, once a year indoor type of thing, the ones I had gotten a chance to see/smoke were outdoors, but , in a very well controlled environment .
And, I use my weed for sleep, which is why I was waiting for the amber trichs, I was told usually the more the amber trichs, the more likely to get couch lock, and with my insomnia (kept me up to 7 am this morning, and 8:30 am the day before), and I wake up about 3 - 4 hours later, pretty bad, haven't had much to smoke lately but a plant that was harvested WAY to early and the trichs are completely clear, except for a very few milky ones, but I got the stuff for free so might as well smoke it ya know.
Ah, I love BL
thanks for all the help guys , this grow came out literally 100% better than the last if not better than that,I hope it continues to go that way, I'm glad we've been able to help each other in this thread, its awesome, thanks everyone whos been involved and contributing, you all know who you are 
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Took some pics, gonna upload em and see what they look like Ill put em up within 30 min if they are any good, I just took a picture of the reds and purples, hoping that would come out, and the Huge Afghan Kush plant and the Huge as nug on the Northern Lights that is top heaving and beggining to break the stem :D
Godbless, Hope everyone had a good christmas and new year( yeah, Im a little late, I know, lol)
I just would think it would be expensive to buy enough Auto-Flowers to continue to use them, unless its like, once a year indoor type of thing, the ones I had gotten a chance to see/smoke were outdoors, but , in a very well controlled environment .
And, I use my weed for sleep, which is why I was waiting for the amber trichs, I was told usually the more the amber trichs, the more likely to get couch lock, and with my insomnia (kept me up to 7 am this morning, and 8:30 am the day before), and I wake up about 3 - 4 hours later, pretty bad, haven't had much to smoke lately but a plant that was harvested WAY to early and the trichs are completely clear, except for a very few milky ones, but I got the stuff for free so might as well smoke it ya know.
Ah, I love BL
thanks for all the help guys , this grow came out literally 100% better than the last if not better than that,I hope it continues to go that way, I'm glad we've been able to help each other in this thread, its awesome, thanks everyone whos been involved and contributing, you all know who you are lol. -edit-
Took some pics, gonna upload em and see what they look like Ill put em up within 30 min if they are any good, I just took a picture of the reds and purples, hoping that would come out, and the Huge Afghan Kush plant and the Huge as nug on the Northern Lights that is top heaving and beggining to break the stem :D
Godbless, Hope everyone had a good christmas and new year( yeah, Im a little late, I know, lol)
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Yeah the longer the plant's flower the more amber they'll produce which is the THC breaking down, and is perfect for sleep. If your looking for a really sedative stone wait till more then 50% of the trichs are amber and that should be pretty narcotic
All this talk about auto's has really given me an idea of buying some seed's for the next season and putting them in and around some fern's and just letting them do their thing for an easy harvest. It would be a side project really, with rewards coming much earlier in the season.
Also the best way to keep auto genetic's going without cloning would be to breed them so your left with thousands of seed's or more. Ive seen a couple folk do this and now they are only using auto's and this is all indoor.
Personally, if I had the chance to do this indoor I wouldnt, but rather just 12/12 my plant's from seed. In the end they turn out to be the same size as auto's, but depending on the strains used come out much stronger, and overall a better smoke.
All this talk about auto's has really given me an idea of buying some seed's for the next season and putting them in and around some fern's and just letting them do their thing for an easy harvest. It would be a side project really, with rewards coming much earlier in the season.
Also the best way to keep auto genetic's going without cloning would be to breed them so your left with thousands of seed's or more. Ive seen a couple folk do this and now they are only using auto's and this is all indoor.
Personally, if I had the chance to do this indoor I wouldnt, but rather just 12/12 my plant's from seed. In the end they turn out to be the same size as auto's, but depending on the strains used come out much stronger, and overall a better smoke.
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A few years back, a friend of mine developed a strain of weed that evolved to grow perfectly in a greenhouse in North UK. We then got hold of some early flowering seeds and cross-bred. For the first couple of years we got these weird deformed looking stumpy things but then in season 3, EUREKA!! We had plants flowering throughout July and August, producing colas the size of your arm. The smoke was as good as anything i've had grown in a greenhouse. I too am planning a guerilla grow with auto-flowering seeds this year. The plan is to grow them in many spots, pollinating some, in the hope of evolving a strain that copes with the local weather...
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To put the record straight, I have nothing against using autoflowering plants outdoors. In fact, it's often preferrable in the UK because of the climate. I am pretty sure I said this all along. I'm not sure why you lol'd at me chronic bubble. Maybe you could explain why you went back and quoted me?
However, indoors, they're shit in my opinion. There's no advantage to using them indoors, whatsoever. That's my opinion and has always been my opinion.
If you read my comment again, you'll see what I mean:
- I just dont buy this often cited myth that Loryder is for those in small spaces. You can grow any strain you like in any space you like with the possible exception of full on landrace sats or hazes. But even then, imagination and gardening skills could open a way to achieve success. See Keeping bonsai mums, by Oldtimer1 for more info on how to keep and maintain bonsaid mums with very little effort (it's an excellent read).
- Autoflowering cannabis is claimed to go from seed to harvest in a much shorter time. However, all you need to do is flip an indica strain with a short vegetative plant to 12/12 sooner and you'll have the short life cycle you're looking for.
- Autoflowering cannabis cannot be cloned and has to grown by seed. Seed runs are fine. But for decent medicine one needs a Mother plant of proven value, to give a regular supply of clones and thus guarantee the line of identical medication. Thing is, you cannot Mother a Loryder. Bit of an issue that, if one is growing for meds in a small space. Time to lay the myth of "Loryder for small spaces" to rest, methinks. Not only untrue, but for those looking for medicinal plants - misleading. And if you are growing simply and purely for recreational weed, surely a decent and potent Mother plant with a line of clones, is way better than an auto which yeilds lo and hits medium?
Small spaces require better growing skills, maybe. But they do not demand a dwarf genetic, and certainly not one devoid of abundant THC potential. Which is not to "knock" the loryder, but rather just to put it in its proper place.
Most hybrids can be kept low. Topping, Low Stress Training, Supercropping, mini-growing, all are methods that will keep most common Dutch genetics in order.
I'm all for using them in specific situations, like outdoors, however, for me indoors, normal non-ruderalis genetics suits me far better. In actual fact, I myself am planning on growing some autoflowering strains this year in my guerilla grow and might even try my hand at a little breeding as an experiment. However, indoors is a complete different story.
I don't see what you find so funny about that, chronic bubble. If you'd like to tell me why you disagree, be my guest. That is unless you misread my post perhaps.
In general the only people growing autoflowering ruderalis-type genetics indoors are newbies IMO. Serious growers in general just don't touch them indoors for the most part, since they are usually just a waste of time in this situation. Outdoors it's different, as I said.
However, indoors, they're shit in my opinion. There's no advantage to using them indoors, whatsoever. That's my opinion and has always been my opinion.
If you read my comment again, you'll see what I mean:
- I just dont buy this often cited myth that Loryder is for those in small spaces. You can grow any strain you like in any space you like with the possible exception of full on landrace sats or hazes. But even then, imagination and gardening skills could open a way to achieve success. See Keeping bonsai mums, by Oldtimer1 for more info on how to keep and maintain bonsaid mums with very little effort (it's an excellent read).
- Autoflowering cannabis is claimed to go from seed to harvest in a much shorter time. However, all you need to do is flip an indica strain with a short vegetative plant to 12/12 sooner and you'll have the short life cycle you're looking for.
- Autoflowering cannabis cannot be cloned and has to grown by seed. Seed runs are fine. But for decent medicine one needs a Mother plant of proven value, to give a regular supply of clones and thus guarantee the line of identical medication. Thing is, you cannot Mother a Loryder. Bit of an issue that, if one is growing for meds in a small space. Time to lay the myth of "Loryder for small spaces" to rest, methinks. Not only untrue, but for those looking for medicinal plants - misleading. And if you are growing simply and purely for recreational weed, surely a decent and potent Mother plant with a line of clones, is way better than an auto which yeilds lo and hits medium?
Small spaces require better growing skills, maybe. But they do not demand a dwarf genetic, and certainly not one devoid of abundant THC potential. Which is not to "knock" the loryder, but rather just to put it in its proper place.
Most hybrids can be kept low. Topping, Low Stress Training, Supercropping, mini-growing, all are methods that will keep most common Dutch genetics in order.
I'm all for using them in specific situations, like outdoors, however, for me indoors, normal non-ruderalis genetics suits me far better. In actual fact, I myself am planning on growing some autoflowering strains this year in my guerilla grow and might even try my hand at a little breeding as an experiment. However, indoors is a complete different story.
I don't see what you find so funny about that, chronic bubble. If you'd like to tell me why you disagree, be my guest. That is unless you misread my post perhaps.
In general the only people growing autoflowering ruderalis-type genetics indoors are newbies IMO. Serious growers in general just don't touch them indoors for the most part, since they are usually just a waste of time in this situation. Outdoors it's different, as I said.
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Here's another photo of my grow that I just took today (click to enlarge).
I just had a massive tidy of my grow room. Cleanliness is next to godliness, as they say (or something like that).
I just had a massive tidy of my grow room. Cleanliness is next to godliness, as they say (or something like that).
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Well, was only able to take two pictures of G13 before the cameras batteries died, I really wanted a shot of the Northern Lights and Purple Kush, they have WAY more trichomes then the G13 does , but I do love the color of the G13, reds,purples,greens, lol, the Purple Kush was green, then once it started budding it turned dark purple.Gotta get some pictures of the NL #5, and PK
Haven't been feeding any of them, last week before I chop them , flushed them , waiting for the soil to dry out,
As for 50% Amber trichomes Wise420, I was thinking 15-25%, how much longer do you think It would take for 50% to go amber on mainly indica dominant strains?
How much more weight would you say you get from a scrog grow AE, and does it take longer to veg/flower?
Also, My Uncle and I , when we had some Auto flowering strains, we polliated quite a few of them with a regular plant and got about 200 , maybe 250 seeds, I was curious, is there any way that just one of those seeds might come out as an auto flowering plant crossed with a non auto flower? (it was just a boredom experiment, haven't had time to plant any yet, as we are still both just finishing up the last week or two flowering, then gotta start over, and , when Im drying my bud, Im going to hang it upside down in the closet by a string, would it be better for temperatures to be lower in the closet (say 60F, or warmer, or does it even have any effect)
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Haven't been feeding any of them, last week before I chop them , flushed them , waiting for the soil to dry out,
As for 50% Amber trichomes Wise420, I was thinking 15-25%, how much longer do you think It would take for 50% to go amber on mainly indica dominant strains?
How much more weight would you say you get from a scrog grow AE, and does it take longer to veg/flower?
Also, My Uncle and I , when we had some Auto flowering strains, we polliated quite a few of them with a regular plant and got about 200 , maybe 250 seeds, I was curious, is there any way that just one of those seeds might come out as an auto flowering plant crossed with a non auto flower? (it was just a boredom experiment, haven't had time to plant any yet, as we are still both just finishing up the last week or two flowering, then gotta start over, and , when Im drying my bud, Im going to hang it upside down in the closet by a string, would it be better for temperatures to be lower in the closet (say 60F, or warmer, or does it even have any effect)
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Well every time you double height between the canopy and the light, the light intensity is divided by four, so anything you can do to have the light as low down as possible will increase your yield significantly (often dramatically). So, scrogging your plants increases yield by quite a bit. By how much I couldn't say. However, I can say that if you grow without any training techniques like scrog you'll struggle to reach a gram per watt.
Basically it's worth your while.
As for how long it takes, it depends. I guess in soil it might take 6 weeks of veg. That's just a guess though.
The answer to your other question, is yes, I think it's possible.
When you dry your cannabis I would suggest aiming for roughly the same temperatures you would normally grow in. So, around 75F or so. The higher the temperature for a given RH, the faster it dries.
You want it to dry not too quickly otherwise you'll lose flavour. However, don't dry too slowly or you risk getting mouldy bud. You need to have a relative humidity of around 45-60% IMO. If need be, use small closet dehumidifier (very cheap since they're so small) which you place inside the closet you hang your buds in. But don't go below 45% if you can help it, otherwise you'll dry too quickly and lose flavour. It's a happy medium you're after.
BTW those flowers look real nice Prelude. I love the golden-brown hues.
Basically it's worth your while.
As for how long it takes, it depends. I guess in soil it might take 6 weeks of veg. That's just a guess though.
The answer to your other question, is yes, I think it's possible.
When you dry your cannabis I would suggest aiming for roughly the same temperatures you would normally grow in. So, around 75F or so. The higher the temperature for a given RH, the faster it dries.
You want it to dry not too quickly otherwise you'll lose flavour. However, don't dry too slowly or you risk getting mouldy bud. You need to have a relative humidity of around 45-60% IMO. If need be, use small closet dehumidifier (very cheap since they're so small) which you place inside the closet you hang your buds in. But don't go below 45% if you can help it, otherwise you'll dry too quickly and lose flavour. It's a happy medium you're after.
BTW those flowers look real nice Prelude. I love the golden-brown hues.
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I'm not convinced it's scale insect, but then again it's kind of hard to tell without actually looking at the plant in person or at least at a better photo (from what i can see on my laptop). Anyway, it's a moot point.
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most recommendations i've seen recently for outdoor autoflowering are an AK47 strain tho as I said here in the UK it'd probably take 2/3 seasons of selective breeding before they'll get totally acclimatised, got to be worth a shot tho!
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Those buds look great prelude, good to see your rewarded well finally after so much trouble in the past
Also, those auto's you pollinated, you should get a few that do take more of the auto-flower gene and some which will stay as regular's.
Scrog is looking nice there AE. Bet your waiting on all those cola's to shoot up and start taking some shape
Also, those auto's you pollinated, you should get a few that do take more of the auto-flower gene and some which will stay as regular's.
Scrog is looking nice there AE. Bet your waiting on all those cola's to shoot up and start taking some shape
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I just got these clones today, according to the guy who I got them from they're sage diesel. I know nothing about growing weed but do these look healthy?
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Have you given Boric acid a try? I'm pretty sure it comes in powder form so just spread it around where the ants are and watch the little buggers feed on it and take it back inside their nest.
Few days later nest dies from the inside out. Also for a quick fix, i read on another forum that someone put masking tape around the stem and painted it with tanglefoot. The ant's get stuck on it and it peels off the stem leaving no damage.
Few days later nest dies from the inside out. Also for a quick fix, i read on another forum that someone put masking tape around the stem and painted it with tanglefoot
. The ant's get stuck on it and it peels off the stem leaving no damage.
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Is boric acid organic...Im trying to keep this plant fully organic...Ive tryed viniger and water n scraped the little barsterds off but they where back the next day with a vengence.So trying dishwashing liquid but no sussecc =(
I might try the tape method
I might try the tape method
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I guess not, Try Instant Grit then.
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yeah i can chuck em inside im just worryed the ants will invade my house.we just got inside our house sprayed n i dont wanna track em inside....i can put it in my shed?
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