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[MEGA]Community Growing advice, tips, tricks, & experiences Part 4

I would look into using a different soil in future. You're in Canada, so I don't know if Fox Farm soil is available where you are, but if it is then definitely look into that since everything I've read says it's one of the best available. Particularly Fox Farm Ocean Forest potting soil if you can find it. I have no experience of it, just second hand recommendations.

By the way, if you're going to be running the number of plants you're going to be growing, SCROG won't be possible. Ideally SCROG would involve just 3-4 plants in a space such as yours, preferrably all the same strain (preferrably clones). In future you should keep mother plants so you can use lots of identical clones of the same plant and this allows you a very uniform harvest and higher yield. This can only be done after you've harvested and smoked all your buds from all the different plants, so a) you can decide which is your favourite strain and b) your favourite phenotype within that strain. The most efficient way to keep a mum is to bonsai the plant, meaning that single plant will take up just 8" x 8". You can set up a shelf in the grow room on the wall with small CFLs just to keep it ticking over.

If you want to train your plants I would recommend just supercropping them and/or topping them. The main aim of the grow should, as above, be to just get that keeper mum, so that in future grows you can focus on performance/yield by cutting down the vegetative period and having a uniform canopy.

If I were you, just for interest's sake, or even just posterity, I would for the hell of it order those seeds available from Health Canada. Apparently the strain is actually not that bad. It's only that they don't know how to grow and instead of drying and curing it properly they just throw all the buds untrimmed into a mill and shred it all up so that what results is just crappy shake. It's actually quite pathetic really. I guess people won't learn after communism that the government can't do shit properly. Ever heard of a Lada car? Probably the worst car in existence. Imagine a goverment shoe shop? Same with government weed. It's shite.

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Health Canada strain not so bad:
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Problem is they turn it into this shwag:
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Funky packet:
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Cloning does interest me. I'll have a talk about you later on about that... Probably gonna try to have blueberry headband mother and then grow 3 or 4 clones in a SCROG. I always thought you needed a big space to keep a mother, that's good to know :)

Health Canada seeds are pretty cheap, but I think I need a medical paper to be able to buy seeds from them, which I don't. They only give out cannabis to really really sick people here, not like in Cali :( If I can buy them even though i'm not a patient, I will try them someday!

If I were to go through and grow a blueberry headband mother, would you suggest to get 5 feminized seeds or 6 regular seeds? Both offers are the same price...

Also, can you extend on your definition of "topping" a plant? I heard that before but never figured it out.

Thanks!
 
Well if you don't want any males - that is if you don't want to try hacking (amateur breeding/seed making) - then get the feminized seed.

Topping is where you cut off the growing tip. It really annoys me that people insist you have to cut off such large amounts of the plant when topping. I've seen people virtually cut the plant in half, halfway down the stem, which is rediculous. Only the very end tip needs to be snipped off so that the plant loses apical dominance and produces two new growing tips. This makes the plant more squat and bushy which can increase yield. Some plants don't respond well to it though.
 
There is also a way to grow a bush that requires no cutting, but weighing down every other node (w/ a fishing sinker) & then every 4th node and so on...I grew 4 sativa doms' that were about 3'x3' bushes & each yielded about 3 oz's of small bud.
 
Planted 3 Black Jack auto seeds and 3 Cream caramel auto seeds in a 50/50 mix of soil and perlite. The 2 times 23W CFLs will run 24 hours a day for 10 days after the seeds sprout.

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Well I have 3 babies growing outdoors (in australia) currently and I'll make sure to get some pics up soon.

It's a late grow, but should be fine.
 
The plant is coming along nicely =) going to lst her in a circular shape like i did with the last plants, maybe improve some parts :'D

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Do you think this kind of curling of the leaf edges is something to worry about ? its only really pronounced on one set of leaves at the moment, havent fed anything until now.

everybody have anice weekend =)
 
word to all of that. funny how its always the fuckers who want to charge ridiculous prices n such are the same fuckers that steal and lie and otherwise act like animals. and the ones with reasonable prices know their shit, and play clean(typically)

Well I am the person AE has accused of stealing for him, maybe he should straighten it out in this topic, how do you steal something someone leaves at your house and never once attempts to come and pick it up? He gets on great with my old dear so could pop over anytime.

I would also reply to some of the points he posted but i can't be fucked righth now, remember there is always two sides to every story. :)
 
Little grow update :

I was really worried and nervous about my seeds popping, I didn't know if I did anything wrong or good, just had to wait. I was scared I had fucked up because I dropped the temperature when going to bed the first night and it went down to 17 celsius in the grow room. I stopped messing with the temperature afterwards and slept even though it was hot in my room, sacrifices haha!

After 84 hours, all 6 seeds have popped so i'm really happy! Before going to bed yesterday none of my black jack had popped and they all did now!
 
popping seeds makes me nervous alot too..I don't think that the temperature matters that much for just a few minutes...
I was scared for temperatures at first too, as I didn't have a thermometre but now I can finally vent my room like normal people would without living in a tropical rainforest
 
Well I am the person AE has accused of stealing for him, maybe he should straighten it out in this topic, how do you steal something someone leaves at your house and never once attempts to come and pick it up? He gets on great with my old dear so could pop over anytime.

I would also reply to some of the points he posted but i can't be fucked righth now, remember there is always two sides to every story. :)

I'd just like to put the record straight and say that it was an awful misunderstanding involving some gossip from a third party. I didn't really care about any of that stuff that was supposedly stolen. It was rather the other stuff that was alledgedly said, but as it turns out it was all rubbish anyway. Now that md and I have talked we've sorted it out between us, so hopefully we can put it behind us now. I admit I was a little quick to start ranting and raving, but I was angry at what was alledged and quick to post. That's one of the pitfalls of the internet though.
 
Do plants need to grow down or out more?

Hi guys...I have a question...I have limited space and my plant im sure is starting to get rootbound...Its in the biggest pot Bunnings sells...I have a bigger container but its not real deep...say...40=50cm deep, but about 1 meter wide...Could i put it in there do you think?...Does the plant prefer depth or width anyone know?..Or do i need to find someting deeper?...Cheers
 
Hi guys...I have a question...I have limited space and my plant im sure is starting to get rootbound...Its in the biggest pot Bunnings sells...I have a bigger container but its not real deep...say...40=50cm deep, but about 1 meter wide...Could i put it in there do you think?...Does the plant prefer depth or width anyone know?..Or do i need to find someting deeper?...Cheers

1m wide? Are you growing a tree?! 8o

Are you growing outdoors?
 
Hey AE thanks for admitting you were wrong... not often you see that on the net..... its al good and by July we will be able to do anything grow related possible,,, will have mad resources....;-)

but leaving the uk and buying a plot of land in north spain is the first move to be made.....although chezch republic just legalised up to 16 plants per house

but gettign eth fuck away from this country

peace.
 
Shit I had no idea about the Cheque Republic! I knew things were becoming better but didn't know they're actually allowing that many plants!

The good thing about Spain is that because of the eurozone crisis land prices are at an all time low at the moment. I'm sure it's possible to buy a bit of land out in the sticks big enough to grow to your heart's content that costs very little and stick an old caravan on there and use solar panel or a generator with mobile broadband an a television. I've seen 160,000 ft2 land plots selling for £9,000-£10,000 which is so cheap it's crazy. Renting would be possible as well. The great thing about the climate is that mould isn't a concern and you can grow sativa dominant strains. If I can start working online for my dad's company I'll be able to get a steady enough income that I can take whilst over there.

They've got growing clubs for private members over there were you can trade seed and bud as well as talk to fellow growers. Because the situation is so conducive to growing weed, pretty much all the breeders, apart from the Americans and Canadians, are over there I believe. Going over there sounds like a dream come true to me. It's just a shame the unemployment is so high.

It's a shame you knocked over your psychosis clone!! Apparently that's one awesome strain.
 
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I pretty much have to be done with the plants by end of april, since we are moving then and I don't want to move while having plants in flowering.

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so do you think that plant is ready for going into flowering ? The other 2 will be a loss anyways since they would need atleast 2 weeks in veg, but I'm kind off hoping on this one :'D
 
1m wide? Are you growing a tree?! 8o

Are you growing outdoors?

Hiya...I hope it will be a tree!...Its outdoors in a temperate climate. Im wrong its (the container) aboout 80cm wide....My plant is very bushy and it was a twin...when i planted one seed i got two seedlings joined together at the base...I know nothing about growing...its my first time...Ive read for several hours over here and am somewhat clued up now...in theory anyway!!ALso its just starting to flower up...only two days ago, will it be ok to transplant it now?
 
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WHITE LABEL SUPER SKUNK AUTOFLOWERING SEEDS... has anyone ever grown these? :)

Hey I would delete that link since they don't like it if you have links to online stores.

I've not tried it but I would like to say Sensi seeds have gone way downhill in recent years. They're definitely not the amazing breeder they used to be. This is the same with some other breeders, like GHS although not the the same extent. They still have some great genetics though, although I don't know which strains are still as good as they used to be.

I pretty much have to be done with the plants by end of april, since we are moving then and I don't want to move while having plants in flowering.

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I would flip to 12/12 in exactly 2 weeks from today to be finished late April. I would assume the flowering period would be about 9 weeks or so, so that should be about right.

so do you think that plant is ready for going into flowering ? The other 2 will be a loss anyways since they would need atleast 2 weeks in veg, but I'm kind off hoping on this one :'D

Hiya...I hope it will be a tree!...Its outdoors in a temperate climate. Im wrong its (the container) aboout 80cm wide....My plant is very bushy and it was a twin...when i planted one seed i got two seedlings joined together at the base...I know nothing about growing...its my first time...Ive read for several hours over here and am somewhat clued up now...in theory anyway!!ALso its just starting to flower up...only two days ago, will it be ok to transplant it now?

If it's started flowering the roots will more or less stop growing much at all. You can pot up but make sure the pot is only just a little bit bigger than the one it's currently in since it won't be able to utilize all the soil if the pot is too big, and the unused soil could become anaerobic.
 
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