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

AE, The stem is green but yeah, most of the petiole/leaves are slightly purple.
 
^ah, that doesn't mean anything then, apart from the fact that a certain phenotype is being expressed, which is normal and not a sign of anything wrong.
 
ahh dust mites!! only in one pot, isolated it. is it at all salvageable? how do I prevent them
 
.LOL yeah spidermites.. :D

theyre still vegetative and the ones with the mites are only on their 4th leaves. still very very small.

they dont seem to do much except be in the dirt and make small webs night. there is a LOT of them in the soil though. strange
 
They will get out of control in all likelihood. I would recommend using ivermectin or one othe other 'mectins. Spidermites are one of the most serious pests and should not be ignored as they can decimate your crop.
 
Hey guys, I have been reading quite a bit in this thread and I am getting more and more interested about growing. I'd like to grow the strains I want, how I want them and i'm pretty sure you guys can relate here.

I am just worried about the space it would take to have a growing setup for 2-5 plants. I was wondering if a closet with dimensions of 75" high, 100" long and 28" in width (http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/441/roomzo.jpg) i'm not sure if i explained them correctly. Could a setup in such a space stay legit from other people living in the house, considering this would be done in a room in the basement?

Thanks for any further advice!
 
^ You would need two 400W lamps for that area for it to be really worthwhile IMO. One should be a metal halide lamp and the other a high pressure sodium lamp on either side hanging from the top. You could use CFL lamps (many do) but they don't perform very well in flowering, when ideally you'd need to get the HID lamps anyway.

I don't know the how things are in the house but I doubt you'd be able to hide it from other people forever. Someone who posts here tried to do the same and inevitably got caught (I warned him he would get caught as well, but thankfully they let him continue, although this might not be the same in your case I dare say). Also if they are paying the electricity bill they'll almost certainly notice the spike in electricity usage. There's also the legal concern, with you potentially exposing them to prosecution.

But to answer your question, yes you can grow in there. You would need to install ventilation and a carbon filter as well though (it's not optional) and the noise from fans etc will probably be heard, even if you muffle the sound with Leepy boxes around fans etc. So whilst it's possible, it's not a good idea if getting caught by others in the house could land you in a heap of trouble. If I were you I would look into guerrilla growing when the next season arrives. Either that or try to come to some arrangement with the people you live with, although even this is a bad idea since you'd break the first rule of growing (tell no one).
 
Thank you for your advices AE. I am not worried about any legal problems since I am the owner of the house I wanna grow in, but will definitely wait before starting as I want this to be kept as a complete secret.

I would invest in ventilation and carbon filter if I were to do it as I want the best possible setup and not start with a uncomplete setup to put all the chances on my side, but I was wondering since you are talking about noises, how much noise can I except from these fans? If I were to i'd be growing in my own room's closet so if the noise is quite present i'd just forget it find somewhere else.

Thanks again for the useful tips.
 
It shouldn't be too bad if you put the fans in cardboard boxes and fill them with expanding foam, as well as building variac fan speed controllers to slow the fans down. However you need to be able to run the extraction fan outdoors through the window, so keep this in mind when choosing a location.

What I would recommend you do (I used to do this myself) is get one of those cheap remote controlled plugs that turn off the power at the touch of a button when someone comes to the door. This will allow you to keep the noise down long enough to avoid attracting attention if it can be heard by the person when on.
 
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I harvested Aug 1st, did rough trimming, and my 7 plants are now drying upside down in my dark closet. Looks like I'll have about an ounce dry of bud on each plant. That might seem shitty, but I only spent about $100 on the whole op including lights, pots, soil, nutes, seeds, ballasts, and electricity. Half a pound of indoor monster bud for $100? Yes please.

I'm getting more excited as they dry. The bud looked very nice before harvest, but it looks so much better after only 5 days of drying. Extremely sticky and crystally.

My plan is to dry for ~10 days and then cure for the rest of the month. I don't want to wait 30 days to smoke my bud though. I'm starting to wonder just how much of a difference curing will really make. I might cure most of it and test 1/2 an ounce just after drying....for science, of course.
 
Transcendence said:
I harvested Aug 1st, did rough trimming, and my 7 plants are now drying upside down in my dark closet. Looks like I'll have about an ounce dry of bud on each plant. That might seem shitty, but I only spent about $100 on the whole op including lights, pots, soil, nutes, seeds, ballasts, and electricity. Half a pound of indoor monster bud for $100? Yes please.

I'm getting more excited as they dry. The bud looked very nice before harvest, but it looks so much better after only 5 days of drying. Extremely sticky and crystally.

My plan is to dry for ~10 days and then cure for the rest of the month. I don't want to wait 30 days to smoke my bud though. I'm starting to wonder just how much of a difference curing will really make. I might cure most of it and test 1/2 an ounce just after drying....for science, of course.
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Pot smokers and growers are typically quite lazy and impatient like you and without a shadow of a doubt, millions of them have asked that same question. I don't think it would be so universally accepted by almost everyone to be an effective technique that was actually originally stumbled upon by accident if it didn't work. I mean after a good cure the change isn't exactly subtle! It really does get a lot better with age if done right and for long enough.

But like I said before, you don't have to do it and if you do, it doesn't have to be for one, two or three months. Even a couple of weeks is far far better than nothing. I suggest you portion out a reasonable amount for four weeks and cure the rest for that length of time.
 
That sounds like a plan to me. In the meantime, *eyes carton of Benson&Hedges with sallow trepidation*
 
I just finished trimming my little harvest.. I yielded 12 oz from 10 plants in 6 square feet...but this time I weighed the trimmings that I discarded..

I have a ratio of bud-12oz : stems/leaves/popcorn buds-15oz. I was trying to imagine if that would be a ratio that could be improved, and if so, how?.. different strain, new nutrition regimen, more light, etc..it seems to be an easy way to measure just how successful a certain grow has been. Setting certain constants like light and square footage and then playing with the variables like nutrition and flowering time. I've been growing for a long time and I'm pretty set in my ways. But lately I've started to get a little greedy and I've started to pay attention to some little details that I took for granted in the past...it might be fun to see where I can take this little 6 square foot garden..
 
I've been with the present strain for a couple of grows...the last strain I grew, I stayed with for about 7 years.
 
papasomni said:
I just finished trimming my little harvest.. I yielded 12 oz from 10 plants in 6 square feet...but this time I weighed the trimmings that I discarded..

I have a ratio of bud-12oz : stems/leaves/popcorn buds-15oz. I was trying to imagine if that would be a ratio that could be improved, and if so, how?.. different strain, new nutrition regimen, more light, etc..it seems to be an easy way to measure just how successful a certain grow has been. Setting certain constants like light and square footage and then playing with the variables like nutrition and flowering time.
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I think you're just saying you want to yield more, right?

I can help you yield more but you'll have to answer quite a few questions.

What light are you using? What training and pruning techniques are you using? What nutrients are you using? What ventilation system are you using? How long are you vegging for?

Can you post a photo of your setup? I might be able to give you some pointers.

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Also I wanted to comment on a quote Vadar made, just to clear the issue up:

The genus Cannabis contains one species, Sativa. The fact that indica and sativa can breed demonstrates that they are not seperate species. But yeah, short of some pretty advanced genetic engineering, I don't think this project is going to take off.
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This is an interesting issue as they are in actual fact different species. In fact, this is one of the only examples (the only that I am aware of) of different species being able to interbreed whilst producing fertile offspring. If anyone disputes this I can dig up some more info but I'm absolutely sure that this is the case, without a shadow of a doubt. I don't blame anyone for making the mistake though, as in biology two organisms that can sexually reproduce to produce fertile offspring are members of the same species and this is taught in every school throughout the world. It's just that cannabis is an exception!
 
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thanks AE....what I was actually wondering is if the yield:waste ratio was some kind of constant or if it could be manipulated.. I wonder if it's actually possible to turn this ratio over or is a 40%yield:60%waste ratio pretty much the average. I've been growing a while and I never really payed attention to this factor.
 
Everything I've read about species vs. Varieties says that there is an ongoing debate. To me they seem more like Varieties. Look at roses, they can look completely different but they are still just varieties of roses.
 
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