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[MEGA]Community Growing advice, tips, tricks, & experiences Part 5 (2012-2013)

If you're worried about height control you should try low stress training. Your yield will vastly increase too :)
 
mahoosive bendah said:
are there any particular strains that are more suited for low stress training ?
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I don't think you should choose a strain because you think it will respond well to LST. That would be going about it the wrong way. Most strains do well with this training technique anyway. If you are concerned about height a much better question to ask is which strains are pretty short and squat naturally and which would require more training to keep height manageable.
 
Artificial Emotion said:
I don't think you should choose a strain because you think it will respond well to LST. That would be going about it the wrong way.
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You shut your mouth,
how can you say
I go about things the wrong way
I am human and I need to be loved
Just like everybody else does



ahem.....sorry.....felt it was time for a smiths quote....about 1 person in 100000 will find that slightly amusing


anyway, back on topic.

i went for a 80% indica, medium height strain in the end. Height isnt a huge concern...i will be going with LST for two reasons; to make the most of a CFL flowering bulb and because i think it looks cool.
using CFLs in a stealth set up means i wont be using a fan so, so i was wondering if all strains would produce strong enough stems to cope with the extra wieght bearing....hence the post
but if all strains respond well i guess thats my question answered

ps - for my 1st grow [ still flowering now ] i strengthened the stems by putting her outside for a few hours a day when the weather is good...wont be able to do that this time of year so will just have to see how it goes i guess
 
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Hmm,
Does anyone know about rinsing Butane Hash Oil with ISO or Everclear?
Trying to find out if I should do this rather than buy a vacuum pump,

LoL, Im so lazy lately, I have pictures, but it takes sooo long to post them, hahah
 
Prelude2TragedyII said:
Hmm,
Does anyone know about rinsing Butane Hash Oil with ISO or Everclear?
Trying to find out if I should do this rather than buy a vacuum pump,

LoL, Im so lazy lately, I have pictures, but it takes sooo long to post them, hahah
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I'm pretty sure that would still leave tan in, and if not tane, then iso or whatever the other solvent you use is. Don't me lazy man its not worth ig
 
Ha ha I'd love to live over there. My dream has always been to go over there Prelude. Maybe one day I'll make it. The only thing stopping me from taking a one way flight is the prospect of not finding work.

I don't think you can do the iso thing.

Here's a pic of some of my magical cannabis salve. I swear this stuff is better than any drug I've ever had. Even ibuprofen or diclofenac gel doesn't compete.

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Looks like I'm going to be growing Kerala, the landrace strain next. It's a strain from the real seed co, just out. It's a bit niche but I swear I've been looking for strains from Kerala in particular since 2009. The only yhing remotely similar to this that I've seem is from Seedsman and it was just a hybrid - Indian Haze.
 
hello.

i have a question about using sand as a fungus gnat prevention.

when putting a germinated seed into soil do i put the layer of sand on then, or wait till she pops her head out ? do i still just put the seed into the soil at twice the length of the root as normal or do i compensate for the layer of sand and put it nearer the surface of the soil ?

just getting to the end of my 1st crop and i've discovered a pest [ fairly sure they are fungus gnats ]
would like my second crop to be free of them and hoping for organic prevention rather than cure.
 
No don't use sand whilst germinating like you've said.

Take out everything from your grow area and clean, sterilize and vacuum. After a while they will go away naturally. Then start in clean, sterile soil like peat pucks or Root Riots (or the equivalent depending on where you live). If you get an infestation again in clean new potting soil again use ant killer (permethrin) by sprinkling onto the soil and watering in. I know this is not the most common advice you will hear but this technique comes from experienced growers and is perfectly safe. Believe me I wouldn't tell you to do this if it was not.
 
Sheeeet AE, you can do it, Washing and Colorado just legalized -recreational- use of marijuana ,(I truly expected that to fail) , I'm actually interested (and a bit fearful) of how this will end up turning out. I think this is a 'step' in the right direction, but still, maybe not the perfect choice? Idk.

I thought you can wash butane with alcohol
Don't know if I can post other threads, but if I cant, mods feel free to take it out
http://buymarijuanaseeds.com/community/threads/ethanol-re-extraction-of-butane-hash-oil.148673/

thats basically where I got the idea, Not really sure why it sounds like such a great idea to me, but , it does.
Anyways, I still have tons of bud waiting to just get turned into hash, Im still waiting in the mail for my butane, Ill take some pictures of that once I finish it all..

All of my outdoor (or most, I should say) , didn't turn out as good as I would have hoped, but its definantly smokable, now I just have to make sure I make the hash a good quality. If at all possible

Ah, I'm late to work, gotta go, Im going to look into that strain when I get back home.
Is there something about the land race plants that you prefer?
 
I don't know about the alcohol would be the most honest answer.

But read this re. freezing/thawing as it's relevant to you:

I'm not sure what his original source of information was but it seems to borrow ideas from a technique known as freeze-pump-thaw degassing. However, this technique involves freezing the sample and then bringing the sample back to liquid phase, under a vacuum, to enable the gases to be purged. What the effect of freezing and thawing would be, without a vacuum, or a return to liquid phase, I can't say for sure. The vacuum probably just makes the process more efficient, by decreasing the temperature at which the gases evaporate. In which case, the number of freeze/thaw cycles and thaw temperature could be increased to compensate for the lack of vacuum.

However, the return to liquid phase upon thawing may be more important for the purging process than the vacuum, as the gas may remain trapped in a solid, or semi solid. The freezing process should free the gas from it's previously dissolved state but only a return to liquid phase would enable the gas to then congregate together and form bubbles, which would grow in size and buoyancy. Without the liquid phase, the gas may well have become undissolved but still remain locked up as microscopic pores in the sample. This might be why your sample "scrapes up into tiny granules", as it shatters along the millons of microscopic, gaseous pores, set within the sample.

Placing the sample container in luke warm water, during the thaw cycle may enable the oil to become sufficiently liquid to allow the gas to form bubbles, which would then work their way up through the oil as they grow and become more buoyant. If you see bubbles forming and growing with each freeze/thaw cycle, then you know that it is working. Then it's just a case of repeating until all of the bubbles have risen to the surface and no more bubbles are being produced. It may take more than three freeze/thaw cycles, however as that is the number of cycles commonly used in freeze-pump-thaw degassing, which will be considerably more efficient than freeze-thaw purging with no vacuum.
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Here's a pic of the Kerala:

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edit: and here's some more of the same strain:
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As you can see it looks more like bamboo than cannabis in the vegetative stage! The reason I'm attracted to landraces is because most hybrids we have today are quite 'samey' and the quality is really poor quite often. Most of these landraces have been bred by famers for hundreds of years instead of the hacks that most common strains are thse days. There's some good stuff out there if you go to the right breeder but once you've tried some of the landrace strains that I've grown you'll see what I mean as you'll start to see what most people are missing out. If we don't preserve landraces the cannabis gene pool will start to become a lot more limited and we need to try and increase cannabis biodiversity. There's a lot of untapped genetic potential in a lot of the landraces that could be lost forever if we don't start saving seed.
 
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^ I smoked some Keralan ganja last year in Varkala, it was nice but very mild. That said the growing techniques were probably fairly average and it was most likely a commercial strain not a traditional one. It was not sensimilla and not stored very well either ie in a fishermans hut in a plastic box. Will be interested to see what your finished product is like. I wish I had the balls to bring the seeds home to see how it went down here. Those pictures look similar to pics I've seen of pure Thai, is it also a long finisher?

The stuff I smoked looked nothing like that last pic it was dirt brown and full of seeds.
 
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I'm so excited about growing that strain. A lot of people seem to saying it tastes of mint. Was that your experience justsayknow?

As for how long it takes to flower, I wouldn't like to say for sure but people seem to be saying about 16 weeks which sounds about right for a sativa strain like that. Since it's a landrace some will finish a bit sooner and some a bit later than that.
 
Prelude, the one other person that's growing the Kumanese strain I developed showed me a pic of his plants yesterday and I have to say, the internodal distance from what I could see looked a lot shorter than I feared it would be. So I think it'll be a lot easier to grow indoors than you maybe thought.

Do you have any plans to start it soon or are you waiting until next the next grow, just out of interest? There's no rush, I was just curious.
 
Hey guys, I don't think I'm going to be posting on Bluelight anymore. Well I am in two minds about it really but I'll try and give my addy to people so if they want to contact me they can. I might change my mind though I don't know so I'll sleep on it first.
 
Artificial Emotion said:
Hey guys, I don't think I'm going to be posting on Bluelight anymore. Well I am in two minds about it really but I'll try and give my addy to people so if they want to contact me they can. I might change my mind though I don't know so I'll sleep on it first.
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Why the decision mang? I love your knowledge.
 
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