Budget no-till grow - Update pics

GentleCaveman

GentleCaveman

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Mgalekgolo said:
I really like this thread, there's a wealth of knowledge. Great looking plants! I'll be following along
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Thanks sir.

I wanted this journal to be inspiration for people more than being a showoff for me. I never even watered a house plant before and this is what I grew on my first try. All we need to do is make our plants feel home. We can't make nature better, just work with it. There is nothing hard about growing beautiful, tasty, healthy weed, unless we make it hard.
 
Grow24/7

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GentleCaveman said:
Thanks sir.

I wanted this journal to be inspiration for people more than being a showoff for me. I never even watered a house plant before and this is what I grew on my first try. All we need to do is make our plants feel home. We can't make nature better, just work with it. There is nothing hard about growing beautiful, tasty, healthy weed, unless we make it hard.
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Same here bro. It's the most awesome hobby in the world.i think. growing cannabis.
 
GentleCaveman

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Grow24/7 said:
Same here bro. It's the most awesome hobby in the world.i think. growing cannabis.
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Weed is the plant thats evolved with us through our journey, right from the beginning. So we have a very deep connection with it l compared to other plants. Plus to that since it evolved on so many different places, on so many different hands and for so many different needs, it has so many different types. So that's enough to keep us interested.
 
kratos015

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GentleCaveman said:
Thanks sir.

I wanted this journal to be inspiration for people more than being a showoff for me. I never even watered a house plant before and this is what I grew on my first try. All we need to do is make our plants feel home. We can't make nature better, just work with it. There is nothing hard about growing beautiful, tasty, healthy weed, unless we make it hard.
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This is where my passion for living soil comes from right here. You think the weed you can grow in it is dank? Just wait until you grow your own food in it. Studies have shown that the way the roots communicate with the microbes in a living soil are via exuding terpenes, the same terpenes we're all after in terms of getting flavorful cannabis. If you take that same soil and put literally any kind of vegetable or fruit in it, you will not only experience incredible results but the quality will be so unreal you won't go back to your grocery store if you can. I'm finding out that I like a lot of vegetables I thought I "hated". Turns out the vegetables didn't suck, the methods used to cultivate it did.

With a quality living soil, left to it's own devices the plant and the soil will literally take care of everything for you. That means that with this knowledge, anyone can not only grow cannabis but food! If everyone had the means and knowledge to do this, not only would shit produce lose it's demand but people wouldn't go hungry anymore.
GentleCaveman said:
We getting there. I'm expecting to get 0.5gr/w total. Which I can't complain for 85-90 days seed to harvest grow.

I couldn't ask for better first grow experience.
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Not trying to get your hopes up, so please take this with a grain of salt. That being said, you may be cutting yourself a bit short and I think you very well may hit 1gpw!

Looks like your canopy is about 1ft-1.5ft tall on average, with the middle of the plant being around or perhaps just shy of 2ft tall? I've had plants that size that yield .5-1lb, but that was under a 600w HPS and you're running merely 180w. Remarkable. Seeing as you still have 15-20 days left to go, I'd say your pictures are showing me a half pound plant. I don't know how well autoflowers yield, or how dense those buds are. But those buds should really start to swell in these next few weeks.

If I can venture a guess on the weight for shits and giggles? In another two weeks that plant is going to look more like a .5lb plant. I'm going to be bold and say you'll hit 1.25gpw, and from what I hear that is totally doable with the lights you're running.

Some of the best advice I ever received for harvesting was the following; "Whenever you think it's time to harvest, wait exactly one week and then harvest".

I'll be staying tuned.
 
GentleCaveman

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kratos015 said:
This is where my passion for living soil comes from right here. You think the weed you can grow in it is dank? Just wait until you grow your own food in it. Studies have shown that the way the roots communicate with the microbes in a living soil are via exuding terpenes, the same terpenes we're all after in terms of getting flavorful cannabis. If you take that same soil and put literally any kind of vegetable or fruit in it, you will not only experience incredible results but the quality will be so unreal you won't go back to your grocery store if you can. I'm finding out that I like a lot of vegetables I thought I "hated". Turns out the vegetables didn't suck, the methods used to cultivate it did.

With a quality living soil, left to it's own devices the plant and the soil will literally take care of everything for you. That means that with this knowledge, anyone can not only grow cannabis but food! If everyone had the means and knowledge to do this, not only would shit produce lose it's demand but people wouldn't go hungry anymore.


Not trying to get your hopes up, so please take this with a grain of salt. That being said, you may be cutting yourself a bit short and I think you very well may hit 1gpw!

Looks like your canopy is about 1ft-1.5ft tall on average, with the middle of the plant being around or perhaps just shy of 2ft tall? I've had plants that size that yield .5-1lb, but that was under a 600w HPS and you're running merely 180w. Remarkable. Seeing as you still have 15-20 days left to go, I'd say your pictures are showing me a half pound plant. I don't know how well autoflowers yield, or how dense those buds are. But those buds should really start to swell in these next few weeks.

If I can venture a guess on the weight for shits and giggles? In another two weeks that plant is going to look more like a .5lb plant. I'm going to be bold and say you'll hit 1.25gpw, and from what I hear that is totally doable with the lights you're running.

Some of the best advice I ever received for harvesting was the following; "Whenever you think it's time to harvest, wait exactly one week and then harvest".

I'll be staying tuned.
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Great to see some people thats on the same board with me. Or boat? I don't know, not good with the terms. I couldn't agree more.
GentleCaveman said:
There is no nutrients that's gonna grow better plants than real food does. Same for pets, there is no pet food that's gonna grow healthier pets than real food. Same for us, people. There is no protein powder, carbohydrate powder or any supplemental food that's gonna grow healthier people than real food does. And this is completely normal, I have no idea what you guys think people are but we are still basically fucking monkeys. We are nowhere near being smart enough to create food that's gonna outperform thousands of years of evolution. Every living thing in world evolved to live in particular conditions. And eating lab-made food is not in to those conditions yet.
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My dream is to live in a place that I can grow everything I need, or want. Benefits of eating organic, soil grown, fresh veggies, greens and fruits before the enzymes die off is just not compareable to any other diet. This is how we supposed to live. This goes for every living thing.

I made a correction to my light setup on few posts earlier. For some reason I tought the screw-in bulbs were 23w each. But they are actually 13w each. So I'm running 88w(cob) + 52w(bulbs) = 140w of total light. not 180w. These are the exact bulbs I'm using.
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Canopy is actually shorter than it seems. Highest cola (main) of the oldest plant is 23cm from the soil. Thats little less than a foot. It wanted to grow 2 feet tall but I heavily trained them to stay short. I'll post some pictures with my hand behind some colas right now.
 
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GentleCaveman

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The main cola.
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Some of the side branches.
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Every cola is 5 to 15cm long, thick and dense all the way down.

And there is 2 younger plants behind the oldest one. One is taller than the oldest one and just started packing some weight. Other one is pretty small with 5-6 solid, egg sized tops. (IMG_20190202_121124.jpg)

I have no idea how to guess weight but I couldn't imagine pulling half pound dry from this grow. Maybe I'm cutting myself short but it just doesn't feel possible looking at the canopy. I hope it suprises me though, lol.
 
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She decided to bring some color to the thread. You can see the purple if you have your special glasses on that sees through trichomes. Edges of the calyxes, edges of the leaves and VEINS are deep dark shiny purple. Thats just crazy looking, photos doesn't do justice. If thats not some kind of deficiency of course. I think we are seeing true colors of the haze genetics with the structure of NL. Which is what this seed comes from. (Original Haze x Northern Lights) x Lowryder #2. Excited for last weeks.

Day 70

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Lil diy gravity fed drip system. Drilled bottom of the 3l bottle, the most durable looking part which is dead center. Bought this thing from pharmacy. Don't know the name of it but its that thing doctors plug in to your arm when you get fucked up. So it drips trough the needle only on the middle. Since my soil has tons of organic material in it, it wicks through the whole pot. I can feel the water from all sides of the pot. I can play with the drip speed from that blue roller thing which chokes the hose if you roll up.

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edit: Oh by the way, forgot the most important part. I did put handful of my forest top-soil compost under the needle. So water drips through the compost and goes down as a compost tea.
 
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