K1Ng5p4d3's Cardboard Box Grow (hehe)

[K1Ng5p4d3]

thanks man - n nope, was some good indica middies. n yeah, i dont know what was up with that grow as a whole, i mean i called her corky for a reason, lol. she was growin all retarded n slow, n the same went for her while she was flowering. Bud production didnt exactly seem like this plants number one priority. So to even get what i got out of her made me happy man. I know that i didnt harvest her TOO TOO early, because of how the trichomes were lookin, so i dont feel bad about that, but them fuckin buds just looked like they coulda filled out ALOT better than what they did.

O well, the whole point of a first grow is to get the hang of shit, and learn from your mistakes. Well i learned from a SHITLOAD of mistakes, lol thats for sure. so im for the wiser with this new grow, and more attentive to what im doing and what im feeding my babies. Things will definitely turn out ALOT better than what they did with corky this time around, so im happy with that shit - at least i got some good smoke for the next couple weeks .

So, as per the advice of youz guys, i think im gonna only plant my WW seeds, since theyre 75% sativa dominant. With them i can actually veg for 3 weeks and still have the plant turn out to be a nice producer -- am i reading your posts correctly here?? if im wrong, lemme know, but from what ive read here, and in other threads, The majority of the stretching that a sativa will do when you only veg for a few weeks, is during flowering, in which case shell get a nice couple feet tall, n produce nuggets just like my other plants would -- right??

N should i top her aswell, or maybe just leave her to produce herself one big cola?? i topped the rest of the plants, but i DO kinda wanna leave one plant untopped, kinda like a showpiece plant, yaknow what i mean??

 

[boricuaboi]

Lol sweet dude
yea you gotta have one natural cannabis plant to look at they are wicked topped plants are not that nice to look at to me lol i think i may need to top my nine in the res i can just tell they are gonna be huge

 

[420weedman]

like fuckin almost 12 weeks, lol. i started my 1st grow at the end of july ffs. She was in flower for almost a whole month before she even showed sex man, she definitely took a looooooooong ass time to fuckin finish. Why, does she look like she wasn't done or somethin??

Has that ever happened before?? trichomes looking like shits ready, but the actual plant itself just flat out not ready to be chopped??? I know theyre some small buds, but its actually more than what i thought would come out of the deal. Do you think i did somethin wrong or what ??

i dont know for sure, but i read FDD's opinion on reading trichs ...he doesnt
https://www.rollitup.org/general-marijuana-growing/111444-anyne-ever-smoked-overripe-buds.html

i would think the hairs would have been more red, but wtf do i know i've never harvested.. and 12 weeks seems like a really long time to not be done ... maybe its just the way that strain looks ?
either way buds look nice, good job + rep

 

[K1Ng5p4d3]

I know dude, n i kinda got frustrated when i read that shit, cuz i asked him how he judges ripeness and i dont think he answered in time. I just used the trich method, and harvested man. N like i said, dont get me wrong, its some GOOD ASS HERB, but i think it couldabeen a little more potent. Its a WIN for the books as far as my grows go, but i just feel like i cut a corner or somethin man. Its almost depressive. Its still an oz, but its still depressive, lol.

 

[420weedman]

I know dude, n i kinda got frustrated when i read that shit, cuz i asked him how he judges ripeness and i dont think he answered in time. I just used the trich method, and harvested man. N like i said, dont get me wrong, its some GOOD ASS HERB, but i think it couldabeen a little more potent. Its a WIN for the books as far as my grows go, but i just feel like i cut a corner or somethin man. Its almost depressive. Its still an oz, but its still depressive, lol.

i wouldnt worry about it now. sure looks like its very tasty!
the only thing i can do is when i harvest ... i will cut some goin by the trichs ...and then leave the plant to go longer .. and harvest again ... and post my smoke test results

 

[K1Ng5p4d3]

yeh, i did the whole chop a nug early to see if shes done test, but i guess this means that just cuz i think shes stony dont mean that shes done, lol. This time around im not gonna look at those fuckin trichs until my brain tells me that the fuckin bitch looks done man. im growin PREMIUM strains this time around, so i really dont think its worth the risk. All i know is the flowering time for each strain is different by a week about (the earliest flower time on my strains is 7 - 10 weeks, the latest is 9-11) , so im gonna have to go around and just do the fuckin pepsi challenge with each n every one of them. Not like it wont be a good time doin it though


Im gonna get this fuckin grow right no matter what man - as it stands right now i dont have a greenthumb anymore - its slightly yellowing with a touch of nuteburn, lol. I need to give my thumb some cal/mag for the soul, and fuckin do the damn thing right this time around. No 5 transplants, No repeated nute burn(ive already burned a twilight once, and i aint doin it again damnit), No more fuckups man. If a problem arises, i have a couple complete growbooks online, plus a few that i ordered here, that are specifically used to identify cannabis plant problems and cures, and ill be on top of that shit like gravy on top of mashed potatoes

Youll all see what im capable of come January man. Cant wait to be able to prove my damn skills this time around. I mean, i know i did a good job with Corky, but she couldaturned out 100x better than what she did, that much i know. So all i ask is that you n all the other guys just follow this one, just like the last one, n try to keep me on my toes so i dont just fuckin get sloppy with the grow this time around. If anybody sees me doin anything fuckin stupid, please lemme know, i promise i wont get offended if you call me a fuckin idiot, lol.

 

[Thundercat]

i mean, i guess if i needed to i could throw the two girls up top to veg out for another 2 weeks or somethin so that they would have to play catch up. Flower time is relatively short for both strains - ww being lik 7-9 weeks n the rD is 8-10, n i really dont mind harvesting the RD a week or two later than the rest of the ladies if it means like almost doubling my harvest. So fuck it, lol. Im goin for it man. Even with a fuckin nice proper setup in still growin ghetto for christs sake....i cant win, lol.

Well first off I'd like to say congrats bro. The first one under your belt, and the second one finally settling in for you, thats sweet man.

Secondly, I think that if you put the ww, and RD in now, and give them 3 weeks veg and flower all your plants at the same time, you might be pretty happy. From what I've seen if you don't keep a sativa small, they will get huge when you flower them. Maybe give it 3 weeks from when it gets its first full set of leaves. Obviously you can see how it looks, and give it more time if you need to, but like I said, they seem to get huge in flower. Thats one reason I'm happy that I'm gonna do a scrog, since I might be running sativa doiminant strain(s) I can veg it a little shorter, and still fill my screen once it begins to stretch during flower.

Ok so I just read the last page of the thread, and I hadn't before I wrote the rest of this. Dude don't be depressed, My first grow was under a bathroom sink, with 24" florotuubes. I got like 1/4 off 3 plants dry. It was lame, and it had seeds in it since I left a male in there to long. The first grow is just that a first grow, there is alot to learn...............
For everyones record, my first grow was only about 6 months after I first smoked, and I had no access to the internet at that point........Mine was low yield, and had seeds, but it was at least as good as the bag seed it came from. Yours was ok yeild, and is seedless. YOur already off to a great start.

Personally I'm looking forward to watchin the good genetics grow!! man

 

[Thundercat]

OH and love the new avatar man, whats the wife think of it? Lol or is that her....?

I kid, I kid!

 

[-=4:20=-Guy]

Sweet!!!

Now time to enjoy the fruits of the labor.

Tried to +rep but I got to spred it around.

 

[K1Ng5p4d3]

Its all good fellas. Thanks for the words of encouragement, but ive moved on from bein pissed at myself for choppin early, to bein pissed at my son, lol. I took him into the growroom today cuz he wanned to check shit out with me, n i thought why not? hes a big boy, n one day when hes much older i wanna show him how to do all this, may as well give him a little preview, lol. So i take him in there, and I turn around so i can set up my station for watering my plants real quick, and i turn back around, and hes sitting overtop of my twilight plant, fuckin smackin it as hard as he can, basically smashing the damn thing flat, lol. I ran over there n gave him a quick whack on the butt(lol), n had my wifey take him away - As soon as he was outta the room i ran up to the little fucker, tried to fluff her back up as best as i could, and put the fan on her. I mean, i know that shes not gonna die, in fact, i think that thanks to my son shes gonna get even stronger from this little incident. But yeah man, i shoulda took a pic or somethin cuz the whole damn plant was thin as a slice of paper the way it looked man, lol. Just FLAT.

FUCKIN A man, its just one more stupid thing after another man, one rookie mistake after another. Not like its the end of the world though - i was REALLY pissed for about 10 minutes, n then i just sat back, n calmed down, n realized what he ACTUALLY did, was bend the stems, not break them. n THAT is the best case scenario for me - cuz he coulda done ALOT worse man. Now that the stems are all bent up, in a couple days the whole plant will perk back up again, and be stronger than before. So all is well. Ill take some pics today.

Seeds got to the ISC sorting center in NY, so they sould either be here today, or tomorrow for sure, but hopefully today man. Ill let you guys know what i decide to do, wether its gonna be either two WW plants or one RD n one WW. Man, im anxious to plant a Red Diesel plant seriously. Those fuckin nuggets just look mean as fuck

 

[420weedman]

DUDE !

 

[Thundercat]

Man King you are always havin this kinda shit happen lol. At least it didn't seem to break them too bad. How old is your kid? I'm guessing young for him to do something like that. Lol as long as they recover you can say that they were SUPERcropped!!

 

[K1Ng5p4d3]

man hes fuckin 2 years old, lol. whenever he sees the plants he just keeps saying PRETTY PRETTY PRETTY n tries to break into the growroom, lol, so i thought that id take him in today to look.

N he didnt actually "break" anything at all man, just bent shit up a lot - which is why im relieved. I mean, im still pissed a little bit, but im relieved, that 1: the plant will bounce back no doubt, and 2: it was a Twilight plant. - If anything woulda happened to my Northern Soul or WhiteBerry plants, i woulda been fuckin HEATED man.

So anyways, im uploading pics right now of my nuggets after 2 days of drying and the beginning of curing, and all of the hairs have oranged up, and the nugs just look WAY WAY tastier than they did when it was all white hairs. Ill let you guys check it out in just a second

 

[420weedman]

mmmmmmm nuggs

 

[CaNNaBiZNeSS]

so your cardboard grow worked eh spade? good shit homie

 

[K1Ng5p4d3]

So heres some pics of the nugs after a couple days of drying and paper baggin it. I just put them into jars today, so this is what they look like now -- lookin MUCH tastier, and im sure theyll get a little darker too in the curing process. So without further ado, heres a couple pics for youz guys

that was only a few nugs from the harvest, cuz i already put half of them into a jar, and i didnt wanna take them back out, so i remembered real quick to pop some shots off for you guys before i put the other half into jars. Hope you enjoyed!!

Also, im gonna do some pics in just a second of my current grow, and since the last time you guys saw the plants, weve had alot of progress. Ive topped each soil plant at least once, some of them i topped twice as of today, so Check it out. Im not using photobucket anymore, so sorry no more huge pics on the screen, just click on the thumbs.

 

[K1Ng5p4d3]

Ok, heres some pics of the progress of the current K1Ng5p4d3 and his technicolored strain grow, lol....Ill be doin a FULL update in my other journal, but ill keep posting pics of my progress into this one no matter what. So here we go - n once again, sorry about the thumbnails, i need to do some cleaning in my photobucket before i can post up some new HUGE pics up here without you havin to click on it - so forgive me if you develop RSI from having to click an extra couple times cuzz me >.<

*edit* - fuck that thumbnail shit man, i cant arrange the pics how i wanna put them up for you guys like i usually do for my updates, so sorry if it takes an extra ten minutes for the pictures to load up onto my botophucket. */edit*

Ok, here we go:

Middle of 3rd week of growth - only 6 plants right now cuz the hydro plant died and i decided to just not risk it with the other plant iw as gonna put into dro. So all organic soil grow works for me man - ill give dro another shot when i have clones or if i wanna do from seed, but ill probably do clones halfway through this one. I AM however, going to be either planting 2 WW seeds that ill be gettin in the mail tomorrow morning, OR do one WW and one RD seed, like ive been talkin about in the past couple posts. Ill PROBABLY do the WW seeds, just because the fact that the sativas can be flowered only 2-3 weeks into veg, and still turn out to be 2-3 feet tall, with a respectable yield (im pretty sure - correct me if im wrong please, lol). So im thinkin that might be the way to go, and ill just have to grin n bare it no matter how bad i wanna grow some diesel action

Twilight #1 -- topped once and growing nicely...This is actually the one that was mistaken by my son as a playtoy, and was smashed repeatedly until almost flat, lol. Since it happened(around 7am), it has made a full recovery, and im sure itll just keep lookin better and better with time. When i first saw it this mornin, i almost cried man. It just looked all limp n BRIGHT green, like it was dying. All i did was flex the stems back the other way, and put a fan on her on Medium. She perked up within an hour, and just kept gettin better n better.

N a foliage shot:

BlueCheese #1:

N White Berry seems to be responding to being topped fuckin awesomely man:

Twilight #2:

Blue Cheese #2:

And Northern Soul baby :

--- Lookin nice n comin along just fine. They would be ALOT bigger, but like i said, i topped them, and its all goin according to my evil plan BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA....lol.

Hope you guys enjoy lookin at them as much as i do growin them man, i fuckin love this shit!!

-K1.

 

[beginningbotanist420]

I know i'm jumping in here, but I'm too lazy to read 74 pages.

Did you get all of that with just yoy original setup? Or what did you use? I'm an outdoor grower thinkin of going inside for the winter, and am thinkin of using cardboard. Would you reccomend?

sorry for the high-jack...

 

[K1Ng5p4d3]

O n btw, any burn or discoloration you might see in the leaves is a result of the fuckin TENT that fucked the plants up n turned um all yellow. I ended up movin the light too close to them while they were seedlings, because n got a little bit of burn on them, but no big deal here. Theyve all made a full recovery, and i havent had a problem with nute burn or heat burn or any burn or yellowing since i took the fuckin Tent of Doom off of the god damn frame. Im happy as shit that i did that man, was the smartest move ive made yet

 

[K1Ng5p4d3]

I know i'm jumping in here, but I'm too lazy to read 74 pages.

Did you get all of that with just yoy original setup? Or what did you use? I'm an outdoor grower thinkin of going inside for the winter, and am thinkin of using cardboard. Would you reccomend?

sorry for the high-jack...

LOL ,nope dude, i started out with the top shelf of my closet, using a cardboard box as a front wall for the whole thing. It worked out really well though, it was lightproofed, and i set up the lighting really well too, using like ten bulbs altogether, along with a 4' lighting fixture with growbulbs in there too. It worked really well, and i still have everything set up up there so i can put more plants in there if i need or want to (like mothers or somethin like that).


As far as going indoor from doin outdoor grows, i highly recommend it, lol. You obviously know the benefits of being able to grow year round, otherwise you wouldnt be thinkin about it. As far as the setup i have goin on right NOW goes, it was SOOOOOOOOO worth it man. I pieced together everything i have right now on Ebay and HTG supply. I cant remember how much everything cost, but you can find some REALLY good deals on ebay man, no matter what anyone says to the contrary. All i know is that including the money i spent for my first packs of seeds, i probably spent like 700 bucks on the whole setup n seeds. Since then ive probably blown like another grand on seeds, just to stockpile good genetics for a rainy day, but thats for another post. I have a 600w HPS/MH setup with a digi ballast, and i bought a 2x4x5 growtent which is fuckin perfect size for my closet. The tent ended up being malfunctional, so i would be careful with the tent i choose (get either a DarkRoom or a Secret Jardin. Those are safe brands to buy without worrying about killing your plants). I have a growbright Jr Carbon Filter, and a Vortex knock off blower (6", 480 cfm i think). The fan pulls air from the Carbon filter, and blows air into my CoolTube, and then out the Exhaust ducting. I have 2 80 cfm little canlike fans for air intake, and i also have a Honeywell 40" tower fan with built in ionizer and remote, for extra breeze, and also to ionize the air in case shit gets too smelly, even with the Carbon Filter in place.

Ill be re sealing my tent up with Panda Film, along with some other reflective shit to put on the inside, i cant remember what its called, but HTG has it, and it looks like the shit you put on car windshields to deflect the sun. Totally worth blowin the extra cash on.

All in all man, the setup was relatively easy to piece together, and i gotta say that now that im off n running with this grow, that everything was worth every penny man. Itll all payoff in 2 months man - cant wait. Hope you get your stuff all set up too bro, holler back at me whenever you do, or if you need any help finding somethin along the way, just message me n ill get back to ya