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indecline

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Of the three strains I grow, Chronic is the mildest in terms of stone; quite pleasant and relaxing though. It looks, smells and tastes great. I call it 'chick weed'. (sorry ladies :D).
Yeah since i got into weed, i noticed that the chronic is more of a mild chill out smoke.
thats why i got some of the exodus cheese, so i can see what the fuss is all about. I grow for quantity so chronic was an obvious choice. unless you can reccomend any of your other strains?
 

shnkrmn

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White Russian is very close in yield and is a major league stone. As easy as Chronic to grow, clone, easier to trim and how can it get easier than Chronic?????

Yeah since i got into weed, i noticed that the chronic is more of a mild chill out smoke.
thats why i got some of the exodus cheese, so i can see what the fuss is all about. I grow for quantity so chronic was an obvious choice. unless you can reccomend any of your other strains?
 

dr green dre

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Yeah since i got into weed, i noticed that the chronic is more of a mild chill out smoke.
thats why i got some of the exodus cheese, so i can see what the fuss is all about. I grow for quantity so chronic was an obvious choice. unless you can reccomend any of your other strains?
I know what your saying there, have tried the BLZ bud? my mate grew some and said it grew big as the chronic, i smoked some of it and i think smokes alot better/stronger that the chronic.

Thats looking mighty good in there mate. Good show!
Thanks shrig..whatas that top dwag ?
 

Shwagbag

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What's up 600? I'm looking at building a 4 tray hydro ebb and flow setup and I need a recommendation for a pump timer. I'm also looking for a timer for my aeroponic cloner as well. I'm running it constant right now with virtually no success and I'm wondering if it needs to be timed. I see people getting a lot of success with 1 minute on 4 minutes off. Thanks!
 

shnkrmn

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your pump timer can be a cheap mechanical timer with the pull-up pinsl. It doesn't draw much power, no reason to be beefy there. I get roots running my cloner constantly but I now have it on 3 minutes and off 12. I can't see much difference myself, but in summer, I'd like that pump to not boil my water, not that I've ever even stuck a thermometer in there. I guess I'm not much help. lol
 

Shwagbag

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Ahahaha. Yeah, no success with aeroponic cloner without a timer. Very frustrating! This batch is looking better than any of its predecessors but a week in and not a single shoot.
 

duchieman

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Me thinks I may have scored at the Salvation Army Thrift Store today. I love that place. Anyway, $1.99 each. The fan I ordered at Christmas for my PC but I don't know what I was thinking getting a 120mm 42CFM fan for my PC, sure seems to work here though. The glasses are fairly thin though but I think I've seen them in DIY cooltubes before. I did wrap one around my HPS bulb and my hands got warm pretty quick. Do you guys think with fan cooling, not sure if I want to use my Vortex for it if I don't have to, that it should draw enough heat away to make them work, or am I dreaming?

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Thanks Duchie

EDIT. I'm starting to think vertical now!
 

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Heads Up

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Hey Hotsause, what are you using for soil to get you through with only water? Nice looking plants. You planning on flowering soon?

Hi all. I'm going to do some shopping today and I'd like to ask a question before I head out. I've ordered my mych and it will be here tomorrow. It's the non-soluble kind, I'll get some soluble later to supplement, and I'm ready to do some transplanting of my 5 Afghani, like yesterday. Because of the mych, I'll need to switch right to organic, as much as I can right now. So what I'd like to do is list what I have, what I propose to get, and ask what I need to complete my needs.

Right now I have some bone meal, a couple of small blocks of coir and a 1 cu. ft of sphagnum. I'm planning of picking up some bloodmeal and perlite. What I'm not sure of is what to mix it with to make my own potting mix. Would I just get some top soil of some sort and blend? I'm also wondering about a few other plants that I did a temporary transplant on in some potting soil with added nutes. I'd like to do a final, organic transplant, and use my mych in it. Will the synthetic nutes harm the mych fungai, or will it be diluted and dispersed enough where it's not a concern? Maybe a good flush prior to the transplant, with time to dry out a bit of course? If I could get some valuable 600 input before I get there that would be awesome and very appreciated. I'll check back for responses.

Thanks, Duchie
Duchie, take this with a grain of salt or just disregard it if you so choose. I read a fair amount about our hobby and I personally wouldn't add any of those things to a soil mix of my own creation. Unless you really know what you're doing, you could cause yourself a massive lockout issue. For that matter I find it much cheaper to just use a premium potting soil, add a bag of perlite and I also add some sphagnum moss and worm castings to the mix. I use Scott's premium for container and indoor plants. It ends up costing about no more than thirty dollars for over four cubic feet of soil mix. I actually add two bags of perlite to my mixture.

Yeah since i got into weed, i noticed that the chronic is more of a mild chill out smoke.
thats why i got some of the exodus cheese, so i can see what the fuss is all about. I grow for quantity so chronic was an obvious choice. unless you can reccomend any of your other strains?
I would look at a skunk strain. The attitude has a whole section on skunk strains. Just be sure if you're thinking about one, make sure it has skunk#1 in it. I have grown more than a few lemon skunks and they never yield under two ounces. I've never grown one in anything bigger than a two gallon pot. I would look at some skunk strains.
 

duchieman

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Thanks for responding Heads Up, I really appreciate it and welcome all I can get. It helps make better decisions and after all, why I ask, and I'm quite sure you just saved me a bunch of aggravation. In fact I think I just learned a lesson about it. I suspect your talking about the bone and blood meal, because the sphagnum, perlite and coir are recommended, and I know your a mycho guy. Anyway I made a mix with the bone meal in it and planted 6 new seeds. Only 3 popped, 2 looking very sickly, but the thing is that every time I took my little dome off, the seedling would burn and wilt, and recover when back under the dome. When I flushed, there was a deep brown, like molasses, but not, run off. Anyway I put the bonemeal in hearing it added slow release N and P, but I think it burned the crap out of these young ones. So, I used a couple of bags of Scotts Premium before but does it not contain synthetic nutes? If not, I'll go grab some bags tomorrow and finally be done with it. Or am I being too paranoid about the starter nutes?

Thanks again HU
 

Shwagbag

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Duchie, I would think you will have to move more air than that, but you can set that mofo up and see how it works for temps :D
 

curious old fart

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Thanks for responding Heads Up, I really appreciate it and welcome all I can get. It helps make better decisions and after all, why I ask, and I'm quite sure you just saved me a bunch of aggravation. In fact I think I just learned a lesson about it. I suspect your talking about the bone and blood meal, because the sphagnum, perlite and coir are recommended, and I know your a mycho guy. Anyway I made a mix with the bone meal in it and planted 6 new seeds. Only 3 popped, 2 looking very sickly, but the thing is that every time I took my little dome off, the seedling would burn and wilt, and recover when back under the dome. When I flushed, there was a deep brown, like molasses, but not, run off. Anyway I put the bonemeal in hearing it added slow release N and P, but I think it burned the crap out of these young ones. So, I used a couple of bags of Scotts Premium before but does it not contain synthetic nutes? If not, I'll go grab some bags tomorrow and finally be done with it. Or am I being too paranoid about the starter nutes?

Thanks again HU
Seedlings don't need any nutes for the first two weeks. Espoma makes an organic seed starter that is the best thing I have found for seedlings and clones, just water.
They also make a soil starter that has all of the needed mycho to get your medium started.
Heads Up, I realize that you are a scott's man and I bought a bag of their premium soil mix and all it turned out to be was bark with a little perlite with a few salts. My plants and I weren't happy. I'm currently making my own mix and this is the healthiest indoor grow yet.

:peace:
cof
 

Shwagbag

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your pump timer can be a cheap mechanical timer with the pull-up pinsl. It doesn't draw much power, no reason to be beefy there. I get roots running my cloner constantly but I now have it on 3 minutes and off 12. I can't see much difference myself, but in summer, I'd like that pump to not boil my water, not that I've ever even stuck a thermometer in there. I guess I'm not much help. lol
What timer do you use for your aero cloner?
 

shnkrmn

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I use a CAP interval timer. They sell one that's fixed one minute on, 4 minutes off. I think that's ideal for an aerocloner. The one I have is adjustable (which I don't need) and has two dials, on time and off time. on time can go from 12 seconds to X hours and off time from 12 minutes to X. I wish the off time could be reduced but the timer was a closeout at the hydro shop for 20 bux so how could I resist? The fixed interval timer is like 60 bux which is ridiculous.
 

duchieman

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Seedlings don't need any nutes for the first two weeks. Espoma makes an organic seed starter that is the best thing I have found for seedlings and clones, just water.
They also make a soil starter that has all of the needed mycho to get your medium started.
Heads Up, I realize that you are a scott's man and I bought a bag of their premium soil mix and all it turned out to be was bark with a little perlite with a few salts. My plants and I weren't happy. I'm currently making my own mix and this is the healthiest indoor grow yet.


:peace:
cof
I don't know what I was thinking planting these seeds in this mix, oh well lesson learned. I already have the mycho coming but I will look for a better seed starter. I'll look around here for that product cof, thanks. So what is your mix then, please share.
 

curious old fart

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I'm still fine tuning but currently it's 7 parts coir, 4 parts peat (Miracle grow for it's texture and consistancy), 2 parts perlite, 1 part alfalfa meal and the above mentioned soil starter (Bio-tone), fish meal 10-5-0, 2 bat iguana's , one is 10-3-1 and the other is 0-5-0 and an organic fert 4-0-5. It seems to work well but seems to need some cal/mag once going into 12/12.

:peace:
cof
 

duchieman

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I'm still fine tuning but currently it's 7 parts coir, 4 parts peat (Miracle grow for it's texture and consistancy), 2 parts perlite, 1 part alfalfa meal and the above mentioned soil starter (Bio-tone), fish meal 10-5-0, 2 bat iguana's , one is 10-3-1 and the other is 0-5-0 and an organic fert 4-0-5. It seems to work well but seems to need some cal/mag once going into 12/12.

:peace:
cof
Thanks for that cof. That's brings a couple more questions with it, if I may. I have the compressed coir blocks, is that what you use as well, or another type? I noticed some coir blocks at a dollar store today, something seemed a little different about them but I don't know if it was me being a bit skeptical. What would you think of that? I ask because I know you like using coir from past posts. 2. What's the purpose of the alfalfa meal? 3. In regards to the fish meal, bat guano (I've never seen a bat iguana, and never hope to. :)), and other organic ferts, do you add all this in the initial mix? If so, could a guy, who doesn't have those particular type of ingredients now, add them later in a tea, or something like that? I think that does it, thank again. Sorry for the ribbing, I debated whether to do it or not :lol:
 

duchieman

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The Purp from Jordan of the Islands. I can't get over this plant and how it's come back from a rough start to end up the healthiest in my garden. Has an odd smell, at least to me, of sour nut or nutmeg maybe? The bud structure right up the stalk has fattened up so much over the last week or so. She's day 45 of 12/12. I figure another 2 to 3 weeks.
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Here she is at the start.
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curious old fart

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iguana's are what happen when you're in a stoned hurry and don't proof.
I use the 10lb coir blocks that I break up and soak. I have no knowledge or experience with anything else.
As to the alfalfa, I read where it was beneficial in a secondary sense for a living environment and decided to give it a try. I was at a store that carries seeds (non mj), feed and ferts for the farmers and inquired about the alfalfa, which is used for horse feed and they stated that what they had had bugs in it and was not suitable for feed so they discounted a 50 lb bag from $15 to $5 and into the truck it went.
I made up my mix all at once which allows me to just water and not worry about any further feeding. Also, I need to add wood ash to the mix for the bloom cycle.
I haven't used any teas so I really can't comment, but they will need to be fed.
I'm still dialing my garden in and feel like I'm close.
Your plant looks healthy and happy.

:peace:
cof
 
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