Cumber's Fruity Lair

onlycucumbershere

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No grow journal yet, sadly.. but soon! I have all the equipment set up and ready to go, I'll be rocking my first grow in just a few weeks. I'm totally excited about it. I do wish I could go ahead with it but my mom's health comes first. In the meantime I'll live vicariously through your Strawberry Cheesecake grow. lol
Awesome! I shall be looking forward to seeing it :)

I know what you mean about being in a rush to get things started lol. How many liters are those pots?

Let me know if you end up cutting the flaps...and put up some pics :)
Have a look!
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onlycucumbershere

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The Flower Box;

Budziller kickin ass as usual :) it has 26 of these marvellous colas and it's only half way through it's cycle!

(Sneaky cheese taster in the last pic there lol That too has a pair of monster cola's and offers an idea of what my next cycle - Cheese - is gonna be like, check the veg shot below)

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The Fruit Punch is the same age. It's not half as cola'd up as the Budziller but it's dense as hell considering I never topped any of it.

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The pots are homemade. I couldn't for the life of me, find anything that would fit my space... Tupperware tubs with the lids as drip trays ;) I cut some holes in the bottom and a few around the bottom edges, for both drainage and oxygen.
They seem to work excellently so far!

Shame if I go hydro now, after spending all that effort LoL but worth it - I may yet run my cab as half hydro half soil - at least that'll allow me to make the most out of the money spent already. Nutes, soil, pots etc etc


The Veg Box;

Caramelo - it's had 3 months under small CFL's and is as tiny as I've ever seen a plant at this age, lets see how she goes now she has a 250w monster above her head lol I've only had this lamp a few days and I can see quicker and cleaner growth already...
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The Cheese!
This shit is months old and trained hard. I've been training it down, to provide me with more branches. These branches I shall be training down too over the next few weeks to make it spread even further before shocking it. I've super cropped the shit out of this plant and will endeavour to damage it further once it's gotten used to it's new pot.
Really looking forward to this shit lol
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For anyone that missed it earlier (Trouty lol), the seedlings at only a few days old.
This new propagator is kicking ass!!

FYI I've found the misters on eBay and they're not that expensive. And considering that after measuring up, the FloGrow's that I wanted and found I won't fit two in my box, I shall be trying to make some shit up, Blue Peter stylee. Just not with cardboard boxes and washing up liquid bottles lol

This Aero pot is currently residing in my kitchen under a standard ceiling strip light, just on the side.
When real young, they stay covered with the lil plastic baggies. That holds in further moisture and blocks unwanted light but still allows just a lil smidgen through and they love that :)
As you can see, they're no longer young! LoL the shells have fallen away completely and already lil leaves are poking through! and they've grown much further still since taking these pics this afternoon LoL

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I'm still concerned about the Liberty haze, still no signs of popping. The other two though... fuck! I've never seen seeds pop and grow so damn fast!

My temps are good today too. We've had proper rain all day and no sun, so humidity is down and so is temps :) Both cabs are sitting at around 27C

So the end of another update...
I shall, now that there are people watching lol, try to resume my Monday evening updates ;)

Peace out
 

Lady.J

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You have some nice buddage going on Cumbers :weed:

I really like what you did with the plant that you said has been growing for months...that is some nice LSTing! All the buds will be poking straight up. Love the CFL too...know they're loving it up.

Hope that Liberty Haze pops soon...maybe she's a drama queen and just like to make an entrance ;)
 

onlycucumbershere

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You have some nice buddage going on Cumbers :weed:

Thank you! :)
I'm looking forward to seeing how large these Budziller colas get at the end. They're just starting their 5th week now! :clap:


I really like what you did with the plant that you said has been growing for months...that is some nice LSTing! All the buds will be poking straight up. Love the CFL too...know they're loving it up.

Aye, I think she's loving it too!
I have this problem though, and it doesn't seem to go away :( a deficiency.. you can see all the yellowing. and that's pretty good too, I'd only just pruned off a load of dead stuff before I took the pics... not sure what it's all about yet but I need to get on it quick!


Hope that Liberty Haze pops soon...maybe she's a drama queen and just like to make an entrance ;)

Me too... poor thing... (or typical female? lol) I'd question the seed bank, but I only bought the one seed LMAO I doubt they'd replace it. I hear from others that have bought 10 seeds and none have popped, recieved a full new set of 10 seeds from their seedbank. I'm a stingy git and buy only one and two seeds a time lol
Well, it still has a few more days before I give up on it and the others are more than fine, so it's all gravy baby ;)

I've never tried replying like this before ;)
 

Lady.J

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Didn't really work so well eh haha
I think you can read it easy enough though Lady J, I just won't reply like that again lol


~mashup
Lol, you high? I just hot boxed the tent. :bigjoint: Felt it was only right before growing some dank.

:lol: I'm just like you...only buy one here and there. Wanted to try multiple strains so is the cheapest way.
 

bigbaby420

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im finally back man.. i got me a lil sumthin goin on too.. gdp blue dream and chemdogg and a couple bagseed... all cfls and coco
 

onlycucumbershere

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that caramelo needa have a bigger pot.. thats y soo small its root bound. i bet
WB Bigbaby!

Yes it does need a bigger pot, but the reason it's not grown much - as I've just found out today - I have a magnesium deficiency in my veg box. On this wee one, the rate of dying leaves is higher than the rate of new ones, so it's gotten bigger, but slowly and it always has the same amount of leaves lol
I'm sure it'll perk up with the new light and later, a new pot too. And some epsom salts, the alleged cure lol.
I'm actually not that bothered about this Caramelo. It's THC content is stated as fairly low compared to my other strains. So I'll just flower her up and not take cuts.

im finally back man.. i got me a lil sumthin goin on too.. gdp blue dream and chemdogg and a couple bagseed... all cfls and coco
Got any pics :)
 

onlycucumbershere

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Okay, so I decided that after my Liberty Haze wasn't going to play ball, I'd pop some Kandy Kush seeds in to grow out as tasters. In the spirit of Lady J's 12/12 from seed business. I've not yet grown out and flowered from so young a thing lol so I'll get to see how this pans out.
However...
upon taking the seeds to the propogator, Liberty Haze has popped!!! WOOOO! Only just cracked the shell really but it's enough! That means it's been activated and it will now perform for it's audience :)

I put the two Kandy Kush in anyway lol
They're regs so who knows what'll happen with them. hopefully one of them will be female. Anyway, as soon as I see new foliar growth and at least a good bit of rooting, I shall be putting these girls in tiny pots and straight in the box, just wanna see what gives :)

No pics of the aero today, they're very delicate and I don't like opening the lid too often.

So;

Here I try something with the camera.
I read a thread earlier that said using polarised glasses with the HPS lights removes the lines and flicker. It does! But! there's no clarity in the pictures and they even seem a little cloudy... so i just took them out the box speshally ;)
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Budziller - still in it's 5th week and looking like a beastly woman, out to git ya! lol You can see the root system here through the clear plastic and you can also see how 'light-damaged' they are. PROOF that it's better to use black - shame they don't have them the size I want... hmpff
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Exodus Cheese - also in it's 5th week. This started off as a taster and was intended to stay in a 3" pot. It got stunted :( up-potting it has done it the world of good!
Funny, cos this lil fekker was a proper tree before she went in the box. Some of her stretched and the rest didn't - what you see here was a tiny off shoot from the main tree. I don't know why exactly but the rest of the tree didn't stretch at all - I simply cut it off AARGHHHH but I'm okay with it hehe as you can see... albeit a few less branches than intended, but it's NOT lacking :)
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and Fruit Punch, the space taker lol She is in her 4th week and sticky as I don't even know what! You can't even brush past this lil lady without her coating you in hashish haha excellent!
Her trunk is a good 2" diameter, the widest yet of all my grows.
I love how this thing has just exploded in the box, cos when she went in she was a skinny scrawny little nothing. Now look at her :)
The most beautiful girl to watch growing, so far. Golden nugs which turn sugary immediately and only get more and more so throughout. And the smell! lol don't get me started!
If you can, then try this one, JUST for the smell. It's seriously out of this world!
When she's done, you can actually see her cola's turn cloudy and then amber. My last one was under rubbish low CFL's and was actually quite rubbish, I'm so excited to see how this, the daughter, is gonna be!
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My veg box didn't get a photo shoot today either, but that's still quite delicate too. The new bulb and the new box, new enviroment, new fans, oxygen refresh rate, temp dispersal etc etc I just want them to settle in a bit before going to town on them.

I'm not sure about my seedlings. Never done any hydro stuff before this and am wondering if I should begin nuting already... their first leaves are about to spread open and they're now not growing as fast as they were if at all.
I added a small droop of BioBizz TopMaxx today out of concern - usually used for added bloom at the end but checking the label it only has minute traces of everything, so theoretically it should be okay for the wee ones. (maybe that's even what caused Liberty Haze to pop?)

Anyways hope you enjoyed my lair shots :)
 

Lady.J

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I'm happy that the Liberty finally popped for you! I really want to see her grown out. Is your Kandy Kush from Reserva Privada too? From what I've heard about them, they won't disappoint you as tasters :weed:. That fruit punch is going to be a heavy set girl for sure. Loved the way you described it...wish I could smell some of that lol.
 

onlycucumbershere

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I'm happy that the Liberty finally popped for you! I really want to see her grown out. Is your Kandy Kush from Reserva Privada too? From what I've heard about them, they won't disappoint you as tasters :weed:. That fruit punch is going to be a heavy set girl for sure. Loved the way you described it...wish I could smell some of that lol.
Herbies... All day long ;)

ah mate! I've seriously never smelled MJ like this before. Sweet and fruity is an understatement. I reminds me of some kind of candy sweets I had as a kid but can't remember the name LoL
Did you ever have fruit pastels, or chewits on your travels through Europe? VERY close to smelling like them and I aint even playin haha

Yes you were right!
She was being a drama queen pmsl - I since saturated her in water rather than damped, added some nutes (ye ye I know we just had a conversation lol) and she popped.
It still amazes me how differently, different strains react to different things.
I do like a quick turn around so I'll likely not buy these again, but yeah, here's hoping good things for Liberty Haze!

Thanks for passing thru J :)
 

Lady.J

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I like Herbie's too...have 100% success in germination so far. Depending on your smoke report, I might have to give the fruit punch a go.

Didn't eat much candy beside ritter sport chocolate and haselnuss...was really big on pastries when it came to sweets.

Are chew its fruit chews with fruit gel in the middle?

Just read on the back of some seaweed & fish fertilizer that you can use it to help a seed's likelihood of germinating and developing a soild root system. Might try a mix w/ water and pour it on a seed wrapped in tissue.

How long is your anticipated flowering time for the fruit punch?
 

onlycucumbershere

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Ok so I was faffing and figured I should just take few aero snaps while I had it open :)
(I know Lady J is dying to see this thing working lol)

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As you can see, not a lot of further growth on top, but below things are just getting going. I can now see lots of new roots beginning to appear at the base of my netty pots and the main hangy root is also showing signs of 'hairing out', This is extremely good news :)

I didn't take a cheese cut yet, I don't think my veggers are happy enough to give up branches just now, so I'll leave that a week or two. I have Kandy Kush germing anyways so I'll have little space left anyway.

Things are moving forward nicely :)
 

Lady.J

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Ok so I was faffing and figured I should just take few aero snaps while I had it open :)
(I know Lady J is dying to see this thing working lol)

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As you can see, not a lot of further growth on top, but below things are just getting going. I can now see lots of new roots beginning to appear at the base of my netty pots and the main hangy root is also showing signs of 'hairing out', This is extremely good news :)

I didn't take a cheese cut yet, I don't think my veggers are happy enough to give up branches just now, so I'll leave that a week or two. I have Kandy Kush germing anyways so I'll have little space left anyway.

Things are moving forward nicely :)
Nice! :-o

So how and when are you going to nute them?

Those roots are looking fit. Feels like a relief when the seeds are finally unfurling lol.
 

onlycucumbershere

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Nice! :-o

So how and when are you going to nute them?

Those roots are looking fit. Feels like a relief when the seeds are finally unfurling lol.
Already started with the biobizz today. Just a tiny splash in the mix with some fresh water - yes I did think about peeing in the bucket instead (pmsl) decided against that one though!

Yeah proper relief mate lol
Relief in the knowing that my next cycles are going to have a great start!
 
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