The Irish Growers Thread!

[ae86 grower]

thats an aweful long veg time, are the rewards worth it in the long run? whats your best yeild from the mainlineing method... obvious it has it other advantages like you must be able to very easily control height and canopy etc...

 

[KushCanuck]

My average yield with a properly vegged mainlined plant is about 0.80-1.00oz per head (veg time mentioned previously), with 400w lights I use at my alternate location for patients. I`m hoping to do about the same here, except more on the 4-headers

The thicker stems allow the plant to practically inhale nutrients so the buds are all large, and there is no popcorn buds. I use all trim for ice-extract hash and get 4, 8, 16 nice big buds . And canopy control is one of my main reasons, pretty anal about level . Sure does add some weight to a strain that lacks but makes up in potency

KC

 

[KushCanuck]

Stoned ... you probably wanted figures (and I have them ALL written down, haha), saw an average of 10-15% increase in yield from my ScrOG runs to the Mainline with ScrOG assistance

**Edit - The 2-3 extra weeks tops seems worth it to me, haven`t looked back since **
KC

 

[ae86 grower]

some nice figures there when you add it up, and no popcorn makes it all the more atractive a venture, had a flick through nugbuckets thread when he first had it up and always tought it was a great way to grow a plant, i like an even canopy myself but not so anal just yet, maybe when theres some filled jars in the house and thats not an issue hahahahaha

the buds are quite spectacular from mainlineing, you say "400w lights" how many you run? i run a single 600w at the minute and results are great considering a started with some lowly 10w and 20w cfls and no clue what i was doing...

do you find theres a point where the plants plateaux on the nutes or is it ever increaseing ?

 

[ae86 grower]

Stoned ... you probably wanted figures (and I have them ALL written down, haha), saw an average of 10-15% increase in yield from my ScrOG runs to the Mainline with ScrOG assistance

**Edit - The 2-3 extra weeks tops seems worth it to me, haven`t looked back since **
KC

no your fine, been on the go since early morning and its 2 am here now so don`t think i could digest figure just now hahahahaha...

 

[ae86 grower]

off to bed lads, catch you lot tomorrow...

 

[ae86 grower]

even the stuff from aldi can be used you don`t have to go all expensive and use the shamrock hhahahahahaha...

so jen hows about an intro??? nice to have a lady grower on board again..


whatever happened to mandy i wonder...

 

[Jay_normous]

Wake and bake AE ..?

 

[ae86 grower]

no unfortunatly jay, i`m off it until the harvest is in so still like 6/8 weeks until i can have a smoke... smokeing fags and drining tea like nobodys business here hahahaha...

how about yourself?

 

[iamaaror]

Good bit of sunshine outside now, spring seems to be here. I got an allotment this year which will have loads of veggies sprouting soon, and maybe a few clones going out in june/july to scrog outdoors and keep low lol. Seen you had a few veggies on the go AE, hopefully we get a decent summer. I have some decent hope though, fingers crossed.

 

[ae86 grower]

yeah in the same stream as yourself should see sprouts soon, thin i messed up on the potatoe drills tho, time will tell.... weather changed here this morning from blue sky to cold and wet... fingers crossed tho for a good summer....

scrogging outdoor sounds like a good idea, you`ll want to piss everywhere tho or the rabbits will eat it on you...

what you got going at the minute? just hung my cfl`s so blazeing a little over 800w on the flowering girls now, should make the yeild a bit better....

 

[Jay_normous]

no unfortunatly jay, i`m off it until the harvest is in so still like 6/8 weeks until i can have a smoke... smokeing fags and drining tea like nobodys business here hahahaha...

how about yourself?

wow... Long time without weed man.. Don't think I could do it myself...
was working nights last night and again tonight so yeah... Wake and bake..!

 

[mdjenks]

the stretch always comes at the worst time hahahahaha... i have only managed one or two grows where canopy was even all the way to the end, not the end of the world tho..

whats the expected outcome of this one? or do you gauge each grow for yeild or just let it happen if that makes sence to you?

I'm guessing 7oz for the co-op pretty much like the last but the trim made about 10oz of butter so have some cooking to do. Yeah the purple, I think we may have got the purple green crack pheno its the one everyone tries to catch but we shall see with time. As for my run It's my own personal time using ebb & flow (kind of like a combo of soil and hydro if you use rockwool) didn't figure I needed to calibrate my meter like a dumb ass and it was 10.8 off so out of six I'm down to three and it may be two before the end but the two are very very healthy and big, they are the elephant stompers and they already smell dank. Ill put up some pics this weekend, I need to change my res out and clean it its been about 2 weeks since I have done it last. Im just using an MH bulb the entire run its suppose to keep them shorter and tighter buds bud once again we will see.

Just found a pic I snapped last night, I was stoned so I forgot but here are the 3 two big ones and one hopefully someday big:

 

[Jay_normous]

Outdoor scrog would be difficult to finish considering where we live but would love to see one happen though...
its going to be a auto for me and the back garden, ill be like ye man from Leon, bringing the plant in and outdoors...! Ha

 

[ae86 grower]

Outdoor scrog would be difficult to finish considering where we live but would love to see one happen though...
its going to be a auto for me and the back garden, ill be like ye man from Leon, bringing the plant in and outdoors...! Ha

bahahahahahaha....can see you now running in and out with a hugh plant hahahaha, class film that had too...

 

[ae86 grower]

I'm guessing 7oz for the co-op pretty much like the last but the trim made about 10oz of butter so have some cooking to do. Yeah the purple, I think we may have got the purple green crack pheno its the one everyone tries to catch but we shall see with time. As for my run It's my own personal time using ebb & flow (kind of like a combo of soil and hydro if you use rockwool) didn't figure I needed to calibrate my meter like a dumb ass and it was 10.8 off so out of six I'm down to three and it may be two before the end but the two are very very healthy and big, they are the elephant stompers and they already smell dank. Ill put up some pics this weekend, I need to change my res out and clean it its been about 2 weeks since I have done it last. Im just using an MH bulb the entire run its suppose to keep them shorter and tighter buds bud once again we will see.

Just found a pic I snapped last night, I was stoned so I forgot but here are the 3 two big ones and one hopefully someday big:

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hard to tell from the pic but are they flowering or was it the ph flux thats caused the shade difference? normally the heads change that colour once flowered right??

 

[Jasper2]

Not hiding anywhere ae86 mate havent been on this thread for a while. hope everyone is doing well. here are some pics of my girl who's at 25 into flower now



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[Jay_normous]

Nice scrog

 

[Jasper2]

Nice scrog

Thanks Jay. You got a grow going on yourself? That is some cola in your pic aswell. What strain is it? GDP?

 

[Darren06]

hahahahaha has created a few of them hahahaha, get that girl into a bigger pot, should go hempy with it, its simple, get say an old paint pot, you now the 20 liter plastic ones and drill hole 2 inchs from bottom, fill to hole level with stone, can use pea stone, aquarium stone hell even stones from about the garden this creates a little res, sprinkle a little soil over it, place plant in center and fill around it and up to the base of growth, it don`t matter if the plant doesn`t reach the top of the pot, you can fill it to the top once it gets up over it, the idea behind it is the roots have constant food/water, you can flush easy and it gives great growth rates too, saves going hydro if you like the soil like me....

Good to see the irish thread still alive, havnt checked back here in a long while never seen that done before with the wee res on the bottom, would it not cause root rot if the roots are exposed to stagnant water and not aerated, im considering using hydro for next grow, maybe DWC, it looks cheap to make, but i was always organic im growing some LA Cheese from bigbuddha seeds, got 11 under 600w in 1st week of flower, also have one outside so gona see how that gets on, hopefully good as its indica dominant so mite resist the crappy weather we do have, im looking into organic compost tea's looks very interesting, has anyone ever used teas for there soil? indoor/outdoors?