Calling All Noob Growers

riddleme said:

You want to leave all the leafs on, you want it to hang dry untill the leafs change color (green goes away) once this happens you can trim and jar em, it is this change in color occuring that lets you know proper curing (fermentation) is taking place, the drowning to start this process while alive assures it has started and will continue once you chop and that remaining nutes in the plant will be used up in this process

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not disagreeing or anything lol, just lookn ta see what you think. iv always been told to chop most leaves off within a few hours of taking it off the plant because the chloryfil(spelt tht wrong?) will recede into the buds and cause a bad taste, and deactivate CBC,THC,and canabanoids.
what do you think of this?

Great thread Riddle. Thanks for the invite. And funny you started with this: "What it amounts to is a way to start the cure prior to harvest while the plant is still alive. This is an incredible find as far as I am concerned and I can not wait to try it. what it amounts to is starving the plant of oxygen by drowning it, if in hydro take away the bubbles or spray fill the tank with water and wait, if in a pot either continuously water it (keep it wet/soaked) or stick the pot in a bigger bucket of water."
That is my basically my first step in the 'drying process'. Heres some pics of the plant harvested (first stage that is) I do not keep the entire rootball intact. Just a small litte ball. And the solution it will go into is just myco madness. Just to keep things clean. It will remain there 5-7 days. And will get 5 or 6 hrs of shaded or indirect light during this period. Then hung, still intact until it dry enough the branches snap from the main stem. The secondary branches should still have some give to them. If not. Then they dryed too fast or you waited too long. View attachment 997140View attachment 997141 And as you can see, already manicured. When spend so much time loving them. Just to give them a slow painful death! And cant wait to try the old hippy way vs. this one.

Anybody have info or advice on growing autoflowering plants,i bought 10 different kinds one seed each to see what does the best,any help would be really great!

haha ya chlorophyll dont move, the are in "sacs" in the leaves. also some in buds maybe. chlorophyll is evaporated slowly through the drying process. when you dont dry properly or too fast you dont evaporate the chlorophyll, from the buds, causing the bad harsh taste and hay smell.

Autoblueberry-fruitautomatic-sweetdwarf,dieselryder-snowryder-bigbudda automatic-lowboldt-60day wonder-mi5- are the autoflowering kinds i bought,any expeirence with any of these?

hey cowboy, do you have any experience with fox farm beastie bloomz and Cha ching?

ElectricPineapple said:

hey cowboy, do you have any experience with fox farm beastie bloomz and Cha ching?

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I do. Use the entire FF lineup. Beastie is only needed for a few weeks. Start right when you start to see buds form. Usually week 3 or 4. Then change to the Cha Ching. Thats just the basics. Using any other nutes?

ya Snow Storm Ultra, Growtek Silica ph buffer, Huvega Mag, Molasses, and Starting Bloombastic tonight. with the FF soluble line up.

ok, my question is, how much of the beastie bloomz and cha ching do you use per watering per gallon. i use distilled water and i have been running em a little more than 1/2 a teaspoon a gallon a watering, which in distilled water puts me at about 300 PPM. then which every thing else i get to about 500 PPM. my hydro shop said to run the FF to 800 PPM or more then add the rest of my additives, but of course im scared as hell to burn them. (already burn one a little bit a week and a half ago. since then hasnt put much mass on the buds)

Riddle I have a Querkle thats full cloudy and showing some good amber. Wanna drown it 'old hippy style' in the name of science?

ElectricPineapple said:

ya Snow Storm Ultra, Growtek Silica ph buffer, Huvega Mag, Molasses, and Starting Bloombastic tonight. with the FF soluble line up.

ok, my question is, how much of the beastie bloomz and cha ching do you use per watering per gallon. i use distilled water and i have been running em a little more than 1/2 a teaspoon a gallon a watering, which in distilled water puts me at about 300 PPM. then which every thing else i get to about 500 PPM. my hydro shop said to run the FF to 800 PPM or more then add the rest of my additives, but of course im scared as hell to burn them. (already burn one a little bit a week and a half ago. since then hasnt put much mass on the buds)

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With the other bloom nutes I would say 1/4 to 1/2 tsp per gal should do. I would say if you go to 800. You should not need much more bloom food. They both do pretty well stand alone. If you go that high and use some of the others, just watch your plants closely. They will tell you if they like it or not. The Cha Ching does a very nice job the final few weeks on its own.

Ok. Well I have seen some side by sides with bloombastic and it is pretty dramatic at the weight it'll put on. Used on same strain. Well I'll use 1/2- 3/4 and go to maybe 550-600 ppm and then add my others. The snowstorm and bloombastic help greatly increase nutrient uptake. Also te bloombastic is a pk booster as well.

So do you use 1/2 a tsp per gallon on yours? Or more than that?

I never go over 1/2 tsp. But I also use Tiger Bloom. Now that stuff will burn em up if you dont watch it. And with all nutes. It can vary greatly strain to strain. An even pheno to pheno. The Orange Bud I just harvested. Can take all of the food you can possibly imagine. Love that strain.

lol, ya my WW is soooo sensitive. ok. well ill try 3/4 tonight. been doing about 1/2 then a half a 1/4 so prob 2/3 a tsp. but ya that bloombastic, is supposedly some crazy stuff. except crazy expensive. so if it works, ill post. if not well it was worth a try lol. btw 30 bucks for 80 mL of it. a 5.5 L bottle is $850.

Btw, what is this Make it Rain Technique?

ElectricPineapple said:

Btw, what is this Make it Rain Technique?

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That one is for Riddleme. Sorry Riddle. Got lost and jacked your thread. Pineapple I'll stop by your thread and we can continue from there. Again, my apologizes Riddle. Talkin about the cure here now.

ElectricPineapple said:

Btw, what is this Make it Rain Technique?

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read page one to learn about making it rain, basically it is hydro in soil but more so it is like what mother nature does

and problem about the thread, we went out to dinner and visited a friends garden so just got home

cowboylogic said:

Riddle I have a Querkle thats full cloudy and showing some good amber. Wanna drown it 'old hippy style' in the name of science?

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I say go for it and let us know what ya see my buddy drowned some of his yesterday and they are already changing colors was actually pretty cool, that was what I just went to see

riddleme said:

I say go for it and let us know what ya see my buddy drowned some of his yesterday and they are already changing colors was actually pretty cool, that was what I just went to see

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I wanna say 'Its walk the plank me Querkle!' To fast a death. Do you mind if we name her Jigsaw? J/K Down the hatch. Pics in a few.

cowboylogic said:

I wanna say 'Its walk the plank me Querkle!' To fast a death. Do you mind if we name her Jigsaw? J/K Down the hatch. Pics in a few.

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won't that require some barbed wire?

oooh really, changing colors? what colors? also, do you think transplanting mine to buckets with no holes in the bottom and flooding them in that, after a good flush, would work