Harvest a Pound Every Three Weeks!

420circuit said:

Excellent posts. As far as cost, I do not sell any of my plants so need to be mindful of the expenses. I gave away several ounces recently, for a good cause. My wife is the most frugal human ever to walk the planet so I must be as economical as possible if I want to keep relations good on the home front. She is already distressed about the electric bill so keeping the other costs down is a priority. Also, the fact that the nute makers are profiteering, taking what I think is an unethically high profit from their product, I think in collusion with the others in the industry, is enough to get my goat. If I can make the equivalent of Sweet in my kitchen for 1-2% of what it costs to buy it, well I should, just because it is the right thing to do. If it really has some exotic formula that justifies the high cost, so be it, I'll keep buying it. But if it is just sugar water, why not take control of making it and maybe even make it better?

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That makes total sense bro! I know how the whole money thing goes. Everything is so expensive you virtually have to take donations from patients to survive. The problem is some patients may be really sick and can't work. They don't even have any money for food more the less medicine. Those are the ones you give the meds to for free. Other patients may have a good job, making lots of money but just have small pain issues every once in a while. Those patients can afford to donate more. Patients helping patients...

Thanks for helping others bro! That's why I started this thread. Keep up the good work and let us know how everything turns out.

StinkBud said:

Those patients can afford to donate more. Patients helping patients...

Thanks for helping others bro! That's why I started this thread. Keep up the good work and let us know how everything turns out.

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Thats why everyone loves you stink, you've got your heart in it, and in the right place!

StinkBud said:

After trimming last night I have to change my favorite strain to the Candy Kush. It produced twice as much as anything else, super easy to trim, smells unreal and tastes even better. It really does have everything going for it. The Stacked kush also came out dank as fuck but it's not a huge producer like the Candy Kush. Get yourself some Candy Kush seeds and thank me later....

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If I didn't know better I would have thought you was a sales rep for dna/reserva privada. Lol. Anyways are you now saying kandy kush is your favorite over you purple wreck and og #18 that you mentioned earlier?

sky rocket said:

If I didn't know better I would have thought you was a sales rep for dna/reserva privada. Lol. Anyways are you now saying kandy kush is your favorite over you purple wreck and og #18 that you mentioned earlier?

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Seed sales rep, HaHa I wish! What a great job that would be! DNA and Reserva Privada do rock but only because they have the genetics that I like. DJ Short and Subcool seeds are also a great choice. I'm actually looking to try a good Cheese strain so if anyone has any recommendations please speak up.

Remember that I started with 20+ strains. Now I'm down to just 5 strains. Right now I'm debating over if I should just fill my room with Kandy Kush. The other strains are great but Kandy Kush has the quantity too. It's a huge producer! Imagine the taste of the legendary OG Kush SFV combined with the production of Trainwreck. The Kandy Kush takes on a flavor of it's own. It's sweeter than the OG Kush but still has that long lasting finish OG Kush is known for. What about the high? It's almost too powerful! I'd consider myself a veteran smoker (haha) and it totally crushes me. I have to be careful because it tastes so good you want to do a bunch of hits. Smoke too much Kandy Kush and you might as well write off your whole day because you ain't getting shit done!

I'm going to keep a nice selection of strains going because not everyone loves the same medicine. Some of my patients use the the meds for back pain. Another patient uses it to help her daughter's seizures. Ironically they both like the same strain for different reasons. What's their new favorite....Kandy Kush.

StinkBud said:

What up buddies! Things are going great! The plants are loving the bigger containers. I already pulled the Cataract Kush and the Tahoe OG. They should be dry in a few days. Right now I'm really liking the Silver LA the most. The smell is amazing. The OG #18 is also stellar. Check out the latest photos.
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Stink glad to see you around hope things are well...

Hey stink how many flowering weeks on your og #18, purple wreck, and kandy kush?

sky rocket said:

Hey stink how many flowering weeks on your og #18, purple wreck, and kandy kush?

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About 9 weeks. Cataract Kush and Tahoe OG finished in 8 weeks.

Okay! So I've read the first 300 pages of this thread, and I have decided I'm building this system. My only question feels like a stupid one; the plants drain nuts/water from the reservoir, do I add nutrients to bring PPM to the desired level when adding water? Or do you bring PPM up initially and then let it drop over time but continue adding water? Thanks!
-Michael

If your nute level is correct the ppm will stay the same(or within a small percentage) as water level drops.

I'll post up a pic of the Kandy Kush next to others started at the same time, it is the most robust plant in my grow too. The plants drink about a gallon or 2 a day in my flower room (each res) so I add plain water to replace. SS runs a bigger res than the original design so has an easier to maintain set up. With a smaller res you need to watch the ppm and pH more closely. When my plants show a problem like yellowing leaves or spots it is time to change the nute solution, typically that's about 2 weeks, but if you want to be a perfectionist it would be better to change before symptoms of deprivation occur. The whole thing is keeping the plants healthy until harvest. For someone starting out it would be a good idea to buy a scope to see the trichomes with, a 30x magnifier works pretty well, because those little buggers will tell you when to harvest. My first crop was mostly ruined because I cut too early after getting excited by the big buds and not waiting until the trichs got fully developed and turned cloudy. Made a drying rack with some modular storage crates and mosquito netting, here is with my first harvest of White Widow.

StinkBud said:

I take the 2"-4" cuttings and place them in the Neoprene sleeves and into the 2" netpots. No spraying, dipping or anything! Just stick them in the cloner and your done.

My cloner is homemade. I have a 100% success rate with this system. I use tap water with 150ml of Clonex clone solution although no rooting hormone is actually needed. It does root a little faster with the solution.

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Thats 150ml Clonex. How many gallons of water in your Clone machine?

Im actually having a little issue, or hopefully not, with my cuttings in my clone machine. Wish i would have seen this thread before i put them in there. They have been in there for a week. Cut them, dipped in clonex and put in RW. I only run the sprayers 4 times a day for 5mins. And it seems to keep the RW more "wet" then moist. I will definitely be doing it your way next time.


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Here's a couple pics, first the Kandy Kush growing better than the others and then a pic of the crazy big NL buds that dominated the last grow. This was my first all Jack's nutes flower rack grow.

Wow! that's gonna require some serious cleanup

420circuit said:

Here's a couple pics, first the Kandy Kush growing better than the others and then a pic of the crazy big NL buds that dominated the last grow. This was my first all Jack's nutes flower rack grow.
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Jesus H Christ, thats got to be one of the biggest colas i've ever seen....either that or the pic is amazingly deceptive. Either way that is one HUGE cola

Ok stinkbud to make your do called aerosystm I have to buy your book or do you have a post that I can make it step by step I am currently ina uwrdwc and was looking at your setup what diffrence is your from mine?

There is plenty of information in this thread and guides if you read it, no need to buy the book if you cant afford it.

HankDank said:

Jesus H Christ, thats got to be one of the biggest colas i've ever seen....either that or the pic is amazingly deceptive. Either way that is one HUGE cola

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There are 4 huge colas there, I had to attach 2 to the overhead lines and then attach the neighbor bud, so 4 look like 2. These are from clones of the Seedsman Northern Lights that I grew from seed. Was a good idea to take a clone of them all and then just keep the best one in the cycle. That pic is 11 weeks in flower, been flushing for a few days.

420circuit said:

Here's a couple pics, first the Kandy Kush growing better than the others and then a pic of the crazy big NL buds that dominated the last grow. This was my first all Jack's nutes flower rack grow.
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Holy shit bro, you got a couple of footballs in there! You're going to love the Kandy Kush. So far it's been everyone's favorite including mine. I trimmed a whole plant and ended up with a little pile of trim. The buds are almost bag ready right from the bush! The nugs end up almost white from so many crystals.

Did anyone notice that this thread just passed 1.7 million hits! What funny is I wasn't even sure anyone would read it at all. I remember being so happy when the thread hit the big 100 hits. haha

StinkBud said:

Holy shit bro, you got a couple of footballs in there! You're going to love the Kandy Kush. So far it's been everyone's favorite including mine. I trimmed a whole plant and ended up with a little pile of trim. The buds are almost bag ready right from the bush! The nugs end up almost white from so many crystals.

Did anyone notice that this thread just passed 1.7 million hits! What funny is I wasn't even sure anyone would read it at all. I remember being so happy when the thread hit the big 100 hits. haha

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Lol ya, whats it 5 years now? Thats awesome! Hey Stink, do you still uses Clonex in your cloner, and is it still 150ml clonex in there?? If so, how many gallons of water do you have in the cloner? I put just a glob in mine but its so "gel" like it seems like it just stays like that.. ? Just tryin to get this clone machine dialed in here. Thanks man! For all of this info!

budtoker0987 said:

Lol ya, whats it 5 years now? Thats awesome! Hey Stink, do you still uses Clonex in your cloner, and is it still 150ml clonex in there?? If so, how many gallons of water do you have in the cloner? I put just a glob in mine but its so "gel" like it seems like it just stays like that.. ? Just tryin to get this clone machine dialed in here. Thanks man! For all of this info!

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No I don't use clonex or a timer. I just stick the cuttings in on 24/7 and wait. I also use a simple shop light for lighting. So far everything's been going great!

Some strains are easy to clone and some are hard. My Purple Wreck pops roots in 4-7 days. During the same run the Tahoe OG just sat there with little white nubs but never popped!

Water - I fill it up to just under the sprayers. Then I just add water when needed. I change the water every crop (2 months) but it's only used for a couple of weeks each run.