I suck at growing weed
I think its just something about growing as well. Doesn't matter how many times some grow it, the next is always more exciting than the last.
I love growing. Think we all have to, for a green thumb.
I dont think theres been a single grow, that i havn't just tweaked things a touch, to see if an idea works.
Msidragon
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Hey man I spoke to you on another thread what strains have you tried growing? Also what growing method do you use? I'm quite new to growing weed but I must be doing something right because so far I've only grown bagseed up until 3 weeks ago when I started some seeds a friend bought me from the uk, but those still have a long way to go, but back to the bagseed, I grew this 1 plant which is currently being dried it's actually one of my first plants, and about 2 weeks before harvest I got a little impatient and clipped a small bud as a tester and I mean this bud was smaller than the tip of my pinky before drying and curing I'll upload a pic XD
but I dried it for 4 days and cured it for 4 days, I know this wasn't the best way but I wanted to try some of my own homegrown for my birthday, and this tiny bud blew anything else I've had out of the water and it was far from ready, so you may find my growing method useful or not but I'm just trying to help anyone whose having issues with what I've learned so far, I mean either I did something right or I won the bagseed lottery, I grow in soil nothing fancy, just soil I found in the garden, don't use any pesticides and only recently started using fertiliser when the plants started losing leaves due to flowering but I use seagro organic plant food aka fish emulsion so no harmful chemicals, and I have my plants in 10l buckits with holes drilled in the bottom some may call this too small but it's perfect for me since I have limited space but I always start in a smaller container since this speeds up the initial growth, I have a fairly cheap 1.6m tall 1.2m wide and 0.7m deep grow tent I bought off Amazon for roughly 60 dollar's but please note I am a budget grower especially since I live in a 3rd world country where everything I need is either inaccessible or extremely expensive so my setup is questionable but works, I did a lot of research on lights and everything pointed at LED's for the electricity bill to power output ratio but they had the issue of being expensive themselves so I did more research to find a cheap way of getting leds that are powerful enough but that are still cheap, then I stumbled upon these really cheap 50w cob LED chips from China so I bought 3 which cost me 30 dollars, you can go full diy and buy an external driver but I frankly didn't have the budget or time so I bought one with a built in driver and attached some spare pc heatsinks I had laying around and fired them up, my plants all seem to be sativa or sativa dominant but the bagseed I used was swazi gold and the one I tate tested was just called greenhouse according to the guy I got it from, but my new plants are growing even better than the previous batch, my plants I have growing now is durban poison from Dutch passion, royal moby from Royal Queen seeds, critical from Royal Queen aswell, Jack herrer from black skull seeds (this one survived the cat clipping the top off at the 2nd node and leaving only 1 leaf on it) and then I have the swazi gold still in flower but it's taking nearly forever to ripen
Ghost of Davy Jones
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I just use soil. I've tried girl scout cookies. Twilight. Strawberry kush.
Msidragon
Member
Mmmm girl scout cookies should be amazing but from what I know if your weed isn't strong enough it may be due to it not having been ready yet when you harvested or the plant made seeds, this one is easy to figure out luckily but if it's just taste we're talking about then it might be that the weed is too dry or too moist or not cured correctly to check of your weed is dry enough always leave a bit of a stem when you hang to dry, after around day 4 try bend the stem, if it Bends its not dry enough if it snaps its ready for cure, you will most likely need to let it dry between 4 and 10 days but it should snap but not break off, if it breaks off it may be too dry, and for curing you need to keep them in a glass jar for 2 weeks and burp the jar for an hour every day to prevent mould, it may be necessary to shuffle the weed around a bit in the jar when you burp it especially in the beginning stages when there will be the most moisture but if you follow all these steps you should in theory have some very dank herb, could you send some pics of a plant before harvest and the bud after cure? Here is a pic of some chocolope I had the other day:
@Ghost of Davy Jones,
Hey mate, find your problem?
Hey mate, find your problem?
Ghost of Davy Jones
Well-Known Member
Probably not good genetics. Maybe if i pop enuff seeds I'll eventually find a winner.
Msidragon
Member
Where do you buy your seeds from? I heard good things about sweet seeds, also try get some Dutch passion durban poison, it's a 100 percent sativa landrace strain listed in the world's top 10 most potent sativa's number 1 is ghost train haze I think, you can get durban poison from dope-seeds.com for a reasonable price, that's where I got mine
Ghost of Davy Jones
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I've tried several places but they always say my Visa debit card from my bank has been declined. When I talked to my bank about it they say, nobody has attempted any charges. After trying about 20 different companies I tried the single seed center. They are kind of like a middle man i believe. I've only tried a handful of seeds thus far. 1 was good. and the other 3 were just okay. Maybe i messed up a lot of little things, idk, but I'm gonna keep trying til i get it right. I've heard good things about durbin poison. My girl scout cookies are crossed with durbin poison. I'm hearing good things about gorilla glue too.
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Msidragon
Member
You should use PayPal always helps alot
Ghost of Davy Jones
Well-Known Member
what seed bank offers pay pal?
That's a damn good question.
Is there a tricky answer? lol
Ive wondered the same.
Anyone used Mr Nice Seeds?
Ive heard, Shantibaba, Sam the Skunk man, and a few others, are running the show.
Apparently Shanti, took all his mothers, and fathers with him, when he left GHSC.
Supposedly they're selling the original White Widow, and Great White Shark, under a different name.
We all know about Arijan Gold too
Msidragon
Member
There are a few but I have no experience using them, but you can also use bitcoin, if you use bitcoin on https://www.dope-seeds.com you get 20 percent discount on already discounted seeds and they always have promotions where you get a hell of alot of freebies, if you carefully look at their promotions you can do what I did and get more freebie seeds than paid for seeds, I bought 2 packs of 3 seeds and ended up getting 13 seeds all from really good seed banks like Dutch passion, dinafem and royal queen seeds
Ghost of Davy Jones
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Bit coin confuses me bigtime. Not sure i trust it either, but thank you.
dabby duck
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Stateside banks are more into paypal
Oregon elite seed
Dc seed exchange
But really just send insured cash for the least hassle or insured money orders, why even give traceability a chance or fraud imo..
Good luck.
hi ryder
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talking about money i have just 3 days ago sprayed my plant gorilla glue with potassium carbonate as a preventative measure against mold and it has burnt the leaves it,s the fan leaves the plant is in it,s third week.
will this have a major effect to the end harvest or is it just a wee set back, i would like to know because i,m so broke i rely on my shit to smoke.
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will this have a major effect to the end harvest or is it just a wee set back, i would like to know because i,m so broke i rely on my shit to smoke.
spidermitesarego