K1Ng5p4d3's Cardboard Box Grow (hehe)

funny thing is man I know what you mean, LOL. If your fryin balls, lookin at a dank nug is almost as sweet as staring into a campfire for like 10 hours. It's been a looooong while for me, but it's one of those things you never forget, lol.

N gyps man, thanks. Means alot comin from my people
I'm seein more sugar on those tables than i've seen in any of my other grows combined. Fuckin stoked to see what they look like next month when they're ready to cme down.

i just read most of the pages in this thread, funny how you can look back and see how it started in a cardboard box. Your setup now is real killer. Good luck!

Thanks for the compliment man. N I completely agree, I'm amazed myself at how much I've changed things up over such little time, but my shit is still without a doubt still ragtag n not well put together. But soon I'll have my setup done right. I hope you stick around tobsee it come to fruition

- sorry I bin away for the last few days. I've had to deal with some pretty bad weather, n the flooded basement that was the ending result. My neighborhoods storm drain flooded into the block septic tank, so I had a sort of shitty storm water imalgumation flooding the bottom 12" of my basemt floor, lol. But all has drained out, and been sanitized, and is drying out now. I lost about 20 clones in the process, but all has been corrected, and new clones are being thrown down, and better things are under way. I'll be back later on as soon as I get back to the laptop. Cut down sour p last night

-K1

Sucks about the bad flooding man. I'm glad my basement didn't decide to do the same thing this week. Its been rainy as hell here too. Thats sweet yo cut your sour P man, can't wait to see some pics!

Pics tonight. Sorry about the wait..

What's wierd is, all my nuggets always end up looking similar,lol. It's just wierd, but I also guess it's cuz of the conditions in my room, plus the nutes and soil im using. It's just a funny phenominon I guess.

At any rate, at least I know my shit was done when I chopped it all this time.

The hydro plants on the other hand, are all far from similar. Some are purpling up (dj short), some have more resin than I've ever seen, and some just flat out look crazy as hell, lol. 3 or 4
More weeks on those bitches n I'll be fineeto with this run. Time to focus on the future

Like I said though, pics tonight for sure.

-K1

Yaaa Pics, lol I just posted some today too! They are one page back. Can't wait to see the girls man! Harvest time is great!

Ill come check u out in a sec TC bro

So, heres some pics of this run's bountiful harvest. I still have my Strawberry Blue n Church plants to chop down, and so far i've managed to get just over 8oz dry from my babies. WAY more than expected, and im thankful for every single gram i managed to grow man


Without further ado, just some quick shots of my nuggets:

Northern Lights:



Red Diesel:



Sour P:



White Dwarf:



Sputnik #1:




N i'd have some pics of my Durban Poison, but that shit is SHMOKED, lol. Sorry guys. I'll just say it was good as hell, and got me higher than shit, hehe. As for all of the other strains, like i said before, i dont get why they all end up lookin so damn similar in my soil garden, but i aint lookin a gift horse in the mouth, thats for sure. There are subtle differences that let me be able to tell the difference between strains, so as long as i can still do that, im all good. On the other hand, my hydro garden is fuckin amazing, every strain looks so completely different from the next, its gonna look crazy when its done. Buds are starting to fatten up, and over the next 3-4 wks, shit is gonna be happening in my garden that i've never seen up close n personal. Can't fuckin wait man. Here's some pics so you can enjoy right along with me :

My Ebb n Flow monstrosity:

Some shots of Blueberry (Dj Short). She went from her leaves yellowing up, to the beginnings of turning purple. Cant wait to see what these nugs look like when theyre done. I dont give a fuck what happens, i'm taking the time to cure these motherfuckers properly. Them along with some other ones, but without a doubt, all of my BB will be jarrred up until completely done. I'm tired of lookin at dank bud that doesn't have that one of a kind DANK, FUCKIN DIGGITY DANK smell to it. Shit just doesn't feel validated without that smell man, lol.





And now, for the rest of the garden:












...Also, just throwin out a couple pics of the beginnings of my OG KUSH line, and my Space Queen babies too. In case you missed my last update, i was gifted some great gear by Elite. I got hooked up with some amazing un-tested strains in bean form, and look forward to growing them out to fruition. My new strains include:

Lemon Larry OGK x The White Kush cut

Tahoe OGK x Sour Larry OGK

Larry OGK x Chemdawg D

- These are ALL beautiful strains in their own right, so seeing them crossed with one another is something that im gonna make sure is really something special. I just hope that the beans grow out to be the actual cross, although i gotta say that im not gonna complain if i end up with Plants that are dominant one way or the other, lol. I'd absolutely love to grow out any one of those by themselves, so the crosses should be amazing

Space Queen:


Tahoe OGK x Sour Larry:


LL x The White Cut:


Larry x Chemdawg D:



- And there you have it. All in all, i couldn't be happier with the way everything is turning out. Granted, i have a long road ahead of me to get everything going, and working like a well oiled machine, but im on my way there. I'll be picking up my other flood trays next week sometime, so i'll be able to get started on setting up the next harvest after this one, which will be nothing but Power Plant. Not too excited about it personally, but hey, you gotta start somewhere if you wanna go anywhere, right??

lol, thanks for watching guys, i'll be back soon to shoot the shit.

-K1

Fucking AWESOME BRO!!!!

The buds look delish....

lol u rock man. Always the first one here to check out the updates, lol. Really appreciate it man... Also i was gonna ask, have you seen Weedman around lately?? is he still lurkin about, or has he taken a vacation or somethin or what? I miss the dude..

I really haven't...

I think he got allergic to me...

But your buds look awesome dude...

I just love seeing the different strains... they all look so different...

And the trays are looking good too...

Are you happy eith the ebb flow move?

Are you still thinking aero?

Did you ever check out SOG's journal?

Yeah, Ebb/Flow was definitely the correct step to take away from soil growing. It was easy to do, and IMHO the BEST way to learn how to grow hydroponically for beginners. I couldn't be happier with the way that things are turning out in those trays man, i mean im gonna potentially pull 2lbs from those two trays if all keeps growing the way that it is, which is WAY more than i thought i'd be able to pull in one grow - or at least it's more than i thought i'd be able to pull from one grow this early in my growing career, lol.

As for switching to Aero, i really do think that im going to switch still. And it's not that i dont like Ebb/Flow, It's just that now that i know what im doing with hydroponics, i want to see which method is the best fit for me. I used to think it was E n F for sure, but then i built my aero cloner, and the growth was so explosive, that i really just have to see what it will be able to do for vegetative and flowering plants. Cloning has been 100% successful so far with the new box. I wouldn't have had this type of success if i didnt take that next step, so i think that i owe it to my curiosity to just see what it'll do. Lord knows its easy enough, i just have to build the machines. So as soon as i can afford to do that, i'll most definitely do it, but it wont be for another couple runs, because ive whole heartedly jumped into attempting a perpetual grow with my trays. Im ordering two more 3x3's next week from my local shop, so the wheels are already in motion, lol.

Also, i just wanna say that in comparison to soil growing, resin production is fucking INSANE in my hydro garden. I've never seen resin glands so fat that you can actually see the pinheads without magnifying assistance. Theyre so blatently clear to the naked eye that i just sit down there n stare at my nugs for hours, and dont even notice the time flying by

I'm glad you are happy with it!!!

And we can see the results!!!

Have you seen SOG's journal?

He built some of stinkbud's machines, but improved...

He's got a kick ass journal too...

Have you seen it?

Here's his link...

https://www.rollitup.org/grow-journals/131873-sog-grow-room-op.html

Hey king my man,
Ive been busy bro, moved house, got a cellar in the new one...Missy is huge hey!
Im going to try to let them go natural, trimming only if a leaf is directly covering a budsite. The leave are all such a beautiful green, ph temps everything is stable man.

I need to do a better pic update i know man, but my cameras memory card is playing up, so i can only take 7 then come up to pc, then back down lol...hopefully next week i can do a proper update.

After this harvest ill be doing a few clone runs...Just do up a few mothers, and be giving away clones for petrol money and a cut from the harvest...I figure 1/2 oz dry per clone and i don't need to worry about growing it...and i also wont be meeting any of the growers, so im even anonymous to them...I have a friend who runs a very private coffee shop lol.

I will be building an aero cloner also man, but ive had ideas for mine for a while so dont worry i wont steal any of ya secrets man . The good thing about this is I can put the rooted clone in rockwool or peat pot depending what the client grows in.

Anyways, who knows what ill do when the time comes lol.

prot

looking good man

Gorgeous BRO! Those nugs look delicious, and well the plants speak for them selves. I'm glad the ebb and flow is workin out for ya so well. I can't wait to get moved and set up again. Its been stressin me the hell out trying to plan everything. I just got the word today, that I have a job where I'm moving, so now we just have to find a place, and get the first months rent and deposit pulled together. August first is the move date, so hopfully all goes well, and by the following weekend I'll have new clones, and a bunch of clones fowering already!

right on tc, glad to hear that you got shit locked up at your new place. N by the way, I wouldn't be surprised if you came through n ended up with a HUGE yield from what's gonna be comin down soon. Every time I see that bush I get jealous as hell, lol.

N Prot, just letting you know, that in my personal experience stripping shit loads of leaves off isn't a bad thing. I've had plants regenerate leaves so hardcore they ended up turning polyploid, n I ended up with 3 oz off my strawberry blue, when I was originally expecting like 1/2 oz from her cuz she was only like 5 inches tall when I flowered her out. Same thing is happening in my trays right now man. Plants are going polyploid everywhere, n while I haven't seen anything amazing happen yet with yield, it certainly hasn't hurt anything in that department, or the resin production either for that matter. I'm notnsayin that to twlll you what to do to your plants, obviously leaving them to do their thing is most important, but I just personally agree with alot that has to be said about the importance of not stripping fan leaves off. I'll take some more pics this week specifically of all of my plants that went poly on me

N Gyps, hell yeah I checked out SOG's journal man. Just another amazing setup to read and hope my setup can be as badass as that one day, lol.

K1Ng5p4d3 said:

Plants are going polyploid everywhere, n while I haven't seen anything amazing happen yet with yield, it certainly hasn't hurt anything in that department, or the resin production either for that matter.

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What is a polyploid?

And how does a plant "go there"?

Sorry bro, I even looked in the dictionary... I didn't find anything that made sense...

lol, sorry it took me so long to get back..

But yeah, a polyploid plant i guess is otherwise known as a plant with "ducksfoot" leaves. Some plants have the pre-dispositioning to have this trait in them from birth, but if you keep stripping the leaves off of a plant, it will start to grow back these same ducksfoot leaves.

From my own experience, these plants really do give a surprising yield. N if you check out Mel Frank's book Cannabis Cultivation, he talks about polys aswell, calling them mutant abnormalities, that tent to yield extraordinary amounts of green in comparison to a normal plant of the same strain, trained and flowered under the same condition.

Now, extraordinary, i dont know about that, but they most definitely do show amazing vigour towards the end of the flowering cycle. Perfect example would have to be my strawberry blue plant. When i flowered her (due to fucked up circumstances), she was about 4 or 5 inches, and i even topped her once before flowering in an attempt to get a bigger yield from what i already assumed was going to be a poor flowering plant.

Last week the plant had an AMAZING growth spurt in bud production. I ended up with 3oz dry from the plant, n thats more than i got from ANY of the plants that i flowered out upstairs in soil. She had ducksfoot leaves all over her. I didnt strip her leaves though, she was a poly from birth.


--Hope that helped out a bit. Of course unless scientists have studies on this particular subject, i'll always consider it to be pure coincedence or speculation, or whatever the hell you wanna call it, lol. But in my experience its been pretty consistent.

---Another post comin up

I need to find out from you guys in your experience, if at all, if any of you have a favorite flower finisher. Im about 3 wks away from harvest on my Ebb n Flow creation, and i have a bottle of Purple Maxx that im going to use, but i was also thinking about using something else to boost bud production in the last weeks of growth. Like Carbo Load or something like that.

Anybody have any type of consistent experience with flower finishers?? Im gonna ask this Question in the forums, but if any of my people out there have a steadfast opinion, i'd sure love to hear it

Well boys n girls, today was my birthday. Im gettin to be an old motherfucker man, lol. With that said, i got a bunch of cool ass shit too from wifey, so shit's not all bad yet, n i aint quite over the hill yet either, so rock the fuck on!!!!


So, i checked out the Attitude today. Has anybody seen their stock n the new website recently?? They now have Dj Short IN STOCK. Most of his strains are out of stock, but them even listing them means that theyll be in stock soon enough. Fuckin brilliant IMO man. There's a bunch of other really new, cool shit on their website now too. Hella easy to navigate around. I'd give it a looksee n find out if there's anything you like over there

Just lettin you guys know

Update tomorrow!

-K1.

Happy birthday dude, glad to hear it went well! Looking forward to the pics tomorrow man