MrHowardMarks' experienced grower journal.

Sooo.. are you having fun yet? lol VV

Great times

I should be flowering in no time, I have enough clones, just have to veg them out a bit, and I'm all set... Buying a shitload of Permier Sphagnum Peat Moss after work, along with a few bigass bags of perlite... Lots of planting, but it's all worth the effort.

I also realized how much a pain in the back it's going to be to water all the plants in the middle of the garden, space is tight, I might have to hook up a pump and feed them by hose.




Reusing dirt---

*Yes, you can reuse your soil/soiless mix.

*Some growers I personally know do it infinately.

*You need to use a high quality cleaning/flushing agent to clear/break up the built up salts

*Final Phase, Clearex, and a bunch of other products work great

*Water well with the flushing chemical, let it sit for a few hours... Then rinse well (5x amount of container) with plain water

--The flushing agent breaks up the left over nutrients stuck to the soil etc. then rinse it all away.

Now it's ready for reuse.

cool..you just saved me a pile of work and money......thanks..,,you could get a couple of large plastic trash cans...or 55 gallon barrels hook up a submersible pump..throw it into the bottom of the barrel and shoot your plants with it that way...or dip your bucket into the barrel..if you use a sprayer then you have to go through the expense of hooking up a pump with a PR valve and a bypass hose...not to hard.just alot more expensive..the parts can be found at graingers...a electric water pump almost anywhere...you could set up a hose irrigation ...but then you have to fight hoses all the time.....

Oh, watering isn't going to be a problem, I'll just put a submersible pump in a trash can with a hose and a check valve on the end, works great, maybe even attach a wand made of CPVC for better reach...

I like to water with a typical watering can so I can do it slowly, and regulate how much I'm watering.

i use two gallon garden buckets.....your check valve must be similar to a pressure relief valve..then?i have to wait what seems like forever for my RO to pour out enough water to fill a couple of two gallon cans..i think if i were watering a huge amount of flowers ,,id have to put the RO hose into a large plastic trash can and come back a couple of hour;s latter...and my RO is supposed to produce 200 gal a day...PVC is one of the greatest inventions off all time..who ever invented it should get the nobel prize...

I stopped using RO once my plant numbers got as high as they are, I was running it constantly 24/7 and still coming up short, so I decided to say fuck it, plus I was wasting shitloads of water from the waste line... Not very environmently friendly.

As long as your city water is decent it works great, you can contact the EPA and get a read out of all the contents.

our water comes out at 450 to 500 PPM...its garbage...i dont trust the government to tell me what is in it..it could be anything..and that is terrible high PPM..i like to start out with a light dose of nutes to get em used to it at least or around 700 PPM or 800 PPM if you are already at 500 i cant drop but a little nute;s in the bucket...do you know what your PPM is coming out of the faucet?and have you noticed much difference in the results from using tap water to using RO..?i would imagine where a person lives would have alot to do with it and the quality of water they start out with..

Yeah, it's entirely dependant on what's coming outta the tap, and where you live.

My tap water reads 110 ppm, and has a pH of 7.1... Good water.

I actually noticed a little bit better results using my tap water, probably because of the minerals in it.

I'm with you on not trusting the government, you know hitler tainted the water supply, and also fluoride it known to cause sleepyness and depression if ingested... So why is it in the water? For our teeth??? I don't think so. Plus chlorine, and whatever else they want to add to it...

Either way, 500 ppm is no good at all for tap water. It's horrible, well water might be better

the RO will have to do..i dont need to use as much water as you do..if i did id have to get a large capacity RO ...floride is a poison actualy...im not a huge fan of the government...i give it the respect it is due as it can take away my freedom..a government large enough to give you everything you want is also powerfull enough to take away everything you have....a government cannot give the people anything they first do not take away from the people..the bright side of the government going bankrupt..is us libertarians will finnaly get the small government we want..or will we get total government control under a iron fist..probably under the iron fist....

I don't know if you've been following the news lately, but the government is pretty much running big buisness, the bailout gave them more control over the people than most give credit. The government isn't getting any smaller, democrats want big government and stricter regulations, republicans want free trade and less involvement, libertarians, like me, want the government to fuck off.

wow this thing gets more and more interesting each time i read it

raiderman said:

i never got this mch weed off any other its the BB cross with kush .its for the conisie. smoker ony . most pp. i know coudnt smoke it . said it made em trip. i never cood get pass 2 hits .i been smookin 32 yrs.DP strains are consistent, short and very stoky

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what strain are you acctually talking about thats that good and no one can smoke it what is it and that blue moonshine jus cae out at the begining of the year i thought

MrHowardMarks said:

I don't know if you've been following the news lately, but the government is pretty much running big buisness, the bailout gave them more control over the people than most give credit. The government isn't getting any smaller, democrats want big government and stricter regulations, republicans want free trade and less involvement, libertarians, like me, want the government to fuck off.

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when you have government buying up private companys with tax payers money..that is socialism...they will not be able to afford to borrow much longer..this ponzi scheme is going to fall flat on its face...

That's what he's talking about, he bought some beans...
We were talking about my DJ Short blueberry, aparently DJ works for Dutch Passion and has been breeding for them for awhile, so, Dutch Passion's blueberry is a DJ Short variety. And Blue Moonshine is a variety of that mixed with some kush...

Also, i think it was bonghits4all who was saying that DJ lost his blueberry father, so it might be an endangered strain... At least the non-feminized version.

(Thanks bdrsouthside I can't wait to go back and read it all after I've finished. This is the most extensive documentation of my grow I've ever done... Hell, I've never really got past buying a calender and writing on the dates before this... )

hahaha thats cool, man i have jsut started my first frow and so far it is going good, but with out doing something like this i woulnd't have the first clue it it all been tremendous help to me

I just read 48 pages of 1 of the best journals ive ever read its really nice and informitave. Good job i will def be keeping up with this 1 great job

Looking really great brother--thing are rolling------Would love to get a clone or beans of that blue moonshine----Very nice strain...keep up the great work-talk to you soon.

What's up doc?

Thanks all...

From reading that I've done on my own, it's difficult to choose between methods, and techniques... Most sources give you a ton of options, like hydro or soil, what size containers, what method of hydro, what lights, what nutes, etc etc etc...

I like the grow journal idea because it shows just one growers one way of growing.

I'll try to put my methods out there as clear as possible, and by the end I'll have a seed to harvest thourough journal, with tips on all of the different things that might come up. After it's all said and done I plan on compiling everything into a shorter cleaner version (ie this post)

Burn one for me, cause I'm fucking ripped

MrHowardMarks said:

but the government is pretty much running big buisness

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LOL...the government isn't running big business....just the opposite... big business is running government. It's been that way for at least 50 years.

many more than fifty years, mi amigo

awesome thread