Perpetual Short Bus: A Crop Circle Story

Saladman AKA Mixed Greens said:

Bus,

How big would you say your biggest single colas have gotten using CCOB? Would you say the size of a Bic lighter, or a cell phone or a soda can? Consequently, how much would you say your largest single colas have weighed?

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On a tangent to this: You are using 2 plants per bucket, but are the plants topped? I have 3 clones now with ccob cages on them and 2 of them are single-stalked and one is double stalked. I am starting to veg my fem seeds now and just topped my first one, a wonder woman seed. I was undecided for awhile if I want to just use the cage to help me LST the plant, so I dont have to top it, or if I should top them and cross them ccob style. I plan to try some each way in the near future, probably when I crack my 2 of my 5 LSD seeds at the same time in the coming week.

Looks awesome Short. Nice!!

More like the size of a Flintstones Push-Up Pop, maybe a little longer, and probably weighing around a quarter oz.

Rasputin, I do top, for 2 main stalks. Usually when the plants are pretty young, maybe 5 or 6 nodes on em.

joC, thanks homes! Good to see ya!

Short Bus said:

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Rasputin, I do top, for 2 main stalks. Usually when the plants are pretty young, maybe 5 or 6 nodes on em.
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lol, just topped my wonder woman as soon as I saw her 3rd node.

I am cracking a couple of LSD seeds in a few days to add to my garden. I can already tell I am gonna need more time from seed > veg > flower, if using all fem seeds instead of clones.

LSD is a sweet looking strain, I've looked at it on the Attitude site a bunch of times. Yeah, seedlings do take awhile to get established, but they take off after you get em there.

On a different note, I'm smoking my first super soil grown bud tonight, and in a taste/potency comparison it blows the fucking doors off my old liquid nute-fed plants. Sooooo tasty... I gotta recommend the super soil, it keeps your plants looking prime and lush the whole way through. The round I'm smoking didn't veg long enough, and I stripped the leaves, so I can't really compare yields accurately, but the flavor is amazing.

Here's a look at a couple days worth of root growth into to cover cups. If I remember right, these are Northern Lights, Mountain Bastard, and Super Skunk, in that order.

I was telling my wife about Djruiner's co-grow with his girl and she got excited, so we picked out a couple Super Skunks for her and dropped em in some coco. Here's a couple shots of the younglings and their roots, prior to being topped and root-pruned.





I'll be updating on these as the go through the stages over here. Go Missus Bus!

That is soooo cool!! I wish I could get my wife interested!! All she does is complain when I have to pick up something else for nutes!!!

Sup Mr Shortbus.
Subscribed.
Love journal.
Got a perpetual journal going as well. Check it out.
I will help spread the word about hobbes CCOB.

Ill rate this thread as 5 stars.

Hell yeah, what up Scarhole! I'll check out the journal in a little bit here.

I'm gonna try and come up with something special for my 420th post, as this is number 419. Hmmmmm.... Keep an eye out!

I wanted to do something cool for my 420th post, but the best I could come up with was...

A Short Bus Strain Review! (The First)

So the wife and I picked up some Kryptonite from a local dispensary on the recommendation of the staff. We only frequent a couple of the many local clubs, so we know we can trust the folks there. Anyway, the Kryptonite looked bomb, so we grabbed some for a little change of flavor.

Kryptonite:





Looks: Sugar-dipped, purple highlights on the leaves, finger-shaped calyx growth.

Smells: Not very impressive, I think this batch might be a little older.

Tastes: Better than it smells. Very skunky, with a rich earthy undertone.

High: Light, cerebral, very sativa dominant in nature. Still a little laid-back, not as energetic as some sativas, betraying a hybrid lineage. Overall, great smoke.





That's about it, feel free to review my review!

Good macro shots, pass that bowl here !

Awesome looking nug, bro!! That is some tasty stuff!! Nice and frosty!!!

Short Bus said:

I was telling my wife about Djruiner's co-grow with his girl and she got excited, so we picked out a couple Super Skunks for her and dropped em in some coco. Here's a couple shots of the younglings and their roots, prior to being topped and root-pruned.

I'll be updating on these as the go through the stages over here. Go Missus Bus!

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are those mites? be careful! they suck

Good eye I see em also!
Plus rep +.
I WOULD TRASH EM ASAP.
I had to clear my whole grow cab out an start fresh cause of them.
Get hot shot stips an use some pesticides. Just in case.

Id trash them, and bleach the living shit out of anything they came in contact with, including the entire room.

Thanks all, I fight an ongoing mite battle, most of the visible damage is old news. I kill em all, they come back after a month or so, repeat. At this point I just use an organic nicotine spray every week or so, or whenever I see a new leaf looking chewed.

Doc, I agree 100% on the deleafing thing. I experimented, it bit me in the ass, my wife said "I told you so," and now I know better. I still have a few that were pruned once, but they've recovered pretty well, should produce decent. I do like to let my lower buds ripen up for a week if I have the space for em, been thinking about defoliating in the last week of flower, since the buds are pretty much formed by then. I don't know, might be a while before I try it.

On the clone note, I do have an interested local dispensary who said to contact them in a few weeks when they're ready to order. Yay!

Dang man!

I feel so guilty for encouraging you to butcher your plants!

Sorry 'bout that Bus, I was hoping for the best, but I guess it just wasn't meant to be
Ah well, live and learn. I do appreciate the effort though and it did help someone, so at the very least, it wasn't in vain.

How are things coming along lately, any improvements? That Kryptonite looked pretty sweet, did you pick up a clone or just the nug? Oh yeah, how are dem DWC's working out for ya?

Just a nug of the Krypto, damn! I'd love to have it, just for the name. I'm a huge comic book nerd, anything DC makes me happy. Marvel, quit whoring out my X-Men! Anyway... The biggest improvement is CMH in veg. That bulb has literally doubled my growth rates, and the company I got it from is trying so hard to sell em that they'll give you a free HPS with your CMH bulb. I'm gonna convert my flower room to CMH in the near future.
On that note, I gotta say this to my Grow Lab afficianados: I'm giving up on the light mover, I wish I'd spent the money on another light. I don't know how Hobbes did it, but my results using a moving 600w light in an 8' long space haven't been up to my standards, and with no Hobbes to ask, I just added a 400w light. Gonna lamp it with CMH, and eventually swap my 600w for another 400w CMH. So with that said, I still think CCOB is the shit and of course I'll still be training and root-pruning same as always, I'm just going with a (slightly) more conventional lighting set-up.

The DWC's are great, I had a brief root slime battle when my airstones clogged last week, but a little hygrozyme and a clean airstone turned that right around. I find the process really interesting from a bio standpoint, you really are micromanaging a 5 gallon microbial culture, if that does well the plant just rides the microbial coattails to dankness. Real excited on those, they've been in flower a week today.

Don't sweat the deleafing experiment homes, I was the one holding the scissors.
I'm way too stubborn to try anything unless it gets me curious.