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jonboy30 said:

Yo Slab...you stopped by my journal, so I def had to return the gesture for sure! Dude, those plants are f'ing amazing looking. I've never seen what super cropping really looks like...teach me the way mastah. What is the purpose of supercropping method? I'm curious to learn.

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Hey jonboy, thanks for the visit. The Supercropping is a way of increasing the yield by strategically bending stressing or breaking the stem to cause the plant to divert energy to other growing shoots without losing the growing tip. If done right, LOL. Look at some of the pics and see how the side shoots and the nodes above the bend just explode in new growth. More growing tops more buds. Actually I'm all new to this I picked it up reading genfranco's and other threads about it. give it a try and see what it does.

riznob10000 said:

Lookin great Slab!!! It's nice you're gettin some rain down there; in the middle of summer they can sure use it! Keep us posted on the supercropping and definately keep the pics comin!!

Oh yeah, ya think I could maybe borrow a jar? I was thinkin of takin up canning. It's okay if it's dirty or already filled with somethin, i won't mind cleaning it out first!!

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No kidding riz, we sure needed the rain. My old back was about to need a rest...LOL I took some new pics of the supercropping so let's see how it looks. Cannabis is a truly amazing plant how it adapts. Like that slug wound of yours healing itself up.
Got jars? You bet man, I'm sure you'd return the favor, Right????

genfranco said:

No shit.. I want a jar right about now... I sure hope i get to fill up some jars this year with my outdoor ladies....

Thanks for the tease.. LOL

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Yeah, I bet you will. I got a few extra cases this year so I won't have to pack them so tight. LOL, what a problem to have.

cph said:

Thanks for the offer!!

But... uhhh.. I have a feeling your at least a few days away.

Keep it warm, I might show up someday...

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Maybe one day we can all live in harmony and not be so covert. I look forward to the day I can have my backyard filled up like mygirls and fdd. I hope to see it in my lifetime...

Silentbobs son said:

Glad to hear you are getting rain. Maybe a break from the intense heat will cause them to shoot up.

I love your pic from last year's. Hopefully, in two months I will have something to match it, if I'm lucky.

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Thank goodness on the rain alright. I even have time for a little scooter ride today. Whoop!!!

You and me both bro!!!

They are looking amazing!! Keep it up!

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So those are just a few of the ones I took this morning. I hope ya'll enjoyed the porn. Later, slabhead

Well I got out this morning and started spraying Bt for those damned caterpillers. I noticed a few fan leaves rolled up and some tops being munched on. I had just been smashing the ones I found but after the rain we had this past week it seems to have sent the bud worms into overdrive.





We don't see many of these. I believe it's a katydid. Yes I killed it.



Another peril of guerrilla growing are the ticks. I shudder to think what it would be like if I didn't spray myself with DEET before going out. While removing my camo I found three of the little bloodsuckers and this one imbedded in my neck. I must have not sprayed enough on me.

Watch out with those ticks!! Little fuckers will get ya.

Besides the bug problem, they are looking great!! The tall one looks about 6', is that about right? Going to be a MONSTER!!

yeah c, most are 5 to 6 right now. It's sure hard to keep the bugs from carrying everything away in the great outdoors. And starting to see some early flowering but then I found a male today. WTF, I don't know how he slipped through the sexing. Funny he is more healthy than the male garden, but I've been treating him like a lady. Ha

Might be your best bet for pollen then!! He definitely looks happy!

cph said:

Might be your best bet for pollen then!! He definitely looks happy!

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He better enjoy his last few days. Yep, I'll collect some from him before I yank him. Poor little fellow was just getting a good hard on with all those pretty sweet girls around him. Too bad.

slabhead said:

He better enjoy his last few days. Yep, I'll collect some from him before I yank him. Poor little fellow was just getting a good hard on with all those pretty sweet girls around him. Too bad.

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Hey Slab. Thought Id stop by and see what you have cookin. I dont envy you totin those 5-gal buckets of water uphill. Your gardens look great. Try some city slicker seeds next year Im sure you will do great with them.

greenthumb111 said:

Hey Slab. Thought Id stop by and see what you have cookin. I dont envy you totin those 5-gal buckets of water uphill. Your gardens look great. Try some city slicker seeds next year Im sure you will do great with them.

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Gt, You know I'm gonna do that. I've been looking at the banks and thinking about making the plunge this time. Now that I've learned to clone and got a little light system to play with I've been trying to decide which strain(s) and which seedbank to use. I've always been partial to the purps but it seems the bubblegums and the blueberries have my interest of late. I just can't get over the price of those seeds though. Good Lord that's the business to be in...

Awesome garden bro. Scribed!

tat2d420 said:

Awesome garden bro. Scribed!

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Thanks tat, there's always something to see.

Funny I was over looking at submachinegun's grow and got a big laugh. He had seen some weed growing in someone's yard and found out it was really Texas Star Hibiscus. It does look similar. Hey smg just where do you live??? Hahaha

Lookin fat Slab!! You're gonna end up with way too much dankness after the boys of summer have gone. Life's rough, huh?

And I gotta say, I had the same tick issue one time, except it was on my ex-brother-in-laws neck. We did a grow together one year, ended up puttin our stuff square in the middle of a shit load of poison oak. Made for tricky maintenance!! But yeah, we found one on his neck one day while we were out, and I'm like, "I'll just burn it off!!". I ended up just jabbin his neck with a lit cigarette!! Funniest shit ever!! He's jumpin around screamin and yellin with a nice fat blister on his neck! I almost pee'd myself laughin so hard! Hmmm....I wonder if he still has a scar. Hahahaha


Ahhh...good times.....

Ouch, I'm sure glad you were busy that day. Hahaha. You'd been chasin' my ass all over the woods w/that cig. Funny the shit we enjoy.

Yep, the last boys of summer are going down this week. ohohohoh, gotta go the race is starting............

riznob10000 said:

Lookin fat Slab!! You're gonna end up with way too much dankness after the boys of summer have gone. Life's rough, huh?

And I gotta say, I had the same tick issue one time, except it was on my ex-brother-in-laws neck. We did a grow together one year, ended up puttin our stuff square in the middle of a shit load of poison oak. Made for tricky maintenance!! But yeah, we found one on his neck one day while we were out, and I'm like, "I'll just burn it off!!". I ended up just jabbin his neck with a lit cigarette!! Funniest shit ever!! He's jumpin around screamin and yellin with a nice fat blister on his neck! I almost pee'd myself laughin so hard! Hmmm....I wonder if he still has a scar. Hahahaha


Ahhh...good times.....

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sounds like me and my bro in law... LOL... i almost peed my pants just reading this one...Thanks for the laugh...



whatup Slab? hows the plants doing.... have you taken out the sprayer yet for the butterflies? ive been spraying my shit like crazy since they are starting to bud...

genfranco said:

sounds like me and my bro in law... LOL... i almost peed my pants just reading this one...Thanks for the laugh...



whatup Slab? hows the plants doing.... have you taken out the sprayer yet for the butterflies? ive been spraying my shit like crazy since they are starting to bud...

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Yep, I sprayed with Safer mixed with Neem last week. I guess the two are compatible, I hope. I picked up some spinosad today and a gallon of molasses. I'm gonna rotate spraying the Bt and Spinosad. Don't want any tolerance built up on those bastards. I know they're gonna be bad with all the moths and butterflies. It's been one of those hot summers that is now steaming with humidity, uggggh. I just hope the cicadas don't like it. They're singing all evening and night almost deafening. The little showers we got seems to have awoken all the crawling flying munching critters.

Found the molasses at Lowe's. http://www.medinaag.com/productpages/farming/Molasses.swf





and the spinosad too.





I picked up another jug of Safer too.






If you're growing outdoors you better get some and start using it before the shelves are bare.

lol... i have a funny visual...

the other day the fam just got back from the store from buying groceries... i was bringing the last load into the kitchen and i look outside to see 2 caterpillars flying around in my garden... they seem to be playing with each other in the air.. (like eagles matting...LOL)

So I dropped everything and start running out there.. .my kids freak out... my dogs freak out... and then i just go around chasing these damn things...leverybody starts laughing at me cause im going crazy about pretty white butterflies...LOL.. Got 1 ... the other i havent been able to get.... so know my son and myself are gonna get butterfly nets like spongebob and patrick..LOL... I havent seen the butterfly again and have killed 2 gray butterfly/moth looking deals...

you know what though... I have only been seeing the 1.... seems like not allot of those butterflies make it cause its always just 1 anymore.. So try to catch and kill them... lol..before they lay eggs..

That's alright gen, most of us understand that behavior. hahaha, I hope your neighbors do. I guess the singles are the females looking for a place to lay their eggs. It might have been Hodge's grow I'm thinkin of that plants decoys <flowers of some kind> around to attract them away from his mj. I've been thinking of persian whites....LOL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY8IQnHFKTA