Total Noob using teas and I am a believer

I still want to see blumats with air pots!

What do you guys think a really good cbd strain would be? I'm trying to find one that I can grow for 2 cancer patients. I think I may go with pennywise.

I found a club that carries cage seeds too along with tga and cali connect. Ironically they are on the tga list. I didn't even check it before hand.

Rrog said:

These fabric pots are very popular among some of the most respected growers I know, so it would be great to figure this out a bit before abandoning, maybe.

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I've seen an improvement using airpots. Granted I use LED so I can go 4 to 5 days between watering, that's nice! Used to be every other day watering with the 400w HID. I also water with a 32 oz cup. By the time I make it around four or five plants, I can go back and add another cup. I do this about four times and I get a good even saturation with no air pockets in my five gallon Geopots and water doesn't leak out the sides.

I stay away from the Teas, only because the plants seem fine without it. Good, organic amended soil and water is working fine for me. Just keeping it simple, until I see a reason to change. Sometimes less is more, ya know?



The microbes go dormant in completely dried out soil, right?

Mad Hamish said:

Not at all. They use what is called 'Hygroscopic water' and to remove that from soil you actually have to cook it, like in an oven. Even when your soil feels bone-dry, the microbes are thriving. As long as your roots are not getting air-pruned back into the pot there is no problem mate.

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Love it when I learn something new!

Get more with less!!!

I should reserve judgement on the lined air pots in my tent. I just put clones in them last thursday and probably did not water them in completely.


My new freebie bulb just burnt out, good thing I have 2 back up bulbs.

Rrog said:

I really advocate keeping the soil optimally moist. I mean, if you looked at two scenarios:

Soil constant perfect moisture level

Soil intermittently dried out

I think scenario #1 will have a LOT more going on microbially. While they don't die in the dry, they don't thrive. Sort of an emergency stasis. That's why I love the blumats. Keeps the moisture optimal, and I really feel this keeps everything else burning on all 8 cyinders

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I can't argue with that.

I have such a tight space that for me to have blumats, I would have to link a couple 5 gallon tanks on the wall that would feed the blumat lines. Then I would not be able to gain any weight at all.

You have no water supply nearby? Well or municipal?

I will help you cog this through if you want. I've set up BM with straight well as well as well through RO. My next room is a single RO filtered well water, through the BM pressure reducer, then on to the drippers.

It's simpler than it sounds. Again, I can offer an opinion on anything you're interested in. I just hate seeing you move away from what I know in my heart is a good thing.

Plus you maybe need to change the soil mix to hold more water, but the drippers will make this a real yawner...

I don't mean to pester, but I'd sure like you to give this another whirl.

What say ye?

I'm in my furnace room and have a very limited amount of space. To set up blumats would be a crazy amount of work right now.
I'm going to see how the airpots lined with landscape fabric do. Thanks

hyroot said:

What do you guys think a really good cbd strain would be? I'm trying to find one that I can grow for 2 cancer patients. I think I may go with pennywise.

I found a club that carries cage seeds too along with tga and cali connect. Ironically they are on the tga list. I didn't even check it before hand.

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Harlequin was bred to be max CBD. Bodhi had a Harlequin BX, not sure if it is available at the moment. Gage Green have a Harlequin x OG called Freedom Baby or Harlequin Jo (Jo is the Joseph OG, their OG stud). They do NOT guarantee every pheno as high CBD, they are very clear about that, but the ones that are test pretty bloody high. Those are the only purposefully bred CBD strains I know about.

Mad Hamish said:

Harlequin was bred to be max CBD. Bodhi had a Harlequin BX, not sure if it is available at the moment. Gage Green have a Harlequin x OG called Freedom Baby or Harlequin Jo (Jo is the Joseph OG, their OG stud). They do NOT guarantee every pheno as high CBD, they are very clear about that, but the ones that are test pretty bloody high. Those are the only purposefully bred CBD strains I know about.

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that's why I was thinking pennywise. Harlequin x space queen. They show lab reports for different phenos. Around 11% thc 13% cbd. That much cbd should counter act the high. Which the people im looking to do this for will like since they don't smoke. Hopefully they can hold on til I get it and its done. I have some red clover coming in the mail. I don't know how long that takes to flower. You can make a tea from the flowers and drink it. It battles cancer cells in the same way cbd does. That should be ready before any strain. I will check cage's too. Where I'm going to get the strain is a dispensary that only sells seeds. They carry strains from both companies.

Rrog said:

You have no water supply nearby? Well or municipal?

I will help you cog this through if you want. I've set up BM with straight well as well as well through RO. My next room is a single RO filtered well water, through the BM pressure reducer, then on to the drippers.

It's simpler than it sounds. Again, I can offer an opinion on anything you're interested in. I just hate seeing you move away from what I know in my heart is a good thing.

Plus you maybe need to change the soil mix to hold more water, but the drippers will make this a real yawner...

I don't mean to pester, but I'd sure like you to give this another whirl.

What say ye?

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You'll be helping me with my spring setup I hope.

Gand...you said you use Coast of Maine products right?

You know it GdG!

RedCarpetMatches said:

Gand...you said you use Coast of Maine products right?

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Yeah. I really like them. Keep it local.

Mad Hamish said:

Harlequin was bred to be max CBD. Bodhi had a Harlequin BX, not sure if it is available at the moment. Gage Green have a Harlequin x OG called Freedom Baby or Harlequin Jo (Jo is the Joseph OG, their OG stud). They do NOT guarantee every pheno as high CBD, they are very clear about that, but the ones that are test pretty bloody high. Those are the only purposefully bred CBD strains I know about.

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There is a variety here in CO that used to be called "Hippy's Disappointment" then a young girl began using it for siezures - she went from something like 300 a week to one a week, it saved her life.

It is now called Charlotte's Web.

You're lucky! I'm looking for something local until my worm bin is ready. Nothing good here at all...or anything I trust. There's a store 20 min. from me that carries Schults premium compost and manure. My grow shop also has gnat infested lobster compost lol and Alaskan Humus. I already have a bag of red wiggler castings. Thinking about combing bagged castings with Alaskan humus. What do you higher ups think?[h=2][/h]

CALLING ALL GURUS!

I need your help with something. We have got higher, MUCH higher than normal humidity here than we have ever had this time of year. It is supposed to be below 55 most of the time. Staying around 70. This has made that dampening off on my outdoor seedlings is about to become a reality. I just know it. I can see the signs in how they are stretching. Usually, I would deal with this using H2O2. This will kill my micro herd. I do not want this. If I have to, it is the road I will take.
We have a huge storm coming in 2 days. I am expecting INCHES of rain. Guys, this is BAD. I can move them under cover for the rain, not a problem. The problem is that soil is refusing to dry. I have enough aerating material in there to at least not be suffocating them. But like I said, dampening off is now a real threat.
So, no H2O2, how will you treat your seedlings in a preventative fashion in conditions such as this? It is damn near going tropical out here. Climate change is catching me with my pants down. And not in a funny way. It is aiming for my rear.

Do you have clonex gel or the like? Aloe gel? Post a few pictures. I have been there Hamish. I almost killed the SM and Alex by damping off.

hyroot said:

that's why I was thinking pennywise. Harlequin x space queen. They show lab reports for different phenos. Around 11% thc 13% cbd. That much cbd should counter act the high. Which the people im looking to do this for will like since they don't smoke. Hopefully they can hold on til I get it and its done. I have some red clover coming in the mail. I don't know how long that takes to flower. You can make a tea from the flowers and drink it. It battles cancer cells in the same way cbd does. That should be ready before any strain. I will check cage's too. Where I'm going to get the strain is a dispensary that only sells seeds. They carry strains from both companies.

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One thing to consider here with regards to high cbd strains...

I have a friend that is growing cannatonic #4. I have grown this strain as well before getting my hands on Valentinex. He has his flowers tested at a local lab, and he has been tinkering with flowering times. His conclusions through the lab tests is that cbd peaks much sooner than thc. If left to flower the full 9 weeks, his lab results are coming back at 1.5% thc, and 14% cbd. He has taken samples at 7 weeks and 8 weeks and had those tested as well. He is finding that the thc levels are considerably lower in the 7 and 8 week samples, but the cbd levels have been pretty constant. IOW, if you harvest a 9 week strain a 7 weeks, you're likely to find significantly lower levels of thc with cbd levels being near peak. This is obviously important if you're dealing with someone who only wants the therapeutic benefits of the cbd but does not want the "high" from the thc.

I wish you guys lived closer. The valentinex is supposed to register at 1% thc and 25% cbd. I will be getting these flowers tested to make sure I'm not having smoke blown up my arse.

Hamish, where did you find your info on soil microbes thriving in dry soil? I'm not trying to call you out here, but honestly that runs counter to everything I've read on the subject. I think this topic deserves more discussion. If you're right, then that would be a game-changer for a lot of people. Watering less is very appealing to me.

Thoughts anyone?