Shwag's Indoor Organic Perpetual Medical Garden Adventure.

Shwagbag said:

I recommend checking it out. A lot of strains will stank up my whole place on harvest day, even when they're chopped inside the room. This girl didn't stank it up one bit.

I mostly use 8 gallon containers but I flower in everything from 1 gallon to 10. Veg times vary, when one goes down, another one goes in and I just pick the most mature vegging plant to pop into the flower tent. Height also depends on genetics but I have been vegging recently for long periods which seems like 6 weeks or more. Veg is slow under T5's and LED's so it gives me extra time to manage and train as the slowly get ready for flower. I strip everything under the tops all the way through veg until about a week before flower and just let the tops go, choosing how many tops I want and which branches I want to be colas. I just started this heavy pruning a couple months ago and its proving to work well for me. It keeps the vigor and plant energy at the tops and they mature more quickly and faster with a strong root base. I continue to strip some through stretch to remove what I figure will be airy or underdeveloped buds from lack of penetration under the canopy. Most of my plants stay under 3 feet at harvest, but I like them even shorter for max light penetration.

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Thanks man, good info. Next run i will be using a much more complete soil mix and a bigger flowering container. Also let my lower growth get kind of outta hand so planning on keeping the stalks a little cleaner next time to focus the energy to the tops.

I've been on a bit of a hiatus from RIU, missing your threads people! Just a bit too busy at the moment to do any updates or follow along. I chopped the Alaskan Ice, will try to throw some chop day pics up when I have time to upload. It was the best yielding plant I've ever grown for sure, frosted right out too! She def leans haze for flavor, aroma and effect. Not very stoney, fruity flavored, but very dense and frosted with a nice alert buzz. I tend to get excessively methodical and anal retentive when I smoke it (traits I already possess lol). Definitely gives me gumption and ambition! I pulled exactly 7 zips from her dried, including stem weight on the big ones!

I hope all are well!

No worries Shwag. First things first.

Enjoy the harvest!

JD

OUTSTANDING BROTHER SHWAG!!! Keep me posted on that Alaskan Ice! All you stuff looks top notch and professionally grown! Your hard work and knowledge is shown in your plants! Keep up the great work bro! I know you got to be smiling about that harvest!

How is the Cougar?

Peace
FM

F.M.I.L.Y said:

OUTSTANDING BROTHER SHWAG!!! Keep me posted on that Alaskan Ice! All you stuff looks top notch and professionally grown! Your hard work and knowledge is shown in your plants! Keep up the great work bro! I know you got to be smiling about that harvest!

How is the Cougar?

Peace
FM

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Thanks fellaz, but FM please don't inflate my ego too much lol. Very kind words, and I appreciate the compliments. The Alaskan Ice is very nice. The effects keep me and all shared with alert and active. Its chatty Kathy weed for sure, so be careful sharing it with those friends that already talk too much LOL. Great for coffee and conversation, great for brainstorming and imagination, all of which qualities make it awesome for visits with friends as well as toking solo.

The Cougar is a week or two in. I had some bulb probs in that tent and some strange deficiencies out of nowhere but they appear to be clearing up. My thousand watt ballast shit out on me, so I switched over to a 600 with an old bulb. The bulb burned out and I'm afraid the tent could have been in some strange light cycles for 3-5 days during that whole ordeal. Right now I'm running a 600 MH until I get down to get a new HPS. But the 1000 is retired! I think it was an iPower, and it didn't last as long as it should have. The Cougar's got some leaf curling and drooping but she's still producing so I'm not too worried. I think she'll be straightened out in another week and start pounding weight and frost. I will be sure to include some shots in my next update. Her and the other plants in that tent were vegged for a loooong time and I had to get a grip on whether they wanted more food or less. Their root base is strong and they're leaching water like crazy. I'm thinking now they had used up much of the organics in the soil during their long veg and they are in need of some extra feeding even early in the flower cycle.

Be well friends, Spring is looming!

Shutting down folks! I'm not sure if I will be firing back up anytime soon. A nasty case of root aphids found their way into my room and and I've tried a few different things. None of them seem to slow them down

I hope none of you ever have to deal with these little efferz, they're really nasty. I shrugged them off as fungus gnats at first and by the time I realized they weren't, I think it may have been too late to fight the fight. I thought mites were the worst thing to deal with and it turns out these things are far more resilient than even robo-mites.

I tried nematodes, Azamax drench, gnatrol and some fungicide drench. Their numbers don't seem to be suffering, so I think its time to whack it all down, bomb, throw out the containers, soil and additives and revisit this sometime down the road. I only fought them for about a week, but without any foreseeable success I'm calling it.

PS FM - The Cougar was bomb dog, absolutely loved it. I hope I can find another lady when I fire back up down the road.

I am sorry to hear of your difficulties.

I hope that the restart is successful.

Take care!

JD

Thanks JD, much appreciated. I need to be a little more careful as to what I bring into the room. Or a lot more careful lol. I just wish I could pin down where they came from. At this point I'm leaning towards some soil or some worm castings (unrefined).

Damn that sucks shwag, I was just thinking bout you the other day.

Hope you get shit all situated, it's never fun when that happens. I haven't had anything bad for quite sometime, knock on wood lol.

I've seen what root aphids can do and it's not pretty.

I'll smoke one in your honor and here to a speedy bounce back

giggles26 said:

Damn that sucks shwag, I was just thinking bout you the other day.

Hope you get shit all situated, it's never fun when that happens. I haven't had anything bad for quite sometime, knock on wood lol.

I've seen what root aphids can do and it's not pretty.

I'll smoke one in your honor and here to a speedy bounce back

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Thanks Gigz! Holy shit do they move fast. I was lucky to never have an experience with them until now. I have some friends new-ish to growing and when I suggest preventative measures to avoid mites and other pests some of them don't see the point. When growing indoors, its not a matter of if you'll get pests, but rather WHEN.

Inoculating the roots of vegging plants with organic fungicides periodically and at least biweekly use of organic foliar treatments is highly recommended to any and all growers. I was a little disappointed that the the products I paid some lewt for didn't do jack shit to knock populations back over the first week. That was enough for me to just say to hell with it, I don't want to fight this battle indefinitely.

I hope you are all well! I'm finishing up a few flowering plants then its time to bomb. I chopped down several veggers yesterday and sending them to compost. I'm cloning a few in grodan cubes to see if I can save a couple strains. I know its risky, but I'm going for it lol.

Best wishes all!

Well I root pruned everything vegging and transplanted to flower pots with fresh soil. Flipped to flower right off. Cloned my favorites and I'm running their moms out. Will bomb when there's no flowering plants and keep bleaching. Not on complete shutdown but the veg tents are empty :O

Flowering tents are full, but still fighting those damn root aphids. Resilient insects!

I bleached & bombed room, discarded all soil old and new, bleached all containers and bought some Airpots. They have returned and I have exterminated once again. Everything looks very good at the moment, but I have a feeling I will have to fight them in the root zone indefinitely. Thankfully they're not sucking insects which get into your fruits like mites, but they're definitely a major nuisance.

I have some new strains going and I'm eyeballing a new light purchase. I'm running a 1000w HPS in one tent, and I just bough a new 600 for the other. Both magnetic, as I'm sick of my digital ballasts shitting on me. I've gone through 5 of them in as many years it seems.

Seriously looking at some plasma lighting as well as giving LED a run again. For the money I'm curious about Growblue 240 x 3 and Pro Grow units. If anyone has any info, feedback or links to journals for those LED's please share!

I will throw some pics up in a week or two when things get going.

Winter growing season is here! Indoor growing makes the winters all that more enjoyable in the midwest.

Let's get this shit started buddy!

LOL, it is good to have that booty about again. :0)

Good luck this season.

JD

I'm glad to see you guys still around Is WhoDat still around the forums?

He only pokes into the 600 once in a while,
but he seems to be prospering.

JD

Shwagbag said:

I'm glad to see you guys still around Is WhoDat still around the forums?

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He's been trimming for the last month and half for like 12+hrs a day, 7 days a week so he hasn't been around. He should be back within the next couple weeks.

Sounds about right for WhoD lol.

Yea it does lol. He was wondering what he got himself into but said he'd be done in like 10 days or so last I heard.

Back Right - Train wreck x Early Skunk - Not sure, but seed pack says TW x ES
Front Right - Hericules (Sannies Seeds Herijuana x Shack
Back Middle - Have to look tomorrow
Front Middle - Queen of Hearts (TGA - Ace of Spades x Vortex)
Back Left - Blueberry Headband
Front Left - White Widow - Straight up!

Transplanted into Supersoil this week, haircuts and some heavy super cropping. Vegging under 400w CMH until the new magnetic 600 arrives. First runs with airpots. Went with blue, already wish I would have gone bigger. I hope they are as advertised.