Iced Grapefruit, Skunk#1, Menage a Trois, Flower from day 1

I picked up some Roots Organics HPK and some more G.O. Bio-Bud for the girls in the flower tent today. I pretty much have everything else covered, with the exception of getting low on my silica. I've seen the R.O. used by friends with really nice success so I thought i would give it a try. I Like that with organic nutes it's so easy to be able to mix and not over-do it on something and really hurt your plant in some way or another. I also think I'm gonna start using Fox Farm Happy Frog dry nutrient line to start as a general amendment for my Super Soil recipe to make my life a little easier and amend with whatever else I see fit to get my N-P-K where I like it for the Bloom and the Veg recipes which I will obviously be re-adjusting now. I think this will be interesting to see how it all works out. I might be screaming bloody murder in a couple of months or raving about result, we all shall see. I've also been doing alot of reading on Progress Earth products and am really interested in picking some of their stuff up. Thank you Gandalf! I hope your ladies are lovin the teas brother let us all know how they're working if you don't mind, I'm sure I'm not the only one interested. Last night I kicked my Ballast onto Super Lumens for the first time, I have to say the temp in the tent is about 2-3 degrees higher than normal so I turned down the thermo on the a/c and it's dropping already. I like to keep it around 75-77 tops, so that way it has a nice temp drop at night and brings out some colors in them. I also rigged a way to capture the cold air exhaust from the window a/c and feed it into the air intake for the tent at night to drop the temps to wherever I want really down to around 60. I wouldn't do that it would shock them, I'm just sayin I can make it chilly. I've already noticed the Menage a Trois starting to turn a little purple in the pistils, so I'm happy about that. I've also noticed the Iced Grapefruit putting out the most trich's so far, with the MaT, and then the Skunk#1 which surprised me cause the Skunk#1 is no slacker in that department and for it to be behind the other two just makes me smile to think about it. Not completely surprising though Iced Grapefruit being so sativa dom in appearance and genetics, they usually will start putting on trich's faster in my experience. I think I'm gonna make a cal/mag solution with a little dolo lime and epsoms just to help keep em green and happy, and it's about that time in my schedule. Just on a side note I love music and have always had pretty nice stereos because I don't watch T.V. I stream music all day through my house and enjoy that very much and Kid cudi just came on "Marijuana", if you've never heard it take a listen about half way through a joey and it's pretty cool. Well I guess that's it for now I promise I will put a bunch of pics up tonight. Peace out everybody.

It feels weird not feeding my plants bottled nutes four weeks into my grow. Having the amended soils really makes a difference. I just keep waiting to open the grow closet and see some signs of N deficiency, but none so far.

I guess every time I transplant I will be adding a whole new dose of food built right into the soil? I'm sure as the plants get bigger they will start requiring more food than what's in the soil. I have my soil container full of Roots Organics potting soil in the garage. It's been cooking for about three weeks now. I was thinking about adding some of the RO Grow nutes and molasses to the cooking soil to promote the micros.

Glad you have the experience and are willing to share the information. Have a good weekend!

I can't put into words the explosion of growth that I experienced after my first tea. I mean it. It cured a P deficiency and the health I have achieved is like nothing I have ever seen. I am sold. I am knee deep into "Teaming with Microbes" right now. IMO this is the only way to go. I'll post pictures as soon as my lazy ass gets on it. I am going to hit them all tonight with my second brewing. I live for the foam now. Take care guys. Myco..you inspired this movement. Thank you from the rhizosphere.

prosperian said:

It feels weird not feeding my plants bottled nutes four weeks into my grow. Having the amended soils really makes a difference. I just keep waiting to open the grow closet and see some signs of N deficiency, but none so far.

I guess every time I transplant I will be adding a whole new dose of food built right into the soil? I'm sure as the plants get bigger they will start requiring more food than what's in the soil. I have my soil container full of Roots Organics potting soil in the garage. It's been cooking for about three weeks now. I was thinking about adding some of the RO Grow nutes and molasses to the cooking soil to promote the micros.



Glad you have the experience and are willing to share the information. Have a good weekend!

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yup you got it. transplanting = more food for another 3-4 weeks.

I decided to go ahead and make a seed purchase today. I've been selling off some of my gun collection of recently and have been re-investing the $ into something more practical, my meds! So I went ahead and picked up a couple of seeds today to check some strains out and see what I come up with.
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I should also get 2 fem White Widow seeds for ordering from Seedsman, I'm not sure. We'll see what comes. Until then I have more than enough seeds to be messing with, but you know what they say "variety is the spice of life". I just wanted to let everyone know what will be coming in the future, and I think at the end of next week I will finally be putting the Blue O.G. and Sour Blueberry into flower as well. I wasn't able to work with those two as much as my Skunk#1 and Menage a Trois so they'll need to be scrogged or something to support their wimpy butts. I'll seriously post some pics tonight of a couple of days of pics so you can get an idea of how fast these girls are putting on weight. Take it easy everyone and smoke a PHATTY, it's the weekend! Peace out.

I can't wait to see those run. Looks great man. I am very interested. Take care bro.

Those are some good choices that I look forward to reading about in future grows. Gandalf and I are following the Attitude Chicago customs incident unfold. I'm not happy about that. I'd like to buy more seeds to stock, but maybe not from them, and definitely not right now. https://www.rollitup.org/seedbank-reviews/673823-attitude-order-confiscated-chicago-but.html

I read about all the problems with the Tude and customs and went with Herbies to stock up some. I still got 10% off and guaranteed shipping which is much better than the Tude's. I also got a ton of freebies and they were both reg and fem which is nice for a change. I'm digging my purchase and am excited about all of them really. I'm a diversity junkie and love to make mixes with my herbs. If I can't find the right cannabanoid profile in a single plant I just start mixing till I'm happy. Do you have a thread with your grow in it Gandalf? If you do I would like to follow, especially now with those teas you're rockin! I think I'm kind of done with the Tude, not from any incident but really for lack of updating or improving their stealth shipping method. They obviously have a problem and seem to be doing nothing about it. I really don't care that they'll re-ship, I'd rather just get it the first time and not end up on a customs list or some crap. Peace out.

I'm right there with you. I just want my seeds when I order them. I like the idea of mixing. I vaporize most my harvest and can easily pick up on difference in my strains in smell, taste, and high. But now you have me curious to try a combination blend. Nice.

Feeling really sick tonight so there won't be much typed narrative, but I've been promising pics for days and have probably been called a liar more than once after failing to post some after saying I was going to. Anyways here's some pics people.
All these pictures are from 1-3 days ago and are relatively close to what things still look like with the exception of one thing, there's hardly any trich's as of yet. At least ones that are showing up in the pics. I got in there this morning and here is what I came back with after uploading them from the camera! Enjoy, after a stiff breeze I almost got wood!

The last pic is a node down under on the Iced Grapefruit just workin away. I'm not a big counter of days, they finish when they finish, counting days worrying they might be behind doesn't make them go faster. I'm really pleased at how fast they're all coming along. I'm sorry i'm not better with the camera, it"s not mine it's my wifes and I'm no Ansel Adams anyways. I'm really not doing the girls justice, and the lighting to see the slight purple in the pistils of the Menage a Trois is not happening at the time being. When I can I'll get in there and do some natural light pics, but I'm sure it won't be for a week or two when they're is alot more color and alot more trichomes. Until then I'll post as many as I can of these and no more promises of pics everyday I'll just try as hard as I can to keep you guys up dated as best I can. I'll try to get a better pic up of exactly how much I took out from under them, but it was quite a bit. Hope everyone enjoys the pics. Peace out.

Looks unreal Myco. You set the bar very high. I like how those buds are filling in. That will be some nice medicine for you bro. I set up a small hydrofarm megagarden to play with this afternoon. I just replaced a pump that had a stuck piece of hydroton in it. I am using STG grow medium so I wont have to worry about hydroton. Here is a link to the medium.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wGoi920Nyw

It seems really easy to work with so far. I promise pictures tomorrow of the whole hobby op. Take care everyone.

Is that you Myco in the bottom left pictures? I like the group shot. Everyone seems happy. I like happy.

I'm off to get some coffee this morning but stopped by here first. You have a nice crop coming in myco. Take care an I hope you are feeling better.

Thank you everyone for stopping in and all the kind words. I'm really enjoying the girls and they're coming right along. I like that every morning holds something new and exciting in store. The trich's are really forming now and the fragrance coming from the ladies is really nice. Everyday the Menage a Trois gets a little more purple on the pistils and the trich's are stacking in places like blown powdered sugar. The Captain Jack's Dead Bug Brew worked killer on the tiny infestation I had, still not sure what the little critters were, but I also have some Diatomaceous earth on it's way as well so I can put some in my soil and the stuff I'll have cooking to take care of any problems before they're problems. I love D.E. works really well and it's not toxic and horrible for my pet and family. Today I'll be going to Home Depot and getting 2-32 gal trash cans for my new resservoirs and a new tub for cooking and mixing soil as well. Then it's off to the hydro shop for soil and amendments. I have some ladies downstairs in veg and have never started a thread for them so I think I might add small up-dates here to show how they're doing. We'll see. Thank you for stopping in , and enjoy the rest of your weekend. Peace out.

I threw some pictures of tea success up over here.

https://www.rollitup.org/organics/676040-total-noob-using-teas-i.html

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Just looking amazing over at Gandalf's place! Your girls are so healthy bro, I can't wait till my ladies wake up and I can apply this tea I've made. Thank you so much for reminding me of their importance in what we are doing. I went to the hydro and local feed store to pick up some amendments for my soil and to get started mixing and cooking. I'll take pics of everything and show you guy's, alot easier than typing it all out. I started with some Humbolt county soils and also added FF HF and FF OF. I go a little crazy with N and a couple of other things cause I really want to cut out as many bottle nutes as possible through out the whole grow. I also picked up Rare Earth from G.H. and some D.E. for pest control if so needed. The Rare Earth is mainly just silicates and such to keep the girls strong and stress resistant, I've found this product to work quite well for my needs in the past and thought I would give it a run in some Super Soil and see how it performs. I also thought I would give crab meal a try and see what it can do for some cal/mag. I also picked up a lb of Rooters Mycorrhizae from E.J. for an innoculant for my soil since the only other myco I have has some organic N-P-K in it and I don't want to throw off my soil any. I'll have pics of all the amendments later on today and maybe a couple of pics of the girls as well, we'll see. Take it easy everybody. Peace out.

beautiful plants! great job training them as well.

b.real said:

beautiful plants! great job training them as well.

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Myco knows his shit bro. He is awesome. He really shares with the community. Myco, Prosperian, Silasraven are all great sources of top notch info. Take care everyone.

b.real said:

beautiful plants! great job training them as well.

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Thank you B.real I spend alot of time with my plants when I can to get them as strong as possible, and to also shape them how I will need them in flower. Please stop back soon for updates if you like.

GandalfdaGreen said:

Myco knows his shit bro. He is awesome. He really shares with the community. Myco, Prosperian, Silasraven are all great sources of top notch info. Take care everyone.

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Very flattering Gandalf, but do I have to remind you, that you're the one that recently reminded me of the Organic path. Thank you so much for sharing your tea results and showing everyone that they're just better than bottle nutes. I have my new tub for my new Super Soil recipe I've been working on, and will mix it today. I still have a few tubs of older soil recipes that's cooked already, so I'll be using that first, but will let everyone know how the new recipe works and will share the ingredients list as well if successful. Rough night so I'm gonna keep this short, but i would like to thank everyone for the support and kind words, very much appreciated. I'll put up pics A.S.A.P. but might not be able to till tonight or tom. Take it easy everyone, and Peace out!

I would have had an up-date yesterday, but my internet went out for about 8 hours. My order from Herbies still hasn't been sent out yet so I E-mailed them and this was the reply: Pretty happy with the quick response and the immediate addition of extra seeds for the inconvenience. When you find a good company that takes good care of it's customers you just have to give them a public "Good job" I've never had any problems with the Tude either, but when a company can't recognize it has a problem with it's delivery, it's time to move on. It's cool that they'll re-ship seeds for free and all, but I'd rather them not get confiscated in the first place and end up on a dang list somewhere as trying to import contraband. America takes it's lists very seriously! I'll update when they send me my tracking #, and any details of what freebies they're giving me. I really can't say enough about how fast they got back to me and how nice they've been about this tiny set back. I found a great deal on-line for a new hood for my ladies in flower. I've been looking for a little while now and wanted to find the right size for my tent, and I think I found the perfect hood for me. The hood I have now is about 5-6 years old and out of date for sure, it has no reflective surface in the front or back only the sides and it's only about 21in x 19in. So I thought I would get this hood to open up my 600W of light.http://www.hydrofarm.com/product.php?itemid=13997#tabs-3 I found this hood at a local shop for $89.99 and I thought I would run it by everyone before I pop on it, but I think I will either way. It's either that or this http://www.hydrofarm.com/product.php?itemid=13039 this reflector I found for $109 at a local place. I think the raptor might be a little better construction or what have you but the super large is exactly that friggin huge, and the light dispersal is really nice on it with a footprint that will shower my whole tent with a pretty uniform strength I think. Either way I am getting one of those so any comments would be appreciated very much. My tent is one meter by one meter and two meters high. For you yankees a meter is 40in. I'm a yankee as well so don't get mad, it's just the measurements of my tent and they happen to be metric, get over it. I need to get my Sour Blueberry and Blue O.G. in flower asap and I really don't want to until I have a new hood that can disperse the light a little more evenly and with a better efficiency. So next week at the earliest it looks like. Take it easy everyone and when things start happening I'll keep in touch. Peace out!

I found another Reflector for $109 plus I'll need a $7 adaptor for my Lumatek ballast, but I really like the big @$$ square footprint it has. Perfect for my square flower tent.https://sunlightsupply.com/p-11801-blockbuster-6-air-cooled-reflector.aspx I just need to get a new hood and hang the thing already for better light dispersal of a 600W setup. Any insight on these 3 hoods would be great. Be as critical as you want just please keep it to these 3 models cause they're what i can pick up fast and pretty cheap as well. Take it easy everyone. Peace out.