The Irish Growers Thread!

[mdjenks]

the final shots of the co-op grow, it is getting harvested as I type this I need to hurry so I can help with the labor:

 

[marley321]

Man I had a feeling that wappa would turn out to be a winner good job on the skills bro! some fat ass indica leaves, I mean wappa is indica dominant after all.

Yeah to each is own on the germing, I usually get 100% germ rate dowsing paper towels with ph'd water and a little bit of 3% h2o2 and putting the seeds in between two of the soaked paper towels that then go into a zip lock bag to hold in humidity and placing a saucer on the bottom and the top to keep the light out and then put it on a heating pad under a humidity dome and they usually show tap roots in less than 24 hours. seeds like warm dark, damp, humid environments. so what ever works for you keep on keeping on!

thanks for the seed bro shes a beaut,would ya like ta have a guess at what she,ll yield!!!!

 

[piped piper]

i believe the glass of water and/or the paper towel is a massive waste of time.

unless you run hydro.
but if you let it float on the top of the water it gets air from the top part.
it'd be interesting to have a race with some seeds. 2 seeds in soil and 2 seeds in a glass
would the soil germinated seeds be slower as it'd take longer to take in water given the glass seeds a head start?or would the a water germinated seed go into shock when transplanted and stop growing for a bit, letting the soil seed race ahead?
also would method give healthier plants?

 

[mdjenks]

thanks for the seed bro shes a beaut,would ya like ta have a guess at what she,ll yield!!!!

I would would say for indoor 2 - 3 zips but I don't know your exact height and has she stopped stretching?

 

[marley321]

shes a meter high my friend,the fruit auto b finished in two weeks then the wappa will have the tent too itself,i had a bag seed in there that was flyin but i binned it a few days ago,didn want ta chance hermie the wappa...ill b dissapointed if i dont get at least 5 zips off her,i should get 2 zips off the fruit auto,shes sticky sticky sticky full of trics.

 

[tontoboy]

i believe the glass of water and/or the paper towel is a massive waste of time, i have 100% success putting the seed directly into soil, and ive tried both and straight into soil is faster as soon as the tap root comes out its start growing into the soil and its above ground in 48 hours,

soil = what happens if it doenst pop up soon enough? do nothing = wasting time, dig it up = risk damaging it. Or it can dry out.
paper towel = if you forget about it = murphys law - mold or tedious task of getting secondary roots out of paper without ripping them
glass of water = set it and forget it, doesnt germ soon enough, recovery for surgery is easy to do. + if you get floaters you know to get more cracking.

 

[mdjenks]

shes a meter high my friend,the fruit auto b finished in two weeks then the wappa will have the tent too itself,i had a bag seed in there that was flyin but i binned it a few days ago,didn want ta chance hermie the wappa...ill b dissapointed if i dont get at least 5 zips off her,i should get 2 zips off the fruit auto,shes sticky sticky sticky full of trics.

Man I hope you to get 5 zips bro, its a nice looking indica for sure. Will be a nice evening smoke with a lady watching a movie!

here is a pic a found of a wappa grow that looks close to being done

 

[marley321]

some fat ass buds on that one,the leaves look a good bit thinner than mine,ill b happy if mine turns out like that....ill def b growing wappa again,its meant ta be a lovely smoke aswell....

 

[mdjenks]

@marly: your leaves will thin out the taller the colas get.

another pic I took of the chernobyl (train wreck dominant phono, has some color)

 

[kang420]

soil = what happens if it doenst pop up soon enough? do nothing = wasting time, dig it up = risk damaging it. Or it can dry out.
paper towel = if you forget about it = murphys law - mold or tedious task of getting secondary roots out of paper without ripping them
glass of water = set it and forget it, doesnt germ soon enough, recovery for surgery is easy to do. + if you get floaters you know to get more cracking.

Well if it dont germ in 4 days id forget about it and sow another seed but ive never had to wait longer than that, i wouldent go digging it up after 24-36 hours unless you wish to kill it, and its not gonna dry out and die unless you like to plant seeds then go on holidays! ive got one seed direct in soil and one direct in coco right now and both were above ground in 48 hours its very rare it would take any longer i had seeds 3 years old and they still were above ground in 48 hours, when i started and tryed the paper towel and soaking seeds i drowned seeds in water that was a waste and in paper towel it got too hot and i burst seeds like popcorn, and since i let mother nature do the hard work i havent lost a seed since.

this amneisa is real nice smoke md! where the hell is ae??

 

[mdjenks]

@kang: hell I don't know where ae is, must of fell off the earth.

just received my new beans

my beans, the one in the upper left is double white in the plastic tube and I don't have the BLZ Bud out because they are in a non labeled zip lock:

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[piped piper]

wow thats a nice stash, i think you robbed my xmass wish list
is that white widow x big bud, on the bottom left? have you ever grown that before? i'm thinking of trying it out but i'd love to know if it was a good strain 1st as i hear mixed reports about female seeds, but if you dig enough you hear bad things about everyone on the net. i have their purple maroc working away right now and it's going good but it's still got a long way to go yet.

 

[mdjenks]

wow thats a nice stash, i think you robbed my xmass wish list
is that white widow x big bud, on the bottom left? have you ever grown that before? i'm thinking of trying it out but i'd love to know if it was a good strain 1st as i hear mixed reports about female seeds, but if you dig enough you hear bad things about everyone on the net. i have their purple maroc working away right now and it's going good but it's still got a long way to go yet.

that is white widow x big bud and I have yet to have grown it, but am excited to. breeders usually don't like fems can't really breed with them from what i have read but I might be wrong haven't studied much on breeding. I'm telling you to hit up the tude the beginning of every month and check out their promotions and what UFO's (freebies) they have plus last month was their birthday month so you got a lot for a little. for $86 dollars (including shipping, secure packaging) I got 29 beans. I'm really curious of the five white romulan x biker kush beans I recieved for the bday promotion.

good article explaining fems, personally I like them and have had great success with them: http://www.cannabisculture.com/node/394

 

[stonerpaddy]

From what I've been reading the whole notion that fem seeds tend to hermie when stressed comes from when they used hermies to create fem seeds. Nowadays most use colloidal silver to induce male organs. With no male Y chromosome introduced you end up with a true XX female.

 

[Jay_normous]

$86 is a lot to pay for beans... You get loads I know, but its still a big price too pay..

 

[mdjenks]

$86 isn't bad on another thread a dude payed over $200 for about 33 beans now thats expensive!

 

[iamaaror]

That's a fine collection of beans you have there MD, living in California you should get all these beans outdoors in 200 gallon pots. You know it makes sense

 

[mdjenks]

That's a fine collection of beans you have there MD, living in California you should get all these beans outdoors in 200 gallon pots. You know it makes sense

Not living in SF its the second most densely populated city in the U.S. so there is no room for outdoors thus the indoor cab which everyone I know that grows has one or a tent. I love indoor its aggressive and fast and the more you know the better ladies you can grow. I mean the most potent herb I have ever smoked was indoor SF AK47 and Green Crack from my mentor who grew it himself, way better than the dispensaries, don't get me wrong the dispensaries have some bad ass herb for sure. I fill spoiled being here its probably the capitol of kind bud, not to brag but I have friends that have been to Amsterdam and said the bay area bud is better. Although I have a friend in denver and in seattle and the bud there is top fuckin notch!!!!!

 

[piped piper]

it was that amsterdam was the kingdom of bud but they seem to have stalled or slowed down, now the states are bringing a new range to the party but aren't getting the recognition for it on the street level outside of the states fast enough. the uk are doing great things with their skunk line and have made some of the most powerful weeds in the world but in the states "us skunk" is a low grade weed.
it's great to see all of this and more happening so fast. before the net was around it was hard to get books on this subject. but now it's all online and thousands of ppl doing the same.
before it used to be that we'd be smoking bud at around 7% thc and now you can get it as high as 25%, maybe we have maxed out but maybe we won't have to wait too long for a 50% bud to be discovered. or some mad scientist makes a bud tree where the sap has 80% thc. sounds crazy but i never thought i would have a keyboard and a tv on my lap in bed chatting with ppl half way around the world. thc-tree indoor grow anyone?

 

[mdjenks]

you can get butane honey oil that is 70% at the dispensaries. this is my favorite dispensary and the one I frequent the most http://www.greendoorsf.com/menu/index.php as you can tell from the menu the cookie, purple, and especially kush strains are popular in cali

The UK is known for cheese strains cali is known for damn near every strain.