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 pha3r0
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 Re: RasJephs First (serious) Grow!  [Re: RasJeph]
#372061 - 02/23/10 10:47 PM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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groovey well this is my last stop before i pack my bedtime bowl and hit the lights so i will puff some good vibes your way.
i didn't, or rather am not going to look but are those feminized seeds? if not i'll cross my fingers and we'll see in a month aye?
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RasJeph
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Re: RasJephs First (serious) Grow! [Re: pha3r0]
#372234 - 02/24/10 06:33 AM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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pha3r0 said:i didn't, or rather am not going to look but are those feminized seeds? if not i'll cross my fingers and we'll see in a month aye?
Yep! Cross your fingers for me haha.
I left them on top of my warm PC, and I'll be damned...they popped over night. The heat really REALLY helped.
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pha3r0
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Re: RasJephs First (serious) Grow! [Re: RasJeph]
#372239 - 02/24/10 07:01 AM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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temperature is everything when it comes to poppin seeds or rooting clones. something about that 80deg mark that's just magical. now go put those fuckers in some dirt!
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RasJeph
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Re: RasJephs First (serious) Grow! [Re: pha3r0]
#372290 - 02/24/10 08:16 AM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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I also germ'd some Troublemaker x White Widow for a mother plant...more popped than I expected. I have 4 of those now. That makes 7 plants total...I'm going to leave them in the coir for two weeks...and, after two weeks...I'll thin the herd and hope the ones I thinned were males...
I really only wanted 4 plants total (3 to grow and bud, one mother) but it looks like I got 7.
Betsy, Jenny, Ivory (ak x diesel) and Robin, Willow, Bambi and Melody (TM x WW).
Go girls, go!
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Re: RasJephs First (serious) Grow! [Re: RasJeph]
#372295 - 02/24/10 08:21 AM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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haha great. i got my first seeds from donated bagseed since i never keep any. i got seeds in every kind of germinating method you can think of. someone even gave me a vial full of some sort of fertilizer with a dozen seeds soaking in it. i just shook my head and said thanks but i don't think these will take, they didn't. but me i do the wash cloth to jiffy pellet method with most all kinds of seeds and the only ones that don't pop i figure were not viable to start with.
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"if you arent good with electricity dont go touching it...ive electrocuted myself twice...its no fun"
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RasJeph
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Re: RasJephs First (serious) Grow! [Re: pha3r0]
#372303 - 02/24/10 08:41 AM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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Although I've never really done any serious growing, I've always germ'd my seeds (then fucked up, forgot about them, etc.) but I have always, always, always used the paper towel method.
I dunno. It just works, every time for me 
An older friend of mine grows like 50 plants outdoors every year...he told me he gets straws and staples them to a board, and labels the board with whatever bag he had, and drops the seeds in until the straw is full. Sounds good to me.
I'm gonna go melt a bunch of snow and save it up in gallon jugs to water my plants with. I heard they love it...and theres a ton of it out there. And, I have a bunch of gallon jugs. Woo! How long will water last for, if its sealed in a jug?
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Re: RasJephs First (serious) Grow! [Re: RasJeph]
#372315 - 02/24/10 09:21 AM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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uhhhhh how long it lasts will depend on temperature and light exposure. I am assuming the only thing that will 'ruin' it though is algae and other shit that will be in it trying to grow. but if you seal em up and put em in a cold dark spot i would think very little would grow. you could also do a drop of bleach or hydrogen peroxide to sanitize it a bit.
bleach might stick around but if i am thinking right hydrogen peroxide breaks down in light quickly. anyone know for sure?
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RasJeph
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Re: RasJephs First (serious) Grow! [Re: pha3r0]
#373960 - 02/26/10 07:16 AM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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Turns out 5 gallons of snow melts down to only two gallons  Ah well...theres plenty of it out there...
Anyway. Most of my girls have broken the soil now. It looks like Betsy is in the lead, but Ivory is a close second (shes just as tall, but hasn't opened her leaves). The others are just breaking out now. They go to sleep at 2, and its 9 now.
I counted my ladybugs. I have 5 :3
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Re: RasJephs First (serious) Grow! [Re: RasJeph]
#373962 - 02/26/10 07:18 AM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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I tried melting snow one day when I ran out of fresh water. Fuck that shit! Never again.
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RasJeph
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Re: RasJephs First (serious) Grow! [Re: DrGreenThumb]
#373997 - 02/26/10 09:14 AM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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Quote:
DrGreenThumb said:
I tried melting snow one day when I ran out of fresh water. Fuck that shit! Never again.
 Why?
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pha3r0
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Re: RasJephs First (serious) Grow! [Re: RasJeph]
#374006 - 02/26/10 09:59 AM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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It's time consuming. When I did it I set my camp stove up with a giant pot we use for canning and boiling peanuts. then I just started shoveling snow in. did my buddies whole driveway and the sidewalk around his house and got a whopping 4 gallons. Moral of that story is distilled water costs .63 a gallon, propane is what 14 bucks a fill now? Save your back and your quarters and just buy it. Then you know its pure you know its right at 7 PH and you have lots of new pots haha. Actually knowing it's 7PH has been a godsend for me since I don't have a water tester yet. That means I can add the same amount of vinegar each time to adjust the PH. I don't know what I make it but I know it slightly lowers the soil PH each time and I know it doesn't kill or burn my plants so that's good enough.
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- Thomas Szasz
"if you arent good with electricity dont go touching it...ive electrocuted myself twice...its no fun"
- mhbound
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RasJeph
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Re: RasJephs First (serious) Grow! [Re: pha3r0]
#377196 - 03/02/10 05:33 PM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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My babies are a week old today. Some are seriously slacking...I might thin the herd soon and pray I only killed males...
Question. The auto-flowers seem to be doing fine...however, the other strain (troublemaker x ww) are stretching real bad and flopping over. I buried the stems and moved the lights closer (3 inches CFL's) and hoping that helps them out.
I'm thinking of maybe doing 24 hour lighting for the next few days, so I can get them off to a nice start.
Also - I fed them 1/4 strength Grow Big today. Maybe that will help too.
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RasJeph
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Re: RasJephs First (serious) Grow! [Re: RasJeph]
#386537 - 03/19/10 07:40 AM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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OK! Sorry for the lack of updates...
Today I have one confirmed female (but damn its small ) and its Betsy, my best looking plant! Woot!
Jenny is a fucking mutant for some reason. I looked up reasons for plant mutations...maybe I fed her too early I'm still not sure of her sex. Hopefully female as well.
Ivory is way behind. I also have a WWxTM that is about on par with Ivory, and a straight TM that just cracked the dirt.
I'm running the lights 24/7 now, with a few hour long bursts of the HPS (simply because I'm working on controlling the temperature with all the lights on at once).
As soon as Jenny shows her sex, I'll post pictures. 
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hopanshrubman
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Re: RasJephs First (serious) Grow! [Re: RasJeph]
#386799 - 03/19/10 12:16 PM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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Sounds like you got hooked up by a friendly friend as well. I'll be checking in on this periodically, as we are both growing the same strain!
Sounds like you are going to have a good time doing this as well, good luck :]
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RasJeph
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Re: RasJephs First (serious) Grow! [Re: hopanshrubman]
#393098 - 03/31/10 07:07 AM (14 years, 7 months ago) |
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Well, just checking back in. I'm sorry for the lack of photos - its all due to my camera being dead and losing the charger, as well as my paranoia 
However, tomorrow will be the 1 month birthday of my most successful plant...I'll post a picture of her tomorrow. At this point in time, I've moved her and my unknown sex WW x TM into the closet under the HPS. Still 24 hour light.
Still really hoping the WW x TM is a female...I'd really, really like her to be a mother plant. I can't even believe how fast its grown. Shes only about 2 weeks old, and is already a big bush
I have 2 other stragglers I started late, since I lost a bunch of my seedlings from too much light :P I guess I'll post their pictures too, but they aren't anything special. YET.
Anyway - pictures tomorrow! Promise :]
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RasJeph
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Re: RasJephs First (serious) Grow! [Re: RasJeph]
#393643 - 04/01/10 07:29 AM (14 years, 7 months ago) |
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An update, as promised. Again, sorry they were so slow. Also, important questions at the end!
First we have my favorite lady - Betsy. Shes one month old today, and one of the AK x D autoflowers. Shes getting pretty smelly, and still has a lot of time left 
Next up is Ivory, my second female AK x D. She showed her sex today, so I can guesstimate that she is about 16 days old (thats how old Betsy was when she first showed sex). Transplanted her this morning into a bigger pot.
Next up is Sandy, who is only 2 weeks old. She is a Troublemaker. Doing nicely...the last plant I didn't have in a bigger pot, so I moved her over this morning as well. Hoping shes a female so I can use her for clones.
Finally we have Robin...Robin is ONLY TWO WEEKS OLD (no shit!). She keeps getting bigger and bigger and bigger I can't have her much bigger than this, so I decided to change her time to 12/12 now. I cut some clones that I'm hoping will work out, so when I find out if shes a female, I'll have some leftover to make a mother out of.
As you can see, Robin is a bit sick. I'm not too sure what this is, but I'm sure one of you guys will know what it is, and what to do. Thanks for any help you can offer.
One final question, perhaps the most important. I planted Robin in some very, very, very cheap soil. I "didn't want to waste" my FoxFarm...now I'm realizing that was fucking stupid, and I should just go for it and use it up - thats why I bought it.
Trouble is, shes in the biggest pot I have for her. I'm not sure exactly where her roots end...I can't just drop her into a bigger pot with FF in it...so, how do I get her out of this shitty soil, dump it, refill with FF and put her back without hurting her? She hasn't been in this new soil for more than like 4 days, thank god.
Is it possible?
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DieselB
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Re: RasJephs First (serious) Grow! [Re: RasJeph]
#394475 - 04/02/10 08:55 AM (14 years, 7 months ago) |
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If you don't have a lot of the good FF soil, cut it a little with the cheap stuff to stretch it out.
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RasJeph
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Re: RasJephs First (serious) Grow! Guilt Update with new pics (jewelers loupe) [Re: RasJeph]
#407998 - 04/28/10 07:27 AM (14 years, 6 months ago) |
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Well, I feel really bad...because the donator of these seeds simply asked for a grow-log in return...which I have been neglecting 
I feel really bad...its just...ya know...
So, heres some zoomed in pics from my loupe. Apparently, the camera sees it differently than the eye...because I see it a lot more zoomed in
Ah well. They still came out badass. These are from Ivory, who is 2 weeks behind Betsy...but she looks like she ended up aging faster.
So, from what you see there...would you call the trichs milky, or clear? I can see them closer, but I can't really tell. I assume I'll be able to tell milky from amber, which is what my main concern is anyway.
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