Cakes is Baking aGain

[Cakes]

I like cooking stuff up. Yeah, it's hella tough when you lose what you've gained but here I am. I'm at it again. I've been hit by natural disaster, thieves and cops but my grow is in forward motion again. and cakes is baking.

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p14/CakesPix/day24bubblekush.jpg

My favorite this time around is a Bubblekush; her sex is unknown still but. Well. she's a Bubblekush. and that's all I gotta know. She's 24 days from the moment her seed coating hit moisture and eventually the bathtub may be hers. normally I keep the fluorescents real close but this week I let her stretch a bit<<squat is phatt but letting a little air under the wings seems like a good idea sometimes.

and she has a potential mate across the room>> you almost got to see her twin in this next pic but oops Baby got shy and hid around the corner. We sent Buzz in to lead a sing-a-long.

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p14/CakesPix/Buzzand25dayoldfriends.jpg

Buzz has Matanuska in front of him. To his left, your right, is a Diesel. To his right is a Peach. and behind are a couple of Grape Apes.

They are all 25 days old today and we had no bum seeds (as usual).

Like I said, they are under fluorescents. Four foot shop lights. The plants are usually kept about an inch from the tubes (2.5cm away from the tubes). 60W per square foot (per 30.5cm). Six colors of lights. two kinds of white and pink and green and an unknown gro lite. They like the green the best.

for those of you who were counting, the sixth light is a 175W Mercury. Did you know that if you don't use the right kind of light, your amphibian may suffer from debilitating and fatal arthritis? UVB can also affect DNA. One of the things this light shines on is Godbud.

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p14/CakesPix/GodBudcloneandPatrick.jpg

i think it's canna cool that god may evolve some day. hey, we figure if monkeys can come from nothing, then so can god..maybe he ain't made it here yet but he could still make the party. Any old millenium will do, because, since he'd be god, all miracles could be retroactive...

and I'd go play with Patrick at the bottom of the Sea

I just stuck this Godbud clone straight in the dirt and she's done her job. She started top growth on Groundhog's Day and nine days later, here she is. she's more than doubled her heighth although now she is almost as wide as she is tall. She's a genetic wonder, just like her mammy, the G-13. Which, by most accounts, was a phenomena coalesced from us all.

She's got her feet in volcanic material. red. black. white. yellow. pink. like a rainbow. And we've given these plants just about everything else I have been able to find. Either it goes in the soil or it goes in the bubble bucket. greensand. bananas. rock phosphate. roses. avacados. kelp. million legged centipedes. select worms. molasses. hair of a working dog. The list is long.

i'm glad cakes is baking again

[Elephunt man]

Awesome! Been waiting for this day! Stay tuned guys and gals...this is gonna be a good show. :)

[CB]

I will be watch'n thats fer sure

grow on

[Thoth]

One hell of an intro, cakes. :D Cool dude.

I'm gonna watch too. :pass:

[Cakes]

you folks are really nice. and elephunt, my friend, you make it fun to be around. i'm gonna try to emulate you further by sincerely thanking each person in this thread. i see you are good at increasing the ambient accolade level and it seems good for me to practice to do so as well.

and i hope i do right by y'all, not just elephunt

my report of your grow here at HomeGrownBud would have to be a superior rating. You've done a good job of setting up a conducive atmosphere when you set up the ability to thank people for their posts and with the option of adding positive rep to our fellow citizens. i even find the green color scheme to be quite positive. i read today that kids had a better time when they were in green surroundings. The test was a series of activities for the kids. the activities were set up in places which had different predominent colors and surroundings which were green like a lush garden came in first for facilitating 52 activities out of 54. a resounding victory for green.

i got a green results when i tested my plants's environments.

my pH test strips were made from red cabbage. the instructions say the paper will turn purple but my strips turned out blue. i cooked hell outta that cabbage. When you place a test substance on the litmus paper then most of the stain turns pink but on the leading edges of the stain you can see the true reading's color.

i saw a nice green 6.76 for my soil

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p14/CakesPix/pHscalecloseup6-8.jpg

i had guessed it to be a little more acidic by the way it tastes. it's between a AA and a 9 volt battery on the tip of your tongue. i think it's a great EC environment (electrically conductive). I've got a plan to run a grow on electricity alone some day. you can make N with electricity and P is electricity and K is converted to sugar, and sugar is all about the concept of releasing energy. even light is called electro-magnetic energy.

for now i'm growing in a rather tangy concentration of hydrogen that measures a nice and available 6.76

spring is in the air in California

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p14/CakesPix/daffodilsfromtheyard.jpg

These daffodils are in my yard and they are like little suns. They bloom February 4th and they continue for 26 - 27 1/2 days. The daffodil patches double in size every five years without help and they do well in the turf or in the open and around an apricot tree and a peach tree. The little daffodil suns may be helping the apricot buds to swell. or it may have been the removal of a large dead section last Fall. It seems like something is helping the apricot to grow because the fruit buds look huge this year. They are beautiful pink popcorn kernals in mid pOp. huge pink kernals that will bear orange fruit. It's gonna snow here at 3275 feet quite a few times more but these guys will do fine. even the little bugs on my daffodils will do fine. I see them there every year crawling in the petals. This year they beat me there again. I inspected just under 34 hours after first bloom and the bugs were full grown and present in significant numbers. The bugs are like .370 cm grey brown pinners. They don't hurt the flowers but i have decided not to bring bouquets into the house anymore to preclude disagreeable migrations.

it's time for a wake and bake. i've been up all night but it's morning now and i hear the boys next door firing up the chainsaws. i'll go blaze a good green nug of ATF with my favorite thundering lumber buckers and maybe bring home some sawdust. Sawdust will release some gasses that are associated with maturity phases and it might be beneficial for the sexing out i've got to do this week. If it ties up some N for the week, then that may help too. on the other hand, it may be some strong stuff. and i just got informed that my godbud clone comes from the feminized seeds that are notorious for going hermie. the breeder of godbud won the Cannabis Cup with a great strain but evidently their technique of feminizing seeds is questionable. I've heard reports on a few boards of this.

i hope she doesn't turn into a hermaphrodite right now. i could always get pollen from her later. either way it could be mighty aphrodite goddess pollen though. I know that hermie pollen isn't used for everyday breeding. In this case hermightyaphroditeLOVEpollen may not have anything hermie about it genetically speaking since the femming method used is said to be prone to mechanical difficulties which are separate from the genetic process'.

Aphrodite, the goddess of Love:

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p14/CakesPix/aphrodite.jpg

yes, when i try to catagorize people who routinely think of and manifest things like this, the results seem to indicate that god is a very real evolutionary possibility

have a happy Saint Valentine's Day

[Thoth]

I've got a plan to run a grow on electricity alone some day. :rolleyes:

yes, when i try to catagorize people who routinely think of and manifest things like this, the results seem to indicate that god is a very real evolutionary possibility :kewl: Awesome.

I'm totally digging your journal so far dude. Glad you decided to come over to HGB. :cool:

You have a happy valentines day, too, cakes. :cheers:

[Elephunt man]

I like that little thanks button down there too, to me just a nice way to show appreciation without posting...some great conversations and grows going on around here and most times I am speechless...makes it nice not to butt in.

Whoops! Like I just did.

Those closed-minded guys on that other forum sure don't know what they are missing. Only took reading a couple posts to know you know your stuff.

Hope your Valentine's day brings much feminine mojo to your garden. :)

[Cakes]

thanks guys

The feminine mojo is alive and well>>My brother had a baby girl http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p14/CakesPix/fest09.gif Sammy Ann has red hair like both of her sisters and dried out to a good bit over 4.5 kilos.

everything is blooming

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p14/CakesPix/apricotbloomswithsnow.jpg

inside we've got flowers too. The marijuana garden sexed out on schedule, it took them 6-9 days. i had to sex them. it wasn't up to me. i am trying to conduct a legal grow in california. i'm allowed 12 seedlings but only six mature plants. mature is judged by size. "a couple of feet" is what my local info agent told me. so it was time to thin.

growing on someboby else's schedule canna sucks.

luckily i have two diesels that signed up for operation overgrow. they are pictured below. and they are the only two female volunteers out of 12 seedling candidates total of other various varieties. 2 out of 12?? yes and this is how it broke down>> 4/4 clones were male and bcbuddepot was profuse in their apologies about the femmed seed gone male; they promised to send more of same. 6 out of 8 unfemmed seeds went male too. i did add a handful of fresh sawdust at the base of each plant. and it was warm for a while. and i did not treat them with regularity in their lighting until I actually put them on 12/12. Treating my plants casually is what I always do. They always do well but this time we had many males. it may be the seed. it may be that they grew an army instead of a harem, afterall i did have that growroom raided by SWAT less than a year ago...

plants know things

besides the two diesels, i will keep a couple of males. i believe that i like seeds and also i believe new DNA can be lucky. the godbud and bubblekush pollen bearers can ripen on a shelf above my bed. the wimmen can stay in the bathtub.

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p14/CakesPix/5gdieselstransplantedat45days.jpg

The above pic was taken yesterday after the wimmen got transplanted; they were 42 days old. they look a lot better today. they got moved off of 12/12 yesterday too. no i don't mess around. I bumped them from 12 to 15 and tonight it has to be 18. i actually wanted to play with 16 but these ladies hit the budding cycle hard during sexing and i don't want them to be left hanging and wondering what my intentions are.

The bathtub these girls are growing in has the plug in it. We now see how the 3 little birds can sing that no drainage can work. what we saw>>>our big bags of soil drained hardly at all even though we watered an amount I judged to be in excess of what was needed for saturation. those plants got water, yes they did and they did not leak, no they didn't. So if this grow goes without root problems then I may copy the 3 little birds and use giant tubs on wheels and the heck with water disposal worr. and besides, you are right elephunt. i don't want to let those juices wash away. Everything should be fine down there in the soil. And the proof is the conditions of the roots right now. when we transplanted yesterday they had a profuse amount of white roots and no brown or dead roots. One plant was very pot bound in a five gallon bag of soil; it had a mat of living roots lining the bottom and sides of the whole area. very healthy roots.

I fluffed out her rootball completely and made the flat mat look like an afro. i don't always fluff, like if the rootball seems that it will break too much then I just leave it alone.

you've heard of ten gallon hats? http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p14/CakesPix/cowboysmiley01.gif
i bet a five gallon afro has a greater circumference http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p14/CakesPix/afro-smiley-063.gif
well i know this next pic should win a bet
a five gallon afro that took six weeks to grow
http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p14/CakesPix/5gallonrootballat45days.jpg

and we had a look at some other roots this week too. We transplanted some 'morning glory' vines. Lots of text says that ipomoea does not take well to transplanting but in this trial they showed no slowing of growth. 12 days after breaking soil they were moved from an 8oz styrofoam cup to a one gallon pot>>

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p14/CakesPix/morninggloryseedlingsandtheirformer.jpg

five seeds were sprouted together in a clump. The close grouping plus limiting the pot size might keep these indeterminate perennial flowering vines from taking over the hall bathroom. They grew five inches today (12.5cm).

The Tri-color and the Heavenly Blue will make seeds that are psychoactive http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p14/CakesPix/seeeee.gif

I found a new color at the supermarket so we will grow one of those in with the others too>>>the new one is a cultivar called 'Flying Saucer' and adding that would give us six colors of flowers on the vines.

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[StoninStanley]

i like hawian baby woodrose myself, got some seeds ready to plant this spring - good for really boring summer days lol

[Cakes]

FYI to the n00bs, HBWR has a more diverse alkaloid content.

Hey, Stan, I'd be curious to hear whether the HBWR blooms for you in North America. Other people have had a tough time when trying to cultivate it outside it's native latitudes.

[StoninStanley]

me too, when i lived in the south they bloomed just fine but up north i dont know :shrug:

this is only going to be my 2nd time growin em' but ive eaten em 8-10 times

[Elephunt man]

Cheers to you for growing again after the interruption, and attempting to abide by their rules.

Some soilbed guys are using buried pvc and soaker lines to bottom feed exclusively. Just a thought.

I would probably chalk all the males up to curve ball from Momma Nature, but you think it might have been the lingering smell of bacon?:p That's funny, mostly because I don't see why that couldn't be possible.

Thanks for the root porn.

More updates please, really enjoying all the info.

I have never grown either but as a kid I prefered HBWR seeds also...are you guys eating them or a tea or what? Takes so many less seeds.

[Cakes]

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p14/CakesPix/hermie.jpg
One of my boys heard that you are with them Eman and he wanted to come and represent. He even wore his colors. I told him it might be mostly seed talk but he insisted. And he also reminded me that he, too, is quite interested in seeding. he he

and your suggestion of laying pipe sounds progressive. I have had no luck with watering from below but perhaps getting them wet from both directions might be popular with my current growroom demographics... yup. They heard me and I am getting the high sign from the crew. ha ha I am used to getting the high five but these cannabis kids are giving me the high nine.

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p14/CakesPix/flower2.gif

I have never tried HBWR or MG seeds but I heard that some people cannot eat them raw like you Eman. They get sick and so they are better off if they do an extraction. I have seen some recipes and it sounds easy so I wrote one down.

extraction of LSA from HBWR or morning glory seeds
First count all of the seeds so you will know how many doses will be in your solution at the end.
HBWR can be scraped to remove the white fuzz.
The fuzz can make some people feel sick.
Then grind the seeds as fine as possible. Coffee grinders work.
Then soak the powdered seeds in a polar solvent for an hour.
Naphtha and acetone are polar.
Shake vigorously every now and then.
Pour through coffee filters so you can save the seed mush.
Discard the liquid. there goes bad thing #1
Let the seed mush dry completely so that there is no smell left from the evaporated solvent.
Soak the seed mush in a non-polar liquid for 1-3 days.
Putting the seeds in a tea bag and soaking them that way is okay.
The LSA will transfer to the liquid this time and bad thing #2 will be left in the seed mush.
Filter after soaking if no tea bag was used but keep the liquid this time and discard the seed mush.
Water and alcohol are non-polar liquids. Once they contain the LSA they can be consumed as liquids or they can be evaporated off. The water solution can go bad/mold if evaporation takes too long. Alcohol is safer for evaporation. Wide shallow pans help evaporation and so does low humidity. Heat and light can destroy the LSA.

Over 20 HBWR seeds is dangerously vasoconstrictive <<that means deadly

I wonder if it is a deadly dose for other plants because otherwise seeds can be good fertilizer. Generally they have about half phosphorus and half potassium and no nitrogen. Brown rice has only phosphorus and no potassium or nitrogen. Raw oat bran has the highest phosphorus of all seeds and it can be made directly into a fert or it can be made into rich compost.
Corn is powerful seed too.

seed porn
see all the little white sprouts?

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p14/CakesPix/sproutssprouts.jpg

Those seeds weren't bothered at all by the ice hash process.
Yes that used to be a pile of prime green bud.
Looks like brickweed now doesn't it?

There have been a lot of stories about the new strain being grown by the cartels recently. Here is the local General's grow report: Genetically engineered strain named Columbian. Immune to herbicide. Resprouts unless it is pulled up by the roots. Autoflowering so it is now grown year round. and the General is not happy about it.

I wonder how Los Angeles feels?
It used to be that there was pollen season but now Mexico is growing year round. Pollen counts in L.A have documented the presence of cannabis pollen and recorded it to be 40% of the total pollen found in the air. I have smoked pollen before and it does work. That's an awful lot of snuff floating around Hollywood.

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p14/CakesPix/tobacco.jpg
borrowed pic of tobacco pollen



donated pic of the General's harvest attached

[Elephunt man]

That first pic is awesome. I am just abit too old and laid back for HWBR seeds, but if I squint my eyes, I'd swear that looks like an ethiopian sativa...or lebanese?;) :D mmmmm

That picture of the seedlings is soooo hot. I love it. Confirms so many theories in my head. Kind of explains why I haven't been feeding my sativa late in flower, and why all my scraps from growing get composted. Just imagine if we had 'hemp compost'.:D

Curious about the 'new mexican strain'. I guess I will have to wait till someone actually smokes it? My only fear is what 'commercial' breeders have already done to landrace genetics.

Oh yeah, sorry about the pollen, accidentally left the lab window open...won't happen again.....heehee.:p

Eman:coffee:

[Cakes]

Maybe you should get some honeybees for all of that pollen. And then we'd have great stuff to use with cannabutter.

Honey is good for growing mushroom spores too. wouldn't it be cool to have some grown on cannahoney?

that first pic sure was trippin, huh? I couldn't tell you what strain Hermie is, but the plant is pretty damn tall. He wrapped those colors on himself. The photo is unenhanced taken under fluorescents; every other pic during the shoot had normal colors.

electromagnetic waves are a strange thing

[Cakes]

We got set back a couple of weeks by sexing the plants. We should have used the bag trick on a branch but #1 i got rushed growing on an artificial schedule and #2 I had no idea that the sexing would have such a profound effect on these plants. It is my first go around with anything other than rock solid christmas tree genetics and it has been a bit of a learning experience to work with such high strung strains.

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p14/CakesPix/2diesels40inapril20.jpg

To make matters worse for my babies, this grow did not get fresh bulk organic matter put into the soil due to extenuating circumstances; it was good soil, but it was "finished" and it eventually caused us to teeter on the brink of dead soil syndrome. Luckily we recovered because we were able to feed the soil even though it already had plants in it and even though we had only two worms to work with. So how did we feed the soil? We put our organic matter in a blender and whizz on high for five minutes, dilute to tea and feed. here is one recipe:

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p14/CakesPix/cheapfertilizer.jpg

Watering around the plants in the tub is getting to be more difficult because it is getting bushy in there! and I also have some seedlings growing next to the big plants so we made a special watering jug.

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p14/CakesPix/modifiedpour.jpg

We made it like this:

we poked a hole in the cap of our jug
http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p14/CakesPix/thruthecap.jpg

we put a tube through the hole and used a hot glue gun to seal around it's edges

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p14/CakesPix/hotgluegun.jpg

the gun came from the dollar store but last time i just wrapped a little ducktape around the tube and then shoved it through the hole; the soft tape acted like a gasket.

after watering a little, I saw/remembered that we needed a hole for air exchange so I put a hole where I could cover and uncover it with my thumb

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p14/CakesPix/airhole4jug.jpg

Gary approves of the jug because it helps his seedlings to stay upright

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p14/CakesPix/garyinthegarden.jpg

We began cloning today because we are done with our males. We have to watch our plant numbers in order to keep our grow legal and we just collected our last batch of pollen this week. The BubbKush really produced.

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p14/CakesPix/pollen.jpg

I am small time so I only put a little pollen in each piece of magazine cover. I seal the edges with tape. In some of the envelopes I used a mix of pollen put on finely chopped flowers so the flowers will act as a carrier. I think that those packs may be the easiest for some of my friends to use because they are big men and have big fingers and my packages of pollen dust are small and may frustrate them.

I put the packs of pollen with a napkin and double bag them. I put them in the fridge for a couple of days before they get a transfer to the freezer so that maybe there will be less shock/trauma to the plant tissue.

The cloning that we are attempting is not the usual method and it will probably have several advantages>>> I won't need any separate setup to create clones and also I will be within plant limits but still have material that could be severed if a friend came over next week and wanted a clone.

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p14/CakesPix/cloningwithmound.jpg

We will also be trying air layering with moist material and plastic wrap. As soon as the clone issue is settled we will go into bud. We will fill in more soil around the mound of soil that we made so the new roots on the main plant can spread and we hope that the active rooting during bud is a benefit like we have heard that it is.

did you notice the overfertilized morning glories in the first pic? despite my unwelcome generosity and their corresponding defoliation, the vines are a good 7 feet or so (more than 2 meters) and the first bloom seen was on day 68.

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p14/CakesPix/day38heavenlybluesfirstbloomunderbl.jpg

The blue you see on the fluoro tube is postal tape. it has some red too.

i love rainbows

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p14/CakesPix/DahliLamasPotalaPalace.jpg
This rainbow watches over Potala Palace in Tibet, home for the Dalai Lama and gateway to the Hindu Kush.

[Cakes]

just a few details to finish up.

We now see how the 3 little birds can sing that no drainage can work.apparently this is a little too laid back for me. The soil seems like it needs to have a greater flow of water through it here in Northern California than is permitted in a no drainage grow. so we evolved it a bit. The plan is still to not let nutes go down the drain. we have been bringing them up from the bottom of the tub by using a shop vac.

I only put a little pollen in each piece of magazine cover. Some of these covers later were empty. maybe it was evaporated away or assimilated by the paper. idk.

It is my first go around with anything other than rock solid christmas tree genetics and it has been a bit of a learning experience to work with such high strung strainsNow that i have had a few grows, i see why people always talk about overfertilizing and hermies and all. it isn't anything like growing out brickweed seeds.

the mounding of dirt around bottom stems to get clones did not work. the stems NEVER rooted. they did root easily after severing them tho.

the airlayering didn't work for me either. so far i suck at clones.

The bud from the NYCDs was incredibly great. never had any better. an extraordinary taste and distinctive highs. The yield wasn't heavy; just a natural shape she has to get regular sized colas at the end of each branch. she doesn't grow bud sites all up and down the stem like some strains. I put the bubbkush pollen on her and so the yields may get heavy when those seeds get grown out.

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[Elephunt man]

Thanks for the update, any pics of that CM grow?

[Cakes]

thought you'd never ask.

I had two phenos of CM this year:

http://www.homegrownbud.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=27&pictureid=297
july 27

See how the right plant looks like an indica pyramid? but her leaves are VERY narrow and her buds seem to be pure sativa; not only in structure but also quality of high.

comparison of leaf width between left and right plant:

http://www.homegrownbud.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=27&pictureid=298http://www.homegrownbud.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=27&pictureid=299

They were sexed inside and then put into those big pots outside on july 9 (three weeks before hairs can start to show here in Northern California). The plant on the right continued on into budding mode but the one on the left reverted to veg.

sept 1st with relative sizes a little distorted:

http://www.homegrownbud.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=27&pictureid=304http://www.homegrownbud.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=27&pictureid=301

left plant is now budding good. the smaller right plant got a drought based disease and then an overdose with nutes. she dried the heck out and is not salvagable now although the buds are good.

http://www.homegrownbud.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=27&pictureid=302

that's about it so far although i got a lot more i could say. one, i am sorry if i killed the only sativa known to bud on an indica schedule. oops. as to how it happened, it is a long story that i just may tell due to this IS my own thread. but also i did get more than 20 seeds off her so far. which are a cross with a male CM which got pulled and so i do not know what phenos or traits he might have had.

other things i could say..i tried a late grow with the CM last year and she didn't finish at all. Only two out of four strains did.

the late grow from last year went like this:
it was a plain water and worm casting grow in garden soil. true leaves and outside on july 27 which is four days before hairs can start to show here. Here is a pic of how the CM ended up.

http://www.homegrownbud.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=27&pictureid=309
Cherry Malawi 30 inches tall.

she had started to get a few white hairs but after a couple of freezes the hairs went feral-like. got all thick and sort of a vegtative feel rather than the petal-like lushness of regular hairs. All the white hairs that had been there was morphed into that growth and then she made a bit more of it but had to quit when the freezes were quite hard.

a strain that did well, harvested 70 days after hitting water although it turns out it could have been cut at 65.
http://www.homegrownbud.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=27&pictureid=310


but so this year's CM is not going to fail.
http://www.homegrownbud.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=27&pictureid=313
she just got rollers.
The bottom to a shop vac worked really well:

http://www.homegrownbud.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=27&pictureid=306
http://www.homegrownbud.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=27&pictureid=308

she had totally maxed out that pot anyway. and i have heard good things about double potting at flower time. She has about three weeks until Freeze Time creeps down the hill!!!
http://www.homegrownbud.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=27&pictureid=314
will she make it? idk but at least the freeze doesn't matter now that she has rollers due to there will be lots of sun here probably due to this is California.

she's come a long way since this pic, about 40 days ago:

http://www.homegrownbud.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=27&pictureid=300
plant three has unknown name

current size of plant three, still 40 days later:
http://www.homegrownbud.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=27&pictureid=315

plant three again:
http://www.homegrownbud.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=27&pictureid=316

We have had mass wildfires up here this year and a steady wind; the increased co2 flow probably helped them quite a bit. The smoke made the sky grey and brown. i couldn't see across the valley for almost two months. even now at night the moon is orange due to particulates but during the day we finally have lots of blue.

cat's eye view of the Cherry Malawi Sky:

http://www.homegrownbud.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=27&pictureid=312

Spot the cat is kind of why the other CM died<<<beginning to long story. But Spot only brought in the bird due to I kept making lame toys for her and she figured to show me how it is really done/was reciprocating i think...idk my thoughts are fuzzy on the subject. you know how it is, when you awake to screaming from some small young thing..kind of makes you not know why things happen. This was a teenage red-headed woodpecker..although "unhurt", it wasn't old enough to fly all the way and i ended up wasting all day taking it to the wildlife recovery lady. well i got a few postcards for my penpals so it wasn't a waste but the thing is, it kept me from watering the plants that morning like i always do.

so, when plants get dry here they catch a black spot disease. kind of funny due to my cat has spots too. like she was a carrier or something. The disease starts as white LIKE MY CAT and a sheen LIKE MY CAT except the cat isn't sticky but then the plant gets small black dots like bug droppings which so then since my cat has big black spots that means it couldn't have been the cat's fault after all.

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the black spots don't even show, huh. ok, yes i know those and most of these pictures suck. i do know the difference in case you were wondering. and i also happen to have a nice camera but it is not digital. When i do take the film to town i will have a nice pic of the early flowering CM before she got overdosed and also pix of the disease and a few other things. it might be a month or more tho Bro.

How do you know your cat is planning to take over the world?

it keeps petting that little bald man in it's lap.

but like i said, i can't blame the cat. because i could have spent a few minutes watering anyway maybe if my ears hadn't been bleeding from that sound. or i might have later connected the fact that the disease which sprang up made such papery leaves that overdose might be more likely. or i might have used different nutes, afterall i didn't really overdose to THAT degree..i mean the amount i used wasn't really over the amount that should have been okay if it were regular nutes.

i have been making my own nutes and this batch had a kidney in it. did you know they look like brains except a different color? they do. it's trippy. So in retrospect, i wonder if it didn't have a bit to do with regulating the moisture flow in the plant. it makes sense due to kidneys are where moisture goes before we pee; it filters out the particles? so maybe it helped the plant pee out it's moisture and leave the particles in the leaves.

hey who knows.

want another particle theory?

i wonder if phosphorus particles are what help create hurricanes. like the particles from the phosphorus bleed in Africa could be spawning the cells of Ike and Family:

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2007 atlantic hurricane season:
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see the thin blue line i drew? roughly the shape of the red phosphorus flow? and the hurricanes seem to originate along it's edges.

believe in the Bermuda Triangle? a lot of those hurricanes seem to get whipped around a corner there where the mystery spot is said to reside. Like a comet getting drawn in by our sun's gravity and then whipping back out into space again.

particles, particles..particle theory>>red worms might rule over the bigger ones due to their casting particles are WAY small and the increased surface area would be good? but a pic of their sand-sized castings will have to wait for film from the good camera.

i do have a "good" pic of our tub soil:
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the worm particles are just black goo in that image due to we saturated the tub frequently but also just a few days before we had a major flood of the tub. we noticed it when the plants started floating. See how N def the plant looks? they shouldn't look like that just due to one flooding, huh? well we think we might have liquified (and then removed) all their nitrogen due to we had a string of christmas lights on the soil. Electrifying things is how they remove anhydrous ammonia from the sky to make nitrogen fertilizer, they electrify it and it changes to liquid and they collect it (the atmosphere is about 78% nitrogen).

so the lights were on during the flood. and we had to excavate one plant out into a new pot to make room for a new drain to remove the flood water. this was actually drain #4 in a series of failed drains. but this one worked good. it is a gallon pot and black lava rock:

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The plant that got excavated to make way for the drain was a massive watery situation and so the plant came out with a lot of the flood water. so it came with the water that would have had the N in it:

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After we made the new drain, we pumped out all the flood water from the tub. so compare that excavated plant to the icky plant in the "good" pic. One kept the flood water and one didn't.

and then here they are 13 days after the flood and almost fully recovered compared to how they had been:

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Do you see their shrunken-in tops and unusual stretching on their lower regions? i noticed it on the day after the first day of christmas lights, long before the flood. The lights were grounding out. they were laying right on the soil and they were old big bulbs with metal roof clips and sometimes they would also get quite wet when watering the plants.

The strange plant structuring is less noticable on the excavated plant maybe due to it has no die off and plus it had no electricity at all after the flood due to the string was in the tub and not touching it's new pot.

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the blue was on 24/7 and the fluoros 18/6.

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After discovering how strong the current to the soil was, due to i accidentally touched it, i unplugged the christmas lights about a week after the flood. the recovery and unyellowing and normal growth structure of the tub plants speeded considerably after that.

see the shop vac in those last two pix? it sucked up the water really well from the new drain. but i did forget to replace the filter inside and it sucked up particles when i vacumed my room floor one day and it has stopped working so now it's reservoir is the new pot for the CM shown earlier.

the action of the powerful shop vac might have puilled in air particles to the soil as it vacumed water from below? the ebb and flow idea was an especially cool one to me due to my efforts to install an air line down there failed this time due to i installed the air line but then could not find sufficient air pumps; they appear to have disappeared during the cop raid; i guess they confiscated it along with the suspect bubble bucket.

see the air hose in the background?
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re the christmas lights, we used them just because that's the way we roll here at Rex's grow but specifically we hoped the extra blue would help make females. we did get 8 out of 11 even with the flood. but, later, light abuse/power outtage let one revert to male. more might have reverted had we kept them but they didn't due they had been given away so that i could stay within California plant limits.

after the flood, during the light abuse/power outtage, the lights were out this long, the plant overgrew the lights by this much:
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pic of control plant that had been excavated.

see the snow out the window? i am talking white out. it was cool but also a drag, i had no computer or lights for a week the first time. prior to that the cold weather did help tho, by making it easy to keep temps low during the time we were trying to make females. we also followed other hints we had seen, like high nutes of this and low nutes of that. something about N and K, i'd have to try and find it my notes again i guess.

oh oh tho re nutes. earlier in this thread i said i didn't think rice had any nitrogen and that was wrong. i jumped the gun in my search for easy to find sources of flowering nutes. but i did get told a formula to find the N in stuff. you multiply the protein content by 0.16 but and to get the N content of SOY proteins specifically you have to multiply by a slightly different number. got that from a poster named Homer.

from the Simpsons~

What kind of a god would allow ace to be both one and eleven?

excavated plant about two weeks into bud:
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