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mr_chow
03-06-2007, 02:53 PM
hashplant in soidro:
don't mind me
...just makin' notes...
green started feb 14th-ish
watered 6 days ago with full strength fox farm nutes (bb & gb).
3 wks old tomorrow
peace,
mr_chow
vernonsupreme
03-06-2007, 04:44 PM
just saving a spot :D
gorilla
03-06-2007, 05:01 PM
just saving a spot :D
I hear that.
Hope youve got a camera, mr_chow. :p if not thats cool anyway. I'm pretty stoned so ill just be sitting here. Peace!
reubeni
03-06-2007, 05:21 PM
hashplant in soidro:
don't mind me
...just makin' notes...
green started feb 14th-ish
watered 6 days ago with full strength fox farm nutes (bb & gb).
3 wks old tomorrow
peace,
mr_chow
Now it maybe Me but I remember a Chow from a different forum; its not the name that has got my interests "but the manner of conversing" hmm better lay off the kaliweed :D
gorilla
03-06-2007, 05:23 PM
What is soidro? :happy:
reubeni
03-06-2007, 05:35 PM
What is soidro? :happy:
I think "Quasi-grow":cool:
Elephunt man
03-06-2007, 05:55 PM
Hey now that's not fair, why is it everyone is only interested in budshots? I wanna see some veggers.:o
reubeni
03-06-2007, 06:10 PM
Hey now that's not fair, why is it everyone is only interested in budshots? I wanna see some veggers.:o
Green "n" mean with intent:D
I think "Quasi-grow"
me too
:pass:
vernonsupreme
03-06-2007, 08:06 PM
soi-dro is pretty cool, the way chow does it is he runs a pvc pipe into the bottom of the pot and then puts an air stone in it. I'm sure he will provide pictures once he makes it back this way to the board.
StoninStanley
03-06-2007, 09:55 PM
ill be watchin this grow close - i got some hashberry comin anyday now :D
EDIT - i was inebriated and misread hplant for hberry lol
mr_chow
03-06-2007, 10:46 PM
http://www.homegrownbud.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=9502&stc=1&d=1173246268
http://www.homegrownbud.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=9503&stc=1&d=1173246268
http://www.homegrownbud.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=9504&stc=1&d=1173246268
peace,
mr_chow
Sneak'in a peek and sub'in..
pi
Elephunt man
03-07-2007, 06:09 AM
Looks very interesting...what's on the other end of the pipe? An airstone I imagine, rocks or perlite or anything else down there? Big experimentor here, and cheers for doing something against the norm, or the norm I have seen so far.
:coffee:
mr_chow
03-07-2007, 10:08 PM
elephunt man
...all you have to do is ask...
http://www.homegrownbud.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=9537&stc=1&d=1173330245
http://www.homegrownbud.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=9538&stc=1&d=1173330245
http://www.homegrownbud.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=9539&stc=1&d=1173330245
http://www.homegrownbud.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=9540&stc=1&d=1173330245
peace,
mr_chow
gorilla
03-08-2007, 01:05 PM
Very cool!
What is that cloth? I imagine the roots can grow right through it..?
Do you hand feed from the top of the dirt?
Basically, give me an explanation to go with those pictures! :D I'm interested. I'm sure you're not doing it for no reason.
mr_chow
03-08-2007, 01:28 PM
Very cool!
What is that cloth? I imagine the roots can grow right through it..?
Do you hand feed from the top of the dirt?
Basically, give me an explanation to go with those pictures! :D I'm interested. I'm sure you're not doing it for no reason.
the cloth is called a capillary mat...the best i can describe it is it's like felt, but woven a little looser. And YES, the roots can grow through it.
as for the application and why...well i adapted it from soma's technique:
To get medicinal cannabis I grow on organic soil, rich in worm castings and all the other nutrients and trace minerals needed for a healthy weed plant. I don’t use pots to grow my buds, I use beds, flowering beds. These beds are made of wood put together with metal braces and screws; they are on wheels that rotate 360 degrees. They are 1.25 meters wide by 1.25 meters long and 35 centimeters high, (sorry after being here so long I think in centimeters). They are lined with waterproof plastic. The bottom 5 centimeters is clay pebbles called Hydrocorals. I then take plastic coated chicken wire and place it on top of the hydrocorals. On top of that I put a layer of felt root cloth, the kind most nurseries use under their potted plants. Roots of the Marijuana plant love air so I mix a lot of perlite in with my organic soil mix before filling the beds up. In each corner of the bed, I have a PVC tube 70 MM wide and 35 centimeters long. The tube goes down into the hydrocorals, through the root cloth, up through the 25 centimeters of soil, leaving 5 centimeters above the soils surface. These 4 tubes in each bed help the roots to have a constant air- flow, and the hydrocorals underneath make it almost impossible to over-water your garden.
The plants are spaced out as evenly as possible affording each plant as much light and space as they can get. They are given liberal amounts of black and brown seaweeds, both foliar and in the soil until the end of the 3rd week in flowering. Each plant has at least one stake supporting it as the buds get heavier and heavier. Leading up to the 3rd week in flowering, I have twisted and bent my tops in the tried and true method of super-cropping, giving them that added stress which makes the yield and taste better. In the 4th week, I give the plants some organic flowering food with an NPK of 1.5-13-14. I give it to the plants twice in that week. From the end of the 4th week in 12/12, I start to give the ganja my secret ingredient, Guano tea. The guano I use is a mix of bat and seabird guanos with an NPK of 2-15-2; this particular one comes from Indonesia. I like it because it has no smell. I take 100 grams of the dried guano and mix it with 2 quarts of hot water, stirring it with a plant stake until it is almost all dissolved. I then take an 8-ounce cup of the tea and add it to 10 liters of water with a PH of 6.6. I water the beds twice a week with this tea waiting until they are dry before applying it. I keep doing this until the middle of the 7th week in 12/12. With 10-week plants like the ones I’m growing now, I like to give them a good flush with water for two weeks or more before harvest. -Soma "Growing with Guano" by Soma (http://www.somaseeds.nl/magazine_articles/GrowingwithGuano.html)
(i top feed at the moment, but my have plans to use those pvc's for some bottom-up feeding during flower)
peace,
mr_chow
The Hooded Claw
03-08-2007, 02:19 PM
Its the main man 'Chow'. Takes me back a little to my first attic grow.
Interesting stuff and may those girls receive muchos globbus.
Good to see you mr_chow.
Burns.
mr_chow
03-08-2007, 07:52 PM
burns...hmmm...seem to remember a chap that went by that name that didn't respond to an email
:hmmmm:
THC, i like the name choice.
?you like the setup?
peace,
mr_chow
mr_chow
03-08-2007, 08:08 PM
watered the plants 2 days ago 03/06
...1-gallon plain water across all three...
didn't see 'em yesterday at all.
looked at them today, one on left looking a bit "down"...maybe too much water? (didn't mix that much perlite in with my soil medium...maybe should have)
one in middle growing like a male...just shot-up "overnite" it seems
one on right like it's physically retarded
temps getting a bit warmer...~80s in the cab. gonna have to go to 12/12 soon.
peace,
mr_chow
The Hooded Claw
03-09-2007, 03:52 PM
burns...hmmm...seem to remember a chap that went by that name that didn't respond to an email
:hmmmm:
THC, i like the name choice.
?you like the setup?
peace,
mr_chow
My pardon if I missed an email buddy :shrug: I remember our last conversation regarding Uni's, but after that things changed. My pardon if I missed something...
As for the set up you had me cupping my chin between thumb and fore finger as soon as I'd seen it :) Any growing method that deviates from the pages of a book or 'the norm' will grab my interest mr C.
I do need to know one thing about clay pebbles and you're probably the man to ask. How labour intensive is washing the roots from the pebbles after a growing session? Reason I ask is I'm planning to fill a 9x12ft total area and was thinking of changing to F&D with pebbles but in a huge 9x12 tray and not pots.
Gotta say I'm pleased to see an old hand..... 2thumbs
mr_chow
03-09-2007, 04:59 PM
My pardon if I missed an email buddy :shrug:
...just bustin' an old friend's balls, no worries...
;)
How labour intensive is washing the roots from the pebbles after a growing session?dunno? :shrug: this is the first time i have ever tried this setup. my guess is that once i chop, i'll grab the remaining trunk and pull up...the dirt and cloth should come up leaving the hydrotron on the bottom? or maybe not :o
we'll see once it happens...t-minus 8 or so weeks.
peace,
mr_chow
mr_chow
03-09-2007, 06:00 PM
i think i've got fungus gnats or something...not a bad problem, for i've only seen one or two crawling around on the damp soil surface...
...definitely should've put more perlite in my soil mix...
:mad:
just have to let the soil dry out a little more before rewater, that's all.
peace,
mr_chow
i think i've got fungus gnats or something...not a bad problem,
that sux :mad:
mr_chow
03-09-2007, 10:51 PM
that sux :mad:
yeah, but i've only seen a couple gnat-like thingy-things flyin' around...could even be benign, but i've seen them on the soil, too...that's why i've begun to wonder...
...as far as i've read, it shouldn't be a big problemo, i've been stirring the top part of the soil to try to help it dry out a little faster...
:flog:
...and killing those little muther fawkers whenever i see 'em...
.i'll be forced to go 12/12 this weekend...temp are getting too hot.
plants will be just shy of 4 weeks old, and they're about 1 ft tall each, except for the gimp on the right. dunno what's going on with that one.
hope we see some girls and at least one boy...the chow mein needs to keep this hashplant seedstock going.
peace,
mr_chow
mSeTxOiNcEaRn
03-10-2007, 12:10 AM
This sounds like a job for Buzzmobile. Neem oil works good. Hashplant aint cheap either :D
Good luck with the sexin!
mr_chow
03-10-2007, 10:30 AM
...hello my fellow mexican stoner...
only saw one of those boogers flying around today.
by the way, that reminds me...what's the last thing that goes through a bugs mind when he hits the windshield of a car?
his ass
:D
anyway...went in the garden and did a little finger stressing to the plants.
finger stressing? you say...
well, it's another of soma's techniques where you go, grab the main stem a few nodes down from the top and kinda rub your finger and your thumb together. squashing and twisting with just the right pressure...
...this is my first time to try this method...
:watch:
.let's see if i flucked them up or not.
peace,
mr_chow
The Hooded Claw
03-10-2007, 12:48 PM
I've had fungus knats in my veg/mother cab MC, and a sticky fly paper always seemed to get em for me :2cents: I also hung one above the plants as well as one either end, that way each time I went in I shook the plants and the critters always seemed to fly around and up... and stuck!
Can't you fill the last inch of the pots with perlite?
Elephunt man
03-10-2007, 01:09 PM
I've had fungus knats in my veg/mother cab MC, and a sticky fly paper always seemed to get em for me :2cents: I also hung one above the plants as well as one either end, that way each time I went in I shook the plants and the critters always seemed to fly around and up... and stuck!
Can't you fill the last inch of the pots with perlite?
or hydroton? I'm starting to believe coco works too.
mr_chow
03-10-2007, 02:29 PM
...sh!t forgot the fly paper...
!but i finally got a timer!
12/12 starts tonight
?so does that make this flower day 1 or last day veg?
:hmmmm:
!!!either way, t-minus 6-7 weeks for some nuggies!!!
peace,
mr_chow
The Hooded Claw
03-10-2007, 02:43 PM
....12/12 starts tonight so does that make this flower day 1 or last day veg?
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Neither. This is the twilight zone. We control the vertical lines, and also the horizontal lines......
E-Man has a point with coco. With us it needs to be PH correct otherwise I'd have done the tangent thing and advised putting a stretched condom around the top of each pot.
Thing is, used ones are way off the PH scale for mj and I ain't wasting unused condoms on a plant that can get you fooked.....
Sex in peace.
Burns.
mr_chow
03-10-2007, 03:13 PM
Neither. This is the twilight zone. We control the vertical lines, and also the horizontal lines......
pass whatever you are smoking to the left, thc...
:pass:
...for the ease of it all, we're going with day 1 flower is tomorrow...
...they've been growing under 24/0 for 26 days...
peace,
mr_chow
mr_chow
03-10-2007, 08:44 PM
.went to check the timer operation; everything seems to be working just fine.
...this should really help with the temps, for they've been climbing up towards the mid 80's in the cab lately during the seasonably hot days that we've been having...
:watch:
peace,
mr_chow
The Hooded Claw
03-12-2007, 10:38 PM
Have you tried the frozen water bottle method for now mr_chow? I was thinking that as this is the start of flower the extra humidity wouldn't matter?
That is, if temps would still be an issue?
mr_chow
03-19-2007, 04:53 PM
frozen water bottles? didn't think of that one...thanks, thc :D
...but the temps are fine...
1 confirmed male
2 unknown
peace,
mr_chow
mr_chow
03-20-2007, 08:05 PM
2 males...1 hermi
gonna grow 'em out and see what happens
peace,
mr_chow
gorilla
03-20-2007, 08:32 PM
Two males and a hermie.
Bad luck Mr Chow.
Why grow them out?
mr_chow
03-24-2007, 09:45 AM
Two males and a hermie.
Bad luck Mr Chow.
Why grow them out?
scratch that, 2 hermies, 1 male...
?luck?
.don't believe in it.
.just something that get's credit for good things and blame for bad.
gonna grow 'em out for some butter and some hash and some EXPERIENCE...this is mr_chow's first grow in over 4-5 years
peace,
mr_chow
GoldenNug
04-06-2007, 04:19 PM
Hope everything's alright with you, chow...
Just thought you should know that we'll be here(and there) when you get back...
-the man with the golden nug
any seeds in germ and/or babys :)
:pass:
mr_chow
04-07-2007, 04:04 PM
Hope everything's alright with you, chow...
Just thought you should know that we'll be here(and there) when you get back...
-the man with the golden nug
everything isn't alright...bad things do happen to good people.
plants are gone...but i still have my freedom
peace and God bless you all
mr_chow
signing off
gorilla
04-07-2007, 05:29 PM
Not sure what your last post means totally... But my best wishes to ya, Mr_chow.
Peace dude.
Peace & Good Vibrations
Take care my friend
pi
Elephunt man
04-08-2007, 09:33 AM
Hope things look up for you soon...we will 'leave the light on for you'.:)
vernonsupreme
04-09-2007, 08:21 PM
chow is ok, I spoke to him on another forum...he just had to take a break for a while :D