ICURBYOUs WhiteWidow CFL dresser growbox

[hackel]

I think its a good thing that plants don't have eyes... You added so much stuff in that gallon of water that I know is good for your baby, but the end result was horrid looking!

molasses + H2O + FF nutes + H2O2 = diarrhea! LOL

Damn, I wish my girl was as cool with my grow as yours is about your grow! I am feeling the same way about my buds! They look lovely as far as shape, but the size and frosting isn't there yet and it is getting me just as worried because I only have a couple of weeks left as opposed to your month. I have never grown this before, so I couldn't tell you when they will swell, but with your care and GF's extra grow support I think you will have nothing to worry about! Just be strong bro! I will be around a lot to bother you about somethings that are so completely unrelated to your grow that you will prolly forget all about it!

First dilema. Nug size Vs. Porno Politics: Ethical Applications of the Money Shot... It is a close call, but I think the nugs would take a back burner on that one... LOL That oughta do ya for at least 10 minutes!

If anyone should worry about their grow it is me... I never truly got the temperature issue settled and I just thought up increasingly more ghetto solutions to lowering the temps by a few degrees here and there... it still over 85 with everything all closed up.. maybe in the low 90's...

I haven't seen up to date pics, but I would say you are right on track and after this harvest you will probably laugh at how your buds took their damned precious time getting ready. Keep your head up, man! It won't be long now!

 

[icurbyou]

i understand that mourning is a very natural and healthful phase when confronted with loss but i must warn you curb to not give into the sadness. at times over the next few days it may seem that life has lost a certain something, things whose meaning was patent may start to wither, the colour of life itself may start to fade, but fear not...this too shall pass. Self-pity is a road you don't want to go down. See the road, know it is there, maybe even contemplate it - but please - for your sake and #3's - don't start down that garden path. only regret and sorrow that way leads. look forward, to a new future with 3 - glance backwards once in a while but only to see how far you've come. this is this. regret nothing. know yourself, know your thoughts and know that knowledge is power. thus the cycle of life continues.

LOL! This post has helped me through this dark time. I appreciate you. ha

great job man saw your threw in a 150 hps hows that helping the buds. Im interested in grabbing one or a 250.. Looks bangin man! and hey men die all the time for way less than being a pot plant that other than pollen has no use except maybe rope LOL.. keep ya head up .

lol, no kidding. Thanks for the support!

I think its a good thing that plants don't have eyes... You added so much stuff in that gallon of water that I know is good for your baby, but the end result was horrid looking!

molasses + H2O + FF nutes + H2O2 = diarrhea! LOL

Damn, I wish my girl was as cool with my grow as yours is about your grow! I am feeling the same way about my buds! They look lovely as far as shape, but the size and frosting isn't there yet and it is getting me just as worried because I only have a couple of weeks left as opposed to your month. I have never grown this before, so I couldn't tell you when they will swell, but with your care and GF's extra grow support I think you will have nothing to worry about! Just be strong bro! I will be around a lot to bother you about somethings that are so completely unrelated to your grow that you will prolly forget all about it!

First dilema. Nug size Vs. Porno Politics: Ethical Applications of the Money Shot... It is a close call, but I think the nugs would take a back burner on that one... LOL That oughta do ya for at least 10 minutes!

If anyone should worry about their grow it is me... I never truly got the temperature issue settled and I just thought up increasingly more ghetto solutions to lowering the temps by a few degrees here and there... it still over 85 with everything all closed up.. maybe in the low 90's...

I haven't seen up to date pics, but I would say you are right on track and after this harvest you will probably laugh at how your buds took their damned precious time getting ready. Keep your head up, man! It won't be long now!

I think temps may be a big issue. I know my temps got way too high for the later 6 hrs a day.. I had no idea until about 3 weeks into the flowering. Now, I think I have it more under control.
I have more CFLs on during the first 6 hrs, and I keep my box cracked open... The later 6 hours I kill some CFLs and close the box completely.

The diarrhea concoction looked gross.. and if you think it looked gross, you should've smelled it. Molasses is some stinky ass shit. BLECH!

I do now feel as though the actual buds are forming. I believe my plant has finally reached it's height. It hasnt grown height-wise now in about 5 days. The frost is looking real nice. Sometimes I shutoff the fans completely just to take a whiff of her odor. She smells nice.

Im going to have to figure out a good solution to getting all the trichomes off of the plant when the grow is over. Its way too much to waste!
Thanks for the support again Hackelsawww

 

[bxke1414]

I am using my trimmings from the four plants to make a pound or two of cannabutter.

 

[icurbyou]

How much do all of the supplies for that sort of thing cost?

Is that the thing with the lighter fluid or whatever?

 

[SmokeyMcSmokester]

icurb...your thinkin of honey oil...
cannabutter is made with butter, and you can make pastries and shit

 

[bxke1414]

I am going to freeze the trimmings, then put them in boiling water with 1-2 pounds of butter, boil for about 15 minutes, then simmer for about an hour. Then I use cheesecloth and strain everything into a large tupperware dish with a lid, then put in the fridge and let the mixture seperate, once the butter has hardened pour the water out and you have pure cannabutter to make cookies or brownies with. Since most recipes for brownies call for oil, use double the amount of butter as you would oil.

 

[icurbyou]

I see.. I checked out a youtube vid on it earlier and I have been mowing over the idea today. I think I want something a little less fattening than cannabutter. I mean, I've had the brownies before and they fuuuuucked me up but overall Im a generally healthy person and Im not trying to become a fatty by getting baked off weed-dessert everynight

Any other ideas guys?? With what I can do with my frosted leafs?

 

[SmokeyMcSmokester]

my friend makes a tea with cream or milk..he just tosses the milk, and shake in the pot, and lets it simmer for an hour or so. strain all the plant matter our of the liquid. then add like nutmeg or cinnamon. Ive tried, and it was pretty good. fucked me up to

 

[icurbyou]

Do you think Charlie would be able to do that? He didnt have any visible crystals to the naked eye

 

[icurbyou]

Im just now realizing I havent taken any pics of #3's status for 9 days! Damnsh.

 

[hackel]

I see.. I checked out a youtube vid on it earlier and I have been mowing over the idea today. I think I want something a little less fattening than cannabutter. I mean, I've had the brownies before and they fuuuuucked me up but overall Im a generally healthy person and Im not trying to become a fatty by getting baked off weed-dessert everynight

Any other ideas guys?? With what I can do with my frosted leafs?

Haha tincture or green dragon is a lower fat and calorie option. It uses alcohol but requires 2 months to finish being made. The instructions are in Mr Bitti's grow journal.

 

[drybiedog]

shake leaves in a mason jar of 99% isopropyl alcohol for 5 minutes. strain and pour alcohol on a glass pan. wait a couple days. The alcohol completely evaporates leaving only potent keif residue. Chuck that in your favourite tofu recipe and you're good to go...and then some.

i have pics of this process if anyone is interested.

 

[icurbyou]

Thanks for all of the recipes and ideas guys... Seems like a lot of them involve this ISOPROPYL alcohol... Is this something you can typically pick up at the store?

 

[SmokeyMcSmokester]

isopropyl is just regular rubbing alcohol..Ive never heard of it being used for weed, except to clean my bong with salt.

 

[icurbyou]

Days since ground-break: 78 days
Days of 12/12: 44 (6 weeks, 4 day OUT OF 10weeks)
Number of plants: 1
Lights: (1) 150w HPS, (1) 42w CFL, (2)26w CFL
Lumens: 15,000 + 2,700 + (2)1,600 = 20,900
Light Cycle: 12/12
Temps: 75ºF

Hey guys... Gonna have to bang this one out quick. Still on the prowl for a job.

A few months back I stupidly got a plane ticket to visit my girl's family. I will be gone for 4 days. During this time someone will be house sitting for me. I can't seem to talk them out of it. I've told them no a few times but they are insisting... and it's one of those relatives that are going to make it happen. So, point is, someone else will be here for 4 days. There's nothing to change that. It would be 10 times shadier if I forced a "NO" upon the situation considering this person ALWAYS watches my house, every single time I leave it.

I've been hesitant to mention the situation because I figured I would get more "Dont have them stay there!" rather than "I have an idea".

So.. the plant really has no smell. So Im not worried about smell. The closet that the box resides in is not a closet this person would ever open. It's not in a hallway or in the main area of the house. It's in the master bedroom. The only thing I really need to guard against is the "hum" of the fans.

You likely would not notice the hum unless you were in that bedroom specifically. Now, I can't close my door because my cat will freak the FUCK out if I shut it, besides, the door doesn't stay shut - the cat can just push it open. Even if she couldn't im sure the "house sitter" would open the door for her. I think the only time the house sitter would go in the room is to check on the cat if the cat is in the bedroom. This is where the sound situation comes in. When we go to bed at night, we can hear the fans. It's just normal shit... but to someone new coming in the room, they would think "WTF is that humming coming from the closet that has a power cord going into it?!".

My plan of attack (and I am all ears for other ideas involving keeping down the sound):

1. Make sure anything that is "wood on wood" of the box gets squishy weather seal between it. To cut down on vibration.

2. Weather seal the door of the closet. To cut down on noise exiting the gaps (its an old house).

3. I need to experiment with this one - but - if I kill the CFLs then I think I could kill the big fan that's in the box. Thus I would only need the 150w HPS on, and it's cooltube inline duct fan. 1 fan = quieter than 3.

4. There is about a 2 foot gap between the box and the closet door. I am thinking of hanging extra blankets in the closet, is like "walls"... every 5" or so as it gets closer to the closet door. So, a series of "blanket walls", 5 inches apart, all the way to the door. I think this would slowly cut down noise. *Heres a drawing of the blanket walls and the box* = ||||[]

5. Stacking pillows and foam (bought some yesterday for another project in the house) up against the door on the inside. Seems tricky since I will have to be outside the closet while stacking it. but none the less...

6. Towel crammed under the door.

7. This is the big one I am curious about from you guys. Right now my lights come on at 5PM and turn off at 5AM. Leaving the area vulnerable between 5PM and 10PM (the time the house sitter returns from work and goes to bed). Do you think it would be a harmful/bad idea to change the lighting? By flipping to 11PM ON - 11AM OFF?
I know changing light time could be bad... And if all my other stuff works then I guess this would be a moot idea... But if my 'super blanket cushy' idea doesnt work, it seems that altering the time the fans/lights need to be on could be the ticket here.

So that's basically my game plan. Eliminate any fans I can while putting cushy stuff all over the place to minimize noise travel. what do you think of these 6-7 ideas??



and here's the images for today:

 

[SmokeyMcSmokester]

what if you turn the setting of your fan down so its not pushing as much air as normal? would that cut down the hum? you could also get yellow caution tape, and wrap your door with it. that should get the point across

 

[drybiedog]

first off the alcohol you can find in a big drugstore. make sure you get 99%.

next, the visitor. I've read quite a few times that shifting your time is not a problem if you shift in increments. the main point is that you don't want to give it more light or else she'll start vegging. I think the time shift shouldn't be a problem especially if you do it INCREMENTALLY. 30 mins to an hour a day seems reasonable.

some quick ideas:

Put another dresser or something big in front of the closet.

put some carpet or rubber or something under the wheels of the growbox to minimize vibrations.

Put a dehumidifier or something similar in the room to mask the noise (say its for the cat?)

egg cartons!

definitely ride without the CFLs for a few days. turn the fans that you can off. also i think having good airflow behind the fan changes how fast it spins. if you put a wall behind the fan it might be quieter...or louder. just a though.

Put a dead fish in your room so it stinks and nobody will want to hang out in there - say the cat brought in a dead bird last week and you only just found it.

Cut lights on to 10 hours.

Get some more cfls and lose the cool tube?

Put your desktop computer in your room (if you have one), take the side off so the fan is exposed and change your BIOS so that the fan runs at maximum velocity. Say you are downloading the every episode of the sopranos and you need your computer on. (another masking technique)

get an old dimmer switch for your bedroom light and leave it at 50% (cats preference) that should create an annoying buzz.

get a silent (ball bearing) computer fan from your local computer store.

get caught and invite your relative into your inner sanctum and master plan of becoming a weed baron and taking over the world with them as your left hand man.

also you can get pretty hot without damaging your plants - they'll just slow the growth.

 

[hackel]

Thanks for all of the recipes and ideas guys... Seems like a lot of them involve this ISOPROPYL alcohol... Is this something you can typically pick up at the store?

The tincture requires food grade ethanol... Like Bicardi 151 or Everclear. I hope some come in handy... You can get really strong isopropyl at the pharmacy but I have never seen 99% pure there.

 

[hackel]

isopropyl is just regular rubbing alcohol..Ive never heard of it being used for weed, except to clean my bong with salt.

SALT??? I fucking made a brush that is wierdly hooked and twisted to clean all that shit and you tell me I could have just used SALT!!!! Damn. I am actually going to have to try that.

 

[drybiedog]

i just popped into my local pharmacy and it was sitting there alongside the 70% and 95%.

also, wine decanter scrubbies work well too.