Michigan Growers Tell Your Plans for This Year

[Green Dave]

Merry Christmas to all my Michigan grow Bros
James
I put my IRG13 out at 16/8 and they went fine even if they start to flower they will reveg

 

[Shwagbag]

Happy Holidays Michiganders!

I gifted your monsters for xmas Dankshizzle, the recipients loved them! THank you!

 

[smellzlikeskunkyum]

F-F-F-F-F-F-FLINT TOWN!! FLINT TOWN!! F-F-F-F-F-F-F FLINT TOWN!! FLINT TOWN!! Ya'll better get down if ya aint from Flint Town!! The only city niggas from the D and Sag-nasty are too afraid of to fuck with... NORTH SIDE!! HURRICANOES BITCH!!
ANYWAYS!! enough of all that (what u expect comin from Flint?!)

Just got done smoking up my Nirvana Blackberry and Nirvana Chrystal. The Chrystal was 10/10, just as good as any other strains out there. smoke wise and grow wise. simply an amazing strain, my new favorite. Bright lime-green nugs with fire orange hairs, loaded with aromatic resin. Mixed high, not too indica at all. Serious Chronic, no joke.

This time around:
Ive got 2 Grape Apes in flowering, both about halfway thru at 4 weeks. Very skunky scent, with a slight after thought of grape. one is much more sativa than the other. the sativa is mostly all purple on the buds. both phenotypes have VERY dark foilage, almost black. Very resinous strain, just keeps on producing more and more too. They are very quick developing too, seems like a fast flowering strain.
I also have a Nirvana NYPD female that i just put in 12/12 a couple days ago. This strain suprized me with how easy it was to keep short and branch out. responds well to topping and training, nice tight internode spaces. no heavy stretch in veg, and its so far so good in flower too. VERY strong smell of citrus and a fuel-like skunk after-scent. The main branches are greasy to the touch, i have a feeling this will be a resin queen!
And finally last but not least, 1 G13 Labs Pineapple Express about 2 weeks into 12/12. its starting to explode with bud growth, very nice branching and wide internode spacing leads to huge buds all the way down the branches. My pheno is leaning a bit towards its sativa side. It has a strong scent of SPICE and SUGAR. kinda like cinnamon, very haze like. i tried hard to even out the canopy on this one, and it left the middle of the plant wide open. one of the tops is getting most of the growth hormone too and becoming very tall, while the rest of the plant is VERY even. excellent plant all the way around. great for a novice grower too, very easy to figure out plant. only complaint is the rubber like stems. they dont hold shape at all, they just flop wherever they are gonna flop at. certainly not a problem that cant be fixed.
I've also got a Nirvana White Rhino in veg, along with a sickly Nirvana Medusa that just cant seem to get right. I also just had a Nirvana Mystery strain seed pop up out of the dirt, so we will see what that holds in the future. plus i have at least one clone of all the plants in flower! so im ready to get high this year!!!

STAY SAFE MICHIGANDERS!!! STAY HIGH!! FLINT TOWN!!

 

[smellzlikeskunkyum]

ive got an ICE mother. i should send you a seed then you can cross it with the vanilla kush and make some VANILLA ICE ICE BABY

How do you like the ICE? I grew White Castle (widow x ICE) and it was very powerful, a close a second to Chrystal for most potent. My only complaint was the long 11 week flowering it took to get those nice nugs. Blackberry too, its another ice hybrid.{(ice x cambodian sativa) x (black domino)} it wasnt as good as the others but it yielded very heavy, very.
Does your ICE flower faster than that?? so does it yield heavy?(the close internodes make for the big yields) does it have a sweet almost berry/fruity like scent to it? my white castle did, almost like mixed berries. i still have a couple fem seeds of it too! if u can send me a pic! id love to see it! i dont have any white castle pics unfortunatly, sorry. thx bro!

 

[Shwagbag]

How do you like the ICE? I grew White Castle (widow x ICE) and it was very powerful, a close a second to Chrystal for most potent. My only complaint was the long 11 week flowering it took to get those nice nugs. Blackberry too, its another ice hybrid.{(ice x cambodian sativa) x (black domino)} it wasnt as good as the others but it yielded very heavy, very.
Does your ICE flower faster than that?? so does it yield heavy?(the close internodes make for the big yields) does it have a sweet almost berry/fruity like scent to it? my white castle did, almost like mixed berries. i still have a couple fem seeds of it too! if u can send me a pic! id love to see it! i dont have any white castle pics unfortunatly, sorry. thx bro!

Ice is badass, awesome bud to leaf ratio and killer smoke with great yields. The last one I did I got 4 zips from the tops, just put another one into flower, one plant among several in a 4 x 4 box. I like it better than White Widow and Chrystal, even though WW is present in all three strains. In my experience the Chrystal is a heavy hitter, I can't smoke it and do active things. I still have it going but its too much of a KO for me to burn unless I just want to lay down lol. Ice was more of a social smoke for me not compromising any endurance or potency. It responds well to super cropping and training to produce several colas. The Chrystal did as well but she likes to make one MONSTER ass bud regardless of my training methods.

Try it and you will like it. If you like WW and Chrystal you will like Ice, they are three of the first strains I tried with limited growing experience and knocked it out of the park for a beginner. The way I see it if a strain has WW in it its worth trying. My Ice goes around 60-65 days if I recall correctly.

Pics of Ice in post #57

https://www.rollitup.org/general-marijuana-growing/413359-supercropping-canopy-control-7.html

 

[Green Dave]

Wishing everyone a SAFE and FUN NEW YEAR Be SAFE this weekend
and to all GOOD LUCK during the New Year may your bowels be full and your joints burn straight and jars full all year
Hope to meet some of you in the comming year

 

[Sailor Jerry]

I'm waking up with a few bong rips of some pink champagne this morning. Just thought I'd wish the fellow Michiganders a Happy New year.



And as a reminder, don't drink and drive.

I Just got off probation and that shit is a pain in the ass. Plus its cost me about 4500 bucks so far and I still gotta pay another years 1000 dollar drivers responsibility free in 2012.

So, save your money and call a cab or have a DD.

 

[james42]

Atfter reading more on the iranian g13 yesterday I got motivated to go and do some scouting for next years grow site. I looked at my satalite map and saw a stream(water ssource) and a nice clearing in the middle of absolute nowhere. I grabbed the gps and hopped on the fourwheeler. When I got as far as that could take me I set out on foot. After about a hour hike through some really rough terrain I found the small stream and the clearing.
I was really pumped that I found such a good spot so far away from civilization.
Then I looked down in the snow we got the night before and saw a fresh set of boot prints.
It never ceases to amaze me. Everytime I think ive found the ultimate spot in the middle of nowhere,all I have to do is look a little harder and I find a foot print or a fresh ciggeret butt.
I had a good spot this last year but going back feels like im returning to the scene of the crime.


Im bored and Thought id rant a little

 

[hammer6913]

Atfter reading more on the iranian g13 yesterday I got motivated to go and do some scouting for next years grow site. I looked at my satalite map and saw a stream(water ssource) and a nice clearing in the middle of absolute nowhere. I grabbed the gps and hopped on the fourwheeler. When I got as far as that could take me I set out on foot. After about a hour hike through some really rough terrain I found the small stream and the clearing.
I was really pumped that I found such a good spot so far away from civilization.
Then I looked down in the snow we got the night before and saw a fresh set of boot prints.
It never ceases to amaze me. Everytime I think ive found the ultimate spot in the middle of nowhere,all I have to do is look a little harder and I find a foot print or a fresh ciggeret butt.
I had a good spot this last year but going back feels like im returning to the scene of the crime.


Im bored and Thought id rant a little

that sucks james. its not easy to find place where there arent people anymore. i live in the forest and u can find a spot around here where people havent been. after last year i dont have what it takes to gurilla grow. i did that in my yard. lol

it would be kewl as fuck meeting everybody.. myabe we can have a party or something, camp out. one of the other threads i sub to, had a big event after harvest in cali.. pig roast i think. what does everyone think?


HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL HOPE THIS YEAR IS A GREAT YEAR FOR ALL rock and roll joints

 

[firelane]

Hey hammer.....[youtube]5Ay5GqJwHF8[/youtube]

 

[hammer6913]

Hey hammer.....[youtube]5Ay5GqJwHF8[/youtube]

does anybody camp?

 

[hammer6913]

UPDATEON SURVELIENCE CAMERA IN FRONT OF HYDRO SHOP.. FROM CONCORD DAWN

[h=1]Surveillance of Largo hydroponic supply shop ends, but legal growers 'shook up'[/h]By Rita Farlow, Times Staff WriterTampa Bay Times
In Print: Saturday, December 24, 2011
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Shane Metler said the search put him in a “lose-lose situation, where I either look guilty or give up my rights as a citizen.”
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Jeremy Harris' household was winding down for the night. It was about 10 p.m., his children were getting ready for bed and he was watching TV, when a uniformed deputy and two undercover detectives knocked on the door of his Dunedin home.
Harris says the Pinellas sheriff's detectives told him they had gotten an anonymous tip that he was growing marijuana, and they asked if they could search his property.
Harris stepped outside and was astonished to see other deputies standing nearby in groups of two — 10 to 14 of them, he estimates.
"They looked like full SWAT," he said. "They've got the vests and assault rifles. It just seemed like an awful excessive amount of force for somebody that is maybe just growing marijuana on the property. They showed up with enough force to deal with a drug cartel."
Harris, 38, let the detectives do their search. They did not find any marijuana.
Harris doesn't believe the detectives got an anonymous tip. He thinks they came to his home just because he frequented a hydroponic gardening shop in Largo that the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office had under surveillance.
"It doesn't seem right for them to be watching a business and then harassing the customers, basically just for shopping at that business," he said.
• • •
Harris and another man told their stories to the St. Petersburg Times after a Dec. 4 article about surveillance tactics used by the Sheriff's Office.
Narcotics deputies with the agency had erected a camera on a pole across the street from Simply Hydroponics at 7949 Ulmerton Road, a store that specializes in hydroponic gardening equipment.
Detectives recorded license tag numbers, identified vehicle owners and got their home addresses. Then, according to the Sheriff's Office, they would check the power usage at the home and perform "spot checks" to look for signs of criminal activity.
But it was their noses they used to persuade local judges to give them search warrants to go into the homes of Simply Hydroponics customers. They claimed they could smell marijuana growing while standing outside those homes.
In 39 cases between Jan. 1, 2010, and Sept. 15, 2011, detectives got search warrants, went into the homes of the store's customers, and found either marijuana or marijuana plants in all of them.
But in 34 other cases, detectives went to customers' homes without search warrants and performed what's known as a "knock and talk," in which deputies told residents they believed they were growing marijuana and asked for consent to search their homes.
And in 12 of those cases, they found no marijuana and no marijuana plants.
Shane Metler was one of those cases.
According to a Sheriff's Office report, detectives saw Metler's car at Simply Hydroponics on Dec. 18, 2010. On the evening of July 7, two detectives and a deputy knocked on Metler's door.
He said the detectives told him they had gotten complaints from his neighbors about cars coming and going, and they had detected the smell of growing marijuana coming from his home, both charges he vehemently denies.
Metler, 35, allowed them to search the house he shares with his girlfriend. They did not find any marijuana or pot plants, but did find a soil-free hydroponic system being used to grow legal plants, according to their notes.
"I have to admit, it really shook us up," Metler said. "So, for the next four hours, we were pacing around the house and just bewildered, shocked. It really was disrupting."
Metler said he consented to the search because he knew he wasn't doing anything illegal.
But, he said, the visit put him in a "lose-lose situation, where I either look guilty or give up my rights as a citizen."
• • •
The Sheriff's Office camera across from Simply Hydroponics was removed Dec. 4 or 5, said shop co-owner Dawn Bednar.
Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri, who was appointed by Gov. Rick Scott in November when former Sheriff Jim Coats retired, said he ordered it taken down because marijuana grow houses are, and should be, a lesser priority in a county at the epicenter of the state's prescription drug crisis.
"My emphasis from a policy standpoint is not on those types of operations," he said. "I want our folks to focus on those things I consider to be the most important public safety threats … like prescription drugs, the opiate drugs, a squeeze on pill mills … also cocaine."
Gualtieri insisted that homes weren't visited without search warrants "simply because somebody showed up at Simply Hydroponics." People seen on video at the store were further investigated, he said, if narcotics detectives determined there were other indicators of possible criminal activity, such as anonymous tips, previous criminal history, criminal intelligence or information gathered from confidential informants.
• • •
Jeremy Harris, the Dunedin man who found 10 to 14 deputies outside his home, felt harassed by the Sheriff's Office's tactics. His mother, whom he lives with, said she feels differently.
"I don't feel they violated my rights. They asked to search and I gave them permission," Nancy Harris said.
Harris said she was "happy" detectives searched her home because it showed dedication to fighting drug use and sale, an effort she supports.
Harris also said she felt the deputies acted professionally, taking special care not to disturb her three grandchildren.
"They didn't scare the children. They didn't disturb the children. They were very polite, and apologetic afterward," she said.
Rita Farlow can be reached at [email protected] or [email protected].


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[Green Dave]

does anybody camp?

When I get the chance

 

[hammer6913]

holy shit. did we get dumped on or what? i got at least 10 inches since yesterday and still snowing here... hope the tractor starts. gotta move the shit.. bahhhhh.


does anybody know how hic is doing? havent seen him on here in awhile.. happy new year hic.

 

[delstele]

I love to camp...Happy New Year Michigan growers. I hope the new year brings much happiness...

 

[Shwagbag]

I love to camp...Happy New Year Michigan growers. I hope the new year brings much happiness...

I love to camp too, but the GF's idea of camping is at a state park. To me, that is not camping, I don't really know what I could call it really lol, but I don't enjoy it.

 

[Sailor Jerry]

Heres a pic of me at outside a cave that is on Isle Royale. I love to go backpacking but I am also fond of camping in a tent outside my car. That way I can set up my always expanding camp kitchen and use a cooler. I'm down for a MI RIU meet.

 

[delstele]

I love to camp too, but the GF's idea of camping is at a state park. To me, that is not camping, I don't really know what I could call it really lol, but I don't enjoy it.

State park camping sucks ass...

 

[hammer6913]

i call state park camping , city camping.. not into it either.. there is a really kewl campground by me, that is mmj friendly. it has a band stand, pond, but no showers . there are porta pots.. its easy to find on m-37 just south of baldwin.could this be a good spot? there are state campgrounds close within 5 to 7 miles. i think they have showers.. i do not know how much it would cost to rent the entire place but i can find out.. this place is not like aq regular campground.. its a party spot. last summer they had a mmj thing with speakersa and meds for sale. does july or august sound ok? if we wait till harves it may be too cold.. thoughts anyone.

 

[kindone]

I take several Michigan backpacking trips every year,its generally a big smokeout with a few other growers from around the state. I prefer more isolated spots and know some great places in th L.P. the U.P and my favorite , the surrounding islands.I am down for an RIU trip, I like to get out early or late in the season and stay away from the people and the heat. I am planning a mid may island trip now if anyone is interested.