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mr west

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Found this info on critical x kalimist

Delicious Seeds Critical Kali Mist is a strong sativa cannabis hybrid obtained from the inversion of female plants like Shantibabas Critical+ and Kali Mist. She maintains a pure Kali taste but considerably shortens her flowering period. This marijuana possesses a great energizing sativa effect, thanks to the high amount of THC, with an incredible aroma and intense flavour, metallic and unmistakable. seeds of this cannabis are not difficult to grow. They don't need any special care, all cannabis seeds are hand selected and usually show an excellent rate of germination. They respond well to nearly all growing methods and give you a good yield of up to 450 gr.of a quality marijuana whether you grow them in pots, soil or hydroponics setups. Experienced cannabis growers know that any sativa dominant variety needs a bit longer than her indica counterpartner to mature. So does Critical Kali Mist but don't worry about it, once sprouted, she goes into a fast and furious grow. Her feminized seeds take only 9 weeks before the first harvest, what is excellent for a sativa. They produce strong seedlings which grow into elegant plants with a strong branching system supported by a thin robust stem. Though this variety was meant for indoor cultivation, she gives good results also outdoors with up to 500 gr per plant and a harvest at the end of October. Plants of Critical Kali Mist cannabis are very attractive; they are colored light green with long fingered narrow leaves. During maturing she develops a complex aroma that almost smells like a plant other than a cannabis, which compliments her elegant tall and lanky sativa structure. Short internode gaps explode into dense, rounded bud-clusters which merge into huge, heavy colas by harvest time with a sweet pungent musky smell and taste with a stunning combination of stone and high. This strain is recommended for everyone who loves a strong sativa relax after (or during) a hard working day. This marijuana variety is very resinous - each plant produces loads of bud sites. There are several different types of buds that can appear on this strain, ranging from hairy buds with small leaflets to large leaflets with copious resin glands. They are said to contain about 22% of THC producing a highly euphoric and very functional effect.
 

method2mymadness

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Cool, and thanks foe the info!

The Harbor Freight store is on the far north end of town, and I'm on the far south end, so I'm just going to got to the hydro shop down the road instead, and buy the Speedster controller.
Have to wait until 11-am when the hydro shop opens, but will still give an update on it later today.
Will do a video of it so others can get a good idea of the noise reduction.
Pending brand of fan they can go almost silent unless ur right by it,,, I tend to run a bigger fan then I need set it on the higher side of low and works great for noise ....if u experience my experience there is a sweet spot on high it's loud on low low sometimes its loud cause it's going so slow then turn it up from there and u will find what I mean they have a sweet spot
 

stlmatt

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Just thought I would post of what I have growing now. Here is a basic breakdown of my setup.

600w Air cooled MH/HPS (I use a digilux 600MH for Veg and a Super HPS for flowering)
Growlabs Tent (48"x48"x78")
6" 400cfm inline fan and carbon filter
I use a soil mix of Foxfarms Ocean Forest, Perlite, Happy Frog and Worm Casting.
Nutes = Fox Farms Grow Big, Big Bloom, Tiger Bloom, Liquid Fish, Bat Guano, and Mollases.
RO Water w/cal mag plus
My last fews grows I have been using the 5 gallon 420 grow system pots, its a bottom watering pot and I seem to like them alot. I also use Air-pots in a 3 or 4 gallon size...from time to time.

Anyway these are my latest ladies, the two on the right are Nirvana Raseberry Cough and the 3 others are Blackberry. I like to grow all the same strains in the tent, but this time I am going to try doing 2 different strains since they both have the same flowering time of 9-11 week. I vegged for 4-5 weeks and I like to top the plants for 4-6 colas, sometimes I suppercrop, or a combo of both.

These ladies are at at 4 weeks of 12/12.

In the pics you will be able to see I filtered out the HPS light so you can really see what the plants look like.....I did this by using my Method Seven Sunglasses that are made to filter out the yellows in the HPS. I just hold the lense over the camera, doesnt work perfect but you get the idea..........they are a must have product for the indoor grower who wants all the toys


The plant in the middle was a runt from seed.....I was going to put it outside, but decided to just cut it back and keep it small, maybe I get an O out of her....This is the first time I have 5 plants in tent, 4 is a perfect number.

Coments and Questions Welcome: Stlmatt

I will update the pics as time goes on














Well I pulled the ladies out of the tent for a little photo shoot, there are Nirvana Blackberry and Raseberry Cough. These ladies are on week 7 of a 9-11 week flowering period. Hope everyone enjoys the pics, and and all questions/comments welcome.

Stlmatt





 

backyardagain

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Got my 600today all set up amd everything iPower makes a good ballast. Spfar it feel and looks good, well built and so far hasnt messed with my cable or internet.
 

DoobieBrother

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Well talked with the hydro shop owner and, while he did have one Speedster fan controller in stock, he recommending not buying one unless I was prepared for a possible early burn-out of the fan.
He said he sold six of the 6" Value-Line fans and six Speedster fan controllers to a customer a little over a year ago and the customer recently came back to let him know that all six of the fan's motors burned out in just over a year's time.
He went on to say that he usually gets about 5 years use out of the Value-Line fans and would only recommend using the Speedster controller if I was prepared to replace the fan about once a year.
Which I'm not.
:-(
So I decided to isolate the "whooshing" noise by adding a 90-degree elbow joint (a 6" 90-degree adjustable elbow joint) to the inlet on the light hood and use some left over 6" stove pipe to get the sound out of the closet as much as possible.
The fan itself is about as loud as a standard 10,000btu potable A/C unit, but the air noise is pretty intense.
I have it routed from the window insert with 6" sheet metal stove pipe, and there is no air noise at all.
It's just loud inside the closet where it's an open 6" duct sucking air in.

If I had the money for a spare fan, I'd go for a speed controller, but I can't justify the risk of early burn-out, so this will have to do.
Mostly just trying to cut down on the amount of noticeable noise so the neighbor doesn't get suspicious about it and casually mention it to the apartment manager.
This way, the amount of cool air sucked through the light hood will remain the same and will allow me to keep the plant canopy really close to the glass for maximum efficiency.
In another month I'll have enough money to replace all the 6" flex hose with metal stove pipe, and most of the wind noise will be under control.
Onward & upward!
:-)
 

method2mymadness

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Never herd that before Ben running them for 2 years no issue at all I run max fans wich would suck to replace there pricey but have buddy's using the controller for years now same fan no issues ......I would say it was a cheap fan just my op
 

DoobieBrother

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Well there you go: the fan I have is a Valueline, not a Max fan.

As I said, I don't have the extra money to risk burning out the fan.
Maybe the other guy the hydro shop owner sold the fans & controllers to just happened to run them at an RPM that caused premature failure of the commutators or brushes of the motors?
I don't know, and just can't risk it.
It cost me the same to isolate the noise as it will to buy the speed controller, and there is no risk of early fan failure, so it's really a no-brainer for me.
Would have been nice to do it with something simple as a speed controller, but by keeping the fan running at full speed means the light hood will run super cool through the autumn & winter, and I can get the plant's canopy close enough to the glass that bleaching will be a problem, so I can back it off a couple of inches and the plants with be at their saturation point for the entire grow, instead of dropping them farther away from the light and reducing the amount of available light.
To give you an idea of my need to save money whenever possible, below are some pics of today's effort to save a few bucks.
I have tendinitis in the first knuckle of my left ring-finger and couldn't find a splint at Fred Meyer's after my run out to the hydro store, so I made one:









 

DoobieBrother

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I just want to be clear on something about my obvious "cheapness": the wife & I are saving as much money as we can so we can get back into a house in the next 5 or so years.
But we want to have enough saved to be able to put a healthy down-payment towards the purchase price so we will have as small of a mortgage payment as possible.
We aren't broke, or destitute, and have about $14k in savings right now.
We'll be putting $12k a year away towards our goal, maybe even more if things go well over the next 5 years.
But we've agreed to leave our savings account alone and live within a strict budget until we are back to being home owners.
I've lived like a bohemian pauper for most of my adult life, so it's not a big deal for me, and neither of us are into bling or living a life of excess, so we just put money aside and leave it alone.
I don't pine away for the latest & greatest of anything, and make a game of seeing how cheaply I can live.
And if I can make something that I would otherwise have to buy, I'll do it, and do it proudly.
Obviously, some things make no sense to buy a cheaper version of (I used to be one of those guys who's motto was : "Buy the best and only cry once"), but I do my best to look at all the angles, the pros & cons, to make sure that extra $20 or $50 dollars will make enough of a difference to justify the added cost.
The Valueline 6" fan has a reputation for lasting 5 years, and it moves 435cfm when not using a carbon filter (I have no need for a carbon filter since my light hood uses a closed air system to cool it, and we live on the top floor of the apartment building so no one will smell the exhaust).
The other 6" fans are rated at either a bit less CFM or a lot less CFM, and cost more or are quite a bit noisier, so I went with the Valueline to make sure I had the most airflow per dollar spent.
My main problem was not realizing how much air noise there would be in the closet by not making it a fully sealed cool air system. The closet is air tight, and I have 6" ducting running from the window to the closet door, but not all the way to the light hood's air inlet opening.
I'm fixing that oversight tonight when the light comes back on, so it's all good.
:-)
 

genuity

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its all good doobie,nothing wrong with saveing money.

for me,if it was anything other than the us dollar.....id save it to.
 

DoobieBrother

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Cool stuff, 209CCG :-)
I wish Oregon's OMMP laws allowed for growing more than 6 "mature" plants at a time.
They consider it mature if it's either 12" tall or 12" across.
We can legally grow 18 seedlings or clones up to 12" x 12", but only 6 mature plants for flowering at a time.
No big whoop, but would be nice it it was expanded a bit.
 

DoobieBrother

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It appears squids have good taste in music:



"Squid: not just delicious, but also musical. Scientists at the Woods Hole, Mass., Marine Biological Laboratory made a trippy video, surfaced on CNET, which came about from wanting to explore how the colors of the Longfin Inshore squid's skin changes.According to the Backyard Brains website, the Longfin Inshore has "three different chromatophore colors: brown, red, and yellow. Each chromatophore has tiny muscles along the circumference of the cell that can contract to reveal the pigment underneath."
And the best way to demonstrate the changing colors: hip-hop. The researchers attached the cephalopod to an electrode hooked up to an iPod nano, and let rip the Cypress Hill tune "Insane in the Brain."
The must-see video is seen through a microscope magnified eight times and zoomed in on the dorsal side of the fin. It was made with the help of Paloma T. Gonzalez-Bellido of Roger Hanlon's Lab in the Marine Resource Center of the Marine Biological Labs.
Viewers have grooved to the squid show more than 50,000 times. Commenters on YouTube like Captain6strings wrote, "Great. Even invertebrates have a better sense of rhythm than me." Hamneggwich added, "They appear to prefer bass."
The squishy sea creature has also captured the imagination of robotic scientists, who have devised a rubbery robot they've dubbed a squid-bot, which you can see here, inspired by the squid and octopus, that can "crawl, camouflage itself, and hide from infrared cameras."


"Insane in the Chromatophores"

[video=youtube_share;G-OVrI9x8Zs]http://youtu.be/G-OVrI9x8Zs[/video]
 

DoobieBrother

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Too bad it's the censored, radio-friendly verison.

Wasn't there an old saying:

"Tai sticks and stoners roll fat bones, but herbs will never hurt me"
... no...
...wait a minute....

"Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words will never hurt me."

Yeah, it's like that like :cool:
 

dababydroman

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doob heres some more interesting stuff from the ocean.. this shit was crazy when i saw it today on nat geo.. i thought i wouldof heard abuot this bynow [youtube]Rv2DkzOPBXw[/youtube]
 
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