SACReDHeRB
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got some bagseed around the 90th day flowering as well, dank tho, pretty dense
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Yeh man. I would love to openly grow outside, but there are just too many pressures involved with guerilla growing.Man, I'm sorry to hear that! BUT, I like your attitude, being able to count your blessings.
Is it inside for you from here on out?
Good luck,
UB
Its such a shame! Im sorry for all your bad luck. Ill miss reading your grow stories! Maybe just one little one outdoors? Ya know you wanna!Yeh man. I would love to openly grow outside, but there are just too many pressures involved with guerilla growing.
From here on out it is all inside for me. I have already started work on my grow room. Having to do some carpentry work to get it right. Then have to run a 100 amp box to it for the electricity. Already have the main lights (5 600W air-cooled Sun Shield set-ups). I still need to get my secondary lighting (going to run some reptile lighting for the UV-B and a T5 for the clone room). Also, I need to get my air-conditioning unit, carbon filter, CO2 burner and some other items. All inside from here on out.
Once I get done trimming up I will post a recap. I am just a slow trimmer and have to work my trimming around everything else. The rippers didn't take everything, and it is funny as to how my perception of the plants have changed as I have trimmed.Its such a shame! Im sorry for all your bad luck. Ill miss reading your grow stories! Maybe just one little one outdoors? Ya know you wanna!
As a farmer, you've learned how humiliating farming can be no matter how big or small. Mother nature controls. If you're like me and need to be in control of life's dealings, taking the losses can be tough.....In brief, this was an amazing grow for me. I learned a lot more than I expected starting out. And by the end of the grow realized just how little I knew at the beginning and how much more I have yet to learn.
Damn nice. BTW, I've already sold some of mine, folks really like it. I only sell to friends, and at a very cheap price. Sometimes I just give it away.Even with all the trials and tribulations I faced in this thread (some self-inflicted), I still garnered about 2 and a half pounds in dry weight in trimmed out bud. While I am in the curing phase at this point, I can tell that once completely cured I will have a product I will not be ashamed of.
I believe I commented on this, perhaps too late. When you dig a hole in clay, it becomes "glazed". I break up this glaze with a hand pick, kind miners use. In commericial production, I make up to 8 passes with a 3 pt. subsoiler, even when planting shade trees for the yard. Works wonders. Often I'll dump a tractor bucket of horse manure on the spot and then start the criss cross passes. Don't know if you saw my photos of this year's root system, but it was a typical tight mass of roots with thick ones growing out of the drain holes into native soil.Ok, first I am going to address some concerns of other posters that were brought up in this thread:
Amending my soil:
I did it wrong, plain and simple. I should have simply planted large grow bags in the ground with adequate holes for the roots to escape into the natural soil. Instead, I used an auger to drill my holes into an extremely "clay-ee" soil, did not fracture the sides of the holes, and probably ended up somewhat stunting my plants. While the three plants I ended up with all reached heights in excess of 6', they could have been taller.
Yep. There's nothing wrong with MG foods although I prefer Peters. Really like the Walmart brands. They seem to have a surfactant in them. I don't trust cannabis specific foods regarding quality, representation, value. I've seen more people get into trouble with such products, few when using off the shelf foods from Walmart or nurseries.Using Miracle Grow soil and fertilizer:
All the doom and gloom projections on using this commercial product are bupkus. They have no grounding in my observable grow and the smoke of the finished product.
Unlike what one poster claimed, the smoke of the finished product did not end up burning like a lump of charcoal and leave a solid black mass at the end. I once again assert, as I did to that poster when they made that claim that their issues were not related to MG, but more likely to a poor dry and cure. The buds I have from my grow burn as any other bud I have ever smoked.
Yep, but you'll not convince the masses, mostly noobs, that buy into the cannabis specific hype. When it comes to cannabis growing, popularity reigns over fact. "Their loss" I say although I try my best to give fair warnings.MG also did not burn my roots. I am sure it could if you misused it, but so could any fertilizer. That claim too has no observable basis in my grow.
I've found airy buds to be a genetic issue, on the sativa side. My plant got full sun all day and was airy. That's just typical sativa bud and better for outdoors. Dense indica type colas can be a PITA regarding rot pressures. Folks put too much emphasis regarding what they feel is a direct relationship between lighting and bud density/production. They also put too much emphasis on high light during bud development and "ripening". They aren't thinking "mama nature". During the fall when the plant is flowering in its natural state, there is far less light received by the plant than during veg. Folks will burn the heck out of their plants with too much light and heat and then blame a harsh palate on the plant food or not "flushing" correctly. "Flushing" is another one of those false paradigms that just won't die. It's a feel-good thing that's really hard to shake.Lighting:
One poster in this thread stated that he thought I needed more direct lighting for my grow. I couldn't agree more. While the lighting seemed to be more than adequate when I planted this grow, by the flowering stage it had proven to be barely adequate. I believe this is why on two of my three plants the buds turned out "airy". An important lesson to learn from this is selecting your grow site during the fall or winter when sunlight will be at its shortest duration over your proposed grow area.
Smart!Security:
As to someone finding out, at least I didn't do the single biggest grow mistake many new growers make. I didn't tell anyone (besides you fine folks here). No one knew. Not my best friend. Not my sister. Not my brother. Not my wife. Not one of my dealer buddies who I know grows. No one. I lived by Ben Franklin's rule: "Three people can keep a secret if two of them are dead".