The Irish Growers Thread!

[fr3d12]

You could have had a salt build up in the coco.
You'll have some big 'uns on your hands there Paddy.
What are you getting for the nitrogen?
I use bio bizz fish mix and the plants love it, they are as green as could be but it might be a tad smelly for indoors. Also very hard to burn them with it, I hit them with 8-900 ppm and not even a brown tip.

 

[stonerpaddy]

It probably is a salt build up fred cause the runoff EC is somewhere around 2.8. Being honest don't even know how their growing at all and the coco was well flushed before I reused it and their getting 2L waterings in 6L air pots. To be fair their not doing too bad and I'm wondering if the airpots have something to do with it. Found them slow to start off in them but once the pots filled with roots they seemed to take off. Have Canna N ordered. Its supposed to be nothing else but N in it so it shouldn't affect any other nutes too much

 

[fr3d12]

They look great no doubts and I suppose it's possible you didn't get all the salt when you flushed.
I don't know much about the air pots, I've read mixed results on them but I'd like to try them myself at some stage.
Is your PH meter calibrated and working properly?

 

[stonerpaddy]

Yea calibrated pH and EC meter there lately and they weren't off by much. Anyway, Ive been using the Canna line so long now I can add all the nutes and a bit over 2ml of pH down to 15L of water seems to bring the pH to 5.8 or there abouts.

 

[fr3d12]

You're on the ball with PH and EC so.
Sure the nitrogen will get them nice and green for you anyway.

 

[stonerpaddy]

Should do the job alright. How bout your lot. Weather looks to be picking up again so it should do your outside girls a turn

 

[fr3d12]

I had a run of bad luck, the plants have leaf spot disease and it has already killed my white widow,the 2 LSD's are 50/50 at this stage and I'm struggling to control it on the rest, on top of that I lost 5 plants to goats who somehow got in through the wire I had surrounding the plants, they ate my 3 red posion autos, they were just showing flowers and they made a right job of the 2 wild thailands,pulling them out of their pots so I replanted them but there is no fan leaves on them and growth is very slow.
The icing on the cake is something is skeletonising the leaves on the plants and for the life of me I can't figure out what, just hit them now with a strong pesticide, it can only be used once so I hope it works.

I put up a polytunnel to try and stop the spread of the leaf spot with the rain and so I'm now down to 6 plants and the wild thai's were regular seeds so with no more casualties the worst I'll do is end up with 4.
My first outdoor has been an eye opener

 

[stonerpaddy]

Ah man I'm gutted for you. The weather was actually fairly good as well. The poly tunnel sounds like a good idea though and will keep the rain off the plants in flower

 

[mdjenks]

Thank you all for all the kind words and yes he was apart of this family for almost 16 years. He was a little spunky schnauzer but in the last year he went down hill fast and was blind and def and was starting to have seizures and had two at the vet so the vet said it is his time I miss him greatly and my wife balled, she held him while the vet injected the meds that put him under it was pretty intense to say the least. Good thing is we have a 7 year old miniature doberman and she is a handful and smart as a whip.

The weather has been perfect and I have five days off next week and I am going to prep the cab and get a run going it has been to long!

it is going to be blueberry headband, chocolate heaven, white widow x big bud, grapefruit, og kush and maybe one goji og and maybe one critical +

 

[fr3d12]

Ah man I'm gutted for you. The weather was actually fairly good as well. The poly tunnel sounds like a good idea though and will keep the rain off the plants in flower

During the hot spell the plants did really well and if it had continued I would have huge bushes by now but it was the subsequent rain and high humidity that caused the leaf spot As for the goats they will literally eat anything and small things like walls and wire won't stop them, they are wild and occassionally pass through where I'm growing, I see the younger goats playing and I'm thinking they flattened the wire accidentally and then they were in, the Blueberry cheese is the only plant I couldn't move to the tunnel and it was big and bushy but they stripped all of the bottom so now it looks like a mushroom and is about 1/3 the size now, I doubt too much will grow back though. I made up my mind with all the rain we've been having to get the tunnel, last thing I need is budrot or mould.

 

[mdjenks]

sorry for the loss of your beloved little, turk..frame a pic of him and hang his colller as tribute to the one who always loved you, even when no one else would..

me and the wife had him cremated and are going to have his ashes in a urn with a plate on it that says Turk 19 AUG 2103 and it will go on the fire place mantle.

 

[schuylaar]

me and the wife had him cremated and are going to have his ashes in a urn with a plate on it that says Turk 19 AUG 2103 and it will go on the fire place mantle.

perfect! nothing can ever replace him, but there are so many others that can use love..perhaps when you and your family are ready the local shelters have so many beautiful, perfect little dogs..some shelters have online viewing, too!

 

[Jay_normous]

So...Had the knock on the door yesterday... 4 guards... took my stock and my plants...

Just waiting for the court date now... Not a happy camper but what is done is done..

So thats me finished with my botanical hobby... I just hope they go easy on me in court now...

Funny enough they never took my grow equipment so that'll be up for sale in the very near future..

Ive learnt alot fro this site and made many friends but the time has come to sign off for good, i wish you all good luck in the future and who knows one day the goverment will realise how fucking stupid they are and legalize it..

ATB

 

[fr3d12]

So...Had the knock on the door yesterday... 4 guards... took my stock and my plants...

Just waiting for the court date now... Not a happy camper but what is done is done..

So thats me finished with my botanical hobby... I just hope they go easy on me in court now...

Funny enough they never took my grow equipment so that'll be up for sale in the very near future..

Ive learnt alot fro this site and made many friends but the time has come to sign off for good, i wish you all good luck in the future and who knows one day the goverment will realise how fucking stupid they are and legalize it..

ATB

Ah man that is fucking terrible, I'm gutted for you.
Have you any idea at all how they knew you were growing?

 

[schuylaar]

Ah man that is fucking terrible, I'm gutted for you.
Have you any idea at all how they knew you were growing?

ditto^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

 

[Jimdamick]

They hopefully won't be too harsh on you. They probably will only fine you, and the way the attitude is changing in the world, if this was your first pop, you should be ok. All the best

 

[marley321]

So...Had the knock on the door yesterday... 4 guards... took my stock and my plants...

Just waiting for the court date now... Not a happy camper but what is done is done..

So thats me finished with my botanical hobby... I just hope they go easy on me in court now...

Funny enough they never took my grow equipment so that'll be up for sale in the very near future..

Ive learnt alot fro this site and made many friends but the time has come to sign off for good, i wish you all good luck in the future and who knows one day the goverment will realise how fucking stupid they are and legalize it..

ATB

sorry ta hear that man,ya hardly gave your address too anyone on here?????sorry ta here about your dog aswell jenks,had a dog for 18 years meself......bit of good news got that hash nicest i smoked in years,green poison is flyin an the lowgirl i planted is a monster,pics in a few days lads....peace

 

[fr3d12]

sorry ta hear that man,ya hardly gave your address too anyone on here?????sorry ta here about your dog aswell jenks,had a dog for 18 years meself......bit of good news got that hash nicest i smoked in years,green poison is flyin an the lowgirl i planted is a monster,pics in a few days lads....peace

They'd hardly be able to hack in here and get people's addresses.
The hash sounds nice, you had no bother so with it coming in the post.

 

[splifchris]

So...Had the knock on the door yesterday... 4 guards... took my stock and my plants...

Just waiting for the court date now... Not a happy camper but what is done is done..

So thats me finished with my botanical hobby... I just hope they go easy on me in court now...

Funny enough they never took my grow equipment so that'll be up for sale in the very near future..

Ive learnt alot fro this site and made many friends but the time has come to sign off for good, i wish you all good luck in the future and who knows one day the goverment will realise how fucking stupid they are and legalize it..

ATB

Thats shite craic mate.... keep the head down and wait to see the outcome of the court.... probably just be a fine to the guarda benevelant fund.... I think the fact that they left your grow gear is a good sign man.... keep positive man and dont underestimate how much opinion has changed about weed over the last we while... good luck bro... and let us know how you get on... hope to see you back on here and up and running soon man.... Chris

 

[marley321]

They'd hardly be able to hack in here and get people's addresses.
The hash sounds nice, you had no bother so with it coming in the post.

no prob atall gettin the hash fred it was here in couple days,no im not sayin they hack in here,what im sayin is theres a lot of grasses in this world,trust no one an all that