CaptainCAVEMAN's Legal Perpetual Medicinal Cave Grow

SCARHOLE said:

I have read repeatdly that light movers OWN also


Heres what Hobbes said about em....

I find that [URL="https://www.rollitup.org/"]marijuana[/URL] grows better with a moving light source rather than a stationary one, both to get the plant from different angles (get areas normally in shadow) and to give the light receptors on the plant a rest - plants don't normally get 12 hours of direct, constant light, especially from the same source. My yield is well above 1 gram per watt with this system.

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That is interesting man. I do think light movers kick ass, not only to cover more ground and get light into shadow but also, as you say, to more properly give the plants what they want, not what we think they need. I think it also allows you to lower the lights and deliver more lumens.

Hey growers! I wanted to wish everyone a happy and high 420!
Here are some pics of my Great White Shark on its way to jar.

Happy 420 to you as well..


LOVE THE SLAYER LIGHER!!!!!!!!

Thanks SCARHOLE!

I've been reading lately and found something I like in the last issue of Urban Garden. I'm not very computer literate so you'll have to find it yourself if you want.
Long story short the article and the whole issue were about organic gardening, compost tea brewing, composting/vermiposting. One part in particular that I liked was where it stated that a lot of growers simply get in the way of the natural biological processes. That might apply to me because sometimes I feel like I don't even really know what I'm doing here. I mean sure, I read Jorge Cervantes' Medical Growers Bible and I read Ed Rosenthalls' Oaksterdam University course book. I've read a whole stack of Rosebud, Urban Garden, Maximum Yield, and High Times. I've spent hundreds of hours reading forums. But sometimes I feel like I don't know what I'm doing, I mean like I can't recite macro and micro elemental properties required by the plants. I understand the process but not so much the nuts and bolts of exactly how it works.

With that being said, I want to try to go as organic as I can. I kinda see it as I'm less of a grower and more of an environmental controller. If I give the plant the proper environment from the root zone all the way to above the plant, then it will do what it has been evolving and doing for waaay before I came along and produce the best flowers it can so it can try to proliferate its own species existence.

Half the battle with more organic grows seems to be that the best method is in single pots of soiless medium that gets hand watered because you just can't really automate when each plant will use its resources a little different. Since I was already doing all that it seemed to make sense to find some organic nutrients and get away from the mineral salts.

I decided to try Roots Organics. When I went to buy the lineup I was pleasantly surprised to find that it was among the cheapest nutes out there. I also like how they recommend feeding and then watering a few times, that makes it easier to feed them for me. I'm going to start using it on my baby C-99 Hybrid and my baby Bubblegummer. We'll see how it goes.

I'm Also switching from 5 gallon smart pots to 7 gallon smart pots.

I also picked up some Vermiblend soil amendment. Now I will use Sunshine Pro-Mix HP 70% and innoculate it with biology from 15% Vermiblend and 15% Just Right X-tra.

Oh yea, I got some ONA for when we harvest. And I accidentally erased a whole camera of pics that's why no Great White Shark pics.

kingofqueen said:

Tread lightly down that Organic road man .Been there before , I'm in complete control of my plants and have an understanding of what makes them tick . But with organics most of it is marketing hype to get you to buy "OMRI" certified products . You can have the best of both worlds with an somewhat organic soil mix and chem nutes . Organic nutes aren't as readily availible as chem nutes . Just my view on the subject after thinking and wasting my time trying to be organic .

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Thanks for the kind words king. My focus on organics will be bio-diversity, I don't care about OMRI or being able to claim that I grow 100% organic. I agree with you completely that that a mix of organic and chemical is a great way to go. On top of the Roots Organics stuff I'll still be using Super Thrive, Clonex, Magi-Cal, ect. none of which is organic.

I decided I'd read enough about compost tea and want to start reaping the benefits of using this powerful and virtually free plant booster. I had looked into the Vermi-T compost tea maker thing but its like $400 bucks and I don't know how much the cartriges were. Thing is it makes 5 gallons at a time! Since it needs to be diluted due to strength that's enough for a farm, especially since you're supposed to use it pretty quick. Also the 'machine' is a fancy tub with a pump.

I took my old DWC stuff I'm not using and set it up this morning.

One hand full of each of theese.


This is just Lowes compost.

This is good grow store vermipost stuff.

Put both hand fulls in some cheese cloth.


It's hard to see but the grow store stuff looks much richer and more broken down than the Lowes stuff. That's ok, I'm sure there's still bio-diversity.

I wrapped another piece of cheese cloth around it and bound it with a few zip ties.

Theese are great for lots of stuff and a whole bag is only $9 dollars.


Here is the landscaping irrigation 12 site manifold thing.

This will keep it out of the water yet keep water running through it.



Kinda funny this cheap Wal-Mart air pump has long outlasted the Million-Air pump that came with the EZ-Clone machine.



Tomorrow after the microbes kinda awaken I'm going to liquify some bananna that's too old to eat and add it in. We'll see how it turns out. Peace!

Here are a few recent pics from the veg room. I think the Great White Shark is liking the new bulb!

Wow nice green and healthy !

Yesterday evening after letting the compost tea bubble for 12 hours I added 10 ml of BC nutrients Sugar Daddy. I decided not to go with the bananna so it will be easier to reproduce. This morning I checked it and it looked like light brown could still see through iced tea. The ph was 7.75 and it was 173ppm. I dropped the ph to 6.3 and I will try it on my veggies. I think I needed to use more compst. I'll try that next time and see how the veggies like the first batch.

The vegetables look like they loved the tea, so today I started more. This time I used 5 times as much compost, that is 5 handfulls of 2 different kinds of compost. I also decided to scrap the overthought-out cheese cloth and zip-tied to the pump thing. This time I'm just using a nylon stocking and 2 air stones, just like the article in Urban Garden says to. Oh yea, I also used about 4 gallons of RO water, last time I used 2 gallons. I'll let you know how it turns out.



This batch already looks more like it's supposed to!




Does anyone know what language that is when I click on the pencil to re-size the pics or better yet what does it say?????

Hey growers. Can anyone tell me why this is happening to this plant? This is a 4th generation clone-of-a-clone that originally came from Paradise Seeds Magic Bud. This clone started normal and had normal looking 5 finger leaf sets. Then it started growing 3 and 4 finger leaf sets. Why? There was no stress incident and others in the same room are ok, though not of the same strain. Apparently when I cracked 2 seeds I got 2 very different phenotypes and inadvertantly kept only the stronger looking clones which turned out to be a crapy pheno. Now I'm trashing this plant and may trey magic again down the road. Now I mark all the clones seperately even if it is same strain from same breeder.

So anyone know what's up with this?

This Kiwiskunk plant suffered stress during re-construction. I'm not sure if it's stressed out or nutrient locked or both or neither. It is getting fed the same as the rest of the room including some other Kiwiskunks that are fine. A stand-fan set up on a milk crate did fall over on it and break a very small branch. Now the stand-fans are wired to the milk crates. They can't fall over. I almost made it through the whole construction project with no mishaps but the fan did fall, and the only other thing was a green compact flourescent bulb fell from where I put it on top of the light hoods which were swinging everywhere. Not too bad I guess!












I think she'll be alright!










Here is a pic of the Royal Haze. This was with zoom from across the room. This tallest bud is a good 5' tall. Good thing those lights move.

Looking good man nice and clean setup . As to your question on the clone leaves . I have an ISS that was a purchased clone that does that . It's not a very hearty plant either , I was wandering if it has to do with overcloning .

kingofqueen said:

Looking good man nice and clean setup . As to your question on the clone leaves . I have an ISS that was a purchased clone that does that . It's not a very hearty plant either , I was wandering if it has to do with overcloning .

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Thank you sir, thank you very much! So have you flowered that 3 fingered-leaf plant yet? I'm wondering if they still produce potent bud.

Ive had UGLY reveges that only produced 1 leaf lol.
But her bud was good.

SCARHOLE said:

Ive had UGLY reveges that only produced 1 leaf lol.
But her bud was good.

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Thanks man that's good to know. Guess I'll have to grow some out and find out myself and keep cracking seeds regularly to try and find super plants.

After reading how fellow member 'taint' made easy isopropyl hash I was inspired! Thank you taint! I already ordered 2 different size screens - one is 130 microns and the other is 180 microns. They are cheap, both delivered for $32. They also have different sized screens stretched onto wood or aluminum frames for sifting kief. They were also not bad at about $25-50 bucks. It's called silkscreeningsupplies.com

I was bored and itching to try this out. I realise now that when I soaked my grinder in alcohol to clean the kief screen the green stuff left on the bottom was ISO hash!

I followed the taint procedure though I did not weigh my material. Then I used my tiny grinder screen to run the liquid through. As you can see quite a bit of leaf material spilled over the sides because the damn screen was too small. Anyway it was a good practice run. The hash turned out like kief and tasted great! I think the small return was due to too fine of a screen as well as not being able to properly swish the screen around in the alcohol so all the crystals can fall through and also I could not squeeze the material 'like I fuking hate it' like taint instructs.



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kingofqueen said:

Yup iso hash is easy to make . Been making it my self

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Thats cool man. What size screen do you like?