Iced Grapefruit, Skunk#1, Menage a Trois, Flower from day 1

GandalfdaGreen said:

Love the Cudi bro. Mello. Your report is sick. I love it. Nice work. I appreciate the effort. That soil looks sick. What is the white coloration on top of the soil? Do you turn it over through the cook? Take care.

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The white stuff is Mycelium bro. It's proof the soil is alive and breaking down the goodies in it for your plants. It usually takes a little longer to get this, but I cheat with mycos. I'm the Mycomaster dude, I know how to culture and get that stuff going(10 years spent illegally growing psilocybin mushrooms) will help with that. Think of base soil as a petri dish, when you add the agar it's the amendments, and the mycos are the sample your testing that has the bacteria you want to find. I think that makes sense, I'm still puffing heavy on the gigabud, horrible gut day for some reason. Oh well, I hope that helps some I can go into further detail if needed in a pm, no prob. If you've watched Weed Nerd with Subcool, he'll talk about the mycoweb on his soil he keeps in garbage cans for cooking. I'll turn it maybe once and if I might want to add something then I till the whole thing, but I try to leave the mycos do their business and the whole thing will break down more efficiently that way as long as it was mixed well to begin with, and your myco's are evenly distributed. When some people see that they would think mold, and they're almost correct. It's just happy dirt. It no longer smells like bat guano and crabmeal it smells like good dirt and mushrooms to me. It smells like a forest floor like it's suppose to. If I can do one thing it's mix soil I guess. I've been doing it for my whole life either outside with my grandpa as a child with all his compost piles or with my dad in my late teens when I started growing pot with him. I guess maybe not the best thing A father and son can do together, but now that I'm a little older and he's gone, It was an education I couldn't have paid for. And the time spent together in the small patches of heaven are some of my best memories of him. I think he would be proud that what he thought me is keeping me alive and gets passed on to anyone willing to listen. Peace out everyone. Big LOVE to all the dads out there, you mean more than you'll ever know!

I think its great you and your dad spent time growing your meds. I think too many people do not take into account the realness of what we do for the medicine part of this. Fuck the beliefs that people only grow to get high and be stoopid. If I did not smoke it would be bad for me. It is no different than people who are on lexapro or whatever it may be. People need to find what works for them. You were a young man. Not a kid.
How long does it take you to mix up one tub in terms of tilling it? I'm a dad of four. If you have ever watched any type of snowboarding like the x-games then you have seen my oldest a bunch. His two younger brothers are getting there too. Take care.

Personally I prefer middle ground if I can get it. The smaller stuff can end up like dust, and the larger i think is taking up too much space in the soil. The stuff I use is called Perl-Lome. I find it to work really well. Has some larger grained I guess you would call it and it has alot of medium and smaller in it to keep it all even. Great stuuf and cheap as dirt. Peace out Peeps.

EDIT: BTW from my understanding perlite dust is cancerous and should be avoided. I always use a dust mask when mixing my soil at first when adding amendments to avoid bat guano dust and all that crap.

GandalfdaGreen said:

What do feel about the larger vs the smaller sized perlite?

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I've run both sizes. I like the bigger chunks. Keeps the soil separated better and allows more oxygen into the soil. My two cents.

I just bought 8 cft of the larger for the first time. The smaller stuff was always full of dust. Thanks guys.

I've watched alot of X-games, and my friend is an extreme anything junkie, he's jumped off of cliffs in Ecuador and sky dived from everything that can get in the air. He also base jumps every year in W.V. I think it is, that goofy bridge they let people jump from. I think they would get along handsomely while me and you roll our eyes and smoke one. I usually start with about 3 cuft of soil add half the amendments, then in another tub do the same thing, mix it all in the separate tubs then put it all in one while mixing it, then let sit and cook. I would say in all it can take me a couple of hours to do it right, and smoke a couple in the process. I don't mind a little labor and if you just jam some tunes and keep in mind what will come of it if you do it right, it's not that bad. I prefer a little reggae when I mix, maybe a little Buffalo Soldier. I've also been listening to Mendo Dope alot lately. Clean rap that's not weird and all preachy. That really is cool to hear about your boy, what a proud father you must be. Peace out.[video=youtube;fEfO0oKSg3w]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEfO0oKSg3w[/video]

loving them buddy looking sweet i cant wait to start mine

FROST!!

Had a little time, thought I would post up some picture real quick of the Skunk#1 and her frosty goodness! I'm lovin how she's turning out, and with the new hood i got today she'll be lovin her life even more. I really like the new hood, it's a Sunlight Supply Blockbuster 6 in a/c reflector. Really nice construction and fit of everything and the square build to it is just what I was looking for. My tent is square the dang hood should be square. They always give you coverage dimensions of different wattages and they're perfectly square, why are the hoods not always square? I.D.K. Anyways happy it arrived, it left the warehouse yesterday! Happy with that as well. I got a 4 x 12 phat filter and a 4in in-line duct booster to run it for the veg room as well because of the funk the older girls are putting off. I wasn't used to vegging girls for so long inside, and have had to make adjustments, but everything is running smooth as usual. I'll put up some pics of the new finished tent, and maybe some veg pics as well. My cindy99 is looking out of this world, and the Sour Blueberry wants to flower so badly. Peace and Love everyone.

fecking lovely my friend !

mycomaster said:

FROST!!
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Had a little time, thought I would post up some picture real quick of the Skunk#1 and her frosty goodness! I really like the new hood, it's a Sunlight Supply Blockbuster 6 in a/c reflector. Really nice construction and fit of everything and the square build to it is just what I was looking for.

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I put my mittens on before entering your thread of frostiness myco.

Glad the hood worked out. So much Chinese crap out there, you have to be a savvy shopper to get quality today. My fire switch is on it's way. I will sleep better knowing I have the high temp voltage shut off switch installed and shutting down my lights in the event of equipment failure.

Thank's man that's really cool. "Safety first, then teamwork" I should get a little more safety minded really. It would be a damn shame to burn to death growing something to keep myself alive. Ironic, but definitely a shame. I tracked my package from Herbies and it says processed through sort facility in the Dreaded Chicago, but there hasn't been any updates since. It said it was processed through on 6-27, but nothing else. Who know's we'll see, I might have something alot bigger than that in the works. Thanks for stopping in everyone. Peace and Love.

Damn Chicago customs. They've been pulling bullshit with Attitude packages for weeks. Gandalph has been tracking the activities of unsavory customs officials over there for weeks. Bastards. Hope yours make it through unmolested.

I've followed some of that crap as well. If you can't do your job professionally, you need to go work at the garbage dump or some crap. What's with all the childish notes and rhe rest of the B.S. they're pullin at the P.O. I bet they would think it's hilarious if I worked at a fast food hole, and gave them a bag of inspection tape with a sinister note of how it was suppose to be food but it's really rat poison, HA HA HA HA HA!!!! Just not cool! Takes a really small and un-happy person to pull that. We should all feel sorry for the prick. I'm sure I'll get my stuff or I'll be E-mailing herbies with another addy to send to. Peace out.

My Herbies order came on Saturday bro. It was all cool. I had an order from Highlifeseedbank.com get to me today. Dank freebies. My first pack of OB Ripper was the order. I have a few orders out right now. The way Highlife does things is top notch. Better stealth than herbies. I have had 4 orders from them get to me. Jay is a cool guy and very hands on. Tell him Gandalf sent you. I ordered some MTG on Saturday. I am very intrigued by them. Take care guys.

Sounds like your stocked on Genetics, and some really incredible genetics at that. I'm sure it's just a snafu or something, I've never heard of Herbies getting snagged. I have a ton of seeds I just want something new though. My tent will be turning on in a couple of minutes, I'll put up some pics of the new hood and equipment. Take it easy everyone! Peace and Love.

Can't wait to see read a smoke report on the IG, the only one left on Female's list I want to try.

Ok, here we go. I have the new hood hung and happy. The girls are lovin this thing. It has a much better spread of light, and also alot better use of it.

Yes that's panty hose on the back of my hood, it's there to keep it from sucking in garbage and dulling the surface with dirt and such. I know they sell shields or whatever they're called, but the panty hose will work just as good and it's free! This hood is leaps and bounds ahead of my 7 year old hood it replaced. Now I can pop my Sour Blueberry in the tent and they won't be starved for the light in the middle.Much better!

And now for a little Bud Porn I guess. You might want to look away some of these girls are young!
Take it easy everyone. I'll be posting pics probably all day cause I have a nice camera for a little bit, and enjoy goofing off with it. I'll put up some pics of the Phat Filter I picked up for the veg room and the in-line fan to run it. I also have a couple of other things I'm working on and will let you guys know of the results. Peace and Love!
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I love it. Down the line I need to do new hoods bad. Things look nice man. The flowers are dank. Frost alert. Off to work.

loving the new hood bud ! im sorta ashamed to own a cool tube lol !

Every kind of hood has it's place. It's all about finding what works in the area you're growing in. I have a perfectly square tent, so I went with a 26in x 26in hood, only makes sense. If my space wasn't as deep I would run a cool tube or something similar. I always thought that running 3 tubes right next to each other with 400W hps on the outside and a 250-400W MH in the middle to have a better spectrum would be pretty cool. The blue O.G. sure has stretched in the last couple of days, and is looking fine after my dumb @$$ over watered her somehow. I drilled a ton of holes in the side of the buckets I readied for the B.O.G. and the Sour Blueberry, so I thought when I watered the plants there would be run-off easily. It just didn't have any run-off, and the plant acted like I drowned her in a river or something. I'm exaggerating a little but I haven't done that in a very long time is all. I know the B.O.G. is more sativa dom than I first thought and they will react to a heavy watering faster than some more indica dom ladies, but it kind of freaked me out some. It makes me a little leary about putting the S.B. in the bucket as if there's a problem with a weird suction problem, but with all the d@mn holes how could there be suction, IDK. Anyways, now that I have a better hood it's time to get to work and fill that tent up with some FEMALES, and get some meds people. I have one more girl ready right now to flip being the prior mentioned girl. That brings the count to 5 right now with maybe room for a little lady on a corner or something, we'll see. I have ALOT better coverage and penetration with this hood so I'm not worried about a little crowding, there's plenty of light to go around. I used to have to leave the glass out of the hood for better cooling for some reason, but now my tent is running 1 degree cooler with the fan running on a lower speed. I might leave the hood hinged open at night to more efficiently pull humidity off the canopy though. I also have that goofy pair of panty hose to help keep the hood clean, and I know that impedes the fan some, but it's still running happy. I know by opening the hood at night it will pull in some grime, but cleaning it a little more often is better than dealing with mold issues later. Mainly it's a battle to keep the glass clean for best lumen output. I find the cloths that you get to clean glasses with and the cleaner they sell with it is better than windex and such. You can get that stuff cheaply at wally world. Well it's off to be be a GANJA FARMER everybody, time to put in work as they say. Peace and Love.