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CarolinaPothead

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The darker stuff is Greenhouse seeds Super Critical… it grows fast, looks amazing and is super easy to grow.. but it just lacks the wow factor, don’t think I’ll run it again.
Sometimes the looks are there but the nose and head just arent. Outta the 4 i got flowering, i think 2 might be worthy of smoking. Thats hitting the ILGM pheno lottery. They smell fuelly and have alot of frost. #3 is lanky but still getting frosty and alittle nose. #4 was #1 planted and it still has zero trichs and smell. Its a leafy larfmonster. Ive defoliated a half a 2 gallon bucket of dried leaves. I dunno what i was thinking running this stuff again. Lifes too short. I didnt realize how easy and cheap breeder direct could be. Now this crap is in my way. I just want to finish and start over . Its hard to imagine anything in that ganjaforest you got not being fire. I dont see 1 deficiency anywhere. Youre making the most outta it. If it aint hitting on those plants then its the genes . It sure as hell aint the grower. Geesh
 

Mumbeltypeg

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Sometimes the looks are there but the nose and head just arent. Outta the 4 i got flowering, i think 2 might be worthy of smoking. Thats hitting the ILGM pheno lottery. They smell fuelly and have alot of frost. #3 is lanky but still getting frosty and alittle nose. #4 was #1 planted and it still has zero trichs and smell. Its a leafy larfmonster. Ive defoliated a half a 2 gallon bucket of dried leaves. I dunno what i was thinking running this stuff again. Lifes too short. I didnt realize how easy and cheap breeder direct could be. Now this crap is in my way. I just want to finish and start over . Its hard to imagine anything in that ganjaforest you got not being fire. I dont see 1 deficiency anywhere. Youre making the most outta it. If it aint hitting on those plants then its the genes . It sure as hell aint the grower. Geesh
Too kind C.P, thank you.
yeah nothing worse that growing rubbish and knowing it’s rubbish but being committed to seeing it through
 

Mumbeltypeg

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Hey C.P, ordered some new beans today.. decided to try some more Bodhi strains, his blueberry hashplant was so much better than anything else I had grown I figure might as well try some more.
 

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CarolinaPothead

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Whats up dude? Ive been really struggling with alot of stuff lately and have hardly even looked at the internet. My dad had a mild heart attack and pneumonia and ive been in and out of hospital myself. Been so dizzy i cant half see or walk. Havent smoked 2 joints in as many weeks. My plants got all fkd up. I screwed up and gave the wrong nutes and they clawed their disapproval . I finally gave up on that crazy GGAUTO that made huge buds with zero frost. Guess ill give it to some of my cbd using vets. A shame as ii put 16 weeks of time and nutes just to toss it. That thing woulda been a half pounder easy if it had worked out. At least my others are getting better. Ive never seen a plant have such big buds and never get a single trichome. Thats ILGM for ya. Glad those are finally gone. Hope you and yours are doing well!
 

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Mumbeltypeg

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Whats up dude? Ive been really struggling with alot of stuff lately and have hardly even looked at the internet. My dad had a mild heart attack and pneumonia and ive been in and out of hospital myself. Been so dizzy i cant half see or walk. Havent smoked 2 joints in as many weeks. My plants got all fkd up. I screwed up and gave the wrong nutes and they clawed their disapproval . I finally gave up on that crazy GGAUTO that made huge buds with zero frost. Guess ill give it to some of my cbd using vets. A shame as ii put 16 weeks of time and nutes just to toss it. That thing woulda been a half pounder easy if it had worked out. At least my others are getting better. Ive never seen a plant have such big buds and never get a single trichome. Thats ILGM for ya. Glad those are finally gone. Hope you and yours are doing well!
Hey Cp, really sorry to hear about your dad mate, I hope he recovers from the heart attack alright.. I am still getting over my mate passing away from his so I can only imagine how hard it must be for you.
That really sucks regarding the plant being no good.. cause it looked the bloody goods.
 

Mumbeltypeg

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Hey Cp, really sorry to hear about your dad mate, I hope he recovers from the heart attack alright.. I am still getting over my mate passing away from his so I can only imagine how hard it must be for you.
That really sucks regarding the plant being no good.. cause it looked the bloody goods.
I am getting a consistent 3.5lb a light now, and I still think I can up that a bit.. pretty impressed with these lights, I recon once I get the right strain and the perfect run I’ll be pulling 4 pound a light.. so 8 a run.
goals to work towards..
Let me know if I can help you out with some beans if you get stuck
 

CarolinaPothead

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I am getting a consistent 3.5lb a light now, and I still think I can up that a bit.. pretty impressed with these lights, I recon once I get the right strain and the perfect run I’ll be pulling 4 pound a light.. so 8 a run.
goals to work towards..
Let me know if I can help you out with some beans if you get stuck
Thanks buddy for the well wishes and the offer. So far these new strains im running are doing pretty well. Especially considering i hit them with veg. nutes during flower and N poisoned them. I flushed the heck out of them and am waiting a bit before slowly introducing flowering nutes. It was bad. Even the N in Cal-mag was making it worse but the new growth is looking better and some of the clawed leaves even straightened out( ive never seen leaves recover before ) Yeah that 1 plant is a bummer because it was doing so great for the first couple months. After i still saw no trichs at 3 months i figured it was bunk but i kept her(it?) alive just to see. When it hit 4 months and was crowding out my new ones it had to go. Lol, i dried out a piece and smoked it and i bet i could pass a drug screen if i only used that stuff. I do have some CBD using veteran friends who can probably use it for something. 3.5? Wow. What kind of lights are they? I pulled 9 ounces last year on 4 plants under 2 100w QB's . Im running 6 this time under 400w and id be really happy with a pound. These Ripley's are supposed to be big yielders so we will see. I guess i just need to break down in spring and run some photos and learn to clone if i really want to max my space. I bet i could get a dozen clones in 2-3 gallon bags in the same space. Im starting to read up on hydroponics systems and hope to collect the hardware to build me a system. I may hit you up for some advice on that later. If i post it in the regular forum you just know the snarky remarks ill garner and I've no time for that crap. I always have used soil and just started growing again 3 years ago. Hydro systems were REALLY expensive before and hard to get the equipment here then. After the runs ive seen you and others have though, I think I owe it to myself to at least give it a try. You take care eh? TTYL
 

Mumbeltypeg

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Thanks buddy for the well wishes and the offer. So far these new strains im running are doing pretty well. Especially considering i hit them with veg. nutes during flower and N poisoned them. I flushed the heck out of them and am waiting a bit before slowly introducing flowering nutes. It was bad. Even the N in Cal-mag was making it worse but the new growth is looking better and some of the clawed leaves even straightened out( ive never seen leaves recover before ) Yeah that 1 plant is a bummer because it was doing so great for the first couple months. After i still saw no trichs at 3 months i figured it was bunk but i kept her(it?) alive just to see. When it hit 4 months and was crowding out my new ones it had to go. Lol, i dried out a piece and smoked it and i bet i could pass a drug screen if i only used that stuff. I do have some CBD using veteran friends who can probably use it for something. 3.5? Wow. What kind of lights are they? I pulled 9 ounces last year on 4 plants under 2 100w QB's . Im running 6 this time under 400w and id be really happy with a pound. These Ripley's are supposed to be big yielders so we will see. I guess i just need to break down in spring and run some photos and learn to clone if i really want to max my space. I bet i could get a dozen clones in 2-3 gallon bags in the same space. Im starting to read up on hydroponics systems and hope to collect the hardware to build me a system. I may hit you up for some advice on that later. If i post it in the regular forum you just know the snarky remarks ill garner and I've no time for that crap. I always have used soil and just started growing again 3 years ago. Hydro systems were REALLY expensive before and hard to get the equipment here then. After the runs ive seen you and others have though, I think I owe it to myself to at least give it a try. You take care eh? TTYL
I’m actually thinking of simplifying my hydro system into a simple wicking system and seeing how it runs.. check out Hoocho on YouTube’s channel.. his rain gutter grow technique looks good I recon.
I actually got 3lb 12oz off one of the FC-6500 this last run.. that’s mars hydro
2.33 grams per watt, Not bad.
 

CarolinaPothead

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Things are starting to really take off. The Ripley's OG 's that i N toxed have really bounced back. Only a few of the claw leaves left. I staggered each plant in there a week apart. Now they are all exploding. The big ones still have like 6 weeks left so theyre gonna be some good yielders. All the rest are looking good too. I dusted off an old 100w qb and am lighting the lowers with it. This might be my best auto run yet by the time its done. Unless something goes pretty wrong im figuring over a pound this time. They reek! Smells like fruit, kerosene and burnt rubber in there. My wife walks around spraying fabreeze so I must be doing something right lol. I hate i clawed em up (it was horrible for a bit) , but live,learn and dont smoke dabs before feeding anymore. Hey, hope ya doin alright. Things have finally settled down here. G'day to ya!
 

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CarolinaPothead

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What a difference a friggin day makes. It got kinda hot for November and my growspace got over 80 degrees because wife is ALWAYS cold and griped cause i wanted A/C. Long story shorter, i spotted PM on a few leaves this evening. Not alot of them but....... I fkn hate PM. Last time i used Capt. Jacks spray and bought another 2 weeks. Shit man im really depending on this grow. I remember you said you fought a bout with it awhile back. What did you use? And did you whip it? God i hate this cause these plants are taking off. Ive added a BIG box fan and cut off everything i see that even looks questionable. Anyways, i gotta try to at least buy a couple weeks on the big ones. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Anything but PM and SM i can usually deal with but those things are grow enders alot of the time. Todays the first ive seen and im in there alot. Shit damn bloody hell!
 

Mumbeltypeg

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What a difference a friggin day makes. It got kinda hot for November and my growspace got over 80 degrees because wife is ALWAYS cold and griped cause i wanted A/C. Long story shorter, i spotted PM on a few leaves this evening. Not alot of them but....... I fkn hate PM. Last time i used Capt. Jacks spray and bought another 2 weeks. Shit man im really depending on this grow. I remember you said you fought a bout with it awhile back. What did you use? And did you whip it? God i hate this cause these plants are taking off. Ive added a BIG box fan and cut off everything i see that even looks questionable. Anyways, i gotta try to at least buy a couple weeks on the big ones. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Anything but PM and SM i can usually deal with but those things are grow enders alot of the time. Todays the first ive seen and im in there alot. Shit damn bloody hell!
Oh bugger! No I didn’t have PM but I did get mold, luckily it was within the harvest window so I tried to prune as much as possible off to buy another week then pulled the lot.. I don’t fuck around when it comes to mold.
I am going to get a hepa filter and attach it to the suction side of a fan and leave it scrubbing the air this time around to try and catch any spores and scrub the air.
Let me know how you go controlling it as I have no doubt I will come across it someday.
 

CarolinaPothead

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Oh bugger! No I didn’t have PM but I did get mold, luckily it was within the harvest window so I tried to prune as much as possible off to buy another week then pulled the lot.. I don’t fuck around when it comes to mold.
I am going to get a hepa filter and attach it to the suction side of a fan and leave it scrubbing the air this time around to try and catch any spores and scrub the air.
Let me know how you go controlling it as I have no doubt I will come across it someday.
After watching many videos and reading many threads on various forums i decided to order up some horsetail herb and make a tea for foliar spraying. @Dr. Who here on RIU wrote up an extensive article on treating PM. He says you can use it up till mere days before harvest and no taste or anything. Until then i pulled all plants out 1 by 1 and held a 100w qb over them and cut off any infected and also unnecessary foliage. I found that my helicopter parenting saved me. Only a handful of infected leaves and nothing else. Spores were plentiful but i saw where you can add 30ml H202 to a gallon of RO water and do a foliar spray. I drenched them and sprayed top of soil. I reckon that theyll make it another 2-3 weeks and by then i should be in my window. Crazy thing with these Mephistos is how most of the trichs are already white. The whole plant looks white. 1 reason i spotted the PM so quick is i been checking thinking no way a plant with almost all white pistils could be so trich heavy. Using the loupe i see they are literally stacked on top of each other. Im sure i could cut now and theyd be harsh but still get you high as hell. Im trying to hold out for the yield. They are doubling in weight every week rt. now. If they can ride till theyre done im gonna get that LB. Anyway, ill let ya know how things go. Take it easy!
 

Mumbeltypeg

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After watching many videos and reading many threads on various forums i decided to order up some horsetail herb and make a tea for foliar spraying. @Dr. Who here on RIU wrote up an extensive article on treating PM. He says you can use it up till mere days before harvest and no taste or anything. Until then i pulled all plants out 1 by 1 and held a 100w qb over them and cut off any infected and also unnecessary foliage. I found that my helicopter parenting saved me. Only a handful of infected leaves and nothing else. Spores were plentiful but i saw where you can add 30ml H202 to a gallon of RO water and do a foliar spray. I drenched them and sprayed top of soil. I reckon that theyll make it another 2-3 weeks and by then i should be in my window. Crazy thing with these Mephistos is how most of the trichs are already white. The whole plant looks white. 1 reason i spotted the PM so quick is i been checking thinking no way a plant with almost all white pistils could be so trich heavy. Using the loupe i see they are literally stacked on top of each other. Im sure i could cut now and theyd be harsh but still get you high as hell. Im trying to hold out for the yield. They are doubling in weight every week rt. now. If they can ride till theyre done im gonna get that LB. Anyway, ill let ya know how things go. Take it easy!
Whoa! That sounds insane.. you can’t get a photo through the loupe can you? I’d like to see that!
 

CarolinaPothead

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Whoa! That sounds insane.. you can’t get a photo through the loupe can you? I’d like to see that!
I dont have a digital microscope but ill see if i can get a decent side view using a dimmed down qb for light. My bar light puts those crazy lines through the picture no matter how low i set it. It really is crazy how white with trichs they are. Thats how i spotted the PM. When i had an ILGM plant look white like that a year and a half ago it was actually covered in PM. That was the first time i ever saw PM. Since then, when buds swell and i see anything looking really white, i scrutinize.
 

CarolinaPothead

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So far so good. Of course im still finding a few spores, but not many and no patches. The smallest plant is almost finished. I cut a small bud off and am drying it to smoke tomorrow. It gets no water since friday and is only a few days from chop. The big ones are drinking 2 liters about every 36 hours. Im gonna treat them again tomorrow. This time with horsetail tea im brewing. I am cautiously optimistic that i can ride it out and not have to chop early. Wife told me to get more beans anyway so i ordered some Creme De La Chem for next time. I have cleaned EVERYTHING with bleach in there. Im glad that the other plants were still preflower to early flower so i can treat them thoroughly. This is a good experiment. If i can whip this shit and keep it whipped then i will have learned. At least theres no more gnats. Between the peroxide and the huge fans im using, they are fkd lol. Any that fly in there get smacked against the wall like a shingle in a hurricane. The diary on this grow has been a roller coaster.
 

CarolinaPothead

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Current run
Definately maximizing your space. I got 1 dried and since it was a tiny plant(1 1/4 zips) i just dried and am smoking it. Still surprisingly smooth. I have started using side lighting to great effect on the lowers. Put a Quantum Board sideways. . Now the colas run from top to bottom. If the density is anywhere like the small 1 then id say 4-5 zips a plant and they actually look/feel denser. 1 of the WWautos is almost ready. Its just tight golf balls. Small but prolly 2 zips+. 2 more plants to go and im really hopeful of gettin that lb. Wife told me to order beans for my Christmas. Ordered a 3 pk of CDLC. Pk has 5 beans. You get 2 free ones for 30+$ and those are some F1 crosses of their Artisinal strains. This month they released some new strains and included a free 5pk( had 7) of limiteds. Even used a 10 % discount so $45 for 14 beans. PM is effectively gone. Havent found a spot in days.
 

CarolinaPothead

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These are the best i can do with big light on. That big one in back is lime green and violet. That thing looks white as hell. Its so frosty i cant get a decent pic. They smell like lemons and burnt rubber with a whiff of skunk. I cant believe i beat PM. I know i got lucky and caught it early but often it doesnt matter. Peroxide spray 2x a week . It left no residue and didnt hurt anything.
 

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