MrHowardMarks' experienced grower journal.

Buds are forming, and everything's looking great... here... see for yourself...

I like the last week this week thing I had going... how about a # days ago today???


Super Skunk 3 days ago


Super Skunk today

How are those stalked plants doing???

Here they are...

I just realized the stalks in my pics look bigger than some of the bud pictures I've seen... and BTW today is day 14... right on schedule...

Time to go smoke a bowl...

pursing lips to see if they will reach. doh..........

Slight update...

Two days ago all of the plants recieved a feeding of the FoxFarm chart, at a rate of 1100 PPM

Mix: Big Bloom, Tiger Bloom, Grow Big, Beastie Bloomz... With the addition of Honey Bee ES, Carbo load, Barricade, AN B-52 and Molasses.

I plan on supplementing Advanced Nutrients 2 part one feeding every other week, I gave them a feeding of the 2 part in week 1, and will do so on the next feeding...

I don't use any chart, although they work great. I'm using different products from different companies so, I just use my meter... And add the levels I want. My supplements bring the baseline ppm up 200 points, and I add the base nutrient to the level I want, this past feeding it was 600. Then I add the soluables to boost up the feeding another 200. Depending on feeding strengths you can change either the feeding amounts, or add water if you over shoot the ppm.

It's tricky, but once you understand what you're putting in the soil, you'll know, what's food and what's not.

looking great bro cant wate to see them full of nugs

this is a great thread,, very informative thnks for ur x per t's lol

MrHowardMarks said:

Slight update...

Two days ago all of the plants recieved a feeding of the FoxFarm chart, at a rate of 1100 PPM

Mix: Big Bloom, Tiger Bloom, Grow Big, Beastie Bloomz... With the addition of Honey Bee ES, Carbo load, Barricade, AN B-52 and Molasses.

I plan on supplementing Advanced Nutrients 2 part one feeding every other week, I gave them a feeding of the 2 part in week 1, and will do so on the next feeding...

I don't use any chart, although they work great. I'm using different products from different companies so, I just use my meter... And add the levels I want. My supplements bring the baseline ppm up 200 points, and I add the base nutrient to the level I want, this past feeding it was 600. Then I add the soluables to boost up the feeding another 200. Depending on feeding strengths you can change either the feeding amounts, or add water if you over shoot the ppm.

It's tricky, but once you understand what you're putting in the soil, you'll know, what's food and what's not.

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Did you start to show even a slight burn with the 1100 ppms or did they take to it?

Nope, no burn... They're lovin' it.

I'm going to give a light feeding tomorrow, sorta like a flush... And then my feeding after that will be my peak, week 4 at 1250 ppm...




Man, I'm having some trouble with the bubble buckets, it's a good thing I shortened the experiment to just three buckets... I'm running outta room in the bloom space as they grow larger, and I thibnk I might just get rid of the bubblebuckets...

They're growing rather slow, and I checked them last week and it was all slimed out... Not sure what from, but a complete nasty slime...

I deduced it to the yeast in the sweetleaf combined with airation and sugar... Because it smelled like a brewery...

The plants didn't seem to not like it either, but I did rinse it all off... They seemed to like it, I guess, but the hydro buckets are the runts of the growroom by far... I guess proof that I'm much better at soil than hydro... Because they aren't dying, and I'm sure some of you out there would be happy with them... I think I'm gonna kill them off to make room for the rest of the monsters.

Haven't decided yet.

MrHowardMarks said:

Haven't decided yet.

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A common problem around here . . . .


Smelling like a brewery, huh. Yeast is like a fat boy in a donut shop; it eats til it explodes. Is that like putting a co2 generator in your medium? What else is the yeast supposed to do for the plant? get it drunk?

The hell if I know man, I didn't read any of the charts on hydro, and figured sweet leaf would be okay to use... Until I got the slime ball.

There is still residual amount in there, it's starting to slime up a bit, but I didn't add any sugars... Fuck... I think I put carbo load in there... Dammit. That's why the little amount left is growing back...

I don't notice any negative effects from the yeast, it's all over the roots... I didn't use sweet leaf in the Fox Farm bucket. And yeast isn't a problem, no slime, but it's not growing nearly as well as the advanced buckets with the slime.

But all three are probably the worst plants in the garden... They are dwarfed by the clones that were planted at the same time...

I guess I'm going to stick with dirt for now

Maybe try out a drip setup next time, I had success with a drip table before...

Thinking... Without the addition of all the air from the pump, I'd imagine the amount of co2 being put off from the yeast would suffocate the roots... Oxygen is good for roots, co2 bad...

I did put some h2o2 in the buckets the last time I cleaned them out, I guess I'm just going to run Advanced 2part and big bud in there, without any sugars or anything... Or I'm just gonna say fuck it, and make room for the larger plants, with seems like a better plan... Oh, well, that's what happens when you experiment sometimes...

I was reading back, and I don't think I mentioned that I pollinated each of my strains with the biggest fastest growing super skunk male I had...

So, I'll have a seeded;

Blueberry
9Mile
Silver Mango
Super Skunk

Hopefully I didn't pollinate the whole garden...

Or the bitches might get jealous of the pregnant plants and start to masturbate... That would be bad.

That's great you didn't have any problems--I have in the past experienced nute burn when I get close to 1200ppm feeds in soil. As far as the bubble buckets-----Did you use the sweet leaf/carbload for the piranha or voodoo juice? other wise no need for sugar/carbs in hydro. If you're thinking of saving them just clean the buckets and rinse the roots, then mix fresh non-organic nutrients at a reduced ppm and reintroduce h202---1.7ml/L of 35%-----then give them 3 to 5 days-if they don't return to vigorous growth then toss them as you said.----Another thing you could try that might sound crazy but works is take the plants-----netpots/roots/hydroton and all and put them in another bucket with soil(transplant)---cover the top hydroton with soil as well. Give them a good dose of B1 and see what happens.. I've done clones in hydroton net pots then into soil with zero problems. Whatever you choose----hope it works out brother...

MrHowardMarks said:

Oh shit...

I was meaning to mention what my buddy got himself for christmas...

It's called the "Eyeclops" it's supposed to be a toy. You can get it at Toys R Us...

It's a supermagnification device, up to 400x... The 100x and 200x work best...

There is a LCD screen on the back just like a digital camera, and you can take pictures/video just the same.

Awesome for up close magnification of your buds.

There's even a plug so you can put it on you TV...

Best toy ever... I'm going to start a thread about it.

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I Just got mine in the mail. You gotta push it really close to get a good picture but this thing is tits. Amazon has them for 20 bucks. yes 20 bucks 25 with shipping . Enjoy. I only took a couple of pics. it was nite nite time for the girls.

i must have an eyeclops....

Is it a EyeClops BioniCam by any chance? It's listed for $26 so I wasn't sure if it was the one you were talking about. Regardless this thing is badass to say the least.

Kids have all the fun...

yeah the person that started the journal named it, so that might be a touchy subject. I've definitely heard worse names before, and in context 9mile isn't a bad name at all.

sometimes I feel like dealers just completely make up names on the spot, sometimes I even want to call them out on it. It's like they want to see how many dumb names they can make up for some generic strain.