MrHowardMarks' experienced grower journal.

raiderman

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yea i use the tiger bloom for the first 25 days of flowering , it really advances starting flowers well and starts good uniform growth,then come the big boys 5-50-10. i dont follow a chart either . i nute every other watering.havent burnt one up yet,lol..........How tall do you allow the plants to get before you start flowering wen your super cropping?
 

SlikWiLL13

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have you ever tried humbolts bushmaster for controlling height? i use it and love it. its hard to get dialed in but i have it so it stops vertical growth almost 100%. i get no stretch, the only vertical growth i get is from the buds getting taller.
 

MrHowardMarks

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I've been meaning to give that bushmaster a try, i hear you only need a teensy bit...

My current garden isn't very uniform in height, I really need to load some pics for an update, basically, two lights have 3 foot tall plants, two lights have 2 foot plants, and two lights are a foot... They had different amounts of veg time, from different batches of clones, the mothers had to mature for sexing, that held me up a bit, but any way, one light has 4 monsters under it creating a great canopy... Pictures are worth 1000 words... I'll get them up as soon as I can.
 

SlikWiLL13

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yeah, strong shit. thats why it has such a bad rep, lots of people killed thier shit with it. i dont remember what the bottle says offhand but i barely use a 1/4 the recomended dose. ive only used 1/8 the bottle and prolly mixed close to 70 gallons of the shit. best part, it was a free sample bottle. it could last me forever.
 

Nacho420

Active Member
If I get a TDS meter, what PPM approx. would I shoot for if I am using AN. I thinking about getting a TDS meter and only have a shitty pH meter right now.
 

MrHowardMarks

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Depends... First read your water as a baseline, if you're using tap water, air it out, then it should read between 100-250 ppm, the lower the better.

You'll subtract this number from the final reading to get your nutrient level.

For smaller plants, you don't want to feed more than 800, 600 is good for small girls...

Once they're thriving in weeks 3 and 4 you'll want to be running you peak feeding, 1200 peak is good low feeding, in hydro you can feed more, or if you know what you're doing you can boost them up on the steroids a bit more...

You'll want to do some runoff readings, to make sure there isn't nutrient build-up in the soil. Just collect the water that comes out the bottom of the pot and test it, it should be the same ppm as what you put in, if it jumps up more than 150 ppm, you'll want to lighten up the feeding, and possibly flush.

Overwatering and overfeeding are the main problems with growing...:leaf:
 

Nacho420

Active Member
So would I try and do equal parts floramicro, florabloom, and floragro? And by week 3 or 4 you mean into the 3rd or 4th week into the flowering cycle and not the vegetative cycle?

Also I just bought some Sugar Daddy and was wondering what you think of it.

Thanks again
 
MY mother had just left my house. One minute later knock at the door. Thinking it was her, i open door. staring at two police officers.
Big stand off at door. i am arguing with them. no you can not come in. The next door neighbor was beating his wife. They were at the wrong address. Officer entered even though i said no. he smelled the one bud drying in oven.


My plants/equipment are now at police headquarters.:wall:

They were pricks at the beginning, but when i stated medical use...they were less belligerent.

purposely got into argument with lead patrolman over medical law. "Sir" I said may i read you the law, I have it here on my computer.
"Go Ahead!" I don't care.

My computer was on, so i started acting like i was searching for the law. But i was using wipe program to wipe 2 folders. :clap:

warned them about the hazardous material in bulbs. boy, they handled the lights with kid gloves. When i get them back they should be in perfect shape.:clap:


supervisor who came later was cool. complemented on the quality and cleanliness on my rooms.

the did not take my seeds i just purchased. they were in plain site on shelf near attic opening which they did check. could not have missed. but they did. I asked them if they would leave a bud. since i am broke but still need meds. they said they could'nt. but after they left. they left about 1/2 oz of dried leaves. enough to keep jones at bay for a few days.



i am gathering my medical records and will claim affirmative defense, which went into effect dec. 4th. All this is doing is putting me behind schedule


What i learned.
You can have a bird in the bush, but not a bud in the oven.:weed:

peace,
 

SlikWiLL13

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as soon as you open the door and blueboys are there you step out and lock the door! you dont have a peephole? i look out the window, if its cops i will go into the garage and exit through the overhead door after i close the entry to the house.

looks like you did just about everything as best you could.

best of luck
 

MrHowardMarks

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Man that sucks, you should go beat your neighbors ass, that's a good reason for domestic violence...

You should've asked why they were there, before you let them in... Too late now.

That really blows.



Oh and Nacho peak week 3-5 of flower... Not veg.
 

MrHowardMarks

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Stopped by the hydro shop and picked up the beastie bloomz, while I was there I was looking through the new products from Humbolt nutes, bought a liter of the Honey Bee ES, (extra strong) organic... Supposed to be similar to carbo load, so I'm giving it a shot, I'm pretty much certain I got ripped off on an expensive bottle of molasses and raw cane sugar. It was 22 bucks a liter, Carbo load is 18 bucks, but it's organic and the application rate is the same, 5mL (one teaspoon) per gallon.

End of week one
-the plants are looking great, no buds forming yet, but the stretching has stopped, and they are starting to form the stacked nodes.

I've cut back from 6 to 3 bubble buckets because I ran out of room, and they were the smallest and easiest decision.

Therefore, one Super Skunk is running the FowFarm nutes in the bubble bucket and two are on Advanced, one super skunk one mango...

The superskunks are looking like cabbage thick squatty and short, the 9Miles are stretchy and thin... The blueberries are a bushlike mix... And the silver mangoes look like the original mangoes.



I sjould have pics up tonight, if not definately tomorrow.
 

SlikWiLL13

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do you use the same hydro store for all your stuff? i usually bounce between two different shops myself, but they both pretty much know me. i dont feel like this is terrible though some people think its a big nono. ive actually gotten quite a few great freebies from the one guys shop($50 bottle of bushmaster!).
 

MrHowardMarks

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There are 4 stores in the area, 2 are pretty shady and have been busted a few times, I mainly go to just the one, but I have to go to the other for some things...
 

raiderman

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wen someone comes to my door , by ritual i spray febreeze , look out the window, then decide if i want to answer it or not,if cops ,fuk no.if thier on to me they'll already have awarrant. they wont knok.if only 2 cops, probably nothin,but i still aint answering,lol...
 

MrHowardMarks

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If the cops are knocking on your door, most likely they aren't there for your garden.

If they were coming for that, there wouldn't be any knocking just a loud bang as they bust down the door...



The stores were busted like this...

The owner of one store was busted with 20# of beaster, and a 12 light grow in his basement... The store only closed for a few days, and he was out and back in buisness, that's just really shady to me, possibly a deal was made with the cops to catch his customers...

Another place always has a cop across the street, most likely taking license plate numbers, and doing checks... That's why my license never has my correct address... And no mail ever is sent to my grow house.

Plus, there is a record of that store turning over it's books and credit card #s, Ids, and purchase information. I never buy anything with credit, only cash.

Hell, I never post from there, and whoever wanted to bust me would never find it... That's why I feel safe posting on here. My room is secure, and only I know where it is.
 

SlikWiLL13

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yeah, out the next day and workin the shop to boot! sounds like somthin aint right. and i sure wouldnt go to a shop with the law always watchin either! and are there really people who pay with thier cards at shops?
 

shnkrmn

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yeah, out the next day and workin the shop to boot! sounds like somthin aint right. and i sure wouldnt go to a shop with the law always watchin either! and are there really people who pay with thier cards at shops?
The place I go to has a huge operation for home brewing and winemaking supplies as well as indoor gardening. It's supermarket sized. Standing in line at the checkout I like to scope out who's buying what. Hipsters buying high-quality yeast and malt and suits scoring a replacement bulb and some voodoo juice, lol. I've seen plenty of credit card transactions there from all kinds of people.

Credit card slips don't specify what you bought. Anyway, it's what you do with the stuff, not whether you own it.

But the place Mr. Marks is talking about, still in operation after being busted, I would stay far, far away from that.

I guess you never buy online?
 
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