Quasi Ghetto Grow

Thanks MK-- stepped up the nutes just slightly, just now. Crystals on small leaves more obvious now, with more crystals on the lower, smaller budleaves.

New thing: when I get home at 5:30 I open the closet door, creating a very mild, intermittent stealth issue, but the temps were 102 when I got home and they're already 97, just by opening the door and it's been less than 5 minutes.

Well, one improvement I didn't foresee the effects of:

Leaving the closet door open to lower temps has been more effective than the frozen bottles thing.

Frozen bottles, I'd come home and it'd be 97 degrees instead of 102.

This method, it was 92. And at lunch, it was 89. Not great, obviously, but much closer to those 80's.

And, just as importantly-- before, the cab was always dry.

Today, it was 50%-- the low end of normal. So the increased humidity should help, also.

So I've had the 4 babies growing very close under cool floro's in the bathroom.

They were lookin a lil pale. Quite pale.

I noticed this funky-ass bug on there, last night. It was charcoal-grey, about 1/4" long, and just sittin there, on ma leaf!

It was quite oblong and harmless looking, and it sat very still.

I was not gonna touch it.

So I grabbed my Neem solution, which is a sprayer with a teaspoon of Neem oil and water.

Ah sprayed 'im!

He just sat there.

Then slowly, in a drippy, drunken haze, he slid off the leaf and plopped to the soil below, dead.

Not really.

He just sat there all soaked, and I took him for dead.

But the next morning, he was on the soil.

So I sprayed him again and squished him with the sharp end of a can opener.

But when I got home at lunch today, there was an even bigger one sitting on ma leaf!

This one I knocked off first, squirted him with Neem, but he was a fighter! Kept comin back for more, puttin up his little fists, defyin' me, like!

I squirted and squeeged 'im.

He dead now.

And the thing is, I noticed the leaves had these grey areas, obviously the life sucked from them. A horrible word entered my mind:

necrosis

That's what that damn thing was doing to ma babies! Killin 'em!

So that bug got terminated. Neeminated, an shit.

Well, sort of.

Today I moved them to the window to get some natural sun.

Then when I came home at lunch the sun had moved so I decided to put them in the open cab, under the big boy lights!

But I left the baby in the sun, because I could position it favorably:

pic 1)
baby in the sun (tape covers the clear container so roots don't get light)

pic 2)
babies with mama in the big cab! They be thinkin they're big-time now!

Though this plant may look sad, she's actually doing quite a bit better than she was. Adding a little nutes, cutting the heat, upping humidity, and sometimes blowing carbon dioxide (why not?), all made a bit of difference.

You can see there are bud sites below the main one, and because of the weird light configuration, these are actually growing.

Probably I should have chopped them first thing to get a bigger cola, but I never thought of it, and frankly when they got to this state... I ain't cuttin that shit!

pic 1)
Hairy Mama

pic 2)
Mama's main bud

pic 3)
Extra Bud

pic 4)
Closeup

Okay, the molasses mishap, that was this gross thing that happened to the 4 babies I've started. They're in week 2 and have hardly grown, but I'm not too worried as my current lady took forever to grow at first, also.

So I went to water them yesterday with the molasses mix, which is about a gallon of water with a tablespoon of molasses.

Well I poured some into each, when I noticed this horrible rank smell quickly suffuse the room.

It was so disgusting and so strong-- a high sour, dead, bitter, acrid, shitty smell.

I quickly realized my error. Usually I let the water sit for days before watering the plants, to get rid of chlorine, or whatever.

Well, letting the water with molasses sit... in this heat... basically turned the molasses into something dead and gross.

It was so gross, so strong, that a couple drops got on the floor and I swear I could smell that shittiness just from those drops, as well as emanating from my poor plants.

I cleaned up as best I could and aired the bathroom (where I have the babies growing) out.

It took all day to get rid of that smell and even today sometimes you still catch a whiff of it.

Now, I thought-- shit-- I just gave my plants something dead, it will rot their roots and kill them.

Maybe it will. But it hasn't yet.

Today I remembered that I have plain water in a squirty bottle, so I sprayed the soil with that.

I actually don't think that nasty shit will kill them or else they'd already be dying.

Hell, maybe they even like it: there was a particular component to the odor which I could not at first place, then I realized: it was vinegar. The thing about vinegar, it's acidic. What if-- what if my water or my soil tends toward alkaline and that acidic shit actually maybe even brought a balance?

Well, I'm not trying that experiment again, whatever the case.

Now, I add molasses just before watering, then use the leftovers for houseplants and the ivy in my yard I shall try to re-invigorate.

Okay, now for pics.

I noticed that since I leave the door open in the daytime I can bring cab temps down to a pretty reasonable 89 degrees. That's a lot better than 103, or the 97 or so with the ice.

Since then, my buds have grown. Probably only I notice, but the main bud and the two buds below it have grown slightly, with much crystals. It is a beautiful thing.

Behold:

pic 1) mama bud with no flash
pic 2) mama bud with flash
pic 3) mama flash zoom
pic 4) mama (dramatic lighting) zoom

Funny thing about this plant, which has been through everything. It has hardly any leaves, and the ones it has are curled. It's something called Super Bud, and supposedly it's designed to get the most buds for the least effort, or something. Supposed to be for noobs.

The lack of leaves is due first probably to stress. But after this, now that the stress is reduced, I'm wondering if this crazy thing is just so devoted to bud growing that it's like, "Fuck the leaves! We grow bud!"

I mean, of course you need leaves, but maybe the stress messed with it yet it still is growing bud, I find this strange.

Week 7, week 4 for the babies.

The babies have not grown, in 4 weeks and I think it's because the lights I had them under are 5500, not 6500k. So I put them in the windowsill starting two days ago and already they're starting to grow, finally.

Almost harvest time for the mama, about 15% of the hairs are reddish, I'm supposed to wait for 80%, which I hope will be about next Monday, the beginning of 8th week.

I pulled off a nug to let dry and see if there's any high in there, we shall see. This nug was about 1/3 - 1/2 inch, lower on the stem. It appears to be very airy, which does not get me too excited about the main cola or the buds beneath it (which are about 1.5 inches, the cola (is that the main bud? Don't even know the lingo for sure...) is about 3.5 inches, little changed from weeks ago, though the plant started growing again once I brought the temps down, another thing to prepare for in the future.

I was going to grow my next batch with the lights on at night time, but I have a feeling at this time of year it would still be cooler to grow in day and leave the door open, since for stealth reasons I cannot leave the door open at night. And the nights here are not much cooler than the days, especially inside.

Just now took off about 5 other small nugs from below, this will free the plant to give a little more boost in these last days to the cola, and also let me try out the smoke. Hairs on these are still pretty white, but I guess I'll get an idea. Surprisingly sticky, and with a strong pine scent, not skunky at all.

Wondering if this mild scent is because the plant is so old, therefore it's mellowed?

Last night I tried some that I'd pulled early, but hard to judge as I'd had about 4 beers.

Still, this is my normal smoking habit.

I'd just finished with some medical grade, so it would be good to test mine against that memory.

I was very tired, I didn't notice anything at first but a very mellow and focused pine scent with no skunkiness. The buds had dried for about two days, and they were small.

I had a very slight cerebral high, all head and no body, but it was a clean tingling that I liked.

Tired, I laid down to rest and pretty much forgot about the bud I'd smoked.

Shortly thereafter I was struck with a really strong erotic and positive emotional vibe.

I realized it must be the pot, as it was much like sativas I'd had in the past, and it certainly wasn't the beer.

It was not nearly as strong as similar types I've had in the past, where your chest is vibrating with a warm "love glow" and your head is alive with imagery.

This had some head feel and strong erotic and emotional imagery, but no chest glow. It was pretty much all head high.

I was surprised at the amount of high I got so today I'll be trying some similar nugs under similar experiences.

In fact, I smoked a little when I got home and I don't really feel much.

Of course, these had not dried as much as the others (picked them last night) and I wonder if the THC even vaporized.

But I have some more I can try later, a larger quantity. Or maybe I'll try it now and get this over with...

I'd swear this is week 8 and the damn hairs are still mostly white.

I been pulling off little nugs to smoke. Today, before the weekend, I pulled off one of the bigger ones below the main cola. It is pictured below.

The buds have been sticky, with a very clean pine scent. The smoke is smooth with a taste of pine and an aftertaste of brewed black tea-- not at all unpleasant.

Not the strongest bud around, but better than schwag.

It takes about 15 minutes for the high to hit-- before that you feel very little.

When it does, you are left with a pleasant head high along with mild to medium body high.

Couch-lock component is low, so videogames and playing music are no problem.

However, my favorite component of good bud, audio enhancement, is not as prevelant with this strain as others I've had. Could be also because I'm drinking beer when I'm smoking this, although a number of times I've woke in the morning to smoke it straight, but I wasn't listening to music at those times, so still hard to guage this one.

Whatever the case, I am probably going to pull the plant Sunday as it doesn't appear to be changing much, and I know the smoke is good enough, and I swear it almost looks like it's shrinking. EEEEK!!!

man you are doing good on your first grow. we are a lot alike. my favorite thing to do is smoke and listen to music for hours. i just started smoking a lot for the past few months cuz i am laid off. my last harvest didnt enhance music as much as i would have liked. another funny thing you mentioned was exactly like me too, i found a jar of my last shit after going dry for a few days and i was fucking happy. i got high, then when i laid down to go to sleep at 4 am my whole body, especially my dick was tingling hahaha. i was laying there next to my wife horny as a motherfucker and got the urge to bang her out, right out of the blue lol. i thought it was cool cuz i havent had many strains that made me feel like that.

Very cool, Masta. In my 'blog'/'grow journal' I kept it discreet, but pot generally makes me really horny.

They say that pot is an acquiescent drug; that it goes where you want to go.

If you're feeling pain, you receive healing vibes.

If you're listening to music, you home in on that.

If you're horny-- etc.

Well, if you liked the feeling that occured when you were in bed with your wife, let it happen again, and see what happens.

You can tell her later, when you're chillin and talkin nonsense, baby, I woke up at 4 am and I wanted to put that thing in you.

She might be thinkin like, hmmm... not a bad thing to happen at 4 am.

She might say, Baby if you wake up with a hardon and you wanna fuck the livin shit out of me at 4 am, then please put that rock hard thing inside me, and then we'll go back to sleep and all is good in the world.

And so on, and so forth.