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Niyajuana

Niyajuana

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VTMi'kmaq said:
To all you new members, If there's ANYTHING i can do to help short of loaning out money lol don't be afraid to ask me ok? IMHO a closed mouth don't get fed! Welcome to roll it up, above all have fun!
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Damn just when I was gonna ask 4 a loan lol well if you could inbox me first, since I'm new and can't yet for some reason, I'd like a few pointers to start off with or any advice you would have for an outdoor grower or anything interesting. I'll be here all week! (Or as long as I live but hey who's counting)
 
willamettemike

willamettemike

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VTMi'kmaq said:
To all you new members, If there's ANYTHING i can do to help short of loaning out money lol don't be afraid to ask me ok? IMHO a closed mouth don't get fed! Welcome to roll it up, above all have fun!
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Need some advice please. First time grower, outside in about 5 gallon containers. Planted on July 2 (small clones) right after it went legal here in Oregon. Moved them around some to get the most sun.
Used mostly compost tea I made from worm casting from Alpaca poop. Added a little Epsom salt a few times. They seemed to like everything s maybe beginners luck. I took some advice a couple weeks ago about removing fan leaves to allow more sun. I think I went way too far and removed almost every one. Been moving into garage every night so no worry about theft. Could maybe fill in more info here but to really get to my question(s).
I am attaching a picture from today.
I believe I'm ready to harvest but have not flushed. Is that necessary? In a couple days I'm leaving town for 5 days.
Do they look ready?
Should I flush today and tomorrow and leave alone until I return? No water wile gone.
Should I harvest and hang until I return?
I was told to hang with roots attached. Is this good? I have plenty of room in a second garage.
(Only 2 plants) GSC
Thanks for any help! zzzzzzzzzzzzz.jpg
 
VTMi'kmaq

VTMi'kmaq

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that pic dosn't do any missing fans justice lmao! My advice.........straight water till you go, make sure when you get home you do an overall and see if she has made any major changes from this pic you just took today, you'd ideally like to see all the pistils reddened and receeded back into the calyxes they started from. I am also willing to bet those calyxes will swell a bit more for ya, overall i'd like to congratulate you on a beautiful plant. Next time please don't pull your fans off, imho it's not broke don't mess with it kinda mindset. They do like to be talked dirty too, shoot i had a strain that liked to be "gently choked" lmao just joshin ya, but yeah ive played tunes (zappa of xourse) to my ladies, all sorts of diff stuff to see if they responded. but yeah man congratulations
 
VTMi'kmaq

VTMi'kmaq

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5 days without water should be fine provided you make sure they are throroughly watered before the 5 day leave. I can't see any reason why hanging Just the base stalk where it meets the soil should'nt be good enough to hang upside down, I like to use the old root zone to help me reuse my soils, but that's a whole nother ballgame for us right now .
 
willamettemike

willamettemike

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VTMi'kmaq said:
5 days without water should be fine provided you make sure they are throroughly watered before the 5 day leave. I can't see any reason why hanging Just the base stalk where it meets the soil should'nt be good enough to hang upside down, I like to use the old root zone to help me reuse my soils, but that's a whole nother ballgame for us right now .
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Thanks for the quick response. I tend to overdo some things especially if I don't know what I'm doing.:)

One more question.please. I do have a small grow light that I could put them under. I will post picture. Or I could l leave them out under some fir trees. We are supposed to get rain while I'm gone

What about flushing? I could also leave in an open area outside where the rain would get to them.zzzzllmm.jpgzzzzll.jpg zzzzlllm.jpg
 
It's not oregano

It's not oregano

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Hi RIU community, let me introduce myself.
I am a total noob to this. I am middle aged and I had never smoked, seen or even smelt weed until earlier this year, never mind grown any.
My wife has MS. She is in constant daily pain and has to take multiple prescribed painkillers every day. Earlier this year we went to Jamaica. Weed is so much a part of life over there it is untrue. We decided to give it a go, as we had heard it was good for pain relief. Oh my god! We shared a joint and for the first time in years my wife didn't need to take pain relief at night. We had a few more joints over the rest of the holiday and the same thing happened.
Back home in the Uk I wanted to try and get hold of some for her, but had no idea how to go about it. Nobody in our circle of friends & family does anything other than drink booze. Then our police chief constable went on record saying he was going to class people growing for personal use as a low priority, about the same as a parking violation. I decided to look into growing and when my wife realised I wasn't going to go all 'breaking bad' on her she agreed, as long as it was ultra stealthy - we have 2 early 20's daughters at home, with boyfriends etc, so a tent or room is out of the question. Nobody knows, nobody can tell, right?
After reading up on here for a long time, I decided on converting an old chest of drawers into a small stealth cfl cabinet while she was at work. I figured a bit of low quality weed is better than none. Didnt tell my wife until i had done it, and even looking for it she couldn't find it, so I passed the stealth test.
Bought some seeds from Herbies and planted a feminised northern lights seed into compost just under a fortnight ago.
If i can get my wife more than 1 joint to smoke without killing the plant, getting arrested or setting something on fire I will class it as worth while.
Planning on doing a journal as soon as I get my laptop back later this week, using a phone is a pain.
Sorry if this is all a bit long, It feels so good to just type about it, I am really into the stealth side of it so nobody else even has a clue what I am up to.
P.s. username was my reply after seeing this guy and my wife saying 'whats he got there?'image.jpg
 
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Cl@rksville

Cl@rksville

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It's not oregano said:
Hi RIU community, let me introduce myself.
I am a total noob to this...

I could have wrote that! I personally never find any benefits for pain relief with regular MJ but I did grow a strain a few years back that was really 'old school' a very strong tasting hash plant from some bag seed. I grew a Barneys Farm Critical Cure that was a disaster but my friends say it works.
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Cl@rksville

Cl@rksville

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I find bag seed a right good challenge so will be interested to see how it goes, good luck! This picture is from my last bag seed I grew and she was really potent and it stunk to high heaven! However it tasted more like hash than that sweet 'skunky' bud taste? It were stronger than the UK Cheese you see in the background in my opinion! Shame I didn't take a clone off her really but them baggies always fucking hermie and shit at the slightest fuck up imo?
 

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Cl@rksville said:
I find bag seed a right good challenge so will be interested to see how it goes, good luck! This picture is from my last bag seed I grew and she was really potent and it stunk to high heaven! However it tasted more like hash than that sweet 'skunky' bud taste? It were stronger than the UK Cheese you see in the background in my opinion! Shame I didn't take a clone off her really but them baggies always fucking hermie and shit at the slightest fuck up imo?
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I will definitely keep you updated, this is my first time growing. It's a small cabinet that I setup quick for experimental purpose at first but it's looking good so I may start a new hobby that'll keep me from spending money.
 
Grandpa GreenJeans

Grandpa GreenJeans

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Hello, I'm 1 hour old to this site and wanted to introduce myself. I grow inside and out. I am a structural pest control technician, turf/landscape chemical applicator. I have my state and federal licence and it's what I do for a living. I'm in wisconsin so unfortunately I cannot grow my beloved cannabis, but I cope by growing anything else. I have grown personal medicine in the past, so if given the opportunity to help someone who is growing, it would be an honor. I look foward to my time here.
 
willamettemike

willamettemike

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Grandpa GreenJeans said:
Hello, I'm 1 hour old to this site and wanted to introduce myself. I grow inside and out. I am a structural pest control technician, turf/landscape chemical applicator. I have my state and federal licence and it's what I do for a living. I'm in wisconsin so unfortunately I cannot grow my beloved cannabis, but I cope by growing anything else. I have grown personal medicine in the past, so if given the opportunity to help someone who is growing, it would be an honor. I look foward to my time here.
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Nice offer. I'm am finishing my first grow. Just two pots outside but moved inside because Im on a short vacation. Live out in the country now on the old family property. Hope you can give me some advice as time goes along. I have a bee hive now so virtually stopped using pesticedes and many of my flowers and shrubs have suffered. Only used neem oil on the two girls.
Welcome:-)
 
Grandpa GreenJeans

Grandpa GreenJeans

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Thanks for the welcome. I'd be happy to help you out as time unveils. The first bit of advice is to stop the neem oil. It is moderately harmful to benificial/preditorial insects just as it is to pathogenic or undesirable insects. The bee's are excellent for pollination but other than that have to secondary use to a cultivator.
I use neem oil mainly for aphids and chewing insects, however in order for a true ecosystem, one that mother nature intended, I'd use bacillus thungernous. Or commonly know and market as BT. It's a bacterial genus that creates cysts within the insect and eventually kills then. Pollinators are not affected, only insect that physically consume the vegatative material. It does not however work for the roots or substrate so that is the ideal neem aplication site. Neem meal or oil is fine for soil drenching. Neem, once taken in from the root system will be translocated in all tissues of the plant. If you have access to a AACT brewer, Id throw some neem cake in the mix.
 
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slow drawl

slow drawl

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Hey All
Thought I'd chime in here since I've been lurking for a while. First of all I would like to say I am happy to become part of this community. I have gained some valuable knowledge here.
A little about me, I've been lovin the weed since 1968. Moved to Oregon in 75 and started a few outdoor crops which never amounted to much...columbian gold seeds. Between getting no decent smoke and getting a few crops ripped off I give up growing my own. Fast forward I retired about 5 years ago, got my OMMP card. I am an outdoor grower I have a small hard framed poly greenhouse which I have 4 plants and an 8x8 raised bed I have the remaining 2....life is good.
 
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