New setup

Can't sew her up she is nowhere to be found. She ran off and had a litter under a realtors office nearby. So we get to bottle feed them for her this run. If i find that cat she is going straight to the vet. Immediatly.
I think kittens are actually minions of hell ,sent to torment me to madness, disguized as cute little kittens.I'm beginning to hate cats,And thinking of getting a
pitbull to chase them all away.

 

Well here are some pics from today! Seem to be fattening up allready.

 

hey tie

QUESTION! in the third pic ( the plants do look great btw) the fan leaves seem rigid and point outwards. i remember in jorges book there was some plants that looked like that and it said "plants sprayed with hormone" or something. any reason why they would look the same? or am i crazy
theo

 

The plant in question is humbolt-In this case of course it is a naturally occurring phenomenon. They seem to thrive on light and heat, Leaves stretching upward towards the source. I didn't even use any rooting hormones on those clones.

I did the first batch of cuttings using rootech just the other day.
Thanks for the compliments though.
Heck i havent even used any seaweed extracts , just ocean forest, marine cuisine, tigerbloom, batguano(for veg), age-old bloom.

 

I am starting to see a nice trichrome buildup on the humbolts, this is at day 24.
They seem to be in a lull , probly gearing up to get fatter for the next round of budding. I still have them in 6" pots, and see a couple with a little nute def. going on. I figure i will have to give them quite a bit of age old bloom to get them through next month.maybe some tigerbloom too.
The closet is just too small, no room for soil, no room for a decent amount of plants to grow.
As soon as i get into a real room with my grow, i'll be able to use 3 or 5 gallon containers fairly well.My current area will probly be for vegging clones up to 2'
Then i'll be able to stick em in the real budroom, an actual room.And enough soil to get them through it.

I think were gonna get an a.c. unit for the back bedroom this month, especially if i can keep working. then the grow will be stationed inbetween two units, and the show stays fine when the house is cool.It's the dang sun, first ya have to have it , then when you finally break away from the sun, it curses you still.
I need a basement soon. l.o.l.

 

Looking good buddy,don't the improvements seem like a never ending saga.Peace to ya

 

Kinda fits though,

after all the plants have to adjust and adapt to their enviroment. So if we are creating the enviroment Im sure we will nearly always want to "tweek" the enviroment and areas we grow in.Different strains like different climates and so forth. neverending growstory. Gotta love it. pete the dragon rules.

Hey mean what was that jewlers lens again? Baucsh and laumb 40X 10? I got a whole field of trichs growing on the hummers id like to watch grow. Oh and speaking of trichs- the NL5XKush is reverting nicely, looks like we will be smokin clones around here by christmas, from that one that made it.Or maybe the next wave after that. But I'll probly sneak a couple in on the next wave, if they shoot up enough to clip them in time.

Im gonna get ripped and go to bed it is 8:00 and i am beat down from that roofing job. Imagine hanging on to a rope for dear life and balance, and drilling holes and putting in screws with the other. It is like a waterslide If you dont have a rope in your hand. I gotta get some food and sleep going, or im a deadman.

 

O.K. Since life and growing is an ongoing experiment for all of us. I figure i'll document my most interesting experiment at present.It involves the humbolts at the moment.


The himalayans and some of the other ancient mountain peoples handed down secrets along with the "family/ village seedstock" One of these was how to manicure. There are three stages of flowering( four if you include preflowering- we will not count that here) One of the book i read as a youngster called it "peaks of flourecence" And there is a reason for this. When the spurts are nearing their end the white hairs seem to get a yellowish glow to them.At least with most strains. There are other ways to tell too- a few red hairs appearing is another.

The himalayans taught that if you remove the water leaf after the first spurt it helps the plant focus on growing buds-- fatter buds. The plant has used these leaves to grow up to maturity. They are no longer needed. This is evident by strains that use up the last of the nutes in these water leaves and drop them while budding.

So after the first peak, you want to remove only the water leaves.
I'll be back with a pic. Some friends just dropped by.

 

There is a silouette of a hummer a xmas tree together. the xmas trees have not been done yet because they are taking longer, a 8- 10 week strain.But here's some pics of them on the day the got manicured the first time.
Only the water leaves were removed.

 

What I have done is cause the plant to focus it's energy on growing buds. The result of doing this tecnique is a denser fatter bud. Compact heavy weed. I figure an old school strain deserves an old school method.Im sure the hummers are used to this occuring.The genetics that made humbolt has been subjected to this method for centuries. It is obvious to me that this is why the hummers produce such nice looking nugs on the first peak of "flourecence". They realize the leaves are subject to removal. It is a survival instinct.


So there is the first wave, but remember there is three peaks, In about two weeks, I'll be going in with some scissors to trim off the bud leaves. Two to three weeks before harvest you want to do this.Then the nugs really fatten up.And get hard as a rock.

I realize that most of you trim the leaves after harvest, but I think if you try this method on the right strain, you will be more than pleased with the results im sure.

Notice that a lot of the pics you see in high times this method has been used. Also a lot of the seedbank pics of finished product this is apparent as well. Sometimes they leave the leaves to show you how their pretty little crystals form, but some pics are of manicured buds.

 

I grabbed a nug before i went to bed last night, and stuck it on the flourex to dry. Forgot all about it and went to bed.
This morning it is kicking my ass. Tasty as heck. It is getting some of the taste at 28 days 12/12. Im thinking it may be a 6 week strain, but probly not. It still has a long way to go yet. Already comparable to what i have seen coming out of these clubs out west here.But still 1/2 0r at best 2/3 of the way done.
here is a pic of what i didn't smoke yet, not sure if we will be able to see any trichs yet or not.

 

Lookin SWEET Brudda!! --Its hard to resist some early bud! -Get some more Brudda!!! -Scoobie Doobie's on tv somewhere today! >LT>**^^~~

 

It doesn't last long enough (the high) although it is getting to be a bit tasty.

Hmmmmmm naa better wait a couple more weeks. I got swag, i was just sick of smoking it. Figured i deserved a kind wakeup. It was.

But yeah before id go buy a bag of green bud around here, id definetly just pluck some of mine. It is already as good or better than what is going for 100 a quarter. I just know it's gonna rage when it's done.
Hey the coffee pot just signaled me over for a cup. I'll be back.

 

Oh i almost forgot, after i plucked all the water leaves off the buds exploded with fatness, and seemed to begin to gain some weight at the tops.Quite a bit of wieght actually. I'll be sure to post more pics.

 

Well i tried for some macro shots, hope i can get them to upload.l.o.l.

The last shot is a christmas tree i had to bend. it is filling in nicely but not ready to have it's water leaves removed yet.

 

what do you mean by water leaves?

 

The main leaves attached to the stalk. Most believe leaving them on is best. I am using an ancient method and love the results.

They are sometimes called shade leaves as well.Removing them at the right time causes the plant to focus on fatter denser buds.

 

ah ok i know them as shade leaves. i wonder if you can help? i have only 2 weeks left of flower i have done no pruning what so ever and am wondering weither i should just take everything else off the plant apart from the buds for the last couple of weeks,also should i prune the lower buds off as they are minute and think they are takin too much energy from the rest of the plant,must also add that my main bud on the bigger plant is absalutely massive.i will post a picture to show you,and is it normal for the water leaves to turn a yellowish color near the end or is this becuase of the new growth lower down?stealing the nitrogen?thnx again

 

Yeah
If your lower leaves are yellowing it is both the plant using up it's supply,And your light not getting to them.Two weeks is plenty of time for them to gain weight from manicuring. Experiment with one so you get the hang of it, But definetly remove the yellowing leaves before they get too yellow. Then they suck energy from the plant instead of give to it,Once they turn yellow.

The calxes are fattening up radically and little supernova clusters of white hairs are bursting out the sides. But im sure a lot of that is strain inherent.

 

Snatched a little nug from the hummers after work today.Dried it on the flourex.

Even my picky neighbor from Hawaii said it is getting tasty. Im trying a little in the bong and i am finding a few things hard to believe.One thing is that this weed is still immmature. You would never know from the taste, but this is only day 35.

Another is that i quick dried it on a light, and it still tastes as good as it does.

But the stone is good, just not comparable to the best ive ever smoked.
Im sure it will be getting much closer soon. Next week or so they should really start to fatten up for the last couple weeks.I can hardly wait.
I'll get some new shots tomorrow, the girls are asleep at the moment.