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postmaster's 600w medical revival

postmaster

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Some of you may remember me from Overgrow. I posted a series of texts on the security forum regarding how to utilize the postal service, from the viewpoint of a postal employee well versed in the system. I've since lived an office space moment and just stopped working. I quit a few years ago and am more than satisfied to not work for the system anymore, even though I have nothing but admiration for the men and women in the Postal Service today.

I grew personal medical from 1998 until 2002. My condition has since worsened to the point of constant aggrivation and I have since received a medical recommendation from my doctor.

Here's a bit of my 600w grow:


A 4-lamp four-foot HO T5 fixture fills my current veg table with enough light. It will support my 2x2' Ebb table once I build enough DWC buckets to fill my tent. Right now under the t5 sits an AK-47 clone mother to be and assorted clones in a homemade aero cloner.


The AK is an interesting indica phenotype. It was donated to me along with six others in soil by a fellow medical grower. I transplanted the other six into hydroton and they're doing great in an ebb and flood table.


I also have a Chemdog x Lavender clone that's exciting. It's extremely bushy and when I got it, it looked like it was hardcore flowering. It was in soil also and was transplanted to hydroton. It was given to me by another Washington medical patient, along with an SFV OG Kush clone, a Mendocino Madness clone, a soma NYC Diesel clone, and an Albert Walker clone. This is a very generous patient!

The Chemdog x Lavender:


The SFV OG Kush:


I bought a cheap $130 shipped grow tent off ebay. It's much nicer than the panda film tent I had made prior to this, but the zipper sucks and it's not 100% light tight.


Inside the tent is a 2x2' ebb table on top of an 18 gallon rubbermaid tub. The tub is a storage container with a slanted angle on one of the top ends, and a two piece lid. If you remove the smaller piece of the lid on the angled portion, it's enough to check nutrients for tds and ph without having to ever remove the top larger lid portion, making this a cheap and rigid res.


Inside the tent:

The NYC Diesel was rootbound in a 1 gallon growbag of soil. Did I mention all of these plants were soil? I carefully translplanted them to hydroton and it took about a week before the shock was fully recovered. The Diesel is huge and bushy, easily three times the size of any of the other plants. It's been given multiple fims and is being trained with twist ties now.


Plans include building a smaller mother/veg tent to get the t5 some light tightness, and to flower these bitches soon.
 
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eyes

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very cool,man.welcome to ic.good to have all fields of knowledge around here.ill be checking the thread out.looks like you have some nice strains going on.nice aero cloner.
 

postmaster

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Here's a bit of an update:

I decided to put the t5 bar in the tent until I start flowring in a couple day. I'm also training the AK-47 I kept in soil to be a bonsai mother:

akmommy.jpg


It's given 5 cuts today and will give many many more:

akclones.jpg



Also taken were two more NYC Diesel cuts from a second topping because it's getting a bit out of hand in comparison to the rest of my plants:

nycdclones.jpg


The chemdog x lavender cut is doing nicely, growing a lot daily:

chemxlav.jpg


Albert looks like the little cross dresser wants to be a creeping vine of fan leaves instead of a tree, but we'll see what it does when flowering:

albert.jpg


I plan on initiating flowering tomorrow, moving Albert Walker and the NYC Diesel into a DWC tub.

the SFV OG kush clone's putting out tight little nodes sitting under the t5:

sfvogk.jpg


Everything is starting to come together

stuffs.jpg
 

postmaster

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Updated pics....

the garden:
garden916.jpg


bonsai ak-47 mother in training:
momak916.jpg


albert walker bushed out a bit and is very healthy looking:
albert916.jpg


even the mendo madness I had to cut way back for clones and then had the downward (both horizontal and vertical) leaf curl is doing nicely:
madness916.jpg


see the lower portion that got the cut:
mendo916.jpg


The clones are doing nicely, the yellowing ones were all taken in rockwool and transferred here, which is why they look bad:
clones916.jpg


finally, the nyc diesel is just a monster. it's easily twice the mass of the next largest plant. Luckily I moved the three largest into DWC buckets, so the canopy in the table and buckets should be almost equidistant from the light
dcell.jpg


Everything's been flowering for a few days now. Can't wait to start smelling up the place. So far the only really stinky ladies are the AK and the Lavender/Chemdog snowball crosses.
 
Nice to see another PNW medical grower!

I'm a designated caregiver for a patient here in Washington, I'm currently running AK48 and GH Cheese... But just got 5 new mother plants from a compassionate activist, and am anxious to start running those... I just got NYCD (i'm absolutely positive it's from the same mother as yours), purple urkle, 'slappy', jenny's poison and matanuska thunderfuck (from original MTF plant).

I plan on doing a trial run on all the new strains in a few weeks, so if any of them are any good, I'll let you know (and let you know where to get them if you need some).

-- steve
 

postmaster

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Awesome, steve.

I can't PM yet but let me know if you ever need any genetics or help with anything. It's always great to see other people helping the cause too.

Thanks!
 

High Jinks

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Hi Postmaster,
A kind member directed me towards Albert Walker and I see you are an acquaintance. That NYCD tree looks fancy. I'll be watching your grow as well.:wave:
 

postmaster

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Okay so it's been a bit of time since an update, so here goes.

Here is why I'm fascinated with the LavenderSnowballDawg. She's only been flowering for two weeks in these pics and she's definitely overgrown the competition:

lavsnodog.jpg


She's super compact. I haven't topped or anything. She also has buds all over forming at this early age. Here's the cola:

lavsnodogcola2.jpg


And here's a closer look:

lavsnodogcola1.jpg


The rest are flowering nicely (2.5 weeks now) but here's a few highlights.. This AK-47 clone never grew up much.

shortyAK47.jpg


But as you can see she's got some nice buds forming, though something invisible seems to be taking bites out of her and only her right now

2weeksAK47.jpg


Albert Walker is getting a bit bushier and starting to bud but is whispier than the rest. She's also yellowing a lot

alwalk.jpg


My AK-47 mother has now given almost 20 cuts and still looks like it did weeks ago

AKmother9-29.jpg


I also swapped out the three 360 degree spinning sprayers in my cloner for micro sprayers. I kept the center 360 degree sprayer and added a 396gph pump to replace the 265gph one in there. It seems to be misting very nicely. Here's a few shots of the inside:

cloner-roots.jpg


inthecloner.jpg


Lastly, here's a nice piece of bubble hash I made last night

bubblehash.jpg


It was easy. I'll post up the pics on that process real soon.
 

postmaster

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stevewinthrop said:
what kinda bubble bag do you use? and do you use 8, 5 or 3 bags?

I got a 5 bag kit off ebay, that's the 75 or 85 micron hash I believe

Also, I left my cloner unplugged for almost 48 hours =( Almost everything in it died. I had to re-take a ton of cuttings. The AK 47 mother gave up 10, count them, 10 supple cuttings.
 
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postmaster

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UPDATE!!

Everything's been flowering for 4 weeks now. For a reminder here's where the flowering happens:

outside the tent:
outside1.jpg


inside the tent:
outside3.jpg


outside2.jpg


now some before and afters:

albert walker:

BEFORE
albert.jpg


AFTER
alwalk1.jpg


alwalk2.jpg


lavender/snow/dawg:

BEFORE
chemdogxlavender.jpg


AFTER
elly1.jpg


she's a f'ing fatty, one straight bud with little offshooting

NYC Diesel:

BEFORE
tent.jpg


(she's the wilty one in the back

dcell.jpg


a few weeks later

now:
AFTER
nycd1.jpg


nycd4.jpg


nycd3.jpg


nycd2.jpg


and a NYC Diesel clone I threw in JUST as soon as it had rooted, now 4 weeks old and 4 weeks into flowering:

lilnyd.jpg


The tiny AK-47 (all the rest look the same other than clones which are very vigorous!)

BEFORE
akmommy.jpg


AFTER
ak1.jpg


LAST but very much not least is the Mendocino Madness. Mindy's got the award for the best comeback.

BEFORE
mendo916.jpg


AFTER
mindy4.jpg


mindy3.jpg


mindy1.jpg
 
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