Pics of, and notes on growing my cannabis

[Crazy Composer]

Depends on... Everything. if the plant has all the space it needs, I would personally be happy to get 3-4 ounces under those conditions. But there are infinite numbers of variables, so all I can do is guess.

 

[Tabwat]

i need to get me some true sour

 

[big twinn]

Yea...completely understandable...how many grams would you expect from a single plant grown in a 2L container SOG. (SFV)? im just trying to get a very broad guestimate.

Also, if you dont mind, i would like to quote one of your posts about Quality and the Sun, in one of the growers tips threads, of course i will make it clear that i am only passing the info on and that the credit goes to Crazy Composer. But i think that post is pure gold if you wouldn't mind.=)

 

[Crazy Composer]

Go for it.

 

[B. Self Reliant]

I haven't worked with or even seen a Sour D plant, only the ready-to-consume product. The bud structure is gorgeous.

Love that first shot. It's nice to see properly exposed & white-balanced bud shots!

Edit: I thought you'd appreciate that I'm watching the TPB episode about J-Roc's "Skrilla Villa". . . classic J-Roc & Randy lines. . .

 

[Crazy Composer]

Haha! Skrilla villa... Classic. "they're from Europe (strums guitar shaped bottle) knowimsayin'?" Luggage bandits! Hahaha! One classic moment after another with that show. I watch the boys almost every day, just can't get enough. All hail TPBs!!!

 

[loyalty7]

thank you crazy composer, i am going to try it on my next run. i def agree with a plant being yellow with deficiencys and still not tasting as good as it should.

 

[Epiphyte]

What's Up, Composter? Those plants look ridiculously good. Those yields are monster. I have been lurking for years especially on your treads. Since I started posting some, I have been wondering where your thread was....I was so surprised to see you weren't composting anymore.

I have used PBP soil, LK, and greenfuse most of my grows. I always thought the taste lacked. I use General Organics now with teas when I'm not lazy. The taste is pretty good but I had to give you props on your recent observation concerning flushing. I alway start flushing too early...mostly with molasses but still very early...I will try and not flush too early with these next few plants of mine.

I realize why you do what you do right now. But bottom line, what method gives you your favorite herb to smoke?

 

[Crazy Composer]

For quality indoors... sandy loam fed with light teas. Yields be damned. For larger yields with good, but not perfect quality, I like top feeding sandy soils with guanos and letting the microherd do the rest. This herb would be considered by 999/1000 smokers as the best herb they ever smoked, but an unfed plant in sandy soil, outdoors or in a greenhouse, is even better imo.

Indoor growers are usually as concerned with yield as with quality, of course, which is why myself and so many other are always changing methods, looking for a simple way to get as much quality as yield.

 

[b00m]

Beautiful buds and photos CC very dank and trich covered looks stunning

 

[Crazy Composer]

Danke, b00m.

 

[csedge]

Well, I have been doing a two week step down in nutrients, and the last week is just pH adjusted water. The step down is important, IMO, because if you just suddenly go from full nutrients to zero nutrients, the plant will hold onto lots of nasty stuff because they sense starvation, and so even a three week flush of straight water can be useless. They can look yellow and clean, but taste horrible.

However, if you gradually reduce the PPMs from highest down to zero over the course of two weeks, the plant has a chance to use what it has stored, and has the nutrients (even in these diminishing amounts) that it needs to continue ripening and using up stored elements.

If I am feeding at a high of 1000PPMs, and I want to start the step down, I will feed at maybe 800, then 600, 400, then hold at 300-400 ppms until the last week, at which time we go to straight water.

Hope that clears it up

Think I may try this this run. Thanks a lot CC, your grow and tips are always appreciated.

 

[Shmoezer]

dammmmmm>>>>cant come around here with out wanting to pull those buds through the screen>>>
PBP>>>>>>love that stuff>>>

 

[noWon]

Hey whats up CC. Love your skillz. You always got those perdy looking girls.

Grow on my brotha!

noWon

 

[NCbuds828]

This is def. one of my favorite threads on the site, love the info and your growing style. major props buddy!

and A+++ strain selection cc. don't see too many people growing strains like sharon widow and mob. can't wait to see pics of your sharon, now thats a cut i need to get my hands on!

 

[Mister Postman]

I'd love to smoke on some of your og kush buds CC!! Most of what I bought from the clubs as og kush during my recent trip seemed rather mediocre. Accually most of the bud I bought from the dispensaries seemed rather similar tasting/smelling, and bland. Hard to believe it was the same buds people rave about on here.. I can only assume that the grower for this shop was either unskilled, or was keeping the cream of the crops for the headstash

I can't wait to get the sfv OG cut, and grow some for my damn self. That's the only way to get a true, and solid opinion of a strain. Hopefully it will happen sooner rather then later

Haha and good luck getting Rez to switch over to the PBP.. As far as I know he has already tried it, and yet still remains a GH flora diehard. I've used both during my time.. I started out with pbp, and now mostly GH along with some of the organic additives they offer BioRoot/Florablend, and the floralicous bloom.

 

[Crazy Composer]

Thanks, y'all.

MPM... sfv ogk should be pleasurable, of course. kushy with a touch of citrus. I have some finishing right now, maybe I will shoot them and share here later.

 

[guerilllataktic]

fox farm big bloom will bring on those flavors you are looking for i agree with you about the smoke is lacking something with gh i added big bloom and never looked back, i grow in pure coco aswell

 

[Shmoezer]

mmmmmmm Sharon<<<what a sweet lady<<<
love that chic

 

[Crazy Composer]

The discovery of my growing career... I now share with the few who will ever venture to this thread. Share this info only with people you care about... it will give a competitive advantage to even the least proficient grower. Share this info carefully.

I pondered -at length- whether or not to share this... but I will share it once here in my grow thread. I also mentioned it in b self reliant's thread... This is big news for increasing the quality of your smoke, and may be surprising because it's so simple and effective.

Silica!!!! Silica!!!! Silica!!!! (but not for the reasons you thought!)

Silica has revolutionized the way I think about growing pot. It has revolutionized the quality of my pot. And I found this out by slowly, carefully changing my nutrient regime over the last few years... one change at a time to control the experiment. This is what I found and the process with which I found it:

First... the pay off, then the explanation. The payoff: TRULY AMAZING POT with very little effort.

The way I discovered this:
First I will explain how I like to explore nutrients... Let's say I am using Gen Hydro's 3-part system and I am not happy with the smell and taste (truth)... instead of simply getting rid of the 3-part system, I will make one change and finish a crop with only that one change. This gives me a good idea of what change occurred, and because I only made one change, you can be pretty sure any difference in the product was due to that one change. So this is how I move from one nutrient regimen to the next... slowly and carefully.

I will start at the point where I was using JUST the Gen Hydro 3-part system, then work my way through the steps that got me to silica.

I was not happy with the smell and taste of the Gen Hydro 3-part system. It grew great-looking herb, and lots of it, but it wasn't floating my boat. So, I added some humic acid to the mix for one harvest cycle in order to coax some flavor from the buds... It worked, but not to the extent that I hoped.

Next I used the regular Gen Hydro 3-part system for the entire grow, except for the last half of flowering, where I substituted Gen Hydro with Pure Blend Pro Bloom (soil and coco formula). I liked the results much more than Gen Hydro alone... so I switched over to just Pure Blend Pro.

Being a purist, and being hopeful that the answer to my ultimate quest of being able to grow the best pot in the simplest way... I used ONLY PBP Grow and Bloom... nothing else. This produced better herb that the Gen Hydro, but not that much better, honestly. So I added Liquid Karma to the PBP Grow and Bloom regimen. The plants liked that very much, and the taste and burn improved slightly. Good. But not best.

One day I was looking into silica because I wanted some protection against hot temps in the grow room during the summer months. What I read floored me, and got me thinking. I learned that 10-20% of the dried weight of plants (not just pot plants, all plants) living in the earth was silica weight! That's a lot of silica! And so I began to realize that... if a plant takes THAT much of something into itself, it is SUPPOSED TO BE THERE. I also read that studies about silica have been few and far between (where plant nutrition is concerned), and that we likely have very little clue about the true role silica plays in plant nutrition. But it seemed obvious to me that plants crave it, so I gave it. I had no idea how profound the difference would actually be!

I added silica to my Pure Blend Pro regimen, and the results were nice at first. I could tell that my plants were sturdier, the leaves were more... "leathery" and stiff than usual... all results I had expected to see... fine.

The first UREKA! moment... The first time I smoked my herb with the silica regimen was the epitome of a lifetime for me. The strain was SFV OG Kush, the herb burned as good as any herb I ever smoked... Like incense. Light the tip of the joint and walk away, you don't need to puff on it at all, it will burn to nothing all by itself. At first I thought, "well, it's probably because the herb isn't completely dried and cured yet, and this is an anomaly. But the entire harvest burned like this... AND was getting people higher than ever!
It dawned on me... Silica is doing this... and I think I know why.

Silica is used by plants as a building block for cell walls... in other words, plants are stiffer with silica because the cell walls become stiffer. Now, when smoking a bud without stiff cell walls, the flame will collapse the cells on the outer edge of the bud and the flame now wants to run around the herb instead of through it. However, WITH silica and the stiff cell walls it creates, the flame (cherry) can work THROUGH the bud because the cell walls are not collapsing. Also, silica is basically glass... and glass is a conductor of heat. This conduction of heat means the cherry is self preserving! Silica makes the herb burn better... is the point I am making here!

Now... just one crop isn't exactly a controlled experiment.. so... before I went ahead and believed that these awesome results were due to silica alone, I added silica to a friend's garden who was using the same EXACT nutrient regimen I was using. Wouldn't ya know it... after adding silica to his garden, his herb also burned perfectly and was getting people higher than without silica! So... two separate gardens, same STRAIN EVEN... same nutrient regimen... Same leap forward in quality at both places after adding silica.

Wanna know another awesome fact about silica? It can be added to your plants at the last moment and the cells will STILL suck it up. Silica does not need to be added while cells are forming (although that is ideal). My friend's SFV OG Kushes were ready to be flushed... I suggested he put off harvest a week and give silica to see if plants can use it AFTER they have completed their cellular growth. The silica was sucked up by the already existing cells and the results were identical to my own. Amazing.

Another benefit... remember earlier when I said 10-20% of the dry weight of plants grown outside is silica weight? Well, cannabis grown with silica is, indeed, heavier and denser. No doubt about it. The same amount of herb I am used to seeing in a bag weighed up to substantially more than it usually would. And the texture of the bud material was much denser and substantive.

The difference was so immediately awesome, I pondered not even saying anything in public... this is too good for every Tom Dick and Harry to know... whoever has this knowledge will get an immediate competitive advantage. But, seeing as it has been my mission to teach what I know, I decided to fully share this information ONE TIME... And this was it.

Happy growing,
cc