[Ghostin]

Originally Posted by cravin morehead

Hey bud-
No worries on my end, to each their own. I love my bio buckets, but also know that everyone has their own preferences. I'm not here to preach bio bucket eering. Just want to see you have some success how ever that may be. I started in soil and keep doing it too. I just like growing and enjoying bud, that's all. I'm cracking a beer and firing up a bowl and watching your show. Grab life by the horns and do your thing buddy
Glad to be here

Cm

Sorry, my toaster over caught on fire, damn corn tortillas slipped through the grate lol.

I like your attitude @cravin morehead!

[marinemansf]

Cravin helped me when I was very new to all this, I modeled my hydro system after his.

[Ghostin]

Awesome, it's nice to have that kind of support!

[cravin morehead]

Hey ghostin, thanks.
Marineman, well, how about some more pics? Looking for some more details about your grow. Are you feeding? How do you deal with runoff after watering? What size pots? Multiple up-pots? Ph'ing water? Any LST'ing or other training?
Just trying to get a handle on how you do things now. First pics look nice. How long do you think that Thai stick will go?
Looking good. Sorry if my smoke clouds get in the way of you guys seeing the pics...

Cm

[marinemansf]

Haha no apologies needed, lets hotbox this fucker!

Ok so ill try and put in as many details as i can:

I started with the clones that i got from my buddy and moved them to 3 gal containers about week 2 of veg.


Soil: Fox Farm Happy Frog
Flowering food: Fox Farm open sesame, beast blooms and cha ching.
Dyna pro cal mag, rapid start and small amounts of molasses.
Water: RO
Im feeding about every third day or so and just let them soak up any runoff. Ill ph the water to around 6.1 after adding all nutes. I do top off the rez after each watering.

I did try ph'ing the runoff and jesus christ if you ever want a heart attack, try it out. It came out to like purple on my ph scale (i still drops because the drops dont lie), i didnt freak out though because of two reasons: the plants are healthy as fuck and I figured the bennies were doing their thing by creating that buffer. So i dont even pay any attention to the runoff anymore.

Supposedly the chocolate rain is an 8 week strain and the LTS is a 10 weeker. But, like you taught me, I check trichs to determine ripeness.

I think i have a real good shot at getting at least partial purple leaves this time around as some leaf tips are already turning. Love my grow area, never gets above 75 and never goes below 60. So it makes a good environment for the purps to show.

I didnt do much this time around as far as training, although ive done some selective pruning. One of my LTS's kind of topped itself just by the way it was cut and now has 3 mains, kind of cool. I also added so cheap led panels on the floor just to add some additional spectrum and lower branch light, thats the purplish glow in this pic.


Heres a top pic, the CR is in the middle and the triple top is back right. 5 total. I think i finally got this stretch thing figured out as everything filled out nicely and maximizes the available space. I over grew the fuck out of my last few runs.


And a few random pics


One other thing ive been doing is for the first two weeks of flower I kept my 1000w MH light in just to try and control stretch and it seemed to work pretty well. Then ive been doing a week of HPS then a week of MH, repeating. Just seeing if the extra intensity of the MH will add any weight to the final harvest, while keeping the HPS spectrum.

Im actually more excited for my next run. Gonna give a few african strains a try. I got some Zamaldelica and Malawi from ace seeds. I want to say they are around 14 week strains. I hear good things about african strains. But what i really want is to get my hands of some mother fuckin Black Magic. Dont know if i ever will, but im gonna keep tryin.

[Greenadian]

Looking really healthy marinemansf!
Lots of frost on them ladies already
Keep up what your doing, its working well!

[marinemansf]

Thanks man!

[marinemansf]

Just a quick pic post, took some side shots of the girls to give you an idea of their shape and size.

Chocolate Rain: 27 inches


Lemon Thai Stick: Tallest 30 inches Smallest 26 inches

[cravin morehead]

dude, it looks real happy in your tent. thanks for the details. them are some healthy happy girlies in there. back in the day I tried to FF nutes in soil. I cooked em everytime. I think my starting soil was hot enough and being a newb, I thought more has got to be better. wrong. you seem to have a good balance going with the happy frog and nutes, good job
that one you topped and got 3 heads out of. that's called FIM, as in 'fuck I missed' comes from not completely getting the top removed and it makes 2 more.
I don't pH my stuff, but I do use the drops when I do pH something. you're correct, the drops don't lie or ever need calibrating. so simple and cheap.
I'd kill to have your temps in my grow area, lucky. I now shut down my tent during the summer, electricity is too damn expensive here in So Cal.
funny, I just got my order from Ace the other day! I ordered Panama, Malawi, and golden tiger. also got some orient express fems as freebies. just got a OE to pop above soil today.
if it's the black voodoo magic you are looking for, check out cob curing here:
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=309172
I can't wait to try it. I really, really miss the high from the old Skool bud/high we used to get. was mind blowing and none of these new skool genetics got that voodoo... mmmmmm, Thai stick
if I were you, that lemon Thai stick would be getting cobbled up for sure.
any how, looking good brother, keep it up. looking forward to more updates...puff, puff, pass

cm

[marinemansf]

Heeeeeeeeeeeeey!

Really sorry i havent been around to update, i know it sucks seeing the start and not the process. I actually decided to make this hobby of mine into a career, so school is sucking up all my time lately. But i did want to drop in and share the progress, cause it is good.


Good overall shot, you can def pick out the chocolate rain out really easy.


CR, giving me some great fall colors. Wont be a HUGE producer, but the nuggs are SUPER SOLID.


A few pics of the Lemon Thai, looks to be a medium producer with very solid nuggs. Getting some purple coloration on a few of the leaves.

Ill be sure to drop some pics of the finished product in about 2 to 3 weeks.