[Tynehead Tom]

Originally Posted by Shmavis

Sounds great. Hope I find an 'After Eight thin mint' chocolate girl.





Looking great, fab!!

I found 2 of those phenos in 9 beans so I'm thinking the chances are very good man. The indoor one was more chocolaty than the greenhouse one but both were extremely simlar in taste and aroma. The greenhouse one wins for potency though and I have a real nice mom going right now and cloning her any day now. Can't wait to flower this pheno indoors.

[fabvariousk]

The original DNA Chocolope Kush seeds and the buds from the Voyager coffeeshop in Amsterdam I got them from tasted like baking chocolate. The RomulanBlueberry made that choco taste sweeter. Perhaps I need to get a Girl Scout Cookie clone to cross a thin mint male to lol

I was just thinking of you Tom when I ordered my 22$ plantmax bulbs and was able to get all new lights for my rooms for less than one of your conversion bulbs. i guess you canadiens are rolling in dough so it doesn't matter lol

[Tynehead Tom]

Originally Posted by fabvariousk

The original DNA Chocolope Kush seeds and the buds from the Voyager coffeeshop in Amsterdam I got them from tasted like baking chocolate. The RomulanBlueberry made that choco taste sweeter. Perhaps I need to get a Girl Scout Cookie clone to cross a thin mint male to lol

I was just thinking of you Tom when I ordered my 22$ plantmax bulbs and was able to get all new lights for my rooms for less than one of your conversion bulbs. i guess you canadiens are rolling in dough so it doesn't matter lol

haha fab.... ya dude nobody uses those conversion bulbs i run anymore because they cost so fricken much. Here's the thing tho.... I believe, thru years of trying different things, that in a flower room with only 1 light, the spectrum of that NH940 hortilux and the harvest results i get, the cost of the bulb is really of little concern to me.
I am going to be utilizing a larger space from here on out, no more ice hut grow rooms LOL I'll be running other lighting options soon and might go with 600HPS kits but not sure those can be gotten with cap and coil. No digital ballasts for this grower. Regardless, the days of the conversion bulb are coming to an end for me as I set up a permanent room. Gonna light up a 6x8 flowering room so either 4 x 600 or 2 or 3 x 1000 vertical. I like the idea of vertical with a 3 lights, 2 HPS with a halide in the middle..... we'll see. So many options these days with grow room gear... I'm still struggling over the best and quietest inline fans to purchase.

[fabvariousk]

Dakine- i have noticed the compression on here really strips my pics of a lot of clarity while some people don't have this problem. I am just using my new ipad now it has a flash but should probably get a fancy camera to show these girls off better.
I have been growing and drying lots of smoke in the same place for the last seven years and have gotten the drying down perfectly here. If I moved I would have to recalibrate things. I let stuff dry till it has reached a point where I do not use scissors to take most buds off the stem, they just snap off. At this point there is still a little bit of moisture in the middle of the bud that will be released when jarred but not enough to cause mold or need to be released from the jar. The buds may feel dry when going in but after a few hours they are perfect. My "curing" process begins before the buds go into the jar. I use living organics that will make sure the plants have everything they need but are not full of nitrogen and other things when they finish that they will have to deal with after they are picked to taste good. I then use straight water from my well that actually has a pretty high ph but gets balanced out in the soil. By growing this method I might not get the biggest buds but every bud is like a diamond.
Because my plants are clean when they are picked they only need to rid themselves of what little moisture is inside them and can be jarred fairly quickly after being picked without worrying about the smell, taste and potency getting screwed up by a complex water removal/chlorophyl l conversion process. I let the plant that is way smarter than me cure itself. If you are getting a hay taste you are probably drying at too high a temp with too high humdity or feeding them to much perhaps later in flowering.

Tom- i am just teasing. I am very cheap and the price of hps bulbs always makes me chuckle. I understand you have halide ballasts and have to buy expensive conversion bulbs, but the dudes who spend that much on a regular hps bulbs because they believe their friend who spent that much on a regular hos bulb because hightimes told him to, crack me up. They really believe that hortilux bulbs are built in a different place than 22$ ones!
I ordered another new analog ballast for 128$ off amazon too! I have completely replaced those shitty digital toys now. That was a 4000$ mistake i will never make again!
Digital Ballasts should advertise honestly on the side of their boxes: 1. Costs three times as much! 2. Lasts a couple of years! 3. Doesnt give you anymore light just transfers 15% more heat to the tops of your plants where before that heat was conveniently being transferred by a physical transformer!

[fabvariousk]

Purplelazerlite2 Grapehaze pheno

The only one out of 25 ladies. She is chunky and smells like grape gasoline.

[Tynehead Tom]

mmmmm i'd smoke that