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[indifferent]

i think ya better run to specsaversthat plants covered

That's just what I was going to write - I can count about ten of the buggers having a party on that bottom-right leaf - whistles and everything! If I can see them from here in daylight, just wait till they start waving their glow-sticks around...

Wierd, the PA x OG next to the Purple Thai had not a sign of mites anywhere but the Thai is covered. I'm interested to see how 4 days unsupervised has affected my mite population, might get home to discover they have been breeding like hell and I have some serious webbing going on! lol

Amsterdam was shit btw

 

[Hazyfontazy]

Wierd, the PA x OG next to the Purple Thai had not a sign of mites anywhere but the Thai is covered. I'm interested to see how 4 days unsupervised has affected my mite population, might get home to discover they have been breeding like hell and I have some serious webbing going on! lol

Amsterdam was shit btw

i thought u had a problem ,leaves were looking spotted ,i put that down to the citrox but obviously was mites ,,spray safe is what u need ,supposed to wipe em straight out forever ,,

as for the dam ,,u always say that lol ,,i was gonna say wtf u going for u hate the place ,but thought might make me sound jeaulous so didnt ,,save ya cash and we'll all go over new years eve ,,u found some hash though ?

 

[indifferent]

I noticed the leaf spotting a few weeks back, it was minor, I put it down to burning from the stuff i'd been spraying to deal with the fungus gnats. Then I noticed it had gotten worse so I then thought it was PH spotting, and a check of the ec of my runoff (5.2) strengthened this thought.

So tomorrow the war vs the spidermites begins in earnest! I bought a bottle of Nite Nite Spidermite was it was reduced, hlaf price. if that doesn't work I'll get some SpraySafe.

You're right again about the dam, I remembered when i got there how much I hate the place these days, it's just not like it used to be, and i got very bored this time!

Hash, well, was not impressed with the hashes I saw this time, some warme ootjes I bought was nice, and the Trans Himalaya was quality as always, but I never brought anything back with me.

 

[wheelchair]

indifferent nice grow man when are you expecting harvest Im looking to see what a 400 can do in that size closet?

 

[indifferent]

Hi wheelchair

I'm not sure about harvests yet, I chopped the two Mangos, PA x OG and White 6. The White is rubbish, leafy, airy, lacks resin. The two Mangos were nicer but got mould so I lost about a fifth of the buds from those two. The PA x OG is lovely, but the yield is not much as I had pollinated a couple of lower branches and got 150-170 seeds which ruined the yield.

Just got back from 4 days away and the G13 and Thai were both ruined by mould, I cut off all the mouldy buds on the Thai, and about half of the buds were mouldy, I'm hoping the rest of the plant will be okay. The G13 I removed the largest cola and had removed a load of leaves, hopefully the rest of the plant will finish without more mould.

I'm wiring up a more powerful air circulation fan today and cleaning and prepping the box for spraying against mites as soon as the anti mite stuff arrives in the mail.

All the mouldy bits of the Thai and G13 I turned into QWISO this morning, got nearly a gram of nice oil.

I'm gonna get the fan sorted, add the supplemental fluoro tubes and get the mites sorted, then I'm gonna start a new run and hopefully avoid issues with gnats, mites and moulds , then we can see what kind of harvest I can get off a 400 in a box this size.

 

[THC4SIM]

******* spidermites

Fuck you!, you've always had em bro!!!

just cause i diagnosed your problem for you!, i told you you got fuck all from me..

oh yea get the name of place blanked if you would you fucker



speak soon mate

 

[indifferent]

ahem, edited, sorry for indiscretion!

PA x OG, looks okay, but I know I could have grown it a fair bit better, but it seems to have potential, sampled a bud and it's potent, tastes nice and kushy, but the smell is lacking, which will be because I dried it a bit fast, but I had to due to going away to the cup and with the constant rain here, everything moulds up so easy.

 

[indifferent]

Made another gram of oil from the mouldy bits clipped off the G13 and Thai.

 

[THC4SIM]

Looks like your in for an oily weekend..

ive had a few blasts on the hash i brought back, pretty nice..
hassan extreme and dark pollem & a lil bit of karma's wicked napali
gotta put it away for now tho'.

 

[Moppel]

heya, was good seeing you guys. And yes, Cuptime isnt the greatest time to be in dam.

 

[indifferent]

I got quite a nice oil stash now, shall be toking on that while my buds dry and cure. The PA x OG is dry, and the potency, looks and taste are all really nice, just lacks smell, and that is down to the fast dry it had before I went to the dam.

Hey Moppel, was good seeing you too, I think a warm sunny time of year is better for the dam, and to explore the sights and sounds hunting for exotic hashes in the less well known shops.

 

[indifferent]

The Nite Nite Spidermite arrived today and I sprayed everything with it, and I mean everything, I used up a whole 1 litre spray bottle and will do the same again tomorrow. The sprayer already had about three quarters of a litre of pyrethrin in it so I sprayed everything with that first too, so the mites should have taken a hit.

I'm more worried about mould than mites due to the constant rain for weeks on end here. I fitted a new air circulation fan and emptied the runoff tray, rh is around 55 now, if it stays there, all should be fine.

I have rearranged the plants so I have a nice SOG going on now with a fairly even canopy. The reeferman G13 is still in the corner, it's not mature yet and I'm hoping to keep it going another week, I shall flush it hard to encourage it to finish, I'm paranoid of losing more of it to mould. I've lost half the buds on the Purple Thai to mould, I had to cut out the entire middle portion of her main cola and a couple of the larger lower buds. I bought a 20x loupe in Amsterdam and I wish I'd got a stronger one, it was only 6.95 though, I'm checking the triches on the G13 hopefully and will chop her as soon as she has enough amber. Fingers crossed the mould stays away!

Reeferman G13 at 65 days:

Purple Thai at 65 days, had to remove half her bud mass due to mould:

The ******'s Jack 1 and 4 are about 5 weeks into flowering now I think, the 1 looks great, the 4 not so good, although mite damage and ph issues haven't helped, certainly she could have been healthier. The Highland Oaxacan Gold is also around 5 weeks and is doing okay, she still has a load of yellow leaves, I think she is ph sensitive, I've stunted this one methinks and I will probably just use it as a seed mother and pollinate it with the Purple Thai male I've kept cuttings of.

Here is the ******'s Jack 1 at 5 weeks:

One piece of good news, my only White Rhino is a female, I have two cuttings of this in flower now and a few more in veg, so fingers crossed it's a good one.

I put a nice big Highland Oaxacan Gold into flower today, hoping to avoid the health issues the other one had. I also put another ******'s Jack 1 and a White Rhino in, they are all in small pots between 1.5 and 2 litres, I'm aiming for small plants and a perpetual SOG.

Here is a rundown of what plants I have now, it's confusing this perpetual SOG business!

1. Purple Thai at 10 weeks
2. G13 at 10 weeks
3. ******'s Jack 1 at 5 weeks
4. ******'s Jack 4 at 5 weeks
5. Highland Oaxacan Gold at 5 weeks
6. Kentish Creme Jamaican at 3 weeks
7. Mango 1 at 3 weeks
8. Mango 2 at 3 weeks
9. El Yucateca at 3 weeks
10. ******'s Jack 1 at 1 week
11. Appalachia at 1 week
12. White Rhino at 1 week
13. ******'s Jack 1 at 1 day
14. White Rhino at 1 day
15. Highland Oaxacan Gold at 1 day

Looks like all my rooting cuttings and plants in veg have survived my 4 days away, a PA x OG and Kentish Creme, both just rooted small cuttings might not make it, but everything else looks good.

I'm enjoying my oil stash!

 

[indifferent]

Had to chop down the Thai and G13 doe to mould, lost a fair bit of bud from both to the dreaded mould, so turned all that stuff into oil, and nice oil it is too. The G13 could have gone longer, it was at 10 weeks, could have done 11 or 12, not a good plant, very airy buds. The Thai was okay, needed longer, I have the stump revegging to have a second run at her without the ravages of mites and mould spoiling her.

Oil making adventures and ******'s Jack at 40 days:

 

[Blimey]

Should I wear 3-D specs for that last pic? lol

Not that I can take a decent macro shot to save my life. Whoever's Jacks they are, they look nice for 40 days.

You've certainly got that oil going on. Nice work. Haven't had any decent oil since I was a young 'un.

 

[Hazyfontazy]

yes the oils looking fantastiche ,,

is that just maplins iso and a qwikwash ? might try this looks well good

have ya sorted them spidermite yet ?

re bud rot stop ,have u tried it yet ? i sprayed some ny yesterday as preventive and bugger me it reeked the whole house out

wassup wi da car ?

 

[daddy fingaz]

more Oil than Esso !

 

[indifferent]

Should I wear 3-D specs for that last pic? lol

Not that I can take a decent macro shot to save my life. Whoever's Jacks they are, they look nice for 40 days.

You've certainly got that oil going on. Nice work. Haven't had any decent oil since I was a young 'un.

My camera isn't the best, and oil doesn't help me hold it any more steady! lol

It's an F5 inbred Jack, I have two phenos, that is the nicer one, the one I decided to keep, I have another cut of it also in flower but not as far along.

Hey hazy, how are your Jack/Anaconda doing? Burmese looking good? Piccies if you have em in flower!

yes the oils looking fantastiche ,,

is that just maplins iso and a qwikwash ? might try this looks well good

It's some ISO I got from our lil mate in manc, he uses it for washing his lil sista. I just chop up the material with a fair of scissors then stick it in a jam jar, pour in iso till it's covered then shake like fuck for 30 secs, this is key, 30 secs, no more otherwise you get a darker, less pure oil cos you will disolve waxes, chorophylls etc out of the plant matter and you just want the THC. Done right, with no more than 30 secs wash, ISO can be clean and very lekker.

Then of course, you gotta purge it, and I make sure I purge it very well, I put the pyrex plate on top of a pan of boiling water on the stove until every last trace of liquid is gone and I have to really scrape hard with the stanley knife blade to get it off. ISO takes longer to purge than BHO as there is a greater volume of solvent to evaporate, but as long as you keep the contact between solvent and plant matter to a max of 30 secs and purge it properly, you can get a very clean oil with the QWISO method.

One thing I discovered accidentally, you can light the alcohol in the pyrex plate and let it burn off, this doesn't damage the oil in any way, but is only recommended if you are in a hurry!

have ya sorted them spidermite yet ?

I think i have, been spraying like fuck with that Nite Nite Spidermite and it appears to have done the trick, I can't see mites on the undersides of the leaves anymore, just the odd egg. I'll keep spraying with this stuff to make sure they fuck off, then I'll get a bottle canuck xpress spraysafe, make sure they stay away.

re bud rot stop ,have u tried it yet ? i sprayed some ny yesterday as preventive and bugger me it reeked the whole house out

I have citrox to spray to kill mould, works a treat, but I prefer just to remove any mouldy bits and wash em for oil.

I ordered a nice dehumidifer that will fit in my space down one side and will remove 0.5l a day with a 3l capacity tray, it was only 35 quid, so once it arrives, I can fix my humidity problem. I'll run it during lights out as my conditions during lights on are perfect - 23.2C, 51% rh right now.
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wassup wi da car ?

Dunno, some esoteric electrical fault it seems, probably the immobiliser, issue is tracing the fecking fault, probably won't be much, but proving very difficult to locate. Only had a new clutch in the bastard a few weeks back too.

Started making a ball of hash for the legends dinner, finger hash, gonna keep adding to it till next year.

 

[Blimey]

I just chop up the material with a fair of scissors then stick it in a jam jar, pour in iso till it's covered then shake like fuck for 30 secs, this is key, 30 secs, no more otherwise you get a darker, less pure oil cos you will disolve waxes, chorophylls etc out of the plant matter and you just want the THC. Done right, with no more than 30 secs wash, ISO can be clean and very lekker.

Then of course, you gotta purge it, and I make sure I purge it very well, I put the pyrex plate on top of a pan of boiling water on the stove until every last trace of liquid is gone and I have to really scrape hard with the stanley knife blade to get it off. ISO takes longer to purge than BHO as there is a greater volume of solvent to evaporate, but as long as you keep the contact between solvent and plant matter to a max of 30 secs and purge it properly, you can get a very clean oil with the QWISO method.

Tips like this are one of the many reasons I love this place.

Cheers!

 

[Hazyfontazy]

bloody hell look at you with ya little black balls ,,should we call ya sammy davies jnr lol

try the battery in the immobliser

 

[indifferent]

Don't worry mate, I'll make sure you get to taste my balls before Sam and the others do! lol

Got all the experts scratching their bonces over me motor, none of the Saab specialists in the country have ever seen this problem before - everything is as it should be but it won;t pissin start, turns over beautiful, just no fuel getting into cylinders, immobiliser is fully integral to the ECU and fuel management system, and the diagnostics computer says all is perfect with everything, so it's really a puzzler.

I fitted some supplementary lighting today to sort out the issue where the left-hand side of the box, the part under the ducting to the cooltube, receives a bit less light intensity than the rest of the box. It's a nice big aluminium heatsink from an old fridge with 14 3W LEDs mounted on it - 10 red, 2 cool white, 2 warm white. This heath robinson contraption consumes 25w of power and should do a nice job of filling in this left hand side with extra lumens without affecting the environment at all as it gets warm to the touch but doesn't output enough heat to warm up the air in the box any. I enjoy a bit of DIY and I had the LEDs and bits of junk to make it all work lying around, I think this will work better than adding the 18w 2 foot fluoro tubes in the corners, certainly a lot more modern technology.

I reckon the heavily red weighted spectrum of the LED light will work very well as a supplement to the HPS which lacks red.

I found an old 12W panel I made using 0.1W 5mm plastic LEDs I got cheap, 160 of the buggers. They are 645nm, closer to the ideal 660nm chlorophyll absorption peak than the 630nm 3W ones in the other light so should work okay, they lack power though, but this shouldn't be an issue as they are just being used as a supplement to add light in a corner. I've mounted this panel on the right hand side, on the back of the door so it shines parallel to the right hand side wall, this will give a nice little boost of red light to the two plants at this end of the box, I'm keen to see how adding red light from LEDs actually affects the plants, hopefully it will mean more buds!

Anyways, when me car's fixed I'll let ya taste me balls!