Second hydro grow - closet
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BeaverHuntr
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Prop 19 in Cali didnt pass.... Prop 203 in AZ was down by 0.5% did any of you stoners vote?? I did..
Legal Yooper
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Just read your whole journal bro, good stuff. I'm doing basically the same thing. When you cut the male down what did you do about its roots? I'm sure they were tangled with the other plants. Sub'ed I wanna see the harvest 
Happy Growin!
Happy Growin!
Ray Fox
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As an active member of NORML, I have to say I was pretty disappointed at a lot of what was going on in Cali legislation-wise, but it really is a damn shame it didn't pass. Would've created a lot of really positive reform but at least we're on the right track... right?
Good question! Actually I was worried about males in hydro too but believe it or not I just gently tried to untangle as much as I could, with minimal damage to the other plants' roots, and flushed cleaning the whole tank out too to help prevent root rot. Then I added some Thrive Alive Red nutes for the roots to coat themselves. I also recommend maybe throw in some hydrogen peroxide to help out too. Fuckin males.
Also! Hoping to Harvest in a day!!! Woo!
CANNOT WAIT ALREADY
Just read your whole journal bro, good stuff. I'm doing basically the same thing. When you cut the male down what did you do about its roots? I'm sure they were tangled with the other plants. Sub'ed I wanna see the harvest
Good question! Actually I was worried about males in hydro too but believe it or not I just gently tried to untangle as much as I could, with minimal damage to the other plants' roots, and flushed cleaning the whole tank out too to help prevent root rot. Then I added some Thrive Alive Red nutes for the roots to coat themselves. I also recommend maybe throw in some hydrogen peroxide to help out too. Fuckin males.
Also! Hoping to Harvest in a day!!! Woo!
CANNOT WAIT ALREADY
Ray Fox
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Here are some crappy pics with a little harvest. That coke can sized bud I'm holding got chopped and is curing really nicely. That last one is the Moby Dick runt, she was bursting for a tiny one so I had to cut. Also kinda upset you can't really see the super lemon haze at all.
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Ray Fox
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So here's the deal. Chopped some, curing some, some still growing. At this point the roots of the SUper Lemon Haze and the Gigabud are too entangled 
so I've decided to leave a few buds on the stump of the Gigabud after chopping down the main colas and just letting the Super Lemon Haze move around in her full glory. 
so I've decided to leave a few buds on the stump of the Gigabud after chopping down the main colas and just letting the Super Lemon Haze move around in her full glory.
Ray Fox
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Hey All so the harvest took longer than expected but most everything is dried, jarred, and curing away to perfection. We pulled a pitiful 8 grams off the runt of a Moby Dick, so we're not even counting that, but the Gigabud yielded about 1 o's dried and the Super Lemon Haze tree gave us about 2 o's. So that is fantastic.
Breakdown:
Moby Dick - Spicier, with a sort of deep soury tang at the back with more tartness. Not bad, but definitely more of the Indica genetics. Slightly harsher.
Gigabud - Heavy Body stone. Sweet but a little tart as well. Very smooth, clear headed strong Indica. A little joint of this will send you into a two hour lunch.
Super Lemon Haze - Unreal. Deep lemony scent, very fruity tang and sweet to smoke. Not my ideal strain per se, but a really beautiful balance of cannibanoids that makes for a great high. My first joint of this K.O'd me for two hours.
Overall, the Gigabud took longer than expected but came out very nicely. The Super Lemon Haze took longer too but that's what you get for growing 100% Sativas with 100% Indicas. My Lesson: Stick to the same genetics for single system grows, it just works better and makes one less erratic trying to keep up with the genes needs.
But I have proved my goal to younger closet growers: that you can do these all together in a cheap set up, with "minimal" care, and still come out with kick ass fucking buds. And if I have not made my point clear enough, everyone on this site will agree: growing your own shit is always better than buying bag bud. Its not just about having fresh buds or your own genetics even, I can grow an amazing regular kush better than some can grow a vanilla kush... the point is that you know the whole process, the stages of trichrome growth, the height of your plants, their light exposure, the nutrients... and as I'm rolling my own weed into a fat joint I can visualize the process it took me to get there, and that knowledge is more comforting than just "getting high".
As always, thanks for RIU's questions, comments and amazing support. Big up to all our friends here. I will update with pics of the jars before I end this thread.
Breakdown:
Moby Dick - Spicier, with a sort of deep soury tang at the back with more tartness. Not bad, but definitely more of the Indica genetics. Slightly harsher.
Gigabud - Heavy Body stone. Sweet but a little tart as well. Very smooth, clear headed strong Indica. A little joint of this will send you into a two hour lunch.
Super Lemon Haze - Unreal. Deep lemony scent, very fruity tang and sweet to smoke. Not my ideal strain per se, but a really beautiful balance of cannibanoids that makes for a great high. My first joint of this K.O'd me for two hours.
Overall, the Gigabud took longer than expected but came out very nicely. The Super Lemon Haze took longer too but that's what you get for growing 100% Sativas with 100% Indicas. My Lesson: Stick to the same genetics for single system grows, it just works better and makes one less erratic trying to keep up with the genes needs.
But I have proved my goal to younger closet growers: that you can do these all together in a cheap set up, with "minimal" care, and still come out with kick ass fucking buds. And if I have not made my point clear enough, everyone on this site will agree: growing your own shit is always better than buying bag bud. Its not just about having fresh buds or your own genetics even, I can grow an amazing regular kush better than some can grow a vanilla kush... the point is that you know the whole process, the stages of trichrome growth, the height of your plants, their light exposure, the nutrients... and as I'm rolling my own weed into a fat joint I can visualize the process it took me to get there, and that knowledge is more comforting than just "getting high".
As always, thanks for RIU's questions, comments and amazing support. Big up to all our friends here. I will update with pics of the jars before I end this thread.
BeaverHuntr
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Nice to hear I will be germinating my Super lemon Haze after x-mas... +rep to you