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Professor Marijuana

Professor Marijuana

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Hello again, so sorry for the absence. I lost my lady and went through a very dark period where interest in the cannabis world and the conflict surrounding my presence were at an all time low. as is often the case absence makes the heart grow fond. In the last couple months I have got back into the Cannabis Community with some new projects and have revived some old ones with a new passion. The layoff will prove to be a good thing. So glad to be back and as always glad to offer any help I can. Thanks Prof Mj
 
reggaerican

reggaerican

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Professor Marijuana said:
Hello again, so sorry for the absence. I lost my lady and went through a very dark period where interest in the cannabis world and the conflict surrounding my presence were at an all time low. as is often the case absence makes the heart grow fond. In the last couple months I have got back into the Cannabis Community with some new projects and have revived some old ones with a new passion. The layoff will prove to be a good thing. So glad to be back and as always glad to offer any help I can. Thanks Prof Mj
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Im glad im not alone Professor. I went away for the same reason been back for a week and all these cats have been awsome at welcoming me back... so let me be the first to say welcome and glad to have you back..
cheers~reggae
 
Professor Marijuana

Professor Marijuana

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2009-09-19 22.22.30.jpgI'm a bigg believer in water coolers and will use one before using AC. That's a picture from one of my commercial facilities that shows a chiller. The chiller is visable just for demonstration purposes but would normally be located outside the flowering room. One of the critical elements for increased yields is light management which takes on far more than just moving lights about. Keep in mind that for every foot of distance between your plant and your light you lose half of it's energy. A 1000 W hid hps at one foot is the same as a 500 W sitting on the plant, at two feet it becomes a 250 W light. Therefor even inches become critical. Three major factors that have a direct impact on the size of your yield are 1 Strain 2 Size of your rootball and 3 the amount of light you put on the plant. Once you've selected your strain and got them off to a good start with a root excellarator light becomes the single thing that you really still have a significant impact on. The number one priority I have in the flowering enviroment is light management. My lights are moved daily. The room uses reflective materials to use all the light we're throwing out there, hood glass is cleaned on a regular basis both inside and out, proper venting fans WITH booster fans are used and if anything are underworked. I'd rather pay more up front on bigger, better fans that will coast than I would save a buck and over work my fans. Whenever possible the grow room itself is selected with high ceilings to help give me more room for hot air. C02 supplimenting allows us to increase temps by as much as ten degrees. That leaves the chillers. Cannabis plants are like little radiators, by chilling the water running through the plants I can dramatically reduce the distance my lights need to be from the plants. Lights equal yield. In the picture shown I may have $400 invested in a chiller, maybe a tad more. Here's how I justify or eleminate whether I will by the product. $400 equals one zip, if I can increase the yield of my crop by a single zip I have paid for the equipment. That increase in yield can be devided over the life of the equipment say the chiller is good for eight crops(Which is way low) that means each crop must produce and additional 1/8th of an ounce to pay for itself. In the case of the chiller it's a no brainer. By the biggest, baddest chiller and keep your water super cool, bring those lights down and watch your light management. I promise dramatic increases in yield. It's about the details folks. Oh Yeah, replace your bulbs often, don't wait for them tho go out on you before replacing. Bulb cost you what 1/4 zip?

Godd luck
Dana Prof Mj May
reggaerican said:
yupp them chillers cost just as much as an ac to run, but in some cases its a must... good thing for a cool basement... And to help even further I dug my res into the earth to keep it that much cooler.
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F.M.I.L.Y

F.M.I.L.Y

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Professor Marijuana

Professor Marijuana

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Beautiful work DST, my hats off. To harvest or not to harvest. Most growers have quite the time investment in their girls by the time harvest is creeping up on them. We spend a lot of time between vegging and flowering, I personally do not veg as I find it to be a waste of time, but even at top speed and a pure Indica I'm looking at six week for a new crop. Double that with vegging and it's easy to see how we can get a little antsy about harvesting. The old tride and true, half amber/half white trichome visual inspection will get most of us close to the correct day. Consider this however, cannabis will produce 80% of it's trichomes in the last two weeks of it's life cycle. If harvested only a week early it will be 40% less potent then if we have waited. Nearly half as strong. What a shame after weeks and sometimes months of careful growing. Every grower should try this at least once. With a familiar strain you have grown before start taking a small bud of your girls about every four days or so starting about three weeks before harvest. Let this crop go a bit longer than the norm. Having kept all the buds labled do a taste taste at the end and see if you notice the difference, I promise you will. The last four samples will have a profound increase in potency while the very last one will start to take on a more narcotic stone as it overmatures. Rule of thumb, if in doubt wait a week. OR EVEN BETTER, take a lesson from our brothers and sisters in the wine making industry and look into a wonderful little tool that I use. It's called a BRIX metter. This is what grape growers use to measure the sugar in their grapes and what we use to measure sugar in our favorite girls. Cannabis during it's life cycle will maintain 10 to 12% sugar if the plant is healthy. Using a brix metter I can tell if there is a problem with my girls three days before the plant will show me. any problems will directly effect the plants uptake of sugar/food and be reflected almost instantly. At the end of the life cycle cannabis will stop taking in the food and you will see the sugars plummet. 72 hours from the beginning of this drop is your max potency. I like to flush about a week out and then throw my girls into 36 hours of straight darkness before harvestabout four days out. I find it dramatically increases my trichome production. Hope it helps Prof Mj
 
SFguy

SFguy

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SFguy said:
ill throw up some shots of my outdoor garden tomorrow, squash, melons, cukes, tomatoes, peppers, basil, and some tiny corn...

i LOVE GRDENING its soo reaxing and keeps my job from getting to me... great escape
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heres is my small garden, its gonna get packed in there these shots are a few days old. when i buy a place itll definitly have better exposure, and a larger spaced yard for more plants, landlord said i could grow as big as i want, but no weed plants rototill the whole yard if you want.. he said CAUSE last year i had lil babies 4 outside and after like 1 week he saw them and said to get rid of them... so i put them back in the grow room... and told him he would never SEE them again he only bothers around outside weeding around nd trimming hedges and beig generally nosy... its cool, in 3 yrs has asked to come do 1 inspection after the first year. install a carbonmonoxide detector was his excuse, but never again he just calls ahead and says hell be around the house today... i just pay my rent on time and keep the house clean. if something breaks i fix i and send him a bill. usually less my rent with a recipt.

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DST

DST

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Morning guys and gals, welcome back to the Prof! Loving the post abouit the Brix Meter. And with the water chiller I am trying to eliminate loads of ducting in my room, perhaps change up with going sealed, we shall see. Without hacking bits out of doors to the outside, it's also difficult to bring in enough cold air (well, enough for my liking anyway) For me it's all about getting my temps down as I have such a small space with a fair bit of light.
Excellent work on the frosty wenches FM!!! They all look fantastic. And SFguy, what a lovely doggy!!! Is that pumpkins you are growing? I also have a pumpkin and a butternut on the go......
Well I better go give the thirsty girls some water.
Peace, DST
 
DST

DST

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Sounds familiar, Cindy99. I think LoadedDragon use to grow that (or probably still does). Not seen him on riu for years though.
 
genuity

genuity

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genuity said:
very sweet D,looking very dank everybody.

so i been running this grapegod cut for a min,she smells of grape gum(to me),and can be chop at 55 days,with a nice sweet smoke.
that has a nice creeper high,but not to sedative.>>>but i let her go to 68 or so,the pic of her are at day 55.
im gonna hit her with this plushberry male i got,i got 2 female plushberrys going right now,and im likeing them right now,they are at 3 weeks 12/12
i hope the male passes some good traits to this sweet smelling grapegod cut.





she will be hit with a cheesequake male too,just to see what that will add.
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sorry about that post,dam riu.
room shot.
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SFguy

SFguy

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good morning 600...

dst, na they are crookneck squash,its really overrunning my f'in garden, i wont get any eggplant i bet it grows over her.. lol
ill update tonight with pictures of the frosty goodness lights are out rihgt now and i gotta go to work :wall:
 
supchaka

supchaka

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Saturday will be 2 weeks since flipping 12/12. I pulled a herm, the Chaka OG isnt so stable with the reveg growing method I guess. But its a good way to weed out the weak ones for breeding although Im not breeding any this round!
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Have to show off my wind chime with my moms ashes in it, my brother bought this for me.
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DST

DST

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Nice looking room Gen.
genuity said:
sorry about that post,dam riu.
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SFguy said:
good morning 600...

dst, na they are crookneck squash,its really overrunning my f'in garden, i wont get any eggplant i bet it grows over her.. lol
ill update tonight with pictures of the frosty goodness lights are out rihgt now and i gotta go to work :wall:
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You got to love all the different types of Squash, never heard of that one.

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Saturday will be 2 weeks since flipping 12/12. I pulled a herm, the Chaka OG isnt so stable with the reveg growing method I guess. But its a good way to weed out the weak ones for breeding although Im not breeding any this round!
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That's awesome!!!!!!!!!!! What a nice thing to remember her with!!
 
whodatnation

whodatnation

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Great page of pr0n so far!


Good info too, Prof MJ. I have to ask though :shock: is your av even real? holly shit.... Is it your work?


heres my contribution~
Crane melon! :-)


More~
Moon and stars yellow flesh...



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DST

DST

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I think I may just adopt that milk crate for my next run. Is the material course felt or something FM? Bloody nice scrog!

EDIT: And nice melons indeed whodat. I think the questions about Profs bud was put to him before and I do recall another pic being posted to back it up. there a freakin huge though, bit like yer melons big man! lol.
 
whodatnation

whodatnation

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That's incredible! Looks like I'm going to be stalking the professo for a bit.

Fam that is an all around beautiful sight my friend :-)
 
DST

DST

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Has anyone got suggestions for Water Chillers? The Chiller Kins are retailing over a couple of grand:shock: Advise welcome.
 
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