Club 600

Congrats Budolskie!!! And a Merry Green Xmas to you!!!

Okay: Results are in:

So I had creusli with some fresh bananas and strawberries this morning (strawberries are now coming in from Egypt, very red looking, nice smell, but still quite white inside!!!) It has just gone 4:20....need to get my cheesey face back on and I still haven't had any food yet. This FASTing thing really does suck big time I am afraid. I have hanckerings for all sorts of chocolate and digestive biscuits (with chocolate of course).....and as far as being spiritually aware, I have worked it all out now.

Basically, your mind becomes very aware of things, senses become hightened, reactions times are sharpened.....and you know why? Because you are so fekkin hungry you are looking for something to kill and eat, so you need those extra senses hightening, lol.

On my way home, after dodging a car and various other incidents in the snow, I stopped off at the supermarket and bought some extra lean steak mince, Burgers for dinner!!! By that time I will be starving...and probably quite drunk because I haven't eaten anything all day, haha.

Peace, DST

Heads Up said:

I notice as I get older, about once a month I start craving a good rib eye. I do believe I have mentioned I'm a meat and potatoes kind of person. Hitler was a vegetarian and when humans were hunters/gatherers, we weren't hunting coconuts. As for fasting, to each their own, it's why they make chocolate and vanilla. I am curious Wally as to why you think fasting promotes a more spiritual frame of mind? I was raised as a catholic, went to catholic school for nine years, don't believe a thing about the religion or their God, yet I consider myself an extremely spiritual person and it has not a thing to do with religion or god, any god. It has more to do with how I think humans should treat one another. We are all going to die, why not be kind to one another while here? I get my spirituality from being kind, it doesn't matter if the people around me are not kind, like my boss, what matters is that I don't sink to their kind of behavior towards their fellow man.

It's funny how this thread and the people here have kind of taken on a life of their own. We all sit behind these screens typing what little of our brains are left, away, sharing our experiences of growing and talking about everything under the sun in the process. I think, I feel, this thread is the closest thing to people being honest with one another that can be possible in cyberspace. It really has become one big family and I apologize to all of those I gave a hard time to when they first started here but now that you have been here for a bit, you see why, I don't want this thread to become like so many others on RIU.

Have I mentioned the samples from the new harvest aren't bad?

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fasting promotes a spiritual frame of mine in many ways. im no teacher but ill try my best to explain a few ideas. please excuse any incoherency that occurs.

fasting allows you to really understand your physical body's needs. our physical body is our vehicle for this life and you wanna drive nice properly maintained vehicle right? well proper maintenance comes from proper diet. from fasting you learn without even reading anything, though ive read much, what you body really wants. it doenst want processed junk, high fructose corn syrup, msg, etc etc etc. when one fasts they are able to overcome those addictions, yes food is addicting, and crave the goodness this earth provides. fruit and vegetables. meat tastes good but honestly it tastes the same everytime. i got tired of it and i'm am glad. i feel so much better since i cut it out of my diet. while fasting, your body will eat away at fat reserves and when they run out, the next fuel source is toxins. riding ones body of toxins is so reviving. the mind becomes clear and sharp and the soul becomes pure. ok next point

from experiencing extreme hunger you are able to experience the extreme suffering so much of this planets population lives through everyday. we are so extremely privileged and dont any of you forget that or take ANYTHING for granted. (please spend some time at http://www.freerice.com/ every easy question you answer right donates ten grains of rice to the people who need it) it puts you in their shoes and this gives you some real understanding of things. it puts stuff into perspective.

fasting is also an extreme test of will power. you think youre favorite food looks good now, when you arent eating they take on a magical appearance. salt crystals are magnified and glisten. last year when i fasted for 72 hours, i was a senior in highschool. lunch time was quite a test i must say. here's an excerpt from my written account of my experience, "food took on an image. food became beautiful. at lunch a freind had a cup of goldfish. i really enjoy goldfish. they were glistening, twinkling in my eye. every salt granule was magnified and appeared brilliant. it would have been so easy to just grab one and eat it like i do everyday. to resist the temptation left me feeling mentally satisfied. i felt accomplished. i felt a definite sense of pride." imagine every desire a manifestation of your lower self. to resist these is an act of the higher self which brings you closer to god. i too reject religion as all it is, is commercialized spirituality. but i know there is a god.

too back this all up. every prophet including the most enlightened, jesus and buddha, fasted for 40 days. 40 fucking days. i wanna do that sometime when im living on my own but that is a fucking incredible feat. ight i cant really think of much more. if you have questions ask away!!!

duchieman said:

Yes, even the pork I'm getting tired of but I don't think I'd ever cut those completely out. I'm Eastern European decent and we make some pretty mean stews and such. Right now though I'm going through a chemical therapy treatment and my appetite has completely changed and I crave fruit and vegetables, and I've never drank so much water before. The worst is that I can't drink anything alcoholic, not that I'm a heavy drinker or anything, but I like my wine and I loooooooooove my Guinness! So anyway Wally, I have to ask, do you still smoke herb when you fast, cause if not I bet you'd get some high when you finally did.

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thats great you are craving fruit and veggies. they are so powerful. the will heal you as long as you keep eating them. remember variety is key. and color. the more colorful the better. i have been abstaining form smoking . mostly because i am waiting on a drug test for a job. but even if i wasnt, i would probably still abstain from smoking. everyone needsa break once in a while to allow the lungs to clear away the tar. and to resist my love mary is very empowering. and you are right. when fasting the tolerance is extremely low. i remember taking ONE or TWO hits last year during my fast and it was as if i'd smoked MULTIPLE bowl packs to the head. i was zoned

It's cold here.....






This is what it looks like behind those canal houses....

i jus love them reg pics,that last pic is just some what peaceful...

DST-Im jealous. I just spent yesterday snowboarding on man made snow.

Damn DST It looks about the same here bru. We got about 15" of snow on the ground here. Got some nice fresh powder on the slopes to. Im going out snowboarding later roday now that my tailbone is healing up lol.

Hey seedless you tear it up pretty good boarding?

Before i go back and catch up on the 600 i thought id drop a copy paste from the journal.

Ahh just had a nice big ole joint to start the day of my WW.

So i got up at the crack of dawn yesterday and completely went through the entire hydro setup to clean it out of all the gunk. My god it was a pain in the ass. Mostly beacause my room is in a cramped space which makes it all that much harder.

Since i started growing in the buckets i have not pulled all the lids to have a look in the bottom. Ive been inspecting the roots by pulling up the net pots and making asessments from there.

In a about 2 weeks time this is what the bottom of the buckets looked like.




PUHHHHH!!! Im thinking alot of the red color is from the hydroton i didnt wash but there is def roots rotting in there.

It seems when i flush out the system there is always about an inch or so of liquid that i cant get out and that is why this shit never came out after 4 flushes now.

SO i got a handy dandy lil shop vac and sucked out every single bucket. Not all of the buckets where this bad but they all had root rot shit in them to some degree.


What a fkn mess lol. This took me like 3 hours to just get the buckets and plumbing lines completly steril.

So in the mean time id also cleaned every single plant heres what they were looking like.


UGHHH Nastyness.




You sure wouldnt know they were sick by looking at the leaves. From all above appearances they look otherwise healthy.

Here im hauling all the plants up to the kitchen for some very personal attention.



I mixed up a strong batch of peroxide and did a root bath keeping a close eye as the peroxide i could hear sizzling on the tender lil roots.

Overall i didnt find much rot at all it was more the lil feeders tips floating in the buckets that had the roots coated in shit.

So after about a 8 hour day in the cave I got that hydro system spic & span. Not really sure if my nutes ive been using are burning up the root tips so until i get my DM nutes next week ive opted to just fill the system up with plain ph 5.8 water.

And now a few happy plant pics




Now thats more like it. The Zone DM i believe is def a necessity for the future of this grow to keep things looking this way.


Nice happy family. Dogs Headbands Grape Apes Timewarps Timewarp X Romulans.

Ohhhh One thing i forgot to mention. While cleaning the roots on the dogs i did check for male flowers and plucked them all. For the most part they are all shooting female preflowers all over. Just a few male preflowers on each seemed to be on the lower half of the plants. So for anyone else out there growing the dog keep an eye out they are pretty easy to spot if you know what your looking for.


Found my first male Timewarp Whoo Hoo. Most people would chunk it but im going to grow it out for some breeding in my other room. Hoping to get 1 or 2 more males yet. I think ive got one distinct Timewarp female so far and she is a beauty with tight node spacing stout branching. will be taking clones from her for my next grow.


A lil HST lol on the Dogs. Im trying to train them to grow in a circular patern. Seems to be working so far.

And Thats about it folks. Everythhing is on the up and up again. Knock on wood

1BMM

yeah man we got some to

Hey guys,

I think we have had about 8-10 inches so far today. I use to ski when I was younger, until my knee operations. The feeling of quietly drifting down a mountain with just the sound of nature around you is truelly amazing, I really miss that. What with my operation this year as well I am still not 100% about doing it, even with a brace. It's great for Scotland as well, where the ski slopes often struggle to make ends meet. Last year they made a mint though, and it looks like another good one for them.

So how is it going on the board then Masonman? My best mate is also hooked (and forever injuring himself, lol)

1badmasonman said:

Nice happy family. Dogs Headbands Grape Apes Timewarps Timewarp X Romulans.

Ohhhh One thing i forgot to mention. While cleaning the roots on the dogs i did check for male flowers and plucked them all. For the most part they are all shooting female preflowers all over. Just a few male preflowers on each seemed to be on the lower half of the plants. So for anyone else out there growing the dog keep an eye out they are pretty easy to spot if you know what your looking for.

1BMM

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Looking good even with all the hassle geez. And I totally agree on the DOG, gotta watch out for the lower branch pods...fekkin headband genes, but like a few have noticed, pluck em and get to week 4 and you are laughing.

Looking cold there as well 3eyes.

Question, whats the best way to make a rectangular box? I am thinking four blocks of wood, and just screw the 4 pre cut panels into them? or should I make a frame?...this is for my fan to be built into to provide sound proofing, I was too stingy to buy the ones from the shop since they use mdf and seem to double the price.

can see Hillend fae ma window. Were no getting it yet man. Too cold, fkn freezin!!!! Update's at the weatherman.com!

Just a quick in and out mate to pay some due. What can i say bro. Party 4 ye!!! Made a jambo's day ;>)

P.S Hope all they nanna's are coming from the bending lol WOOOF

budolskie, I'm very concerned you won't think all your labor was worth it...as a fellow six hundreder, I'll take those off your hands so you don't have to suffer any more anxiety than is necessary. Lookin' good.

duchieman, I have read that it is a good practice to let your plants get to the fifth node before topping, that way they have had enough time for a good start on a nice root system. And you should be proud of your winning the contest, you aren't boring us, share away.

Wally, whatever floats your boat, makes me happy. You seem rather well rounded and open-minded for a younger person, now the trick is to keep your idealism as the decades pass and not let life beat them out of you.

It was freezing here for a few days, today it hit the mid seventies or so. I haven't seen any snow but I did see a lot of people in shorts chasing a little white ball around.

Masonman, I'll get your zone off to you tomorrow, I ran out of tape sealing the box.

DST said:

Looking good even with all the hassle geez. And I totally agree on the DOG, gotta watch out for the lower branch pods...fekkin headband genes, but like a few have noticed, pluck em and get to week 4 and you are laughing.

Looking cold there as well 3eyes.

Question, whats the best way to make a rectangular box? I am thinking four blocks of wood, and just screw the 4 pre cut panels into them? or should I make a frame?...this is for my fan to be built into to provide sound proofing, I was too stingy to buy the ones from the shop since they use mdf and seem to double the price.

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Thanks D. Hey for a easy box use partical board. Like the stuff used to build speaker boxes. Screw it and glue it. That is a very good idea by the way. I may try one myself when my new fan gets here.

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budolskie, I'm very concerned you won't think all your labor was worth it...as a fellow six hundreder, I'll take those off your hands so you don't have to suffer any more anxiety than is necessary. Lookin' good.

duchieman, I have read that it is a good practice to let your plants get to the fifth node before topping, that way they have had enough time for a good start on a nice root system. And you should be proud of your winning the contest, you aren't boring us, share away.

Wally, whatever floats your boat, makes me happy. You seem rather well rounded and open-minded for a younger person, now the trick is to keep your idealism as the decades pass and not let life beat them out of you.

It was freezing here for a few days, today it hit the mid seventies or so. I haven't seen any snow but I did see a lot of people in shorts chasing a little white ball around.

Masonman, I'll get your zone off to you tomorrow, I ran out of tape sealing the box.

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Ohh no rush Headsup. Thanks for having my back ole buddy.

A real nice shot deserving of a bump!!! Nice one Duchieman.

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does anyone know if Whodat survived his trip to catalina? havent heard a response from him in a long time... EVERYONE else shit looks amazing! ill be throwing in my budporn here in a few days to remind everyone im here haha! keep up the good work guys!

i just got into the 600 club tell me what you think

I can't speak for we so you'll have to suffice with me, nice, what ya' got growin'?

My power must have gone off today while I was at work, my timers were all screwed up. Anyway this is the latest from the garden. My og18 and headband x cali o mothers look done and they are a couple of days short of seven weeks. The buds are kind of skimpy looking as far as weight but by looks, they are done. I don't need the smoke at the moment so I'm going to let them go and hope they put on some weight. Casey Jones and Headband both went under the hps into 12/12 last saturday night, after just over six weeks of vegging, which is their day. I think the casey was actually showing within three or four days, today I could see those lovely white hairs on the headband. The growth spurt in the last week has been amazing, I had to supercrop the main stem, and I bent them over real good, the next night (day) the tops were both standing up again. If the casey jones keep growing vertical, I'll supercrop the main stem again. All my clones are into week four of flowering and looking good. I'll start day one of flowering for casey and headband tomorrow.

littlegrower2004 said:

does anyone know if Whodat survived his trip to catalina? havent heard a response from him in a long time... EVERYONE else shit looks amazing! ill be throwing in my budporn here in a few days to remind everyone im here haha! keep up the good work guys!

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whodatnation said:

lol how could there be almost 1,500 post since the last time I posted!

Everything on the 600 is looking great as usual
I got some more space but filled it with 2-1,000 watters, sorry lol. Don't worry I still got my 6-hundos rockin

LINK TO JOURNAL https://www.rollitup.org/grow-journals/393097-new-4-400w-room-co2.html
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Here's a bump of his post... was just yesterday, but if you are on 10 posts a page like me it was 7 pages ago, lol. I had been wondering about him myself. The past week or so I have been able to see catalina from the mountains where I live. Made me think of our good buddy.