My Personal Trainwreck, et al

Here's the final (so far) product. As they come out of their puberty cabinets (2), they will go on the floor. We can continue hanging lights, laying floor coverings and spreading out. I hope to see the whole room covered in flowers soon.

The nice thing about this set-up is it is completely mobile. I need the cable guy to come out this week so I will take the chains and lights down. I'll lay another black 5' 7' over the shelving paper carpet and put the plants elsewhere while he's here. I'll put the shelfs against the wall and he'll think I'm just a weirdo.

I'm legal to grow now (I wasn't supposed to in the apt.), but I'd rather strangers not come back down the road, uninvited, with their friends. You know?

The Pole Plant in the pix went into flower 9-1. The other three are about 3 weeks into flower. Rest of family in later post.

Ok, The Pole ... This was grown from a "Black" seed. I've grown 4 or 5 Blacks and they all were weird - budding right near the stem and never really branching. This one takes the cake and I can't remember if I clipped her or not. Anyway, she had these HUGE fan leaves with stems the size of some stalks and I clipped them off and she became a giant dick!

She started flowering on 9-1-10 and we chopped her the other day. She is the densest and stickiest to date. Smokes like a charm after two days of curing (mine cure in glass jars until the last joint is smoked Very stony. It was 67 grams wet and 17 dry. We're getting a ton of seeds off her. We had another black that had about 80 on her (one made The Pole). Ahhh procreation! The bud looks like a lot of white hairs, but she couldn't go any longer as she seemed less sticky towards the end.

Trainwrecks are up next ...

We had three TWs and one PK in 10" pots that I used in the cabinets that were out on the floor. Today I took one of the TWs (all same age ~ flowering since 10-16) and put her in a 14" pot. Good grief that was a job and I broke one of her tiny branches. Do Not Try a plant that size alone. I didn't or I'd have creamed her. She was rooted to the sides of the pot, but not the bottom. Anyway, I'm going to leave one of the TWs in the 10" pot to see difference in timing and amount. The other TW and the PK are going into big pots ASAP and they will all be tied up. I only got 8' ceilings in there

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A couple of months ago we germinated, planted and vegged 5 plants for close to a month before four of them showed themselves to be boys. The female was the pole in previous post. Four out of five! So after a year and a half of doing this (plus now having more space), I'm keeping everything on a tight assembly. These pix show seven plants (four definitely chicks - 3 trainwrecks and one purple kush). Two more will show tomorrow or next day and three were just put in there (added one since pix). We have two babies vegging another week and three seeds went into dirt today.

So what's the ratio? Besides the four of five a couple months ago, I got three males with the four girls growing (almost 50%). All my plants seed. I have tons of killer seeds. When the males show I put them out in the back yard for the bees and wind to help pollinate the state of California (so there is plenty for all). When they outgrow their pots outside I throw them in a field hoping they continue pro-creating.

Since I grow only from seeds it's always fun the day or two before blossoming. So there are 8 in flower - 4 known gender. Fingers crossed ...

I didn't like the light with the white paint and no light from behind. I did turn them a lot, but it was a pain in the ass. So I reflectexed and added the smaller book stands in the corners with lights. I spread it all out to two sides so I can drag the pots around to water, etc. The shelf paper on the floor is so cool. I sweep it and wipe it with wet sponge and I can drag the pots across it easy. Nice

I know the big plants don't look that healthy, but they were just transplanted and totally Neemed to rid them of nasty dirt gnats. They didn't like that a bit, but there getting better.

So far it looks like we got 8 out of 12 plants are females. Two more going into flower tomorrow after four weeks of veg.

I'd like to say this monitoring of temp in the grow room is unimportant to me. As long as you can keep the air moving, the plants will grow in 90 or 100 in that room. On top of the lights, they're in the sun from the window a good part of the day. Very warm in there and my plants have never suffered from heat. My outdoor Goo was in a small patio in over 120 direct sunlight. He was my biggest producer. I wouldn't go out of my way to worry about that 70-75 degrees or whatever temp a lot recommend.


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Watering in there coming up next ~

So I’ve got three to be harvested next week and two coming two weeks after that. They’re all turning out to be girls though I have my fingers crossed for the last no-show-yet to be a purple kush boy. I don’t have any PK pollen. Some of these pix are a week old, but the buds were taken today. The big bud looks like she’s growing a thumb.

Here’s the latest. I put the three oldest in to flower on 10-16 so they’ve got another week at least. But I ran out of meds and thought about cutting a bud, but it’d have taken too long to dry. I got a great deal (imo) of $68.50 for a ½ ounce at the local shop. Snow cap. Pretty nice, but I prefer mine. Anyway, got enough to tide me over

This purple kush is the 2nd smallest of the three first ones to be in bigger pots and outside a cabinet. I don't know what she'll yield, but not as much as the next two The two trainwrecks will be coming to the scissors next week.

We'll just cut her top side and let the very few small buds on the bottom mature on this one. I flushed her with 9 gallons of water and was shocked to see how quick her leaves started kicking ~ within an hour of losing her nutes. I put a half gallon of water and mollasses after the flush and will add the other half tomorrow to keep her sweet. We'll cut on Sunday and I'll be back with weight and pix.

I'm so behind on RIU. We chopped both plants two days apart. The first was a purple kush shown hanging on the line. And the second is a trainwreck shown hanging on the skirt rack. The PK was 112 grams wet and 26 dry. The TW was 99 wet and 19 dry. They both took two days/two nights to dry. They're in jars now. I smoked some PK and it smelled bad, but tasted really good. It smells a lot better today

The next one up was planted at the same time as these two, but is a monster TW and still maturing. Pix coming.

Here's the next one waiting on harvest. She's 42" tall and in a 14"-15" pot. The difference between this TW and the one above is she was transplanted into a big pot way sooner than the other two. They were all planted at the same time. (I'm smoking the PK now . You can see from the pix that the calyx's are still growing fat and the sugar is still all white. It is Day 64 and she looks like another week, at least to me. So therein lies the difference in the pot (pun) size.

Here's the latest of the big one. Her crystals and hairs are very much white, so she's got a ways to go. She got a heavy dose of SuperBloom today in the hopes of tightening up her buds.

OMG, I'm smoking some TW that was harvested the other day. It is lemony and citrusy and smells that way in the jar already after 3 or 4 days of curing. Nice and smooth and I'm stoned!!!

What I do is feed regularly (every other day, Schultz 10-15-10) until two days before I plan to flush. On flush day, I flood them for about 1 hour with straight water or until the water runs clear. I stick her back under the lights until she's just about dry enough to have to feed again (a day and a half ) and I turn her lights on as usual and wait until I feel damn good and ready to chop her up.

Once they're cut like in the pix, I weigh them and put them on the line. (Actually the old man does that. He also takes care of the drying, curing, rolling and helps me with the smoking. I got it made. Haven't rolled a joint or turned a jar in several months.) Anyway, then I cut the stems off and re-weigh and from my charts it is just about exactly 20% of the wet. We smoke out of our curing jars so it should just keep getting better and better, but I think it starts out just as good after at least 3 days of curing as it does at the end when it's very dry.

I read most of the post by the guy with the books-ladder and realized I had my own humiliating set-up. I had a male growing under the bottom light on a pole lamp and then had just one baby two days old so I built my book ladder. Here's a pic.

I shook a little powder off the boy's flowers onto a paint brush and painted a branch on his sister with his pollen ~ I know, incest and all. They're both purple kush and I only have about 5 seeds left and I'll know this marked branch's seeds are pure PK.

After I used up the boy, I put him out to pasture in the wind and storm. He promptly fell over and is hanging like that now.

(I'm rambling waiting for the Eclipse on the longest night of the year ~ 2 and 1/2 hours to go. Wine and Trainwreck, can't beat it.)

Man thinks he is fooling nature by growing her plants in a 12 hour light/12 hour dark environment. The reality is there is only one day a year that has 12/12. Now what?

Here's some pix of the monster trainwreck on 12/23. I labeled the pix so you can figure them out. After flushing with plain water with 15 of those OJ jars and flushing them out with, yes, those ignorant plungers, I added 3 pint jars with tbsp. mollasses each to help her out and keep us all mellow. Usually I'd drag her outside and flush with a hose, but she is just too huge and her colas were just flappin'.

I put her back under her lights after flushing on Thursday and put a fan right near her dirt and let it go for 48 about hours (today . Her meter read dry and as mentioned before, I flush all at one time, let her dry as much as possible and chop. I don't know why people extend flushing time and force the plant to starve before cutting. My nutes (Schultz 10-15-10, I think) are safe to eat vegetables the day after feeding. So I'm not worried about getting toxins and flushing for weeks at a time. Ignorant in my opinion.

We're cutting her now and taking lots of pix, so will be back shortly with stats, etc.

Merry Christmas!

I can't do the pix tonight, but her total weight was 206 grams and she's pretty damn dry. Extremely sticky ~ felt like Super Glue on my left hand. She had four colas that were each about 8" and one was 27g, 2 were 24g and one was 23g. Nice. Got some popcorns drying and will hopefully smoke them tonight. This is one great Christmas present! Pix tomorrow for sure.

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a Good Night!

Sorry about not getting these up last night, but it was Christmas.

So the final weight was 206. She was tight and really, really sticky. We just smoked some of her popcorns drying since last night. All I can say is she's exactly like all her brother and sister trainwrecks and that's very good stuff. She rolled and smoked just as smooth as her counterpart we've been smoking in the jar. And she doesn't smell bad like my last PK did until after 4 days of curing. Smelled like some paint product. Luckily, it disappeared and she smells like a lady now.

She sprouted her seed on 9/30 and was transplanted to 4" pot on 10/2. She was transplanted into an 8" pot on 10/16 (when she went into 12/12) and into her big 14" pot on 11/16. I believe it was the transplanting into larger pots that made her so large so I'm doing them all that way.

She was also fim'd on 10/16, flower day. She was flushed on 12/23 and cut up for Christmas yesterday so adios to another ~

I'm a little embarrassed about this girl. I gave her a hair cut cuz her leaves were neem oiled bad. She's on day 51 so has a ways to go, but I don't see much increase in pot. In my opinion, PKs will never grow very big. I'm going to veg my next one until she's huge and then plant her in a huge pot outside and see how big I can make one this spring.

Got another trainwreck that is already 5 inches taller than the last one. Here's a pic of her though she's only four and 1/2 weeks into flower. She's getting the most light in there.

I also put in a pix of the line drying on Day 3 of the last girl. Her small buds will be put in jars tomorrow and the big ones may be done at the end of the week. They have a small fan blowing on them and an overhead always runs in there.

I didn't have a lot to say about the last two that were harvested. They are purple kush and I'll be damned if I can get much more than an ounce off a plant. I'm going to keep trying though. I like PK before dinner and TW during the day. Different breeds coming soon!

Here's the pix of the last two plants. One was harvested on 1/5 and weighed 110 g. wet and 24 dry. The second one was cut on 1/12 and she weighed 152 wet and 30 dry which is 20% almost exactly.

Another post coming up with whose next and different setup. To be honest, I'm using the product and am really confused

OMG, we have been infiltrated by those damn dirt fungi that comes in about every single bag of dirt I buy. Forget Neem oil and forget dishwashing soap. The plants have to dry out because the bugs can't live without water. So I dried the plants out for about 4 days, took the top four inches of dry soil out and pitched it. Then I sprayed the crap out of the top of the dirt with Neem and detergent mix. Took each one out side and watered it with soap water and fed it, drained it and poured sand into the four inch area where the bugs were living. (BTW, I found the sand at Ace Hardware after looking for it at building supply store and in acquarium area.)

So that was yesterday and I'm going to remove the sand tomorrow since the bugs are suffocated. What's weird is my girlfriends and sister all grow many, many houseplants and have never been plagued by it. Maybe they buy Miracle Gro. I transplant so many plants (average 4 times from seed), I'm not going to pay for some 'sterilized' crap at a nursery.

So I read to nuke soil (I used a large mixing glass bowl) 'til 180 degrees and let cool and transplant. We found that it took 3 min. 50 sec. on high to reach 180. Do Not Go Over 200. Use a cooking thermometer. When it gets hot enough or freezes again I'll put bags outside ~ til then I'm sterilizing all my dirt no matter what the pain.

So here's pix of the kids out in their Jeep ride from their grow room to the side yard. I'm getting about 6 hours out there already, so it's only going to get better. I'll drive them out about 10 and bring them back in about 4:30 for lights til 8. So lights from 8 a.m. until 10 a.m. and then again from 4:30-8p. Their room is right up from the pic in the wagon and gets an incredible amount of light even though the windows are smoked. Here's a pic of how bright it is under the door at 2:30 p. So if it's not cloudy, we've been turning the lights off when the sun came in and the big TW grew too big for it's light in one day I hate paying my money to the power company, so if the suns out so will the plants.

Again, sand will be removed tomorrow.

We took down one of the one's in the wagon today. I didn't do pix cuz it was pretty pathetic at 77g wet. The other two in the wagon were flushed today and will go down tomorrow (cuz she's way brown) and the next day (when she's a little dryer). They're all PK.

The last one standing after Thursday is the big TW. She's on day 62 and I'll say another week after that. Here she is.

New Kids up in a few