Total Noob using teas and I am a believer

Mad Hamish said:

No such thing as too many questions Sir! Nobodies going to get annoyed with THAT bro trust me. It is the reason these guys make these threads, to share the knowledge they have. It's a great way to blow off some steam after the day-job.

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I totally agree with you, there's never too many questions. No one ever stops learning and when you think you know it all, you've become to cocky. This applies to everything in life.

This guy that posts around here put it perfectly, here Ill quote him.

We should work together and compile this stuff into a grow manual, seriously. A few 'Fail-safe' grow 'recipes' including amount of plants, wattage lights, etc, something a total NOOB can follow like making a batch of cupcakes and end with great bud, and all the advanced stuff like how's, why's, and tweaks in a seperate section. Been thinking about that for quite some time now...

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Sounds like music to my ears man. I WISH I had something like what is described above, when I first started. Woulda saved me countless hours of reading and searching.

I'm already past the noob phase. I consider myself an amateur grower, novice - I'm not completely new but I sure as hell aint no pro either. I'm trying to look out for new growers because I know how I felt when I started. I felt absolutely overwhelmed and I think having everything wrote down into 1 post/thread would have made it that much easier to get into growing. When I first started I bought into the bottled nutes, I wasted a bunch of money. Those bottles are still sitting here damn near full.. worthless.

LOL... Guess we need to put that manual together then!! I agree with you, if I didn't have people to show me step by step when I started out (my first rig was a CARBON COPY of somebody else's and that relly helped more than I can say), I'd probably not be able to get a bean to pop it's head out the soil. I would've killed my plants with love, water, and GHE nutes.
Don't worry bro, it is a steep learning curve for sure but once you find what works for you it becomes a LOT of fun, total therapy. I enjoy my living plants MUCH more than my dry bud, I can give all my bud away to people that need it and still get the same amazing benefits out of my cannabis. I learned only last week that they do more for me when ALIVE. I love good bud, but the ladies (talking reefer here), they love me back, and it feels GREAT.

Anyhow guys, I browsed around Soma's new site a bit and found this very interesting little nug of wisdom:

As we all know he grows completely organically. So he pH's his water with citric acid, with the result that the pH rises slowly. The clever part of what he does is this: He pH's his water to 6.0 for the watering, so as the pH slowly rises inside the soil, each pH level from 6.0 to 6.7 is experienced by the plant... And each pH level makes for max absorption of a different element. I thought it was pretty clever thinking. Makes a good amount of sense to me personally.

Oh and he finally let go of EXACTLY what the NYCD genetics actually really are. New York Sour Diesel crossed out to one of his private Hawaiian crosses and taken down the BX route. Guess he wasn't going to get away with the short old 'random bagseed' story forever LOL.

So it confirmed my suspicions: It's a Chemdawg line. Chemdawg really was KING of the fuel. I am now going to try find the most pure SkunkVA seeds I can possibly buy. Been looking for that for a while... Seems another purchase from Cali Connection is in the pipeline, he's the only person I know about that works with a verified Chemdawg (SkunkVA) clone. DAMMIT. And me and Swerve DO get along SOOOO well ROFL

Chemdawg had that fuely fire locked up for a while, and then came the crosses, LOL. It's really an inevitability before somebody crosses something with one of your babies that you keep dear, and then the world get to enjoy the fruits of your labor. It will always work this way, good or not. You just can't keep something like that under wraps forever. Thank You Chemdawg, and also a big Thank You to Soma, love that NYCD. Peace and Love.

[/QUOTE] I too like this thread, I didn't say that I didn't. This is why I tend to just lurk and read and rarely post, because folks often misunderstand. I guess M11 thinks I'm hating on this thread? I don't know why.

Also, M11 - your sig creeps me out man. [/QUOTE]




Dude, May11th never said that. Just like when you were questioning the use of Pro-tekt, and I took the time to suggest the specific cultivar of comfrey that you could use in it's place ...... and then you accused me of taking a shot at you.

Lighten up a bit. People are here to help out and share info, not personally attack you.

mycomaster said:

Thank You Chemdawg, and also a big Thank You to Soma, love that NYCD. Peace and Love.

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I should write an Ode to Chem... His lines literally changed my life man. The Chems just suit my body chemistry PERFECTLY. Same as the SFV, just suits my body chemistry like nothing else aside from the Chems... Swerve's got the Chem4 OG... SkunkVA x SFV4... DAMMIT DAMMIT DAMMIT why couldn't it be somebody ELSE?! LOL...

If you like chem then this is for you. I have 2 very nice phenos that I am keeping of Daybreaker. It is greasy, stinky, fuel, chemy, sour, lemon-lime, goo. I can't wait to smoke her. These are gage tester pics.



https://gagegreen.org/db.html

Take a peek here. I posted a bunch of pictures of the testers. Thanks guys.

https://gagegreen.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=2076

Alex Kush:

GandalfdaGreen said:

If you like chem then this is for you. I have 2 very nice phenos that I am keeping of Daybreaker. It is greasy, stinky, fuel, chemy, sour, lemon-lime, goo. I can't wait to smoke her. These are gage tester pics.

https://gagegreen.org/db.html

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In that case I definitely am going to love it bro. Looks really pretty too! Sounds right up my alley bro!

Those look absolutely sick Gandalf, nice flowers bro! Beautiful deep greens with a touch of the doin it right burn on the leaf tips. If you're not pushin your plants who will, LOL. Those are already some nice chunky tops, and by the looks of the plants have more to show you. I checked out all the pics over at GageGreen, and they look amazing man. I can see why you got tester status so easily. If every breeder had people like you testing for them, we would all be in a better situation. I hope your night goes as good as mine bro, take er easy! Peace and love.

I have to mention this, the two most beautiful plants I have ever seen were both on this thread. The one is that Alexander Kush, the other is Engineer's Dream. Fell in love with both of them even before flower. Spectacular ladies.

Went to michigan today, checked out cultivation innovations and I was very happy I stopped in, met a good staff member , bought some locally done organic nutes in a bag, then chatted w a nice older fellow and may even establish a friendship, hell he was even talking about trading clones and from the sound of it he has a nice setup and was a very nice guy to talk to, I am a young man and when I sit and smoke with a old guy and listen to all his stories it makes me proud to be doing what I am and fighting for legalization, its a damn medicine, its organic and it would make the world a happy place with some freedom.

May11th said:

I am a young man and when I sit and smoke with a old guy and listen to all his stories it makes me proud to be doing what I am and fighting for legalization, its a damn medicine, its organic and it would make the world a happy place with some freedom.

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Hell yeah bro, pass that knowledge around, along with some reefer too. Nothing like talking to our elders, and sucking up that knowledge. Doesn't get much better than that. Peace and Love.

Here are some DayBreakers and Sun Maidens. I am thinking 4 more weeks. I am giving them a nice tea tomorrow. The one SM is fading fast. Two alfalfa teas and she is burning through them without stopping a bit. Bitch. The Sun Maidens are really nice. I can tell she'll start really frosting up now. She's very light green and starting to look beautiful. I won't be fighting the fade much from here on. One or two teas and she's I am done with her. The daybreakers justt scream at you that they are not here to be your friends. They are here to do a job. They are like the Gronk. Just beasts. Chem, jet fuel, lime/lemon sourness with definite "sour patch kid" candy scents. The Daybreaker is a CaMg whore I am finding out. I am not beating myself up too much for the N def in two SMs. I know I will be with these phenos for years and years. It's actually fun getting the tweaks going. I have a clones to run of both already so I will amend according with a few extra scoops. Take care guys. I chopped a bunch tonight and now I get to spread things out finally. I almost timed it right. About 7-10 days off.

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st0wandgrow said:

Dude, May11th never said that. Just like when you were questioning the use of Pro-tekt, and I took the time to suggest the specific cultivar of comfrey that you could use in it's place ...... and then you accused me of taking a shot at you.

Lighten up a bit. People are here to help out and share info, not personally attack you.

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I'm not sure I follow what you're trying to say here. But it seems you're still trying to take shots at me. Not sure what your problem with me is, but it's clear to me that you harbor some dislike for me. I'm not sure why you think I have to lighten up a bit, I have not insulted or spoke ill of anyone in the thread and I am very calm, chill, relaxed, cool, collected. No where did I say anyone was personally attacking me - except for maybe you because you tend to single me out.. for some odd reason.

M11 never said what? That I'm hating on the thread? (trying to figure this one out here) Well, let me break it down for you st0wandgrow, since - apparently - I have to do that with you. M11 says that he loves this thread while in the sentence of replying directly to me. That tells me he must think I don't like this thread? It's called context. Look it up.

I'll just take that que and respectively bow out of this thread. I'm tired of having to deal with folks like st0w. I should not have to explain myself with every post that I make. It's quite ridiculous. There are MUCH better forums out there where the senseless bickering is damn near non existent. RIU is the only forum where I find it has infected like a disease.

Thanks for the great wealth of information that everyone has contributed to this thread. I know it has surely helped me in becoming a much better grower.

Hey guys!

So I'm newer to the teas and such. I did my first feeding yesterday to my flowering plants.

I'm curious, if I put the material at the bottom of my bucket on top of my pots for a topsoil/top feed, should I change my feeding schedule or can I continue as normal? Feed schedule is water, water, feed.

I started my first feeding at half dose just to be safe anyways.

So guys would it be good for me to walk outside and scoop up a bunch of earth from the forest and start making some teas? I live in Washingtons rain forest. There is tons of decomposed plant matter everywhere. Or does it matter what the mulch is composed of? I gathered up a bunch of stinging neddle and plan on composting. I'm just wondering if it would be wise to utilize whats around abundantly.

Thanks, Steelheader.

Sorry to hear of your departure Maphyr, never got to know you brother. People take this whole growing thing way too serious, and personal some times, after all we're growing friggin weeds people. Beautiful weeds, but weeds none the less.

On a lighter note, Your pics are insane Gandalf. The Sun Maidens, and Day Breakers are Nutz frosty! Those Day Breakers especially just look crazy bro. IDK why, but for some reason when I look at their pics it seems like they're looking back at me or something, LOL. It looks like you could use them to cut glass. Really quite amazing pictures Gandalf. Your camera really gets in there, and picks everything up nicely. That is gonna be a hell of a sticky trim job bro, LOL. Enjoy your evening, Peace and Love.

AllDay- What are you feeding? A bottle of something?

Steel- A grassy pasture would be what to head to for the shovelful. Canna is a grass, so a pasture (clean) will have grass-loving (bacterially-dominant) microbes. Not so much in a fungally-dominant forest.

Rrog said:

AllDay- What are you feeding? A bottle of something?

Steel- A grassy pasture would be what to head to for the shovelful. Canna is a grass, so a pasture (clean) will have grass-loving (bacterially-dominant) microbes. Not so much in a fungally-dominant forest.

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I'm using the starter flowering AACT brew. Peruvian Seabird Guano, Jamican Bat Guano, EWC, molasses, and liquid seaweed. Fed at half recommend dose.