I would not be writing this to glorify myself and to not admit mistakes. So I will make a short list of my fuckups this year:
1) The spring plants I had out had weak, loose, buds. They were okay, if you are not a medical marijuana shop that only sells the best weed. They would've kept me high all summer. But i'm not in this to get high. II attribute this to the fact that there was a big old Metal halide lamp shining out the back of my house. it fucked up the light cycle. So all the plants outside went into the hash-o-lator. Which didn't produce very much hash.
2) My poor hash I chalk down to two things:
a) the bud was wet. I looked it up and they said you can use wet dope (just harvested) or dry (hung up in a cool dark place for a week or so). I used the just harvested dope and I got crap hash.
b) I didn't agitate the bud/ water mixutre enough. It turns out that just pressing the buttton on one of these things and standing back won't work. You have to get in there yourself with a wooden spoon and stir things up for a good 15 minutes. this got the best hash, but not much of it.
3) I don't have enough clones yet and it's almost June!
This is a major fuck up. I'm trying to play catch up with the clone situation but we'll see. it had a lot to do with what I did late last month in order to determine the sex of my plants. I SHOULD HAVE CLONED THE FEMININE ONES RIGHT AWAY, AS SOON AS I KNEW. BUT WE'RE TALKING A MATTER OF DAYS HERE, SO i GOT LAZY. k?
4) i did F.i. m. on all my plants befrore I knew sex. THIS WAS STUPID. you can do fim anytime. but I don't think it hurt the plants. it might have caused a couple to go hermie, though but I doubt it. I got the usual amount of good mothers from the average seed pack. I was just being too optomistic, too early.
Sunday, May 22, 2011
FAST FORWARD TO LATE APRIL!!!
So it's May now. I put my veg plants outside in LATE APRIL so I could tell if they were Male or Female, so I could tell which ones to clone. I waited a little to long which is okay because a plant that is a couple of weeks into flowering won't get "stuck'", that is, if you start to bring it back in after the Fem flowers start to turn white a little you can re-veg them.
The only thing you want to worry about at this point is Male plants. Male plants tend to (but not always) grow straight up and down, with no bushiness. at or near the top after a week or two you'll see what look like little palm trees with tiny little bannanas hanging of of them. YOU DO NOT WANT THESE IN YOUR GARDEN!!!
So if you see anything that looks like this at the top of a plant (hernies I won't even go into, so good luck), Carry the plant around to the side of your house where you keep your trash, get a bag, cut the plant off at the stem, pour WD-40 or charcoal lightet all over it, and dump it!
Starting this month, (May) I noticed that the plants had started flowering. I didn't want them to get stuck, so I went back to the old lighting pgm for a couple of weeks. Again, I live in San Diego, so your milieage may vary. As soon as I knew for sure that the big purple Kush plant was Female, I started cloning that shit like a motherfucker. I'm afraid, however, that the fact that it was female probably hindered the clones.
I made about 20 clones but only got 3 so far, it's been like 2 weeks since I started, so I'm gonna keep checking the bottom of those cubes! It looks like I might get about 5 more. But I started to put a new clone in there every day to replace the ones that just died, so we'll see.
Right now, all my plants are Feminine, or they got pollinated (doubtful, but possible) and they'll have seeds in 'em. I'll have to keep an eye on these because:
I did the F.I.M. (fuck i missed) technique on a bunch of plants all in one day.
What this involves is sqeezing the top of your plants when they are 1-2' tall so they will grow out sideways and become bushier, hence a biggger plant with more bud sites and more places to take clones.
What I did not realize was that some of the plants were Male, so I may have unwittingly pollinated some of my Females. But I don't think so. Remember how I said I had about 20 seedlings? Well they produced about 12 good female plants. Which is the best you can hope for. I ordered more seeds, Feminized this time. Most of them are "Pineapple Express", some autoflowering from Barney's farm. for an explanation of what an autoflower is, look it up. Some are regular Feminized from G-13, which isn't the most reliable seed co. in the world but they are the only ones with the real Pineapple Express.
Maybe the Autoflowering ones (from Barney's farm, btw) will turn out better thatn the G-13 ones.. I doubt it but you never know.
anyway here is a picture of all of my adult plants. I have about 20 right now and they will only get bigger and bigger as the summer goes on. I hope some of em get so big i gotta stick em in trash cans...
I know it doesn't look like 20 plants but it's only May, gimme a break. Plus I got the seedlings, but you already know what those look like. The count looks like this:
2 Purple Kush
2 Blueberry
2 Cherry OG
1 Chem Dawg
1 Grapefruit
1 Bubblegum
1 Purple Morrocan
8 OGx Skunk (I don't know if these are really og, but there were like 5 differrent skunk crosses in the shipment and I got confused. All of the strains were OG based, anyway (L.A. confidential, etc.).
6-7 "Pineapple Express" autoflower fem. I really hope I get at least one good plant out of these, because then I can clone and grow year round. Autoflower basically means a smaller plant that will grow and bud and be ready for harvest within 90 days, regardless of the light cycle, as long as you live south of Alaska.
1 Barney's Farm Tangerine Dream
1 Purple Haze.
So right now the name of the game is clone, clone clone. Because I do not want to have just 18 plants come August. something more like twice that would be cool.
The only thing you want to worry about at this point is Male plants. Male plants tend to (but not always) grow straight up and down, with no bushiness. at or near the top after a week or two you'll see what look like little palm trees with tiny little bannanas hanging of of them. YOU DO NOT WANT THESE IN YOUR GARDEN!!!
So if you see anything that looks like this at the top of a plant (hernies I won't even go into, so good luck), Carry the plant around to the side of your house where you keep your trash, get a bag, cut the plant off at the stem, pour WD-40 or charcoal lightet all over it, and dump it!
Starting this month, (May) I noticed that the plants had started flowering. I didn't want them to get stuck, so I went back to the old lighting pgm for a couple of weeks. Again, I live in San Diego, so your milieage may vary. As soon as I knew for sure that the big purple Kush plant was Female, I started cloning that shit like a motherfucker. I'm afraid, however, that the fact that it was female probably hindered the clones.
I made about 20 clones but only got 3 so far, it's been like 2 weeks since I started, so I'm gonna keep checking the bottom of those cubes! It looks like I might get about 5 more. But I started to put a new clone in there every day to replace the ones that just died, so we'll see.
Right now, all my plants are Feminine, or they got pollinated (doubtful, but possible) and they'll have seeds in 'em. I'll have to keep an eye on these because:
I did the F.I.M. (fuck i missed) technique on a bunch of plants all in one day.
What this involves is sqeezing the top of your plants when they are 1-2' tall so they will grow out sideways and become bushier, hence a biggger plant with more bud sites and more places to take clones.
What I did not realize was that some of the plants were Male, so I may have unwittingly pollinated some of my Females. But I don't think so. Remember how I said I had about 20 seedlings? Well they produced about 12 good female plants. Which is the best you can hope for. I ordered more seeds, Feminized this time. Most of them are "Pineapple Express", some autoflowering from Barney's farm. for an explanation of what an autoflower is, look it up. Some are regular Feminized from G-13, which isn't the most reliable seed co. in the world but they are the only ones with the real Pineapple Express.
Maybe the Autoflowering ones (from Barney's farm, btw) will turn out better thatn the G-13 ones.. I doubt it but you never know.
anyway here is a picture of all of my adult plants. I have about 20 right now and they will only get bigger and bigger as the summer goes on. I hope some of em get so big i gotta stick em in trash cans...
2 Purple Kush
2 Blueberry
2 Cherry OG
1 Chem Dawg
1 Grapefruit
1 Bubblegum
1 Purple Morrocan
8 OGx Skunk (I don't know if these are really og, but there were like 5 differrent skunk crosses in the shipment and I got confused. All of the strains were OG based, anyway (L.A. confidential, etc.).
6-7 "Pineapple Express" autoflower fem. I really hope I get at least one good plant out of these, because then I can clone and grow year round. Autoflower basically means a smaller plant that will grow and bud and be ready for harvest within 90 days, regardless of the light cycle, as long as you live south of Alaska.
1 Barney's Farm Tangerine Dream
1 Purple Haze.
So right now the name of the game is clone, clone clone. Because I do not want to have just 18 plants come August. something more like twice that would be cool.
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