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[Hippie420]

Snow looks good on a postcard. It could snow the night before Christmas and be gone by the third of January and I'd be a happy camper!

Umbra, you said you prefer H2O2 to chlorine for clones. What percent and what ratio to H2O do you use?

I just modified a cheap little timer to go on for 50 seconds and go off for 4 minutes, 12 seconds. Total cost is under eight bucks. Told ya I was cheap!

Girls decided to go to Murder City tomorrow, so the new pump will be a day late. It'll give me a chance to water proof the lid on the tank. Thought about using Keef's method, but I think I'll just hot glue a strip of shower curtain around the inside top of the lid and let it hang.

 

[Keef]

What's up O.F.C.?? -- Sometimes I can't take my phone where I go !-- I know I 'm late for the Wake and Bake but that don't mean I ain't Bakin'!!-- We was talking about cloning yesterday !-- I have used tap water , filtered pH. Water, 1/4 nute pH. Water , 1/2 strength nutes, full strength pH nute solution !!-- I don't know about other varieties but this Widow doesn't seem to care !-- I clone and veg. In the same box now ! I get 90-95 % rooting success-- either root out or get thrown out has thinned the lines until I have the hardiest !-- Hey !- When is someone gonna get one of these BHO machines and teach the rest of us how to use it ? Don't make it be me ! I like for things to blow up when I say not accidentally !

 

[Keef]

Yo Hippie - don't matter how U seal them boxes !-- I'm watching close how it works for U !-- What the Hippie is doing is what I can true aero !-- the roots are sprayed and the water drains back into a res. !-- What I do is place a pump in the bottom of a box with a spray manifold and sprayers right on top the pump spraying straight up and falling back Down for another trip !! I have to leave a clone spot empty for pump cord and bubbler hose access ! The roots soon reach the nute solution in the bottom of the box and it becomes a bastardized Aero/DWC system !--

 

[yooper420]

bozzo,
Looking at your picture tells me that you got more snow then we did. He, he, he.

 

[Hippie420]

Keef, it's the whole oxygenating the roots bit is why I go with remote reservoirs. A lot of people think that the air pump/air stone actually pumps oxygen into the water. It doesn't. What it does is break up the surface tension of the water, giving it a larger area to absorb oxygen from the open air. There's only so much "open" air inside of a plastic box.

Take an aquarium for example. If you had one four foot tall, a foot wide, by a foot long, you'd have room for maybe a dozen neon tetra fish. Take the same dimensions, make the aquarium one foot tall, one foot wide, and four feet long, and it will have four times the exchange area for oxygen, so you could run four dozen fish.

Happy roots = happy plant.

 

[giggy]

happy sunday morning or happy day of the dead if you practice that. hope everybody is doing well. got to sow some more beans today. already one had broke the surface yesterday. i had to turn on some cfl's to add a bit of heat, and am thinking about removing the main led and adding a 400 watt mh for the winter grows. i really need nore light anyway. everybody have a great day. peace

 

[giggy]

If I could drug the wife long enough to sell the ranch and head south, I'd do it. The older I get, the less I like snow.

do like the birds, south for winter and north for summer. we may not always have snow but it can still get cold. my family lives in south texas and run the a/c most of the year, but have been stuck on the ranch because of snow. here in the south when it snows we are shut down.

 

[giggy]

Good evening weed everyone. Hippie I will agree with on rooting of clones. Some seem to be perfectly happy just sitting there and others root the next day.

I went out and took a few pictures of the PGG in the greenhouse today and it's really starting to smell nice in there. I don't think I will be growing any more until next year at least so I'm growing some Holy Basil and cucumbers in the tent using hydro. A guy gave me the tubes a year or so ago so I figured I would get her going. First the lady.

nice bud porn, and i like your cloning station.

 

[giggy]

Pictures, as promised. Pardon the clutter; I'm still rearranging after the harvest. Tried it out with a little 200 GPH pump just for kicks. Way too small.

nice setup hippie, maybe one day i'll have the room to do cloning likr that. my cloning is when something gets broke.

 

[giggy]

Took a couple of pictures a day or two ago. Girls are 11 weeks and 5 days old. Been on flowering, 12/12, for 5 weeks and 2 days. Tallest is 55 inches, none of them have grown in height for 5-6 days. Now the buds are fattening up. Let`s take a look.

Ghost Train Haze by Rare Dankness

nice bud porn, and i still like your cages.

 

[giggy]

Howdy All!

Well, this one handed old retired outlaw has gone & done it again!

We been getting some pretty heavy frost at night, so I built a shelter for the twins. Still working on the one for PGG. Should finish it tomorrow. tonight they gotta just deal with sheets & blankets covered in plastic.

I put an alcohol lamp in a coffee can & place it between the twins on the inside of the shelter to keep the temp from freezing the plants.
Smudge pot style without the soot.

I swear, I'm gonna get these twins to finish if it's the last thing I do!

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These are shots of the PGG. If I can get her shelter finished tomorrow I think I'll get her finished too

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haven't really had much time for the internet lately with my hep c treatment & trying to get stuff done before it freezes hard.
I hope you all are doing well.
I'll check back in soo.

Oh, by the way, Thanks Bill for the ratio's on the coconut oil & weed for caps.
I used some less potent weed to try it out & I wasn't too impressed with the strength so I just eat more of them
6 caps with the hep meds, a doob & I feel pretty good. Gotta keep bumping it now & then though, just for good measure.
Why use when you can abuse! (just kidding) Maybe.

Peace Out Y'all !

nice bud porn. no way i could do a small hut like that here, between my father in law and the boys in blue i would be done.

 

[bozzo420]

good morning all. cold and frosty here. I take it you guys are staying home yooper. I have not heard you talk of heading south. The daughter -in-law ended up in the hospital after a bad fall. The wife may have to do some baby sitting here. It may be lonely by myself. lol

 

[yooper420]

bozzo,
It`s cold and frosty here too, hunting season weather. If we do go to Florida it won`t be until Feb. (tax return). Too many unexpected bills due to changes in medical insurance and other changes due to our state government. Know you have many of the same issues happening. If you get too lonely, come on up hunting. Peace.

PS,
Only the best wishes for a speedy recovery for your daughter in law.

 

[yooper420]

giggy,
Thanks for the good comments. Got the cages on clearance, 2 for 1. Still expensive, but are heavy duty, lifetime cages.

 

[Keef]

Morning O.F.C. !-- Ugh ! - What time is it really ?-- We done had us an Artic Vortex or something lastnight -- it's about 65 degrees out this morning !-- Yo, I read about a bubbler not being effective at oxygenating the roots because the bubbles is too big and stuff ! Seems to me that my bubblers are pumping room air into my boxes 24/7 -- if the bubblers aren't effective -- no biggie da !--when that pump comes on the spray banging around in the box will oxygenated it's self ! Don't know how often the air in the box is replaced but the plants say -- often enough !

 

[umbra]

Good morning OFC. Wake n bake is job #1. My friend NCH helped me out with some head stash until the room is built and I start rocking. Even then the first crop I will be phenol shopping. But NCH dropped off some chem 91 that is truly outstanding. Between that and the black hash, my wake n bake is starting things off right this morning. With all the moving and unpacking, I threw out my back, my lungs have been working overtime and the COPD is taking its toll. Nothing like getting old...lol

 

[yooper420]

umbra,
"With a little help from my friends", heard this somewhere before, I do believe. Good friends like that are priceless. Getting old sure sucks when you feel that way. Healing karma heading your way.

 

[Keef]

Hope U get settled in soon Umbra !-- I hate moving !- it's hard on the body !-- Hey all U dirt farmers !-- is there one among U who moves extra air through your roots so they get oxygenated ? So I quess my boxes have more air available than your dirt but I seen them PPG and the roots seem plenty oxygenated to me !--

 

[bozzo420]

bozzo,
It`s cold and frosty here too, hunting season weather. If we do go to Florida it won`t be until Feb. (tax return). Too many unexpected bills due to changes in medical insurance and other changes due to our state government. Know you have many of the same issues happening. If you get too lonely, come on up hunting. Peace.

PS,
Only the best wishes for a speedy recovery for your daughter in law.

yoop I have found a way out of some health bills. I have been going to the VA. in fact, Wed. they are doing my colonoscopy. They bill Blue cross. Blue cross denies payment because its part of my deductible . But the VA never bills me. So my deductible is met for the year and I did not have to pay for it. A 1500 dollar saving. I even showed them my mmj card. the directions for colonoscopy said no marijuana smoking for 72 hours before the test. that means I have 2 hours to bake. lol

 

[Rosebud]

I have never heard that no pot 72 hours before.... wow, i smoked on the way in...hmmm.

Umbra, ice that back, smoke lots of pot and relax today. Rosebuds orders.