Magnus8
Well-Known Member
Hi all!
It's been a while since I've been hanging out here on 420Mag because of my marriage ended and some other stuff has happened, and I havent grown in just as long.
But spring is just around the corner here in central Alberta and it's time for great changes in my life. Today I actually made it outside and was able to walk the length of the driveway twice. I have quite a long driveway and quite a bit of trouble walking on most days. But the wind was fresh and the sun was warm and Greta and Porkchop were out playing their little hearts out. It made me glad to be alive, a feeling I havent had since my wife left last year and all three of my dogs died.
So now I've got the trailer windows opened wide to encourage all that fresh sir to replace this musty air that I've been trapped with all this cold winter long.
So what am I growing, you ask?
A few weeks ago I bought 10 Chemdawg feminized seeds from Crop King Seeds in Vancouver. I germinated them the usual way with paper towels. Unfortunately, one of the seeds slipped through my clumsy fingers and I never did find it so i was down to 9bseeds. Then Porkchop - the nosy little bugger - reached up and snatched the covering paper towel off my seeds and another two were lost. I was now down to 7 seeds. And one never did germinate. So I'm left with 6 feminized Chemdawg seeds.
I chose to purchase this particular strain because, first of all, they can reach up to 20% thc in the grown buds. I like my thc, see? But also, Chemdawg is supposed to be a good plant for helping to deal with anxiety, and i live with a debilitating anxiety disorder that sometimes just cripples me. Ever since beginning to use weed at the ripe old age of 45-years-old about 7 years ago, my anxiety disorder has calmed greatly because i always try to use strains known for helping with anxiety. So to decide to grow my own weed that is known to aid in reducing anxiety is a good step for me to take.
Now this grow isn't able to feature a lot of fancy equipment such as stellar lighting packages because i only have very limited amounts of money at my disposal. But there is a lot of heart behind this grow.
What does this mean? Well, it means that I will always endeavor to be honest and accurate about what is happening in both my grow and in what I am learning as a result of my grow. Additionally, it means that you are likely to know a great deal about both me and Greta and Porkchop throughout this journal - because they are my only family left, really.
So a little bit about me and how I got to this day in my life...
I am a 52-year-old Canadian Male who grew up in the western province of Alberta. I life in a predominantly farming area, where all my neighbors grow Canola, Wheat and Oats in the fields surrounding the farm I rent to live on. Funny - you would think that a bunch of farmers would be fascinated by all kinds of plants. However when I began to grow 6 foot tall marijuana plants in my side garden a few years ago legally because of my marijuana prescription and accompanying grow license...well, you would be amazed by their reactions. I even had one neighbor drive up to my trailer while I was in the yard and angrily demand to know what I was growing in my yard. As if he didn't know, right? Later that afternoon I wasn't in the least surprised to see the cop car turn into my drive.
Don't worry. Nothing happened. I wasn't in trouble at all. I just brought out my license which the cop calmly perused. Then we spent the next hour or so amicably chatting about how to grow marijuana as I educated him greatly on this wonderful medicine. I also showed him all the seeds that were forming on my buds, confirming that someone else in the vicinity was probably growing, too, but not sexing their plants adequately. Then he took a pic of my grow license and told me that he would put it in their computer and the next time anyone called to complain I would be left alone to do my thing. In fact, he was a very nice, level headed and kindly man, this cop, and I really enjoyed teaching him about the plant, its wonderful medicinal qualities and about my own grow.
However, had he actually looked closely at the document, he would have discovered I was allowed to grow 32 plants at a time inside the house, not outside! At the time, I had 28 outdoor plants, some of them as high as 6 feet tall!
I didn't have to grow for a while after that summer - as you might imagine...
But things change, and right now I've got an inside grow happening which I just started a few weeks ago inside my 4.5 x 5 foot tent.
So, Chemdawg seeds, six of them.
Remo nutrients. Why Remo? Just because I've seen the results a friend got with these nutes and wow! what wonderful yields. Mind you, he uses 3000 watts of LEDs plus several LED bulbs as under-the-canopy lights to light his buds from underneath. He also has an online fan which blows old air out to his surrounding basement while simultaneously suckingnin fresh CO² into his tent through the conduits which are built into, I assume, all tents.
But he still gets great results with Remo nutes and, besides, when we worked out how much it cost in nutes for the lifetime of each plant, Remo nutes came out to be the least expensive choice for both of us.
Now, I'm not someone who will strive to control every last angle of growing weed indoors. I'm not fanatical about checking my runoff water. I dont assiduously attempt to raise and lower my pH levels. I already know that the reverse osmosis water I purchase from Canadian Tire here in town (because the water from my well is not potable) is in the 6 - 7 pH range, so that is good enough for me. Yes, I DO do spot checks to make sure of my quality control, but I just want to stress that I'm not as willing to go quite so far as dome to babysit their plants. Frankly, it is hard enough for me to bend at the waist, walk, carry anything, etc thsn to make it even harder to manage things. Yes, my yields may be less than some of these master growers here can get, but the stress isn't worth it to me. What I dont get in yields from this indoor grow I will make up for in yields from my outdoor grow this summer.
Of that, I am sure.
So now, Chemdawgs (six of 'em) with Remo nutes and a 1200 watt LED light in a 4.5 x 5 foot tent.
And a grower who maybe isn't a master grower - yet. But who is certainly willing to learn and share what he learns with his audience.
Oh - and Greta and Porkchop!
You in for the ride?
These six pics show my plants today at 15 days old. Some of them seem to have had a bit of a rough start, I don't really know why. But after getting nutes yesterday for the first time, each of them seems to be doing much better today. On a couple, some of their leaves began to dry and become useless, so I tore off the useless portions of these leaves. I think the cheap soil i purchased must not have had many nutrients in it and that they began starving for essential nutes at a very young age. Regardless, they all look better today so hopefully their leaves will stop drying out.
You in for it?
This is the runt of the litter!
In real life this plant is not anywhere near as sickly as this pic makes her look. I'm surprised she looks so poorly in this photo.
This plant had her top leaves pinched off just this morning.
I think I will pinch the top leaves of this one tomorrow morning.
I pinched the top leaves of this one several days ago and already you can see the split forming.
I pinched the top leaves of this one, also, a few days ago and the split is obvious here, too.
Greta and Porkchop. Greta has JUST been caught eating my dry milk while Porkchop lies serenely at her feet. Greta is obviously a Black Lab (my favourite breed of dog) while Porkchop is half Pit Bull and half Akita (what an extraordinary mix!). This photo is a few months old now, so Porkchop is quite a bit bigger (he is going to be huge, I think). But they are both lovely animals who, unfortunately, fight a lot despite being best friends. Siblings. Go figure.
So have a great day, all. Remember: social distancing saves lives. I was ordered by my dr to stay indoors and away from people because I am considered high risk on several fronts, so I'm listening and not leaving the farm except to get water. I dont like it that way, but if we are going to beat this bug we have all got to work together!
Cheers!
~Magnus
It's been a while since I've been hanging out here on 420Mag because of my marriage ended and some other stuff has happened, and I havent grown in just as long.
But spring is just around the corner here in central Alberta and it's time for great changes in my life. Today I actually made it outside and was able to walk the length of the driveway twice. I have quite a long driveway and quite a bit of trouble walking on most days. But the wind was fresh and the sun was warm and Greta and Porkchop were out playing their little hearts out. It made me glad to be alive, a feeling I havent had since my wife left last year and all three of my dogs died.
So now I've got the trailer windows opened wide to encourage all that fresh sir to replace this musty air that I've been trapped with all this cold winter long.
So what am I growing, you ask?
A few weeks ago I bought 10 Chemdawg feminized seeds from Crop King Seeds in Vancouver. I germinated them the usual way with paper towels. Unfortunately, one of the seeds slipped through my clumsy fingers and I never did find it so i was down to 9bseeds. Then Porkchop - the nosy little bugger - reached up and snatched the covering paper towel off my seeds and another two were lost. I was now down to 7 seeds. And one never did germinate. So I'm left with 6 feminized Chemdawg seeds.
I chose to purchase this particular strain because, first of all, they can reach up to 20% thc in the grown buds. I like my thc, see? But also, Chemdawg is supposed to be a good plant for helping to deal with anxiety, and i live with a debilitating anxiety disorder that sometimes just cripples me. Ever since beginning to use weed at the ripe old age of 45-years-old about 7 years ago, my anxiety disorder has calmed greatly because i always try to use strains known for helping with anxiety. So to decide to grow my own weed that is known to aid in reducing anxiety is a good step for me to take.
Now this grow isn't able to feature a lot of fancy equipment such as stellar lighting packages because i only have very limited amounts of money at my disposal. But there is a lot of heart behind this grow.
What does this mean? Well, it means that I will always endeavor to be honest and accurate about what is happening in both my grow and in what I am learning as a result of my grow. Additionally, it means that you are likely to know a great deal about both me and Greta and Porkchop throughout this journal - because they are my only family left, really.
So a little bit about me and how I got to this day in my life...
I am a 52-year-old Canadian Male who grew up in the western province of Alberta. I life in a predominantly farming area, where all my neighbors grow Canola, Wheat and Oats in the fields surrounding the farm I rent to live on. Funny - you would think that a bunch of farmers would be fascinated by all kinds of plants. However when I began to grow 6 foot tall marijuana plants in my side garden a few years ago legally because of my marijuana prescription and accompanying grow license...well, you would be amazed by their reactions. I even had one neighbor drive up to my trailer while I was in the yard and angrily demand to know what I was growing in my yard. As if he didn't know, right? Later that afternoon I wasn't in the least surprised to see the cop car turn into my drive.
Don't worry. Nothing happened. I wasn't in trouble at all. I just brought out my license which the cop calmly perused. Then we spent the next hour or so amicably chatting about how to grow marijuana as I educated him greatly on this wonderful medicine. I also showed him all the seeds that were forming on my buds, confirming that someone else in the vicinity was probably growing, too, but not sexing their plants adequately. Then he took a pic of my grow license and told me that he would put it in their computer and the next time anyone called to complain I would be left alone to do my thing. In fact, he was a very nice, level headed and kindly man, this cop, and I really enjoyed teaching him about the plant, its wonderful medicinal qualities and about my own grow.
However, had he actually looked closely at the document, he would have discovered I was allowed to grow 32 plants at a time inside the house, not outside! At the time, I had 28 outdoor plants, some of them as high as 6 feet tall!
I didn't have to grow for a while after that summer - as you might imagine...
But things change, and right now I've got an inside grow happening which I just started a few weeks ago inside my 4.5 x 5 foot tent.
So, Chemdawg seeds, six of them.
Remo nutrients. Why Remo? Just because I've seen the results a friend got with these nutes and wow! what wonderful yields. Mind you, he uses 3000 watts of LEDs plus several LED bulbs as under-the-canopy lights to light his buds from underneath. He also has an online fan which blows old air out to his surrounding basement while simultaneously suckingnin fresh CO² into his tent through the conduits which are built into, I assume, all tents.
But he still gets great results with Remo nutes and, besides, when we worked out how much it cost in nutes for the lifetime of each plant, Remo nutes came out to be the least expensive choice for both of us.
Now, I'm not someone who will strive to control every last angle of growing weed indoors. I'm not fanatical about checking my runoff water. I dont assiduously attempt to raise and lower my pH levels. I already know that the reverse osmosis water I purchase from Canadian Tire here in town (because the water from my well is not potable) is in the 6 - 7 pH range, so that is good enough for me. Yes, I DO do spot checks to make sure of my quality control, but I just want to stress that I'm not as willing to go quite so far as dome to babysit their plants. Frankly, it is hard enough for me to bend at the waist, walk, carry anything, etc thsn to make it even harder to manage things. Yes, my yields may be less than some of these master growers here can get, but the stress isn't worth it to me. What I dont get in yields from this indoor grow I will make up for in yields from my outdoor grow this summer.
Of that, I am sure.
So now, Chemdawgs (six of 'em) with Remo nutes and a 1200 watt LED light in a 4.5 x 5 foot tent.
And a grower who maybe isn't a master grower - yet. But who is certainly willing to learn and share what he learns with his audience.
Oh - and Greta and Porkchop!
You in for the ride?
These six pics show my plants today at 15 days old. Some of them seem to have had a bit of a rough start, I don't really know why. But after getting nutes yesterday for the first time, each of them seems to be doing much better today. On a couple, some of their leaves began to dry and become useless, so I tore off the useless portions of these leaves. I think the cheap soil i purchased must not have had many nutrients in it and that they began starving for essential nutes at a very young age. Regardless, they all look better today so hopefully their leaves will stop drying out.
You in for it?
This is the runt of the litter!
In real life this plant is not anywhere near as sickly as this pic makes her look. I'm surprised she looks so poorly in this photo.
This plant had her top leaves pinched off just this morning.
I think I will pinch the top leaves of this one tomorrow morning.
I pinched the top leaves of this one several days ago and already you can see the split forming.
I pinched the top leaves of this one, also, a few days ago and the split is obvious here, too.
Greta and Porkchop. Greta has JUST been caught eating my dry milk while Porkchop lies serenely at her feet. Greta is obviously a Black Lab (my favourite breed of dog) while Porkchop is half Pit Bull and half Akita (what an extraordinary mix!). This photo is a few months old now, so Porkchop is quite a bit bigger (he is going to be huge, I think). But they are both lovely animals who, unfortunately, fight a lot despite being best friends. Siblings. Go figure.
So have a great day, all. Remember: social distancing saves lives. I was ordered by my dr to stay indoors and away from people because I am considered high risk on several fronts, so I'm listening and not leaving the farm except to get water. I dont like it that way, but if we are going to beat this bug we have all got to work together!
Cheers!
~Magnus
with this one. Sorry to hear about your three dogs but the two you have now look happy 
.
. Good luck in court Magnus!
