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The Mountain: Grow Support From The Over 50 Club
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PaleSun
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Supposedly chlorophyll is the main reason why weed can taste harsh. Chlorophyll will degrade after 4 or 5 days hanging somewhere cool and dark. A month hanging in your cool garage sounds super. Two weeks at 20c and RH 50/55% worked well for me last season. If your weed dries too fast then there will be chlorophyll still in the dry finished product.
RH 60% is a threshold for mold. So it's a delicate balancing act to keep the RH from swinging either way. Too low RH and drying speeds up.
Like so many things in growing weed, it can be taken to excess. I've been told my '2 weeks' is unnecessary, but as said by someone else, "Low and slow". I think there's a lot of 'Lore' is growing weed. Eg: special fertilizer ratios, pH testing of water rather than the growth media, molasses, flushing.
By the time you get to our ages, you likely have done a bit of gardening. Just like growing nice fat tomatoes or your prized roses, there are things we can do to promote the growth and development of our plants, the rest is genetics.
How's it going guy's,There is more growing experience in The Over 50 Club than in most growing threads on 420 Magazine.
Other threads consistently replow the same ground; "Am I over fertilizing? Over watering? Is this a male?"
Look, dont take this wrong. I'm happy folks get to learn a lot on here
And the general attitude of the folks on the site is great
BUT...(you knew it was coming)...
If you want a growing question answered from folks with a vast amount of hands-on experience, from people who are used to making stuff work well, WITHOUT a lot of money and input costs, or extra work...then The Mountain is the place to be
People from all over the site can come here, to the Mountain, to have their growing questions answered for real, by the oldest and most experienced growing folks on 420 Magazine!
If I had a growing problem with any of the crops on my farm, I asked my Dad and Grandpa and that is precisely how I view our contributions to this site.
So this is it.
The Mountain.
Is this place still active?
Wow you sound like you really know what you are doing. May I communicate with you regarding growing?
oops that was 2014 you My not be active on here now.
Old Guy Teaches
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Harvest time...... a few pic s for Sour Diesel....Old School.
Old Guy Teaches
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Soon......
They pretty. Sure.
All those kinds of girls are pretty.
And they look nice and healthy ... white pistols.
Leaves all green, not burned on the edges.
Very good job.
They look to me to be about two weeks out.
Do you have a scope that you can see trichome color?
That's what I always go by.
It's hard to tell with your pix but the top one looks 90% clear, and some cloudy.
Don't succumb to an anticipation-early-harvest.
I've done it ... talked myself into an early harvest.
Be patient.
It IS possible to over ripen ... but ... not likely.
All those kinds of girls are pretty.
And they look nice and healthy ... white pistols.
Leaves all green, not burned on the edges.
Very good job.
They look to me to be about two weeks out.
Do you have a scope that you can see trichome color?
That's what I always go by.
It's hard to tell with your pix but the top one looks 90% clear, and some cloudy.
Don't succumb to an anticipation-early-harvest.
I've done it ... talked myself into an early harvest.
Be patient.
It IS possible to over ripen ... but ... not likely.
garybo
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Great info about the corn and ladybugs.
Only problem with the ladybugs is when you turn a few hundred loose on the plants, they fly away when all the bugs are eaten. Perhaps if a professional grower had the bugs, they may hang around longer, but a small time farmer such as I, who grows perhaps 10 - 15 plants, the bugs hang around for a few days and then disappeared when there are no bad bugs left, looking elsewhere for their food. A week later the bad bugs reappear but the ladybugs are gone forever.
Anyway, spark up.
Tennessee Tim
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I have ladybugs year round in my grow room. They thrive when I have pest, so most starve to death or fly out the door. They reappear regularly. These are the non native ladybugs, imported to Georgia years ago, to fight aphids on peach trees. They have spread across the south and are considered a nuisance pest by many! They fill my windows from multiple hatchings throughout the year! They have not helped with Whiteflies or Thrips. I do have far less(rare now) aphid problems in my outdoor ornamentals and fruit trees.
Vegan4life
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Good to see fellow old stoners using this thread... It's been a few months 
Vegan4life
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Harvest August 2021
twistedlefty
420 Member
add another old fart to the prospect list.
63 yrs spinning thru the cosmos on the blue marble.
got my cultivators permit and im growing my own medicine, soon as i get the area cleared for the tents,
and some electrical work finished.
i purchased 2 tents GGT 4x4, GGT 5x5 and lights HLG 600bspec, (veg) and a 600rspec (flower)
now that i'm starting to recover from the sticker shock, I need to purchase fans.
I am leaning heavily towards 2 ac infinity T6s. pulling exhaust out thru a carbon filter in each tent
any comments or advice will be greatly appreciated
Thanks in advance
apologies if should i have posted this somewhere else
63 yrs spinning thru the cosmos on the blue marble.
got my cultivators permit and im growing my own medicine, soon as i get the area cleared for the tents,
and some electrical work finished.
i purchased 2 tents GGT 4x4, GGT 5x5 and lights HLG 600bspec, (veg) and a 600rspec (flower)
now that i'm starting to recover from the sticker shock, I need to purchase fans.
I am leaning heavily towards 2 ac infinity T6s. pulling exhaust out thru a carbon filter in each tent
any comments or advice will be greatly appreciated
Thanks in advance
apologies if should i have posted this somewhere else
Vegan4life
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Congratulations on your new set up! I have 3 HLG fixtures, can’t go wrong with HLG! I also have a 8” AC Infinity with controller and 8” carbon filter to vent my space . Great set up!
I grow in Living organic soil with great success. What medium will you be growing in?
Happy Growing!
twistedlefty
420 Member
Thanx,
haven't purchased, but thought i'd go with foxfarms ocean, and happy frog for my 1st.
i was thinking about running an 8" for both tents, but after researching, it seems like separate 6" fans would be better.
haven't purchased, but thought i'd go with foxfarms ocean, and happy frog for my 1st.
i was thinking about running an 8" for both tents, but after researching, it seems like separate 6" fans would be better.
Mbunaaddict
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Left her for 3 months in July, came home to her looking good.
GG4xGSC bx GG4.
Outside, 40°N Appalachian Mtns
Thanks for looking, better pics and story to come later why she was left alone.
GG4xGSC bx GG4.
Outside, 40°N Appalachian Mtns
Thanks for looking, better pics and story to come later why she was left alone.
Old Guy Teaches
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I think in my 35Plus years growing I think I've tried every Soil Medium available. Went with FOX Farm about 5 Years ago and sticking with it. I grow nothing But Sour D. My People haven't ever complained And, Thats what they want.I use 25 Gal Felt Pots . Epson salt .... General Hydro grow and Bloom and "ALWAYS" 6.1 PH. And, as soon as I see Blooming I add, gro Power Nitro.
GREAT PICS VEGAN+++++++++++ I Like Gooey!!!!. LOL
GREAT PICS VEGAN+++++++++++ I Like Gooey!!!!. LOL
MotaMan420
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Have been using Fox Farm Ocean Forest -- and this next grow will be with Happy Frog -- firing up my new TSL Horti - Tech ROl E720 led ... Will be trying Northern Berry autos in 5gal fabric pots for first maiden run of the new lite..
Happy Grow
MotaMan
Happy Grow
MotaMan
Old Guy Teaches
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Pls.....PLS use at least 20 Gal felt pots, There cheap. Your gonna Limit size with 5 Gal. Your grow my friend. Im here to help. Thats all. Good Luck.
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