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oldskol4evr

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I can't remember which vendor I bought them from, remember them not being top notch, which is more than likely why I have one left, glad to see the back of them Oldy. If you look at the first pic of the seeds, the Critical Kush came up at the same time, they just don't want to take off after they pop.
mine did same thing,i just took it as it wanted maybe hotter temps than i ran in my closet that was the only thing i could figure why other than just a runt,it was great smoke though,just not enough,i want to say the dude name was northwest grower or something like that,him and gt got into it and the dude went postal so i quit dealing with him, i got some seeds over 20 yrs old never got rid of,i scared up the last ones i grew and they came on up,i been working with that strain for about 30 years just never really did much with them,i was gonna breed it with my last strain acupoco gold and gorrilla glue that growing green bred but hurricane harvey kinda nipped that in the bud,i did a cross of the gold glue and the white blaze and acupoco gold he also bred,he called that one white gold if i remember right,hadnt heard from any of them cats in years.
reno and i seprated a while back on here ,went to talking noise so i just hit the ignore button on him then found he got banned for something.
weird as shit all them cats banned over talking about seed and clone sales and now the forum is flooded with the stuff ,i wouldnt ever buy any of it dont know anyone here anymore
 
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Good morning tokers and growers, its Saturday, its raining, its dull, but its sunny Spring day in the grow space, love that MH blue. 😎 Three plants are fine, but one is waving goodbye, as its not in with the in crowd, so the Critical Kush has left the scene, its in this round of pics, but it wont be appearing in any further photo shoots, and will now reside with the worms in the compost heap, bye CK. 👋 This pack of seeds is the worst I've had from Barney's, all the other packs have been good, and I've grown a few of Barney's over the years, the Super Lemon Haze being a favourite, a good lemon. 👍 So we're down to a three plant scrog, the upshot of that is the CK was next to the Chocolate Skunk, to the Chocolate Skunk has more room to spread out now, and is a better toke than the Critical Kush anyway, swings and roundabouts. 🙂 The other three plants have no problems, they look green and mean, so no worries about them. Was looking at the plants this morning, and its nearly time they were topped to encourage side branching, down side to this method is you lose your main cola, which is sacrilege to some growers, but they have to go if your going to scrog your plants, as its the only way to keep the canopy flat, which to me is the point of scrogging. So near the end of the week some time, the three remaining scroggers will topped. The fan I repaired last week is still working, so a small saving on a new fan there, which at the moment, with the vicious rise in electric, makes me smile. 🙂 Not wanting people to feel glum, but some people will find the energy prices force them out of growing their own, got some young families around me cutting back things before the bills bury them, sad to watch. Moving along, pic time. 🙂

Critical Kush. Last seed, final appearance. Look at the size difference between the plants.
Critical Kush V1a



Chocolate Skunk. Big difference in growth.
Chocolate Skunk V1a


Chocloate Skunk V1b


Amnesia Lemon.
Amnesia Lemon V1a


Amnesia Lemon V1b


Franco's Lemon Cheese.
Francos Lemon Cheese V1a


Francos Lemon Cheese V1b



This week, when I make time, will see me meshing up the scrog frame in readiness for the plants being topped. Once the plants reach the scrog height, the scrog will go on, this should be in a couple of weeks, hopefully. So that's where we are with the grow at the minute, just been informed that I have some decorating to do, as I'm stuck indoors today as long as its raining, come on sun. 😁 So tune in next week to see the topped plants, and any other garden subjects that may help you along, so until then, just keep tokin folks. 👍
 
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Morning tokers and growers, hope your all bathed in sunshine like we are, forecast is a sunny weekend, not warm enough for a barby, but nice enough to be out in it with out wearing a freezer suit. 😎 Plants are looking well, nice colour and good vigorous growth. Topped the three remaining plants, and compost binned the struggling Critical Kush, which is a shame, as Barney's stuff is normally bullet proof, this wouldn't put me off buying more of Barney's range, but I would avoid the Critical Kush. 😉 The other three remaining plants have had no problems at all, they're reaching for the sun. Found some time to top all three plants, the Amnesia Lemon is going for it, and is currently the biggest plant of the three, which is strange, as the Franco's Lemon Cheese grew into the hood last time I ran it under HID, but I'm sure it will catch up later, not that it matters, as height is not the issue this run, as all three plants will be sharing a scrog, so nothing should grow into the shade this time, but as you know, every now and then you come across a rogue that upsets your perfect plan. If all goes to plan this week, and we have a growth spurt, then the next update should see us with the scrog net on in next weeks update. 😁 Anyway, lets look at some pics. 👍

Critical Kush. 👎
Critical Kush V2a


Chocolate Skunk. Topped, and loving life, if you can track some of these seeds down, get some, nice fruity, earthy toke, and smells divine in a grinder. 👍
Chocolate Skunk V2a


Chocolate Skunk V2b


Amnesia Lemon. Very lemony toke.
Amnesia Lemon V2a


Amnesia Lemon V2b


Franco's Lemon Cheese.
Francos Lemon Cheese V2a


Francos Lemon Cheese V2b



Other things, like the cheap PH and PPM meters, simple to build, cheap, made to dip in an inch of water, so why have I got a bag full of meters that broke down? It rained quite a bit last week, so this forced me into the workshop to get some things fixed, that I'd hidden out of the way of her indoors. 🙂 While having a small toke, I pulled out a plastic bag, full of PH and PPM meters, started fiddling with one. Anyway, out came the craft knife, then the pliers, then the choppers/nibblers, and I took one apart, goes with out saying that in my current state, it won't be going back together. 😂
After another small pipe, I had one of the cheapy yellow PH meters in bits. What I found is, the probes are siliconed in where the probes meet the solution your dipping into, well I don't know if the salts from the nuits causes the solution to creep past the silicon into the meters inner workings, on all the meters I took apart, all suffered the same water encroachment. So it seems you can't leave your meters in fluids, or lay them down after you've used them. I now have an old cup, and my cheap meters will be housed in this cup, up-right to stop the ingression of fluids. The other thing I found was that the pickup probes were a little gummed up, so a mild clean up with a bit of soapy water and fine paint brush soon had that sorted. Hopefully this will save me a few bucks to put into my utility bills, and save you a bit of cash. 👍

Taking a look inside. 😁
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If you look on the black splodge on the cardboard, you can see water droplets, this came out an old meter, so must have come from inside the meter when I opened it.
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So there you go. Leave your meters upright to stop moisture getting inside, and every now and then, give the probes a gentle clean with a soft toothbrush and mild soapy water, change the batteries every year, and your meter should serve you well, and save you some money buying new ones. 👍

And that's it for this week, all is updated, hope you save some money in the future on meters, I will. 😁 Until next week, just keep tokin folks. 👍
 
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Morning tokers and growers, hope this update finds you in fine fettle. 🙂 All is well here, got wall to wall to wall sunshine today, BBQ maybe. 😎 Finally got round to fitting the scrog net mid week, just in time for the Amnesia Lemon as its touching the scrog netting already, while the other two are around an inch shorter, but it wont be long before all three plants are pushing against the mesh. 🙂 Don't know how long it will take to fill the mesh with branches, maybe four weeks from now with a bit of luck, would like this run out of the way before Summer, then I can give the LED another run in warmer conditions than last time, as the LED runs much colder than the HID. It strikes me that the free heat from the HID heats your outer environment as well as the inner, as the house seems warmer with the HID than the LED, thinking the LED will get another outing later this Summer when the weather warms up. Managed to get the scrog net on mid week, just in time, as the Amnesia Lemon is touching the mesh, while the other two are around an inch shorter. Don't know how long it will take to fill the net, three to four weeks maybe, or flip at half a net, will decide that over the next few weeks, depends on how fast they take off. Pics. 👍

Chocolate Skunk.
Chocolate Skunk V4a


Chocolate Skunk V4b


Amnesia Lemon.
Amnesia Lemon V4a


Amnesia Lemon V4b


Franco's Lemon Cheese. Don't know what ate the leaf, hope its dead. 😁
Francos Lemon Cheese V4a


Francos Lemon Cheese V4b


And there you go, all updated. Plants should fill out the scrog a bit more by next week, want to know how much, then tune in next week and find out 😁, until then, just keep tokin folks. 👍
 
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I pulled the plug on my gals for a dark period before flip at 6:00 pm yesterday, 6 gals should bring a good harvest, we'll see,Cheers SS
 
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Morning tokers and growers, hope your all fighting fit. Plants are starting to pick up a bit of pace, branches are growing well and starting to fill the frame. All three have good colour and seem quite vigorous, so no problems at the moment. I would say the scrog is half full, the only bald patch is where the Critical Kush was, so I'm trying to get the Chocolate Skunk to fill some of it in, as well as its own spot, and with a little help from the Amnesia lemon, the empty space should be filled in in a couple of weeks. 🙂 Right, pics. 😁

Chocolate Skunk.
Chocolate Skunk V5a


Chocolate Skunk V5b


Amnesia Lemon.
Amnesia Lemon V5a


Amnesia Lemon V5b


Franco's Lemon Cheese.
Francos Lemon Cheese V5a


Francos Lemon Cheese V5b


Group shot. You can see the bare patch where the Critical Kush let the side down, so the plan is to let the other plants encroach the space. If you imagine all three plants on this side of the scrog, then you can see the scrog is half full. Not that it needs to be chocca full, as I think the two plants on the right will out grow the scrog space they have before the whole scrog is full, so it could depend on how tight it gets for these two right hand plants as to when they get flipped. 😎
Group Shot V5c


There you have it, all is going well here at camp Chemistry Grow for a change, unlike the last two runs, so will this scrog continue to flourish, tune in next week and find out, until then, just keep tokin folks. 👍
 
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Yes it does suc, shame, as all the Barney's seeds I've bought have been good, but this strain seems to be a ball ache to get going, wouldn't be so bad if other growers had better results, but most have had the same experience as me, so a ropey strain maybe.
I just feel like some strains are a bit finicky; and that they require a little tighter controls bubba; sometimes that can actually be a "good" trait IMHO. It might be a pain to get it dialed right; but the end payoff is what I'm speaking; ie. the quality of the terpenes produced.


Should be interesting to see what the little girls produce; as it is quite often more compelling; than some bigger flowers.

Seem to me that terpenes; and TCH production are a bit of a see saw effect... ie. When terps are high; it brings down the THC potentials somewhat. Also the types of terpenes; in particular; seems like some flavors might inhibit growth a bit; thus the full circle back to finicky.... round and round; nobody knows... Cause it's trying to make "bug repellent" or "pathogen protection" out of the THC and/or Terpenoids.
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Could b time to check down the back of the sofa...its been a little while now 😃
Your probably hitting right on target here bubba. No doubts in my mind; I've had many of good bag seeds. Some of my best cultivars in the collection came from this very source; and it's a big one. We've scooped more than a few 25>35% THC++ cultivars by this means; and they were lab tested. Plus your basically getting something that probably been bred on small scale by the inhouse breeder; so it's probably females. ie. done for a purpose; but somehow leaked though.

I've got so many; that's a project in and of itself I hope to accomplish this spring. Haven't come across a single herm yet.
 
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I just feel like some strains are a bit finicky; and that they require a little tighter controls bubba; sometimes that can actually be a "good" trait IMHO. It might be a pain to get it dialed right; but the end payoff is what I'm speaking; ie. the quality of the terpenes produced.


Should be interesting to see what the little girls produce; as it is quite often more compelling; than some bigger flowers.

Seem to me that terpenes; and TCH production are a bit of a see saw effect... ie. When terps are high; it brings down the THC potentials somewhat. Also the types of terpenes; in particular; seems like some flavors might inhibit growth a bit; thus the full circle back to finicky.... round and round; nobody knows... Cause it's trying to make "bug repellent" or "pathogen protection" out of the THC and/or Terpenoids.
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The Sofa Surprise was a joint/pipe/bag seed I found down the back of my sofa, grew a very nice plant, with nice taste and stonedness, alas, it was the only one, dam. 🙂
 
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here is a real surprise,i put this seed in my raised garden bed in dec,it made it threw winter with just covering with a bucket during frezzing weather,it not only suprised me to live ,but the dang thing is flowering hahahah. i transplanted it to my squash bed and it burned the leaves,so left it alone and i been tieing the bitch down since,i can only imagine what the leaves are gonna look like once it reveg
 
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