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The Home Grower's Thread

HappyHighwayman said:
Should I do a flush? I haven't used many nutrients at all as Brokenlink's soil was beautiful but I've used SOME bloom and SOME seaweed extract and the compost teas. Right now it's 100% H20 PH'd down to 6.2

I added a tiny dehumidifier to the tent, it's garbage as far as I can tell might return it. Hardly 1/8th full after 24 hours. Humidity solid 60% all the time.

If I forget to crack the garage door the garage is incredibly tropical when I get home and I did this yesterday and I noticed the top of one of the bucket plants was rather dry/burned....I gave it a little water and cracked the garage and it's fine today but that tiny bud at the top was all dry like it had been cut off and left to dry for a few days so I cut if off...everything else is green and alive.

It's been pretty humid in SF so I need to keep the garage door open for fresh air so the garage doesn't get all humid and too hot in the buckets. For Buckets 2.0 I might add a second intake vent.
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If you ran light nutes I would say just flush for last week. From what I gathered most people who have a steady feed schedule flush the last 10-14 days
 
ABC said:
If you ran light nutes I would say just flush for last week. From what I gathered most people who have a steady feed schedule flush the last 10-14 days
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Just make sure to continue to PH the water so you don't get salt uptake, don't water more than you normally would, don't start too early, and watch for yellowing. If you are using amended soil, flushing will do nothing. You can use a product called Clearex if you need to flush faster.
 
Just had my first compliance check. Let them inspect instead of try to delay it. The code guys were nice and seemed forthcoming, sherrifs were super nice as well. Gotta cut a bunch, but I'm very happy with the quality of the encounter.
 
byke said:
Just had my first compliance check. Let them inspect instead of try to delay it. The code guys were nice and seemed forthcoming, sherrifs were super nice as well. Gotta cut a bunch, but I'm very happy with the quality of the encounter.
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Over the line??
 
Square footage, quantity and visibility. New rules in placer county, but nobody in the rural areas is doing anything different because we didn't think they'd come out here. Wrong, haha. Supposed to come back next Thursday to make sure it's in compliance.
 
If it's outdoor, it should be fairly salvageable, yeah? Mine is starting to get fat buds.
 
byke said:
Square footage, quantity and visibility. New rules in placer county, but nobody in the rural areas is doing anything different because we didn't think they'd come out here. Wrong, haha. Supposed to come back next Thursday to make sure it's in compliance.
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My understanding in our county is no outside grow, is this typical?

I'd love to get a plant from you J: stick it in my front yard, let my wife water it and see how long it takes her to figure out what it is....
 
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HappyHighwayman said:
Can I come work for you?
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Ha, don't want it to sound bigger than it is. Too small for employees.

mean dad said:
If it's outdoor, it should be fairly salvageable, yeah? Mine is starting to get fat buds.
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Less than half way through flower, plus most were topped too heavy and stunted. It's no big loss. They said we can keep four, so that's cool.

oobus said:
My understanding in our county is no outside grow, is this typical?
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I would say that's not typical, at least east of Sac. I think Lassen county allows 72 outdoor, pretty sweet. Placer just went down to 6 and/or 50 sq ft.
 
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HappyHighwayman said:
http://sfist.com/2017/08/31/80_percent_of_medical_marijuana_tes.php
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It is really tough to have commercial grows without using chemistry. I believe there will always be some mold spors on a plant. The question is what is an acceptable and safe limit? I prefer to grow my own becuse I like knowng exactly what is or isnt on it.

From the link

SF Mag goes further into Anresco's results, finding that pesticides and fungicides can appear in cannabis extracts at 1,000 times the level of concentration typically found in foods. These chemicals include things like myclobutanil, which sold under the brand name Eagle 20, and which can cause cancer and has reportedly sickened cannabis consumers in Canada.
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Mike95060 said:
It is really tough to have commercial grows without using chemistry. I believe there will always be some mold spors on a plant. The question is what is an acceptable and safe limit? I prefer to grow my own becuse I like knowng exactly what is or isnt on it.
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Clearly whatever they're doing isn't working if 80% of the weed has mold.
 
HappyHighwayman said:
Clearly whatever they're doing isn't working if 80% of the weed has mold.
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But how much? Was a spore count done? Or was it just "yep there are spores on it!"

I prefer out door. Call me a dirty hippy but I just dig plants grown in the sun. I have done an indoor tent too and that was fun for sure. But on the whole when I think about the energy use, the space it takes up, all the stuff you need to do to have it work..... Fuck it. I would rather put a few plants out back and call it good. Just my prefrence. If I have to accept some bugs and spores to do it outside I'm ok with it. But like I said since its just a hobby, I get to decide what is acceptable. If you want to sell to dispensaries, well then you have to meet certain criteria. I think the industry is going to be determining what those criteria are in the next few years.

It is going to take more good science to, I think, to determine what is safe and acceptable when it comes to mold and chemistry. I doubt any science has been done on the effects of SMOKING pestacides. Its probably a good thng to know if you want to consume buds that get sprayed.
 
oobus said:
My understanding in our county is no outside grow, is this typical?

I'd love to get a plant from you J: stick it in my front yard, let my wife water it and see how long it takes her to figure out what it is....
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Tehama is the woooorst. I can't believe no one has sued the shit out of those hicks. One $100,000 settlement would put that dump of a county into bankruptcy.
 
So my electric bill is nowhere near as bad as I thought it's around $200 PG&E every month running the LED and the buckets and my home server with NAS and external drives.

I should compare to same time last year when I wasn't growing
 
I wasted a few buckets on my HPS 400 and then upgrading the bulb and power supply to 600 and then dumping it when I realized the LED paid for itself in electricity usage savings.

So I have a light set to sell but not sure where the best place to do it would be.
 
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