The Leprechaun's Pot O Gold

smoken n strummin

smoken n strummin

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Hi RM3, I'm trying to find out where the old crew is. As you can see my name has changed slightly, but I think you can figure it out. I haven't been active in two years, but I'm starting a new thing and want to reconnect. I can't pm you or UB either, so I thought I would give you a shout out in your forum. Please message me if you can. Nice plants!
 
Oregon Gardener

Oregon Gardener

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RM3 said:
Hello and welcome to my grow journal, here you will find that everything I do is very different than what you normally read in forum grow journals. In no way am I saying that my way is better, it is just different and I also do not say that others should try any of it as it requires a different way of thinking and unlearning things a tad. The good news is that if you follow you might learn a few things that you can do to improve your herb.

I breed as part of my hobby, my grows are just for me and I enjoy making new strains. I have made several that are popular and growing around the world but you won't find em in any seedbanks. I just finished a seed run where I have made bout 50 more new strains. The current grow is a bud run and started 3 weeks ago, 2 were flipped then, 2 were flipped 2 weeks ago, 1 was flipped 1 week ago and 5 were flipped this morning. The Beast (tall one in the back) is first time ever grown and the 5 Thunder Express flipped this morning is the first ever bud run (I have taken her to F2 in seed runs thus far)

I flower & veg with T5's, I use a medium based on Al Tapla's gritty mix which is sunshine mix #4 mixed 50/50 with kitty litter (calcined clay) (Al uses turface, it is the same thing just cost more) My garden is a completely open space in my basement, I do not have any intake or exhaust fans and I have never owned a carbon scrubber as my garden never stinks. I do not worry about light leaks, I have plenty of em and have only had 3 plants herm in the last 5 years IMO hermies are 100% genetics (I know most won't agree lol) I use all chem nutes start to finish and I never flush at the end. I use very different light timings, for veg I use what is called Gaslight Veg it is 12 on, 5.5 off, 1.5 on, 5 off and for flower I do 6.5 on, .5 off, 4 on, 13 off.



You can check the link in my sig to see pics from the recent harvest, it also includes several independent smoke reports of some of my strains :)

Here is what the garden looks like as of this morning ,,,,,,,,

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LOVLEE, with capitol Es :clap:
 
Oregon Gardener

Oregon Gardener

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RM3 said:
They were gotten by Gypsy (ICMAG) at La Reunion years ago and he gifted em to Uncle Ben and Uncle Ben gifted em to me. I actually have one hell of a seed collection, but most of the ones listed are my strains. The Oxacan, Zamal & Lebonese are land races The Urban Menace is Classics, The Zamaldelica is ACE, the rest are mine, the Borealis is my Northern Lights named after the Aurora Borealis
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Although I did press the like button, It just did not seem enough
ttystikk said:
You better watch out for this guy. He's full of the kind of ideas that get people hooked on growing- for life!
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Well as you can see, I got the bug a long time ago when I was just a puppy. This pic is from 79 or 80 when all the seeds in brick weed were sterile and regular people like (teen-agers) weren't able to get viable seeds. LoL These seeds must have been dropped by aliens ?
 

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elkamino

elkamino

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Oregon Gardener said:
all the seeds in brick weed were sterile and regular people like (teen-agers) weren't able to get viable seeds.
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Hmmmm. I live in Alaska and run 100% from seed. Well 2 years ago I bought a bag of local mota on Isla Mujeres. While it was stemmy and seedy and ugly and brown I found it to have a soaring sativa high that we really liked. So I snuck a few of the seeds back up here, and put them in the stash.

Well last week I soaked a bunch of seeds- some of my own Xs, some purchased from seedbanks, and 4 of the Isla seeds. All purchased seeds and all seeds I crossed have popped but NONE of the Isla seeds have germed! What's up with that? I assumed they were just old, or mishandled. But your post has me wondering if there's a reason... "all the seeds in brick weed (are) sterile..."

I'd never heard that, or attempted to germ a mexi brick weed seed before, and am wondering what's the deal with that. Something happen to bricked ganj that kills the seeds?
 
Oregon Gardener

Oregon Gardener

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elkamino said:
Hmmmm. I live in Alaska and run 100% from seed. Well 2 years ago I bought a bag of local mota on Isla Mujeres. While it was stemmy and seedy and ugly and brown I found it to have a soaring sativa high that we really liked. So I snuck a few of the seeds back up here, and put them in the stash.

Well last week I soaked a bunch of seeds- some of my own Xs, some purchased from seedbanks, and 4 of the Isla seeds. All purchased seeds and all seeds I crossed have popped but NONE of the Isla seeds have germed! What's up with that? I assumed they were just old, or mishandled. But your post has me wondering if there's a reason... "all the seeds in brick weed (are) sterile..."

I'd never heard that, or attempted to germ a mexi brick weed seed before, and am wondering what's the deal with that. Something happen to bricked ganj that kills the seeds?
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I'm not really sure. There is a famous breeder who says that those seeds were all sterile and intimates that he was one of the only people growing weed in the U.S. the 70s. I just joke about it:) It seems like everybody I knew, grew. That's an exaggeration of course, but it just seemed that way when I was a kid.
 
whitebb2727

whitebb2727

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elkamino said:
Hmmmm. I live in Alaska and run 100% from seed. Well 2 years ago I bought a bag of local mota on Isla Mujeres. While it was stemmy and seedy and ugly and brown I found it to have a soaring sativa high that we really liked. So I snuck a few of the seeds back up here, and put them in the stash.

Well last week I soaked a bunch of seeds- some of my own Xs, some purchased from seedbanks, and 4 of the Isla seeds. All purchased seeds and all seeds I crossed have popped but NONE of the Isla seeds have germed! What's up with that? I assumed they were just old, or mishandled. But your post has me wondering if there's a reason... "all the seeds in brick weed (are) sterile..."

I'd never heard that, or attempted to germ a mexi brick weed seed before, and am wondering what's the deal with that. Something happen to bricked ganj that kills the seeds?
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Depends on how it is handled. The last QP of brick I got had plenty of big ole tiger strip seeds. About 80% germ rate on them. You'll like it.

@RM3

Your journal was the deciding factor for me to run t5ho.
Just so people know, t5's do get hot especially running 432 watts in a small space.

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RM3

RM3

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Over the years I have "discovered" several things about this plant by accident, my latest/newest experiment happened by accident as well and I gotta say it is blowin me away !!!

A couple of weeks ago one of my CO2 stir fans got clogged (it happens) and I whacked it to knock it loose. When I did I broke one of the fan blades off and the fan started vibratin. I'm like fuck, now I gotta change it out. But then I saw this growth spurt from hell the next day and I was like WTF ? I put my hand on the pot and could def feel the vibration, I could also feel it by touchin the stem of the plant.

The experiment part of this came from seeing the difference between the 2 plants I flipped at the same time, one is in a 3 gal pot the other in a 2 gal pot. Both are growin really fast but the 2 gal pot is simply unreal and my thoughts on this is the resonate frequency of the vibrations are different. I wanna get an adjustable vibratin motor setup to test further but for now I am just lettin the broken fan do its thing.

These pics are the 2 gal plant that started week 3 of flower yesterday
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bravedave

bravedave

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RM3 said:
Over the years I have "discovered" several things about this plant by accident, my latest/newest experiment happened by accident as well and I gotta say it is blowin me away !!!

A couple of weeks ago one of my CO2 stir fans got clogged (it happens) and I whacked it to knock it loose. When I did I broke one of the fan blades off and the fan started vibratin. I'm like fuck, now I gotta change it out. But then I saw this growth spurt from hell the next day and I was like WTF ? I put my hand on the pot and could def feel the vibration, I could also feel it by touchin the stem of the plant.

The experiment part of this came from seeing the difference between the 2 plants I flipped at the same time, one is in a 3 gal pot the other in a 2 gal pot. Both are growin really fast but the 2 gal pot is simply unreal and my thoughts on this is the resonate frequency of the vibrations are different. I wanna get an adjustable vibratin motor setup to test further but for now I am just lettin the broken fan do its thing.

These pics are the 2 gal plant that started week 3 of flower yesterday
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I've had the same thought but have not followed through on it. It came to me as I positioned a box fan and it was in contact with a plant's drain tub and the plant was vibrating noticeably. Just wondered...
Prove its viability and then there is a product to be engineered.
 
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