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  1. Father Ramirez

    @Silky_smooth RIU Solo Cup Challenge**

    The double asterisk denotes a twist - I challenge you, @Silky_smooth, to a grow off using seeds that YOU bred! That’s right, everyone, my dear friend Silky has sent to me from her undisclosed location in Western Europe, an exotic assortment of very special seeds! Among them is her own OG Kush x...
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    Meyer lemon cloning success! Now what?

    I’ve tried growing citrus from seed unsuccessfully. A friend gave me a cutting from her dwarf Meyer lemon and it’s growing!! I’m in DC, indoors of course. Words of wisdom by accomplished citrus growers are most welcome! Thanks for checking in
  3. Father Ramirez

    Fixing root rot: Hydroguard v Southern Ag Garden Friendly Fungicide

    I am addressing root problems in my first ever hydro grow and seek counsel from those more experienced please. These two products are similarly priced, have the identical active ingredient, but at very different strengths according to their labels. So different that I question if one of them has...
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    Root Cured - is it a gourmet cannabis experience?

    Hardly scientific, but my 38 yo son and I agree that plants gently uprooted, rinsed clean, and allowed to hang by the root tip until dry taste smoother than buds from branches that were cut off the main stalk. This is particularly noticeable in a short cure. Short cured whole plant tastes pretty...
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    Curing it from the root up...or down, actually

    I harvested and dried several plants recently by shaking clean of soil, and then rinsing the roots, and hanging the full plants upside down by the root ends until dry. It took a while, but what a flavor and stone! Unscientific I admit. But my 38 y/o son and I agree this is more delicious and...
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    scrog...Lst...Nst? NST!? No Stress Training. Dome of Light - DOL

    I've never netted and I never will. Simply too much work. LST is effective but they still stunt somewhat, and you compromise the main cola. Topping is a train screeching to a halt. In this grow I'm using three lights in a 30x60inch shower; one centered, pointing typically down from 12 noon...
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    cannabis bonsai for beauty, not yield

    Bonsai is 4.5 months old. After she flowered a while I put her on 21 hours light per day in hopes she stays as is. The seedling is a month old.
  8. Father Ramirez

    recreating 70's Columbian red...by accident!

    Columbian red was the ONLY weed we could get when and where I was a young man. Now I grow what you grow, indoors under LEDs, and it's awesome. This past year a friend in fertile farm country, in mid-Atlantic USA, offered to put some clones in his hoop house, and split the harvest. They were...
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    mother getting 18 hrs light/day and flowering! Why?

    I'm no pro but I've been doing pretty well. I grew from seed at 12/12 to determine sex. Tossed the males, kept the girls, and picked one fat mama as mama. She's 5 months old and beginning to flower again on 18/6. Any insight would be greatly appreciated. All I can think is the seeds that were...
  10. Father Ramirez

    Purple black plant proudly made in USA. Observe Memorial Day.

    Something about my basement influences plants to purple; even my cilantro is purple topped. I can take no credit other than having a cold room. This plant was a seed in dirt on December 16. Typical night temps in January and February were 56-58o F. Seed came from commercial diesel-ish. About to...
  11. Father Ramirez

    Have a cigar. I'm a new papa!

    Barely beyond being a total newb, I'm not just a grower, I'm a breeder now. No credit taken. The plants did it all. The skinny, nearly defoliated female was planted April 2014. She is 11 months old. She has delivered over two ounces of delicious, powerfully psychoactive bud (vaped fresh). She...
  12. Father Ramirez

    one purple - one not. same strain or not?

    These were sold as Kaya Gold (75% sativa/25% indica) by a reputable seed bank. The plants looked very different since seedling. I nearly killed off the runt that turned out to have gorgeous, delicious and powerful buds! Purple looks like some kind of deficiency to me, but they both got the...
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    Green light; officially not safe for light out viewing?

    What do you make of this, debunking the accepted belief that a green light is safe during lights out? From Heliospectra, a commercial lighting company catering to mainstream producers. "...the entire light spectrum is used to drive photosynthesis. It appears as though green light is not a safe...
  14. Father Ramirez

    Create a sub forum for the illiterate growers

    "I believe I didn't get a good yeild no co2 the light was a bit far from plants also topped late didn't use a technique other then that maybe the strain oh and maybe plant were too short ". I grabbed that quote at random; it's representative of many posts, and in fact much more coherent than...
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    Rotating and moving plants makes sense... or not?

    Rotating plants is a common practice to assist light penetration. It makes perfect sense. But I ask your opinions on something that's had me wondering. I submit that plants, after millennia of evolution, have an innate sense of cardinal direction. They know east from west. Stress of any kind...
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    LED household bulbs, distance from canopy and stunted growth

    My question goes out mainly to those who have used household LED bulbs with soil. I'm using a quantity of 14 lamps, 8 of which are 2700oK, and 6 of them are 5000oK. I don't have a umol meter, so I'm working with lumens and making do. I crushed my first LED grow with too much light. I bleached...
  17. Father Ramirez

    POINTY TRICHOMES; fewer new/mostly cloudy/dark amber caps mean ready?

    Hello RIU crew! I searched, but can't find a previous post confirming or refuting the theory that pointy trichomes are young trichs, and when fewer are showing, it's an indicator the end is near. Can anyone speak definitively on this? That's question 1. Basic info on this one plant; unknown...
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    trichs look ready. Buds look immature. What say you RIU gurus?

    Kudos and muchas gracias to the many contributors from whom I've learned so much while lurking here on RIU. Lurking no longer, and I'm here for pro advice on when to pick. My one plant on this impromptu first grow, which grew from a single bag seed pushed into wet soil 122 days ago, is now...
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