Baywatcher's Basement Blowout

Awesome to hear on the yields! My strategy in the past has been straight scrog but I'm leaning towards a mainlining strategy for my next grow. Keep up the good work!

UPDATE!!! Your killin me smalls.
Posting a link to leech off your thread.
Happy Growing all!

Update: I'm still fighting thrips. I also found out that we're going to be out of town for 2 weeks in December. The combination of the two things means that I'm probably going to just grow out what I've got going right now, and shut down for the month of December. I will bug bomb everything with a vengeance, run all geopots through a laundrymat, and start fresh in January. I'll be able to keep my Pineapple Express pheno (#5), and whichever Critical Jack tests best (#4 or #5) alive via clones at my caregiver's place.

Regarding the thrips, I made a soil drench last night for all the veg plants from an organic spinosad-based treatment. I'm unwilling to spray anything in the flower room, so am just flowering out what's there.

Sorry to hear about the bugs and the shut down also. I know you just got things filled up and really running. I'm sure you'll have no trouble doing it again. I've been in that spot so many times over the years for various reasons. This last time I moved I said fck that I'm not shutting down. I moved 60+ plants, and about half of those were in full flower :facepalm:.

Well now i feel like a dick i see you've been busy. GL on the bugs man, having to start over sucks but at least you can save something. Rise of the Phoenix man. From the ashes a much greater grow will arise. Heres one for you!

Honestly, it's probably for the best in terms of weight of on hand product. There will be plenty jarred up for the downtime, and I should be able to harvest within 12 weeks or so of the new year.

Quick note to anyone who encounters thrips: Spinosad used in a soil drench + spray takes care of the problem...

The best of my Pineapple Express phenos was 16.5%, the best Critical Jack was 19.5%

Not to shabby man! I wish I could get my stuff tested SOOOOO bad.

On the smoke report front, the Critical Jack is stony as hell, but has no real flavor. It doesn't taste bad, it's just really neutral. It smells fantastic though, which is strange.

The Pineapple Express, however, has lived up to its rep. The smell is awesome, it has a great high, and tastes absolutely fabulous.

I'll keep the PE going indefinitely. When I restart in January, I'm going to go with mostly regular seeds, and I'll look to cross the 19.5% CJ with a couple of different males and see what happens.

I spent today moving the last of the 2-gallon plants into 7-gallon pots. I now have 10 plants in veg, and 9 in flower. I've continued checking for thrips in the veg room every couple of days with the microscope, and it really does seem to be clean.

Because I didn't want to spray the flower room, even with an organic, I've been keeping the thrips down in there with spinosad soil drenches. About half of the room harvests within the next two weeks. Once that has been done, I can isolate the last 3 potentially-thrippy flowering plants under one of the 1K lights, and start bringing in pots from the veg room under the other one. To get the timing right for Xmas, I'll flip the last veg plant no later than mid-October.

Sorry it has been so long on pics, I will take the macro lens off and shoot some garden shots with a regular lens...

I love the smoke reports thumbs up!!

Whats on yure next run goin BW?

In addition to the PE and CJ that I'll keep going, I'm considering Blue Hash (fem), Purple Haze (fem), Hazeman P.O.W. (reg) and Northern Lights (reg).

Northern Lights is a strain to spend a couple years toying with...amazing in my book.

Baywatcher said:

On the smoke report front, the Critical Jack is stony as hell, but has no real flavor. It doesn't taste bad, it's just really neutral. It smells fantastic though, which is strange.

The Pineapple Express, however, has lived up to its rep. The smell is awesome, it has a great high, and tastes absolutely fabulous.

I'll keep the PE going indefinitely. When I restart in January, I'm going to go with mostly regular seeds, and I'll look to cross the 19.5% CJ with a couple of different males and see what happens.

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Keep them comming i love smoke reports they're the best part of the whole shebang! Wish I could get on either of those strains, but i'm broke as hell and running the shit in my sig atm, I'm going to get some different genetics (beginning of October hopefully) I think they're Armageddon, Cheese and Pot of Gold which will be clones. I also have to option to grab some others i may switch out for the Purple Berry and the BKK (I will be getting rid of both of these and the bag seeds either way unless they turn out amazing) and those are Medijuana, MedijuanaxReaper, Lambo, Cold Creek Kush or Darkstar. Do you have experience with any of these strains? I would love to hear any input you have on them, you know your shit and seem to have a good grip on how to describe the high.

Cheese is the only one of those I've smoked, and it was tasty. I've never grown any of them.

Regarding Northern Lights, it, along with Skunk #1 and Big Bud, were my main strains in the late 80s and 90s. It is a fantastic plant. I'm curious to see how it reacts to mainlining.

Noobi here. Been reading your whole story. Man im loving it. Im getting ready to start my first medical grow. Been collecting a couple of strains and one of them is a Northern lights. Hopefully I can follow your lead. Got myself 1 1k hps and im building a 4x4 tent that I plan on fitting as many as I can on 5 gallon geopots. I picture 12. What do you think? Will it be to bushy in there? Or 9 on 10 gallon geopots? Will one lamp do? I have access to 3 more 1k hps if need be... sorry for the long first post.

Welcome aboard! If you haven't already bought the geopots, go with the 7 gallon with handles. They are almost the identical footprint of the 5g, but allow for 40% more soil, and (for me, at least) let me avoid having to use anything but RO water and CalMag+. Regardless of if you use 5g or 7g, 12 plants should be perfect in a 4'x4' area. You could cram 16 in there, but that would eliminate all working space.

True Northern Lights is a short, bushy plant that will work well with the space you have. A single 1K HPS should be plenty of light in there. When you hang it, use a ratchet system so you can raise/lower it to follow the growth of the plants.

So, obviously, my imagehost anony.ws is down again. I apologize to anyone finding this thread, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense without pics, and there's no way to edit old posts to change the links.