Dmannn's legal NCA Rec. Grow

socaljoe

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Looking great, we're on the home stretch now.

It amazes me looking at my plants now and then looking at pictures I took 30, 60, 90 days back and just how different everything is. I've still got several things to work on, but this year is hands down the best grow I've done.

Keep up the good work. Can't wait to see them come harvest time...you're gonna be in trim jail for a while. :mrgreen:
 

Dmannn

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Looking great, we're on the home stretch now.

It amazes me looking at my plants now and then looking at pictures I took 30, 60, 90 days back and just how different everything is. I've still got several things to work on, but this year is hands down the best grow I've done.

Keep up the good work. Can't wait to see them come harvest time...you're gonna be in trim jail for a while. :mrgreen:
Thanks man! Some people have helped out a lot. I have tried some new things this year and can't wait to try out some new genetics next year.

The plants are really filling in, i checked the soil this evening. It was already dry enough for another feeding! I gave them 15 gallons each, and a super heavy feeding. Probably the last one.

Haha, yeah trimming is the worst, my brother is going to bring up the fan trimmer, so at least that will speed things up a bit. Gotta make sure to harvest in the cool morning, the fan trimmer works best when the foliage is stiff.

Just as a start my new job. Its gunna be a full schedule.
 

socaljoe

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Thanks man! Some people have helped out a lot. I have tried some new things this year and can't wait to try out some new genetics next year.

The plants are really filling in, i checked the soil this evening. It was already dry enough for another feeding! I gave them 15 gallons each, and a super heavy feeding. Probably the last one.

Haha, yeah trimming is the worst, my brother is going to bring up the fan trimmer, so at least that will speed things up a bit. Gotta make sure to harvest in the cool morning, the fan trimmer works best when the foliage is stiff.

Just as a start my new job. Its gunna be a full schedule.
Yeah, I hear ya. I'm not looking forward to trimming one bit...and I won't have nearly the harvest you and some of the other outdoor growers will have.

I'm seriously considering processing a good bit for oil to make vape cartidges and calling it a day, that would save a lot of trim time. I grow for my mom, and she doesn't care how she gets high. :mrgreen:
 

Dmannn

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Yeah, I hear ya. I'm not looking forward to trimming one bit...and I won't have nearly the harvest you and some of the other outdoor growers will have.

I'm seriously considering processing a good bit for oil to make vape cartidges and calling it a day, that would save a lot of trim time. I grow for my mom, and she doesn't care how she gets high. :mrgreen:
I was looking at this for oil pressing..https://www.rosinpressplates.com

Looks like the best deal around.
 

socaljoe

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I was looking at this for oil pressing..https://www.rosinpressplates.com

Looks like the best deal around.
Nice.

I don't know if you're much of a DIYer, but greengenesgarden on YouTube has a great video on building your own rosin press. Might be worth checking out.

I'll most likely be putting together a solvent extraction/recovery system similar to the oilxgreen that's being advertised here, then run the oil through a vacuum purge chamber. Seems like the best option for me considering my end goal.
 

Dmannn

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Nice.

I don't know if you're much of a DIYer, but greengenesgarden on YouTube has a great video on building your own rosin press. Might be worth checking out.

I'll most likely be putting together a solvent extraction/recovery system similar to the oilxgreen that's being advertised here, then run the oil through a vacuum purge chamber. Seems like the best option for me considering my end goal.
Thanks! I will look into that.


The temps have been mid/low 90's os the shade has been off. The plants are sucking up fluids! The first 3 inches of soil are already nearing dry to the touch.

If I look at some the buds in the morning light i can see a slight rainbow refection from some of the trichomes, this brings out the scope for a closer look. I have been scoping some of the most mature buds and some amber is showing up on some leaf sugar leaf tips. The trichomes are starting to stack up in the calix area but they have'nt begun to swell. Lots of long and exposed clear and yellow pistols.

The PEC seems a little further along as more of the hairs are turning brownish red and the calix's are beginning to swell. These plants aren't show-ers, they down have a massive amount of external trichomes on sugar leaf, but rather more in the calix area, if that makes any sense. The buds look a bit small and under inflated but in a week or so they should plump up.

I think am going to wait one more day before carbo loading them for them first time. Looks like i am still on track for harvest at end of the month. Having some smokable buds to share before Halloween would be boss. All of our friends are super excited!
 

Dmannn

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I gave them their last heavy feed of liquid bloom and kelp today along with a flood of 15 gallons a piece.

I also started Carbo loading today. I gave them each 3 tablespoons off Xatalist, 3 tablespoons of molasses and, 3 tablespoons of raw honey.

I had to pull the cover over the plants yesterday afternoon because the weather looked like rain, but it passed and the sky is clear today.
 

Dmannn

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Some shots from today. They seem to have plumped up a bit since yesterday. More frost each morning. The calix's are about a quarter to half swollen. More pistols are turning red but not enough trichomes have.

I have found a few caterpillars on some of the matures buds. I picked them off and knocked off the poop. I think i got most of it. Removed any moth webbing. Its fairly dry around here right now so i am hoping it doesn't effect too much. I transplanted a spider in the plant i found the caterpillars in and placed a dead one caterpillar on the web it started to spin. Hopefully it gets a taste for their soft flesh. I dust a bit of DE around the base of the plants where i found the most caterpillar activity. When the mornings heat up the garden is busy with all kinds of insects. A various flies and predatory wasps. Lots of carnivorous dragon flies. It is interesting to watch them go about their business. Sometimes i see the wasps resting on their backs on shaded leaves. Interesting!

I did a bit more trimming to day. I have some trimming that is already dry enough to vapor with my heat gun. It is TASTY!

I want to chop them so bad, but waiting last 2-4 weeks is crucial. The plants could easily put on another half pound a piece in this time.

Here are some top shots. Enjoy!


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Dmannn

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So my brother came up today. We bbqed some steaks and corn-on-the-cob. We gathered up some stuff and went fishing about 10 miles down the road near the Sac River. We were there for about four hours tonight. My brother just about finished a 12 pack, i had one. I asked/told him i had to go home and take my meds and go to bed. He got belligerent with me. I told him he had too much to drink and that i should drive home. He took my cell phone and left me there in the dark by side of the river. I walked all the way home. This isn't the only time my family has left me stranded. My father would do it to me in high school. One time i got benched for something and m y dad had me walk home from a different city 35 miles away. My friends at the football game seen me walking on eh side of the road and brought be back to the game. I was told to walk home again. On my high school graduation I was kicked out of my house on my eightieth birthday. Then kicked out of my aunts ranch house and left homeless for about 2 years cause i couldn't make rent into cousin's SC college tuition trust fund. When my grandfather died of Brain cancer, my grandmother blamed me cause i made some pot cookies that the hospice nurse stole and ate and then had a freakout and blamed me, when i told her NOT to eat them . She ended up popping hot for PCP and Coke as well. So there was drug addict taking care of my dining grandfather, but i am the bad guy.
I don't have any childhood friends because when they found out i was homeless, no one returned my calls or had a place to hang out anymore. It took 2 years to get myself in order and save enough with two jobs to move myself to Sac and apply for school. I graduated but was basically told to never come back.
A month or so ago i went to see my other brother and his pregnant Wife in Portland, he and she didn't bother saying anything to me and avoided all eye contact, even staying away from me when we were sitting and waiting for my wife to park, both his wife and him were extremely rude and standoffish so we abruptly left, the drove home. Both of my previous jobs have pretty much done the same thing, after a year they harass me or sabotage my work until i end up in the hospital on Zanex. Then say i "abandoned" my job. overtime i have gone to HR for unsafe work practices or harassment/hazing concerns, they have retaliated against me.
Life is really hard right now, not having any family in my life. . I don't think i am happy in my marriage anymore. For the first 8 years of knowing her she kept leaving and coming back, over and over. We went on a trip to Tahoe for you 5 year anniversary a few weeks ago and it was not good. We returned home a day early.
It seems like everyone is correcting me all the time. I try to get my own words in but, they are disregarded or treated as insignificant. Being told you are wrong your whole life is starting turn my life upside-down. I am questioning my sanity daily.
Please, love you children and your family, love them and hold them as much as you can. Do good for them and mind your thoughts and words about them. Don't let them join the service for an ungrateful nation. They could come back mentally defective, unwanted, and abused, with all meaning and worth for their life lost.
 

guyfaux

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Stay strong my friend. Life is a bunch of ups and downs. Sometimes the downs are a little lengthy but the ups do come. I live life like I have one year left to live whether it's an up or down. Hope everything gets better for you .
 

Dmannn

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Stay strong my friend. Life is a bunch of ups and downs. Sometimes the downs are a little lengthy but the ups do come. I live life like I have one year left to live whether it's an up or down. Hope everything gets better for you .
I appreciate you brother. I have job starting in a couple weeks, so that is good.

Your plants look great too.
 

DankTankerous

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Yeah dude I’m sorry to hear about your family being like that. I’ve heard you can’t pick your family, but you can pick your friends and people that do love you. Keep doing what you love and just keep moving. I saw a therapist for a while and it was great, tough as nails but great nonetheless. Loving yourself is like fucking hard when you didn’t feel love or cared for growing up. They teach you how to do it. Their job isn’t to tell you what to do, and if they do say goodbye. Mine knew I smoked weed, but he also knew that I got drunk too haha. Just know that you can feel good and good days are ahead. Try journaling. And keep doing what you love.
 

guyfaux

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The job will take alot off your mind too. Not only that but get rid of a little bit and take a nice little vacation. I love wilderness stuff and it always gets my mind right. Sit back on a nice river with a campfire, smoking out of your fav piece (I prefer grape Swisher's) , got the BBQ going, just complete bliss . And thanks for the compliment. They came back well from the move. Small amount of root hormone sprinkled in after I dug hole so I transplanted right into it. Followed up with tea.
 

Dmannn

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A couple shots from today. Looks like the predators have moved in after the caterpillars! I have been watering with every three days or so. I have been trimming back any buds that have 'piller poop on them to avoid any rot since the mornings have a bit of dew. The Calyx's are swelling and tracking trichomes nicely but still no amber. Still looking like the end of the month for harvest. IMG_5163.JPGIMG_5165.JPGIMG_5167.JPGIMG_5169.JPG
 

UncleBuck

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So my brother came up today. We bbqed some steaks and corn-on-the-cob. We gathered up some stuff and went fishing about 10 miles down the road near the Sac River. We were there for about four hours tonight. My brother just about finished a 12 pack, i had one. I asked/told him i had to go home and take my meds and go to bed. He got belligerent with me. I told him he had too much to drink and that i should drive home. He took my cell phone and left me there in the dark by side of the river. I walked all the way home. This isn't the only time my family has left me stranded. My father would do it to me in high school. One time i got benched for something and m y dad had me walk home from a different city 35 miles away. My friends at the football game seen me walking on eh side of the road and brought be back to the game. I was told to walk home again. On my high school graduation I was kicked out of my house on my eightieth birthday. Then kicked out of my aunts ranch house and left homeless for about 2 years cause i couldn't make rent into cousin's SC college tuition trust fund. When my grandfather died of Brain cancer, my grandmother blamed me cause i made some pot cookies that the hospice nurse stole and ate and then had a freakout and blamed me, when i told her NOT to eat them . She ended up popping hot for PCP and Coke as well. So there was drug addict taking care of my dining grandfather, but i am the bad guy.
I don't have any childhood friends because when they found out i was homeless, no one returned my calls or had a place to hang out anymore. It took 2 years to get myself in order and save enough with two jobs to move myself to Sac and apply for school. I graduated but was basically told to never come back.
A month or so ago i went to see my other brother and his pregnant Wife in Portland, he and she didn't bother saying anything to me and avoided all eye contact, even staying away from me when we were sitting and waiting for my wife to park, both his wife and him were extremely rude and standoffish so we abruptly left, the drove home. Both of my previous jobs have pretty much done the same thing, after a year they harass me or sabotage my work until i end up in the hospital on Zanex. Then say i "abandoned" my job. overtime i have gone to HR for unsafe work practices or harassment/hazing concerns, they have retaliated against me.
Life is really hard right now, not having any family in my life. . I don't think i am happy in my marriage anymore. For the first 8 years of knowing her she kept leaving and coming back, over and over. We went on a trip to Tahoe for you 5 year anniversary a few weeks ago and it was not good. We returned home a day early.
It seems like everyone is correcting me all the time. I try to get my own words in but, they are disregarded or treated as insignificant. Being told you are wrong your whole life is starting turn my life upside-down. I am questioning my sanity daily.
Please, love you children and your family, love them and hold them as much as you can. Do good for them and mind your thoughts and words about them. Don't let them join the service for an ungrateful nation. They could come back mentally defective, unwanted, and abused, with all meaning and worth for their life lost.
LOL

at least you’ve still got your white pride though
 

greencropper

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So my brother came up today. We bbqed some steaks and corn-on-the-cob. We gathered up some stuff and went fishing about 10 miles down the road near the Sac River. We were there for about four hours tonight. My brother just about finished a 12 pack, i had one. I asked/told him i had to go home and take my meds and go to bed. He got belligerent with me. I told him he had too much to drink and that i should drive home. He took my cell phone and left me there in the dark by side of the river. I walked all the way home. This isn't the only time my family has left me stranded. My father would do it to me in high school. One time i got benched for something and m y dad had me walk home from a different city 35 miles away. My friends at the football game seen me walking on eh side of the road and brought be back to the game. I was told to walk home again. On my high school graduation I was kicked out of my house on my eightieth birthday. Then kicked out of my aunts ranch house and left homeless for about 2 years cause i couldn't make rent into cousin's SC college tuition trust fund. When my grandfather died of Brain cancer, my grandmother blamed me cause i made some pot cookies that the hospice nurse stole and ate and then had a freakout and blamed me, when i told her NOT to eat them . She ended up popping hot for PCP and Coke as well. So there was drug addict taking care of my dining grandfather, but i am the bad guy.
I don't have any childhood friends because when they found out i was homeless, no one returned my calls or had a place to hang out anymore. It took 2 years to get myself in order and save enough with two jobs to move myself to Sac and apply for school. I graduated but was basically told to never come back.
A month or so ago i went to see my other brother and his pregnant Wife in Portland, he and she didn't bother saying anything to me and avoided all eye contact, even staying away from me when we were sitting and waiting for my wife to park, both his wife and him were extremely rude and standoffish so we abruptly left, the drove home. Both of my previous jobs have pretty much done the same thing, after a year they harass me or sabotage my work until i end up in the hospital on Zanex. Then say i "abandoned" my job. overtime i have gone to HR for unsafe work practices or harassment/hazing concerns, they have retaliated against me.
Life is really hard right now, not having any family in my life. . I don't think i am happy in my marriage anymore. For the first 8 years of knowing her she kept leaving and coming back, over and over. We went on a trip to Tahoe for you 5 year anniversary a few weeks ago and it was not good. We returned home a day early.
It seems like everyone is correcting me all the time. I try to get my own words in but, they are disregarded or treated as insignificant. Being told you are wrong your whole life is starting turn my life upside-down. I am questioning my sanity daily.
Please, love you children and your family, love them and hold them as much as you can. Do good for them and mind your thoughts and words about them. Don't let them join the service for an ungrateful nation. They could come back mentally defective, unwanted, and abused, with all meaning and worth for their life lost.
possibly one of the hardest things in life to accept is; approx 50% of people are fucked in their reasoning, even harder to accept is that includes your own family, your story has similarities to mine, didnt know i was in a depressed mode cos i had felt that way for so long it seemed 'normal', recently prescribed amitriptyline for migraine/depression...wow its made a big difference in how i feel, hope you can find a way to ease your mind/soul
 

Dmannn

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possibly one of the hardest things in life to accept is; approx 50% of people are fucked in their reasoning, even harder to accept is that includes your own family, your story has similarities to mine, didnt know i was in a depressed mode cos i had felt that way for so long it seemed 'normal', recently prescribed amitriptyline for migraine/depression...wow its made a big difference in how i feel, hope you can find a way to ease your mind/soul

Thanks man. I just have to remember that i didn't do anything to "deserve" such treatment. I don't have to own how people act. I can't control how people are going to behave.
 
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