Uncle Ben's Gardening Tweeks and Pointers

volcanoOFhistory said:

Ice Fishing!! Nothing like Hot Boxing your shanty and catching fat Walleyes

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I'm surprised I haven't seen ice fishing hot boxing big dabs videos yet. And yeah, I was raised in MN Walleye fishing. I live in catfish country now... all the aquaponics people are doing use catfish or talapia... which are OK... but really shit fish compared to a walleye. Yeah, I know it's water temp issue.

There are walleye here, in the DEEP trenches of the canyon lakes, but I've never seen anyone catch one as everyone fishes for bass or catfish :/.

Hey UB any input on these? Or recommendations. I live in a temperate rain forest in washington. https://www.seedboutique.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=437

http://www.worldwide-marijuana-seeds.com/collections/seeds-of-africa-marijuana-seeds/products/seeds-of-africa-swazi-gold

Will you plant outside?

My experience is strain doesn't matter so much, especially for beginners. And seeds don't matter if they don't make it to you in the mail. That has happened to me. And seeds don't matter if you can't sprout seeds. I have some seeds, but at $10 apiece, I am not ready to try.

And then you have to sex the plants and lose some of those $10 apiece..maybe 1/2 of it.

If you are a beginner, begin with tomato seeds. If you learn how to spend a month or 2 transplanting in small, can't over wet, containers, seeds produce tap roots and are superior to clones.

But, for stains. If I can grow one, I can grow any. I have 4 strains going right now,

The seed banks are generally good if they have good recommendation here. I use BC Depot. Some of them may be rip-offs. Hard to know.

More research on TX Walleye... probably exist only in Lake Meredith as all the canyon lakes are LOW these days and they haven't been stocked since the early nineties I believe. :/ So much for my taste for walleye

I have some experience. Mostly indoor. But I am looking to put some outdoors. For some reason the African sativa has my attention. I first got the bug to grow back in the 90's after seeing a friends Swazi skunk.

We do have high humidity and short summers. So a green house might be called for.

I love those Afri-sativas. Very hardy.

Doer said:

Will you plant outside?

My experience is strain doesn't matter so much, especially for beginners. And seeds don't matter if they don't make it to you in the mail. That has happened to me. And seeds don't matter if you can't sprout seeds. I have some seeds, but at $10 apiece, I am not ready to try.

And then you have to sex the plants and lose some of those $10 apiece..maybe 1/2 of it.

If you are a beginner, begin with tomato seeds. If you learn how to spend a month or 2 transplanting in small, can't over wet, containers, seeds produce tap roots and are superior to clones.

But, for stains. If I can grow one, I can grow any. I have 4 strains going right now,

The seed banks are generally good if they have good recommendation here. I use BC Depot. Some of them may be rip-offs. Hard to know.

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is this guy taking the pi$$ or wot???

Lemon king said:

is this guy taking the pi$$ or wot???

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Just on your head if you will lean over,

Doer said:

Just on your head if you will lean over,

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stick to growing ya tomatoes mate looooooooool

Stick to having a piss head.

Stop with the pissin fetish. Stick to this..

Anyone can grow one of those, but can they grow a tomato?

Doer said:

Will you plant outside?

My experience is strain doesn't matter so much, especially for beginners. And seeds don't matter if they don't make it to you in the mail. That has happened to me. And seeds don't matter if you can't sprout seeds. I have some seeds, but at $10 apiece, I am not ready to try.

And then you have to sex the plants and lose some of those $10 apiece..maybe 1/2 of it.

If you are a beginner, begin with tomato seeds. If you learn how to spend a month or 2 transplanting in small, can't over wet, containers, seeds produce tap roots and are superior to clones.

But, for stains. If I can grow one, I can grow any. I have 4 strains going right now,

The seed banks are generally good if they have good recommendation here. I use BC Depot. Some of them may be rip-offs. Hard to know.

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Enlighten me .......

Yeah. As it turns out, the clones have no tap root,

This is just one opinion, rather well written, so I will borrow it.

http://www.thenorthwestleaf.com/pages/articles/post/seeds-vs-clones

The tap root holds it all down. Germinated seeds produce a tap root while clones produce what is known as a fiberous root system, when taken from a donor plant. A large tap root promotes strong vegetative growth, creating a stable plant. Larger plants have relatively larger xylem and phloem size, allowing for more nutrient and water transportation to the leaves and buds during flowering, which will increase the harvest weight.

Plants grown from seed will slightly out-produce their clone when grown under identical conditions. More importantly, plants grown from seed have better pest and disease resistance compared with those grown from a clone.
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I've learned to get clones to a 3/4" stem base, in 8 weeks, by daily feeding.

A taproot would just add to that, but a tap root goes deep. So, if you have 4 foot deep containers, or deep tilled soil, or good draining rocky soil, seed is the way to go,

I won't be doing seed for that. I will just be adding strain variety, and then get the WW seeds going and begin a back cloning effort into the rotation.

At 8 weeks I can take a few clones before bloom begins.

Huh. I've always had bigger, more robust plants when growing from clone. Not to mention the fact that when growing from clone you know *exactly* what you're getting in to, where as seeds are a random crap shoot.

I never judge a plant based on the first time a grow it from seed. I always run it again from a cut to make sure it's something that I want to keep around.

Different strokes I guess....

I have yet to start a seed

iron(fe) is underated CA & High P are way overated.

papajohn said:

iron(fe) is underated CA & High P are way overated.

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That is true. I just sprayed UAN 28%, Iron 2% at 200 ppm (with Saturator) on a pair of 1 month bloomers. Almost immediate re-greening. (why they needed that is another story)

Cal-Mag I spray supplement in the first month for rooting.

In addition to the Sea Grow, I always add a good portion of Bontanicare Cal-Mag and a snort of Silica Blast.

Si is very under rated also.

All for a few tomatoes.. Seems like to much work.

Curious about your approach UB.

What do you typically yield under a 600w?
I realize quantity is not everything and that you prefer sativas such as dalat and c-99.
Nevertheless, would you mind sharing with us?
I'd appreciate it.