Misterdirt

We all know how it is. I was debating between firefly and lemon sunrise for one of my selections. It doesn't seem like you could go wrong. Lemon sunrise won me over because he mentions pine scent. Lemon + pine and my heart is off to the races. I heard him describe the strawberry starburst scent, and it sounds like that is a plant I'll need to grow at sometime or another. He should sell on Sannie's site, and become known in Europe.

A little more — it's only one of the plants. The other two — including the one that requires iron supplements, are fine. All buds with this "condition" were cut off. Yes it is. When I break into one of these buds, it's just the very surface, like it was burned somehow. Buds near the top of the plant are unaffected.

I've been listening to a few select podcasts of his. I get the distinct impression this is a man who likes very potent weed or extracts. I SHOULD just pop the two packs I have and see how they turn out before buying more, but, you know. Me.

I wonder if they somehow got burned from some unfortunate arrangement of the reflective tent lining and the UV death lights?

I grew a Blue Hawaiian from JOTI a few years ago that smelled just like burnt rubber. Not the uplifting Hawaiian I was looking for, but it sure produced.

So what is this? Mildew? I posted over on the sick plants thread, but figured I'd add it to the grow report. Whatever it is, it only affects the Lemon Thai F3. It's only on a few lower buds and doesn't appear to be spreading further. The dead tissue is only at the surface. The buds are not rotting from the stem outwards.

I have 3 of @smilestyle's Lemon Thai F3 plants going. Tomorrow will make it a full 9 weeks in flower, so far. In a tent with 14 other plants in it, at the moment, the Lemon Thai ONLY has a few buds where dead tissue is showing up at the surface of a few buds. I tend to think fungus or some critter that only shows symptoms on plants susceptible to it (whatever it is). It is NOT classic bud rot. The dead stuff is only at the surface and it's only affecting small, lower buds that you would not expect to see bud rot on. Any ideas? Sage advice? Wild ass guesses? It does not seem to be progressing anymore. These showed up a couple of weeks back. Adding a fan on the floor of the tent might have stopped it, if it's a fungus. I do not SEE signs of fungus, other than the dead tissue.

@baqualin is making me buy more seeds again. You know, even though we've never met, few people have gotten me to buy more seeds than you. Let's see - Silverfields, Pineapple Fields, two Irie strains (to be popped within the next two weeks) and who knows what else. Now it looks like I'm being forced at gunpoint to buy more.

A free gram, but now I can't get a haircut until mid-June. It's Woodstock III over here.

No, Indy is a real vertical grower. He lowers the bulb until the base is even with the tops of the plants. The bulbs are not above the plants.

Indican is all about the vertical light grow. He'd be able to tell you if turning the plant or just training it so all the buds were on the lighted side (probably the way to go, or you might end up with plants full of mediocre buds, instead of a plants where you have great buds on one side).

Another advanced taste of Lemon Bubba (same clipper-related incident, perpetrator still at large) reveals that wow, she's really nice. I was already buzzed when I smoked her before bed last night, but she's a really nice buzz — mildly awake buzz for a half hour before relaxation drifts in. Something else I noticed — my weed is much smoother than dispensary weed, and that's uncured. I don't get hard ash from the weed from the main dispensary I've been using, so I figure they must be flushing, but my organic soil weed just kicks butt on smoke-ability. I sure hope Octopot-grown weed can be as smooth. I'll find out soon.

There are some strains where the trichs don't turn amber. I'm not sure if SJ is one of them, but with Shackzilla, you can let them go 13 weeks and never see anything but a clear trich.

A few buds were amputated from plants last weekend in a freak, clipper-related accident. (We're reviewing surveillance tapes to try and understand how this could have happened. There is one suspect.) An advanced taste of my favorite Pineapple Fields plant (a pheno A) revealed that Holy Shit! I love this stuff! I won't be chopping it for probably another 2 weeks, but judging from the weed I get from dispensaries with THC percentages, it must be in the low 20s. I had been thinking that over the years since I've grown it, maybe PF became a legend in my mind and it won't live up to my self-created hype. I was wrong. This stuff kicks ass. I'll do full smoke reports on each plant after drying and curing. Edit: FYI It's the plant in the last two pictures, above.

I think a 12 gauge shotgun would be most effective, but I have to hand it to this medieval fair guy, who took one down with a spear. I thought this happened in the US, but it's from Russia Today, so...