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Zen_seeker said:
Check with @Bandit420 he’s got his own stuff and knows where to send things.
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Unfortunately I've exited the at home testing and cannabinoid analysis game.
I got into league with some local commercial growers recently and sold my lab kit to them.
Basically for about 6 years or so I've been able to put numbers behind experience so today can kinda guess percentage and get really close.
I used it as a hobby and for fun but my pal is using it for biz so it all worked out well. Learned something from it and made a fat wad of cash after when I was done with it.

Bioaccumulated said:
what kind of access to testing of flowers do home growers have nowadays guys?
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Howdy Bioaccumulated! Good to meet ya!

The premier home test kit out there is Purpl Scientific. It's a phone app and a device lab kit and it's accurate to within +/- 3% THC. Spot on accuracy for CBD and moisture activity.
There's other kits with paper and vials which you need to buy again since they're disposable and they can give you a decent picture but other than a lab test, Purpl is the way to go at home for endless tests.

You'll learn a ton about weed by testing though. Especially on those crazy frosty strains people swear hit points as high as 40 and 50%. Reality is much different and you get schooled in testing and how some dispos and growers buy their test results. It's a dirty world.
Testing your own certainly cuts thru a ton of myth out there regarding new strains and especially hybrids. Expensive to get into but I'm very happy I had the experience.
There's also at least one lab in Colorado who accepts samples by mail. It's been a very long time and I don't have a link and cannot remember the name of the lab but do remember is was right inside the border on the Kansas side of Co.
 
Im excited to learn from you. Feel like this an avenue of the plant and its compounds ive never delved into and i should. For me understanding what EXACTLY it is im smelling with profiles as well. I wish you guys were closer to me id just hand you a few flowers and get feedback lmaop
 
Bioaccumulated said:
If you looked at this stash......what would you pick for the most potent?
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Nice stash but I know not of any of those strains, I've grown some Critical cross and it was great.

I don't do a lot of trimming, by the time I get to harvest a lot of the leaves have already been pulled. When I do cut I just take off any leaves with long stems and hang my plants dirty. When I go to bag it up it mostly crumbles off. I don't grow to sell so it doesn't have to be pretty when I go to smoke ot cook it up.
 
Bioaccumulated said:
Last thing i want to do is bring my chitshow of growing here where i may butt heads with online know it all's. Lets have this thread deleted please and i apologize for wasting folks time. Have a great holidays!
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No apology's necessary, we all had to learn some how. That's what we're here for. Most of us here already know how to grow and its gotten a bit boring without new blood asking questions. We all still have shit to learn and your questions and /or fkups may help us out as well. Shit I didn't even know what PH was back in 2018 and I'd grown for 20+ years before that just bumbling along without help. Ask questions if we don't know it may send us on a quest of our own.
 
Pipecarver said:
No apology's necessary, we all had to learn some how. That's what we're here for. Most of us here already know how to grow and its gotten a bit boring without new blood asking questions. We all still have shit to learn and your questions and /or fkups may help us out as well. Shit I didn't even know what PH was back in 2018 and I'd grown for 20+ years before that just bumbling along without help. Ask questions if we don't know it may send us on a quest of our own.
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I know how to keep plants healthy...... I wish there was a way I could take a brief synopsis of the last 16 months and everything that I've exposed myself to both in where I live in like driving around I guess the best way for me to say this so that it would make sense to others that are reading this is it's it's like an Alfred Hitchcock episode mixed with a Twilight zone episode and certain caveats of that have really made me look back on my life and be grateful that I was raised by the people I was raised by but you know being 50 years old and being in this like doing this thread everything hit me at once and I step back thinking to myself what the f*** am I doing? Not in a bad or a negative way in a more like wow look where I am and look at the status society and does anybody even think act feel the way I do and of course they do but where I live that's insulated from normal people I think they're nefarious people of foot that want folks like me to think that there's no hope outside of the little circle we're in if that makes sense. My grows are a direct relation if that makes sense to my inner psyche and how I'm feeling at the time and if I'm doing really really well in life my gross thrive if I'm depressed my girls seem to suffer because I become lackadaisical. If you would have told me when I was 21 years old that I'd be 55 years old and the only thing that makes me happy in life is watching plants grow being close to my dogs and avoiding 90% of the population I'd have laughed at you
 
Another thing that I should digress here is that I'm I've been smoking cannabis recreationally since I graduated high school in 1990 with 18 credits going into my dad's drawer to get his head stashed and never really smoked heavy heavy heavy but being the age I'm at now I'm starting to realize that I'm becoming forgetful I space out sometimes without realizing it I'm hoping somebody here at the website can relate to this cuz it f**** with my head from time to time
 
Bioaccumulated said:
Think i may add a few things to my soils
1. rinsed chunky perlite or something similar for drainage
2. top dress woodchips and or inert medium to avoid fungus i love your nose gnats
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Hey I hear you, I'm 73 started smoking in 1967 -68 watching my plants grow, playing with my cats and the occasional Dr. appointment is our life now and I think we're happier because of it. Few distractions to stress us out, the hermits life is all we want now sad as that may be.

I add a few items to my soil mix, Azomite,or Wollsonite, Gypsum, Yucca powder, Myco's Worm Castings, Perlite . With this mix I don't need much feed in veg for the fist month
 
Pipecarver said:
Here we go again with my graph, sorry guys. I try to feed and light like this graph, up as feed goes up and down as feed goes down.
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An old pro grower told me my burnt tips on my leaves were not necessarily too much feed, it could have been not enough light.......When food and light are balanced you don't get the burnt tips. So as I increase my food I increase my light, same way on back end as you drop your food, drop your light.
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If jj's chems are any clue ill need to find a stronger way to robustly keep the medium pumped from weeks 2-6....the orig medium needs to be buffered WAY more then i was.
 
Pipecarver said:
Hey I hear you, I'm 73 started smoking in 1967 -68 watching my plants grow, playing with my cats and the occasional Dr. appointment is our life now and I think we're happier because of it. Few distractions to stress us out, the hermits life is all we want now sad as that may be.

I add a few items to my soil mix, Azomite,or Wollsonite, Gypsum, Yucca powder, Myco's Worm Castings, Perlite . With this mix I don't need much feed in veg for the fist month
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I wanna focus on trying to make a booster compost that makes week2-7 in flower not struggle to keep up nutes wise, I should add this is ENTIRELY me not making an attempt to be proactive in my mediums...i was in a fill jars quick mode(my wife) to keep the folks happy....Now that she has those big bodhi hashplant nugs to poke at for awhile i can focus on my area being dialed in mediums wise.
 
Bioaccumulated said:
I wanna focus on trying to make a booster compost that makes week2-7 in flower not struggle to keep up nutes wise, I should add this is ENTIRELY me not making an attempt to be proactive in my mediums...i was in a fill jars quick mode(my wife) to keep the folks happy....Now that she has those big bodhi hashplant nugs to poke at for awhile i can focus on my area being dialed in mediums wise.
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I use a promix type soil mixed about 60/40 with perlite. and my other goodies which is basically an organic start. The mix has a small starter charge and with the worm Castings and minerals I add I'm good for about 1 month. My feed being synthetic doesn't meld well with organics so I'm not adding anything other than perlite to my soil in the final pot.
 
Nice pine wood work and stove.
Center mass chimney is smart old school building.:cool:
The more people I meet the more I like miss my dogs and try to befriend my cat.
I am 60 and the world is not how I thought it would be.
The top 3 post in the soil forum have great info on amending your soil in a couple different ways.
Here you go.

Subcool super soil mix.

Figured this would be good to post up until we see if shaded makes it over with his Gaia Green write up. This is the original version of subcools super soil published to high times magazine. You are supposed to mix this soil 1 month in advance of using. It is intended to be a water only mix...
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Korean natural farming recipes.make your own nutrient solutions

Hey folks I'm starting this thread to share some nuitrient solution recipes with you that I have been using with good results. Not sure what I should put this under @Moe.Red so I just put it under grow journal. If you havnt heard about korean natural farming check it out.dr.drake pure knf...
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Growing With Gaia Green - Shaded's Method

Hello and welcome to my very simple guide for growing some bomb ass weed with Gaia Green organic nutrients! Would you like to feed your plant once every 2 weeks and spend the rest of your time just watering? Then spark a joint and read on. This guide works for indoor, outdoors and on any other...
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I grow in soil but feed through whole grow with fox farm nutes.
 
Bioaccumulated said:
If jj's chems are any clue ill need to find a stronger way to robustly keep the medium pumped from weeks 2-6....the orig medium needs to be buffered WAY more then i was.
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Do you start with a store bought soil that’s buffered? SSM#4 or ProMix? Otherwise pick up some dolomite lime. A little goes a long way.
 
steamroller said:
Nice pine wood work and stove.
Center mass chimney is smart old school building.:cool:
The more people I meet the more I like miss my dogs and try to befriend my cat.
I am 60 and the world is not how I thought it would be.
The top 3 post in the soil forum have great info on amending your soil in a couple different ways.
Here you go.

Subcool super soil mix.

Figured this would be good to post up until we see if shaded makes it over with his Gaia Green write up. This is the original version of subcools super soil published to high times magazine. You are supposed to mix this soil 1 month in advance of using. It is intended to be a water only mix...
budbuilders.org budbuilders.org

Korean natural farming recipes.make your own nutrient solutions

Hey folks I'm starting this thread to share some nuitrient solution recipes with you that I have been using with good results. Not sure what I should put this under @Moe.Red so I just put it under grow journal. If you havnt heard about korean natural farming check it out.dr.drake pure knf...
budbuilders.org budbuilders.org

Growing With Gaia Green - Shaded's Method

Hello and welcome to my very simple guide for growing some bomb ass weed with Gaia Green organic nutrients! Would you like to feed your plant once every 2 weeks and spend the rest of your time just watering? Then spark a joint and read on. This guide works for indoor, outdoors and on any other...
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I grow in soil but feed through whole grow with fox farm nutes.
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The farmers i used to work for would let the manure sit for like 5 yrs if memory serves and that stuff never failed! Think im gonna try the KNF feeds as long as i dont throw things out of whack. The stove and the wood are from my godfathers house.
 
SSHZ said:
I rarely have much laying around in jars, except for personal use. I'm more commercial than most of the people on here, so I approach everything a bit differently. Curing will definitely bring out more smell in most buds, and make the smoke taste and smoke better.

Most important is to understand the UV bulbs are dangerous to your skin and you should not be in the room while they are on.........
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This makes me giggle because isnt UV-a what tanning beds use? So UV-b would be for the tent! I wanna get as good smelling jars of cured flowers like i was with smelling burning firewood and being able to tell the species from the smell!
 
Zen_seeker said:
Do you start with a store bought soil that’s buffered? SSM#4 or ProMix? Otherwise pick up some dolomite lime. A little goes a long way.
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I source from a massive pile at a donkey farm thats patrolled by chickens......but also takes in restaurants scraps to mold up and make good for root bounders! They do sell it to folks in burlaps. It has enough nutes in it to run till the container is full of roots then its time to feed. I was just being lazy/ stressing my plants while go through midlife in a progressive area trying to stay chill lmaop
 
So after completely fuking up the last 5 seeds, Ill just restart and do progress here with my set up straightened out. there's too many "employed thieves" where i live. I prefer to be as incognito with my stuff as possible. My grows may seem shit but the jars my wife takes to work cause fist fights in the parking lot over blunts of it so i must be doing something right lmaop Oh golly geeez i cant wait to highlight my grow from seed to harvest here. So im thinking chem 91's S1 from dagga G 4 on one side, and 4 dirty chems from JJ at topdawg on the other side.
 
Man having a dimmer on this light is SO NEEDED! Pure power like this from a light is neat but must be respected cause it'll let ya know your mistakes quickly and i like that, honestly figure less then half on my dimmer throughout until flowers start up.............
 

Ill never forget warning my cousin about mag ballast capacitors holding a charge being bad juju, we used to take everything apart as kids to see how they worked.....Do any of you have experience with stewarts shops out of ny state? They have done some things to my kid after buying out her last employer that confuse me. they will not allow her overtime (the criteria they want met for employment means very few qualify that will even apply for the rate of pay) Forced her into a salary that is 150-250 a week paycut! This company just spent 5 billion and then preys upon the employees running their stores? Having a hard time wrapping my head around this. Before they bought out the old employer they were managing and doing well for several yrs. They came in all peacock and shiny but im getting the gut feeling this is a chitshow unfolding.....kinda out of touch with our local hiring base if they think folks who can pass a backround check, piss test...etc will accept 15 an hour......Nobody where i live can sustain on those rates of pay......the cost of living wage here is at least 25 hr..........Seems predatory to me.
 
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