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What's the most anxiety relieving strain you've had the pleasure of growing?
▲ 12 r/Autoflowers

What's the most anxiety relieving strain you've had the pleasure of growing?

(a week 8 Iced'n'Baked x Grapewalker kush cola for attention)

As we get closer to the November deadline (I know seeds will be available after that deadline but we can anticipate some availability reduction,) I'd like to stock up on some different types of seed. One thing my friends enjoy the most are strains that have next to zero paranoia/anxiety after consuming. The other effects don't matter, as long as it is a potent anxiolytic.

Type 2's are obviously going the be the best, but stick to type 1 recs unless there's a type 2 that is just asinine levels of good.

u/RustyBarfist — 4 hours ago
▲ 29 r/MephHeads

Iced n Graped and Canna Cheese at day 53

This is the first run in my 4x4 and the first run with this light. My 2x4 has SIPs with living soil and that's where I have things dialed in. (growing fastbuds in there atm, don't think I'll run their gear again, I got them in a seed trade and while they're super vigorous they're just not all that interesting.)

This tent however is more of an experiment and a way to use up some freebies. The 4 corner plants are Iced n Baked x Grapewalker Kush, the 2 center plants are Canna Cheese. I'm quite happy with the grow despite how lazy I was and how badly I treated them (i used my standard living soil blend which is decently hot, and then still gave salt nutes and other inputs at various points just to see how the plant reacted.)

Firstly I'm convinced that I am far too lazy for any sort of manual top watering system. I let dryback happen too often which is a nightmare in peat. Not to mention watering 6 damn plants as well as filling the 2 gallon res on the 2 plants in my other tent, it becomes laborious. Had to get some yucca to rewet the soil. All the deficiencies seen in the leaves are likely from dry pockets in the soil that were mineralized with salt, as well as the various other tortures I put the plant through. Now that I have a feel for this tent and light, I'm gonna put 2 tray2grows in here and wave goodbye to top watering aside from the first 2 weeks or so. The question is if I should attempt 6 plants on 2 tray2grows considering how plants grow like maniacs when you make the watering idiot (me) proof.

I had some fun with training just because I knew this was gonna be a suboptimal grow. The 2 canna cheese got a single apial stem bend, but that stem quickly retook dominance and I didn't bother training further. The bottom right iced n graped was topped, I love the canopy with topping, it was my first time trying it out. I think with a nice vigorous start that's the move. Bottom left got my usual LST method, where I keep bending the main stem down until a few nodes are shooting up. The back 2 corner iced n graped were untrained.

This grow still has a ways to go but I'm quite pleased in general with the freebie cross; grew well despite me barely giving it a chance. I also learned a ton about the plant, the real high is knowledge. Especially for me since I just grow for family and friends and I don't partake at all.

u/RustyBarfist — 11 days ago
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Growing 6 plants in my 4x4 is a PITA to water, thinking about a tray2grow

I have 2 tents, a 2x4 with 2 12 gal SIP (city pickers) and a 4x4 that this run I did 6 5 gal cloth pots with boring ol' soil. When I grow in cloth pots I generally get smaller plants and I'm ok with it.

It sure is a pain in the ass to water though, and I don't think I'm ready to change too much up.

Would getting something like 2 tray2grows for the 4x4 be a solid move? I could keep using fabric pots with my soil mix in them, but just bottom water and mulch the top like I do with my SIP's. Would 2 tray2grows be overkill? Is there a cheaper solution that involves gravity fed water? I don't want to put 4 SIP's in there, its just too much damn soil to work with, but I wonder if just doing trays won't make monster (a little larger is OK, plus I can always do 3 gal pots instead) plants as long as I keep doing soil, but I just wonder if buying some self watering bases would be a most cost effective move. What would you do if you wanted to keep growing at least 4 plants (ideally 6) in a 4x4 but wanted the laziest watering solution possible.

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u/RustyBarfist — 21 days ago
▲ 10 r/Autoflowers

Strains and their effects

I'm a non smoker, despite being a grower. I love growing, my partner and several friends enjoy smoking, so it works out well. In fact I would say growing is my favorite hobby, its just an interesting thing to be a part of.

One thing I've never really been able to get a clear answer on is what dictates the effects of strain. Some people say its the terpenes, and while that makes really good sense, I know a ton of these terpenes have other botanical origins, some of which are food, and those food stuffs aren't entirely known for having psychoactive effects. I'm also very skeptical on things like essential oils, etc. It's best to have research papers on things and hopefully we can get vastly more of that in the states if there's a rescheduling. My personal pet theory, which is based in virtually nothing, is that the minor cannabinoids are probably what do the heavy lifing on effects. But once again, I don't really know. LLM's blow smoke up your ass when you try to research this, and googling just results in tons of forum posts. I know also there's indica v sativa, but lots of people say they've been interhybridized so much that it means not much of anything, and really those terms or only helpful in casual ways or to describe growth patterns (like saying classic indica effects, or classic sativa growth, but ultimately not being good at describing effects.)

I guess what I'd like to ask this community a few things:

  1. Does anyone know of some literature investigating the difference in strain effects?
  2. For some anecdotal fun, has anyone ever played around with this? Smoked 2 50/50 hybrids and considered the differences? Smoked some old bud where the terps are drained and noticed a flat high?
  3. Lastly, and probably most important. My partner and friends all agree, Mephisto's 4 assed monkey is their favorite strain I've grown. And I have no clue why! Its an indica leaning hybrid, but so is sour stomper, and they actually don't care much for that strain. I think what they enjoy about it is it seems to be a total anxyolytic, both report zero anxiety or off effects. That is has a very clean and warm nice feeling. Can anyone recommend some strains like that (but without CBD strains, I have some 1:1's growing and that experiment is next?) And the crux of my curiosity, by what metric can I find similar strains in terms of effect, without just tracing the parentage and going off that.

PS can anyone tell me the effect profile of Mang O'z as well, if you've tasted that. I have that slated in my next grow.

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u/RustyBarfist — 29 days ago
▲ 8 r/MephHeads

Strains and their effects

I'm a non smoker, despite being a grower. I love growing, my partner and several friends enjoy smoking, so it works out well. In fact I would say growing is my favorite hobby, its just an interesting thing to be a part of.

One thing I've never really been able to get a clear answer on is what dictates the effects of strain. Some people say its the terpenes, and while that makes really good sense, I know a ton of these terpenes have other botanical origins, some of which are food, and those food stuffs aren't entirely known for having psychoactive effects. I'm also very skeptical on things like essential oils, etc. It's best to have research papers on things and hopefully we can get vastly more of that in the states if there's a rescheduling. My personal pet theory, which is based in virtually nothing, is that the minor cannabinoids are probably what do the heavy lifing on effects. But once again, I don't really know. LLM's blow smoke up your ass when you try to research this, and googling just results in tons of forum posts. I know also there's indica v sativa, but lots of people say they've been interhybridized so much that it means not much of anything, and really those terms or only helpful in casual ways or to describe growth patterns (like saying classic indica effects, or classic sativa growth, but ultimately not being good at describing effects.)

I guess what I'd like to ask this community a few things:

  1. Does anyone know of some literature investigating the difference in strain effects?

  2. For some anecdotal fun, has anyone ever played around with this? Smoked 2 50/50 hybrids and considered the differences? Smoked some old bud where the terps are drained and noticed a flat high?

  3. Lastly, and probably most important. My partner and friends all agree, Mephisto's 4 assed monkey is their favorite strain I've grown. And I have no clue why! Its an indica leaning hybrid, but so is sour stomper, and they actually don't care much for that strain. I think what they enjoy about it is it seems to be a total anxyolytic, both report zero anxiety or off effects. That is has a very clean and warm nice feeling. Can anyone recommend some strains like that (but without CBD strains, I have some 1:1's growing and that experiment is next?) And the crux of my curiosity, by what metric can I find similar strains in terms of effect, without just tracing the parentage and going off that.

PS can anyone tell me the effect profile of Mang O'z as well, if you've tasted that. I have that slated in my next grow.

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u/RustyBarfist — 29 days ago
▲ 5 r/BackyardOrchard

Nikita's gift persimmon, am I cooked?

Hello Reddit, here in zone 6a Ohio I had a nikita's gift persimmon that was enjoying its first unseasonably cold winter. Most of the scion wood died sadly but I have new growth. However, its dangerously growth to the shitty graft the tree nursery performed. I'm not sure if these are new growth from the last tiny bit of scion wood, or if they're suckers from the root stock. It appears to be from the scion wood, but how much of a gamble is it?

u/RustyBarfist — 1 month ago