I've been growing the P chunk for a little over two years, and spent most of that time trying to find a replacement that's not so bloody annoying to grow. I'm growing partly for a couple legal patients who huff and puff and refuse to let me stop growing it- but I'm getting more and more anxious to replace it with something. It's killer smoke. Just weird genetics to work around- and it moulds easily in my humid grow. The most problematic plant I grow, and the most popular.
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Been growing Pineapple Chunk for 2 Years
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alltatup
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Growing PC with a few others--the runt of the bunch. Have not had any problems with PC yet--of course, all the fun is yet to come. Why is it so bloody annoying to grow??? Ima have to research that a little. I have a dehumidifier--absolutely necessary where I live. Right now keeping the RH around 37%.
I like the challenging plants!!!
I like the challenging plants!!!
Wow -37 RH. I could only dream of getting that low! Have a small dehum running too but can't put in a bigger one cause I'm maxing out my power.
I think its best described as 'working around genetics'. Some of its just minor stuff that adds up after a couple years. I haven't heard many other people taking about this stuff so maybe it's just me- but I grew out three different phenos in the beginning and they were all similar- so I think it's mostly the strain and not me...
One thing - it's so smelly and stinky that it needs extra precautions in the stealth department. Maybe not so much for one plant- but if I'm growing a mess of it - it really makes a stink. Best described as fumes- it actually makes my eyes burn. I don't like touching it. Ever mix up a batch of epoxy glue and then accidently stick your arm in it? It's just exactly like that- not pleasant or nice- a gooey sticky mess and the smell lingers for days if I brush against it.
Yeah I know- first world problems.
Besides those problems which not everyone would think of as problems- it's not very vigorous. No matter what I do I can't get the plant to hold up its buds in flowering. It's kind of a wimpy vine-like thing that just want to lay its gooey mess of a self down on the ground and never get up again. I have to scrog all mine-it gives the buds a place to lay down on.
And the mold is the biggest issue for me. It's the mouldiest plant I grow, and I've faced a lot of mold before. It's practically impossible to get to harvest without battling it near the end. I do have high RH. But I've got lots of other strains that can take way worse conditions and never blink.
it's never happy. Every grow is a crapshoot. It's always complaining. It's also not fun to trim.
I guess it's not the end of the world. But after a couple years of wrestling wth this plant-which never really looks as happy as it should, and is too sticky to touch, and is always trying to lay down on the floor and commit suicide by mold- I'd rather kick it out and make room for one that just shines happily all the way through. And there are many strains that do.
It's weird how this sickly and annoying plant keeps producing the bud that everyone wants the most.
Critical Cheese is running a close second for smoke though, and that has amazing genetics. I'm going to make some fem seed of the PC soon and then try to phase it out if they'll let me. Just trimmed two moldy plants of it and I'm sick of it. Lol.
Didn't mean to write a book. Thanks for letting me vent.
I think I need therapy...
I think its best described as 'working around genetics'. Some of its just minor stuff that adds up after a couple years. I haven't heard many other people taking about this stuff so maybe it's just me- but I grew out three different phenos in the beginning and they were all similar- so I think it's mostly the strain and not me...
One thing - it's so smelly and stinky that it needs extra precautions in the stealth department. Maybe not so much for one plant- but if I'm growing a mess of it - it really makes a stink. Best described as fumes- it actually makes my eyes burn. I don't like touching it. Ever mix up a batch of epoxy glue and then accidently stick your arm in it? It's just exactly like that- not pleasant or nice- a gooey sticky mess and the smell lingers for days if I brush against it.
Yeah I know- first world problems.
Besides those problems which not everyone would think of as problems- it's not very vigorous. No matter what I do I can't get the plant to hold up its buds in flowering. It's kind of a wimpy vine-like thing that just want to lay its gooey mess of a self down on the ground and never get up again. I have to scrog all mine-it gives the buds a place to lay down on.
And the mold is the biggest issue for me. It's the mouldiest plant I grow, and I've faced a lot of mold before. It's practically impossible to get to harvest without battling it near the end. I do have high RH. But I've got lots of other strains that can take way worse conditions and never blink.
it's never happy. Every grow is a crapshoot. It's always complaining. It's also not fun to trim.
I guess it's not the end of the world. But after a couple years of wrestling wth this plant-which never really looks as happy as it should, and is too sticky to touch, and is always trying to lay down on the floor and commit suicide by mold- I'd rather kick it out and make room for one that just shines happily all the way through. And there are many strains that do.
It's weird how this sickly and annoying plant keeps producing the bud that everyone wants the most.
Critical Cheese is running a close second for smoke though, and that has amazing genetics. I'm going to make some fem seed of the PC soon and then try to phase it out if they'll let me. Just trimmed two moldy plants of it and I'm sick of it. Lol.
Didn't mean to write a book. Thanks for letting me vent.
I think I need therapy...
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alltatup
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Weasel you're HILARIOUS!!! That was a great mini book you just wrote.
Here's what I think the problem is: she ain't feeling the love!!!! She is just one of the sensitive types!!! She must intuit that you hate her, so she's depressed and smells bad. She doesn't take care of personal hygiene and gets moldy. She droops around the house all day. If she knows that you think of her as a "gooey mess of a self," "not fun to trim," "suicidal," "I'd rather kick it out of the room," etc., HOW DO YOU THINK SHE'S GONNA FEEL? What does she have to live for? She knows that you will never love her, don't like to touch or smell her.... maybe she gets back at you by making your eyes burn so you'll know how she feels. She wants you to cry the tears that she mouldily cries..
Here's your therapy exercise: Go sit with her (them) and tell them, You're good enough, you're smart enough, and goddamnit, I love you!!! Thank you for your wonderful medicine and have a great day!!!!!
On the practical side, too bad you can't make a larger dehumidifier work...
Here's what I think the problem is: she ain't feeling the love!!!! She is just one of the sensitive types!!! She must intuit that you hate her, so she's depressed and smells bad. She doesn't take care of personal hygiene and gets moldy. She droops around the house all day. If she knows that you think of her as a "gooey mess of a self," "not fun to trim," "suicidal," "I'd rather kick it out of the room," etc., HOW DO YOU THINK SHE'S GONNA FEEL? What does she have to live for? She knows that you will never love her, don't like to touch or smell her.... maybe she gets back at you by making your eyes burn so you'll know how she feels. She wants you to cry the tears that she mouldily cries..
Here's your therapy exercise: Go sit with her (them) and tell them, You're good enough, you're smart enough, and goddamnit, I love you!!! Thank you for your wonderful medicine and have a great day!!!!!
On the practical side, too bad you can't make a larger dehumidifier work...
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alltatup
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Weasel look at how Barney's describes PC:
Barneys Farm Pineapple Chunk Feminized cannabis is an excellent cross between Barneys classic Pineapple and a super potent Cheese phenotype of Skunk #1. The outcome is a very stable plant that is vigorous and high yielding. Barneys Pineapple Chunk Feminized marijuana is tolerant of most growing conditions as well as being resistant to fungi and disease, making it a great choice for the first time grower.
When smoked, Barneys Pineapple Chunk weed is one of the most potent strains of cannabis available. With THC levels in some individuals being measured at 25%, mixed with high CBD levels, Barneys Pineapple Chunk is “sit down†weed. Best enjoyed when there is absolutely nothing to do. Don’t plan on moving for a while.
Your girls are definitely not happy with something!!!
Barneys Farm Pineapple Chunk Feminized cannabis is an excellent cross between Barneys classic Pineapple and a super potent Cheese phenotype of Skunk #1. The outcome is a very stable plant that is vigorous and high yielding. Barneys Pineapple Chunk Feminized marijuana is tolerant of most growing conditions as well as being resistant to fungi and disease, making it a great choice for the first time grower.
When smoked, Barneys Pineapple Chunk weed is one of the most potent strains of cannabis available. With THC levels in some individuals being measured at 25%, mixed with high CBD levels, Barneys Pineapple Chunk is “sit down†weed. Best enjoyed when there is absolutely nothing to do. Don’t plan on moving for a while.
Your girls are definitely not happy with something!!!
Thanks for the laugh. I don't think I'd ever read Barney's description of the strain. 'Vigorous, 'tolerant', and 'resistant to fungi and disease'... ha ha ha.
So you're saying I should go back in there. I don't want to go in there.
I don't want to talk to her.
I don't even really like how she smells anymore.
Why can't I just throw her out and replace her with a different girl?
A nice girl who doesn't just lay around all the time. One who doesn't have issues with her reproductive parts rotting...
Easy right?
So you're saying I should go back in there. I don't want to go in there.
I don't want to talk to her.
I don't even really like how she smells anymore.
Why can't I just throw her out and replace her with a different girl?
A nice girl who doesn't just lay around all the time. One who doesn't have issues with her reproductive parts rotting...
Easy right?
alltatup
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You can have other girls: she doesn't mind. But you have to find a way to fall deeply in love with her--on her terms. She needs warmth from you, and compassion. And most importantly, if you want the medicine she gives to you to be outstanding, you must revere her extraordinary powers. If you can do that, she will sweeten up and no more burning eyes. Stroke her gently and talk to her in reverant terms. Tell her you are sorry for resenting her, feeling repulsed, wanting to just throw her out. She is terrified at this point, and depressed. These plants have deep feelings, weasel. I kid you not. If you want her to bloom with great fertility and vigor, try what I say.
bobsakamoto
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god this is entertaining. "i hope it lasts."--Willy Wonka
I need therapy from my therapy now. How much extra will it cost for a therapist that just tells me what I want to hear?
I'd hire myself for the job but I couldn't be convincing enough.
Look- just don't tell her I said anything. Ok?
When I'm working in there late at night stoned and tired it gets weird sometimes and I get these fears, like the door is going to close suddenly and they're going to start slowly moving towards me...
I'd hire myself for the job but I couldn't be convincing enough.
Look- just don't tell her I said anything. Ok?
When I'm working in there late at night stoned and tired it gets weird sometimes and I get these fears, like the door is going to close suddenly and they're going to start slowly moving towards me...
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alltatup
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No good therapist will just tell you what you want to hear, Weasel: if you dump her this time around, she gone come back in your next life and you will be stuck in the same cycle. Only next time she may come back as your wife or daughter!!! So make your peace with her now. Surrender to loving your PC girl. Shit, I ain't even gonna charge you for this--not even a nickel.
bobsakamoto
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it's like a really good bad reality show i can't stop watching...
lol. It sort of is on this end too. I have to kind of laugh when those guys say- 'do you have any of the Pineapple Chunk?' I've been actively doing everything I can to discourage this question, for a long time. Twice now, first with Ace Malawi, and then with Critical Cheese, that glorious moment came when they said 'wow this is better than the PChunk'. A week later it was 'actually, we want the PChunk again'. Why? Because they just can't get enough of that cherished feeling of being hit in the forehead with a 30 pound sledgehammer. It's relaxing for them. And they've got the medical cards from the government proving that they 'need' this stuff for their brains to be able to function properly. Who am I to argue?
Someday... you will come and lay down on my couch and talk to me and tell me all about the sad sad tale of your relationship with that bitch and how you're kept awake every night by her pitiful cries - 'I'm hungry, I'm thirsty, I'm too wet, I'm too dry, I'm too hot, I'm too cold, my pot's too tight, the light's too bright, its stuffy in here, I hate you, I love you, I've got mould in my lady parts again'.
Following close behind you will be a couple shambling retards with red vacant eyes waving cash around and whispering frantically about how they 'need to meet you out in the hall man'.
Those guys...
Do us both a favour and close the door quick, before they recognize me.
Look, I am sorry I gave them your phone number. Just lay down on the couch. Yeah I know. I'll figure out some way to clean off the resin later.
Someday... you will come and lay down on my couch and talk to me and tell me all about the sad sad tale of your relationship with that bitch and how you're kept awake every night by her pitiful cries - 'I'm hungry, I'm thirsty, I'm too wet, I'm too dry, I'm too hot, I'm too cold, my pot's too tight, the light's too bright, its stuffy in here, I hate you, I love you, I've got mould in my lady parts again'.
Following close behind you will be a couple shambling retards with red vacant eyes waving cash around and whispering frantically about how they 'need to meet you out in the hall man'.
Those guys...
Do us both a favour and close the door quick, before they recognize me.
Look, I am sorry I gave them your phone number. Just lay down on the couch. Yeah I know. I'll figure out some way to clean off the resin later.
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alltatup
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WEASEL!!!!!! This is not the way to grow medical cannabis!!!! You are not being a good CULTIVATOR OF THE STEALTH GODDESS!!!! Look, you can pick your friends, but you can't pick on your cannabis!!! You are discriminating on PC just because she's a little more difficult for you. Well, stop whining!!! I am not interested in growing easy strains: anyone can produce a fat bud that way. Give me a real challenge, and I am at my best.
Now my little pineapple chunk is doing great: she gets along with everyone, she is all green and stretching upwards, she smells heavenly and pretty soon she will start budding. THAT'S BECAUSE I LOVE HER UNCONDITIONALLY. Weasel, I hope you never have a daughter, tho I hear it''s sons who are the smelly ones...
Scroll down and read the Rushkoff's brilliant essay, "Cannabis: Stealth Goddess"
https://arthurmag.com/2010/11/01/pot-stops-time-douglas-rushkoff-discusses-cannabis/
Now my little pineapple chunk is doing great: she gets along with everyone, she is all green and stretching upwards, she smells heavenly and pretty soon she will start budding. THAT'S BECAUSE I LOVE HER UNCONDITIONALLY. Weasel, I hope you never have a daughter, tho I hear it''s sons who are the smelly ones...
Scroll down and read the Rushkoff's brilliant essay, "Cannabis: Stealth Goddess"
https://arthurmag.com/2010/11/01/pot-stops-time-douglas-rushkoff-discusses-cannabis/
Thanks. Looks like a good book. A great description of stoned time. I'll check it out more
As for what you say- true in parts. But what you will be saying in two or three years is maybe more relevant. I like hard to grow strains too, and don't mind wresting for years with finicky 18 week flowering landrace sativas and stuff like that.
   To me this one just feels like weird/bad genetics. I wouldn't call mine sickly exactly. I think it's healthy enough. Whatever version I'm growing, it's just not a vigorous plant. It's more like a vine. A whiny vine.
Hopefully yours is better.
  I think if someone knew how to breed well they could turn this strain into something good, with quite a few years of hard work. As it is- it grows strong indica smoke, and if it didn't, it wouldn't be here to talk about, cause almost everything else about it is annoying.
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  Besides the 'drooling retards' (my friends,lol), who crave indica, there is one thing that keeps me mildly interested in this strain, and that's the potential color that comes out. It rarely happens, and usually it's pretty mild. But one time the PC bloomed in truly crazy colours. I don't know what magical factors converged that one time, but about a year and a half ago I flowered a PC the most beautiful colours I've ever grown in a plant. This in a plant which isn't normally very colourful. let me know if you want a couple pics dumped on this PChunk therapy session which is supposed to be your journal.
  I usually flower it long if I can. That round was 105 days if I remember it right. Other than that- temps  must have been lower than usual, and since lower temperatures bring in mould, it usually doesn't happen.
   To do it again consistently I would need to move to a drier climate. Or install more power, and a bigger dehumidifier, and AC to cool the increased heat from the dehumidifier.
For which I'd need to get a better job and make more money. So I'd probably have to move. Would she be happy then?Â
  I hope she's happy for you.
- not sure what all these little stars are I see mixed in with this post...
As for what you say- true in parts. But what you will be saying in two or three years is maybe more relevant. I like hard to grow strains too, and don't mind wresting for years with finicky 18 week flowering landrace sativas and stuff like that.
   To me this one just feels like weird/bad genetics. I wouldn't call mine sickly exactly. I think it's healthy enough. Whatever version I'm growing, it's just not a vigorous plant. It's more like a vine. A whiny vine.
Hopefully yours is better.
  I think if someone knew how to breed well they could turn this strain into something good, with quite a few years of hard work. As it is- it grows strong indica smoke, and if it didn't, it wouldn't be here to talk about, cause almost everything else about it is annoying.
 Â
  Besides the 'drooling retards' (my friends,lol), who crave indica, there is one thing that keeps me mildly interested in this strain, and that's the potential color that comes out. It rarely happens, and usually it's pretty mild. But one time the PC bloomed in truly crazy colours. I don't know what magical factors converged that one time, but about a year and a half ago I flowered a PC the most beautiful colours I've ever grown in a plant. This in a plant which isn't normally very colourful. let me know if you want a couple pics dumped on this PChunk therapy session which is supposed to be your journal.
  I usually flower it long if I can. That round was 105 days if I remember it right. Other than that- temps  must have been lower than usual, and since lower temperatures bring in mould, it usually doesn't happen.
   To do it again consistently I would need to move to a drier climate. Or install more power, and a bigger dehumidifier, and AC to cool the increased heat from the dehumidifier.
For which I'd need to get a better job and make more money. So I'd probably have to move. Would she be happy then?Â
  I hope she's happy for you.
- not sure what all these little stars are I see mixed in with this post...
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alltatup
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Deep, my man, for real. So interesting how all of the factors that go into the grow--not to mention the constitution of the individual who smokes it--create a such a unique circumstance each time.
I would love to see some pics of the incredible colors!!! Now if that ain't a generous gift from her, I don't know what is!!! How can you not love her??????
What I will be saying in 2-3 years: I can't imagine!! But I can tell you that the beginning of this journey is the best! I feel so empowered and to belong to a forum of fellow growers is enormously gratifying and grounding.
Had to look up "landrace" cuz I wasn't familiar with the term. I have so much to learn!!! But the Rushkoff essay is one of the very best philosophical pieces I've read on cannabis, and it identified the attitude that I wanted to cultivate toward cannabis. Cannabis is so generous with me, and I revere her for it. My grow room is my temple of reverence. So I've been half-kidding and half-serious with you; I really believe that my vibes have a direct impact on the grow. Surely you've read something on plant intelligence/feelings?
http://www.viewzone.com/plants.html
Here is a salient quote:
"Backster decided on impulse to attach his polygraph electrodes to the now-famous dracaena in his office, then water the plant and see if the leaves responded. Finding that the plant indeed reacted to this event, he decided to see what would happen if he threatened it, and formed in his mind the idea of lighting a match to the leaf where the electrodes were attached.
And that was when something happened that forever changed Baxter's life and ours. For the plant didn't wait for him to light the match. It reacted to his thoughts!
Through further research, Baxter found that it was his intent, and not merely the thought itself, that brought about this reaction.
He also discovered that plants were aware of each other, mourned the death of anything (even the bacteria killed when boiling water is poured down the drain), strongly disliked people who killed plants carelessly or even during scientific research, and fondly remembered and extended their energy out to the people who had grown and tended them, even when their "friends" were far away in both time and space."
My personal theory is that some gardners are naturally more inclined to nurture and develop a relationship with their plants, while other gardners tend more towards an exploitative and dominant relationship. They are probably the same way in their human to human relationships... Now I know you aren't in the latter category, but I really do believe that you have to do some "mending" to your relationship with ms. PC. And if there is simply too much bad blood between you and PC, maybe you should stop cultivating her, cuz you don't want the friction between the two of you affecting your other girls. But what would the "drooling retards" do? Seek elsewhere?
My PC is not at all viney: she is sturdy and thick. But she is just at the beginning of her stretch: who knows what's to come? I was going to take a pic, but my grow lights just went off, so I'll do it later. I'd like to see a pic of your currenty whiney viney PC.
Read the two articles, Weasel: we can't do anymore therapy until you do!!! ;-}
I would love to see some pics of the incredible colors!!! Now if that ain't a generous gift from her, I don't know what is!!! How can you not love her??????
What I will be saying in 2-3 years: I can't imagine!! But I can tell you that the beginning of this journey is the best! I feel so empowered and to belong to a forum of fellow growers is enormously gratifying and grounding.
Had to look up "landrace" cuz I wasn't familiar with the term. I have so much to learn!!! But the Rushkoff essay is one of the very best philosophical pieces I've read on cannabis, and it identified the attitude that I wanted to cultivate toward cannabis. Cannabis is so generous with me, and I revere her for it. My grow room is my temple of reverence. So I've been half-kidding and half-serious with you; I really believe that my vibes have a direct impact on the grow. Surely you've read something on plant intelligence/feelings?
http://www.viewzone.com/plants.html
Here is a salient quote:
"Backster decided on impulse to attach his polygraph electrodes to the now-famous dracaena in his office, then water the plant and see if the leaves responded. Finding that the plant indeed reacted to this event, he decided to see what would happen if he threatened it, and formed in his mind the idea of lighting a match to the leaf where the electrodes were attached.
And that was when something happened that forever changed Baxter's life and ours. For the plant didn't wait for him to light the match. It reacted to his thoughts!
Through further research, Baxter found that it was his intent, and not merely the thought itself, that brought about this reaction.
He also discovered that plants were aware of each other, mourned the death of anything (even the bacteria killed when boiling water is poured down the drain), strongly disliked people who killed plants carelessly or even during scientific research, and fondly remembered and extended their energy out to the people who had grown and tended them, even when their "friends" were far away in both time and space."
My personal theory is that some gardners are naturally more inclined to nurture and develop a relationship with their plants, while other gardners tend more towards an exploitative and dominant relationship. They are probably the same way in their human to human relationships... Now I know you aren't in the latter category, but I really do believe that you have to do some "mending" to your relationship with ms. PC. And if there is simply too much bad blood between you and PC, maybe you should stop cultivating her, cuz you don't want the friction between the two of you affecting your other girls. But what would the "drooling retards" do? Seek elsewhere?
My PC is not at all viney: she is sturdy and thick. But she is just at the beginning of her stretch: who knows what's to come? I was going to take a pic, but my grow lights just went off, so I'll do it later. I'd like to see a pic of your currenty whiney viney PC.
Read the two articles, Weasel: we can't do anymore therapy until you do!!! ;-}