ShaggyGrower
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In the small tent, it was up to 31c just now with 60% humidity. 30c is the max I'd like it to be (~85f, as that is maximum photosynthesis rate), so I opened a little flap at the top so some hot air can escape (hot air rises). Leaf temp is 33c (88f). The ambient temp in the room the tents are in is 23c right now (down to ~19 at night). My LED is defo producing less heat than the HPS, but it's only 300w (135w real) compared to 660w (700w real according to my measuring device), so difficult to compare. I'm guessing, but I think in a larger tent with more air movement and extraction (which my small tent does not have), I think temps would be easier to control with the LED than the HPS.
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The WR's are back under the 300w LED. I'm comfortable with 5 & 6 (top right [tri-leaf/stem & bottom right respectively) being strong enough to take it. M & 3 (bottom left & top left respectively) not happy - something up with their media I think. I'm tempted to dig them up (chuckle, joking!). Not sure whether to flush the fuck out of them, or leave them be and let them try to work it out themselves. Happy Growing!
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Thanks @g22 Flowering numbers are: DD 63-70 days Nebula 60-65 days JW 60 days IC 55-60 days SS 56-63 days So JW is one day overdue. However, I'm pretty sure because of my treatment of them all with nute burn / nute lockout, they are delayed slightly. Tried to find answers on the internet regarding if a lockout of, say two weeks in flowering, extends the time to flower by ~ two weeks, or whether it's not as simple as that. I'm looking at trichomes, leaf/pistil colour, etc. Below is the Ice Cream bud all dried and ready for a light curing. Shtems & leavsh & all (best Dutch accent): Happy Growing & Smoking!
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More bud porn This is Jacky White, Day 61 of Flowering: Happy Growing!
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She's looking great @LedCherryBerry. Nice and healthy with nice spacing. Don't take this the wrong way, but I was a little worried pre-grow with what you were proposing, but you've COMPLETELY turned my head around and EVERYTHING looks wonderful. Have fun at the expo - wish I was able to go as well, but alas not. Happy Growing!
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Hi @lifehacker, This is a nice short video on how to top: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wutnIHwy7LM In my first-to-know-what-I'm-growing grow, I topped at node 5: "Topped DD and Nebula (NVclosetmedgrower topped around this growth point). They're left with their cotyledons, their first single-fingered set of leaves, their first three-fingered set of leaves; their first two sets of five-fingered (perhaps the second is a seven-fingered) leaves. " : http://forums.strainhunters.com/topic/11066-first-know-what-im-growing-grow/ From your photo's it's hard to see how many nodes you have exactly, but it looks like you have enough. Now, me and that guy in the link top quite early, some other wait a bit longer and chop a bit more off the top because they let it grow longer, and then they use the bit that's chopped off as a clone. So if you don't need/want a clone from the bit your chopping off, chop off early; if you do want a clone, let the top bit grow a little more before you chop it off. Yup, I know you're feeling nervous reading this, I think everyone is on their first time. Below is where I would top based on your photo. The blue line is the cut line, and the two red lines are the two new shoot that will become main colas: Happy Growing!
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Yes, doing better, and after a 6 hour sleep this afternoon (their night), I noticed she has another 3 leaf/stem node growing, and perhaps even a third 3 leaf/stem node! Below is this morning and on the right just now: Happy Growing!
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Dutch Dragon showing some nice colours (photo taken with lights off and just the camera flash). Happy Growing!
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The same as one of @I'm Sal's WR, I also have one ("6") that has decided to start developing a set of 3 leaves on the fourth node Notice leaf 1 has six petals. Some lower ones have four. This it's genetic as I think all of mine have at least one even numbered petals on a leaf. Happy Growing!
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Hi @I'm Sal, Give it a day or two and perhaps the excitement of me reading that SCRoG article will wear off and something new will have taken over. I'll build the frame anyway, as that'll at least keep my hands off my plants for a bit I'm thinking three node pairs this time as well. IC had three pairs, the others have four. Some of the stems of the four-node plants are a bit week, and with three I would still have enough green to spread about (just four plants for me, five has been a bit trying so glad I'm only doing 4 this time).
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If you can post a side-on shot of the plant showing the various nodes (where the stems/leaves are growing out from) I could edit it and show you (as well as count how many nodes you have).
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Hi @lifehacker, Topping or Fimming the plant IS harming the plant, but it responds by growing two main cola instead of just one. I would defo recommend topping at least once (preferably twice). It seems to help keep the plant shorter than it would usually grow (good for when in a tent), and it seems to produce more yield as there are more bud sites. I was a bit worried my first time as well , but it turned out to be a simple procedure. That link does provide info on Topping (as to the links within that link). Good luck with whatever you choose. Happy Growing!
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Trichome shot from a calyxe cut from the top of Nebula: Yup, still a ways to go yet. Happy Growing!
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oops, wrong thread
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Hi @lifehacker, This is the way I work out dates: Day 1 of seedling stage is when they first pop out of the growing media, then there are 14 seedling days. Day 1 of Veg is Day 14 of seedling stage. So if your popped out of the media on 30/Dec that was Day 1 of seedling stage, and Day 1 of Veg was 13/Jan, so today is 32 of Veg under my counting mechanism (others will have different systems). If I was growing just one plant in that size tent, I would veg for quite a long time and do some topping & LSTing to try to make the plant go wide to fill the tent width ways, and then once it's nearly filled width ways, switch to 12/12 and they will start to stretch upwards. Have a read of this as you may like what you see and feel a SCRoG is the way to go: http://www.growweedeasy.com/scrog-tutorial Happy Growing!
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Recovery going well I think (Top right = M; bottom right = 3; Top left = 5; bottom left = 6): 5 & 6 are (relatively) motoring along and have stretched more than M & 3. I wanted a bit of stretch compared to my last grow as these should grow short & bushy (heavy indica) and my last ones only got to ~60cm (apart from JW which is 90cm due to Miracle Grow I suspect), so I'd like to try to induce a bit of height early. They're all still way behind my last grow (I topped DD & Nebula at day 13, the day before I switched them to 18/6), but I suspect they'll catch up in time. Today is day 27 from sprouting through the media for M. 6 was 29th (so day 16), with the others in the middle. As an aside, I thought I knew what a Scrog was, until I read this: http://www.growweedeasy.com/scrog-tutorial I can kinda see what @I'm Sal is doing with his weaving now (awesome btw). If I did a Scrog, I think that would help my desire to move my plants around (ie, stop it @slimjim). I shall give it some thought. Happy Growing!
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OK I will wait, @I'm Sal
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Hi @lifehacker, She's looking very nice! If 3/FEb was Week 4 of veg (Day 28), then today is Week 6 (Day 39). She looks to be recovering well. I would wait to flip to 12/12 until at least 8-9 weeks (2 months) from the start of veg. Veg is all about the plant building the structure from which the cola's will stretch up from. How much plant structure you want depends a lot on how much space you have for it to grow into and still be far enough away from the lights to not get heat or light burn. How big is your growing space for her? Happy Growing!
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Hi @french mango, Bon chance!! @I'm Sal, I'm probably on my weighing too much thingy. I figured 90% of the total would be left in bud (a guess), so I guessed ~ 3.5g so not far off your guess. Weighed it this morning and it's 23.5g, so that's quite a bit lost in ~16 hours (ambient room temperature in that cardboard box 68-70, and I just now have some moisture sucking stuff in there as well to keep the humidity low). I'm finding harvest time both exciting and stressful. Exciting because they're done/nearly done, stressful as I don't want to cut them too soon/late and bugger up drying/curing. And then there's the trimming. I shall try not to rush the trimming, or anything. It's day 58 of flowering for all of them (as I think their flowers showed very close together, ~18/Dec). DD 63-70 days; Nebula -65 days; JW 60 days; IC 55-60 days; SS 56-63 days. I think I delayed them all a little with a calcium lockout, hence my leaving them a little longer, and the trichomes still not showing many amber at all. I'll prepare my drying boxes then go in for a main cola chop when I see a few more amber trichomes! Thanks! Happy Growing!
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Harvested a stem of Ice Cream and did a light wet trim (yes @slimjim, much easier than when dry). IC has three pairs of side shoots, all the others have four. This is one of the stems from the bottom pair. 34.55g wet with stalk, trimmed (not including plastic tray obviously). Will be interesting to see what the buds vs stalks weigh dried: Bud shot (Gave it a squeeze and there was VERY LITTLE GIVE. I'm thinking that is a good thing. My last grow was a little airy. These are like rocks, and I get where the name 'nugget' came from now.: Improvised drying area (a bit of broken-stem Nebula at the back): Happy Growing & Smoking!
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Thanks @jan.gh, Stupid me. I was looking at the back of the packaging, not the front! DOH! So from that I can see it does indeed have Cal & Mag, not sure about Boron though? As an aside, the Mineral Grow has the information on your site, but the BioGrow does not. https://shop.greenhousefeeding.com/index.php?dispatch=products.view.&product_id=29 https://shop.greenhousefeeding.com/index.php?dispatch=products.view.&product_id=1 Perhaps something for your web designers? (I have been, amongst other things, a system tester, so as this is a test grow, I'm not sure how thorough we are testing we are Testing though. ) Happy Growing!
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A wizz around my tent: Happy Growing!
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Hi @LedCherryBerry, I've still to understand why it's not good to move a potted plant from one place to another. I can understand indoor to outdoor as, for example, outdoor they have more chance to pick up pests. I can understand that in moving them, there's a chance one could break a branch, etc. So there are risks, and there are also rewards (natural light has more spectrum than many artificial lighting systems, and it's free. Yup, ph can be a bitch, especially when it moves around on you like my foliar spray (not the H2O2 one). Like you say, I think it's best to check (with measuring device) beforehand. The numbers I produce, while looking complicated, are fairly simply for me to note down. Weights: Lifting pot onto scale - only slightly more time consuming than lifting & guessing. Ph: ph meter. Important to measure imv, and important to have a device that measures accurately. EC/PPM/Temp: All on one device for me, so noting down numbers is easy. Now I'm guessing, but I don't think many readers actually read my data thoroughly, as I put test error figures in the data the other day (Saturday) and nobody has picked up on it. Bottom line, the responsibility for checking the plant is getting what it needs, rest with me. Anyhoo, I've transplanted 6 into a bigger pot (~4l). They're all looking much, much better today having been watered only ph'd 6.2 24hr aired tap water (ppm 330) and under the blue 125w CFL. So, we're back to Happy Growing!
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Hi @french mango There's your problem imv, too cold at night. (Voilà ton problème IMV. Trop froid la nuit. ). Happy Growing!
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Hi @I'm Sal, I hear what you're saying, but for me, assumption is the mother of all fuckups. I can guess/assume I *know* the ppm / ph / weight / temp / humidity / etc, but by guessing, I could be wrong. So why take the risk when I can measure? Some of the problems I have had have been due to not measuring enough, such as when my calmag spray went from 6.25ph to 8.1 in a week. One point on this: I need to invest in a vastly more accurate ph meter, as the three I have, after a few days, they give different readings (~0.2 ph difference. One might say 6.08, the other 6.23 and the other 6.28). The numbers I am chasing are the number I want my feeding solution/water & run off to be, etc. I'm still a newby grower so I don't have the experience and confidence yet to guess-load, fire and forget. I'm not that good at lifting the pot and guessing whether it needs a water or not, so a slip a scale underneath the pot when I'm lifting it and take a measurement. Yes, it takes longer, but the measurements give me confidence on my path rather than adding to my anxiety. I agree I move the plants around a lot. I shall work on that. Happy Growing!
