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Johan's Nutcracker day 49.

13 hours ago, AK-47 Gold Arabesque said:

Looking good man! Any sort of smell from the bud yet? 

Unfortunately my nose is almost completely useless, so I won't be hired as a Terp sommelier anytime soon.

Day 21

3 days later

Tooth Fairy: Flower - Day 7. light defol + training.

8 hours ago, AK-47 Gold Arabesque said:

Amazing!! I still don't get how you manage to achieve 4 strong main branches like that?
Do you top the third node, and prune everything between that and the bottom two branches? 

IIRC It's a clone that had it's main top chopped (prob for a clone). So then I just regularly bent the 4 lower branches away from each other. It's generally how things usually go around here, incrementalism.

Vigorous Nutcracker clone going to the creator. Thank you Johan.

Either Papa Smurf or Tooth Fairy, I've lost track. Week or so of veg and then flower.

Also one of those 2 strains. Flower - Day 14.

1 hour ago, AK-47 Gold Arabesque said:

What phonescope/microscope lens do you use to take the close-up photos?

Howdy. Just my phone and a basic loupe.

Fem search.

Cheese x Peanut Butter Breath (R) Kinda leafy.

38 minutes ago, Stinger96 said:

It looks like a awesome pheno you have. I would say your issue is ether a light leak or insufficient light. It has nothing to do with your vege time. If you are in your grow space after lights out it needs to be so dark that you loose your balance. You will be astonished how a light leak can screw with your bud development..

Not specifically time in veg, but I stripped them before moving to the new space, which if I would have done after moving, would have not chopped so much. So then I had to let veg a little longer, but node spacing was terrible, but plant was too big to veg much more, so I flipped.

Light levels are always monitored closely. Light leak, entirely possible! Nutes, pH, could be better.

50 minutes ago, AK-47 Gold Arabesque said:

It would be a crime to not process the trimmings from this plant  One of those smaller leaves has more trichomes than a whole bag of outdoor you get from a dealer  

Pity it's so leafy. My veg work was def sub par. Will try get proper node spacing next time.

Nutcracker - Peanut Butter Breath x Green Crack.

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On 10/18/2023 at 4:28 PM, Bos said:

Enjoy your grows.

Those flowers look Plump and Frosty.❄

Hey mate, thanks so much, it means a lot! Appreciate ya, made my day.

leafgrowlights on Instagram if you're interested.

LEAF EMS-240 * | 60cm | Switching to Coco Coir + Worm Castings. pH 6.0.

On 8/20/2023 at 5:52 AM, Naughty.Psychonaut said:

Awesome brother I'm very excited to see that cheesexpbb! Do you know the parents of the Nutcracker? 

Plants looking great!

Peanut Butter Breath x Green Crack

Thank you sir, I don't always improve from grow to grow, but I feel like I got the spacing a bit better this time. I have to be more aggressive with defol before flip, but I always find it difficult.

On 9/4/2023 at 8:09 PM, biird said:

Wow wow wow. You are a a machine man! So much to learn from this post.

So interesting that you do a combination of organic and salts. I thought you had to choose, either or. Can I ask, how do you avoid salt buildup in the soil? My understanding is that with salt based nutrients like GHE, to prevent the soil EC from getting too high, you need to water to runoff, to flush any salt buildup. Do you do that? Do you just take the plants out of the tent to do so? Because there's no setup to handle any runoff or anything.

Super curious what your nutrient and watering technique is! Thanks so much in advance and can't wait to see your future grows!

You're way too kind man. I don't usually shine a light on the negative points/things that happen, but I appreciate your comments.

Yep, I'm quite interested in hybrid methods. Most everything I do is borrowed from somewhere else, with the idea of starting with organic soil and myco for an easy start, and then gradually introducing salts around late veg making for a simplified process.

I don't go too hard on the salts, since where I grow I'm not able to control all the other environmental parameters to their optimum anyway. I actually have only recently started to follow the Coco-coir protocol of watering to excess and then removing that (with a big syringe). So in reality I've prob always been suffering from some degree of salt build up. 

So tbh my watering technique was dogS, I would let the roots soak up the excess in the tray. But I'd also occasionally feed straight water, so perhaps that helped to alleviate problems.

However I've bought FF Coco-coir (90-10 because of the air-pots)(and cheaper than green bag) and earth worm castings (borrowed from "Scotty" from that YouTube grow show, although he adds some other stuff as well) for a hybrid Coco substrate thing.

I'll also be making a bunch of CO2 bottles using sugar and yeast. Also switching to EHG nutes due to lower cost, and watering to excess at least once a day.

Hoping to progress to the next level and stop making the same mistakes over and over.

I decided to make the switch after watching Migro's Coco vs organic & non-CO2 vs CO2 comparison grows. (CO2 adds 30% growth rate at all par levels)

Since I pH test every time anyway, that was another reason to switch to Coco. (with dropper solution, really quick to do and could never get the hang of the cheap pen I bought with all the different calibration solutions etc.), I'll be aiming for 6.0ish. 

Hard at work bringing my own 100% original, shape-transforming light design to market, so still keeping the grow protocol simple yet upgrading is super helpful.

19 hours ago, Naughty.Psychonaut said:

Damn, that cheese x pbb probably gona be crazy! Where did you get it, if I may ask? 

Heyy, I was given a whole bunch of reg seeds from a mate in a WhatsApp group. The Nutcracker is also his creation. They've made it through a cold winter, so seems like a good pheno so far (I've taken clones), let's see how it goes.

Nutcracker & cheesexPBB

Love to see it!

That greenhouse is rocking through winter. So impressive!

On 5/15/2023 at 6:41 AM, Naughty.Psychonaut said:

Hi bud, hope you well. We got a inhouse LED specialist, if I may say so myself. @MrE have you seen this? 

Hey @Naughty.Psychonaut @koosjrdudes!

Heck yea, super interesting project! Super kean to behold the development!