Ill_Evan

Bushy big tent, gave it its first proper trim. Still have to setup the net 

Before

After

Smaller tent is approaching harvest time. I'll push it to the last week of this month at least. I am really liking the stacking on this round of the ZxP. I feel I've got a good idea of how many branches to keep for optimal growth. 

Big tent is a week into flip. Going well and starting to begin preflower. I must throw in a net at some point soon. 

Smaller tent is about two weeks to harvest. Probably one of the nicest finish to a ZxP run I've had in a while. Usually the fade is underway at this point but I'm glad to see the ripening is pushing a little later. The plants look overall still keen to keep going full speed ahead. 

Organic Tent™ is probably having one of the worst runs of the year. The OMGs in my opinion did not have a great run. I feel I overstressed them too soon with crazy training. The Wedding Cakes are probably the better of the plants that will come out of this tent. I will keep one of the OMGs and try a rerun when I pop some fresh seeds again. Harvest will be roughly same time as the smaller tent with the ZxP. I'll time the harvest around the Wedding Cake and the rest will just have to follow. 

Tremendous Bruce Banner 

Ew!

That's a spooky picture. 

30 minutes ago, ORGANinc. said:

Cheers man, ya I'm looking for some type of organic mineral amendment that I can add to the soil without altering the functionality of the soil and being harmful to the microbes. 

I have seen a product on Hydroponic but its really acidic, like 1ph, so im not too sure. Its called Eckosil. 

I've been using AgriSil K50 for the first time and so far so good. Managed to revitalise some plants after transplant using it. pH was pretty high though and they recommend not mixing with any other nutrients when using it. I managed to pH the solution quite easily and used it initially as a foliar spray. I will do a soil drench with it in a week or so. 

22 minutes ago, CoolJ said:

I would of thought the prices would be abit better seeing as lots of guys importing them for less.

Prices seem very similar to the local market. 

Let's see them links, King! Show us the guys importing for less, why you holding out on us bruh? 

I have topped the plants in the big tent. Two of the plants at the most bottom right are showing those initial signs of deficiency I've been having in some of my recent grows and I am putting blame on the transplant this time. They had the least developed roots and are now stressing or the roots are struggling to uptake nutrition.

For now I have given them a potassium silicate additive foliar feed and I went ahead and just sprayed all the plants. I am hoping that in the time it takes to build the canopy the two laggers will catch up. 

Smaller tent is developing some really nice bud so far. All the bud sites are looking good. I'm expecting this to be a very good run even considering the initial bump in the beginning regarding the medium pH. 

Heads up. Meiju have opened up an office in the Western Cape and they don't look too bad at all. A few products in particular catch my eye. For somebody just starting out I'd point to this 240W.

I personally have been slowly looking and waiting for what would inevitably replace my QBs when their time comes and I would opt for the 650W below. I've got another year or so I rate before I think I should start testing/replacing my first LEDs.

17 hours ago, Ponica said:

Not sure if its because it was stressed or if it is just how they are.

That autoflower plant isn't going to produce much, especially after a medium change during intense stress. That's the con about autoflowers in my opinion. If it were a photoperiod you could just keep it in veg until it's better and then flip. If it were my plant I'd chuck it and start again, but if I were you I'd keep it and try my best to get as much from it as possible, even if it ended up being only 5g  you'll learn a lot from the experience. 

45 minutes ago, Ponica said:

Tripart

If you are using Tripart (Terra Aquatica/formerly GHE) correctly and following the ratios on the bottles you shouldn't be getting deficiencies. Something would then either be wrong with your medium or your pH. I would wager that your pH isn't low enough either in the feed or the medium. 

Looks good for now. You will likely ditch those leaves at a later point anyways. 

Got the tent prepped and set for the next one 

Smaller tent is flowering on.

I've defoliated the Organic Tent™ and also pruned the smaller plants into their final forms. The tent itself is looking pretty stacked. The Wedding Cake just has that ultimate sweet smell of vanilla, I look forward to that fully flowering. 

Feel the POWA 

Looks like it's reveging to me 

Tenazole 

But for real, you get WPM once then you do everything to prevent it in future. I even just today swapped out a 4 inch extractor to a 6 inch because since the beginning of Spring the little 4 inch hasn't been able to pull enough moisture out my one tent. 

I am also currently contemplating adding more plants to my space but again, with WPM in mind, I don't want to overload the amount of foliage and plant perspiration in the tent. 

Which leads to the next point, defoliate! You can get away with pretty much removing every big fan leaf from every major stem/branch of your plant, especially before the flip. 

Then ventilation, I now always have a top fan for the canopy and a bottom fan blowing just above pot level. 

Lastly, I try cleaning everything in my tents after harvest. The walls of the tent, the floor, the blades of every fan and the tops of the LEDs. You can have spores in your tent just waiting for the right conditions to hit, and they won't grow unless those conditions are met (high temp/humidity) but why risk it. Fresh start always feels good. 

9 hours ago, Prom said:

Just raise the smaller plants to reach the canape.. they will fall more and more back if you don't lift em up. Will be happy to have 600 micromole PAR on right now.. not enough light. 

Top tier suggestion  I've since raised the smaller plants up to canopy level. 

Got another update lined up. 

Big tent is reset and already housing the potential clones for the next run. Transplant into the autopots is not too far along from here. The max number of plants I am going to go for is 12 plants on this run, so only need to chuck out two clones. I can already see which ones won't make the cut 

Smaller tent is on week 3 of flower and doing pretty well. The pH issue looks resolved. One plant in the corner is still a bit more faded than the rest but it's not terrible. When I look at this tent I wonder whether having more plants is necessary; four plants per 1.2m² has worked really well especially with the 99g per plant average I got last time. It does sound nice having a potential extra 180g+ to the harvest but looking at the below picture I can't see fitting in another two plants comfortably without risking a sharp rise in humidity and increased risk of PM, not without changing the grow style and decreasing the amount of toping to allow for horizontal space. Decreasing the toping will increase the bud size per plant, but also decrease the amount of veg time and overall plant size which if done correctly will output similar sized buds as now, but then the yield will also be similar. The only advantage would be less veg time, maybe. It'd really depend on how successfully timed the cloning is. Having a fast system or grow process doesn't really mean anything if the tent sits empty waiting for clones. 

Organic Tent™ is pumping, but also not pumping. It is on week 3 of flower and the Wedding Cake clones in the middle are doing very well. Most comparable to the Wedding Cake clone growth is OMG #4 in the back right corner. 

OMG #1 and #3 are both quite behind on any pistol development. They both fell behind in veg growth and I could not complete the intended shape of them and had to improvise. OMG #1 ended up with 6 main branches and OMG #3 has just a cluster of whatever the hell it's doing. I must try get in there and maybe chop the bottom branches off, but I want to see some more development first. 

Lastly OMG #2 is somewhere in-between. I managed to get the shape I wanted but it grew slow and overall is smaller than desired. I need to do a little more work on the shape just to spread it more slightly, then it should be finalised. 

Seedlings are like private school kids; they are very sensitive and react to nearly everything. Those seedlings all look healthy to me.

What I would suggest is next time pot up in smaller pots (~5L) first before going into the final bigger pots, unless you are doing auto flowering plants then potting up directly into the final pot is the way. 

Seeing as we are here in the bigger pots already, I would then also suggest to water lightly around the circumference of the plant instead of directly on top of where you planted. You don't want dry dry coco in your pot because it can be sometimes difficult to rehydrate, and you also want to promote the roots to work and seek out moisture around itself. 

Don't worry about the pH up until now, if you keep watering at 6.5 you'll be alright. 

1 hour ago, The_StonedTrooper said:

1000 apologies, but your sentence start, sounds like an Indian person with a stutter. 

Light stress maybe yeah, or did I miss the burn?

My man knows watt's up. 

6 hours ago, MrE said:

Looks like a bit of nute deficiency starting, hope I can get it sorted.

What watt are you running at the moment? Small possibility it could be light burn and not a deficiency. 

4 hours ago, The_StonedTrooper said:

18 plants, in the same size tent. Got out about the same grams total, 30 to 40g a plant.

Sent juvenile plants to flower, and no cleaning or training of the plants.

I only use Explogrow now, 

I'd say not bad, but watch my next grow

Your veg time must be way shorter than mine. I'm actually thinking of adding another 4 plants to the tent, similar style, but less veg. So from 8 plants to 12 plants total.

After three days of trim jail, I weighed the latest harvest of the ZxP.

8 plants, 1.2x2.4 tent, 880W total LED power. 

567g juicy nugs, 229g popcorn, 796g total.

Which makes it about 99.5g per plant. So close to triple digits  Not a bad increase from 37g per plant from earlier this year. 

I also decided to split the juicy nugs from the popcorn nugs because the popcorn nugs were big enough not to throw straight into the trim, but I wouldn't consider them... juicy. I think I might end up pressing all the popcorn.

I'm also going to attempt to collect some kief from the trim and press that as well. I have some collected kief already sitting in the trim bin I used for the latest harvest, I'll post an example of it below. I have my trim sitting in the fridge and I am going to run it through the trim bin again by just rubbing a handful at a time on the top sift. I should be able to get at least one press worth, I think. 

21 minutes ago, Weedeater_ZA said:

Indoors, yes. I haven't heard of 350SC, but I'll track it down. Will it leave a residue on the flowers?

I have a feeling you're probably further than two weeks into flower if you're worried about residue on already developed flowers, so maybe just do the soil drench. 

3 hours ago, Golden-Goose said:

350SC is a systemic that stays in the plant for about 80 to 90 days. An excellent product to use in veg, and part of my IPM.

Truth. He'd have to flower up to almost 9-10 weeks total flower if he applies it immediately now. 

2 hours ago, ORGANinc. said:

Is this glyphosate???

The specific active ingredient is imidacloprid (chloro-nicotinyl), as @Totemic also mentioned.

2 hours ago, ORGANinc. said:

Maybe not full, but close to

With any of these nuclear level methods I would also go with a 1/2 - 3/4 dose in general. 

11 hours ago, Weedeater_ZA said:

Hi Folks,

 

During a routine check tonight, I discovered some of my girls have Aphids on them. F%ck knows how they got in, but they are here.

Question: how do I get rid of these buggers in week 2 of flower? 

Indoors right? Most guys would say if you couldn't prevent the problem then just blast some Complete 350SC on the leaves and also do a soil drench with like a 100ml solution ASAP. Many others will also say don't do it, because it's poison. Personally, it's saved a previous grow from a bad aphid infestation, and I can still see straight, so ja. Only had to use it once.