DankFiend

Eish! sorry, man. hope shit resolves soon. best of luck

8 hours ago, GreenBeans said:

Whats up .

Yeah, I'm mostly an outdoor grower. Its just much cheaper, and I am not exactly a rich man . I did try a very cheap diy indoor grow with a few led skrew in bulbs. And managed to pull 60gs off 2 glueberry og auto plants. Not the best yields, but it was something and probably just had to do with the dutch passion genetics. I actually did find a cheap chinese light at cash converters yesterday that i bought for a couple hundred bucks and I'll see if i can do anything with it. 

What about you CreX? An indoor or outdoor guy? 

that's not a bad yield off autos in a cheap diy indoor grow. respect!

Entry1: Russel Hobbs and The Humbolt Legends...Live!

Had to feed and do my weekly grow room maintenance, so got some pictures of the OG Kush and Chedawg. hint of a small  issue with one of the blue cheese, but it might just be the effect of topping off with water too early. Will resolve I suspect when I make new Rez. 

Back row, from right to left...OG Kush (clone of the plant on the extreme left) , Chemdawg, OG Kush, Chemdawg, OG Kush (2 plants are much earlier in their flowering cycle). Front row, blue cheese.. 

Below is a shot of the chemdawg colas from a few days ago

16 hours ago, Mambawana said:

What a happy garden, well done...

Strange how it works. My garden is bigger and badder then its ever been yet I too spend way less time in the garden then I use to. Then you just get those days where you just have to put in the hours. 

I'm starting to feel more confident about this blue cheese line with regards to uniformity. I'm still in veg and it doesn't mean much yet but all 3 of my blue cheese plants are exactly the same. The 3 triple cheese are all slightly different. How has the stretch been so far? Any smells been given off yet? Apparently it's a short to medium height strain. 

And btw thanks for sharing

The stretch wasn't insignificant but I was actually hoping they would stretch a little more. It was, however, uniform across both plants. They are not tall  (one is seriously bushy though). A bit more stretch than I expected into week 3...

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On 1/9/2020 at 7:20 AM, CreX said:

Alright!! 2020 here I come!!! 

In this picture, you will see everything that my life revolves around

Making her daddy proud

using pictures of your kids should be considered cheating (unless they are over 30).

I tried to get back to work this week, so had less time with the ladies. When I first started growing it was all so exciting and almost everyday of my grow I would find something that needed doing. And it didn't matter what else I had to do - the grow came first. There is nothing so fun as learning to grow weed, and with each experience trying to do a little better (a story I would like to tell). These days, I am a little different though. I am happy to just watch them grow, as long as there is dank at the end (growing spoils you)...And there is something beautiful about an untameable carpet of weed.

Speaking if which, here are the latest pics of blue cheese. this is day 18 (I think) since I flipped. 

Shit is getting interesting. First, both are girls and no sign of hemies (something I was worried about). They are clearly of the same phenotype, but one of the two plants is already more impressive (which is to be expected). but here is still a long way to go. I ran the nute solution a bit hot: 1300 ppm (although I need to calibrate the meter again). PPM in the autopot is 1330 so ill start topping off with water tomorrow. Although I haven't run into major problems I still haven't gotten the management of EC/PPM in an autopot down.  I've built all my own hydro systems so I was bit of snob about autopots - but they are really easy, labour lite, and just work. Next time I use them, however, I want to drop an air curtain at the base to see if it does anything.   

The Chewdawg are putting on a bit of bulk now. The OG Kush less so. Will post pictures of them soon.

On another note. Any suggestions for a a good pre-flowering pesticide for my outdoor game?  

nice set up. subed

58 minutes ago, Mambawana said:

@DankFiend 

Nice. It's always hard finding time for the outdoor gals. I just see to there needs every now and then before I hit shower. I don't take any chances with hitchhikers... the one thing I love about the outdoors is the natural predictors that look after the plants. Leaf miners are the only issue I had recently outdoors.

I have no experience with outdoors, but one of the nice things about this attempts is that the plants are taking care of themselves. After adding nutrients and letting to cook for a bit, the sorbet has basically been on autopilot. I haven't even. had to water because it been raining so much. ill probably give biobizz bloom and explore grow come flower - because I won't be able to help myself, but the way things are going the sorbet might yield more than what's coming from my indoor game. Wont that be nice!

2 hours ago, CreX said:

The heavy alternating nodes have started and its very easy to distinguish that they are all female. 

Im pretty excited haha, I have this feeling that I'm going to need Cola holders when the buds start to fatten up

haha...wishing you heavy buds in the new year...and strong supports to keep them standing

@Mambawana

I think I posted them on my glog, but here they are again. As you can see, I probably need to do a bit of weeding and gardening after the crazy rain. the big plant is sorbet from the plug seedbank and the small one is something called currylatto (same breeder). got the seeds as freebies in some or other attitude seed bank order.

The small plant got scratched out of the ground by the cat just after planting. I stuck it back in but its was fucked and I thought it was dead. after days and days of rain, it pulled a Lazarus. The big girl is doing well but getting chowed by insects and battered by the weather. I need to give it a bit of attention

4 hours ago, PsyCLown said:

Looking good man!

How large is the tent and how many of the Fluence lights do you have in there for interest sake?

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Thanks bru. its a 1.5 x 1.5 tent. the screen only covers half the tent (more or less). Using just 1 light focused on the scrog area. Curious to see how it treats my girls in flower before I decide what I want to say about it. Have any experience with fluence? So far I am impressed (but I am still a HID holdout).

1 hour ago, Mambawana said:

I've posted my decoy plants before. It's a plant grown outdoors that flowers whilst your gals indoors are flowering. So when the indoor gals start to stink up the neighborhood and by chance someone follows the smell and peeps into your yard... They see your outdoor plants and associate the smell with that plant.

haha. then I have a decoy plant.

decoy plants?

yeah...some problems are good problems

Haha. I just realised you have the same problem I do...just on a very different scale. I mean are you using synthetic nutrients or organic?

4 minutes ago, Mambawana said:

So far all 3 are exactly the same in veg. Same structure, same leaves, same height... 

Trying to control the height across all strains but it's getting difficult, luckily I've started spotting some amber trichs so by the looks of it the flower room should be harvested, cleaned and reset next week some time. Then its transplant, a week of veg in flower room to get the roots going and to get plants to acclimate to the 1000W and then flip.

So you going to be a good 4/5 weeks ahead of me.

organic? Beautiful dude!

37 minutes ago, Mambawana said:

@DankFiend 

Nah bru, you not crazy. You want to maximize your yield in the space you have. You know the risks, you have a game plan.  

Whether you remove the smaller branches that have reached the net or not that canopy is still going to get thick and you will require good airflow either way.

I'll post my blue cheese flowering aswell... Who knows we might earn barneys some rep.

Haha. I love it, it will also allow us to to see how homogenous and stable the strain is. 

More on the need for super cropping and the power of fluence...

At the moment the canopy of the scrog is not even. One of the reasons for this is probably the light. I really didn't anticipate so much secondary and tertiary growth, so much so that now I am worried that there is too much going on in many of the individual holes - with there literally being 4-5 bud points in some case. A more sensible grower might have cleared much of this. However, I decided that what makes it to the screen by the second week of flower can stay - but now shit has gotten a bit crazy and I might be setting myself up for other problem down the line (probably going to need all three of my fans blowing through the canopy to keep moisture from building up). at the same time, I am excited to see what comes of the buds at the lower end or how fucked up crowded the squares can become. 

One strategy to keep the canopy more even is to (supercrop) damage the stems of those bud sites that I want to slow down, while the lower growth catches up. But I am lazy and I don't mind popcorn (of course not all popcorn is equal).

so, do folks think I am crazy not to clean off growth like this? There are shit loads of squares as crowded, some with taller colas already

yeah, was going to say, its too late now for super cropping for the chemdawg and og Kush. I am also on a deadline for this grow (and impatient0, and so trying not to do too much that will slow the plants down in flower. In truth I have other options as I have another 600w MH/HPS tent that I started flowering the plants not under the screen in,. However,  I have a bit of chores to do before I can shift them back there. The problem is I am lazy, and I have a tendency to get stoned and procrastinate. Ill post about the venting problem I have with the other tent soon as its about my grow room set up and I wouldn't mind suggestions on how to fix it. 

ON super cropping - I super crop all the time. However its usually by accident 

3 hours ago, CreX said:

Well I hit follow, seems like a sweet grow to watch... 

Very keen to see what the fluence does lol.. Not many can afford such lights, so I'm keen to see what they are able to do. 

And sweet job on leveling that canopy man! It's looking really full and level!! 

the problem is, because the non scrog plants were vegged too long and are pretty tall, the light is being kept to high imo - so i losing some of the light advantage of scroging. the canopy is not level at all - but I am trying.

5 hours ago, Mambawana said:

What issues have you had with their gear in the past?

My first grow was barney's blue cheese (and Royal Queen's white widow). One of the plants went hemie and another grew out looking more like a blue berry than a blue cheese. So certainly not homogenous. I have heard that although they have award winning genetics, they contract out to smaller outfits for their breeding - no idea if its true.  I will say that the blue berry looking phenotype was probably the nicest tasting weed I ever smoked. I have wondered if I misdiagnosed the hemie (it was my first grow, so I didnt know shit - but some of the pros on weed.co.za confirmed that it was in fact a hemie). Thats part of the reason I thought I would try them again. but I also tried growing their pineapple chuck and got very average to shit results.

that said, the two blue cheese plants I am growing this round seem to be the same phenotype and are chowing nutes at more or less the same rate. The proof will however be their performance now, in flower. Lets see

2 minutes ago, Mambawana said:

@DankFiend 

Nice grow you got going. All the luck in this last stretch to the finish line.

The blue cheese, who was it breed by?

barney's. I know they are shit - but I am giving them one last chance 

Decided to tidy up my shit a bit after checking out some of the other Glogs on the forum. I could certainly have been more ruthless in cleaning undergrowth, but I got the canopy on the scrog as even as its going to get - although there are just too many bud sites. I suspect the worst of the post-flip-strech is over, although there might still be need to do a small bit of tucking as the plant goes into week 3 of flower.  Lets see.

Started from here...

Now we're here...

And just because she is pretty, below is some chemdawg budporn

1 hour ago, CreX said:

It is a 1.2m x1.2m net I built a while back. 

I have just finished hanging my other lights, I kept them separate this time. So I have... 3 light fixtures 

I dimmed the lights to 50% and am still getting fantastic coverage and intensity! If I need more power, I can always crank it up

I have a lot of free evening time of late, so iv put in the time to scrog it properly and neaten up the undergrowth, General grow setups that iv been losing track of. 

 

nice! I tend to keep my screen much closer to base of the plant, top and then train the fuck out of them so the stems run horizontally along the screen. but shit gets messy and it becomes hard to clean under the skirt. By the looks of it, you going to have some serious colas, and just colas. with different strains you might not get a a completely even canopy, but its going to be befok... scrogs make for the best bud porn!