Diary Complete Ill_Evan's 2022 Grow Room Boogaloo

[Prom]

if you run the small ones in the back, you have em lifted to easier water

[Ill_Evan]

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. 

 

 

[Ill_Evan]

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. 

 

[Ill_Evan]

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. 

[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. 

 

 

[ORGANinc.]

1 hour ago, Ill_Evan said:

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. 

 

 

Are you using leca for the whole pot now? must say man. You are dialed in there!  Nice onE! Buds look fanfuckingtastic!

Edited October 14, 2022 by ORGANinc.

[Ill_Evan]

44 minutes ago, ORGANinc. said:

Are you using leca for the whole pot now? must say man. You are dialed in there!  Nice onE! Buds look fanfuckingtastic!

I just added a layer of leca above the coco/perlite mix. It helps a little bit with evaporation, and I don't have to look at crusty coco at the top anymore 

So the pot has leca at the bottom that just slightly covers the airdome, then a 50/50 mix of leca - coco/perlite, then another layer of leca. 

I have found this to be the ultimate thus far for the autopots. Quick to root, great drainage, not bad evaporation. 

[Ill_Evan]

Finally got the net in 

[Khakibos]

[Ill_Evan]

Harvest incoming  ZxP

 

[Ill_Evan]

Harvest has been weighed, coming in with 377g of ZxP.

I must still weigh the Wedding Cake and OMG. 

 

 

[John Stonedwell]

23 minutes ago, Ill_Evan said:

 

The frost on this is insane!!! Very well done man! 

I hope she smokes as good as she looks

[Ill_Evan]

I have weighed the other harvest, which was the Wedding Cake and OMG. 

Wedding Cake - 80g

I would call this my flavour strain. I always get a great terpene profile from it, citrus and sweet. First time doing an organic run with Biobizz with it, not the best run in my opinion but definitely a keeper. I gave it a lazy trim as I felt the buds were not super dense. 

 

 

OMG - 135g

Probably the most trash harvest I've had this year. This strain did not enjoy any of the training and all the four phenos mutated or stunted in some way. Although the resin was very sticky, more so than the Wedding Cake or ZxP. It also reeks like good old street skunk. 

I've kept one pheno to maybe try again. I gave it an even lazier trim because I think I am just going to straight up turn it into dab. If it turns out power I'll then definitely rerun it. 

 

[Ill_Evan]

Big tent is midway through flower. I am getting a good stack this time around; I think the lower nugs will be the most developed out of all the previous harvests. I am still mulling the idea of when to do the final defoliation, I am thinking soon.

When looking closely I feel there is still great light penetration and wind movement past the plants at this foliage level, so every time I think about it, I decide to keep the leaves for the time being. When I look at the last picture, I feel like I'll just start with the most bottom leaves for now and give it another check then. 

 

 

This will be the last harvest of the year, and it's looking to be a mighty one to finish it off. For the most part I always end up eating shit in some way when I've tried flowering in December/January, whether it's budrot, mildew or an empty wallet from running an AC 24/7. I've grown now straight for three years and imma go take a break before ramping it up for probably another three years  hopefully towards bigger things in the process. 

I'm going to setup my mother plants to be able to survive a week and a bit by themselves in December and be ready to be thoroughly chopped for a full steam ahead run starting January. 

[Ill_Evan]

Quick update on the big tent. We are about two weeks from harvest on this one. Fade is slowly coming in and the flowers are smelling ripe! The lower nugs all look like keepers, much more so than the last one so I'm happy to see that. 

I am slowly removing a few big fan leaves every few days but I reached a point where it felt excessive to keep removing as I felt the majority of buds were getting direct light and the canopy was looking pretty flush.

Humidity is also holding steady sub 50%. Not the ideal of sub 40% but I am not seeing any PM, which is just great. From having repeated PM outbreaks to none at all has been a major win for the grow space. I attribute this to the top and bottom box fans I have at each side of the tent, plant count and canopy maintenance. 

I'm going to save 50g of this harvest and if I make it into the cannabis cup I'll send it in. If not, I'll then at least have some well cured weed to share and try out 

 

[Ill_Evan]

Some more pics. I wanted to try highlight some of the lower nugs. I'm really happy with how they are turning out 

 

 

[Ill_Evan]

Trichome check 

 

 

 

[Ill_Evan]

Harvest  hung up to dry, should be ready to trim in 4/5 days. 

[Bos]

Looking good....

[Ill_Evan]

Last harvest of the year numbers are in. The big tent ZxP yielded 547g main buds, 280g popcorn and 5g hash. 

 

Main buds

  

 

Popcorn

 

 

Hash

 

 

That sums up the diary for 2022. Next year looks like a big year for harvests so I'm looking forward to that. The setup is pretty much dialed in and things are as efficient as they can be currently with me doing everything. I think this diary shows what is possible for a small scale grower and what the possibilities are with what I would consider hobby level equipment. I won't be doing a diary like this again next year. Instead, I will be doing short and concise grow reports that show everything from beginning to end in single posts. The grows are becoming quite consistent now so I think I'd like to switch things up a bit.