A Cannabinerd's Journey

eastcoastmo

eastcoastmo

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Oh man, nice bud pron :-D I bet they smell good too!!

That's interesting about the reflective surfaces, it makes sense really. I'd hazard a guess and say that there would be little to know 'popcorn' buds, they'd be getting just as fat ;)
 
Aeroknow

Aeroknow

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AlphaPhase said:
Well, holy shit. I'm having an epiphany.

I used to consistently pull a gpw when I had my flood trays with covered tops.

I also pulled 2 lbs in the tent with the flood buckets and suspended net pots. There was lots of reflection.

When I was testing a new bulb tonight to see what Temps will be in the flower room with another light, and to adjust the hood height, I used the light meter on the covered tray.

To my astonishment, at 4 fucking feet!!!! I'm getting the same reading as 22" on all the other lights without a reflective surface.

This is huge and could be a major reason I was always pulling so much weight. At 24" it would be equivalent to 2000w in a 4x4 area.

Now to back track some years, my rooms were always built with the reflective insulation board. And I used that board to cover my trays, each tray being 3.5x3.5'.

I must have been getting 2500w equivalent in that space with all surfaces reflective!

Crazy! Something to think about.
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Oh, and the atomic nl I pulled lol. Such a trooper.
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You should see what that meter reads @ 4' away from my DE's with no reclection on top of trays! :-D :hump: lol
AlphaPhase said:
@Aeroknow

You know about this? Gh chitosan? Hmm. I'm learning like a mofo about products now lol.

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Yup. The chitosan is in quite a few products. AN's Budfactor X is another one.
I just ordered another 2 kilos of the water soluble chitosan. Last time it arrived, It felt like the delivery man was thinking it was drugs or something, when I signed for it. Lol
 
AlphaPhase

AlphaPhase

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Thanks eastcoast! You're right about that, I never had popcorn running these reflective trays :) can not wait to flower the glue in a day or so and see what it does, it's been a long long time since I've run this style tray :)
 
AlphaPhase

AlphaPhase

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Aeroknow said:
You should see what that meter reads @ 4' away from my DE's with no reclection on top of trays! :-D :hump: lol

Yup. The chitosan is in quite a few products. AN's Budfactor X is another one.
I just ordered another 2 kilos of the water soluble chitosan. Last time it arrived, It felt like the delivery man was thinking it was drugs or something, when I signed for it. Lol
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Jesus I can't even imagine the DE on this tray it would be so epic!!!

Lmao about the delivery guy. I can't believe I never knew about this chitosan years ago but it seems I may have used it unknowingly lol
 
papapayne

papapayne

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yea man the reflective surfaces do help a lot. The atomic nl looks pretty healthy all things considering. sucks she didn't cut it, but such is life.
 
AlphaPhase

AlphaPhase

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papapayne said:
yea man the reflective surfaces do help a lot. The atomic nl looks pretty healthy all things considering. sucks she didn't cut it, but such is life.
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I still have one other atomic nl that is fine, so it's ok :) I'm guessing the root system just wasn't big enough for hid because they didn't get much veg time, but the other anl and mendo breath handled the switch just fine and are already stretching as tall as the gdp now :)
 
AlphaPhase

AlphaPhase

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The pog18 spit out 1 nanner on a top cola. Nute stress related I'm assuming since she's been finicky, but that was the only one I found and it wasn't open so I think all is good.

Got some mites in my veg room on all the glue :( but not in the flower room at least. My second mite encounter! Little fuckers. They will be killed soon (i hope). It's very satisfying going through all the leaves and smashing them. They explode, lots of blood for such a little creature.
 
AlphaPhase

AlphaPhase

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Vnsmkr said:
Fucking mites man. Kill those little bastards
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For real! I've only seen them once. Well, twice. I got a kashmiri clone (really wish I still had it) that I got from a friend and it came with mites. I tried to quarantine it but ended up throwing it out because I do not work well with bugs. I've always prided myself with avoiding bugs so I didn't want to risk it :p but with constantly getting clones now from others it's inevitable and I suppose I need to learn to kill them. Bugs make my damn skin crawl. I do however keep a few spiders in the flower room for security, they don't go near the plants and just chill in a corner, but they are always killing random bugs so I let them live in there lol
 
papapayne

papapayne

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yea they can be a bitch when infested, but caught early dont seem to be to bad. spraying with spinosad and azamax every 3 days for a week did it for me. I still have to preventive now, but I think its more because they are outdoors where I live and hitch rides on me when I move about the yard to the rooms.
 
AlphaPhase

AlphaPhase

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That is good to know :) I did hit them with chitosan foliar and some spinosad so far, I will pick up some azamax. They do seem to suck the life right out of the clones, the clones were looking great 2 days ago and now they are much lighter in color, damn bugs! I'll hit them with some other sprays soon and then flower them and hit them one more time like 7-10 days in flower to make sure they die and don't spread to the gdp.

What's funny is the gdp are supposedly one of the most mite attracted plants, but not a single mite on those or the mendo breath or anl, weird! The gdp were in the same tray I transplanted the glue into, so I figured they would have something on them but nada. I think the big glue I took the cuts from must have been pretty infested :(
 
AlphaPhase

AlphaPhase

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Here's a chemalope in West Virginia. The guy had never grown a plant before so I'm walking him through how to do a soil grow, not bad for his first time! He's using like 40 watts lol. But I'm proud it's not dead yet. He said he loves the process, he's a moonshiner, so this is obviously the next step for an old timer :)

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AlphaPhase

AlphaPhase

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One more post for the night, God I've been an Internet junkie this week lol. Life's boring when ya gotta rest the bones though.

Here's a better pic of the spog91. I am thinking this will be my new mama and the new future monocrop strain. It is winning me over with the smell, denseness, structure, clone time and veg vigor, such a nice strain, I still need to smoke it, but I know it's the best yielder in the garden and if it tastes like it smells, then I think it's a bonefide winner in my book :)

Have a good night yall

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hippy132

hippy132

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AlphaPhase said:
The pog18 spit out 1 nanner on a top cola. Nute stress related I'm assuming since she's been finicky, but that was the only one I found and it wasn't open so I think all is good.

Got some mites in my veg room on all the glue :( but not in the flower room at least. My second mite encounter! Little fuckers. They will be killed soon (i hope). It's very satisfying going through all the leaves and smashing them. They explode, lots of blood for such a little creature.
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The red ones or the microscopic two dot ones? Last two grows I have seen the red ones, easy to get rid of but scary, particularly if you have seen what they can do to a grow in a couple of warm days like we are having.
 
AlphaPhase

AlphaPhase

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hippy132 said:
The red ones or the microscopic two dot ones? Last two grows I have seen the red ones, easy to get rid of but scary, particularly if you have seen what they can do to a grow in a couple of warm days like we are having.
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It's the red ones I believe, they look red and are about the size of a poppy seed. Got any tips to get rid of them? So far I'm killing them with my fingers, I put a hot shot peat strip in there but haven't looked to see if that helped yet, but I don't use them in flower so I'll need a more organic route for that. I figure I should treat the flower plants just in case. I thought summer was over but then here comes a heat wave! Lol
 
hippy132

hippy132

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For me, 3 dousings with "greenCleaner", I followed directions and hit it once then 4 to 5 days later then 7 days after that, first time 2 ozs per gallon, then one oz per gallon, worked but expensive shit. I paid $45 for 8 oz bottle. Appears to be safe...
 
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