12/12 From Seed Experiment - 21 Strains
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Hot Diggity Sog
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Chapter 4 Update - Part #1
Day 82
Flowering ~ Day 38
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I hope everyone was able to spend quality time with family and enjoy some incredible food...I sure did!
Things are going great. I'm kind of in the auto-pilot mode so there is not much to say. I'm starting to see the 1st bit of color change in the hairs...just a faint orange starting to come through.
Day 82
Flowering ~ Day 38
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I hope everyone was able to spend quality time with family and enjoy some incredible food...I sure did!
Things are going great. I'm kind of in the auto-pilot mode so there is not much to say. I'm starting to see the 1st bit of color change in the hairs...just a faint orange starting to come through.
Hot Diggity Sog
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Chapter 4 Update - Part #2
Day 82
Flowering ~ Day 38
...Pictures Continued
Day 82
Flowering ~ Day 38
...Pictures Continued
Hot Diggity Sog
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I'm already scared about the daunting task of chopping down and trimming that will be before me. And yes, the smell is thick...heavy.Very nice HDS
I can almost smell "skunk" from here. Auto pilot mode is about to end
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Hot Diggity Sog
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Thanks a lot! This appears to be my best effort so far
Sativied
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Very nice man, making that skunk #1 look great.
I look forward to seeing the roots after you pulled them out.
bf80255
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system looks to be getting pretty well dialed in brutha, nice uniform bud growth throughout the whole canopy with different strains, very impressive.
Hot Diggity Sog
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@bf80255
Thanks! This is the 1st time I'm running only 1 strain. Skunk #1 from Sensi Seeds is pretty consistent and uniform...something that is pretty important. The variance I had with my 1st prototype using 5 strains caused a lot of problems.
@Sativied
I suspect it will be pretty impressive. In the 1st prototype, I could easily lift each plant up from the base a couple of inches and look at the roots. Many of these, however, are akin to trying to lift a post out of the ground that has poured concrete. They just don't even budge! I knew they were going to be crazy when I had to start cutting roots entering the reservoir during pre-flower...a 5 foot run from the exit of the tubes.
Thanks! This is the 1st time I'm running only 1 strain. Skunk #1 from Sensi Seeds is pretty consistent and uniform...something that is pretty important. The variance I had with my 1st prototype using 5 strains caused a lot of problems.
@Sativied
I suspect it will be pretty impressive. In the 1st prototype, I could easily lift each plant up from the base a couple of inches and look at the roots. Many of these, however, are akin to trying to lift a post out of the ground that has poured concrete. They just don't even budge! I knew they were going to be crazy when I had to start cutting roots entering the reservoir during pre-flower...a 5 foot run from the exit of the tubes.
Lisa martinez
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Awesome !
Hot Diggity Sog
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Hey everyone...I'm hoping you can give me some advice. With winter coming, the temps in my grow space get too cold to grow effectively so I have 3 options:
A) Just wait until April or so.
B) Grow a round of Auto-Flowers. This is an option because the lights can be on most of the time providing enough heat.
C) Take some clones from the best Skunk #1's I have going right now and try and spend the next few months creating mothers and cloning them.
For option C, do any of you have any experience taking clones from a plant that is in full flower?
For Option B, I've always been under the assumption (not necessarily correctly) that all auto's will be sub-par in quality. Any thoughts on this?
Any and all suggestions/opinions welcomed
A) Just wait until April or so.
B) Grow a round of Auto-Flowers. This is an option because the lights can be on most of the time providing enough heat.
C) Take some clones from the best Skunk #1's I have going right now and try and spend the next few months creating mothers and cloning them.
For option C, do any of you have any experience taking clones from a plant that is in full flower?
For Option B, I've always been under the assumption (not necessarily correctly) that all auto's will be sub-par in quality. Any thoughts on this?
Any and all suggestions/opinions welcomed
jigfresh
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Autos have come a long way man. There are some good ones out there. I don't know which ones, but I've heard some reputable people saying good things about them. They are really big here in Spain because everyone wants to grow outdoors, electricity is expensive, and they don't want to only harvest once a year... so lots of people run autos.
I would try option B and option C.
I've taken clones at harvest, didn't do anything special, just did it like normal. I think people cut the buds off, not really sure.
I would try option B and option C.
I've taken clones at harvest, didn't do anything special, just did it like normal. I think people cut the buds off, not really sure.
torontoke
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Hey hds
Here's an idea to help with winter temps. If you have the room set up a second "octagon" with a separate curtain and wall. Have them on opposing times so that there's always a light on creating heat to keep the room ok.
If you get real crazy build 3 octagons and run a light over each one for 8 hrs a day. Or not lol
Imo stay away from the autos. I found them finicky low yielding and sub par potentcy wise.
Here's an idea to help with winter temps. If you have the room set up a second "octagon" with a separate curtain and wall. Have them on opposing times so that there's always a light on creating heat to keep the room ok.
If you get real crazy build 3 octagons and run a light over each one for 8 hrs a day. Or not lol
Imo stay away from the autos. I found them finicky low yielding and sub par potentcy wise.
ghb
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damn you torontoke beating me to it with that quick answer whilst i'm sitting here writing out an essay! lol
make 2 flower rooms and run them so that one is on in the day and one in the night, it is the most efficient way of doing things if you have the energy time and resources to do so.
i currently have a similar dilemma and am now using an electric radiator that is running at 3kw when the lights go out, my room is only a 2400w room so i am literally wasting electricity on creating heat when i could use that same power to grow me 2-3 kg of quality herbs. unfortunately for me i am a lazy bastard and have too much work on my hands do to ever do anything like that any time soon.
i have done it before with 2 grow tents in the same room, this was a few years ago and it was not to combat the cold of winter but the heat of summer which is sort of the same thing. there was a 15 second gap between one going off and one going on, the one that had lights on at night did ever so slightly better but yields were very similar.
make 2 flower rooms and run them so that one is on in the day and one in the night, it is the most efficient way of doing things if you have the energy time and resources to do so.
i currently have a similar dilemma and am now using an electric radiator that is running at 3kw when the lights go out, my room is only a 2400w room so i am literally wasting electricity on creating heat when i could use that same power to grow me 2-3 kg of quality herbs. unfortunately for me i am a lazy bastard and have too much work on my hands do to ever do anything like that any time soon.
i have done it before with 2 grow tents in the same room, this was a few years ago and it was not to combat the cold of winter but the heat of summer which is sort of the same thing. there was a 15 second gap between one going off and one going on, the one that had lights on at night did ever so slightly better but yields were very similar.
Hot Diggity Sog
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I had not considered 2 grow chambers on opposing light schedules. That would take care of the cold most likely. Not sure I have the space to do so but I'll start thinking.
ghb
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not perfectly suited to your octagon but grow tents are a room in a room and are ideal for such things, i'm sure you'll work it out if you really want to.
i mean NOT GROWING?! seriously? i shudder at the thought, a man of your talents it would be a crime.
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Sativied
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How cold does it get? When I built my tubes I expected I needed an aquarium heater but turned out the water pump gets warm enough to prevent it from getting too cold. That said, if it gets colder than 62 you could use one of those. If the roots don't get too cold,you already won half the battle, if not more.
I have a small vet cabinet with 54-72w T8 in which I germinate, keep clones, etc, to which I connect the intake ducting of my flower closet whn it gets too cold.
Normally in a fully enclosed space and pots I would recommend heating mats. How about one of those party tent heaters? If power use gets too high you could perhap consider running a row less and use 1 bulb only, and spend the rest on a heater.
Also, some strains can handle it much better than others. Besides afghani perhaps you could look at some canadian bred varieties, or holland's hope, frysian dew and similar varieties bred for cold climates. Some seed banks actually have an option to select for cold climate seeds. While usually outdoor many are perfectly fine for indoor as well.
I have a small vet cabinet with 54-72w T8 in which I germinate, keep clones, etc, to which I connect the intake ducting of my flower closet whn it gets too cold.
Normally in a fully enclosed space and pots I would recommend heating mats. How about one of those party tent heaters? If power use gets too high you could perhap consider running a row less and use 1 bulb only, and spend the rest on a heater.
Also, some strains can handle it much better than others. Besides afghani perhaps you could look at some canadian bred varieties, or holland's hope, frysian dew and similar varieties bred for cold climates. Some seed banks actually have an option to select for cold climate seeds. While usually outdoor many are perfectly fine for indoor as well.
Alaric
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Some more options for the "too cold" problem (which I've never had).Hey everyone...I'm hoping you can give me some advice. With winter coming, the temps in my grow space get too cold to grow effectively so I have 3 options:
A) Just wait until April or so.
B) Grow a round of Auto-Flowers. This is an option because the lights can be on most of the time providing enough heat.
C) Take some clones from the best Skunk #1's I have going right now and try and spend the next few months creating mothers and cloning them.
For option C, do any of you have any experience taking clones from a plant that is in full flower?
For Option B, I've always been under the assumption (not necessarily correctly) that all auto's will be sub-par in quality. Any thoughts on this?
Any and all suggestions/opinions welcomed
D) run your lights at night and supplement heating during the day with a heater if necessary----or better yet, add another light/s to your octagon.
Option C---- I've done that before. Took forever to root (poor strike percentage) and then revert back to veg and some produced nanners
. My opinion----don't do it unless as a last resort.I have no experience with autos---only read some of the conflicting stories.
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