Quintessence
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Great thread! I'm running 8 3590's in a 3x3 and your pictures have me really excited. Have you kept your lights at the same distance from the canopy all the way through? I think I'm about a week away from flipping.
My first CXB 3590 run...
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PerroVerde
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Day 49, seven weeks in, the start of week 8. These girls are filling out big time with some foxtailing. I think the foxtailing is genetic on the blueberry side of things. I don't flush but I do cut back the already low EC levels. I have around 90% cloudy 10% clear tricomers at the moment, no amber yet. I have picked the two pheno I'll be going with next run and cut clones into cups of coco. I went with coco cloning over the diy bubble cloner to test a theory that the bubble cloner makes the plants far more branchy. Just for my own use and testing purposes. Now on with the show... 
PerroVerde
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Thank you Quintessence. I raised the light 3 or 4 times during this run. I played with the dimming and reflectors this round as well. I have taken the reflectors off for the last week to soften the light a little. How tall are your plants now and what strain are they?
The Dawg
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Damn Brother Where The Rep Button When You Need 1. Anyho +1 For Taking Off The Reflectors In The Last few Weeks To Weaken Intensity Giving The Plant An Indicator That She Needs To Finish Up. Rock On My Brother
PerroVerde
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Thank you brother Dawg! The insperation for the Blue Pen pic came from you. I'm really looking to the next run getting to apply what I've learned this go round. I'll be running the two taller, fatter phenos. They spread out nicely, smell great and have coating of resin, plus one of those has purple to her but I bet the strait green will be more potent. I'm impressed with what the 400 watts of cobs I have going on in the tent is putting out. I am looking forward to having a more even canopy and trimming the bottoms up a bit next round...
Quintessence
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Gotcha. I'm keeping my lights at around 1 1/2 - 2 ft from the canopy which seems to work best for my cob config. I was curious what you do because I keep reading conflicting ideas about the best height for these lights. I'm interested to try the reflectors, do they put out a noticeable change in light dispersion?
The front two plants are both from clone (on the left)( Sour Tangie, and (on the right) Gorilla Glue #4 both of which are 2 and a half feet or so. The back two are Dr. Who's from seed, both which just showed as girls and they are just about a foot tall, heavily LST'd. These things are hearty and thick. The trunks are over an inch in diameter.
PerroVerde
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I have my light about 20" off the tops at the moment. The reflectors really push a lot of that light that blows out the sides down to the plants. Sounds like you will have some strait fire in that tent brother!
Quintessence
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Okay good to know! I'll have to see if I can get some and experiment. And thanks! Only 1 more week of veg and then the real magic starts happening. I plan to flip em the night of the full mooin.I have my light about 20" off the tops at the moment. The reflectors really push a lot of that light that blows out the sides down to the plants. Sounds like you will have some strait fire in that tent brother!
PerroVerde
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Day 56, 8 weeks in and I'm pleased with the results so far under the diy cob light rig. I'm going to give the kush berry a couple more days but they are slowing the swelling and starting to look done. The hashberry has at least a week more to go so those 5 will be in the tent by them selves after I cut the kush berry down. I have to say the cods really bring out the colors in these girls and I have never had a run where I used as much cal/mag. Anything under the cobs seems to be much more of a cal mag whore then with hps. The buds are smaller then with my hps runs but the buds are firmer and have far bigger colaxes and less leaf on most pheno's. Next run will be the two larger kush berry pheno's 8 of each, the purple and the silver green. Now on with the show... 
superbak3d
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Fantastic.
The foxtails look genetic.
The foxtails look genetic.
PerroVerde
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Oh my, brother Dawn, the girls are blushing with that comment you can see in that last pic...^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Damn I Want To Crawl Into Your Tent And Do All Sorts of Unspeakable Things To Your Gorgeous Sluts ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Thank you superbak3d, I believe the foxtailing is genetic as well with the blue berry back ground of the Kush Berry. MikeJ from Peak Seeds BC bred his blueberry using the best of old school DJ Short, Sagmatha and Dutch Passion stock. I would definitely recommend Peak Seeds BC and there very affordable crosses...
superbak3d
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Most of the kush strains I've seen tend to have those late swelling calyxes.
You can see a few of them still throwing out new pistils
My berry strain from last year
You can see a few of them still throwing out new pistils
My berry strain from last year
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PerroVerde
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Yeah, a few days ago they were spitting out little foxtails all over but that has dramatically slowed the last day or so. The Kush MikeJ uses is a commercial BC purple Kush ( purple afgani X Hindu Kush ). Peaks Norther Kush is a treat as well ( old school northern lights X purple Kush ) some funk to be had there...
superbak3d
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The strain in my journal comes from a purple afghani lineage. Cherry kush (purple afghani x OG kush) and bred it with bubba kush. Really hoping for some great coloring
PerroVerde
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I really believe the cob spectrum brings out more color in the plants. I have had purples with low temps and hps but this grow never dropped below 70° so it's not the temps I know genetics play a huge role but the cobs don't hurt... I have been admiring your grow and it's good to know the lineage of your Cherry Kush....
thetr33man
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Some autos are testing 25% THC now, I wouldnt discount them...
VegasWinner
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I finished off my bloom initiator with 18- 3W far red led diodes mounted on stars, screwed to the HS and using a LPC-35-700. works great. have an ac plug to a timer and everything. was easy. peace. got driver from mouser and rapidleds, both are same priced $15.00 and $8.50 S&H. peace.
BuddyColas
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Great. I'm on my first go with the far reds at days end. I run them for 5 min at lights off. 12/12 for 2 weeks then 13.5/10.5. I'm at 6 weeks...so the jury's out. Please share your experience d
Fastslappy
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i finished my 2 FR bars
the cutter bars & that driver x 2 , brighter than i thought it'd be
the cutter bars & that driver x 2 , brighter than i thought it'd be