GroErr Grows...

[GroErr]

Our power was out for a week a few years ago. My office is in my home so it was bad for business. We have a nice Honda generator now that can run the fridge and the AC if needed.

I have a 3000va UPS which can keep a fan and if needed a T5 I have wired directly into it but only for a couple of hours. 99.9% of the time that covers it, we have very few power hits here, this is like the 3rd outage in 4 years and other than this one the others were like 15 minutes. Power finally came up at 4:00 pm yesterday afternoon so was out for 21 hours, it just happened to go down 10 minutes before lights on so they'd already had 12 hours of dark They should be fine, rare event.

Cool pic last night puffing a pipe on the front porch with the street lights shining on the ice covered trees, very surreal scenes, specially after a few puffs

 

[GroErr]

I have one of those Honda generators, saved me a couple of times.


I'm really glad to see that first picture. I'm growing my first mostly Indica strain - Oregon Diesel - and the buds have some coloration that had me concerned enough to start a thread about it. I'll throw in a pic -- I was unsure about the grey color deep in the bud, almost looked like bud rot to me (even though I know its not). At any rate, its good to see that this color falls somewhere in the spectrum of normal, your Blue Ripper has a similar hue.

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Had a generator at my cottage because power there was up/down all the time but where I am now it has to be something extreme like this storm so just use a large UPS for the very seldom quick power hits. Would have been nice to have one going yesterday

They look alright colour wise, looks like some reds/purples but not seeing any greys in the pic. Looks like a little tacoing going on but nothing major def wise. That blue ripper is pretty well done, will be pulling it tomorrow night so it's at the end and full of seeds It was in there with a Harlequin making seeds only so I didn't feed much, mainly water and the odd low feed if they looked like they needed a boost. Harlequin x Blue Ripper seeded plant is hanging and looks like a good haul of seeds too

 

[GroErr]

Well survived the ice storm, cleaned up the room and got a new round going last night, girls looked no worse for wear after 36 hours in the dark and no airflow. Will keep an eye out for nanners but hoping they'll finish before any harm is done.

Day 40 for the 9x 2gal, Day 0 for a new batch. New one's are 4x 3gal. 1x JTR, 1x Blue Dream (smallest), 1x Blue Ripper1, and 1x Blue Ripper2. Will be hitting a branch on that JTR with some Blue Ripper pollen for some BX seeds and a Blue Ripper2 (indi-dom pheno) branch with some Fireballs pollen in a couple of weeks.

2gal Blue Ripper F2's are at 6 weeks so 2-3 weeks left or so on those. Still eyeing the one pheno as a keeper and likely keep one or two others at least one round until I've sampled them. There's an interesting little one developing, the smallest of the bunch, bottom-left in the 1st pic. It's the only sat-dom looking (leaves) that came from the Blue Ripper2 mom and although still not the frostiest, it has a rotting fruit/blueberry thing going on that's getting my attention.




Cheers

 

[Javadog]

Rotting fruit makes me thing Cinderella 99.

Happy to see you back up at at it.

JD

 

[GroErr]

Rotting fruit makes me thing Cinderella 99.

Happy to see you back up at at it.

JD

Cheers JD, it's all good. Haven't had a chance to try C99 but liking that smell! It was smelling strong in there with no fans or exhaust

 

[ttystikk]

I think your plants will barely notice what happened, considering the timing and precautions taken. Well done, and a little luck never hurts!

 

[GroErr]

I think your plants will barely notice what happened, considering the timing and precautions taken. Well done, and a little luck never hurts!

Thanks @ttystikk I agree shouldn't bother them much at this stage. Once it was off for a while my concern was PM and mould with no airflow and the sump pump filling up. But once the normal light cycle started up and I went in there they weren't even droopy. With the doors open I had a bit of pressure pulling air out of the room, enough to feel airflow on the outside vent with my hand over it, so there was some air exchange. Shit happens as they say

 

[GroErr]

Fresh batch of Blue Ripper coconut oil caps. They're getting popular, difficult to keep personal stock but have enough popcorn/trim on-hand to make 1,000 or so, no worries



Cheers

 

[GroErr]

IR shot of the flower room, highlights a few nice colas at the back from those 9x 2gal's. New 3gal batch is starting to fill in quick after only 2 days in there..

Couple of weeks left to fatten those up

 

[Mason Jar 92705]

That's cool as shit, I would love to have one of them in my room!

 

[GroErr]

That's cool as shit, I would love to have one of them in my room!

They are pretty cool, great view of the bud development with the IR. They're the Foscam, I've had one for 3 years +, pretty reliable. Cheers.

 

[GroErr]

BR2-5 F2 potential keeper pheno is looking fine @day 42, 2 weeks or so to go to sample this one



Cheers

 

[Javadog]

Well, it passes the eyeball test. :0)

 

[GroErr]

Well, it passes the eyeball test. :0)

Couple of weeks and will get to do the bud that fell off test

 

[Sativied]

Fresh batch of Blue Ripper coconut oil caps. They're getting popular, difficult to keep personal stock but have enough popcorn/trim on-hand to make 1,000 or so, no worries

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Cheers

Those look great, do you have a process and recipe for those in this thread? Got some trim/popcorn and crumbs I want to use for something else than hash.

 

[GroErr]

Those look great, do you have a process and recipe for those in this thread? Got some trim/popcorn and crumbs I want to use for something else than hash.

Hey Sativied, I've posted it here but even I can't find it in a search - lol They are great, I've been making them in the 50-60mg range which is good for any pains but keeps me functional, if I don't want to be functional I'll just take 2 Cheers...

 

[indianajones]

man, this thread is flat out inspirational. i actually purchased a 315w
system because of you and rives (an icmag member), lol. keep doing
what you're doing bro, and enjoy your harvest!

 

[GroErr]

man, this thread is flat out inspirational. i actually purchased a 315w
system because of you and rives (an icmag member), lol. keep doing
what you're doing bro, and enjoy your harvest!

Hey thanks Indiana, glad to hear you got yourself one of those 315's, and COBs, nice mix, just found your thread and subbed. If it's your first run with the 315's just watch for how much they drink and how fast they mature, threw me off first couple of runs, just takes some adjustment. Cheers!

 

[Growdict]

Indeed ij. Hydro guy talked me into the ss315. I am on day 47 of my first grow. Not as big buds as i had hoped for. But not too shabby either and they smell amazing. Groerrs posts have me thinking i made the right choice. I just recently added a cheapo blurple for a little boost and cuz frankly the 315 doesnt heat very much. Great problem to have. Lol easy to add lights

 

[Humanrob]

Hey Sativied, I've posted it here but even I can't find it in a search - lol They are great, I've been making them in the 50-60mg range which is good for any pains but keeps me functional, if I don't want to be functional I'll just take 2 Cheers...

Awesome instructions Gro, the community thanks you!