All LED Indoor Grow- Quantum Boards vs AutoCob's

Evil-Mobo

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Update tonight.

First things first I chopped my male today :( I needed the tent for now to make space until the bigger tent shows up, and I have the test cut that rooted right in the coco that I transplanted very recently. Monster of a plant this guy was, hope it passes down to the progeny.

So this was the veg closet before I did much:

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Got the male chopped down, I gave the tent a VERY good cleaning in case of any rogue pollen, and then I was able to take the (2) GG#4 girls and put them in the COB tent after watering and feeding them tonight. I like the way they have bounced back there is still however a lot of deep red on the upper halves of the stems, I am wondering if this is just genetics? Only strain displaying this trait. I am starting to have second thoughts about using this strain to breed. Why breed such a finicky plant when there's so many great strains out there you know.

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The Purple envy was a fem seed and she was begging for a transplant from her #1 nursery pot, so I tossed her into a #3 of Tupur tonight. She was watered and fed also after transplanting into the larger pot

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Then we have the autos in the QB tent. I watered and fed them all today too. I also pulled some leaves off of the Sky Walkers. was time to let more light into the lower flower sights so everything starts to explode as they bounce back from the topping.

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And here's the veg closet after getting the GG#4 girls out and putting back in the Purple Envy in her #3

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I am very happy with how my Doggie Dreams and Blue Harley seedlings are coming along. Hoping for some girls from them. Debating whether to leave them in the #1's until they show sex or transplant them soon as well. The Doggie Dreams are STINKY AF! SBA clones are coming along just perfect. This is not the first time I veg the strain and it's just such a naturally beautiful plant and easy to grow really does not give trouble at all. She is stacking much tighter under the QB than she did under the COB's in veg. We will see how her structure continues to develop as she grows older. I might take a bunch of cuts from them and run half the 5x9 one time all SBA lol.........we will see.

Feeding tonight was Ionic Grow @4tsp/gallon, Cal-Mag+ @4ml/gallon, and Hydroguard @2ml/gallon. EC was 1.8 and PH was 6.1

Thanks for checking in
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GroErr

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Freakin' insomniac...

Looking good in there!

I completely agree about ditching finicky bitches. There's too many great ones out there without such faults to waste your time and effort on Prima Donnas.

This comment also applies to plants.
Ditto and agree on finicky phenos, it's one of my initial culling criteria regardless of strain.

Looking good in there Evil, get some sleep though! Damn prednisone :(
 

Evil-Mobo

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Looking good @Evil-Mobo . Have you ever tried the cloth pots? I have had 5 footers happy in 3 gallon pots.
Yes I have. Right now the nursery pots are just cheaper. With my bigger tent I have my old fabric pots coming as well. I'm a huge fan of the grass roots fabric pots. They have specific pots for transplant I have a few of the one gallon ones. I will see how the bigger ones work here going forward the last run the 10 gallon fabric pots worked fine but dried out a lot quicker. I honestly don't feel right now with my abilities in my current grow it matters if I use fabric or plastic pots. But that's just me.
 

Evil-Mobo

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Well while you guys are guessing time zones I was in the garden tonight/this am doing my thing. I literally spent at least an hour just listening to tunes and looking at my plants. The garden is small but I am VERY happy with where things are at right now and the feedback from my last 3 plants. I am also very content with how the tupur is doing for me with my nutes. I watered and fed everyone tonight. Ionic Grow 4tsp/gallon, Cal-Mag+ 5ml/gallon, and Hydroguard 2ml/gallon. I increased the Cal-Mag+ slightly as a few of the girls were looking deficient. Very hard to picture with my cell phone sorry. EC 1.8 and PH was 6.2

Veg closet:

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The Purple Envy:

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QB flower tent with the auto's:

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And the surprise of the night for me the (2) GG#4 girls, they look to be happy now and not finicky............making me second guess keeping her around or not.............

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Thanks for checking in
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Evil-Mobo

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Not a whole lot going on that's new. Tonight/This morning I defoliated everything in the veg closet. The SBA plants were the bulk of the defol. On the seedlings I just pulled the large fan leaves off to let the light penetrate better to the newer growth under neath. Everyone was watered and fed tonight. Ionic Grow 4tsp/gallon, Ful-Power 25ml/gallon, Cal-Mag+ 5ml/gallon, Hydro Guard 2ml/gallon. EC was 1.7 and PH was 6.0

GG#4 girls, waiting for the smaller one to get a little taller before flipping the lights hopefully soon:

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Auto's in the QB flower tent:

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The Veg closet:

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And the pile of leaves removed tonight, 98% of these came off of the (2) SBA clones:

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Thanks for checking in
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Evil-Mobo

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Few garden shots from tonight. Everyone was fed again with the watering. Ionic Grow 4tsp/gallon, Ful-Power 20ml/gallon, Cal-Mag+ 5ml/gallon, and Hydro Guard 2ml/gallon.

Veg Closet:

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QB Flower Tent:

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COB flower tent:

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The bigger tent should be shipping to me this week. Waiting on getting the blown ballast out to Hortilux they're dragging their feet with this big time and it's getting frustrating. Hopefully in another week or two MAX the bigger area is up and running.

Waiting for the smaller GG#4 to grow another 3 inches before flipping to 12/12. She grew an inch since yesterday so not bad standing at 21" from the top of the Coco.

The auto's seem to be finding their groove after the toppings let's see how they pan out. And the SBA girls in veg seem to be just fine after yesterday's defoliation. Loving the structure the plants are getting under the QB in veg.

Thanks for checking in
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Evil-Mobo

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This morning's update just finished in the garden. Just chugging along waiting for something to flower LOL. I watered and fed all the plants tonight. Ionic Grow 4tsp/gallon, Cal-Mag+ 5ml/gallon, Ful-Power 20ml/gallon, and Hydro Guard 2ml/gallon. EC was 1.8 and PH 6.2

Veg closet, SBA clones have bounced back beautifully and quickly from the defoliation the other day. Waiting for the Blue Harley and my Doggie Dreams plants to sex, fingers crossed for some girls.

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Auto's under the QB, starting to blow up fast. Was comparing pics from a few days back to tonight, crazy shit..........

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And last but not least the (2) GG#4 girls in the COB tent. I am waiting for the smaller girl to grow a few more inches but these gals are dying for me to flip the lights already.

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I got my blown 600 watt ballast out to Hortilux today. The local shop said they had already sent the rerplacement ahead of time, hoping in a day or so it will be here. I should have more Tupur arriving tomorrow. Then just waiting on my Gorilla tent to arrive and I have what I need to set it up. Then we will start having some real fun. Can't wait to see the spread on these Raptor hoods vs my old Daystars. If the HID talk bothers you guys I will leave it out of this thread but it's part of my grow. I will be putting back up the 600 watt Blue MH and the 1K watt Super HPS. It's a cost decision and honestly I am looking forward to having the HID's and the LED's running at the same time to see what's what.

Thanks for checking in
:peace:
 

ttystikk

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This morning's update just finished in the garden. Just chugging along waiting for something to flower LOL. I watered and fed all the plants tonight. Ionic Grow 4tsp/gallon, Cal-Mag+ 5ml/gallon, Ful-Power 20ml/gallon, and Hydro Guard 2ml/gallon. EC was 1.8 and PH 6.2

Veg closet, SBA clones have bounced back beautifully and quickly from the defoliation the other day. Waiting for the Blue Harley and my Doggie Dreams plants to sex, fingers crossed for some girls.

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Auto's under the QB, starting to blow up fast. Was comparing pics from a few days back to tonight, crazy shit..........

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And last but not least the (2) GG#4 girls in the COB tent. I am waiting for the smaller girl to grow a few more inches but these gals are dying for me to flip the lights already.

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I got my blown 600 watt ballast out to Hortilux today. The local shop said they had already sent the rerplacement ahead of time, hoping in a day or so it will be here. I should have more Tupur arriving tomorrow. Then just waiting on my Gorilla tent to arrive and I have what I need to set it up. Then we will start having some real fun. Can't wait to see the spread on these Raptor hoods vs my old Daystars. If the HID talk bothers you guys I will leave it out of this thread but it's part of my grow. I will be putting back up the 600 watt Blue MH and the 1K watt Super HPS. It's a cost decision and honestly I am looking forward to having the HID's and the LED's running at the same time to see what's what.

Thanks for checking in
:peace:
Why are you still fucking around with light bulbs, bro? I know you know better!
 

Evil-Mobo

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Why are you still fucking around with light bulbs, bro? I know you know better!
Bro like I said it's a cost thing. Right now I don't have the $$ for LED's for the 5x9. I have the 600/1K on hand with bulbs. In a run or two I can hit up HLG and get my QB setup sorted. I know better but my wallet can't fund what I know right now LOL. If anyone is so bothered they'd like to donate QB's/COB's for the 5x9 I'm open arms :hump:

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ttystikk

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Bro like I said it's a cost thing. Right now I don't have the $$ for LED's for the 5x9. I have the 600/1K on hand with bulbs. In a run or two I can hit up HLG and get my QB setup sorted. I know better but my wallet can't fund what I know right now LOL. If anyone is so bothered they'd like to donate QB's/COB's for the 5x9 I'm open arms :hump:

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Returning bad ballasts is skewing the cost benefit thing entirely the wrong way...

Hope you put your cash flow picture to rights soon, brother.
 
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