40+ lbs with 12 Plants in 2 Rooms on a Flip
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Hydro4life
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Very nice Renfro!!!
Here is a nug shot from this last round.
Renfro
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I have to train them into the trellis rigs.
Very nice, I will be here to learn how you train them to have so many branches to completely fill the trellis and to enjoy so beatiful growing . thank you
Renfro
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Right on. You will see it here! Basically I just keep taking branches that get tall enough past the trellis to pull them back down thru the trellis and make them go another square horizontally towards open space. Any under brush branches I try and pull straight up and find a way to give it light. As the branches go horizontally the nodes shoot up to the light and make for more branches. Basically we are done topping and we are going to make more branching by training horizontally. This stops when you start 12/12, you want the 4x4 area to be nice and filled with a nice start on the node vertical growth (thats where I didn't give them enough veg last round). Then when you flip them to 12/12 the stretch will shoot all those branches up and make nice tops.
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I will get some more pics as I have pulled the bottom layer of trellis down and started making the plants go sideways a little, I call it pressing them. It's a little bit high stress, especially if I let them get to big before moving them into the trellis rigs. It's a LOT easier when they are smaller like this but you do have a little more energy usage with vegging them longer in the flower rooms. If they are big there tends to be a lot of broken branches, high stress training indeed but I think it bothered me more than the plants. They get over it though and most of the time the branches survive. I have taken plants in that were so tall they were already touching the top trellis thats 5 feet high, and after pressing them they pretty much filled out the 4x4 area, maybe veg a 2 or 3 days to get past the stress and then flip. Very hard to move those large plants even with a cart and the buds would get too tall sometimes but they would fall over and lay on the top trellis lol.
diggs99
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nice pics bro
lol the new plants make that room look so big, 2 weeks ago it was the opposite, your old plants made the room look small lol
i was gonna ask, how did your girl do with her plant last time? i remember it was getting big
Renfro
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Her do-si-do was just under a pound and her star dawg was just over a pound. So she averaged about a pound a plant on those 5 gallon plants.
Renfro
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Been trimming some today, here is a shot of just another tray of weed to trim lol
One of my girls autocobs. Pretty cool piece. They use meanwell drivers that just bolt on to the back of the heatsink. Pretty sweet design. I can see more of these headed this way in the future, I may just source the parts and build my own. I found the driver on digikey for 25 bucks. I figure about 15 bucks for a heatsink, another 15 for a cob, 2.50 for a chip holder. Shit I could probably build these for like 60 bucks each. Have to bust out the old soldering iron lol. I can see how guys get into building their own lights now. These are super simple to build.
(It's a bit dusty with packing material, ill blow them off with compressed air.)
Gave the plants a flush today and a normal 1000 PPM veg feed right after. This was their first flush. Don't want any salts building up.
One of my girls autocobs. Pretty cool piece. They use meanwell drivers that just bolt on to the back of the heatsink. Pretty sweet design. I can see more of these headed this way in the future, I may just source the parts and build my own. I found the driver on digikey for 25 bucks. I figure about 15 bucks for a heatsink, another 15 for a cob, 2.50 for a chip holder. Shit I could probably build these for like 60 bucks each. Have to bust out the old soldering iron lol. I can see how guys get into building their own lights now. These are super simple to build.
(It's a bit dusty with packing material, ill blow them off with compressed air.)
Gave the plants a flush today and a normal 1000 PPM veg feed right after. This was their first flush. Don't want any salts building up.
Renfro
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They are gorilla glue 4.
The autocobs run at 55 watts I believe. Perfect for spot lighting in areas that are shaded or don't get direct light from my other fixtures. Obviously don't need them yet lol.
diggs99
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ya they seem like they would be perfect for placing in shaded spots.
I'd love to grow some gg4 but they want absurd prices for seeds of that strain
I did grab a pack of gorilla zkittleZ from barneys but have since read nothing good about barneys lol
Renfro
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I grew a Barneys LSD like 10 years ago. It was alright but that was a long time ago.
diggs99
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Ya it was prob more of a newbie buy than the others i got. It looked good and had allstar lineage, so figured why not try it out.
Stumbled on a new barneys farm thread earlier this morning, it wasnt good lol. They will probably get tossed in the drawer for bit.
Renfro
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Thats a bummer. what problems do people have with Barneys? They going hermie or something?
diggs99
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Yep
herm issues
poor germination
slow growing genetics lol
ive read it all since i hit the order button lol
None of this was directly towards the gorilla zkittlez but numerous other strains.
theres 2 guys in the journal section running the gorilla zkittlez, so im gonna follow them closely, see how their grows go before i worry about popping mine.
Renfro
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Man Barneys sounds like they really went downhill. Bummer about your seeds.
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