The Ultimate Growing Competition

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H.A.F.

H.A.F.

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dstroy said:
I've been pruning a lot, out of necessity. Tonight was a big one. I pulled all the "sucker" branches? or whatever out. All the ones I can reach anyway. I only have access to the front of the tent and crawl along the sides on the bottom which is a pain in the ass.
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I've had to do the same because of crowding, but your canopy is way more dense than mine. Looking good!
 
J.James

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H.A.F. said:
LOL! Ok, 30% of what??? Every new foxtail it's like "trichomes? those are rookie numbers! I'm gonna bump those up!" ;)

I get what you're saying though. they are about 50% milky right now and it's obvious to the naked eye, so hopefully when the ambers kick in hard it'll be obvious too. There's probably +/- 1% now, scattered and mostly on leaves, so it's starting.

Do you think the older sugar leaves might be a better indicator?
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Well if 30% of your trichomes are amber then the other 70% should be cloudy and that is when I harvest my plant. If perhaps that happens and the plants still have "foxtails" then the plant would have never stopped throwing foxtails. "Do you think the older sugar leaves might be a better indicator?" No, I think the plant ripens from the top down. Even if your plant has all of its tops at the same level, The plant still has a top branch that is its top and it will ripen first.
 
H.A.F.

H.A.F.

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J.James said:
Well if 30% of your trichomes are amber then the other 70% should be cloudy and that is when I harvest my plant. If perhaps that happens and the plants still have "foxtails" then the plant would have never stopped throwing foxtails.
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That part was mostly a joke. All the new growth starts out with clear trichs (so far) so all the new stuff just messes up the visual %

J.James said:
"Do you think the older sugar leaves might be a better indicator?" No, I think the plant ripens from the top down. Even if your plant has all of its tops at the same level, The plant still has a top branch that is its top and it will ripen first.
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OK, cool. They are all level, and there is not much difference from tops to bottoms except sugar-leaf shade. I just know that on a regular plant the leaves show ambers before the calyxes, and even my lower (original) sugar leaves are just turning. I thought that they might be a better indicator of what the "inner bud" (old growth) was doing ripeness-wise.IMG_9182.JPG
DesertPlants said:
When they keep throwing fox tails, you can just harvest in two stages, not a big deal except the extra time the plant takes up space.
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I dig the idea, but there's no second stage LOL
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Cappuchino

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Dyna-Gro said:
Disqualified:
@Cappuchino

"Regular photos will be required on a weekly basis. You are free to post any time you would like as long as one week does not pass between photos. This will be logged. Any player not posting a pic for more than one week will be disqualified. You are encouraged to post as many pics as you like as long as your number is in each photo."

The majority vote is that @Big Perm remains in the competition.
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Had been on vocations and wasn't able to post pictures.
 
Kushash

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H.A.F. said:
Anyone else have flowers close? Share the porn!
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Good Morning!
Good idea! Some porn is needed.
I'll see if I have anything close to finishing and get some pics with my #121.
My finishing plants have been neglected for the past 7 weeks since this comp started.

I would work on my LED comp plants 1st, then I'd work on plants involved in this comp, then if I wasn't ready for a nap I might check in on the flowering plants so go easy on me if I show pics later.

You didn't see the chlorosis before did you.
Do you see it now?

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In the mean time I asked my comp plants to pray for all of the plants suffering from necrotic spots and chlorosis. :fire:
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Opie1971

Opie1971

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Kushash said:
Good Morning!
Good idea! Some porn is needed.
I'll see if I have anything close to finishing and get some pics with my #121.
My finishing plants have been neglected for the past 7 weeks since this comp started.

I would work on my LED comp plants 1st, then I'd work on plants involved in this comp, then if I wasn't ready for a nap I might check in on the flowering plants so go easy on me if I show pics later.

You didn't see the chlorosis before did you.
Do you see it now?

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In the mean time I asked my comp plants to pray for all of the plants suffering from necrotic spots and chlorosis. :fire:
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Lol. Your smoked up aren’t ya? Maybe you should take that nap you were talking about.
 
dstroy

dstroy

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Serious advice for aero:

If you've got good genetics then,

1. Don't feed more than 1.2EC (600ppm .5 scale) elemental nutrient ever. unless you have to. That tidbit is from someone at agrihouse, who designed the aero system for NASA. lol

2. Calmag is like duck tape (yeah I said duck, the cloth on duck tape was known as duck). You can use it but it's probably something else, unless you rule out everything else.

3. Environment is king. If you know you know.

4. Pruning is important. Do it right. Right is subjective to method, situation, cultivar, etc.

5. Diffuse light is better (more efficient) than focused light. Prune to achieve.

6. Stir the air in the space well, it just needs to be mixed at least every few minutes but that really depends on what environment you run because it could be a lot more or a lot less.

7. prepare, plan, design, implement, operate, optimize <- repeat. Keep on keepin' on. Gotta move forward, new technology and what not.

I'm designing a new controller to replace my first one.
 
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