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[slacker140]

It's been about ten years since I last tried growing but we just turned legal here for home grow so decided to go at it again. I started years ago with an mh 400w bulb and struggled with temps here in the desert. Then when blurple came out I used a combination of 2700k cfl, 5500k cfl, 6500k cfl, reptile uv cfl, plus a blurple panel and that did well to keep temps down and made frosty buds. But now that led seems to have come along a lot more I upgraded to all led with t8 for uv and temps so far are great. Feel free for any comments, suggestions, etc...

Decided to try an organic living soil for the first time this round as well.
I used a local summerwinds soil that had peat and mixed with recipe 420 soil and I ammended it with coco, perlite, compost, and worm castings. Then added the following dry nutrients per cubic ft.
1/2 cup neem seed meal
1/2 cup crab shell meal
1/2 cup fish bone meal
1/2 cup gypsum
1/4 cup langbeinite
1/2 cup kelp meal
1/4 cup alfalfa meal
1/4 cup oyster shell
1/2 cup bio-live

Veg tent:
Hours are gas light routine of 13/5/1.25/4.75
31"x31"x63"
1x hlg 135 bspec qb
4x abi blue bulbs
2x abi actinic blue bulbs
1x 23w 5500k led for glr
ac infinity cloudline t4


Flower tent:
Hours are 11/13. 11 emerson red, 10 all lights except uv, and 2 hours uv midday with the emerson coming on 30 minutes for sunrise and sunset.
36"x60"x80"
1x hlg 260 bspec qb
2x orphek 120 blue plus bars
2x rapidled emerson effect bars
2x solacure uv t8
ac infinity cloudline t6


Strains:
2x peak seeds bc blueberry
2x csi humboldt mendo purple urkle 3.5
2x csi humboldt purple urkle x t1000
2x csi humboldt wedding cake x uk cheese
2x csi humboldt pck x bubba

Germinated December 24th


Vegging February 6th


Flower February 14th


10 days since flip February 23rd

 

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10 days into flower

 

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Day 13 flower and the Pck x Bubba is starting to purple up!




Groups shots

 

[m4s73r]

Are you going to Defoliate at all?

 

[slacker140]

Are you going to Defoliate at all?

Wasn't sure yet. Some of them don't need it at all and a couple are really thick and might benefit. I stripped a few inches from the bottom when I flipped them and was waiting for 21 days to decide if I was gonna do more. So far I've just been tucking fan leaves at the top under. Most likely I'll just lollipop some more inches up from the bottom.

 

[m4s73r]

Just my opinion, but with as many as you got in there, Id defoliate the lot. The top of your canopy looks great, but even in the last pic you can see about 3 nodes down, very little light. Id thin it out. Your yield will thank you.

 

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Just my opinion, but with as many as you got in there, Id defoliate the lot. The top of your canopy looks great, but even in the last pic you can see about 3 nodes down, very little light. Id thin it out. Your yield will thank you.

Thanks, yeah I just have a hard time clipping anything off, lol. But I can for sure see a bunch of runt leaves at the bottom. I might rearrange them again first. There's 2 that have a lot of empty space in the middle of them and 3 that didn't branch out really at all. So rearranging them I think will let the rest spread out some.

 

[m4s73r]

Thanks, yeah I just have a hard time clipping anything off, lol. But I can for sure see a bunch of runt leaves at the bottom. I might rearrange them again first. There's 2 that have a lot of empty space in the middle of them and 3 that didn't branch out really at all. So rearranging them I think will let the rest spread out some.

Then pick one. Which one do you think is the worst? Cut all the Fan leaves off of it and compare how she does next to the rest of them LOL.
It was that very thing that sold me on it. I Called bullshit, someone said do it to one. do it to the worst looking one and see what happens. So I did and that one out performed the rest in final weigh in. Either way, those some healthy looking plants!

 

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Then pick one. Which one do you think is the worst? Cut all the Fan leaves off of it and compare how she does next to the rest of them LOL.
It was that very thing that sold me on it. I Called bullshit, someone said do it to one. do it to the worst looking one and see what happens. So I did and that one out performed the rest in final weigh in. Either way, those some healthy looking plants!

Cool, thanks, yeah I'll probably start stripping two of them in the middle next Friday or Saturday. I gave one of them a sunburn so it's a good candidate anyways.

 

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Day 17 flower. Found 1 of the Pck x bubba had balls so I removed it from the tent as well as the second pck x bubba cause it was just growing super runty and figured I could spread out the remaining better now. Then lollipopped them. I'll spread them out over the weekend after they recover from this.

 

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Day 20 flower:

 

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Day 20 Flower:

Blueberry 1:

Blueberry 2:

Mendo purple urkle 3.5 1:

Mendo purple urkle 3.5 2:

Purple urkle x t1000 1:

Purple urkle x t1000 2:

Wedding cake x uk cheese 1:

Wedding cake x uk cheese 2:

 

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Day 23 flower and the mendo purple urkle is smelling like candy and looking extra frosty.

 

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Day 26 flower

 

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Day 27 flower

Mendo Purple Urkle

 

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Day 30 flower
So my intermatic timers screwed up on the dst switch. I still don't know why they did this or how to prevent it but both of my timers on dst switch decided to set themselves 10 hours back and caused my lights to stay on for 18 hours. So I had to let them sleep for 12 hours and then only have 3.5 hours light and sleep another 12 to get them back on the same time schedule. I'll be looking for replacement timers and hoping this didn't herm them. Good news is they are all starting to purple up real good. One of the urkle x t1000 has not responded well to so much light though and leaves are burning again.


Mendo purple urkle

Mendo purple urkle

Purple urkle x t1000

Blueberry

Wedding cheesecake x uk cheese

 

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Day 36 flower

Blueberry

Mendo purple urkle

Mendo purple urkle

Blueberry

Purple urkle x t1000

Purple urkle x t1000

Wedding cake x uk cheese

Wedding cake x uk cheese

 

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Day 42 Flower

Blueberry 1

Blueberry 2

Mendo Purple Urkle 1

Mendo Purple Urkle 2

Purple urkle x t1000 1

Purple urkle x t1000 2

Wedding cake x uk cheese 1

Wedding cake x uk cheese 2

 

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Day 49 Flower
Purple urkle x t1000


Mendo Purple Urkle 3.5


Mendo Purple Urkle 3.5


Purple urkle x t1000



The blueberries look terrible at the moment. It started after I gave too much gnatrol I believe. I used 3 tsp per gallon and they starting browing and killing leaves within 2 days. Some of the purple urkle x t1000 were affected as well but not like the blueberries.
Blueberry

Blueberry

 

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Day 49 Flower
Wedding cake x uk cheese


Wedding cake x uk cheese