Bob Bitchen's Beans Meltdown F1

Go go n chill

Go go n chill

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Laughing Grass said:
I'll have to get you some better pics of the plant on the far right. It reminds me of wedding cake with its small dense buds. The purple is in the buds as well as the leaves so it should look pretty once it's trimmed.
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Yeah man I like them purples. I’ve got a sugar factory that I absolutely turns purple every single plant
 
WillieP

WillieP

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Laughing Grass said:
Hi Willie,

Always good to hear from you. This is my third run and so far I'm pretty pleased with the system and how hands off it is.
Few things I've learned through trial and error.
  1. The instructions provided by bluemat work well for a vegging plants, but will leave heavy drinking flowering plants under watered. I think their instructions is dial it back three arrows on the dial so that you have a single drip hanging at the end... thereabouts anyway. In flower I set it to drip quickly, one every second or so and let it go until it stops. Dialing it in is almost impossible if you're soil/coco isn't already quite moist.
  2. Nutrients are important. I'd avoid anything with organic compounds, you will get heavy sediment buildup and have odd nutrient issues with the first plant in the chain and possibly clogging. I used AN ph perfect coco and an calmag and it was a disaster. switched back to GH flora and calimagic and everything is fine.
  3. Purge your lines once a week when you change your res. When using GH nutrients you still get sedimentary build up. Either put a valve at the end of your chain or disconnect the last carrot and and let the water flow through for a bit. You'll see what looks like sand coming out. Once that stops close the valve or reconnect the carrot and let them do their thing.
I ditched the tubing that came with the system. It's very ridged and doesn't really allow you to move the plants around that much. I'm using superflex tubing and that has made things a little better.


I'm absolutely thrilled with @BobBitchen's genetics after three years of messing around with unstable genetics. 100% success rate with germination and my last harvest was outstanding for only having three plants, 594 grams. Last weekend I started six slymer seeds for the next run.

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Hey LG,
Thank you for your input.
I haven't made the decision to go with the Blumats, but if I do decide to automate, I will go with them.
That is just the type of advice you get from someone that has actually used a system and was exactly what I was looking for.
Really glad things are going well for you.
Here's hoping that the next round is as good.
Cheers,
WillieP
 
manfredo

manfredo

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Laughing Grass said:
I'm absolutely thrilled with @BobBitchen's genetics after three years of messing around with unstable genetics. 100% success rate with germination and my last harvest was outstanding for only having three plants, 594 grams. Last weekend I started six slymer seeds for the next run.
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Wow me too...Mine are blowing me away with frost.... I think I might have a new favorite strain (or two) here pretty soon...I still have a month or more to go, but these 2 strains I have going from Bob are without a doubt THE frostiest plants I have ever seen....Ever!



I also have a couple of Blueberry hashplants that are looking frosty...and I have some pollen from a meltdown... Hmmmmm :weed:
 
cindysid

cindysid

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manfredo said:
Wow me too...Mine are blowing me away with frost.... I think I might have a new favorite strain (or two) here pretty soon...I still have a month or more to go, but these 2 strains I have going from Bob are without a doubt THE frostiest plants I have ever seen....Ever!



I also have a couple of Blueberry hashplants that are looking frosty...and I have some pollen from a meltdown... Hmmmmm :weed:
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I have grown Bob’s strains for several years and I’ve always been thrilled with them. Have some Slymer in veg now. Hope to get that luscious key lime pheno again!
 
Go go n chill

Go go n chill

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Laughing Grass

Laughing Grass

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Go go n chill said:
It looks like “not topping” worked out for you man!
Beautiful
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Thank you, I'm planning to go back to topping next run. I left these untopped because my plan was to clone then go SOG and I wanted to see how they formed a single cola. In retrospect that looks like more work than I'm willing to do, and I think I can pull large enough harvest from six plants to make edibles, rosin and have flower to smoke.
 
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Tikbalang

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Stunning results, once again. Respect and awe. How similar to last run, looks like interesting variety?
Looks like fabric pots this run, and maybe plastic last run if I saw correctly? I’m wondering if you have an opinion between the 2. It’s one of the camps coco seems sub-divided into. Ive been contemplating making the switch to coco and life outside the garden may be saying now is the time. Looking to get my game plan together. Thanks.
 
Laughing Grass

Laughing Grass

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Tikbalang said:
Stunning results, once again. Respect and awe. How similar to last run, looks like interesting variety?
Looks like fabric pots this run, and maybe plastic last run if I saw correctly? I’m wondering if you have an opinion between the 2. It’s one of the camps coco seems sub-divided into. Ive been contemplating making the switch to coco and life outside the garden may be saying now is the time. Looking to get my game plan together. Thanks.
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Thank you. Yes I switched to two gallon fabric pots this time. I got what I thought was a great deal for 50 pots, $35 with delivery. What I've discovered is they're actually nursery gallon volume, 6 liter instead of 7.5 litre that you would expect from a two gallon pot. I'm going back to plastic nursery pots for the next grow. In my experience they're not really reusable unless you want to spend a bunch of time cleaning pots. I'm all about reducing or eliminating as much labour as I can.

I think most of the variety between this and the last grow was due to environment. I had everything dialed last time as far as temperatures go, but I've been struggling with low temps, especially during lights out, getting down into the low 60's. I had a heater in the room for the last ten days of flower and that seems to have made the difference and they bulked up quite a bit.

Coming from DWC to coco I've been very happy with the switch and I'm a big fan of blumats.
 
Friendly_Grower

Friendly_Grower

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Laughing Grass said:
Plants came down on Saturday. I'm pretty thrilled with the results, it will definitely be my largest grow to date... first time I've filled the hanger lol. I'll post some bud pics once they've had a week to dry.

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I really like that hanging basket.
What is it called? I may want to get one.
By the way that picture where all those buds are wonderfully stacked on that tray is excellent! I love that picture!
Wait I see one on Amazon. Is that what you have? So cool.
It's simply called "Herb Drying Rack Hanging Dryer Mesh Drying Rack with Green Zipper"
What a cool thing.
I never know what I will learn from other growers for sure!
 
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