2023 solo cup contest..

medidedicated

medidedicated

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Supposed to start flower today so calyxes and pistols should show any time now. Last time it was in every node overnight on day 30.

Everyone is like done with theirs haha, not sure if I will make it on time. Dtw is going ~ok~ a bit over flow that I am still dialing in. Maybe just needs to brush off top layer of unsettled coco. Or just buy a valve, right now I am using the power dial on the pump.
 

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Drop That Sound

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Second day in a new grow chamber (with 10x the light) that has never even had plants in it yet. Supposed to be a dedicated veg chamber, so its not setup for day/night swings or anything yet, and I didn't have time to baby sit today.. I took off for the day and just came back, and the plant was dried up and tipped over. Lol. First time that's happened. Lost a few leaves and looks like crap now. Went from low 50s early this morning when I checked, so I figured it was good.. It was cooking at 92 in the chamber, and 96+ at the leaves when I got back. The plants too tall to be in there (was preying up into the t5s lastnight), and I quit trying to scrog it because I was snapping branches too easily, and alsmost lost another one..

We're having freak summer time weather all the sudden this weekend, with snow still on the mountains. Freezing balls to hot af in like 1 day! I should have cranked the fan up more, or put it full blast on timer or something, but it was 55-60 in there when I left... my bad. Gonna have to feed it like 6 times a day right now with the current weather, and get the drip system hooked up for sure. No more feeding by hand in the house 3-5 times a day.

Its been flowering way over a month or so too. Slowest winter\spring grow I tell ya. It doesn't like being in the solo cup at all, but I've managed to manually take care the whole time until now. Must be a 14 week strain too, so looking like 20+ total weeks of flowering? FFS..

The runt.. Ya its gotten a little bigger, haha. Not sure if it's due to the genetics, or I invented a magical lokohvsy antenna coil that stunts plants when you insert it, and keeps them super small. I've thought about pulling it out, and see if it gets bigger all the sudden, but left it the whole time. Instead, I'll poke it into another pot someday. If it grows a runty dwarf too, then I know its the real deal ;)


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Got up early as the light turned on, and whipped together a quick drip system. Plant looks a little better today, but still droopy & twisted up. Ahh well its alive still, that's good!

Wishing I would have set the lights to run at night this whole time, but chose the normal day schedule because it was up in the house with no tent. Now I gotta battle extra heat & cold out in my grow trailer, instead of vice versa. I'll get the environment under control in when I get more time, but should be ok for another day with the fan cranked. I set it to cycle time the waterings @ 30 sec ON & 3 Hours off, temporarily till I get it dialed. I'll keep hand watering the runt.

Anyway.. I pseudo-scrogged the big plant from falling over again too, and didn't break a branch, woohoo! Ran out of PVC pipe though, and had to couple a few of the legs together for the frame, lol.

I really don't wanna spend a whole lot of time making some super nice drip system/DTW in there, because I got a new LP aero/DWC hybrid prototype to install someday soon. There is another cabinet nearby with a remote res too, that goes with this chamber. It will be a 24/7 veg room, completely automated, for perpetual plants to fill my flower room( which is temp unavailable right now).

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medidedicated

medidedicated

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Im out the race, since I posted so much, might as well update that I tossed it. Done with growing for a while. I messed up bad, a whole plant rotted and this plant was just a hanger on to another crop.

That said, costs would ramp up to finish this and I just can’t do it. Rather cut my losses and try again when I have the energy to after such a moderate loss.

I am just figuring out what rot and mold looks like, let alone if it bounces from one crop to another or how it can resurface. I could of asked but the loss was moderate enough to where I was just done.
 
MickFoster

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medidedicated said:
Im out the race, since I posted so much, might as well update that I tossed it. Done with growing for a while. I messed up bad, a whole plant rotted and this plant was just a hanger on to another crop.

That said, costs would ramp up to finish this and I just can’t do it. Rather cut my losses and try again when I have the energy to after such a moderate loss.

I am just figuring out what rot and mold looks like, let alone if it bounces from one crop to another or how it can resurface. I could of asked but the loss was moderate enough to where I was just done.
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That was fast.........you posted 4 pics just yesterday and the plants looked fine.........albeit stretched a bit.
 
Drop That Sound

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medidedicated said:
I lost like half a years worth of work and was working hard instead of smart at that. I need a break, it is a huge relief right now being inactive.
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That's cool, you can have my spare solo cup plant if you want. Fill out the adoption forms, and possibly stay in the contest. Just kick back and watch it grow.

It pretty much pees on itself at this point too. 5 times a day, and once at midnight now. I think it's pending a trial by the counsel though, because of the scrog, which is actually being held up by it. I already talked to my lawyer. It will be an easy pee-sy dismissal of the case, because there isn't any jurisdiction anyway. Haha, funny that anyone would assume I picked the big one as my main contestant..

I still gotta hand "water" mine at least once every 2 days, which means I can take a break now too. :bigjoint:
 
medidedicated

medidedicated

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Drop That Sound said:
That's cool, you can have my spare solo cup plant if you want. Fill out the adoption forms, and possibly stay in the contest. Just kick back and watch it grow.

It pretty much pees on itself at this point too. 5 times a day, and once at midnight now. I think it's pending a trial by the counsel though, because of the scrog, which is actually being held up by it. I already talked to my lawyer. It will be an easy pee-sy dismissal of the case, because there isn't any jurisdiction anyway. Haha, funny that anyone would assume I picked the big one as my main contestant..

I still gotta hand "water" mine at least once every 2 days, which means I can take a break now too. :bigjoint:
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I already want to grow again and regret chopping it. It did not hit me until afterwards that I asked for it with the setup I had going on. There’s no way it is that easy to get budrot.
 
medidedicated

medidedicated

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MickFoster said:
If you're talking about the plants in your pics from last Friday..........you have to have actual buds to get bud rot.
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It was a different grow next to it that had completely rotted/molded in all kinds of ways inside and out which I can now at least identify. Happened all in 30 days. Taught me all sorts of things but took time to set in.

At first I just wanted it all gone and was so discouraged to grow as if it really just grows mold that easily even with precautions met. Took a few days to unwind and realize where to improve next time.

Was at 250$ in electric already, dehuey is like 50$ a month so it did not make sense to go two more months, was actually planning on quitting for a while after these grows finished anyway.
 
Dorian2

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Day 106. I was going to chop yesterday, but I got a bit busy. I'm doing a small experiment as I started to just give her straight tap water 2 days ago. Today I've "trimmed the bush" of the fan leaves, but I'm going to wait until all white pistils are gone. I've also checked the buds and there isn't a lot of amber going on. I'm also thankful to you guys that have been knowingly and unknowingly showing me sum trikz. :bigjoint:


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