SS420's new hydro grow - Blueberry, White Shark, ChemDog, OG kush

[SPODE]

Great grow. Too bad I missed it.

 

[slipperyP]

so as i said i started flushing... i have some shit called florakleen i am using... it should strip the plants of any nute salts that they have in them... plus it should clean out the system pretty well...

i am leaving them in dark until saturday.. hopefully this will increase the amount of swell they do over the next 36/48 hours plus encourage some extra trich production....

i am getting up early saturday morning and starting the trimming.. cartoons and trimming all saturday morning..

im fucking excited!!

Do you think that the extra dark peirod increases growth. It should use up the rest of the plants stored light energy. Have you tried this in any kind of controled test?

I read something interesting in the new high times....I never thought of it before that. When using organic soil grows and flushing....do your final flush within 24 hours of chopping them down. If you wait till it dries the soil will start refeeding the plant.

 

[simpsonsampson420]

ya me too after this last outdoor run. it sure took a toll on me. helli think i check on the girlsevery feeding day witch is every 10 days, well i look trew the fan to check the temp when i go to the bath room but thats about all. i hardly go in there.
hey but them crystls sure are taking off. i'llpost picsin the nxt few days.

i know what losing a crop can do to you... i never lost that much.. but i had plants stolen from me.. 12 large beautiful ladies... while i was at work.. it made me sick.... it really amazes me to think there are people out there like that.. its always "that wont happen to me"... but it sucks so much when it does.. i still feel bad for you bro.. it eats at me everytime i think about it.. i want to come down and dispense some justice the right way...

glad your back on the saddle and got a new grow going.. cant wait to see some pics!!

Great grow. Too bad I missed it.

well bro, the best part is about to happen, HARVEST!! and if you read through the entire journal (yea,, its a hella bunch) you can pretend you were there all along..

after this grow things are really going to get good tho.. im setting up a 4k watt flower room to go with the 2500 w veg room you see in my pics/vid... starting a fresh grow with new seeds.. filling the veg room with reg strains and the flower room with a bumper crop of autos.. just keep a look out for it.. ill post a link in this journal when i start the journal for the new grow..

Do you think that the extra dark peirod increases growth. It should use up the rest of the plants stored light energy. Have you tried this in any kind of controled test?

I read something interesting in the new high times....I never thought of it before that. When using organic soil grows and flushing....do your final flush within 24 hours of chopping them down. If you wait till it dries the soil will start refeeding the plant.

i am hoping the extra dark increases growth.. i think it will.. at least in theory it makes sense it does... i want the plants to pull everything they can from the leaves that are left, swell one last time because "winter is hear", and get super frosty with trichs.. i've never tried this before... but, based on my other grows and where i end up, i should have a good grasp on whether or not it made a difference or not, tho... ill make sure to report the findings..

now, the high times article... well.. i think i want to read it.. only because there is one minor thing i dont think makes sense... the idea of flushing is to remove the nute salts from the plant... but also from the soil... most growers, by the time they harvest, have stripped anything from the soil nute wise thats possible.. well their plants have, not them themselves... this means, at least i think, the soil is pretty much worthless... unless you added a bunch of amendments and shit in the beginning.. now.. based on the idea that the soil is now just a buffer medium, with no nutes left, and you flush to remove the salts from the plants and anything left in the soil, i dont see how it could feed the plant anymore?? i guess in my mind i see soil starting at 100% and ending at 0%... but im sure there is a much larger gray area in the middle where there is more nutes left in the actual soil than i think.. oh well.. its just another reason i am glad i dont have soil anymore..






so its now hour 14 of straight dark... normally this is when i would go turn on the lights... but instead i set.. and wait.. and could the hours and minutes and seconds... i hate this time... its funny, to me, that even after so many grows i still get this excited over harvest.. i wonder if it will ever get old?? i think about when i have my "super grow" going... when the veg room is full of 12 big girls, the flower room has 12 big girls and is stuffed the rest of the way with autos, and i have the coliseum up and going how often i will have a harvest.. or be trimming.. i start to think then, at that point, it will get old.. every 3 or 4 weeks ill be trimming who knows how much... im pretty sure at that point ill be purchasing a trimmer.. or at least have a good group of RIU buddies helping out...

 

[slipperyP]

i know what losing a crop can do to you... i never lost that much.. but i had plants stolen from me.. 12 large beautiful ladies... while i was at work.. it made me sick.... it really amazes me to think there are people out there like that.. its always "that wont happen to me"... but it sucks so much when it does.. i still feel bad for you bro.. it eats at me everytime i think about it.. i want to come down and dispense some justice the right way...

glad your back on the saddle and got a new grow going.. cant wait to see some pics!!



well bro, the best part is about to happen, HARVEST!! and if you read through the entire journal (yea,, its a hella bunch) you can pretend you were there all along..

after this grow things are really going to get good tho.. im setting up a 4k watt flower room to go with the 2500 w veg room you see in my pics/vid... starting a fresh grow with new seeds.. filling the veg room with reg strains and the flower room with a bumper crop of autos.. just keep a look out for it.. ill post a link in this journal when i start the journal for the new grow..



i am hoping the extra dark increases growth.. i think it will.. at least in theory it makes sense it does... i want the plants to pull everything they can from the leaves that are left, swell one last time because "winter is hear", and get super frosty with trichs.. i've never tried this before... but, based on my other grows and where i end up, i should have a good grasp on whether or not it made a difference or not, tho... ill make sure to report the findings..

now, the high times article... well.. i think i want to read it.. only because there is one minor thing i dont think makes sense... the idea of flushing is to remove the nute salts from the plant... but also from the soil... most growers, by the time they harvest, have stripped anything from the soil nute wise thats possible.. well their plants have, not them themselves... this means, at least i think, the soil is pretty much worthless... unless you added a bunch of amendments and shit in the beginning.. now.. based on the idea that the soil is now just a buffer medium, with no nutes left, and you flush to remove the salts from the plants and anything left in the soil, i dont see how it could feed the plant anymore?? i guess in my mind i see soil starting at 100% and ending at 0%... but im sure there is a much larger gray area in the middle where there is more nutes left in the actual soil than i think.. oh well.. its just another reason i am glad i dont have soil anymore..






so its now hour 14 of straight dark... normally this is when i would go turn on the lights... but instead i set.. and wait.. and could the hours and minutes and seconds... i hate this time... its funny, to me, that even after so many grows i still get this excited over harvest.. i wonder if it will ever get old?? i think about when i have my "super grow" going... when the veg room is full of 12 big girls, the flower room has 12 big girls and is stuffed the rest of the way with autos, and i have the coliseum up and going how often i will have a harvest.. or be trimming.. i start to think then, at that point, it will get old.. every 3 or 4 weeks ill be trimming who knows how much... im pretty sure at that point ill be purchasing a trimmer.. or at least have a good group of RIU buddies helping out...

The High Times ussually sucks...this one is the special collectors edition "Grow Guide 2009" It has more good stuff in it then the last 5 HTs combined. Subcool and Stinkbud have articles in it, anyway Bat Guano for instance has a time release involved with it...that is why the NPK of it is so low....it is an illusion though, Thus if you give it time after flushing, some of the organic ingredients will start refeeding.

 

[simpsonsampson420]

HARVEST IS DONE!!!!


it took 22 hours... 8 of which i had 1 person helping.. the rest of the time was solo...

i was amazed at the ending yield... it really didnt look like there was as much as there was...

here are some pics...

i harvested in this order

gigabud
super lemon haze
strawberry cough
blueberry
white shark
super lemon haze
white shark
m. tundra
m. tundra


no wet weight... i didnt check.. i usually dont... but based on the average size of the buds, i should be very happy...

i included a pic of a root mass.. all of them are like that.. they just came out as solid 2 gallon chunks.. i am dumping the use of hydroton and switching to either perlite or co co coir.. fuck trying to clean that shit..

oh.. and i tried to take pics of the wall i hung the buds on.. but because of the way the lights in my room are it was hard... but there are 6 x 4ft. spans of string that are covered and the screen and box that you see..

if you arent sure what buds what, and want to know, just ask... i think you should be able to tell tho..

one more thing.. the dr pepper bottle is one of the fat ones, not the tall ones.. just for reference...

 

[bigboyfly713]

Great shit ss420. That shit looks so good and tasty. Cant wait for the weight.

 

[tilemaster]

impressive

 

[simpsonsampson420]

thanks guys.. always apprieciate it!!

i have no idea what to guess weight wise...

i know last harvest i pulled 26 ounces..

i know the buds werent near as big, or as many, as i have this harvest....

i have about 2 times the buds, and average 3 times the size consistantly... so... im guessing in the 3 lb area... which would make me intensely happy.. we'll just have to wait and see!

 

[bluebeard]

Looks incrediable. Looking at the pics I think you got around 3.4375 lbs and look at that that is 55 oz's LOL. Are you going to make hash with all the trimmings looks like you could get a good amount.

 

[simpsonsampson420]

i hope your right bro.. that would be so great!!

i am definitely making some sort of hash.. i have all the trimmings drying now... just trying to decide which way i want to go with the hash.. i have a keif box i borrowed that i could make dry kief hash with.. or i can borrow some bubble bags and make bubble hash with.. it'll be good either way.. i think i am going to try the box tho.. just to see the difference in yield from the to bubble bags.. and quality difference in the end

 

[slipperyP]

i hope your right bro.. that would be so great!!

i am definitely making some sort of hash.. i have all the trimmings drying now... just trying to decide which way i want to go with the hash.. i have a keif box i borrowed that i could make dry kief hash with.. or i can borrow some bubble bags and make bubble hash with.. it'll be good either way.. i think i am going to try the box tho.. just to see the difference in yield from the to bubble bags.. and quality difference in the end

Looks super dank

The set up here has shown increased results for sure

 

[simpsonsampson420]

thanks my brotha

i have been more than happy with the new set up... its done me pretty good this grow.. i think now i have all the bullshit kinks worked out, i know what to do and how to do it, and i get the right veg time on all my girls, that i will be in for some insane future harvests...

 

[mygirls]

thanks my brotha

i have been more than happy with the new set up... its done me pretty good this grow.. i think now i have all the bullshit kinks worked out, i know what to do and how to do it, and i get the right veg time on all my girls, that i will be in for some insane future harvests...

hell ya do you think.. your in for sum awsome grows bro.. yep looks like kinks are all gone..

 

[doc111]

Nice!!!! I'm jealous dude. I'm running really low on smoke and I am at least 4-5 weeks away from harvest. I am literally drooling all over myself right now!

 

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i dont know if i missed the cut, i would say your looking at almost 3.5-4 lb. very nice.

 

[Vnice]

Mornin Sam + all!

I been trying to go thru the masses of this journal... I think I've easily done 8+ chapters during the wake n bake, which has also extended directly into a lunch session as I just couldn't stop reading haha.

Sam, hope those buds make it around the area so i get a chance to smoke em! ;P

~V~

 

[simpsonsampson420]

hell ya do you think.. your in for sum awsome grows bro.. yep looks like kinks are all gone..

i really am looking towards a bright future... i feel like i've "found my calling"... or at least the only thing i enjoy as much as being a chef... once things are up and running right i'll buy ya a ticket and you can come check things out.. we'll wait until your between grows tho... dont want a repeat of things past...

Nice!!!! I'm jealous dude. I'm running really low on smoke and I am at least 4-5 weeks away from harvest. I am literally drooling all over myself right now!

thanks bro.. i worked hard and busted ass.. its really nice to see the sweat and tears paying off... i started making hash today... it looks like im going to get a SICK amount from what i have.... shits almost a yellow white.. ill post a pic of what i end up with later... if you get in a pinch you should swing up here... im sure we can figure something out..

i dont know if i missed the cut, i would say your looking at almost 3.5-4 lb. very nice.

you just missed the chop.. it was saturday.. i think all the pics are on the last page.. you'll have to check them out...

saturday is when i am weighing everything up... ill know a weight by then... and everyone will know the winner...

Mornin Sam + all!

I been trying to go thru the masses of this journal... I think I've easily done 8+ chapters during the wake n bake, which has also extended directly into a lunch session as I just couldn't stop reading haha.

Sam, hope those buds make it around the area so i get a chance to smoke em! ;P

~V~

top of the mornin' bro...

im impressed by the amount of reading you have done.. this is a LONG ass journal... it amazes me sometimes.. there are parts full of useless shit.. but there are some parts with gems.. at least mistakes i made that i fixed... which is always good to see for future reference..

so im sure that the buds will be in circulation... i know some are headed to chicago... but mostly in the surrounding northen IN area... if you are around here im sure some will leak into your hands!! i always think its funny when people bring over the stuff i grew and are like "check this shit out bro.. its some fire!!"... it makes me laugh on the inside.. gotta keep a poker face tho.. cant be tipping off anyone..



i tasted all the strains i had yesterday... some of the smaller buds were dried enough to smoke.. even without curing they are amazing.. the taste, the smootheness, and most importantly the high were all what i wanted... ended up passing out from being sooo ripped.. it was nice... cant wait to get them cured up and really done right...

 

[nellyatcha]

i really am looking towards a bright future... i feel like i've "found my calling"... or at least the only thing i enjoy as much as being a chef... once things are up and running right i'll buy ya a ticket and you can come check things out.. we'll wait until your between grows tho... dont want a repeat of things past...



thanks bro.. i worked hard and busted ass.. its really nice to see the sweat and tears paying off... i started making hash today... it looks like im going to get a SICK amount from what i have.... shits almost a yellow white.. ill post a pic of what i end up with later... if you get in a pinch you should swing up here... im sure we can figure something out..



you just missed the chop.. it was saturday.. i think all the pics are on the last page.. you'll have to check them out...

saturday is when i am weighing everything up... ill know a weight by then... and everyone will know the winner...



top of the mornin' bro...

im impressed by the amount of reading you have done.. this is a LONG ass journal... it amazes me sometimes.. there are parts full of useless shit.. but there are some parts with gems.. at least mistakes i made that i fixed... which is always good to see for future reference..

so im sure that the buds will be in circulation... i know some are headed to chicago... but mostly in the surrounding northen IN area... if you are around here im sure some will leak into your hands!! i always think its funny when people bring over the stuff i grew and are like "check this shit out bro.. its some fire!!"... it makes me laugh on the inside.. gotta keep a poker face tho.. cant be tipping off anyone..



i tasted all the strains i had yesterday... some of the smaller buds were dried enough to smoke.. even without curing they are amazing.. the taste, the smootheness, and most importantly the high were all what i wanted... ended up passing out from being sooo ripped.. it was nice... cant wait to get them cured up and really done right...

heres the pics of my bush of a lowryder tell me what you think is going to happen with it .

 

[simpsonsampson420]

i think you will get a nice little harvest from her... she looks good.. much better on my tv than my phone...

 

[nellyatcha]

i know right, but wheres the billy mays jokes ?