Dr. Hank McCoy
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Thanks MrEDuck, I'm quite excited myself.
11,000Watt E&F w/ C02, Advanced Nutes, and TahoeOG!
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Dr. Hank McCoy
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Took these on Friday, day 21 of bloom. Both are TahoeOG.
Ninjabowler
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Looks like they are happy as bumpkins. Nice short finnisher i presume. Wheres your ppm float at from month 1-4? My lips like smiling over my other one. Pretty girls. 
bigworm6969
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Looking good mr mccoy
theexpress
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not soo short.... 10 weekers.....Looks like they are happy as bumpkins. Nice short finnisher i presume. Wheres your ppm float at from month 1-4? My lips like smiling over my other one. Pretty girls.
SweetestCheeba
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Lookin good Doc
Thats screen couldnt get any more full
Thats screen couldnt get any more full
Ninjabowler
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Dr hank, i dont know how much time you have for doing this but an awsome thing to do would be to do an update like a time lapse. This is going to be an epic catalogue of an amazing grow. Theres alot of people who would learn alot if you included the days, heights, and specifics of the plants up to the present time specificly the early days leading up to the light flip.
I know im asking alot and i tend to. I have a thirst for knowledge, im sorry. This thread is the most professional garden ive ever seen and your on cruise control pretty much from here on in. Id love to see a detailed runthrough on how you got here summed up by the Dr. of wow, if you have the time that is. I know theres some specifics that could benifit aspiring experts like plant spacing, max numbers under lights, and other wild beast tricks that made you the best ive ever seen round these tables.
I know im asking alot and i tend to. I have a thirst for knowledge, im sorry. This thread is the most professional garden ive ever seen and your on cruise control pretty much from here on in. Id love to see a detailed runthrough on how you got here summed up by the Dr. of wow, if you have the time that is. I know theres some specifics that could benifit aspiring experts like plant spacing, max numbers under lights, and other wild beast tricks that made you the best ive ever seen round these tables.
Dr. Hank McCoy
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Thank you once again for all the compliments Ninja. I realize this thread could be much more detailed so I'll try to make some extra time to post. Give me a day or two and I'll write up everything I've done so far on this grow for those interested. It won't be too difficult as I write everything down anyway.Dr hank, i dont know how much time you have for doing this but an awsome thing to do would be to do an update like a time lapse. This is going to be an epic catalogue of an amazing grow. Theres alot of people who would learn alot if you included the days, heights, and specifics of the plants up to the present time specificly the early days leading up to the light flip.
I know im asking alot and i tend to. I have a thirst for knowledge, im sorry. This thread is the most professional garden ive ever seen and your on cruise control pretty much from here on in. Id love to see a detailed runthrough on how you got here summed up by the Dr. of wow, if you have the time that is. I know theres some specifics that could benifit aspiring experts like plant spacing, max numbers under lights, and other wild beast tricks that made you the best ive ever seen round these tables.
Ninjabowler
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Thanks doc, you rock!
Dr. Hank McCoy
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Ok sorry this took so long but I've been busier than ever lately. I'll try to cover all the details of this grow so far, but let me know if I leave anything out. I'll post some new pics later today.
As I stated before, I originally picked up a batch of TahoeOG clones to run in the big room. This was late April. A bunch of the clones hadn't rooted yet so I kept them for while longer under the T5s in domes with perlite. I kept them moist with a light solution of H&G AquaFlakes.
After about 10 days I transferred all rooted clones into 6" HUGO blocks and onto the veg tray under a 600w HPS. The tray floods once a day from a 45Gal res that I keep between 500-800ppm, depending on how big the clones are, SensiGrow A&B only. For the first few days I water each clone from the top with a cup until the roots dig into the big cubes. (The second batch of clones went much smoother as I placed the 1" cubes immediately into the 6" HUGOS. Not one leaf turned yellow and they rooted through the big blocks in no time.)
It's then that I decided to pick up some extra clones, (12x DiabloOG & 12x AbusiveOG) just to be sure I'd be able to fill the room. This ended up being a good idea since I was short on Tahoe. I topped each clone only once, about a week before putting them into the bloom room.
I decided on 12 plants per 4'x6' tray based on their size at the time (about 12") and the fact that the screens would keep them nice and low. Seeing them grown up I think this was a good number to go with. The trays consist of (24) TahoeOG, (12) DiabloOG, and (12) AbusiveOG.
Once they were in the bloom room, I installed the screens 14" from the top of the trays and let them veg another 3 days under the 1000's dimmed to 750, then shut the lights off for 24Hrs before going to 12/12. Looking back, I would have vegged a bit longer to fill out the screens more but I was already a bit behind schedule. The trays in the bloom room are flooded twice per day (30mins after lights ON, then 6 hours later) from (2) 100Gal reservoirs which I keep at a 5.8 pH. My CO2 generator in this room is an 8-burner propane Gen-2 CAP. It comes on every 4 hours for 4 minutes starting an hour after the lights come on.
Week 1 feeding schedule consisted of 500mL ea. SensiBloom A&B only. After the first week, I could begin to see the flowering structure of each strain. It was apparent how lanky and stretchy the DiabloOG was immediately. The AbusiveOG on the other hand bushed out nicely, already showing thick stalks and branches. The Tahoe showed early bud sites everywhere and filled up the screens nicely.
Week 2 feeding schedule was 500mL ea. SensiBloom A&B / 500mL BigBud. The plants continued to stretch and I continued to tuck each new head back down under the screens. The lower branches started to reach the rest of the canopy and each bud site was clearly established.
Week 3 feeding schedule was 800mL ea. SensiBloom A&B / 800mL BigBud. All strains were done stretching and the Tahoe and Abusive trays were looking nice and full. The Diablo on the other hand was unimpressive, but bud size was on par with the rest of the room. I began removing intrusive fan leaves and small branching forming too low on the main stalks, being careful not to remove too much at once.
Week 4 I bumped it up to full strength nutrients with 1000mL ea. SensiBloom A&B / 1000mL BigBud. All the plants really began to pack on the trichomes but the AbusiveOG was clearly starting to pull ahead in both size and crystal formation. Hopefully it will make up a bit for the Diablo's shortcomings.
Week 5 started last Friday. I drain the res completely with a large pump and refill with pH'd tap water. I then added 1000mL ea. SensiBloom A&B / 800mL BigBud. This is the last week of BigBud before switching to Overdrive. I'm keeping the nutrients as basic as possible this run to avoid too many variables. I'll slowly add more products to my lineup and remove anything that doesn't show results. I'm pretty happy with how everything has gone up to this point, but I definitely see room for improvement. Luckily I won't have to wait too long, as I'll be getting another batch of clones to replace these in about a week.
As I stated before, I originally picked up a batch of TahoeOG clones to run in the big room. This was late April. A bunch of the clones hadn't rooted yet so I kept them for while longer under the T5s in domes with perlite. I kept them moist with a light solution of H&G AquaFlakes.
After about 10 days I transferred all rooted clones into 6" HUGO blocks and onto the veg tray under a 600w HPS. The tray floods once a day from a 45Gal res that I keep between 500-800ppm, depending on how big the clones are, SensiGrow A&B only. For the first few days I water each clone from the top with a cup until the roots dig into the big cubes. (The second batch of clones went much smoother as I placed the 1" cubes immediately into the 6" HUGOS. Not one leaf turned yellow and they rooted through the big blocks in no time.)
It's then that I decided to pick up some extra clones, (12x DiabloOG & 12x AbusiveOG) just to be sure I'd be able to fill the room. This ended up being a good idea since I was short on Tahoe. I topped each clone only once, about a week before putting them into the bloom room.
I decided on 12 plants per 4'x6' tray based on their size at the time (about 12") and the fact that the screens would keep them nice and low. Seeing them grown up I think this was a good number to go with. The trays consist of (24) TahoeOG, (12) DiabloOG, and (12) AbusiveOG.
Once they were in the bloom room, I installed the screens 14" from the top of the trays and let them veg another 3 days under the 1000's dimmed to 750, then shut the lights off for 24Hrs before going to 12/12. Looking back, I would have vegged a bit longer to fill out the screens more but I was already a bit behind schedule. The trays in the bloom room are flooded twice per day (30mins after lights ON, then 6 hours later) from (2) 100Gal reservoirs which I keep at a 5.8 pH. My CO2 generator in this room is an 8-burner propane Gen-2 CAP. It comes on every 4 hours for 4 minutes starting an hour after the lights come on.
Week 1 feeding schedule consisted of 500mL ea. SensiBloom A&B only. After the first week, I could begin to see the flowering structure of each strain. It was apparent how lanky and stretchy the DiabloOG was immediately. The AbusiveOG on the other hand bushed out nicely, already showing thick stalks and branches. The Tahoe showed early bud sites everywhere and filled up the screens nicely.
Week 2 feeding schedule was 500mL ea. SensiBloom A&B / 500mL BigBud. The plants continued to stretch and I continued to tuck each new head back down under the screens. The lower branches started to reach the rest of the canopy and each bud site was clearly established.
Week 3 feeding schedule was 800mL ea. SensiBloom A&B / 800mL BigBud. All strains were done stretching and the Tahoe and Abusive trays were looking nice and full. The Diablo on the other hand was unimpressive, but bud size was on par with the rest of the room. I began removing intrusive fan leaves and small branching forming too low on the main stalks, being careful not to remove too much at once.
Week 4 I bumped it up to full strength nutrients with 1000mL ea. SensiBloom A&B / 1000mL BigBud. All the plants really began to pack on the trichomes but the AbusiveOG was clearly starting to pull ahead in both size and crystal formation. Hopefully it will make up a bit for the Diablo's shortcomings.
Week 5 started last Friday. I drain the res completely with a large pump and refill with pH'd tap water. I then added 1000mL ea. SensiBloom A&B / 800mL BigBud. This is the last week of BigBud before switching to Overdrive. I'm keeping the nutrients as basic as possible this run to avoid too many variables. I'll slowly add more products to my lineup and remove anything that doesn't show results. I'm pretty happy with how everything has gone up to this point, but I definitely see room for improvement. Luckily I won't have to wait too long, as I'll be getting another batch of clones to replace these in about a week.
kinddiesel
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better hook those hoods to a large fan get all that heat out or it will be a large over hot enough to bake a pizza,
Ninjabowler
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Thanks Doc. Beauty of a synopsis. Do you know exactly how many days from cutting clones it took before you transfered them to the bloom room at 12 inches? +rep
Dr. Hank McCoy
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TahoeOG, day 31 bloom.
Rastafari InI
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Really nice grow so far Dr.hank. I'm sure everyone here is just as excited as you are for the harvest lol.
Keep up the good work, and I can't wait for some dry nug shots. That Tahoe looks like its gona be fire. Which strain are you looking forward to the most?
Keep up the good work, and I can't wait for some dry nug shots. That Tahoe looks like its gona be fire. Which strain are you looking forward to the most?
doubletake
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Why who cares if you got 10 pounds or 30 pounds of you got em you got em more money.
Dr. Hank McCoy
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From being cut? I got them 7 days after being cut, rooted them for 10 days, vegged them for 14 days under the 600w. So 31 days total for the Tahoe. Most were (12" - 15") The next batch was already rooted well so I just threw them into the HUGO blocks and they took off. I think 20 days veg for those.Thanks Doc. Beauty of a synopsis. Do you know exactly how many days from cutting clones it took before you transfered them to the bloom room at 12 inches? +rep