Finally, some pics:
The bloom room. The 2 lights on the right are the new 1000's. The original plan was for all of that space to be a walkway. Greed got the better of us and started adding lights. Helper D wants us to add 2 more where the wing is. I think we'll be puting in another electrical panel to facilitate this and a couple more air conditioners. Who needs walking space.
There's the NY Diesel and Godzilla in the DWC bucket. I like the diesel look. Helper D treated it with Bushmaster to prevent it from getting 10' tall. Godzilla is looking pretty good. We didn't top it or train it in any way. For the small amount of space it occupys, it seems like the yield will be pretty good. The average bud size is bigger than the soiless plants, and the growth rate in veg was much faster. It still has a few weeks to go. We want to taste the product prior to commiting 100% to the RDWC idea. I'm sure it will taste just fine. After all, it's the same nutes, just different delivery system.
Fruits of our labor. Most of these buds are smaller than the average. We first took all of the big buds, then let the lower buds get good light for a few days. The big buds have since been jarred. Once these are done, all of the buds will be tossed in a big salad. Any bud smaller than about 2 bong hits is set aside for personal use, gifts, etc...
You'll see the de-humidifier on the bottom left. We love the climate controlled drying shed. When it gets dry here we have a small humidifier we use.
The first Laughgani to be harvested. I believe we pulled it a little early. I just had to look into those buds to know for sure. We'll let the rest go 10 more days. I have trimmed fan leaves on this plant 3 times. It's totallt needed with this strain. It gets so dense that without trimming, the inside would just me a mass off underdeveloped buds and powdery mildew. This strain is a great example of how aggressive leaf trimming can not only help, but be necessary sometimes.
Laughgani buds trimmed. I believe 10 more days and they'd be solid purple. These things are a total bitch to trim. I'm picky on how our buds look, and getting that perfect look is very time consuming on this strain. The leaves are just packed tight into the buds. It requires lots of digging the leaves out to cut them. I just wish you guys could smell these things. Without doubt, the most pugent plant I've ever grown. 3 other people were trimming Bubbas, yet all any of us could smell was the Laughgani. I will not be cutting any corners with the cure on this one. It's going to be a while before our members get a taste of these.
The first of the new all RDWC grow op. These have already been rooted in another tray. The T-5 gets them ready for the 1000 watter. From here they will go into buckets and onto the veg room table.
The Diesel plant. Helper D really did it right with the Bushmaster. He has a real eye for that stuff. He only uses it as a foilar spray, feeding with plain water on application days. I can tell him how tall I want a plant to end up, and he'll hit it within a couple inches. We only use it when it looks like a plant will end up too tall. I know that some folks use it all the time. We were thinking about trying it on a few plants in a side by side. I Dlively11 (RIU member) uses it to make his plants more compact and get more plants in a given area. He has some very impressive pics posted of side by side tests if anyone is interested.
The veg room floor. The 10 gallon plants will go into bloom in a couple days. The 5 gallon plants first get transplanted into 10's for a week, then go into bloom. All of these plants have already spent several weeks on the veg room table under a Hortilux Daylight Blue. The bulbs seen here are Pulse Start 6.4K. The plantb on the left is a Laughgani that has had its fan leaves trimmed once (hard to believe given how bushy it is). The leaves will be heavily thinned again week 3 of bloom. We are looking to see distinct braches with that thinning. At week 5 most of the remaining fan leaves are removed. We are looking for just buds. This seems to be the only way to fully ripen the buds that are in a mass of leaves.
The veg room table is really the key to big yield. The Daylight Blue bulbs are not as bright as a Pulse Start, but do a better job at node spacing. Here, we are trying to train the plant out a little, and stack the nodes very tight. Once in a while a plant will get crowded, or spend too much time against the wall. When this happens, we throw the plant away. No plant leaves the table unless it is as perfect as we can get it. This is why I'm a fan of extra large veg rooms.
Hope you all enjoy. It's nice to get back to the grow. I ventured out into some other threads and just got pissed off. LOL.
You seem like a genuinely nice guy, and as you know have one helluva set-up! Keep it up, I really enjoy your thread.
