A Cannabinerd's Journey

Well, after setting the flood cycle to flood every 6 hrs, the glue are looking more perky! This growing with a medium is tricky stuff since it seems all strains are a little different for the needs of watering schedules. I think 6hrs between floods might be a good thing with glue as I'm thinking it's a water sensitive plant. Will flood every 4 hours in flower I think. What's crazy is I flood the gdp every 2 hours or they get cranky. Live and learn, and as my avatar says, we learning up in this bitch!

@Aeroknow helped me take care of mites thank God. They appear to be all dead and or dying. So I'm going to move the flower time to Sunday to give them a couple days to heal. The tallest of the glue is 11" and the shortest is only 8", but I think it will work.

The sour power mama took a little time to adjust to the new flood time but she's doing great now.

Well, it looks like the glue is getting its fade on a little early. After dropping the ppm to 900 for the past week or so, they started showing their fall colors. I guess it's another unintended flush for them again lol. Never fails. Oh well they only have 2 weeks left tops and at least it didn't happen earlier me and glue just don't get along so it's on to the next strain it was sort of fun growing it I guess but wayyyyyy too many headaches with it for me to handle



The gdp are killing it and just about to fill the net woooooo!

Bloody hell mate, that is just ridiculous! Really stunning plants mate

eastcoastmo said:

Bloody hell mate, that is just ridiculous! Really stunning plants mate

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Thanks bro I really enjoyed growing the gdp but it'll be my last run with her for a while, she was so easy to grow though! Just super slow to veg.

I tinkered with the flood settings one more time for the glue. I upped flood times to 8hr-6hr-4hr-6hr between floods daily. I can't believe they don't need to be flooded more, I'm assuming with hid lights it would be different, but still, 6-8hrs between floods is crazy! But the roots are growing faster and the plants look better just from a couple days.

Got my new mama's all planted now. 2 of the spog91 will be flowered in ebb buckets with the last run of glue. There's 16 glue so I'll pick the best 14.

You'll be able to see how much better the Spog grows in hydro compared to the glue before too long

I've kept 1 pog18 which will be a mama, it looks great in flower but the smell is much fainter than I'd like, it's hard to tell what it even smells like

I need to source about 16 clones in a few weeks to start vegging for the tray since I'm flowering the glue in a day. Not sure what I want, does anyone have any suggestions? Since I'm done with growing glue after this, I'm not sure what to grow but it's gotta be on a similar quality level as glue but preferably not picky in hydro or the possibility of dudding.

I was thinking chocolate hashberry or mendo breath but that's all I can think of at the moment.

On to bigger and better things hey mate
I've also found the same with gdp strains, really slow to veg, it's lucky the smoke is good or it would be total crap!
Can you get any of Sin City's gear in clones over there? I'm sure you'll find something I'll be totally jealous of ha ha ha.

dang, if i wasn't still seeing mites man I would hook ya up.

Plants look amazing AP - what a trip about the flood times!

These things are like Monster Mites! What are they?



Cheers,
Mo

eastcoastmo said:

On to bigger and better things hey mate
I've also found the same with gdp strains, really slow to veg, it's lucky the smoke is good or it would be total crap!
Can you get any of Sin City's gear in clones over there? I'm sure you'll find something I'll be totally jealous of ha ha ha.

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For real! I love the smoke, I've never had a real purple strain until this year and now it's one of my favorites I'm not sure if I can find sincity gear, but I've been wanting to try them bad. They have some great looking strains for sure

papapayne said:

dang, if i wasn't still seeing mites man I would hook ya up.

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Tis the season for mites so it seems! Just when I got rid of all the gnats, the mites hit. At least it was only in veg and small plants so it was really easy to kill em, just took a few days and all gone good vibes on killing yours bro, I'd say throw a hot shot strip in there for 4 days and that would take a lot of them out fast or use forbid 4f, that's what I used, it's not a systemic which is good and the residue has a 45day window, so as long as your in veg you'd be good, but I know you don't like to use stuff like that, but if all else fails give it a shot and be done with it for a while

Mohican said:

Plants look amazing AP - what a trip about the flood times!

These things are like Monster Mites! What are they?



Cheers,
Mo

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Thanks bro the flood times have seriously made me rethink my vegging game. I mean, most plants are fine with 4 hr floods, but they seem to also be fine with every 8 hr floods, so to keep all happy I think the new flood schedule will work best. I don't know what changed, but I think when real hydroton stopped being produced a few years ago, that's when these newer alternatives came around, I think they retain much more water than I'm used to. Most plants will be fine, but vegging the glue has given me issues 100% of the time for the first 2 weeks or so. They would get purple stems and mag issues which I thought was due to my nutes. But now I know it's just overwatering, just not the typical signs overwatering shows. Super glad I figured it out

And this are some crazy looking bugs! Looks like some sort of lady bug beetle? Do they eat the plant? If they aren't bothering the plants I'd not care but a bug that size could wreek some havoc if they are herbivores!

Good lawd the gdp are on fire


About one or two weeks left for the glue, they are at 7 full weeks tomorrow evening. Super duper frosty this round and no duds that I can see!!!!!


And don't laugh at these poor girls. These are the ones that suffered severe overwatering for 12/14 days of their veg. I'm putting them into flower in the morning. Hoping they grow out of their funk!

You've got to stop being so tough on yourself Alpha, those girls look good to me! All your girls look great and damn, that glue is soooo frosty

That glue is ridiculous! I only have regular amounts of frost on my mediocre buds:



Cheers,
Mo

Mohican said:

That glue is ridiculous! I only have regular amounts of frost on my mediocre buds:



Cheers,
Mo

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Ha ha ha yeah right Mo, regular amounts...pffft! Yours make mine look mediocre!

It is just the microscope that makes it look that way!

Mohican said:

That glue is ridiculous! I only have regular amounts of frost on my mediocre buds:



Cheers,
Mo

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That is a beautiful macro shot! Looks way more than mediocre to me, looks phenomenonal!

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/new-evidence-weakens-case-against-climate-woolly-mammoths-death

Will they ever make up their minds on these subjects?

Mohican said:

It is just the microscope that makes it look that way!

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Sorry Mo, I agree with Alpha, looks way better than mediocre!!

AlphaPhase said:

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/new-evidence-weakens-case-against-climate-woolly-mammoths-death

Will they ever make up their minds on these subjects?

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I doubt they will mate. Being a marine scientist myself, nearly every day there are journals saying the opposite to what we have learnt....and then a few months later it's disproven again ha ha.

I remember reading an article stating that our climate had always swung wildly from hot to cold until about 10,000 years ago when it started to hold steady. I wonder whether we are heading back to the wild swings?

Shit man, you wanna see some shitty plants I should post up some pics of my flower room. The first run has suffered hard core from me not being able to dedicate time to them vs the greenhouse and not being able to afford to fill large pots. Looking forward to the GH being down so I can focus my energy on dialing in the new room.