A Newb Grow Journal

patrickkawi37 said:

well theyre lookin great!

question. you said your in soil.. but i read above that your in mix4? without anything in it mix4 is soilless so that counts as "hydro" technically no? are you adding anything in it? cause 1400ppms in straight mix4 is high.. but not insane.. but 1400 in soil is too much IMO

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yea, sunshine #4. it's got worm castings in it; about 20%. i've heard from some guys that you should treat it like soil at 6.3 and others say it's hydro at 5.8 pH. i ran it at 6.3 the entire time and had no problems. even the ones i tried with just sunshine and no worm castings. i thought maybe the 6.3 was the flowering issue so i pushed some 5.9 water through her 2 days ago and things have only gotten slightly worse. i'm gonna stick with the 5.9 on the next watering but if i don't see any changes in by the watering after that then i'm headed back to 6.3

i like pushing my nutes. if i don't get any burn at 1475ppm then that tells me i'm doing ok. maybe it's the feed, water, feed, water schedule but the plants aren't hurting from it. i like to test strain and medium limits. really push the plants. as long as they don't burn then you i think they are loving the nutes.

scroglodyte said:

View attachment 2165998View attachment 2165999View attachment 2166000a few shots of rarely fed, infrequently watered buds

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sweet buds scrogs. super frosty looking.

thanks, Nugs. 48 days into 12/12
i neglect them a tad.......they love it
cheap harlots

scroglodyte said:

thanks, Nugs. 48 days into 12/12
i neglect them a tad.......they love it
cheap harlots

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what strain is that. looks like a cheese.

some nice lookin buds scrog, how are the girls lookin nuglets? in the last pic they were lookin really healthy, cheese looks really happy too. i bet you cant wait till these buds come in, these girls are gonna be sweet.

crazyhazey said:

some nice lookin buds scrog, how are the girls lookin nuglets? in the last pic they were lookin really healthy, cheese looks really happy too. i bet you cant wait till these buds come in, these girls are gonna be sweet.

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what up crazy? hope all is well man. those last pics were from day 18. we're on day 20 now. about a third of the way home hopefully. i can see that they are starting to fatten up everyday now. getting real excited. the next 20 days will be fun.

nuglets said:

what up crazy? hope all is well man. those last pics were from day 18. we're on day 20 now. about a third of the way home hopefully. i can see that they are starting to fatten up everyday now. getting real excited. the next 20 days will be fun.

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youll see calyxs poppin out of nowhere in a few days, this is right when shit gets interesting.

crazyhazey said:

youll see calyxs poppin out of nowhere in a few days, this is right when shit gets interesting.

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crystal production on the leaves is almost doubling everyday. gonna be a sugar high!! haha!

nuglets said:

crystal production on the leaves is almost doubling everyday. gonna be a sugar high!! haha!

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haha sweet, i loving seeing trichs packing on early, thats always a good sign. have you heard of mixing spectrums for higher trich output? i may try a comparison grow with some clones this year, flowering a plant under 6700K indoors and flower the other under the sun light, if my hypothesis is on point there should be more trichs on the indoor but lower harvest, outdoor should yield more, not sure if the potency will exceed it but thats what im trying to prove. ive seen it on here plenty of times, but i believe the best knowledge is hands on.

crazyhazey said:

haha sweet, i loving seeing trichs packing on early, thats always a good sign. have you heard of mixing spectrums for higher trich output? i may try a comparison grow with some clones this year, flowering a plant under 6700K indoors and flower the other under the sun light, if my hypothesis is on point there should be more trichs on the indoor but lower harvest, outdoor should yield more, not sure if the potency will exceed it but thats what im trying to prove. ive seen it on here plenty of times, but i believe the best knowledge is hands on.

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i'm actually doing that right now. i have 4 160w UVB bulbs on the plants along with the 600w HPS. gotta keep them backed off as well though. they are hot little fuckers.

nuglets said:

i'm actually doing that right now. i have 4 160w UVB bulbs on the plants along with the 600w HPS. gotta keep them backed off as well though. they are hot little fuckers.

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sweet, this should be even more interesting since cheese already packs on trichs, i got a bag of cheese that looked like someone rolled it in sugar haha. and damn, never tried using the UVB bulbs. that excess heat must be a bitch, i get heat problems with fluoros down here if i let them run in the day time, FL is just too hot to not have A/C for your grow.

crazyhazey said:

sweet, this should be even more interesting since cheese already packs on trichs, i got a bag of cheese that looked like someone rolled it in sugar haha. and damn, never tried using the UVB bulbs. that excess heat must be a bitch, i get heat problems with fluoros down here if i let them run in the day time, FL is just too hot to not have A/C for your grow.

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the power of the chiller man!!! 2hp chillking and i had no problems running 3k watts, 6 lamps t5, 6 160w UVB bulbs, 2 water cooled co2 generators, and a reservoir coil. plus both tents are in my garage which is SUPER hot. granted i run my flower at night but for a while i had both tents running veg and had no issues. scary how efficient these chillers are.

right now i have just the 1 600w in flower and the UVB bulbs. plus the 1000w in veg with the t5 and i have no problem. the ice box i have in the flower tent running as a spot a/c with a fan and thermostat controller hardly ever comes on. maybe 15 minutes an hour.

nuglets said:

what strain is that. looks like a cheese.

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Jack H x Strawberry Cough x Skunk
a free clone from my commercial grower friend

nuglets said:

the power of the chiller man!!! 2hp chillking and i had no problems running 3k watts, 6 lamps t5, 6 160w UVB bulbs, 2 water cooled co2 generators, and a reservoir coil. plus both tents are in my garage which is SUPER hot. granted i run my flower at night but for a while i had both tents running veg and had no issues. scary how efficient these chillers are.

right now i have just the 1 600w in flower and the UVB bulbs. plus the 1000w in veg with the t5 and i have no problem. the ice box i have in the flower tent running as a spot a/c with a fan and thermostat controller hardly ever comes on. maybe 15 minutes an hour.

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nice, i tried to grow in my garage but it was too hot as well. ive thought about the ice thing, i just think i would get lazy with refilling it with ice or freezing ice packs.

crazyhazey said:

nice, i tried to grow in my garage but it was too hot as well. ive thought about the ice thing, i just think i would get lazy with refilling it with ice or freezing ice packs.

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Yea, I couldn't do that. Went straight to the commercial chiller.

nuglets said:

Yea, I couldn't do that. Went straight to the commercial chiller.

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low maintenance is the way to go, good choice. and theres lots of reasons why people get banned on here, its usually for multiple accounts or some shit(which i see absolutely no point in besides trolling on multiple accounts), PMs are monitored so we should change them simply to Ms since our privacy doesnt exist. idk about the IP address, i think anyone can track that if they do the research. restart your modem if your afraid of someone tracking you.