About 2 days to flip

testtime

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I have a situation where I may have to lose space and I have to flip some plants a couple weeks early. They're not going to finish in time for the move and then I'll have to make a decision on whether or not to early harvest or move them depending on what's available in space.

Keep in mind I really like to smoke early harvest weed. I call it light bright, and it wears off (from a mental perspective) in about 20 minutes but I still get the anti-inflammatory effects.

The tent is a 4x4. There is open space on both sides. I'll spread the plants out a bit when the new lights show up.

This is six plants. Two by three. These were clones bought from two different vendors. The first vendor only had three so I had to go to second vendor. My target was six which is the legal limit in my state. The first vendor's were kind of scraggly and unhealthy looking but I took them anyway. The second vendor was: oh so gorgeous, and I took those next three as well.

I have given no nitrogen (veg mode) fertilizer. This is about 4 weeks in Fox farm dirt only. I have given nutrients and nitrogen locking bacteria and microrazial fungi.

The lights (360 watts LED) have been on 24 hours and the relative humidity is anywhere from 45 to 60.

Describing them left to right front to back.

Ruby skunk. All the leaves are perfectly happy and coloring and shape. Simply love it. Came from the good healthy vendor and simply is wonderful. I think I'll get four or five main buds out of it. Random guess of about 6 oz.

D94. I seem to recall it's supposed to be a heavy indica but it's budding on the sativa side. Mind-boggling number of colas. All of these plants were topped but this one just took off when it happened and now it's a wide bush. Came from the "bad vendor" and showed that "bad" meant nothing.

Lem dawg. Looks like six colas to me. It also looks like possibly magnesium deficient. I have an additional bunch of nutrients that will show up on Tuesday as well as two more lights.

Then we have Lost Cause. I believe it has a heavy haze parent portion. It also attracted my cat and she chewed the f*** out of it the first day I transplanted it. So then it took about 2 weeks for it to start growing again and it has just a lot of colas. The name really felt right because I thought it was a lost cause but then it came back to life.

Okay that big twisty m*********** in the back is military chocolate. Ever since day one it's leaves twisted. No idea why, I could not find anything wrong and it grew well. It looks a bit stretchy to me but it got the same light as everybody else so it's just a stretchy m***********.

Final on the right-back is chem squeezy. Those curled leaves worry me. It was on the front for a while and it just showed great growth and then I just tossed it back there and then those leaves curled, damn it. I'm just too lazy to do anything special to care for it as compared to everything else going good here. We'll see if the new nutrients help.

Those lights are 2 enjoyield that cost me $93 a piece. 2 is just right for vegging in a 3x4 space, But now I need the two more for flowering as well. I'll have about 720 watts pulling from the wall when all is done, and at that point I'll have to actually put the air conditioner in since my ambient temperature is going to be around 80° and then I'm going to have lights on top of that.

I'll post every couple weeks to show the progress.

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Bsmoke78

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I have a situation where I may have to lose space and I have to flip some plants a couple weeks early. They're not going to finish in time for the move and then I'll have to make a decision on whether or not to early harvest or move them depending on what's available in space.

Keep in mind I really like to smoke early harvest weed. I call it light bright, and it wears off (from a mental perspective) in about 20 minutes but I still get the anti-inflammatory effects.

The tent is a 4x4. There is open space on both sides. I'll spread the plants out a bit when the new lights show up.

This is six plants. Two by three. These were clones bought from two different vendors. The first vendor only had three so I had to go to second vendor. My target was six which is the legal limit in my state. The first vendor's were kind of scraggly and unhealthy looking but I took them anyway. The second vendor was: oh so gorgeous, and I took those next three as well.

I have given no nitrogen (veg mode) fertilizer. This is about 4 weeks in Fox farm dirt only. I have given nutrients and nitrogen locking bacteria and microrazial fungi.

The lights (360 watts LED) have been on 24 hours and the relative humidity is anywhere from 45 to 60.

Describing them left to right front to back.

Ruby skunk. All the leaves are perfectly happy and coloring and shape. Simply love it. Came from the good healthy vendor and simply is wonderful. I think I'll get four or five main buds out of it. Random guess of about 6 oz.

D94. I seem to recall it's supposed to be a heavy indica but it's budding on the sativa side. Mind-boggling number of colas. All of these plants were topped but this one just took off when it happened and now it's a wide bush. Came from the "bad vendor" and showed that "bad" meant nothing.

Lem dawg. Looks like six colas to me. It also looks like possibly magnesium deficient. I have an additional bunch of nutrients that will show up on Tuesday as well as two more lights.

Then we have Lost Cause. I believe it has a heavy haze parent portion. It also attracted my cat and she chewed the f*** out of it the first day I transplanted it. So then it took about 2 weeks for it to start growing again and it has just a lot of colas. The name really felt right because I thought it was a lost cause but then it came back to life.

Okay that big twisty m*********** in the back is military chocolate. Ever since day one it's leaves twisted. No idea why, I could not find anything wrong and it grew well. It looks a bit stretchy to me but it got the same light as everybody else so it's just a stretchy m***********.

Final on the right-back is chem squeezy. Those curled leaves worry me. It was on the front for a while and it just showed great growth and then I just tossed it back there and then those leaves curled, damn it. I'm just too lazy to do anything special to care for it as compared to everything else going good here. We'll see if the new nutrients help.

Those lights are 2 enjoyield that cost me $93 a piece. 2 is just right for vegging in a 3x4 space, But now I need the two more for flowering as well. I'll have about 720 watts pulling from the wall when all is done, and at that point I'll have to actually put the air conditioner in since my ambient temperature is going to be around 80° and then I'm going to have lights on top of that.

I'll post every couple weeks to show the progress.

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Flip them they will fill that up
 

testtime

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The weird thing out of the group is the chem squeezy which is the far back left 1st picture has almost no buds on it whatsoever. Everybody else is moving along nicely. I wonder if there's a light leak hitting it.

Oh well, can't win them all.
 

testtime

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Those front left look like light stress
Which picture? They're from two different angles so that's two different plants.

Also keep in mind all these plants are a lot greener than you see. When I put regular human LED spotlight on it everything goes dark but when I have these really bright grow lights over them they shine right through the leaves so these are getting deep light.

The front left on the first picture is military chocolate. This thing had high stressed curly leaves from day one and it grew just fine but yeah it definitely is not happy in the picture. I guess I'm just used to it sadness.

But if you're telling me the front left on the second picture that is Ruby skunk and those leaves are praying happily.

On the other hand if you're talking about the ones that are a bit tall, their parents were amnesia haze so this is a sativa stretchy as it gets. Also my cat bit off the top of it so it's two weeks behind everybody else and then it came back. Lost cause the perfect name.

I will admit I do push the light until it burns and then I back it off a little.
 

testtime

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Update: got frosty

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Yes I know there's yellow leaf sadness in there. I flipped early before I would have started my standard nitrogen regime, and now I'm nitrogen starved. Add to the fact that the LEDs hid that fact because it looked just fine when I flipped back and forth visually from the grow LED to the visual LED because my eyeballs were probably burnt out at that moment.

Also since I haven't grown in 12 years I haven't kept up in chemistry knowledge like standard pH should be 6.5. for some reason I'm sure it should be 5.8 dammit, but now I know better.

That meant they got two months of 5.8 water. So it looks like I have some flushing to be doing after getting a soil pH monitor.

Also, yes I know I was burning them. These lights are so far brighter than anything I could have imagined in previous grows. I spent most of my time thinking about how bad LED sucked and couldn't possibly be powerful enough, at least not in my price range. The world has changed and I have learned. Thank you very much. Lights will never get closer than 12 inches from now on, I double checked the PPD charts and I'm not approaching saturation at that point.

Anyone got any favorite nitrogen sources to throw in there?

Also I've been reading about the greening quality of the magnesium in Epsom salts. The preferred method is to folier application but I don't want to do that with buds there, right? Or can I do Epsom salt spray to the leaves and feel safe that it won't harm the buds? Will it be there in the smoke and it's an absolute no, or will it be absorbed fully? If not then it goes in the nutrient water.
 

testtime

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Looking good, very nice so far. Cant wait till the end.
This end is scheduled. I believe move date is August 21st so end date will be two weeks before that to allow for two weeks of hanging before moving.

I'll still allow for the possibility of further cure hang time at the new place but I'm trying to avoid it. It would be nice if everything was in jars at that point.
 

Jjgrow420

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This end is scheduled. I believe move date is August 21st so end date will be two weeks before that to allow for two weeks of hanging before moving.

I'll still allow for the possibility of further cure hang time at the new place but I'm trying to avoid it. It would be nice if everything was in jars at that point.
So if it's not ready you chop anyways? What was the point then
 

testtime

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So if it's not ready you chop anyways? What was the point then
I'm pretty sure four out of the six will be done before then. I'd rather kill the remaining two and have it early and use the space because I have to move.

But even if nothing is "ready" they still must go. Did you not read the first post?
 

Jjgrow420

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I'm pretty sure four out of the six will be done before then. I'd rather kill the remaining two and have it early and use the space because I have to move.
But even if nothing is "ready" they still must go. Did you not read the first post?
Ya I did. Moving sucks. Hopefully they'll be ready for you.
 

testtime

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Ya I did. Moving sucks. Hopefully they'll be ready for you.
It's a double move and one of them is an unknown amount of time. It could be two weeks from now or it could be three or four months from now. But there's something in my life that's going to hit and it's going to force me to go to a different state.

That different state will not allow me to bring any of this cannabis. Actually there's a possibility of 28 grams (max recreational legal limit in that state, no home grow allowed) but I'm not even sure of that because it's a cross border situation and they're really strict about cross border stuff. If I fly it's a federal issue, if I drive I cross prohibition states. I'm not taking any chances.

So I'm going to end up giving away 90% of this anyway.

On the other hand, I just cleared out the underbrush on three plants which included a whole bunch of baby buds. Dehydrated them in the oven overnight in 150°.

Click. Inhale. Holy shit. I love it.

I might just kill everything today. Not like it'll make a difference in the quantity that I will have to actually use.
 

testtime

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38 days.

When I wake the tent up and I open the zipper and I get a blast of odor the skunk is overwhelming. I've never grown skunk before. That s***'s really skunky.

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That chem squeezy on the far back right is racking and stacking like crazy. It probably wants twice as much time as I can give it. I'll keep that in mind for the next room, because I'll be happy to give it.
 

testtime

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52 days.

This is from light flip. I've seen in a couple journals that people don't consider the first two weeks after light flip. Cheaters.

The buds were too heavy and I had to start tying things up. I initially wanted to go through a net but when I was told we were moving I was afraid I'd lock myself in. And then I was given more time. I should have done the net.

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Plenty of happy orange hairs on 5/6 of the plants.

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testtime

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So life had its own idea of what I was about to do and I had to go harvest. Here's a few before:

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And hanging:

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