CA5P3R's Friendly Mag+ Grow

thatsmessedup said:

Looking good.... whys the light blue? or is it just your camera.

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It's blue because when I turn the other half of the spectrum, the red half it really makes the pictures bleed a lot and you can barely see shit properly, so I just shut the red spectrum off when I take photos, easier on the eyes it feels like too.

CA5P3R said:

Well I was running my OG for 10 weeks once they flipped over to 12/12, I believe they are supposed to be closer to 8 weeks usually and mine could have gone longer, they weren't crazy amber yet.

So I would say yes the Original Magnum seems like it takes longer, I will have to keep an eye on the trichomes with my trusty 420 scope this time. It's a whole new ball game for me this time with a new light, new tent and new strains. It hasn't been as smooth as my former smaller tents glory but I will get there with practice and getting to know my new strains.

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Yea I agree, my train wrecks and sfv og18 are suppose to be a 8-10 week, but really took 11-12, plus these slow ass smufrberries I'm growing at the moment, are taking their sweet ass time, suppose to be a 60day strain and I'm on day 70 ish. I think that the breeders(majority, not all) put down flowering time from the results they get from hydro under 1000+watts, organic soil is much slower because mother nature likes to handle slow for the most part, and I'm almost positive from my experience and others led are much slower? I'm high Damn now I'm confused

Im actually goin to cut production and upgrade my tent along with other things, but I'm going to keep at these magnum plus because they are the shit!

One last thing,
What's ur distance from the canopy? And why did u choose that distance?

Thanks homie

foreverflyhi said:

Yea I agree, my train wrecks and sfv og18 are suppose to be a 8-10 week, but really took 11-12, plus these slow ass smufrberries I'm growing at the moment, are taking their sweet ass time, suppose to be a 60day strain and I'm on day 70 ish. I think that the breeders(majority, not all) put down flowering time from the results they get from hydro under 1000+watts, organic soil is much slower because mother nature likes to handle slow for the most part, and I'm almost positive from my experience and others led are much slower? I'm high Damn now I'm confused

Im actually goin to cut production and upgrade my tent along with other things, but I'm going to keep at these magnum plus because they are the shit!

One last thing,
What's ur distance from the canopy? And why did u choose that distance?

Thanks homie

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Yeah agree, I really need to give hydro a whirl soon and see what I can do with that.

Distance from canopy is about a foot right now, thats about all the space i have, light is close to the top of the tent, gonna have to control my canopy much lower once I have clones and do a SCROG, I do think they are a little to close right now, I detect a bit of bleaching.

Yesterday's update


Day 10 of 12/12


Well looky here, we now have the start of some Bart Simpson heads popping out, not the fun really begins, man I love this part.

Day 16 of 12/12

Alright so my Vortex and The Flav are stretching out like crazy. This is something new to me as my old OG Strain that I ran for my first 3 grows had barely any stretch in it. Honestly I don't like the tall stretchy plants nearly as much as I like the more Indica looking ones. Gotta say for the future I think I will likely stay with Qrazy Train and Pandora's Box. They are the shorty stubby style I like working with or at least these phenotypes that I have ended up with.

The Pandora is quite short but it is beautiful with so many natural colas developing and it was also the plant if you look way back to the earlier stages of this thread that was doing just fine while some of the others were struggling. That is likely the plant for me so maybe the next time I do this I will run 2x Pandora's Box and 1x Qrazy Train in 3.3G Smart Pots in a SCROG.

Mind you the decision isn't final considering when these are all done if either Vortex or The Flav end up with some super bud I will wrestle those stretchy bastards into a screen and slave them out haha.

Anyway a look at some puff heads.

good stuff CA5P3R! the girls are looking great =D

loving the TGA genetics + LED in your garden, and I am looking forward to more commentary on your experience =D Keep up the good work!

Psytranceorgy said:

good stuff CA5P3R! the girls are looking great =D

loving the TGA genetics + LED in your garden, and I am looking forward to more commentary on your experience =D Keep up the good work!

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Thanks man! Yeah I had my eye on TGA genetics for a very long time and am glad to get them going. Will be even nicer once I got clones of them going so I can do a sick SCROG.

Day 23 of 12/12


Well look at the sugar, mmmm mmmmmmmmm. This is always my fav time, when it all starts to look edible haha.


Gave them a nice feeding, saw a bit of leaf curling on The Flav but nothing major. They were quite dry so are likely gonna lush up in the next few hours.


Well we are just shy of a third of the way through flower, Pandora is looking like a real keeper.

alright alright alright! me likey CA5P3R, hey man is there any way you can take a few pics with natural light? I am interested in seeing the colors that come out in those strains during flowering... if not I understand PEACE and Happy Growing!

looking good homie! cant wait for your harvest!

YUSS! Should be update day...!

Psytranceorgy said:

alright alright alright! me likey CA5P3R, hey man is there any way you can take a few pics with natural light? I am interested in seeing the colors that come out in those strains during flowering... if not I understand PEACE and Happy Growing!

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Glad your enjoying the show. If I remember I will take them out for some pics next update but Qrazy Train doesn't usually turn Purplish until towards the end of flower. Anyway see what I can do my good man.

foreverflyhi said:

looking good homie! cant wait for your harvest!

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Me as well. I started with so many issues on this grow I kind of can't wait to start fresh. I don't think I am gonna have great volume on this grow with my early issues and poor canopy management but as I stated before I kind of just wanted to let this one go natural and see how tree size plants do with the increased light power.

Gonna take me some time to dial this new setup in just like I did with my smaller tent, so few more grows and I should be rolling with this setup too.

Chronikool said:

YUSS! Should be update day...!

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Hahaha I guess you have been following pretty intently, glad to hear it and sorry to let you down yesterday haha, anyway update incoming.

Day 32 of 12/12


Well things are moving along, The Flav and Vortex are kinda meh right now, both getting a little burn on the leaves and so stretched that the buds look pretty small but very crystally.


Qrazy Train and Pandora's Box are looking nice and healthy and the buds are looking on track. For sure these are looking like my 2 strains going forward.


Feeding day tomorrow.

Day 44 of 12/12


Hope you all are enjoying your summer. Did some cottage fun this past week and now back to the grind.


So buds are plumping out. My Vortex and The Flav on the left in the pics have crisped up quite a bit over the last few weeks and I am pretty much done babying them. Just gonna let them do their thing, they have been stubborn.


My Qrazy Train and Pandora's Box have been marvellous and they are clearly my future moms.


All are nice and crystally now as we round the corner here approaching the last few crazy weeks of this grow.

I missed this journal initially, Love the variety of strains you have going on.
subbed for the rest of the ride. Looking good, mate.

Amaximus said:

I missed this journal initially, Love the variety of strains you have going on.
subbed for the rest of the ride. Looking good, mate.

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Thanks for joining the ride! You should check out some of my old grows, they were pretty beauty actually, this one is experimenting with a lot of new variables so I've had some positive and negative results this time around.

I use Lightroom to edit my leds pics, I still get the weird LED colors but I get to remove some of the red hues ,... The best is when the LEDs are off though!! things are looking real good there Casper! Fattening and frosting, I love that shit.

Day 53 of 12/12

Well looks like we are pretty close to flush now. I will examine the Trichomes next week and see how we are doin.

My Qrazy Train is really plumping it's buds up right now, looking like a keeper along with good ol Pandora. The Flav and Vortex are gonna cross the finish line but limping through for sure. Can't wait to do a only Pandora and Qrazy Train grow, gonna be a yummy SCROG with the clones from these 2 beauties.

Well enough talk, here they are.