FlowaMasta'a NEW Jack H x Skunk - 1 Plant 600HPS + UVB Monster Scrog!!!

Looking good Flowa! I have been out of the internet world for a while. Looks like this will be your best round. It just keeps getting better and better huh?

Flowa my man, im beginning to think this camera is way out of my depth, in program mode i change the focus to macro and have the camera about 20cm from the object, i then half press button to focus and it just blurs out like a mofo, what the #$@% am i doing wrong ! Whatever happened to a physical manual, a DVD manual is useless when im not at my pc.

inhaleindica said:

Looking good Flowa! I have been out of the internet world for a while. Looks like this will be your best round. It just keeps getting better and better huh?

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Hey! Thanx man yeah, haven't seen your name pop up for quite some time!

My best round yet!? lets wait and see, i don't think she'll get the lb mark, but i wasn't going for it, just a nice size skunk plant, mrs loves her outdoor, i love my indoor/variety thought i'd finally step it up, and find a nice strain, mix it up a bit. she is beautifully healthy i will say that.

Did anyone say 'lollypop?' i went mad, i found little tracer shoots searching for light, taking up usable food for the more important tops. no more popcorn for me this round. just the grade A1 tops you will see with these new pics how much i cleaned out. I know for a fact, due to my canopy being so thick, those little branches will produces lower grade nug, that i'm just not interested in. I cleaned it up alot. she can breathe alot more easily now, the energy can be foucussed on the growing tips now, just a waiting game, she stretching bit by bit, i really want to feed the part B PGR, but i want another 2-3 inches yet. if i dont get that stretch in 2 days i won't use Part A at all.

day 4 flowering Part 2

[420]Haze;7433116 said:

Flowa my man, im beginning to think this camera is way out of my depth, in program mode i change the focus to macro and have the camera about 20cm from the object, i then half press button to focus and it just blurs out like a mofo, what the #$@% am i doing wrong ! Whatever happened to a physical manual, a DVD manual is useless when im not at my pc.

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what!!!?? man, i'm simple as, if i can do it, you can better.

Are you using zoom!!?? only use about 5-10% zoom max, It's a wide angle lens and has a limited depth of field, you have to find it's happy medium. If it's not focussing zoom back out more.
Also check to make sure iso is low start with 80, flash on, and work up to 200-400 iso.....

here is a link to the download of the pdf manual.. but try what i said. the zoom is important, remeber it's a wide angle tele-macro lens, so if you focus a certain distance, your depth/field of focus becomes limited or impossible. It takes high quality pics, so alot of my pics are cropped to shape to the screen, so to get a nice full bud shot, around 20cm away is fine, maybe even closer 15cm is ideal, with flash on. let me know man i hope i can help you

edit : link = http://www.manstoc.com/2012/03/samsung-wb150wb150f-camera-user-manual.html

flowamasta said:

what!!!?? man, i'm simple as, if i can do it, you can better.

Are you using zoom!!?? only use about 5-10% zoom max, It's a wide angle lens and has a limited depth of field, you have to find it's happy medium. If it's not focussing zoom back out more.
Also check to make sure iso is low start with 80, flash on, and work up to 200-400 iso.....

here is a link to the download of the pdf manual.. but try what i said. the zoom is important, remeber it's a wide angle tele-macro lens, so if you focus a certain distance, your depth/field of focus becomes limited or impossible. It takes high quality pics, so alot of my pics are cropped to shape to the screen, so to get a nice full bud shot, around 20cm away is fine, maybe even closer 15cm is ideal, with flash on. let me know man i hope i can help you

edit : link = http://www.manstoc.com/2012/03/samsung-wb150wb150f-camera-user-manual.html

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legend flowa, much appreciated as always.

[420]Haze;7433312 said:

legend flowa, much appreciated as always.

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feel free to post some macro's you'll work the cam out. it's like anything, once you know all the tricks. the manual mode is superior for macro shots, and remember with a steady hand turn the image stabaliser off and you will get much clearer shots without noise or heavy compression....go through all the camera settings to see what it can do. So many modes! make sure detail is set to 'fine' slightly more time between shots but the best quality. also try the auto contrast (acb)..i think it is. this will help with highly lit areas
Another thing to remember, with full manual mode the aperture sets your depth of field, and you balance the shutter speed to get enough light and sometimes you can get amazingly close to the buds, so close the lens shadows the image!! around 3 cm! sometimes the focus square will say not focussed when the part you want actually is...by playing with manual focus...brilliant camera man, and i'm still learning things all the time! lets see some shots Haze!!

flowamasta said:

i agree, alcohol is the go, rice isn't perfect but it gets more than you think as long as its not caked on!!

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That's a pretty good looking piece. Even though the ash-catcher is dwarfed by the bong, it still helps.

I use alcohol and a handful of aquarium gravel. The little rocks have the liquid resistance and weight that rice lacks. Blasts off even the most caked on crap with vigorous shaking.

i soak in 91% iso for half hour. rinse with hot water. done. works with even the cakiest. believe me, my main piece is a 3 inch glass spoon that gets super caked.

You are a great teacher Flowa - cameras and plants

Acetone cleans instantly and rinses away with water. Learned this back in my body shop days. Been using it ever since. My bowl and difuser shattered when I dropped them in my porcelain sink

I bought a ton of different papers and I will be doing a photo review

Cheers,
Mo

flowamasta said:

Hey! Thanx man yeah, haven't seen your name pop up for quite some time!

My best round yet!? lets wait and see, i don't think she'll get the lb mark, but i wasn't going for it, just a nice size skunk plant, mrs loves her outdoor, i love my indoor/variety thought i'd finally step it up, and find a nice strain, mix it up a bit. she is beautifully healthy i will say that.

Did anyone say 'lollypop?' i went mad, i found little tracer shoots searching for light, taking up usable food for the more important tops. no more popcorn for me this round. just the grade A1 tops you will see with these new pics how much i cleaned out. I know for a fact, due to my canopy being so thick, those little branches will produces lower grade nug, that i'm just not interested in. I cleaned it up alot. she can breathe alot more easily now, the energy can be foucussed on the growing tips now, just a waiting game, she stretching bit by bit, i really want to feed the part B PGR, but i want another 2-3 inches yet. if i dont get that stretch in 2 days i won't use Part A at all.

day 4 flowering Part 2

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I think the quality would be your best this time around. From my experience when you yield less your quality is top notch than the ones with so much yield. We will see in a few weeks. Whoo hoo. Remember I had the Hempy vs Airpots thread? To tell you the truth the airpots produced the buds that i was looking for and yielded more than the hempy ones. However, the Hempies did produce amazing flavors and aroma. It could be because I am a soiler and pretty good at it. First time doing Hempy/ Hydro so that could be the case. I kept the ppm below 1000 so that could be the why?

lordjin said:

That's a pretty good looking piece. Even though the ash-catcher is dwarfed by the bong, it still helps.

I use alcohol and a handful of aquarium gravel. The little rocks have the liquid resistance and weight that rice lacks. Blasts off even the most caked on crap with vigorous shaking.

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Epsom Salt and 91% alcohol and shake it like crazy then you have a brand new bong... No, lie!

lordjin said:

That's a pretty good looking piece. Even though the ash-catcher is dwarfed by the bong, it still helps.

I use alcohol and a handful of aquarium gravel. The little rocks have the liquid resistance and weight that rice lacks. Blasts off even the most caked on crap with vigorous shaking.

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Thanx for the Tip, will go shopping today

monster.green.thumb said:

i soak in 91% iso for half hour. rinse with hot water. done. works with even the cakiest. believe me, my main piece is a 3 inch glass spoon that gets super caked.

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lots of tips to try

Mohican said:

You are a great teacher Flowa - cameras and plants

Acetone cleans instantly and rinses away with water. Learned this back in my body shop days. Been using it ever since. My bowl and difuser shattered when I dropped them in my porcelain sink

I bought a ton of different papers and I will be doing a photo review

Cheers,
Mo

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Thanx Mo' Acetone ey, they stuffs pretty vial! you sure it all rinses? ahh i suppose it would being all glass. i keep forgetting lol i'm used the ol' metal stem, and you can never get resin out of that

inhaleindica said:

I think the quality would be your best this time around. From my experience when you yield less your quality is top notch than the ones with so much yield. We will see in a few weeks. Whoo hoo. Remember I had the Hempy vs Airpots thread? To tell you the truth the airpots produced the buds that i was looking for and yielded more than the hempy ones. However, the Hempies did produce amazing flavors and aroma. It could be because I am a soiler and pretty good at it. First time doing Hempy/ Hydro so that could be the case. I kept the ppm below 1000 so that could be the why?

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Yeah, we'll see Indica, i'm not sure i agree with you on the size of plants having to do with potency. out of the last 3 grows my first being the biggest, and most potent, yielding 1.5 lbs and the most 'potent not the most tastiest' bud i've ever smoked. From what i'm learning i think the environmental factors and overall health of the plant play the main role in helping with potency with a good strain. My last grow was great, but here and there was hindered by really hot weather during the start of flowering.
But in saying this, i'm hoping for a better overall quality, with all the extra lolly popping and cleaning up, keeping things even and spread out. I'm trying to utilize everything i've learnt and put it together. The weather is not going to be an issue this grow, exact same time growing as my very first grow EXACT so with perfect weather conditions, and having my light nice and close (12 inches atm) I should get some hardcore light penetration. New Fresh nutrients, pineapple rush included now, i still haven't added any PGR's. but may have to tonight. seeing as the buds themselves will still grow higher as they get fatter.

Thanx all for your great input! nearly 10000 views and Just started flowering!!!?? shweeeeeeet! Flo

Hey Flo! Got my beans yesterday, got 2x great white shark germinating now will start a thread when i get things in full swing. Ill be sure to ask you for some tips along the way

You think I could get a lb with the 2? Or am I dreaming haha

Gorbzzz said:

Hey Flo! Got my beans yesterday, got 2x great white shark germinating now will start a thread when i get things in full swing. Ill be sure to ask you for some tips along the way

You think I could get a lb with the 2? Or am I dreaming haha

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From seed i have no idea but i wih you all the luck! with perlite you're going to get super growth no matter what, so i don't see why that can't be possible with a good strain no way you're dreaming man, when my mentor told me i was gonna get 1.5 lb i didnt believe him! i thought he meant wet, not dried. Big plants = bigger buds. Fact. happy growing Gorbzzz

Awesome good to hear, well GWS was third in the highest yielding category on herbies website so hopefully i get a monster

So you use the full cyco range yeah? I have cyco rizo and zyme but have canna aqua for veg and bloom

Gorbzzz said:

Awesome good to hear, well GWS was third in the highest yielding category on herbies website so hopefully i get a monster

So you use the full cyco range yeah? I have cyco rizo and zyme but have canna aqua for veg and bloom

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I use almost the whole range. I don't like their new suga rush spearmint smell, so i use general hydros Pineapple rush
Ryzo is great, i got rid of zyme, no good for perlite for some reason....anyway bloom has enough micro, and macro nurients available to feed the whole way through without the need for zyme, over-rated. just watered down corn syrup and seasol. Ryzo acts as your seasol, as it's a seaweed extract, and very strong, i use it for my clones at the start to soak the rockwool in. 100% effective every time, and i use it once every 4 feedings on my indoor, u can smell the difference in the leaves for quite some time, so i think it's lasting and good usable food (expensive but!)

How much ryzo do you use for the rockwool cubes? And how much per litre in the grow? Thanks

Edit: i think the ryzo smells like liquid vegemite! Haha

Gorbzzz said:

How much ryzo do you use for the rockwool cubes? And how much per litre in the grow? Thanks

Edit: i think the ryzo smells like liquid vegemite! Haha

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i use 1ml per litre strictly. grow/bloom/clones. you can go stronger during flower but keeping in mind it's also a soluble potash, so using it 'with' potash is not really needed, 1ml is fine. It's also higher in nitrogen so best not to use it after week 4 flowering in my opinion unless growing a long flowering strain maybe....

edit: you could grow a plant outside with cyco's RYZO alone! it's full of trace elements, ive seen great result using only that lol

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Hey Flow,
Thought id show you the progress of my once disastrous grow. I pm'd you around 3weeks back as Rob. My buds were doing nothing 35days in. I fixed the light leaks by running at daytime, and this also gave them a cool night,29c Day, 16c Nights. Like you said, the hot nights were messing with them, but now I am stoaked to see bud growth.
Thanks for the advice, and I will continue to watch your monster

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Hey Flow,
Thought id show you the progress of my once disastrous grow. I pm'd you around 3weeks back as Rob. My buds were doing nothing 35days in. I fixed the light leaks by running at daytime, and this also gave them a cool night,29c Day, 16c Nights. Like you said, the hot nights were messing with them, but now I am stoaked to see bud growth.
Thanks for the advice, and I will continue to watch your monster

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Nothing wrong with them nugs at all!! nice work mate rep+
You gotta do what you gotta do, and it looks like you've done the right thing under the circumstances mate, you will be a proud dad of some sweet nuggies soon, look at those! nice looking strain mate, and great even looking canopy