Gastanker's 600+w Organic UV Grow

mistyriffs

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hehe, thanks. I'll definitely pull all I need to and the grow has gone flawlessly so I have nothing to complain about. I just wanted to be able to say that I had almost hit a lb organically with a 600w light and a 3 week veg :) After my next move I'll have to go for it again but with definite females.
i'm cheerin for ya! :clap:
 

Gastanker

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Just checked trichs :( I'd say ~70-80% cloudy and no amber in sight. Unless there is rapid development fast these might be really long flowering strains. I've started to wonder about the perpetual as well. I'm having such great/easy results with the huge smart pot that I'm thinking I should just do the same thing over again. Transplanting into a large pot isn't the same as vegging into a large pot so I might start some new beans and try one more veg/flower before I need to move. This is not in stone though especially considering I have two plants in the large pot currently on week 3 or 4 of flower - oops.

Checked my clone today of the more indica dom plant in the back and roots all over the place. Have literally been ignoring that cut since I took it - don't think even a watering. Really hope the bud from that plant turns out well and it seems to be the best compact yielder - would love a good mother to keep for a while.
 

Gastanker

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So maybe I was wrong. My sativa doms are looking drastically different today than yesterday. Pistils are ~60% brown, of those ~70% have been retracted and calyxes are going through their last swell. I might actually be cutting these on time after all. Maybe I've just been drinking more than normal, I swear they look sooo much more ready today than yesterday. I guess we'll see in a week a or two.
 

mistyriffs

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So maybe I was wrong. My sativa doms are looking drastically different today than yesterday. Pistils are ~60% brown, of those ~70% have been retracted and calyxes are going through their last swell. I might actually be cutting these on time after all. Maybe I've just been drinking more than normal, I swear they look sooo much more ready today than yesterday. I guess we'll see in a week a or two.
i love the days when the growth is super obvious! merry christmas buddy!
 

Gastanker

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Some of the smaller leaves in my buds are starting to purple up... It's freezing at night here but my thermometer reads 65 as the low in my tent. Is that really cold enough to invoke lockout? Maybe my thermometer is fucked...

Just exchanged the HPS for the MH for the last week of flower. I hear this helps in resin production but in all honesty I'm doing it for the pictures. Soooo vain :)

Pics to follow.
 

Psychild

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Some of the smaller leaves in my buds are starting to purple up... It's freezing at night here but my thermometer reads 65 as the low in my tent. Is that really cold enough to invoke lockout? Maybe my thermometer is fucked...

Just exchanged the HPS for the MH for the last week of flower. I hear this helps in resin production but in all honesty I'm doing it for the pictures. Soooo vain :)

Pics to follow.
the MH puts out quite a bit more UV than the HPS, doesn't it? Not sure about the temp thing, I figured it'd need to be about 60*F but I've heard of purpling around 65 on a couple of grows. Must be ginetics √
 

Gastanker

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the MH puts out quite a bit more UV than the HPS, doesn't it? Not sure about the temp thing, I figured it'd need to be about 60*F but I've heard of purpling around 65 on a couple of grows. Must be ginetics √
The element puts out UV but most all of it is stopped by the outer class coating. Anything that escapes likely won't get past the glass of my hood but who know - might be slightly more - can't be any less :) I'm kind of hoping the decrease in light intensity will send the plants the message to finish the fuck up.

With the purpling I guess it could be genetics - the mother had pink pistils and slightly purple flowers but I haven't seen any of the pink pistils in any of the plants. Should I wait for them to get colorful? hehe, personally I think purple plants are pretty but could really care less when it comes right down to it.
 

Psychild

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The element puts out UV but most all of it is stopped by the outer class coating. Anything that escapes likely won't get past the glass of my hood but who know - might be slightly more - can't be any less :) I'm kind of hoping the decrease in light intensity will send the plants the message to finish the fuck up.

With the purpling I guess it could be genetics - the mother had pink pistils and slightly purple flowers but I haven't seen any of the pink pistils in any of the plants. Should I wait for them to get colorful? hehe, personally I think purple plants are pretty but could really care less when it comes right down to it.
Man it's up to you.....I'm always the one to say let her finish out, but if waiting for the color doesn't effect the smoke and high in a positive way, I see no point in waiting. There's no bag appeal needing to be made here. √ A lot of the time HC's buds don't really look all that pink until he trims them, and once they all look like buds you can clearly see pink towards the bottom half. Almost like the shadows of the little sugar leaves.
 

Psychild

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Man I Like to wait atleast till all her hairs turn orange....She does have some amber already though √
 

Gastanker

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Man I Like to wait atleast till all her hairs turn orange....She does have some amber already though √
I'm definitely waiting fro more pistil retraction - color doesn't really bother me as some strains retract as white and others as brown. Really hoping the pistil retraction precedes too much ambering. The trichs imo are not cloudy enough just yet but at the same time I prefer an early harvest - amber is my personal enemy. I'm thinking ~1 week and they'll be in the condition I want. Of course you never really know.
 

Gastanker

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they look amazing man, nice shots. gonna be some good smoke for sure nice dense buds.

how big is that cab?
It's a 4x4x6.5 tent with a 2"x4" inner structure to hold the weight of the side lighting - Hospital grade x-ray panels are heavy as fuck! The actual grow area after you take into consideration the frame/sidelight is more like 3'x4'

For perspective - the side lights are 18" long and each two bulbs are in an enclosure ~15" high. Most of the colas are ~1' in length.
 
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