Looking for someone to critique my work

87gnxT60

87gnxT60

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Hey everybody,

I currently have a Scrog setup with:
Dinafem deep cheese(mostly)
Dinafem blue thai
Dinafem dinachem
DNA C13 haze
And I.. Looking for someone to critique or evaluate my work so far and possibly help me with one question and future yeilds... It seems that the bigger colas are taking longer than expected to mature and swell.


I made a self built top drip system. Plants are in 5 gallon buckets with fully automated irrigation system which goes to a leveler bucket which recycles into a 55 gallon drum. My medium is hydroton, hydroton rocks that dont roll and a very small sound of Coco croutons. I use all gh flora series, floralicious plus, liquid Kool bloom, powdered Kool bloom and brown sugar. I am using all clones from style mother's . 2 1000 watt mh/hps with 6 inch. air cooled hoods. I run a 99% sealed room with 2 20lb co2 tank supplement/flow meter supplement (1 at a time for redundancy).

They were switched from 18/6 to 12/12 on December 27th. Other then pre-flowers the first Strain showed pistils on January 10th. Which would put it around day 48-50...I usually put at least a week on what the breeder recommends.

I will put some better pics of my setup but there's some buds that look like they're ready to yield but it seems like the bigger ones could swell so much more. My lights are up high up excuse they were a bit to close for a while I definitely know that.

Thanks guys any help would be much appreciated
 

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87gnxT60

87gnxT60

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Dr. Who said:
A critic - criticizes right?

Too much P too early = yellowing leaves...
A few show nutrient burn,,,looks like from some locking or not changing the res enough

But, they do look nice otherwise!
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Thank you! Yes you hit it on the nose. I wanted someone to criticize it.... And your right I was using too much bloom food too early. Thanks
 
87gnxT60

87gnxT60

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87gnxT60 said:
Thanks guys...ill get some better pics under the hps tomorrow.
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So out of curiosity is it because the trellises aren't pulled as taught or not. Mounted right. Because there's too much small flower under the 2nd and 3rd trellises. Thank you for your candor.
 
OldMedUser

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87gnxT60 said:
So out of curiosity is it because the trellises aren't pulled as taught or not. Mounted right. Because there's too much small flower under the 2nd and 3rd trellises. Thank you for your candor.
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When a ScroG is done properly so it can be called a ScroG the grow tips on the branches are tied to the screen early in veg, I use twist ties, and they are trained to grow horizontally along the screen for some time until the screen is about 75% full of grow tips then it's flipped to flower and the stretch fills up the rest of the screen. As those horizontal branches grow out side branches of their own those are tied down too.

Nothing wrong with using netting to support the colas and those definitely need support but a ScroG is something different than having a net around what are basically free-standing plants.

I'm not deriding your grow as you've done a great job of it but you did ask for critiques and that was mine.

This is one of my plants being trained to the screen.

EarlyScroG.jpg

Then later after the screen had filled and it's about 3 weeks into flowering from the flip.

OlderScroG01.jpg

Screen of Green is a great way to get a lot more pot off of less plants and a great way to keep the canopy nice and flat to limit the height and maximize light exposure to all the colas. Excellent for folks with limited head space or those using lights like CFLs or T5s. The colas are a lot smaller but there are so many more of them that the total yield is a lot more than the same plant grown free-standing. With that single plant in ScroG I got more than half an elbow of bud and close to that in sugar trim where I would have been doing well to get 3oz off the same plant topped a couple times but grown free-standing. It did spend an extra month or so in veg while the branches grew in enough but paid off well.

:peace:
 
87gnxT60

87gnxT60

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OldMedUser said:
When a ScroG is done properly so it can be called a ScroG the grow tips on the branches are tied to the screen early in veg, I use twist ties, and they are trained to grow horizontally along the screen for some time until the screen is about 75% full of grow tips then it's flipped to flower and the stretch fills up the rest of the screen. As those horizontal branches grow out side branches of their own those are tied down too.

Nothing wrong with using netting to support the colas and those definitely need support but a ScroG is something different than having a net around what are basically free-standing plants.

I'm not deriding your grow as you've done a great job of it but you did ask for critiques and that was mine.

This is one of my plants being trained to the screen.

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Then later after the screen had filled and it's about 3 weeks into flowering from the flip.

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Screen of Green is a great way to get a lot more pot off of less plants and a great way to keep the canopy nice and flat to limit the height and maximize light exposure to all the colas. Excellent for folks with limited head space or those using lights like CFLs or T5s. The colas are a lot smaller but there are so many more of them that the total yield is a lot more than the same plant grown free-standing. With that single plant in ScroG I got more than half an elbow of bud and close to that in sugar trim where I would have been doing well to get 3oz off the same plant topped a couple times but grown free-standing. It did spend an extra month or so in veg while the branches grew in enough but paid off well.

:peace:
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No i thank you for your candor.
 
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