One man and his bush - 1 plant SCROG in Stealth Cab - Chocolate Berry

lilindian said:

I know! The only problem is they're not all feminized.... Getting Females out the Regular ones is gona be tricky, gona have to properly plan out the vegging stage.

Rough plan... veg 3 of each regular seeded strains, take clones off all of them, root them, stick the 6 vegged plants into flower, find out the males/females, destroy males, keep females flowering whilst the other batch are vegging.

By this point i'd know the clones that were female, so id take them, and plant these together with the feminized seeds of the other strains, so they all grow to roughly the same size. Maybe even start germinating the feminized seeds a week early so they reach clone size before being planted all together.

Have no idea if i made any sense or not above but yeh!

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I get what you are saying, and it makes perfect sense. I try to only use fem'd seeds. Had an incident yesterday with a reg seed... actually a bag seed. Looked great on top... lots of bud sites... was like... yay... female... and then halfway down the plant... had a couple sacks. Wouldn't have even known except I was trimming... reg seeds scare me. LoL. Holdin onto my 2 LA Confidential Reg seeds til I can have a seperate cab... then if it turns male, I can cross it. Eh, either way... Your grow keeps me dreamin, can't wait to see what you do next.

Pictures really dont do this plant justice. The size of certain cola's (now probably the size of coke cans) and the density of the canopy cannot be seen properly in the pictures no matter how much i've attempted to photograph them.

Anyway, something is better than nothing!

• The Spider is the first one i've ever seen in this cupboard period. If it wasn't for the sticky trap i probably would never have seen it. It looks like a bog standard house spider, 2 weeks ago it would've been in heaven with all the flies to munch.
  
  
• Replaced all the traps for fresh ones yesterday to help me assess the Gnat problem. 2 weeks ago, after 24hrs i had hundreds more flies.... today... that number has been reduced to 3! Actually 2, one was a spider.
  
  
• Gnat off has been taken out of my feeding schedule as i feel the problem is well under control now. If i see more flies on my traps during the course of the week i'll reintroduce it.
  
  
• I'm also considering using a product called "Bud Rot Stop" for obvious reasons. This is what it's meant to do.
  
  "Bud Rot Stop is a revolutionary product that doesnt just protect against Bud Rot it destroys existing infections and restores your plants back to full health. An amazing innovation, Bud Rot Stop works by effectively forcing the Botrytis (bud rot) spores to germinate on your plants and then eliminates them as they form. This completely eradicates the spores from your plant, curing existing infections and preventing new ones from occurring. Highly recommended, especially to people growing heavy flowering plants which are more prone to rot."
  
  
  I will use this for the next week - 2 weeks only, just as a precaution. The canopy is just so damn dense....
  
  
• The leaves that were previously yellowing and eventually stopped yellowing have now grown out over the past 2 weeks or so. For this reason you can still see a fair few leaves with yellow tips, with growth further down the leaf a real deep healthy green colour. Basically its nothing to worry about what so ever.
  
  
• Throughout the week i've also been trying to clear up the underside of the canopy a bit by removing leaves that are getting no light/have began to degrade or for whatever reason look damaged.
  
  Doing this serves several purposes, most importantly it airs out my canopy a bit, and allows the middle to breath a little. It also allowed me to see the popcorn buds at the very bottom of the canopy. I've tried photographing these, but again found it extremely hard!

nice! problems solved! now back to the good part, bud they look great cant wait for those things to get real fat lol. looks like you got a overgrown rebel in the corner there

ҖҗlegilizeitҗҖ;6733515 said:

nice! problems solved! now back to the good part, bud they look great cant wait for those things to get real fat lol. looks like you got a overgrown rebel in the corner there

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Haha yup, full steam ahead! I can't wait for the final swell which should hit her in about a week - 2 weeks, then we're on the home stretch.

I've actually got 2 overgrown rebels in both the back corners! About the size of coke cans... They stand like king and queen, over looking the peasants! Actually the back right one isn't really towering over the rest but its super chunky

The first pic is the best! It really looks like a crazy tree that is trying to take over your house! Can't wait to see the skeleton. And buds of course

maariic said:

The first pic is the best! It really looks like a crazy tree that is trying to take over your house! Can't wait to see the skeleton. And buds of course

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Thanks man, have to agree with u, thats why i stuck it right at the top!

Looking perfect as usual matey,brilliant gardening so far

cant wait to see the yield at the end

That is lookin great!

You should look into getting a grow tent after this.
they have poles so its really easy to set up a screen of string or wire
If you got a 600 a 3x3 to 4x4 would do you nicely.
with all mylar and enough air vents and almost completely light proof.

budbro18 said:

That is lookin great!

You should look into getting a grow tent after this.
they have poles so its really easy to set up a screen of string or wire
If you got a 600 a 3x3 to 4x4 would do you nicely.
with all mylar and enough air vents and almost completely light proof.

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But are there k'nex adapters in grow tent?

sikkk update bro...

Whoa, week 8 and no sign of hair drying? And look at all those hairs! That looks so weird and cool. Aren't you worried about PM or mold with such massive density?

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Woops wrong. I see that they're just starting to dry.

maariic said:

But are there k'nex adapters in grow tent?

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hahaha im sure with one modification on each corner you could have a whole 4x4 k'nex screen

or do the easy thing and get chicken wire.

SO SIMPLE

Your plant seems to be really groing well were the cfl lights are. isn't that weird?

scotia1982 said:

Looking perfect as usual matey,brilliant gardening so far

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Appreciate it!

mjizzle said:

cant wait to see the yield at the end

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I'm normally pretty good (lucky) with guessing yields from pics, but this plant completely throws me off!

budbro18 said:

That is lookin great!

You should look into getting a grow tent after this.
they have poles so its really easy to set up a screen of string or wire
If you got a 600 a 3x3 to 4x4 would do you nicely.
with all mylar and enough air vents and almost completely light proof.

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The reason for building this cab in the proportions its in is so it fits snuggly inside an alcove in my bedroom, and doesn't stand out in the slightest. I've had surveyors come in to measure up my room ect in the past and they havn't batted an eye. By all means they noticed the cab but must've assumed it was a normal wardrobe, made sure there was nothing in sight to give the game away.

As long as i'm here, i'm dedicated to working in this space i've got. As much as i'd love to expand and get more experiments going on, side by side comparisons ect, i also find it very very useful to do small compact grows, it's more challenging, in ways easier to tweek, other ways harder, and probably most importantly it forces you to do stuff you wouldn't necessarily need to think about/do in a larger grow! For example, if i had a whole room to grow in, i never ever would've grown a plant quite like this! Being in this small space forced to me to think outside of the box.

Plus its nice to show people they don't need a huge amount of space to get up nd running and start learning! I completely see what u mean though, however i still wouldn't buy a tent, i'd build a room inside a room. For me construction is all part of the hobby, i've grown up around tools everywhere!

Something i thought of today as i was passing by a "Come see Santa" thing.... What about inflatable tents... The trapped air in the walls of the tent would act as good insulation. It can be collapsed quickly for flat inspections ect, will be light proof, inside would be highly reflective somehow. Obviously havn't given it a huge amount of thought....

lordjin said:

Whoa, week 8 and no sign of hair drying? And look at all those hairs! That looks so weird and cool. Aren't you worried about PM or mold with such massive density?

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Woops wrong. I see that they're just starting to dry.

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Hair drying? You mean when they start turning orange and receeding into the buds? I'm not expecting that action for another couple weeks yet, its a 11 week strain, roughly, although i've heard of ppl letting it go for up to 14 weeks, so still kinda early days either way!

mikerob said:

Your plant seems to be really groing well were the cfl lights are. isn't that weird?

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I think its more down to the generation of branching than the CFL's. The reason i think this is because some of the biggest healthiest buds are on the back side of the cab, away from the CFL, and CFL light diminishes quite quickly, so if it were making a difference in the sense ur saying, then it would be very noticeable the way i see it.

I see why u think that though, but bare in mind i topped all the branches in the middle of the canopy a couple weeks ago, so thats why they're not towering like the ones on the side.

Wow, long flower time. Interesting strain to be sure. How you got it to grow like that is anyone's guess, tho. Very unique grow.

Decided to get properly stuck in today and dived into my canopy looking for dead leaves, mould and un developed branches.

Found plenty of dead leaves and swiftly removed them.

Found NO MOULD so far!! I'm amazed really.

Found about 6 undeveloped branches, they'll probably get thrown in the hash pile.


Anyway, to get to the bottom of the middle of the plant i literally had to rip the canopy open, cola's are growing right into each other and touching all the way up. This was the first time i got to properly see how fat, long and developed all the cola's are throughout the plant as up till this point i've been EXTREMELY gentle with the plant as a whole.

I can conclude that i'm looking at way more than 10oz... the size of a lot of these cola's is ridiculous considering how many of them i have, most plants only have a few max, and their shapes... never seen buds grow like this... Anyway, after today's clean up i'm more excited than ever to harvest her, as for the first time u lot will be able to see what i'm going on about, nd just how much bud is growing on this tree. Each branch i cut will be lined up so you can get an over-all idea of each ones size and shape (current pictures show neither).

There is a bit of under developed bud at the very bottom of some branches (popcorn bud) but after today's opening up of the canopy and removal of leaves, there's more light penetration, more air penetration, and i'm quite hopeful these will develop a little more. Worst comes to worst i've got more stuff to make some quality hash with!

Speaking of which, touching the buds as much as i did today to rip open the canopy left me with VERY sticky fingers, so i started rubbing and ended up with a very decent sized ball of hash (for just pulling buds apart).

Gona make a nice smoke for tonight. This will be the first i get to try of this plant.

I also went shopping for some Rot Stop and Boost, and while there i was enlightened to the fact that Ripen is far from organic. So i will NOT be using it. Instead i went ahead and purchased a late flowering supplement called "Bloom Final", the same company that make the calmag i use, the Groigen and Florigen. Their range is fully organic.

Here's a little something on Bloom Final:

"Bloom FINAL is a high quality late flowering product that stimulates massive fruit and flower growth in the last 2 weeks before harvest. Bloom FINAL is based around an organic compound called Triacontanol that stimulates and increases the production of plant hormones related to fruiting and bloom response. The effect that increasing these hormone levels (naturally from within the plant) is immense, with large gains in yield and fruit size over the final stages. Use in conjunction with base nutrients from 2 weeks before harvest, and on it’s own (with no other additives or nutrients) for the final week. Highly concentrated and used at just 1ml/Litre."

Will be used in weeks 9/10 and then plain water in week 11, then harvest.

man i love your updates! like thats crazy how much rez hash you got lol like damn. i cant wait to see this girls final weight and size lol like this is one crazy grow man i would call it a legend, The legend of The Great Kinex Grow

lilindian said:

Decided to get properly stuck in today and dived into my canopy looking for dead leaves, mould and un developed branches.

Found plenty of dead leaves and swiftly removed them.

Found NO MOULD so far!! I'm amazed really.

Found about 6 undeveloped branches, they'll probably get thrown in the hash pile.


Anyway, to get to the bottom of the middle of the plant i literally had to rip the canopy open, cola's are growing right into each other and touching all the way up. This was the first time i got to properly see how fat, long and developed all the cola's are throughout the plant as up till this point i've been EXTREMELY gentle with the plant as a whole.

I can conclude that i'm looking at way more than 10oz... the size of a lot of these cola's is ridiculous considering how many of them i have, most plants only have a few max, and their shapes... never seen buds grow like this... Anyway, after today's clean up i'm more excited than ever to harvest her, as for the first time u lot will be able to see what i'm going on about, nd just how much bud is growing on this tree. Each branch i cut will be lined up so you can get an over-all idea of each ones size and shape (current pictures show neither).

There is a bit of under developed bud at the very bottom of some branches (popcorn bud) but after today's opening up of the canopy and removal of leaves, there's more light penetration, more air penetration, and i'm quite hopeful these will develop a little more. Worst comes to worst i've got more stuff to make some quality hash with!

Speaking of which, touching the buds as much as i did today to rip open the canopy left me with VERY sticky fingers, so i started rubbing and ended up with a very decent sized ball of hash (for just pulling buds apart).

Gona make a nice smoke for tonight. This will be the first i get to try of this plant.

I also went shopping for some Rot Stop and Boost, and while there i was enlightened to the fact that Ripen is far from organic. So i will NOT be using it. Instead i went ahead and purchased a late flowering supplement called "Bloom Final", the same company that make the calmag i use, the Groigen and Florigen. Their range is fully organic.

Here's a little something on Bloom Final:

"Bloom FINAL is a high quality late flowering product that stimulates massive fruit and flower growth in the last 2 weeks before harvest. Bloom FINAL is based around an organic compound called Triacontanol that stimulates and increases the production of plant hormones related to fruiting and bloom response. The effect that increasing these hormone levels (naturally from within the plant) is immense, with large gains in yield and fruit size over the final stages. Use in conjunction with base nutrients from 2 weeks before harvest, and on it’s own (with no other additives or nutrients) for the final week. Highly concentrated and used at just 1ml/Litre."

Will be used in weeks 9/10 and then plain water in week 11, then harvest.

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Good to hear about the mold. I have been meaning to try the Final Bloom as well as your post reminded me to order some. I'm interested to see the results as well, will be using myself in two weeks.

Another fine update.... Rep+