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King Avitas

King Avitas

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Day 33 Flower......Buds are starting to fill out :weed:.

Well we are well into week 5 of flower now and everything looks to be right on track to finish around week 10. I am thinking that around week 7, I should be able to drop my CO² level from 1420ppm to the 420ppm range. :bigjoint:

I will also try to maintain temps at 73⁰f to 70⁰f "lights on"/65⁰f to 62⁰f "lights off" & super low humidity. At this point I will obviously be throwing VPD out the window and I will possibly add my UVB lights, still not sure if I want to add them to this grow. My main focus at this time will be terpene production & preservation.

These strains are both 9+ week flower times but I am guessing closer to 10 weeks, maybe longer. So either way that should still give the buds 2-3 weeks in lower temps/humidity& CO² to ripen up nicely.

Fuel Og
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Black Cherry Punch
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Sofa King Smoooth

Sofa King Smoooth

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King Avitas said:
Day 33 Flower......Buds are starting to fill out :weed:.

Well we are well into week 5 of flower now and everything looks to be right on track to finish around week 10. I am thinking that around week 7, I should be able to drop my CO² level from 1420ppm to the 420ppm range. :bigjoint:

I will also try to maintain temps at 73⁰f to 70⁰f "lights on"/65⁰f to 62⁰f "lights off" & super low humidity. At this point I will obviously be throwing VPD out the window and I will possibly add my UVB lights, still not sure if I want to add them to this grow. My main focus at this time will be terpene production & preservation.

These strains are both 9+ week flower times but I am guessing closer to 10 weeks, maybe longer. So either way that should still give the buds 2-3 weeks in lower temps/humidity& CO² to ripen up nicely.

Fuel Og
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Black Cherry Punch
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Very nice!
 
King Avitas

King Avitas

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Day 37 Flower.....Carpet O' Bud :bigjoint:

From what I can see the buds are still nowhere done growing. None of the cylaxes have started to fill out yet but the tops are still growing at a pretty good rate and are getting really fat. These plants might need 11-12 weeks to finish :shock:. But there should be some really big, really chunky buds when we are finished.

I have a funny feeling this might be a crazy heavy crop if it keeps going as it has so far.....Or I have miscalculated or missed something and I am growing big airy buds. I doubt that I have but you never know. Lol

Fuel Og
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Black Cherry Punch
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King Avitas

King Avitas

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jzs147 said:
gonna be a killer harvest mate fuck yea love a good scrog.
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She should be a killer harvest if I can keep her going for another 4 to 5 weeks. Definitely a respectable first run in a new room and set up.

I am getting nervous running this humidity so high right now though. Trying to keep VPD 1.2 to 1.3kPa but I would hate to have a mold issue in these big fat buds. Nervous to say the least.
 
King Avitas

King Avitas

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Well it looks like Growtek won't accept new customers. They sent me an email when I placed my order saying they are scaling back their business not accepting new customers.

Anyone have other automated top feeding options?
 
King Avitas

King Avitas

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So I did a bit of shopping today and picked up some soil items for my next grow that will be my first attempt at a "Living Soil".

Picked up:
Sphagnum Peat Moss
Fish Compost
Mushroom Compost
Sheep Compost
Worm Castings
Perlite
Gypsum
Oyster Shell Flour
Kelp Meal
Clover Cover Crop
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Still need to pick up:
Rice Hulls
Bio-Char
Neem Cake
Basalt Rock Dust
Crustacean Meal
Worms/Nematodes/Microbes etc.

This thing is really gonna happen. :-P
 
King Avitas

King Avitas

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Day 42/6 Weeks into Flower.

Now that the buds/colas have taken shape, I am starting to see different phenos of the Black Cherry Punch starting to take shape. Maybe I should have cloned these. Oops.

The Fuel Og are forming some pretty nice colas of solid bud. I was worried they would go fluffy but I squeezed a couple and they seem to be fairly firm so fingers crossed they turn out good.

I figure there is at a minimum 4 weeks left to go on these. Maybe longer.

This week I will start decreasing the CO², lighting ppfd and temp/humidity. Gotta start focusing on terpene/resin production.

Fuel Og
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Black Cherry Punch
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King Avitas

King Avitas

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As I said yesterday this week I will bring my growing conditions to levels that will support terpene/resin production and preservation.

Today I lowered my:
humidity from 74% to 60%
CO² from 1420ppm to 1200ppm
Temp from 87⁰f to 80⁰f

When the lights turn on I will adjust them to be around 1000ppfd at the canopy. Currently they are putting 1200-1400ppfd to the canopy. The lights will probably be left at 1000ppfd for the remainder of this grow.

Eventually sometime this week my growing conditions should be:
Humidity 50% or lower
Temp. 73-70⁰f
CO² 450-500ppm
Lighting 800-1000ppfd

Probably going to try hanging these two UV-B lights and try to stimulate resin production. I am going to take it easy with these lights as I don't want to completely fuck up my grow. They kinda scare me. :fire:
 
dizzygirlio

dizzygirlio

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King Avitas said:
Well it looks like Growtek won't accept new customers. They sent me an email when I placed my order saying they are scaling back their business not accepting new customers.

Anyone have other automated top feeding options?
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I don't know if you're interested in messing with an Arduino but I was looking at making something kinda like that Growtek set up using one. I just wanted to share the link to a couple of the projects I really like. They have a bunch of varying complexity.

This one seems cool and I like how honest the guy is about it:
create.arduino.cc

Lazy Indoor Garden

Spending 100 times more time fiddling with this contraption than I would have just watering plants.
create.arduino.cc

This one is fancier, but it looks tight.

Arduino Project Hub

Arduino Project Hub is a website for sharing tutorials and descriptions of projects made with Arduino boards
create.arduino.cc

I was also thinking about looking at a way to set something up using a raspberry pi, but I think the arduino might be a simpler solution. (we'll see someday soon)
 
lusidghost

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dizzygirlio said:
I don't know if you're interested in messing with an Arduino but I was looking at making something kinda like that Growtek set up using one. I just wanted to share the link to a couple of the projects I really like. They have a bunch of varying complexity.

This one seems cool and I like how honest the guy is about it:
create.arduino.cc

Lazy Indoor Garden

Spending 100 times more time fiddling with this contraption than I would have just watering plants.
create.arduino.cc

This one is fancier, but it looks tight.

Arduino Project Hub

Arduino Project Hub is a website for sharing tutorials and descriptions of projects made with Arduino boards
create.arduino.cc

I was also thinking about looking at a way to set something up using a raspberry pi, but I think the arduino might be a simpler solution. (we'll see someday soon)
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Funny, I was just talking about making one with a Raspberry Pi. The coding would be the hardest part.
 
King Avitas

King Avitas

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dizzygirlio said:
I don't know if you're interested in messing with an Arduino but I was looking at making something kinda like that Growtek set up using one. I just wanted to share the link to a couple of the projects I really like. They have a bunch of varying complexity.

This one seems cool and I like how honest the guy is about it:
create.arduino.cc

Lazy Indoor Garden

Spending 100 times more time fiddling with this contraption than I would have just watering plants.
create.arduino.cc

This one is fancier, but it looks tight.

Arduino Project Hub

Arduino Project Hub is a website for sharing tutorials and descriptions of projects made with Arduino boards
create.arduino.cc

I was also thinking about looking at a way to set something up using a raspberry pi, but I think the arduino might be a simpler solution. (we'll see someday soon)
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I was looking at these yesterday. They run up to 16 plants on the smallest system but I am sure I can get away with 2 lines to each 20 gallon grow bags. Not sure if it's good quality gear but it's cheap and super simple.
https://www.irrigationdirect.ca/homEg16-16-plant-cannabis-watering-kit-with-pump.html

Here is another one slightly different but on the same site. Still simple and cheap.
https://www.irrigationdirect.ca/canMAN-12-12-plant-home-grow-kit-using-5-netafim-netbows-and-dig-top-manifolds.html

Like I said though these might be ok or complete junk I am going to have to look into it.
 
dizzygirlio

dizzygirlio

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King Avitas said:
I was looking at these yesterday. They run up to 16 plants on the smallest system but I am sure I can get away with 2 lines to each 20 gallon grow bags. Not sure if it's good quality gear but it's cheap and super simple.
https://www.irrigationdirect.ca/homEg16-16-plant-cannabis-watering-kit-with-pump.html

Here is another one slightly different but on the same site. Still simple and cheap.
https://www.irrigationdirect.ca/canMAN-12-12-plant-home-grow-kit-using-5-netafim-netbows-and-dig-top-manifolds.html

Like I said though these might be ok or complete junk I am going to have to look into it.
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Heh! Not sure how, but I kinda forgot about the size of your grow when I was sharing the plans I was looking at with you. Doh! :D:bigjoint:

These you show are definitely more suited for you or Lusid to be sure. I really like both. They're cost effective and could be expanded easily.
 
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