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End of week 6 today. Started adding 3ml of advanced nutrients overdrive per gal to fatten up these buds a little bit. Started tapering heat and humidity down this week to 75 to 78f and 60 to 65% rh. Keeping ac on 75 at night and tent stays around 68 to 69f at night. Frost really coming on hard this past week the dream factory is the best one of the 4 and smells identical to platinum gsc.
End of week 7 flower. Gonna feed for another week or two and then start a 10 day flush before hanging to dry. Dry will be 10 days at 62-67f and 60rh, after stems start to snap I will cut 12 inch long branches and place in bins lined with Turkey bags to reconstitute moisture throughout the buds. After a few days I will buck the buds off of the stems and place them back into the turkey bags and open the bin daily for 15 minutes per day. After about 21 days in the bins I will trim up the buds and seal them up in grove bags for storage and keep some of each strain for the head.
Day 72 of flower. 3 out of the 4 plants looking just about finished, the 4th is the exodus cheese. I had nothing but issues with this plant and will not be growing it again. Overall I wish I grew 4 of the dream factor, and on the next grow I think I'm gonna stick with 4 different Exotic Genetix strains. thinking about going with Apes in space, Carmelita, Dreamsicle, and another Dream Factory.
This plant was a joy to grow. I dont weight my plants wet so not sure what that weight was but the final weight after drying and sweating buds was 190g for this plant. I pulled 116g from the chem 91, 107 g from the vanilla creme pie, and 120 g from the exodus cheese for a total of 19oz of quality bud and about 1 oz of larf and shake for edibles. I liked the exotic genetix strain so much that next run will be 4 of these cultivars dreamsicle, apes in space, carmelita, and sugar puss
Hey there friend. Would you be alright with me offering some pointers? So cannabis plants LOVE heat and humidity. It is the buds that hate it. In veg we want to take advantage of this fact to help our plants grow along much quicker and more vigorously. In veg we can look for temps of 79-84 MAX with lights on & no more than 9 degrees less with lights off. If we allow for too much temperature swing between lights on and lights off while the plant is still growing vertically up to day 20 of flower, We will cause the plant to stretch ALOT which we do not want. So in veg & early flower, Keeping our temperature gaps nice and close between lights on and off is key. Utilizing humidity in our rooms during veg will also help out a lot with more rapid growth but we must introduce it properly. In our rooms we have our temperature and humidity set-points, But when we combine those 2 it forms a third set-point which is the most important & that is called VPD, Vapor pressure deficit.
I strongly recommend every new grower or old grower who has not learned it yet, To study and understand it & implement it into your room, Logging your numbers daily.
https://cerescann.com/importance-of-measuring-vpd/
For soil, We generally want to go for a PH of 6.1.
This website does a GREAT job of illustrating it with a nice graph & very good detailed explanation for soil.
https://autoflowerseedshop.com/cannabis-ph-chart-guide/
As we briefly touched on before, During veg & early flower we want our temperature gap's nice and tight to avoid stretch. Why exactly our plants stretch in response to this is a genetic trigger being activated by the environmental stress essentially telling the plant the end of the season is closer than it really is. In veg & early flower the plant is still in its first stage of development which is to grow up wide and tall so when it produces seed, It can cast them out nicely. Remember, Whether we are growing our plants for seed or bud their genetic responses do not change as they gh sidedo not know any different. Once the plant has finished that first stage of growth by weeks 4-6 of flower with most strains, It is by day 20 of flower. Autoflowers you have to watch for it, But once the plant has finished this goal its new mission is to focus 100% on producing nice big flower clusters & to get very sticky so it can attract pollen to it successfully.
So once that vertical growth is finished, We actually now want to begin to expose our plants to larger temperature swings between lights on and lights off. This will help activate that genetic response and allow us to draw out the most potential from the strain utilizing the plants genetic triggers to environmental stresses at the right times. We can also take this a step further with doing light deprivation in the last 2 weeks using less light to simulate cloud cover. Very cold feed temps on the last flush is very good too. If you do not have them already, Get yourself a good PAR meter & thermal laser temp gun to monitor your plant top temperatures & optimize how much light your plants are getting. We are currently in the middle of producing a very comprehensive tutorial series for everybody to learn from & understand how to grow the highest level craft cannabis all on their own. If this interests you please check out our youtube and subscribe. The first 2 episodes are out the next one is coming in a few days. If you should ever have any questions or need any help, Please feel free to follow my profile and shoot me a DM. I will gladly help you with the pull down & make sure you get the best quality harvest possible as it is the most important step of the entire process.
Happy growing friend!
@@Schwaggy, Well said & bonus points for trying something new. If you aren't already log your info keep a journal then you can compare your next crops results with slight tweaks and so on. I will stay tuned into this one & I am always around if you need any assistance.
@LegacyMarketFarm, yes I agree 100%, I think its really odd how a lot of people are too competitive and unwilling to help out others, that's one of the reasons I went with this method since he was willing to share some of his knowledge of what works best for him.
@@Schwaggy, Very interesting! Thanks for sharing friend. The way we evolve the art of growing cannabis is by all working together & sharing information. Part of my companies goal is to help create that atmosphere & get rid of the competitive nature / closed nature of people who really know what they are doing and their lack of helping others. I think there is so much more to learn about growing this amazing plant we have yet to discover because of this very reason. There are so many variables when it comes to growing cannabis not 1 single person could ever master it.
@THCanbisGrower,
thank you. its strange the dream factory strain looks the best and has the best bag appeal but the Vanilla creme pie just hits different and has that gassy OG terp that I love.
Looks great. So with Promix HP, Im curious what your feed /watering routine was during flowering. Do you add nutrients everytime you water or give them. plain water on occasion?
Schwaggy
