YOLO’ing Carribean Queen
Tent
AC Infinity
Grow Tent
Indoor
Room Type
Tucking
weeks 3
12-12
weeks 3
LST
weeks 4
Topping
weeks 4
Defoliation
weeks 4
19 l
Pot Size
Start at 4 Week
G
Germination21d ago
Nutrients 1
All Purpose
3.91 mll
Keef_Moon This one should be interesting. I held off for a while to look for intel and didn’t find much. A couple pioneers on Reddit offered some tips. So here’s the plan… dial in Barbuda as best as I can. You get to enjoy the success or the failure. The environment is the easy part. The light schedule is hypothetical???
I was alerted that I’d need to veg at 12/12 by a redditor. This gave me pause and then made complete sense. Its core is feral equatorial crossed with stabilized strains a bit. And after watching the documentary, it’s clearly being pheno hunted in Barbuda. Which unless the planet’s axis has changed, it’s vegging in 12/12.
What I’m in the middle of now is a taper down. I throttled at 24 hours for a few days after germ. I went to 18/6 for a few more. I’m holding here at 16 hours for now. It’ll be subjective but the end game is to be at 12/12 by node 5-6. With each step in time however, I’m adjusting to keep the 20 DLI for seedling. Where my DLI will settle for the remainder, once it’s up on plane, remains a mystery. I’m assuming there’s a cap where it just cruises because the days won’t change like a hybrid. So I’ll probably aim for a ball park and use time lapse to find their night time droop as the signal.
This is day 7 and using a cannakan to germ shaved days off conventional methods. 2 are gifts.
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Week 1. Vegetation21d ago
14 hrs
Light Schedule
26 °C
Day Air Temp
65 %
Air Humidity
18.93 l
Pot Size
45.72 cm
Lamp Distance
Nutrients 1
All Purpose
3.91 mll
Keef_Moon I feel like I’ve found a cheat code. I’ve never had growth this fast. I’ve been eyeballing tray2grow for a while now. However I was fighting the idea of coco coir. I wanted coco hydro mechanics without the coco chemistry. I did a test run with some black widow on the T2G and did some tweaks. Straight promix was a bit too swampy for it so I added 20% pumice for this run. Just mixing it, I could feel it was right. These results are definitely remarkable.
These are ACI 1/2 gal nursery bags (cheap and porous). After seeing air pruning on day 12, I’ll just simply drop them into their forever 5 gal. No root binding and they just continue on. They’ve tapered to 14 hours 20dli. Node 5 will be 12/12 and observe.
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Week 2. Vegetation19d ago
14 hrs
Light Schedule
26 °C
Day Air Temp
65 %
Air Humidity
18.93 l
Pot Size
45.72 cm
Lamp Distance
Nutrients 4
2.113 mll
1.3 mll
All Purpose
3.91 mll
Keef_Moon Up potted to 5 gallon with my Gaia mix. I add chelaters and transplant support at this stage and at top dress. They are listed above. There was lots of lateral air pruning up the sides of the 1/2 gal bags so it was time to move along. I spaced out on getting a picture of that. I’ll keep 20 DLI and 14 hours of light for a few days and assess the bedtime droop. The 2 closest queens to you on the previous entry were for a friend and have left the building.
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Week 3. Vegetation11d ago
12 hrs
Light Schedule
26 °C
Day Air Temp
58 %
Air Humidity
21 °C
Night Air Temp
18.93 l
Pot Size
45.72 cm
Lamp Distance
Nutrients 1
1.3 mll
Keef_Moon It’s a lot of real estate for the 1/2 gal bags to populate so I top watered them in and then alternated sides up top as needed. I filled the tray2grows and shut them off until they emptied to ease the roots in. I did this twice and they are now on constant. The front left plant air pruned so I went for it. One watering I gave some ‘recharge’.
The two on the right unfortunately HAD to lose a few leaves. Other than that, some specific tucking all around.
Dropped to 12/12 at 30dli. I’m gonna bump and keep bumping til they tell me. Tomorrow I’ll try 32 and watch the camera. Again, when I see a droop at 60 ish mins left, I will pull back and let em ride it out.
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12-12
Technique
Tucking
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Week 4. Vegetation5d ago
12 hrs
Light Schedule
26 °C
Day Air Temp
No Smell
Smell
58 %
Air Humidity
21 °C
Night Air Temp
18.93 l
Pot Size
45.72 cm
Lamp Distance
Nutrients 1
0.65 mll
Keef_Moon As I progress, I think I’m on the right track with this 12 hour veg. The leaves are talking and seem content. Mid week I topped at the 7th. I was originally warned about this for general control and LST.
We are at 30 DLI still because each of them had to lose some GIANT fans …and it was a lot of lumber. Big enough that I thought the biomass would need a recovery time. So ‘recharge’ it was as well and they haven’t barked at all. If it was one plant in there I’d have kept my hands off because it was super impressive. Time lapse showed the fans rotating like the ISS to try to give the lowers some love. This is the shit I geek over.
I’ll try 35 DLI tomorrow and watch the time lapse for droop time. This is where mystery lies and if I succeed at all. Apologies if I’m long winded or aloof on this. I’m a rogue with only one live person in the hobby around me to bounce stuff off of.
I suffer for my art now you get to 😉
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