Welcome to the Scroggernaut - either you're scrogging or you're not
The story: Wife didnt know about my growing past when we met, but I was upfront with her about smoking. Slowly showed her some pics and explained I used to grow illegally indoors and outdoors for profit. She is completely against the plant, but has always been supportive of my consumption so long as I keep it away from the kids and out of the house. When it came time to ask her about growing, she was very reasonable. 1) Cant be at our house 2) Cant be seen or discussed with our kids or family 3) We're going to Disney. Fine, the words were barely out of her mouth before I grabbed my keys to head to the native reserve to look for clones
The Goal: 1 dry LBS of sugary sensimilia. This should cover my consumption until its time to do it all over again next year
The Strain : I have a few favorite strains from a decade ago, but everything in growing has changed, from the strain names to the light sources. I have to rely on what the boys at the native reserve tell me the clones are. White Widow is what I purchased, but some of the clones differ in stature. They also already have mites and require some TLC. If time allowed it, or I asked my wife sooner, it would have been some indicas from Barney's or FastBuds.
The Growspace: Cant be at our house, and I have nowhere outdoors to grow and to tend to. I have a sweet backyard for growing, but the kids are there, so no way. Luckily, I own another spot with a garage that I do not allow my tenants to use. So I set up shop the same day I got the clones. Pulled out some old boxes with grow lights, went to the hardware store, and I was off to the races. The garage is not ventilated or walled, but does have the amps required for my grow and then some.
The technique: I will focus heavily on keeping a very low and tight canopy. The HPS I use has a very deep penetration, and so when I combine HST, LST, lollipopping and SCROG, I get very little larf, and many tight and compact buds. I start HST from day 1 on the clones, bending them at 90 to show them what the rest of their life will be like. I will keep HST and supercropping well into flower to keep the canopy spread and the light footprint maximized. Half the room will be scrogged, and half the room left free to compare the results for future grows in this room.
Please see the 2 photos marked in the diary. Is this a classic PK burn? Did a feed with no MegaCrop, no cal-mag, just PK boost at diluted dosage. The coppering and yellowing has come sudden. Leaves are crispy where burnt. I hear its easy to burn with PK boost. Did I do that?
Looks like your very close to harvest. Typically growers will taper off their nutrients during the last couple of weeks then start a flush out of habit. The reason for this is plants tend to slow down or almost stop feeding during the last few weeks of the ripening stage. It looks like it could be PK burn do to this fact. A good way to check is to do a flush on the pots and see what the initial run off ppms are that first come out of the pot. if you have some crazy high ppms this may have been the issue. Another possibility is also light burn I notice in your photo that these plants are pretty much directly under the center of a 1000 watt light at 16". Hid lights emit infra red light so it can heat up the leaf surface. So I would perform a pre harvest flush and cut off all nutrients on them and back off your light. https://www.blackdogled.com/lst
I would wet trim those buds and cut off any discolored sugar leaves they will clean up nicely. Hope this helps👍
Epic start to the diary, I am all about a good story. I like the little grow space too.
I would throw my hat in the ring and support your thought of Barney’s Farms. I’m liking what I’ve experienced so far.
excellent + underated diary right here ! "The Scroggernaut - Either you're scrogging our you're not." well, looks like you're scrogging then ! great work so looks picture perfect
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