Why twice-baked? Because I'm going to bake these cookies under the grow light until they're done... then use them to bake myself! :D
They will live under the desk lamp until my current strain is finished flowering in the tent. This currently brings me up to my legal limit of 4.
I've never tried GSC before! This is the strain that has a heavy Durban Poison and OG Kush lineage (there's two versions of GSC out there, this is the original I'm told). I'm excited to grow it, and to try it.
My little homemade still is no longer able to produce enough distilled water to be reasonable, so I installed an RO kit under the kitchen sink. It's a cast iron sink so I don't want to risk messing it up trying to run the faucet through... I just use the faucet loose as a wand and have a place to store it under the sink when not in use. Works for me 🤷 It was actually really easy to install. It came with EVERYTHING I needed and it's all quick-connect fittings, except the one on the tank is screw-on and requires you to add some teflon tape. We live in a 40 year old house, and it had all the connectors and hookups we needed. Took about an hour to install and then I had to run water through it until the PPM was coming out around 10.
Had some drainage problems with the buckets. DON'T BUY THE CHEAPEST PERLITE YOU CAN FIND! It was covered in dust. It cornholed up the drain. I had to pull EVERYTHING out after the plants had germinated, clean out both buckets, rinse the perlite for like 20 minutes until the dust stopped coming out -- then suddenly realized I lost 50% of my perlite as dust!!!!!! So I had to open more bags and wash more to be able to load up the buckets with non-dusty perlite. The process took care of D, but I guess somehow I missed thoroughly washing some of it in C and it clogged the drain again. Today, I had to take it allllllllll the fuck back out, clean it, and put it allll back together again. C only though since D was fine. Now it seems like C is draining properly.
For the first several days I gave no nutes, but for the last few days I've been giving it a few drops of CaliMagic + 2-7-7 Cactus Food. Not much at all, but just enough that it can pull some nutrients if it needs to.
They're looking good, especially considering I caused them lots of stress by having to pull them out of buckets and repack.
@Jwjoh, looking at the pistils I don't think they will stop anytime soon. I have a feeling it will be well worth the wait! They are looking like straight Durban Poison.
@Wicked_Stix, yes 6 weeks in and still stacking calyxes! The 8BK was done filling out and ready for harvest around this time. I can really see the difference that genetics can make in growth patterns, smells, even the look of the pistils coming out of the GSC are different than 8BK.
@Jwjoh, im going to do my next grow in either coco or soil, might use biobizz light mix. definitely within the next few months i want to learn how to make one of these buckets! so cool man :)
@JuicyFruit, once the taproot reaches the water shelf down by the nozzle they will start to grow faster, and then once I put them in the grow tent with the REAL light, they will really take off!
@ILoVethisPlanT, No, it's called Low Stress Training (LST) which opens up multiple colas to the light. I continue to do this even after they are in the tent. It provides similar effect to ScrOG without the net. Right now, I have the net in place in the tent mostly for structural support or the colas would fall over. LST does not stress the plant nor stunt its growth. I love LST, it's my favourite training method.
Also I have a wife and kids, plus a full time job to support them and my in-laws. Each plant gives me 10 to 15 minutes per day of alone time and quiet. That's why I try to keep growing 4 at a time even if I'm growing 2 under a desk lamp. Then I have about 1 hour per day to myself, and that's all I get.
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No, si chiama Low Stress Training (LST) che apre più cime alla luce. Continuo a farlo anche dopo che sono nella tenda. Fornisce un effetto simile a ScrOG senza rete. In questo momento, ho la rete installata nella tenda principalmente per supporto strutturale o le cime cadono. LST non sollecita la pianta né ne rallenta la crescita. Adoro LST, è il mio metodo di allenamento preferito.
Inoltre ho moglie e figli, oltre a un lavoro a tempo pieno per sostenere loro e i miei suoceri. Ogni pianta mi dà da 10 a 15 minuti al giorno da sola e tranquilla. Ecco perché provo a continuare a crescere 4 alla volta anche se sto crescendo 2 sotto una lampada da scrivania. Quindi ho circa 1 ora al giorno per me, e questo è tutto ciò che ottengo.
@ILoVethisPlanT, they grew under a 13 watt LED desk lamp for the first 5 or 6 weeks of veg because I only have one tent and had another pair flowering in it at the time I started these. I can only legally grow 4 at a time, I only have 1 grow tent that's 60cm x 60cm. So at all times I have 2 flowering in the tent, and 2 vegetating under the desk lamp waiting for the tent to be empty.
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sono cresciuti sotto una lampada da scrivania a LED da 13 watt per le prime 5 o 6 settimane di vegetazione perché avevo solo una tenda e ne avevo un'altra coppia in fiore al momento in cui le ho avviate. Posso crescere legalmente solo 4 alla volta, ho solo 1 tenda da coltivazione che misura 60 cm x 60 cm. Quindi in ogni momento ho 2 fioriture nella tenda e 2 vegetazioni sotto la lampada da scrivania in attesa che la tenda sia vuota.