Jaindohcommentedweek 137 years ago
man thats a very nice collection of dense buds you have there
once you start some feminized seeds, some clones, or use a bag to sex you will be good to go; your setup is working very well
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Full Tent - Indica Hybrid - First Grow
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22Indica dominant bagseed
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FIMing
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19 L
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Grow Conditions
Week 14
Flowering
109.22
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Height
12 hrs
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12+ conditions after
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ml/gal
tsp/gal
Black Strap Molassas
2.604 ml/l
cal/mag
0.528 ml/l
*********HARVESTING MARCH 14, 2018***************
(my first harvest!)
Mar. 11, 2018
FINALLY!!!! 4/5 plants are showing me nearly mature (for our purposes anyway) buds. Most of the top colas are turning a light golden and the sugar leaves are crisping up nicely, starting to see amber on the calyx's.Have watered with plain R/O water ph 7.0 with nothing added for the last 2 weeks. I'm pretty sure I will do a complete harvest and not try to stagger it, I'd like for the bottom buds to get a chance to fully mature but for this round I want to just do a single harvest and keep the immature buds separate. It's been pretty dry here but I think a 5 day dry will be possible, after all the point is to bring the moisture content down enough to seal em up and cure properly.
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Mar. 9, 2018:
Nothing new to report. Lost a couple very small buds due to falling over and breaking their stems. No way i'm going to tie up the dozens of golf ball sized buds in danger of falling, i'll just continue to tuck them back in and hope for the best. The frostiest plant seems like it will need at least a week or two longer than the rest, only just showing signs of amber on the fan leaves, and sugar leaves aren't crunching yet. One girl is very near ready, as soon as I see 10-15% amber on the calyx's and the buds have a golden hue with discolored and crispy sugar leaves then it's chop chop. Measured my runoff at 450ppm still
Mar. 6-7, 2018:
We are at the end of week 7 of flower. Going to be feeding water only for the duration of the grow. I'm hoping to see the buds start to enter the last stage and give me that golden hue I'm looking for. Getting more amber trichomes on the fan leaves and should see the golden hue migrate to the calyx's.
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Mar. 5, 2018:
Starting day 92 from seed and 46 days since first pistils. None of the buds are shooting out new pistils so hopefully over the next 2 weeks the calyx's will swell and the trichomes will mature and the bud will take on that finished look. I'm already starting to see a few ambers, but with the crop being seeded it wont' be easy to track the calyx development as some are filled with seeds and already appear swelled.
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TheMachiniststarted grow question 7 years ago
Wish my issue had a category lol. All my buds have been seeded to some extent and therefore will effect how the buds ripen. I want to know how much seeding alters my harvest timeline, and can I still look at trich's for bud ripeness as the pistils are orange with clear trich's.
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Perthanswered grow question 7 years ago
Your buds will take a little longer and I think it gives a distinct change in taste, but maybe that is just me. Obviously the THC content will be lower. It kinda depends how much it got pollinated too, like was it pollinated by a rogue male growing a mile away or a male a foot away. Good luck anyway. I'll follow see how you get on. Peace
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TheMachinistcommented7 years ago
@Jaindoh, I'd love to eventually do some homebrew seeding, for now these seeds will have super unstable parents, might keep em to do some free range outdoor growing. Next grow will be Nirvana genetics that I might keep any male pollen.
Appreciate the compliment on the setup, it's a work in progress 👍
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Marquise_ao_Sulcommentedweek 137 years ago
beautiful! you going very good! happy grow!
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Fergiecommentedweek 87 years ago
Do love a full tent 😀just waiting my new girls fatten Andi will be putting in my second light as space is getting tight 😀
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JUNGLE_B4RNScommentedweek 47 years ago
Sounds interesting here.
Blasting young plants with a 1000w light is not really the best thing to do. You shall wait a bit more.
You might need to ScrOG your plants to fill up all the light coverage with 6 plants , technically you’re gonna grow 166,66W plants (I’m growing 100W plants if it can help to get an idea).
Personally, I think that 1000W light is way too much for this size of tent.
It’s gonna be tough to fit 6 monsters inside your tent bro , to get 1gr./W.
You shall Veg at 400W and Bloom at 600W. 6 100W plants will be more reasonable for this size of tent . And you be able to reech those 1gr./W more easier.
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TheMachinistcommented7 years ago
@JUNGLE_B4RNS, Luckily for me I don't have to grow in my house or garage. it's a pretty well insulated little building. It really surprised me how much more heat 1000w puts out vs 600W. Might just be an indicator of how inefficient my grow light ballast/lamp setup is haha. I have a wall mounted radiant heater that heats the room no problem, but being my first grow I wanted to see what dealing with 1000W in a 4x4 would look like. I think as it gets warmer out i'll have to dim down to 750W or 600W to deal with the heat. Intake temp of my fixture is 15F exhaust vent is pushing out 72F air.
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JUNGLE_B4RNScommented7 years ago
@TheMachinist, same here , my lights don’t heat the room by themselves, it’s winter, I must use a heater.
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TheMachinistcommented7 years ago
@JUNGLE_B4RNS,
It's getting into the single digit F where I live and that means either I turn the light up or use more heaters haha. I appreciate the advice 👍
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PigBearMancommentedweek 87 years ago
Hope you have your scissor hands ready Edwardo. This will be a nice harvest if everything goes on like this. 😉
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PigBearMancommented7 years ago
@TheMachinist, Sounds good.👍
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TheMachinistcommented7 years ago
@PigBearMan, I'll start my hand exercises now! Im really focusing on just letting these things go, so far they've had no complaints, just watering with weak nutrients every 2/3 waterings.
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DabCrabcommentedweek 67 years ago
Looking pretty darn good Edwardo :D
Keep up all the great work. I'm excited to see these girls once they turn over to flower :D
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DabCrabcommented7 years ago
@TheMachinist, Gotta love bag seed. It's the most interesting of grows to do a bag seed grow :D
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TheMachinistcommented7 years ago
@DabCrab, Thanks! I hope they are all girls, just some regular seeds out of a good dispensary oz, can't remember the strain though.
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bobo420commentedweek 137 years ago
They are filling up nicely, they sure have put on some weight ;)
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TheMachinistcommented7 years ago
@bobo420, thank you! judging by the stem swing (I grab the stem lower down and gently swing the top back and forth and have been doing it since start of flower) the tops are getting decently heavy.
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Marquise_ao_Sulcommentedweek 127 years ago
very good diary!
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TheMachinistcommented7 years ago
@Marquise_ao_Sul, 👍
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PigBearMancommentedweek 67 years ago
Some nice bushes you got there. 👌
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TheMachinistcommented7 years ago
@PigBearMan, 🙏 many thanks friend!
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Rippercommentedweek 67 years ago
They all look very healthy. Great job
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TheMachinistcommented7 years ago
@Ripper, Thank you!
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Jaindohcommentedweek 157 years ago
excellent first harvest! eagerly awaiting trimmed dry yield in grams! saving the bag seed for a rainy day?
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bobo420commentedweek 157 years ago
Congratulations on the harvest! Enjoy ;)
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simpscommentedweek 157 years ago
beautiful yellow hair's on the bud nice chunky buds happy happy
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bobo420commentedweek 157 years ago
Very nice plants and some frosty nugs ;)
Nice photos too ;)
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bobo420commentedweek 147 years ago
Beautiful flowers, nice and healthy plants, good job ;)
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Oyzipharcommentedweek 127 years ago
Impressive Time lapse video 🙀 Great job !
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Oyzipharcommented7 years ago
@TheMachinist, Great idea ! Get that camera running !
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TheMachinistcommented7 years ago
@Oyziphar, 😎. hope to setup a security camera in the tent for seamless frames in the future.
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bobo420commentedweek 127 years ago
Looking awesome, great job!
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bobo420commented7 years ago
@TheMachinist, thanks, they do look vigorous
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TheMachinistcommented7 years ago
@bobo420, Thank you! I was just looking at your diary, impressive stalk on your little monster 👍
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wheedtobeus420commentedweek 117 years ago
We are almost using the same set up. The nutrients and the light wattage. I think things are looking great!!! My lights keep the temp in the tent perfect for them. Cant wait to see your end result!
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wheedtobeus420commented7 years ago
@TheMachinist, Yes! I absolutely love my High Pressure Sodium light. I started the grow with a LED light from amazon and was not impressed at all. So i got a new 1000 watt HPS bulb for my girls and they exploded in growth. I honestly dont think you can give them too much light.. You can deff burn them and get them too close to the light. However you have to listen to your plants and see what they say. I might considering getting a metal halide bulb for the veg period but the high pressure sodium has impressed me on so many levels. I actually hang my HPS pretty low for the majority of the grow just in my last few weeks of flowering i lifted her to the highest position. I also run a T5 along side her for the smaller girls i start. I do a staggered grow so i have girls at all stages at all times.
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TheMachinistcommented7 years ago
@wheedtobeus420, Thank you very much! Do you plan on vegging next time with the HID? If you can afford the power, I recommend using HID lights for veg, I have nothing to compare to personally, but just by looking at journals on GD here I would say the HID in veg was a big help. It seems silly to have such small plants and such high amounts of lights, but I would rather give too much than too little, by keeping the light high up in the tent I let the plants grow to the light and I think it worked out well.
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Marquise_ao_Sulcommentedweek 117 years ago
Very beautifull canopy!
Waiting to the end.. :-)
nice grows
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TheMachinistcommented7 years ago
@Marquise_ao_Sul, many thanks friend!
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Rippercommentedweek 87 years ago
Looks great . Excellent color
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TheMachinistcommented7 years ago
@Ripper, Thanks! These pictures were take under the HPS, but taken in RAW with a canon T5i, then edit in photoshotp. I try to get as close to real life as possible, they are actually darker green than shown, but its as close as possible.
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