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grand daddy purp
3'x3'
Indoor
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HST
weeks 6
LST
weeks 6-9
Main-Lining
weeks 6-9
Topping
weeks 7
Defoliation
weeks 9-12
Grow Conditions
Week 9
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33.02
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Green_Coffee Green_Coffee
4 years ago
Saturday night after 14 hours of light, I turned off the light and set the timers for 12/12 . Later today I'll take a look for light leaks. I've noticed for awhile that the tent sucks in a lot, and it's annoyed me how far the plants are from walls. I measured the canopy, and my 3'x3' (well, 35.5"x35") tent had a grow area of 28"x28" ! I finally got around to fixing this. It was a bit awkward because this is a 2 in 1 tent, so I didn't have access to the right side poles. I used electrical conduit - about the same price as plastic PEX pipe, except significantly less bendy. I did a bit of defoilation on 2 of the 3 plants that need it. I'll hopefully finish the third later today. All's looking well, and I can't wait to see them flower. The mainlined girl definitely should have been vegged a bit longer - it will be interesting to see what she can put out. Sunday night: the mainlined girl that had the stem damaged from the too-tight wire, as pictured, apparently snapped with the training. It wasn't that way when I closed the tent, but had split when I opened it :/ I think there was a micro tear in the skin that I missed seeing, and it just slowly expanded/split from the pressure as more and more tissue gave way. I tried taping it up, but a few hours after the taping the branch is mostly deflated, so not too optimistic that this branch will be saved. 1/8th of her, gone. :/ Update: Friday - Wed morning the damaged branch of the mainline finally started standing up again, huzzah. While working on the self-draining saucers I had enough material to make a few extra risers. So now the main line can be at the same canopy height of the other three. I added a 9" oscillating fan at the top and moved the old 6" fan to the bottom in front of the air intake. Because of where the fan currently hangs against the base of the tent suction support bars it doesn't oscillate, so I turned that part off. The tent is starting to smell more every time I open it.
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indoorontario
indoorontarioweek 20
A couple of things to try to get your plants to finish faster. Increase light distance and reduce light hours. If you've already got big buds on there you really just need them to ripen. Pumping them with light will just encourage more growth and foxtailing. It looks like you may have a variety of phenotypes, maybe not all will turn purple.
Green_Coffee
Green_Coffee
@indoorontario, I can't increase light distance for the plants that most need it; I have the light wire wrapped to the top center pole as close as I could manage. The front two plants are on 4" platforms, but the back two plants are partially using them for support; to remove them I'd have to use more yoyo's (which I do have) and spend the time before I could lower them. And they front two are already around 19" from the light which is in theory a reasonable distance. I could reduce intensity of the light. Moving from 290w to 260w would be about a 10% decrease, and might help with the foxtailing that all but one plant is doing. Also, this would help with some burn the back taller two are doing. Even better, it's a trivial amount of time to do. I don't know why I stubbornly avoided dimming the light seeing the taller plants burn a bit.
BermudaCower
BermudaCowerweek 20
Really good journal, mainlining seems like the way to go. Good luck in harvest
CanadianFillmore
CanadianFillmoreweek 19
Looking good!
unrealmj
unrealmjweek 15
awesome full tent! I moved my ladies outside.
CanadianFillmore
CanadianFillmoreweek 15
Sorry to read that your cat passed away.
Med_in_Tropic
Med_in_Tropicweek 9
Got GDP cross seeds tha I am afraid to grow. Thank you for good looking of info. Will be useful after My raining season passed.
occultgreen420
occultgreen420week 11
wonderful grow and wonderful cat! it's always nice to see both together 😁
NaturalMystic
NaturalMysticweek 7
My last grow is gdp but not make diary. I love this strain so much easy to grow fast great yield and response very well for topping. easy to clone and smell like mint+flower. My best pain killer from serious Herniated disc. I love this strain
Colorado_cookies
Colorado_cookiesweek 8
Question. did you ever cover the top with more medium when the roots were showing? I’m havig same thing where roots are showing from the stem and curious if I should just add more ?
Colorado_cookies
Colorado_cookies
@Green_Coffee, thank you ! Good luck on the rest of your grow !
Green_Coffee
Green_Coffee
@Colorado_cookies, It depends on how much space I've left at the top of the pot. Currently my pots are pretty full, so where I have roots showing, I've just been leaving it. Some of the loose coco/perlite on top gets shoved to the sides during watering, and I'll periodically move some back towards the center (which is primarily where the roots show), but there's not enough to settle, so it slowly gets pushed back out to the sides.
DoDrugs420
DoDrugs420week 20
Lovelly grand daddy purp !!
Tweezer
Tweezerweek 15
Looking real strong 💪! Good luck the rest of the way!
Green_Coffee
Green_Coffeeweek 6
Ugh, I just typed a long rambling update, and it got eaten because I didn't confirm email address yet. Anyways, I'm planning to transpot this weekend. I haven't had time to work on making mini screens to test a scrog vs lst (I like screens attached to the pot (likely the elevator in this case) , to make moving/rotating plants possible, and moving them out of the tent allows the back to be worked with. I think that LST under a screen is much easier/faster not fighting with wires, but the intiial setup is a pain. And if the screen is made of too weak of materials it either doesn't last, or doesn't help train well enough. Mainlined plant seems to far behind the others that I will be amazed if she compares favorably to them in harvest. This might be a crap test, as I'd be ok with a few additional weeks of veg if the total harvest was at least on par with just LST/HST training, as they're more time intensive due to the number of branches.