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Chi_Town_White_Boy Chi_Town_White_Boy
7 years ago
Roots are growing quick and appearing all over the place. I have reduced my top feed to 2 minutes per every 2 hours, as the plants were dropping a bit if I exceed that. (I'm using a pump and some tubing with large holes rather than a drop system; this seems to dump a lot more water on them than they can handle if done at long intervals.) PPM is at about 400 initially, but I notice it dropping down to 300 over a day's time. I think I'm going to monitor that and feed it more towards the end of the week if drops to around 100-150ppm. This plant seems to be growing very quick. In my tent, I have four 5-gallon buckets. This plant is doing the best by far, and I'm still working out some kinks with my setup. Once I get those ironed out, I'll do more diaries. So far, I'm very happy with this Northern Lights strain. Seems like a very hardy plant that grows quick! Second week showed explosive growth from day 7 to 14. Biggest factor appears to be (1) switching from rockwool cubes to Rapid Rooters and (2) adding the drip/top feed system. Noticable increase in growth speed with these changes. Also, noticable increase in roots appearing quicker and in more locations using Rapid Rooters. I will likely never germinate in water, under my bed, on a heater, or any of those techniques again. Simplest and most effective way, I've found, is to just put the seed directly into a wet Rapid Rooter and install it into your DWC system. You should see a sprout within a week maximum. Mine appear around days 4-6. No effort, no wasted seeds. I will throw more pictures up here during the week.
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Grow Questions
Chi_Town_White_Boy
Chi_Town_White_Boystarted grow question 6 years ago
I'll have more pictures up by Wednesday...but curious how long you think these need? 1 week? 2 weeks? 3 weeks? Seems like they could fatten up a bit more...
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Stick
Stickanswered grow question 6 years ago
Hi there! What a beautiful garden you have here! I believe you're 20 days away from harvest window, you stil have loads of white pistils which are not curling yet, and your buds are not as fat as they could be yet. The magnifier/microscope will tell you better than us but you can wait 7-10 days before looking at the trichomes. I'll be around, good luck with these monsters!
Chi_Town_White_Boy
Chi_Town_White_Boystarted grow question 6 years ago
I just switched to Flawless Finish. Trichomes are cloudy, but not seeing any amber yet. I'm not really looking for a couch lock feel, so I am thinking I might be able to harvest on Monday (4 days from now). Any thoughts? Appreciate your input!!!
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Athos
Athosanswered grow question 6 years ago
10 to 11 weeks is the expected autoflowering strains time to harvest. I usually harvest when thricomes are cloudy, which is the optimal point THC wise. Amber thricomes are degrading, sub optimal, I think you can harvest right now if the thrics are as you say, if in doubt wait a few days.
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Chi_Town_White_Boy
Chi_Town_White_Boyweek 11
Got this plant trimmed today -- took me and my buddy 3.5 hours!! We did a rough trim job, and I will clean it up once they are dried in 3-7 days. I have the humidity down to about 40% -- I use a small 2x2x4 tent for drying. I'll take some more photos and mark the harvest once I have them dried and weighed. Check back in a few days if you're interested in the results! Thanks to everyone for the help on this grow -- it is much appreciated!
Chi_Town_White_Boy
Chi_Town_White_Boyweek 11
Thanks @@@Athos! I'm going to try and do a @Stick rig haha. Get a picture through my loupe somehow.
Dirtydraggel
Dirtydraggelweek 11
nice grow! looking into starting with hydro and seeing yours makes me want to try it even more, did that one plant cover up the entire 4x4 tent?
Chi_Town_White_Boy
Chi_Town_White_Boy
@Dirtydraggel, it’s doable - just very tight. After about week 5-6 they are hard to control their size, especially with DWC. In soil, you can stick a dowel to aim buds straight up. Maybe you could pull from the ceiling of the tent? I dunno, it’s a bit harder. Surely some plant training would help, but it is definitely tight. I have to get on my hands and knees to crawl back to the back plants sometimes. Not ideal. But it works, and is doable.
Dirtydraggel
Dirtydraggel
@@Chi_Town_White_Boy, damn, got 3 tents right now all 3 different sizes trying to keep 12 plants going at once (legal limit) and finding them to be pretty small since I need to squeeze 4 in to each tent pretty much. Thanks for the insight, might have to get a few more tents or a bigger one.
Chi_Town_White_Boy
Chi_Town_White_Boy
@Dirtydraggel, it definitely could have! Somehow I managed to fit 4 plants in my tent by staggering their start time. The two that started later had to be grown without any training or topping -- and even they were a bit starved for light. I was actually thinking about doing a scrog with 1 plant, wall-to-wall. It's definitely doable in a 4x4 with hydro. This grow showed me that 4x4 is too small for 4 plants.
CapitanKush
CapitanKushweek 9
getting nice and frosty 💪
Craescannabis513
Craescannabis513week 2
hey i have a question. in your pics what is that machine that is telling the temp and humidity and what exactly does it do, price and is it useful
rastahempdj
rastahempdjweek 2
many years later. but what bucket management system do you have that plugs into the lids?