ShLUbY

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Your doing great and your plants look amazing! I could give 2 shits about record yields, to me it's all about the quality, and you most certainly have some quality nugs!
Shit brother I may have to take a trip up to see you, I'll bring the alien tec C02 and with Dat cheese.....
lol if you wind up in MI let me know! i mean seriously, i'm so glad i saved this confidential cheese. it smells incredible. I have a CO2 tank and reg.... i just need to get a controller for it if i ever use it. it's in the arsenal... just haven't felt the need for it yet lol.

Your plants look good dude. Hell I dont even gaf about yields much less record ones ;). Quality medicine and quality time spent growing that medicine
thanks for the comments, dudes. i agree with both of you and I am a firm believer in quality over quantity.... however, i KNOW that both can be achieved at the same time :) i'm just bummed i had to trim up those cheese plants so much. they were gonna throw off some nice weight for sure, but at least the stuff that does make it all the way will still be super fire!


on another note, i can tell that transpiration has majorly slowed due to the defoliation lol. those poor gals... at least they're not infested with WPM!!
 

ShLUbY

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so i'm getting to sample some of this cheese that i had to cut early... all i can say is wow. i mean for 5.5 wks age of the buds i cut, this shit works damn good. unfortunately I'm going to have to chop them at 50 days this go around. i just want them out of the flower room and i seem to be trimming off a bunch of buds every few days anyways. at this rate, there won't be much but the top colas left at day 50 lol. i can not wait until i can run these things 8-9 weeks as the breeder suggests.... definitely was worth the trouble of keeping the strain and i hope my newer clones will be more resistant to the PM. i'll also know how to clean them out better so they get better airflow when they bush up in flower.

hopefully my ozone elements will arrive today so i can get back to releasing the ozone. i burnt the shit out of the jacks cleaner 2 that are in flower, i hope they don't slow down too much. they were highly sensitive to the ozone....

@4ftRoots dont run the ozone longer than 20 min lol. i did a half hour and my jacks cleaner 2s' did not like it one bit!!!
 

4ftRoots

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Holy cow man talk about too much ozone. I have never had that problem, sorry to see that in your garden man
 

ShLUbY

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Holy cow man talk about too much ozone. I have never had that problem, sorry to see that in your garden man
yeah i think that unit puts off a lot of ozone! haha. it's ok. live and learn, right? i think it's because i was shocking such a small area. when they say in the instructions "you can leave your plants in the house, an hour of ozone won't hurt them!" they were referring to a larger floorplan than 6x14.5!
 

4ftRoots

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so i guess i'll just release it 10 min every 12 hours.... or should i do 5 min every 6 hrs??? that might be hard to do with a timer.... maybe 15 min every 12 hrs be ok.
I wouldnt try to automate the ozone. Just turn it on manually and turn it off after 5 minutes to start. I would keep the circulation fans blowing but not the exhaust.
 

ShLUbY

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I wouldnt try to automate the ozone. Just turn it on manually and turn it off after 5 minutes to start. I would keep the circulation fans blowing but not the exhaust.
right. well automation is so much easier!! my buddy is helping me hook up a relay so it'll be good to go. i just need to find the right timer... probably digital.
 

ShLUbY

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Everyone loves a good challenge! so here we go.... 7.5 gal fabrics vs 5 gal plastics! i have 2 confidential cheese, and 2 jacks cleaner 2. one of each in fabric and plastic. these were cloned at the same time and are nearly identical in size and shape.
fabric plastic challenge.jpg

So two strains under one light. 4 plants, 2 fabrics 2 plastics, each strain in both types of container. i figured that the 7.5 gal (though not filled all the way with soil) would be pretty equal to the 5gal plastic since the roots prune near the edges of the fabric pot. I'm pretty stoked to see how they turn out! i'll keep them as equal in size as i can!


Here's my new mix i put together today...

New Mix.jpg

half and half peat and coco coir
3/4 pumice 1/4 rice hulls
1 part worm power worm castings (they looked DAMN good too!)

about 4 cuft total to which i added:
2cups insect frass
2cups kelp meal
2cups neem meal
2cups crab shell
2cups fishbone meal
2cups gypsum
8cups rock dust (DE, Azomite, C.B.D. minerals)
2cups oyster shell flour

i'll be feeding it organic rice and oats while it's cooking in the fabric.....
new mix home.jpg

to say the least.... i'm pumped about this mix. i think it's going to be extremely high quality stuff..... just speculating :)
 

4ftRoots

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right. well automation is so much easier!! my buddy is helping me hook up a relay so it'll be good to go. i just need to find the right timer... probably digital.
Ozone is kind of a once a week deal. I would think of it as emergency medicine, and to flash clean rooms after each grow! Try a nice organic approach like spraying whey or lactobacillus culture on the leaves, thats what I would do as a prevention and to build a natural immunity. Free whey can be found in a great value non fat regular yogurt, I would do a 1/2 tsp per gallon, it is the yellow liquid not the yogurt.

You could try arduino if your buddy is into it. Would make the task a lot easier if you really want to do ozone on a schedule.
 

ShLUbY

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^^^^ Do you get you amendments in bulk?
not mega bulk, but honestly, they stretch so far. i just finished the first bag of crab shell and oyster shell flour i got and i've mixed four 20gal no tills, lots of cloning transplant mix, 30gal of the mix from today, 15gal from a month ago, a shit ton in my composts, and lots of random topdresses!! it was like a 3 or 4lb bag of crab and 5lb bag of OSF. lots of bang for the buck! seriously organics is cheap.

i just cracked open my 2nd bag of kelp meal and neem meal. still on the original gypsum, fishbone meal and a few other things.

the only thing i bought in bulk was rock dust :) that was the best deal at under a dollar per lb. had to buy in bulk or you got ripped! i just finished the last of my rock dust and just have azomite leftover. I do shop and try and find the best deals on everything though.

now i haven't even harvest a plant yet and i've drained all my vegamatrix bottles except the micronutes. luckily my buddy just switched to the canna a-b line and gave me his leftover vegamatrix which will get me through the rest of what i need to do with it. in a month or two all my transplants will be living soil, and the last of the vegamatrix stuff will be in flower! I CAN'T WAIT!
 

ShLUbY

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Ozone is kind of a once a week deal. I would think of it as emergency medicine, and to flash clean rooms after each grow! Try a nice organic approach like spraying whey or lactobacillus culture on the leaves, thats what I would do as a prevention and to build a natural immunity. Free whey can be found in a great value non fat regular yogurt, I would do a 1/2 tsp per gallon, it is the yellow liquid not the yogurt.

You could try arduino if your buddy is into it. Would make the task a lot easier if you really want to do ozone on a schedule.
the stuff i got from my friend is potassium bicarbonate with lacto and garlic powder mixed in :) it's called "PM remover" if you wanna look it up. i used it way less than what they suggested and applied it with neem oil (which they don't suggest probably because of the lacto coating the leaves already). it looked fantastic the next day. nice coating. i'll be doing a treatment tonight on a bunch of stuff; it's been about 5-7 days since the last treatment.
 
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