First grow - Critical Kush + Incredible Bulk

Mgalekgolo

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Day 18 of flower -
Watered twice the past four days, both with filtered water. Next watering will be with bloom nutrients.
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I did what I said I wouldn't, I did some defoliation.

I'm not really too happy with the structure of these plants. The CK had it's main stem supercropped early with no topping(can be seen in pictures on the first post), which made it thick and huge but the canopy isn't as even as I'd like it. The Incredible Bulk was topped early, pretty sure I only topped it once but I like the structure of that plant better. Should have let the damn thing veg longer, seems IB is a very good strain. I think a tactful combination of topping and supercropping will make for some huge yields the next go around.

Heres hoping defoliation this late in the game won't decrease my yields :evil:



Here's a before shot of the canopy.
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The mystery strain with droopy leaves turned out to be a male, had a really nice structure too being first fimmed, then topped. So that leaves just the 12/12 from clone, the IB and the CK.
The only other update I have is regarding the humidifier. I'm now using one rated for up to 65 hours, my flower tent hasn't had any humidity issues but this humidifier wasn't strong enough for the veg tent, so I swapped them. The 65 hour one indeed does last 2-3 days, which is good because it's a bottom fill. The other one's a top fill, but only lasts about 24 hours.
 

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Arnski5000

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These plants love defoliating and I have exact same thing with my pH. Its great isn't it mine after nutes always around 6.6 ish. Keep going man looking good
 

Mgalekgolo

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These plants do indeed seem to respond well to defoliation. Yesterday within a couple hours the plants perked up.
This is what I came home to
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Starting to see some real development on these bud sites
I really like the way the plants look under the LED HPS combo. Definitely get what feels like a very minor arc burn from welding when I'm looking at the plants too long though.
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Attached is a pic before defoliation. Big difference, huh?
That's about it for today's update
 

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coreywebster

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With the incredible bulk watch for early signs of mould last 3rd of flower. I found it a bit prone, although not big amounts I would usually find one of the bigger colas had it or started to have it just before harvest.
It really does yield well though.
 

Mgalekgolo

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The stretching continues!
Day 22 of flower, and my phone camera stopped working. These pictures were taken with a clone gopro, the only other camera I have :lol: Coincidentally I ordered a replacement camera yesterday because it was fogging up and had broken glass.

@Arnski we're growing the same plants too aren't we? Definitely will be cool to see a side by side of an unmolested plant and my two test subjects here. I'll be following your grow.

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Anyway, fed them with half strength nutrients and tested the runoff, ph 6.0 with ~800PPM, I've been watering with 6.3-6.8ph'd water so ?
I don't see any issues yet so I'll just keep testing and see what happens.
Humidity spike in my area, but it's been a constant 40-45 in the tent and I don't think my humidifier has had to run in 24 hours.
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It's 2017 in gopro time
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Ignore the Afghan, I had no room in veg for her so she's flowering in a 1 gallon pot. A little experiment, topped once I think.

Relatively stable temps at ~78-82 day 65 night
 

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Arnski5000

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That looks a nice tight bud. Any recommendations on using such boosters as like sumo boost. I'm using just pk13/14 but not sure it's doing the business
 

Beachwalker

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That looks a nice tight bud. Any recommendations on using such boosters as like sumo boost. I'm using just pk13/14 but not sure it's doing the business
Nah I only use GH Flora Trio and a little bit of cal-mag once in awhile, I grew that under a thousand watts is why it's so tight
 

Mgalekgolo

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Nice bud beach!

My phone camera fixed itself, but it won't focus properly. Looks like the leaves are getting a little frosty(maybe that's my imagination). I fed the plants a full serving of Liquid KoolBloom and I'm seeing nutrient issues so I'm gonna continue with my schedule of water - water - 7.5ML LKB instead of 10. I'm starting to see reddish hairs already, is this normal?
Day 24, how do they look?
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The praying is new, might be another sign of nutrient burn? I'm gonna look into it tomorrow when I get home.

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I'm testing out Biobizz fish mix and bloom on the Afghan and the little clone, makes the whole tent smell :spew:

Arnski, what day of flower are you on? To me they your buds look nice :mrgreen:
 

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