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[jonnynobody]

Today I'm setting up the next vegetative cycle by pulling my clones out of the cloner and tossing them in dollar tree trash cans I convert into a hempy bucket by drilling a 3/4" hole 2 inches from the bottom. The trash cans are about 1.75 gallon if I remember right. I got behind schedule and didn't take clones until week 3 of flower, so they took 3 weeks to properly root. It is what it is. I've got a mix of blue dream, critical mass, godfather OG, god bud, maui waui, and jager. All power house strains with high yields and high potency.

Fertilizer:
Jack's 5-12-26 3.6g/gallon
Epsom salt 1.1g/gallon
Calcium nitrate 2.4g/gallon
Dilute solution to 1.6 EC with plain water
Jack's 10-30-20 for 2 weeks after the 12/12 flip as per the Jack's 3-2-1 schedule with epsom salt
Jack's 7-15-30 for the final 2 weeks of flower as per the Jack's 3-2-1 schedule with epsom salt
PH: 5.8

I really only have room for 10 big plants in my flower room which is 12'x16' so I'm going to have to whittle down my batch of plants to a smaller amount. Jager is such a large plant I will probably axe 1. 2 would consume 1/3 of the room. I like jager. Not that much though

I have never run the 7-15-30 or 10-30-20 before. I so far have had outstanding results using the jack's 3-2-1 from start to finish at 1.6 EC. I did not flush the last cycle and the pot tastes and burns fantastic! I will flush for 3 days this cycle with plain water just as I would do in soil to see if there is any observable difference in flavor or burn qualities. I am awaiting delivery of my 25# bag of 7-15-30 from Peters. Paid about $83 with my $3 Jack's sticker pack. Gotta have my swag man I only have 13 days of flower left before I hit the 63 day mark. I may only get 7-10 days to use the 7-15-30 this cycle with a 3 day flush depending on when it arrives. I'm pretty excited to take it for a test drive. Hopefully it shows tomorrow. Nobody locally carries it. Actually hard to even find online from anyone other than Peters or growgreenmi.com.

I am taking out my two 1000w HID lights, hoods, ballasts, and ducting at the end of my present flower cycle. They'll be replaced with LED 660w quantum boards I ordered from Alibaba for $675 in all 3500k chips with the epistar 660 and 760nm chips: https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/660W-sunlike-spectrum-3000k-5000k-660nm_62551574632.html?spm=a2756.order-detail-ta-ta-b.0.0.1d502fc2jZ0r0P

I ordered them via express sea support freight which gives a shipping time of 18-23 days versus 10 days via UPS express shipping for about $200 more. No thanks. I'm in no hurry and do not need to pay for expedited air shipping. Send that shit on a sail boat for all I care if it saves me $200 In a nutshell I cannot install them for about 4-5 weeks anyways, so it literally made no sense to pay more to get them here quicker via air shipping and it saved me more than 25% of the total cost of the transaction. Sea support freight is the way to go if you order on alibaba. Light years cheaper if you have the time. This is my 3rd order from the same company. I own a 660w board from them I bought a year ago in a mixture of 3000k and 5000k chips with the 660 and 760nm epistar's and it's a beast. I was so impressed I ordered 2 more 110w boards for a 5'x5' nursery, and they are fantastic! No more endlessly replacing T5 tubes. 220w is the max output I can run in a 5'x5'. Any more and the foliage gets bleached.

I've got a few soil plants going in 1 nursery in fox farm happy frog:
Holly hock
Lemon balm
Godfather OG
Wild flowers

Gotta stick these tomato plants in the outside garden today. No more room inside


What's the check mark for? I run a water, water, feed, water, water, feed regimen on my soil pot plants. 1 check means it has been watered once. 2 check's means it's been watered twice. That's how I know when to mix up some plant food. Then I use a blank marker with a red on it to indicate fertilizer was applied last watering. I kept forgetting and had to come up with a simple system to remind me of when each plant needs food or not:


Beautiful fragrant lemon balm and a holly hock:


Godfather OG:


Wild flowers kicking ass:


2 god bud regular seedlings and 1 bruce banger feminized:


A monster critical mass I just recently chopped 6 tops off of and spread it out. She won't have a bigger space to go into for another 4 weeks, so I'm doing my best to wrangle her branches until then. It's gonna be a real challenge

 

[jonnynobody]

And the flower room. I have a 50 pint per day dehumidifier and a 45 pint dehumidifier operating at full blast during lights off each night. Keeps RH in the mid 30's. This should accelerate resin production nicely:

This pic of the flower room is from a week ago I think. I've got 13 days to hit 9 weeks from 12/12. Jager and critical mass will be the last to be taken down. Maui, ghost train, and blue dream will all go first because they finish the fastest:

 

[FastFreddi]

Today I'm setting up the next vegetative cycle by pulling my clones out of the cloner and tossing them in dollar tree trash cans I convert into a hempy bucket by drilling a 3/4" hole 2 inches from the bottom. The trash cans are about 1.75 gallon if I remember right. I got behind schedule and didn't take clones until week 3 of flower, so they took 3 weeks to properly root. It is what it is. I've got a mix of blue dream, critical mass, godfather OG, god bud, maui waui, and jager. All power house strains with high yields and high potency.

Fertilizer:
Jack's 5-12-26 3.6g/gallon
Epsom salt 1.1g/gallon
Calcium nitrate 2.4g/gallon
Dilute solution to 1.6 EC with plain water
Jack's 10-30-20 for 2 weeks after the 12/12 flip as per the Jack's 3-2-1 schedule with epsom salt
Jack's 7-15-30 for the final 2 weeks of flower as per the Jack's 3-2-1 schedule with epsom salt
PH: 5.8

I really only have room for 10 big plants in my flower room which is 12'x16' so I'm going to have to whittle down my batch of plants to a smaller amount. Jager is such a large plant I will probably axe 1. 2 would consume 1/3 of the room. I like jager. Not that much though

I have never run the 7-15-30 or 10-30-20 before. I so far have had outstanding results using the jack's 3-2-1 from start to finish at 1.6 EC. I did not flush the last cycle and the pot tastes and burns fantastic! I will flush for 3 days this cycle with plain water just as I would do in soil to see if there is any observable difference in flavor or burn qualities. I am awaiting delivery of my 25# bag of 7-15-30 from Peters. Paid about $83 with my $3 Jack's sticker pack. Gotta have my swag man I only have 13 days of flower left before I hit the 63 day mark. I may only get 7-10 days to use the 7-15-30 this cycle with a 3 day flush depending on when it arrives. I'm pretty excited to take it for a test drive. Hopefully it shows tomorrow. Nobody locally carries it. Actually hard to even find online from anyone other than Peters or growgreenmi.com.

I am taking out my two 1000w HID lights, hoods, ballasts, and ducting at the end of my present flower cycle. They'll be replaced with LED 660w quantum boards I ordered from Alibaba for $675 in all 3500k chips with the epistar 660 and 760nm chips: https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/660W-sunlike-spectrum-3000k-5000k-660nm_62551574632.html?spm=a2756.order-detail-ta-ta-b.0.0.1d502fc2jZ0r0P

I ordered them via express sea support freight which gives a shipping time of 18-23 days versus 10 days via UPS express shipping for about $200 more. No thanks. I'm in no hurry and do not need to pay for expedited air shipping. Send that shit on a sail boat for all I care if it saves me $200 In a nutshell I cannot install them for about 4-5 weeks anyways, so it literally made no sense to pay more to get them here quicker via air shipping and it saved me more than 25% of the total cost of the transaction. Sea support freight is the way to go if you order on alibaba. Light years cheaper if you have the time. This is my 3rd order from the same company. I own a 660w board from them I bought a year ago in a mixture of 3000k and 5000k chips with the 660 and 760nm epistar's and it's a beast. I was so impressed I ordered 2 more 110w boards for a 5'x5' nursery, and they are fantastic! No more endlessly replacing T5 tubes. 220w is the max output I can run in a 5'x5'. Any more and the foliage gets bleached.

I've got a few soil plants going in 1 nursery in fox farm happy frog:
Holly hock
Lemon balm
Godfather OG
Wild flowers

Gotta stick these tomato plants in the outside garden today. No more room inside
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What's the check mark for? I run a water, water, feed, water, water, feed regimen on my soil pot plants. 1 check means it has been watered once. 2 check's means it's been watered twice. That's how I know when to mix up some plant food. Then I use a blank marker with a red on it to indicate fertilizer was applied last watering. I kept forgetting and had to come up with a simple system to remind me of when each plant needs food or not:
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Beautiful fragrant lemon balm and a holly hock:
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Godfather OG:
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Wild flowers kicking ass:
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2 god bud regular seedlings and 1 bruce banger feminized:
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A monster critical mass I just recently chopped 6 tops off of and spread it out. She won't have a bigger space to go into for another 4 weeks, so I'm doing my best to wrangle her branches until then. It's gonna be a real challenge
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You go Johnny!!
FF

 

[jonnynobody]

Here's a pic of critical mass before she was hacked down. She was a monster and has a huge root mass and has to be watered daily. Once she goes into flower it will be twice per day until harvest:

 

[FastFreddi]

Here's a pic of critical mass before she was hacked down. She was a monster and has a huge root mass and has to be watered daily. Once she goes into flower it will be twice per day until harvest:

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She is huge....stretch will be something!
FF

 

[jonnynobody]

You go Johnny!!
FF

Thx man. This last year has been rough. Growing and gardening is therapeutic for me. It's the only place I really feel at ease anymore

 

[jonnynobody]

She is huge....stretch will be something!
FF

She actually doesn't stretch much at all. One of my favorite reasons to keep running the strain. Very heavy yields and she doesn't reach for the ceiling like some other strains. She's easy on me

 

[FastFreddi]

She actually doesn't stretch much at all. One of my favorite reasons to keep running the strain. Very heavy yields and she doesn't reach for the ceiling like some other strains. She's easy on me

Fairly easy to control stretch anyway.
Good grows to you.
FF

 

[bk78]

Subbed up

 

[jonnynobody]

So it's been an interesting last few days. I bought an additional Toshiba 50 pint per day dehumidifier to match a model of the same type I bought a few weeks ago. I now have 2 of these units running on timers at lights off until lights on daily. I'm most likely going to have to return the one I just bought to home depot because the unit is defective I'm fairly certain. The first day I noticed the water was hot in the reservoir. I've never had that happen in the other unit. Last night during lights off it barely put any water in the reservoir. Something's not right with it so I'll just return it for another unit this evening. Snapped some flower room pics. I'm planning to take down 1 maui waui a week from friday followed by the 2nd maui on saturday. Ghost train finished fast last time just like maui and this time seems to be doing the same. 2 GT's will get taken down after maui. I'm feeling a full 10 weeks for jager, blue dream, and critical mass. If I remember right that's the same schedule as last cycle. Jager doesn't mind hanging up for 11 weeks so she's always the last. I think the 2 BD's will finish before the 2 CM's.

BD is developing some thick colas just like the critical mass. Great heavy producer. Maui waui is doing great also, but her flower formation is more of a chunky fat bud than a long thick cola type. Chunks everywhere and very frosty. The tip burn on the leaves is evident from my light intensity and I believe I can omit the epsom salt from my 321 recipe. I'm going to experiment with it to see if that resolves the tip burn. I'm not so concerned about the leaf edges being a little burned. I know it's due to my lights being so close to the canopy with the low headspace I have in my basement. I'm very much looking forward to yanking the 1000w lights out and replacing them with 2 of the 660w qb's. My plants under the LED's look noticeably better than my HID plants. My jack's 7-15-30 finish formula arrives tomorrow, so I'll be feeding with that followed by a 3 day flush with plain water prior to harvest on all plants. What I did last night is omit the calcium nitrate while increasing the jack's to 5g/gallon + 1.1g/gallon epsom salt. PPM was about 700. The ingredients and ratios are very close so I figure it's better than continuing to feed calcium and unnecessary amounts of nitrogen this late in flower.

The same strains I grew last cycle smell better and the flowers are frostier with noticeably more resin production running jack's 3-2-1 at full strength. I'm looking forward to seeing how the flavor and burn qualities compare. I just harvested a single blue dream that had been grown with jack's, and it's full of flavor with excellent burn qualities. You couldn't tell it wasn't grown in soil. This gives me high expectations for an improvement on critical mass, ghost train, maui waui, and jager. Time will tell

 

[insomnia65]

Nice work mate.

 

[jonnynobody]

Moonshine haze #1 x ghost train haze #1. Not a heavy producer but rock hard dense frost covered golf balls allover. Great bud. Just not a good enough producer to keep in the garden. This is her sunset cycle. New strains coming to replace her in veg presently:


Blue dream in front:


Here are the pictures from the dehumidifier's site glasses to show the difference in how much each unit pulled in the same amount of time. I just exchanged it half hour ago. Climbed the big ass orange ladder just to get a box that was in pristine condition and not dented to hell like the rest. I think most of the defects customers get are just from poor handling in shipping. Testing the new unit now for a few hours before I pop her in the flower room again:



And the bad unit I exchanged:


Also picked up some 34% hydrogen peroxide. I got a brand that I am unfamiliar with and have not purchased before. It is not food grade. I don't like that fact, but was reassured it's not problematic for the purpose of sterilizing a reservoir. It does not list any stabilizers on the label. Just h202 and water. However, there is some particulate floating in the mixture that is really bothering me. I called the store and told them what was up. They said bring it in, so I might just do that tomorrow. Why on earth would there be particulate in a jug of 34% h202? It's probably going back tomorrow to be exchanged for something food grade:

 

[jonnynobody]

Also picked up some 34% hydrogen peroxide. I got a brand that I am unfamiliar with and have not purchased before. It is not food grade. I don't like that fact, but was reassured it's not problematic for the purpose of sterilizing a reservoir. It does not list any stabilizers on the label. Just h202 and water. However, there is some particulate floating in the mixture that is really bothering me. I called the store and told them what was up. They said bring it in, so I might just do that tomorrow. Why on earth would there be particulate in a jug of 34% h202? It's probably going back tomorrow to be exchanged for something food grade:

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In a nutshell when I poured about 32 ounces of the h202 into a clear polycarbonate container I could see that I was incorrect. There is no particulate in the h202. I simply poured the liquid into a measure container I failed to clean prior to use. Operator error at it's finest. I had a fleeting suspicion that I failed to clean the container I poured into. That made more logical sense than a contaminated stock of 34% h202. I'm glad I checked.
A) I don't have to return them, and the product appears to be solid and useful for the purpose I bought it for.
B) They were very affordable at $12.09/gallon, so I'm happy I don't have to spend more.
C) I am very glad I figured this out at home and not at the grow store. Those mofo's would have ripped me to pieces at the counter, and I would have had to let them

Watch out for that operator error shit. It's pervasive and none of us are immune

My jack's 7-15-30 showed up today. Fuck yeah baby! Grabbed two 5 gallon homer buckets with orange lid w/inset rubber gasket for an air tight seal to store my 7-15-30 in. The extra bucket is for my calcium nitrate. Gotta grab a 3rd for the epsom salt. Brain fart. I forgot

This stuff is blue and looks wildly different from the 5-12-26 raw elements. Completely different appearance and absolute confirmation that @Atomizer was 100% correct. This formula is nothing like the 5-12-26. Snapped a few pics to share with y'all. Feeding at the recommended 5g/gallon with 1.1g epsom salt. All the ladies in the flower room will get this formula until 3 days before their scheduled chop. At that point they will be leeched with plain RO water until the beginning of the 4th day in which they get chopped completing a full 3 day leech cycle. I'll report back my results. Pics:

 

[jonnynobody]

Today I'm just doing some cleaning and organization. One of my battery powered siphon pumps died on me today. I use them to remove water from my water to waste saucers after I water. I always keep backups on hand, but I'm down to 2 of them now. 1 for my flower room and 1 for the nurseries. That makes me very nervous. I backup everything, so I had to go shopping online today. I only go to the store if I must. I hate retail and people in general. Not you guys though. You're cool Any who, my $13 pump jumped to $16.79 @ home depot. That's a little steep for a cheap pump that won't last a year. I hopped on amazon which is usually more expensive than anyone else to check options. I was pleasantly surprised and shocked to see my Dyna-Glo DH-20 was only $14.13 with tax. I always keep 6 or so of these on hand because they're so cheap and convenient, but I'd like a faster rate of suction than the 1.6 GPM the Dyna-Glo is rated at. I landed on the Apache 99000220-C EZ Siphon Automatic Siphon Pump rated at 2.6 GPM for $19.99 manufactured by a company called "motion industries." They generally make very high quality products, so I pulled the trigger on both units. If the Apache has much more push power to move the water quicker then I'll be switching to the Apache brand for all of my future replacement units as the Dyna-Glo's break over time. I usually get around 8-12 months out of the Dyna-Glo's which isn't bad. I don't expect a longer lifespan on the Apache's just because of the nature of how they're built, but I would definitely dig a faster rate of water flow to get the job done quicker so I can smoke a bowl I use and recommend the amazon basics brand D batteries. They are manufactured by a high quality battery company and are the best quality / price available. Rayovac is a close second choice. I may be switching to recharcheable D batteries soon. It's very wasteful and redundant to constantly keep throwing these dam alkaline batteries away in a never ending cycle. A good set of rechargeable batteries will last me years. They're pricey though. I bought some eneloop brand rechargeable AAA batteries for my green headlamp, and those puppies set me back a few pennies. I wanna say an 8 pack was like $15. I'm not going through a 60 pack of AAA rayovac's every 6 months anymore @ $16/each. Eventually I'll snaggle some D rechargeable batteries with a charger pack. It's more efficient and economical in the long run by far.

I snapped a photo of my work cart I purchased after the last flower cycle to help organize my materials and make the area a little more functional. I love it because it keeps all my shit in one nice tight little area. Well, most of my shit It's kinda allover the basement, but the cart is where all the meat and potatoes are for the most part. I also snapped some pics of my general work area and how I have it setup for efficiency and convenience. I love seeing other people's gardens and work stations. It gives me ideas on things that might work better than the way I have things setup. So hopefully by showing my work station others will be able to benefit a little bit by seeing what type of equipment and materials are actually on the cart. These are the items I use every day, so what's on the cart / table are the most important tools I use to operate my garden. Feel free to ask me questions if something is unclear. Or if it's just a,"what the fuck is that for?", type of question fire away I also welcome the, "that's stupid. why would you do that?", type of question. You won't hurt my feelings. I promise. I killed those fuckers and buried 'em in the back yard years ago




I own a blue lab truncheon I paid around $100 for. I never use it. I like my cheap $13 hone forest digital meter off amazon. I own 2 of these. I keep 1 at my reservoir station and 1 at my cart station. The blue lab truncheon is basically a reliable backup, but I love the accuracy of my hone forest units.


Dolley's to move heavy buckets and reservoirs around. $15 5 gallon auto wash bucket dolley @ wal mart. $32 32 gallon trash can dolley @ home depot:


High quality wet mop. High quality dry mop. I spent around $12 on my wet mop head. It can be washed up to 100 times in a machine washer. I went with a Genuine Joe for the dry mop head on the right @ sams club for $7. It's very high quality and I would recommend it to anyone. Messes are frequent in the garden / basement work area. I mop and dry mop daily. These make my life easier and keep my work area clean. I'll see if I can get a link to the wet mops I use. I purchased them from Uline. Finding quality mop heads at home depot on the shelf was not possible. All cotton garbage that shred to pieces and leave lint everywhere:


Milwaukee MW102 PH meter and blue lab truncheon. I never use the truncheon, but it looks real good hanging there eh?


Integrated pest management. Grandevo CG and Venerate CG. These are organic pesticides safe for application up to harvest day in the event bugs get into my room. I spray all of my plants just before the flower cycle begins with Bayer Forbid 4F. It is a systemic very toxic pesticide labeled for ornamentals only. It is imperative if you use such a chemical you understand what you're dealing with. It can only be applied in VEG. Never in flower. The application rate is .3ML/quart or 1.2ML/gallon. It is highly concentrated. I do not apply at full strength. I apply at 75% which is .255ML/quart. Forbid 4F has a 6 week half life. It is systemic. That means the plant's tissue absorbs it and the product protects the plant internally for 6 weeks before the chemical is metabolized naturally out of the plant's tissue. Every flower cycle is at least 8 weeks. Mine are 9-10 based on the strains I run. That means Forbid 4F has metabolized fully out of my plant's tissue 3-4 weeks before harvest. This protects the plants for the majority of the flower cycle. If bugs are present in the final stages of flower the organic options are required such as venerate CG and grandevo CG:

Jack's stock solutions that I never use. Someday. Someday...


I'm going to experiment with coco on 1 plant. I generally do not like this stuff, but I thought I'd give it a shot one more time with a quality brand like Canna. If it goes well then I'll change my feelings on coco. If it goes poorly I will forever write coco off as a poor medium choice:


10% H202 solution I made with a 32oz bottle of RO water and 35% h202 I use for cleaning. You can just spray it and walk away. Wipe if you prefer. It sterilizes everything beautifully. Much safer to use than bleach products. Doesn't stink like bleach either:

 

[jonnynobody]

And the rest. This is the whole tamale for equipment I use to operate the garden. Of course there are dehumidifiers and an air conditioner, but that's more environmental controller equipment than tools:



Jack's 7-15-30 finish formula @5g/gallon + 1.1g/gallon epsom salts PH adjusted to 5.8:

 

[jonnynobody]

Just a quick update. I've decided that moving forward I will omit the epsom salt from the 3-2-1 for my vegetative plants. I do not feel it is necessary for the vegetative stage of growth since jack's 5-12-26 already has 6.3% magnesium sulfate. I'm experiencing some tip burn on my very large critical mass that I just did a heavy defoliation and topping on 4 days ago or so. While a heavy topping and defoliation severely stresses a plant and can cause some of the effects I'm seeing I simply think it's too much fertilizer for the vegetative stage of growth. Specifically too much mag sulfate. In flower it's a whole different story. Why? The plants are much larger. Their nutritive needs are much higher in flower and the extra magnesium sulfate is useful. Not in veg though. It's just too much and adds unnecessary PPM's to the res. I'll burn down my remaining reservoir solution. The next res I will fill with jack's 5-12-26 and calcium nitrate only at 1.6 EC. I'll report back results. I'm also going to test 1.3 EC on some small vegging clones. If no deficiencies present themselves then I will run 1.3 EC in veg. I'm having great success running 1.6 EC in flower, so I will continue with that.

Here are some pics to show y'all what's cracking:

Vegging clones. I took these 3 weeks into flower and they took 3 weeks to root in the cloner as a result. Always take your clones before the 12/12 flip otherwise rooting is extremely slow. I'll be entering my next flower cycle about 3 weeks behind as a result. It is what it is. Home schooling a kiddo due to the pandemic got me a little behind. What can ya do? Keep on trucking

Tomato plant that I'll be transplanting outside next week when the weather warms:


Here is the tip burn I'm seeing evident on my large critical mass. I think omitting epsom salt will resolve this. I'll test my theory and report back. Some of the damage is a result of very heavy topping / defoliation. The plant was simply too big because it's basically going through two 8 week veg cycles. I didn't have room for her in the flower room last cycle, so I just let her veg again. She started growing into the lights so I had to take her down. It severely stressed the plant, but they always pop out of it in 7-10 days:


The whole plant is healthy and looks great, but I want to resolve the tip burn. It just pisses me off

 

[jonnynobody]

Nurseries are doing good aside from the tip burn on critical mass. Holly hock and lemon balm are doing great in happy frog potting soil. Hopefully I can get them outside in the next 2 weeks weather permitting. I just put down about 400LBS of good black top soil on the garden beds to enrich it in preparation for the new plants. The 2 god buds and bruce banger are looking great. 1 of the GB's looks to be male. Very long main stalk with few nodes. It just wreaks of male. We'll see though. I've been wrong before. BB is a feminized freebie I got with my last order from seedsman. I hear great things about the strain so I have high hopes.




Godfather OG, my first soil plant in over 10 years, is doing awesome as you can see. Just doing a water, water, feed, water, water, feed regimen. Feed days are 720PPM or so at 6.3PH. GH micro, veg, and bloom with calimagic. While I have abandoned GH in my flower room this particular soil plant is getting the exact same regimen I used over 10 years ago when I first started growing. The pot was the best I've ever grown in my life, and I'm hoping to duplicate those results again. I've got my fingers crossed I'll be switching to jack's 20-20-20 after this cycle for all soil cannabis plants.



Wild flowers are rocking man! Even got one random cabbage seed in there. How the fuck did that even happen?



Flower room is shaping up nicely. 7-14 days before it all comes down. I've got a case of monster 300on standby

 

[jonnynobody]

Straggler pic of the flower room. Different brightness. Same photo:

 

[jonnynobody]

The two 660w quantum boards I customer ordered in 3500K lm301b chips with 660nm and 760nm epistar chips are shipping out on Monday. 18-23 days to estimated arrival. Saved me $200 on express UPS shipping. After these plants come down I'm yanking the two 1000w HID's and making room for the new 660's that will replace them. The light foot print will actually be bigger with my 660 in there as I already have 1 mounted in the rear left, and it covers a substantially larger area than a single 1000w HID. I've also noticed my flowers are more dense and resinous under my 2 quantum boards in the flower room versus the plants grown under the HID's. I have 1 maui in the rear left under the 660w board and 1 maui in front of her directly under a 1000w HID in 15% overdrive operating at 1150w. The plant under the LED is noticeably more dense with more sparkle. I'm observing better flower development under my LED lights than under the HID's. Is it substantial? No, but absolutely noticeable. Then when I consider the qb is operating at 490w less than each of my two 1000w HID's it just bends my brain in half. It's just like a "wow"moment! HID's are simply antiquated technology. In 5 years you won't find HID's in local stores anymore. There won't be a reason to stock them.

 

[jonnynobody]

We begin taking down the 2 maui waui's next Friday. Leeching with plain water on Tuesday to complete a 3 day cycle by harvest on Friday. Each plant will take 2 days to trim, so I expect to have both maui's down by Monday night. The 2 ghost trains come down after that. Then we'll break for 2 days. Hit the 2 blue dreams after that. Then the 2 critical masses. Then jager lastly. Jager and CM take the longest to ripen, so the strains I have in there work out perfectly where I can stagger the harvest a bit. Wife and I hand trim everything. No machines. It will take about 2 weeks to take it all down.



maui waui:


Blue dream: