First Grow Stealth Bubbleponics

[MostlyCrazy]

No can do on the LSD picks. When I started this I had to promise the wife no pictures. I'm working on her and may have some for my next grow which is also the LSD/BC but from clones this time. Big hopes for Father's day! LSD had big coke can colas but the BC was pretty much a dud. I have the BC in the back where the best LSD was last time so we'll see if it's genetics or location. I will say this, the LSD can really take the nutes! Never a bad leaf and I'm what you would call aggressive with nutes. I try to flush for about 10 days because of that. Turning out the light the last 2 or three days seem to harden them up a little so I'll be repeating that.

Don't know how long on that finish. I see trichs and see that it's mostly indica. The only way I know for sure is to get a radio shack pocket microscope and go by the color of the trichs. Mostly Clear= not ready, Mostly Cloudy = getting close - Mostly Cloudy and no more than 20-30% amber = cut it! Oh and on the lower buds, I wouldn't cut them. Cutting stresses the plant a little and that's not what you want now. Have them keep to the task at hand which is flowering. The air buds get dry quickly and you can use them to sample after the cut while the real buds are drying properly. Of course I've been know to cut and sample the last week or two myself. My advice is never cut while high. Seemed like a good idea at the time! LOL!

 

[motif]

hey ray,

how many days has it been since you first saw the pistils?? That is your "true" flowering time. All looks pretty well tho, congrats!

 

[Roseman]

Thanks for the love guys! Told ya we should wait for a better camera.

So here's a couple of questions:

1. There are lots of little underdeveloped bud sites with hairs on the bottoms of the branches. Should we let these keep growing or just pick them off?
Let them grow, often the liilt popcorn buds are the sweetest tasting.

2. The question of questions: How much longer till harvest!?! God, we just wanna taste these girls already! Sorry, we're ancy, but a month of no signs of flowering in 12/12 and watching a month of actual flowering will do that to you. We're guesstimating about 2 weeks for the buds to fill out (45 days of flowering) until harvest for some of the already larger Colas.

Expect to go thru 8 to 9 weeks counting from day one of starting 12/12.
Do you have a trichome Microscope? $13 from Radio Shack????

P.S. Hey Crazy can you please post some pics of your LSD? We'd really love to see the finished product of that beautiful strain.

WOW!!!!! Beautiful!!!!

 

[Ray Fox]

Roseman! It's about time you made it here! Thanks so much for checking out the grow.

The plants have been actually flowering for 34 days today exactly.

Here's our plan from looking at Roseman's thread on Stealth Bubbleponics grows:

Another 11 days of 12/12 then a 14 day flush in 15/9 followed by 3 days in total darkness. That sounds good we think.

 

[motif]

14 day flush seems a bit extreme doesnt it? Why not just push the nutes up until the last 7 days when you flush? My Recipe for Success" from Technaflora suggests 3 days of just Sugardaddy and Magical, then only 4 days flush. I HARDLY gave my 1st harvest a flush, with only i think from full strength nutes to NOTHING (just ph'd water) and honestly, it wasnt bad smoke.... so if i can go from 1800ppm to 0 (or whatever my tap water ppm is) and flush for only about 3 maybe 4 days...it wasnt bad. I guess just lemme know how that turns out

 

[jigfresh]

I HARDLY gave my 1st harvest a flush, with only i think from full strength nutes to NOTHING (just ph'd water) and honestly, it wasnt bad smoke....

Then there is the other end of the spectrum... inadvertantly I started my 'flush' very early. My plants have had 4 weeks and 2 days with a ppm below 200. The past 7 days they have had a ppm of 25... just water.

I'm not suggesting you do what I did... just putting it out there.

 

[Ray Fox]

Then there is the other end of the spectrum... inadvertantly I started my 'flush' very early. My plants have had 4 weeks and 2 days with a ppm below 200. The past 7 days they have had a ppm of 25... just water.

I'm not suggesting you do what I did... just putting it out there.

Haha Oh snap son! Growing technique-off! Well guys we're gonna try a mix of stuff. On Roseman's Stealth Hydroponics thread (Page 792 we believe) there are 4 videos from THC Seeds and the technique above came straight from that. They even suggested a 20 day flush. Whatever, there's More PICS!!!


Notes:

Smell: not overly pungent but if smelling the buds directly there is a pleasantly sweet odor coming off the buds with the most crystals on them, almost like a cotton candy scent, with a citrus tang pinching the end.

Touch: Frankly? You know that one pic of me holding the center of the bud in my fingers? I had to wash my hands of the resin, then when I wiped them off the towel got stuck to my fingers because they were still super sticky (icky) and I had to wash my hands a couple times more to get it out before I could take more pictures. What I'm holding in the photos is what used to be just a mass of bud but are now well developed colas and branches that have reached their max height and are now growing fat. They're like tiny Seuss looking Christmas trees! Beautiful.

Edit: And wow guys thanks so much for doubling our rep in just a couple days!

 

[MostlyCrazy]

Get a feeling you ain't seen nothin yet. Things go fast at this point. I get a tingly feeling but try not to do it too much! lol!

 

[Roseman]

Ray, AMAZING PICS. VERY BEAUTIFUL.

 

[Ray Fox]

Ray, AMAZING PICS. VERY BEAUTIFUL.

Wow Roseman, thanks! We were hoping the pics came out good cause we edited them when high hahaha . And sorry Crazy, we're just really overly excited dude. Didn't you read the title of the thread? FIRST GROW STEALTH BUBBLEPONICS. After buying bag bud of mixed qualities we're finally excited to be growing our own. We're hella ancy, but we're glad to be sharing our excitement (all shades and colors of it) with you guys.

And Crazy its a damn shame that you can't show the RIU world pics of your surely beautiful LSD girls (a particularly interesting strain by the way). In fact, we've started using the term "coke-can colas" as a bud size to aspire to. Thanks for your feedback guys!

 

[motif]

This is the fun part! ...and the hard part (waiting hahaha) but don't get ancy and start plucking buds early!

 

[MostlyCrazy]

I feel your pain! LOL! Yes, I'm hoping for a camera for Father's day. That also comes with permission from the wife to show and tell. When you're married for 35 years you make compromises. Not one of my better ones but I'm playing the angles and I think it will work! LOL!

I put the buds in the jar this morning. Weighted out at 8.4 oz from 3 plants running a 250 watt HPS after a floro veg. Probably lose another 20% so somewhere around 7 oz fully cured. It's realy sticky wright now. I'm happy. Probably need to air out the jars a bit more but I'll see. Seems to be really trippy stuff at first taste. Kind of makes the world wobble! Happy pot too with a sit your ass down finish. Taste of musk and chesnut like they say on the strain description and to me has a lightly sour finish. Not harsh at all for it being so fresh. Can take a full toke no problem. The problem starts when you try to hang onto that hit! LOL! This is very early in the cure. I wonder what I'll get at the end.

 

[Ray Fox]

I'm happy. Probably need to air out the jars a bit more but I'll see. Seems to be really trippy stuff at first taste. Kind of makes the world wobble! Happy pot too with a sit your ass down finish. Taste of musk and chesnut like they say on the strain description and to me has a lightly sour finish. Not harsh at all for it being so fresh. Can take a full toke no problem. The problem starts when you try to hang onto that hit! LOL! This is very early in the cure. I wonder what I'll get at the end.

Dude, this is the best part about RIU: the strain and smoke descriptions.

The fluid illustration of colors, the veritable feast of flavors and sensations and scents are what put the idea of cannabis as "drug use" to shame and turn it into Cannabis Culture. The defining factor is not to just smoke any old bag bud, but to savor the individual aspects and defining qualities of each strain.

Thank you gentlemen.

 

[MostlyCrazy]

I equate it to wine making. Street gear is Mogan David and I want an upgrade to Mad Dog 20/20. 20% THC that is! Now and again a nice port or possibly a jaunty little Merlot! Full and not pretentious with a smack your lips finish. LOL!

 

[Ray Fox]

So... How long until harvest?

 

[jigfresh]

Hey bro... I was looking at your pics and my wife was walking by... so I asked her. She gave a glance and her response: "A long time"

I agree. At least wait until there are some amber pistils...

My guess is at least 2 more weeks from today. At least. They haven't even started swelling (in my opinion). They'll get nice and fat.

 

[Roseman]

So... How long until harvest?

They look like they need 2 or 3 more weeks. When did you start 12/12?

The Stigmas are not turning color yet.

 

[motif]

They look like they need 2 or 3 more weeks. When did you start 12/12?

The Stigmas are not turning color yet.

^^im with stupid^^

haha, since you dont have a microscope from radioshack for $13, just watch the stigmas. It might mature faster on the lower parts of the plant and work its way to the top. Thats how mine is right now. Just waiting for my cola's stiggys to start turning.

Youll be surprised in the difference of how they look when they are really done, compared to how they look now.

Check out my pic updates

 

[Ray Fox]

^^im with stupid^^

haha, since you dont have a microscope from radioshack for $13, just watch the stigmas. It might mature faster on the lower parts of the plant and work its way to the top. Thats how mine is right now. Just waiting for my cola's stiggys to start turning.

Youll be surprised in the difference of how they look when they are really done, compared to how they look now.

Check out my pic updates

The stigmas haven't started changing just yet we don't think. We're using a magnifying glass to look at trich's and the magnification right now is pretty good.

 

[orzz]

Well Ray I read your thread and what I had was a view of your op in time lapse photography.

Watching your op progress and the ladies grew healthier and healthier. You have come along way. Gratz!!!

I have a couple weeks till harvest on a purple kush and my patience is being tested. I am using the Radio Shack $13 scope and it brings the trichs into beautiful focus.

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