my first 400 watt grow

[redrum83420]

the ducting leads to a 6" dryer vent in the closet door. i have a passive air intake from my 1/2 bathroom, and exhaust into my bedroom. im running neg air pressure.

 

[justparanoid]

thanks for the info!

JP

 

[redrum83420]

no problem, glad i could help.

 

[shrigpiece]

Nice updating red. So ya gonna breed? Cool, its a beautiful male. What are ya gonna cross it with?
Im interested and will speak soon.

 

[Dropastone]

well it's official the second skunk haze is a male. i have it pulled out for now. i'll take 2-4 clones from it, for pollen collection. try my hands at a little breeding
here's the only 2 pix of the skunk haze male that came out where you could see.
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i think i may have figured my camera out these pix are of the 2 lph under my hps conversion bulb. seems to take better pix on a certain setting under my hood then in my room lol. well here's some bud porn for yall.
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yall think i should trim all the fan leafs off or leave them till harvest?

Hmmm frosty, I wish I could do some breeding, unfortunately I don't have the room. I can't comment on what you should do with the fan leaves. I was following this thread on ICMAG where this guy was stripping all his fan leaves during veg and flower for years. I think the thread was called defoliation or something like that. He had quite the following though. He claimed higher yields with this technique.

 

[redrum83420]

Nice updating red. So ya gonna breed? Cool, its a beautiful male. What are ya gonna cross it with?
Im interested and will speak soon.

not sure what im going to cross it with yet. if i can save the female skunk haze(bad soil ph problems) i'll make some more skunk haze seeds. id like to cross it with a mostly indica also, to cut down flowering time. in the info for the skunk haze it says 20-22% THC. but it finishes in november outdoors. the high thc is why i ordered them i have a couple clones from plant #3 rooted and i just took some kannabia special clones. so those are on my mind for breeding. plus i have another 11 strains on the way. so i need to get my arse moving on making a breeding box.

Hmmm frosty, I wish I could do some breeding, unfortunately I don't have the room. I can't comment on what you should do with the fan leaves. I was following this thread on ICMAG where this guy was stripping all his fan leaves during veg and flower for years. I think the thread was called defoliation or something like that. He had quite the following though. He claimed higher yields with this technique.

you can drop a link to the thread your talking about if you want dropastone i dont mind. im always looking to find better ways to grow my meds i trimmed off some fan leafs that still had mostly purple stems last night. most seem to have went back to green on #1 after the flush. i also checked trich last night also. i see allot of cloudy and some clear no amber yet. less then 2 weeks left

 

[shrigpiece]

Good idea on breeding with a indica for lowering flowering time. How are ya finding that kannabia special?
Iv got a seed that is waiting to be popped myself, gotta feeling that its next inline with the next vegging babies.

 

[redrum83420]

Good idea on breeding with a indica for lowering flowering time. How are ya finding that kannabia special?
Iv got a seed that is waiting to be popped myself, gotta feeling that its next inline with the next vegging babies.

the kannabia special is about 2 months old sense it popped threw the soil. its 10" tall(just checked) and has about 12-13 nodes, counting the 2 lower sets i cut off for clones. you can tell by looking at it, that its mostly indica just like they said it was. im more then happy with it for a free seed. cant wait to see how it finishes.

 

[shrigpiece]

Sounds like it could be a nice addition to my garden. Nice description BTW

 

[redrum83420]

thank you. i like it so far. listed as 15% thc, its a uzbekistan x unknown skunk mix. the pic of it looked nice on attitude. i try to describe everything the best i can makes it easyer for others to know what im talking about. even tho i confuse myself some times lol. and i just got back from the dollar store spent less then $10 and now im ready to take up to 30 clones party cups kiss arse for cloning and seedlings

 

[Dropastone]

I tried his technique a few times but never stuck with it. IMO this technique should only be done by an experienced grower. Someone that can grow a plant from start to finish without any serious problems. Then and only then you can start plucking fans. The fans tell you everything about your plants health. If you go plucking all the fans off, there's really no way to tell if your running into problems or not. I'm not saying your an inexperienced grower, I'm just saying be careful. In my case I didn't feel I was experienced enough to see it through till the end. I still have deficiencies in the plants I grow now, so I know I'm not ready to try this technique yet. Although, I may in the future.

Here ya go.

https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=174163

 

[redrum83420]

same here i keep getting def in my plants. but i'll check it out and see if i want to try his tek. thank you for the link.

 

[dirtycurty420]

loookin goood lookin goood....

 

[redrum83420]

thank you. another not so fun night lol, but the flushing is done. i reflushed the skunk haze and lph #3. the skunk haze only took about 3 gallons to flush out to a good ph runoff. the lph #3 on the other hand took allot more. took about 10 gallons to get the runoff up to about 6.3. much better then 5.8 after about 5 gallons. the plan is still to give lph#3 only phed water, and lph #1 low doses of nutes. and im realy hoping the weather gets warm enough by the time im done harvesting both lph(harvesting tops then lower when finished) finish. so i can plant it outside to reveg it

 

[Dropastone]

Are you flushing with regular tap water or has it been pH-ed. I was thinking about doing that to mine just to leach all the salts from the soil but I'm kinda scared to move em to the bathroom for fear of breaking branches. My girls are so top heavy it wouldn't take much to snap em.

 

[redrum83420]

im flushing with tap water and clearex to flush out the built up salts. the water is phed. i set my 3 gallon pots in a 5 gallon bucket to flush the plants, or i put the smaller pots in a 10" net pot in a bucket to flush. i would rather use snow/rain water but ive been lazy and keep forgeting to put my buckets outside. my plants shake allot when i move them, and ive noticed that the string i got tied to a couple branches is lose but not dangling yet. i have no chose but to pull my plants out of my closet. to many plants in a small area lol. between plants and clones i have about 15 plants in my closet, and 7 of them have to be moved back and forth between my closet and a cardboard box. so they get more them 12 hours of light. an i still need to order better lights for the box. im think 2-100 watt cfl's for it, it's 23"x23"x27". then i'll have to move my cactus out of the box, so i dont burn them but that no biggy.

 

[redrum83420]

i decided to take a top for a test bud. took some pix of right off the plant, then cleaned up with the trim. i cant wait for it to dry

 

[Dropastone]

What strain you working with there? I got a few testers I've been eying myself, just can't get myself to do it. Lem me know how it turn out.

 

[redrum83420]

the 2 plants close to being done are a friends cross. he dont know the strains crossed, but he calls it lemon pepper haze(my guess haze is put in there to sound good ) the skunk haze has about 2 months left to finish flowering and the white widow has a ways to go. i also ordered 2-105watt 5000K and 2-105watt 2700K cfl's from 1000bulbs.com with my cousin last night. my part of the bill is $85 paying half of the shipping.

 

[redrum83420]

i checked the lph #3 today and i seen a couple amber trich. so she got the axe the wet weight of the buds im keeping is 74.7g or 2.62oz, and the pop corn buds wet weight was 23.2g or 0.82oz, for a total of 97.8g or 3.45oz wet. i'll be building the tumbler later today, and the drying box i started a couple months ago.