Tangerine Dream, Skunk#1,N.Lights, II Diovilo Auto, N.Lights Blue Grow

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Holmgrown44

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I ordered some seeds from Attitude and finally got them on the 6th. of March, I started the germination process and they came through the soil the next day. Now I put them under Cfl's until the 17th, then I put them under a 400w Hps since then with some Cfl's for supplemental light. They are in Fox Farm Ocean Forrest Soil, and in 3gal. pots. I'm going to be using, General Hydroponics FloraMicro, Fox Farms Grow Big,Beastie Blooms, and SuperThrive,Mollasis,Ph up/down and I think that is it unless I get Spitermites then I would use my Neem Oil, but that's pretty much it. I use to use all store bought R O water but it caused ALOT of deficiency's, and after extensive trouble shooting it turned out that the water had Calcium and other things very beneficial to them that the R O water dosnt have. It caused bad rust spots on my leaves, now they are gone :) anyway I will post some pics and show you were I am at the moment. Here is a quick video I made the other day.
Check out this video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-2T0z_yXOs&feature=youtube_gdata_player
 
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There's like 94 people that looked but no one commented, I'm looking for advice or someone who can help me with some tips about growing T Dream, or any of the others listed? Any comment, and or info would be appreciated. Thanks guys and I hope all of your grows are going good :)
 
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If anyone csn give me advice on growing any of these strains please. If anyone is interested I will post more pictures of this grow.
 
dishinit

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Holmgrown44 said:
I took some pictures to show the progress of them, and just incase anyone needs to see them to help me with questions. The II Diovolo Auto is looking pretty good and all ready has a sweet smell to her.
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The 2nd pic looks to be your Tangerine Dream, is that correct? Yours looks to be a similar Sativa dom that I have started.
I'm really not a dirt farmer, although interested.
My TD is in a Waterfarm and I am Scrogging her....both methods I am unfamiliar with.
What I have researched on TD, is she is a bit nute sensitive (although that is not currently my personal experience), slow to start from seed, likes some heat (but not too much) and also from personal experience responds well to topping, fim-ing, LST, Super Cropping & apparently ScROG
Time will tell.
My understanding is that she can be very stretchy at the flip, sometimes gaining 3x-plus in size over a period of 3+ weeks after going to 12/12....Common complaints/concerns I have come across other than weak looking beans & trouble germinating are: "stretchy bitch", running out of headroom due to the stretch, etc...all sativa traits, although in this case, perhaps a bit more pronounced.
I've read of some folks having to chop colas due to growing into lights, I would call that almost out of control.......
With that in mind, you may want to give her some training to keep things under control....
Other than that, your plants look great, vigorous & healthy. Keep up the good work.
 
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Dishinit-thanks for all of the info, a lot of what you have told me has come true. She is very Nute sensitive, and seems to burn with anything over 1000ppm's. And Tangerine Dream is the 5th picture from the left or last in that row, the 2nd one in is my II Diovolo Auto from Delicious Seeds, it's been budding for a couple weeks now. It's actually a lot of fun to grow, they change so much everyday.
 
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I put them into flower yesterday, they are getting big fast and I don't want to run out of room. I will post more pictures soon.
 
671mmj

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Ive got a TD going hempy/scrog in 100%perlite.

I have one of the sativa dom. Phenotype. Ive encounteree problems in flower.

What ive learned so far including what dish has already said...

1)In Veg once growth gets going she can take semi max doses of floranova grow.

But once you have her in flower her eating habits change.
1) During the stretch she can handle nute pretty good if u got the rm to accomodate the freakish stretch. If you wanna keep stretch down cut back on nutes during this stretch phase.
2)Once i got past the few weeks of stretching she was very very nute sensitive.

This may vary by grow methods and phenotypes. This is just my exp. In hempy/scrog.

Oh one last thing ive made 8 clones so far off bottom branches all at 100% success rates using rockwool and olivias cloning solution and gel.

Ive tried a sample test on some lower bud at 6th week flower and for an immature bud it was pretty strong.

Hope this helps others planning on trying TD.
 
dishinit

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671mmj said:
Ive got a TD going hempy/scrog in 100%perlite.

I have one of the sativa dom. Phenotype. Ive encounteree problems in flower.

What ive learned so far including what dish has already said...

1)In Veg once growth gets going she can take semi max doses of floranova grow.

But once you have her in flower her eating habits change.
1) During the stretch she can handle nute pretty good if u got the rm to accomodate the freakish stretch. If you wanna keep stretch down cut back on nutes during this stretch phase.
2)Once i got past the few weeks of stretching she was very very nute sensitive.

This may vary by grow methods and phenotypes. This is just my exp. In hempy/scrog.

Oh one last thing ive made 8 clones so far off bottom branches all at 100% success rates using rockwool and olivias cloning solution and gel.

Ive tried a sample test on some lower bud at 6th week flower and for an immature bud it was pretty strong.

Hope this helps others planning on trying TD.
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Thank you for your update on nute sensitivity after the stretch, good to be aware of.
I'm at week 1 of 12/12, and I'm feeding mine with a 50/50% mix of Gro & Bloom.
I intend to slowly taper out the gro (and increase the Bloom portion) over a period of weeks as I have read/observed N deficiencies during mid flower in some grows of this strain.
This may backfire somewhat, as the inclusion of gro in the 12/12 period, may cause me excessive stretching and prolonged pruning chores. At some point I'll be feeding straight Bloom & sweetener and look to maintain N by using a 1-0-0 additive to keep her healthy.
10 weeks is a long time, and much can & will go south, during that process, especially in Hydro environments.
In some ways, It would have been a good experiment to grow this strain side by side in both a Hempy & Water Farm environment for comparisons as I also like Hempy grows. I just don't have the space, so leave that to another.
I will however, make note of your caution to monitor flower nutes closely, and be prepared to cut back if I see signs of over nuting.
My current feed ppm is between 800 & 900 ppm over filtered tap, I may even bunp that a bit if indicated by appearance or PH swinging up.
My bumps are small, no greater than 50 to 100 ppm at a time to minimize an all to likely newbie mistake on my part, and, as every day is new to me....so are my mistakes.
Keep up your sharing, I find it's very helpful.
 
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Thanks for all the info on T. Dream, I will be honest with you guys. Out of all my strains she is giving me a lot of problems, first the Ph meter had a small crack n through off the Ph to like 4.5. I know very low, but I flushed with 6.3ph water and after 20 gal. of water through her n the Ph went to 6.1 so I stopped cause of all the water I put through all ready. Well after the flush she finally dried out and I gave her 5cups of PH water to get out more salt build up or whatever and after checking the R O the Ph was 5.9ph again. I will be honest with you Im wondering if it's the Ocean Forest soil, or my new Nutes I'm trying(general Hydroponics-FloraMicro) I was using all Fox Farm but LGS, sold me this and said it's better n cheaper? I'm not having great results, T. Dream has dark leaves, bright yellow burnt tips with darkness surrounding the burnt yellow tips. The dark leaves feel like velvet and she really not growing anymore. Like I said I flushed with Phed water n even flushed with Epsom Salt and Cal/mag. The leaves seem to feel a little rougher but we shall see. I also found that she likes the Ppm's around 800-1000ppm's anymore and she font like it. Anyway Im rambling now so, again thanks for all the info guys. Thanks
 
dishinit

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When I have to flush due to over- nuting or possible lockup, I start back with nutes at half strength or less and build back up.....With your new GH regimen, I would do the same to develop a feel for the nutes and plant.
 
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