2x2x5 Gl60 Tent, 250w Hortilux MH/HPS, Tangerine Dream

[Sr. Verde]

Day 67 [bookmark]

It's getting tight in there for sure.. The sativa is fattening up very unexpectedly. It will benefit from the week of extra room.

I have the humidity down to 38% today by opening the windows and door and just venting the air. I woke up with it at 60% about 3 hours into their day. I figure if I can keep it down for the majority of the day, and I can open it right when the lights go off to vent out the wet stale air I should be OK.

My dehumidifier is in the mail, not sure when it will get here.

Things are smelling very, VERY planty.. which has me a little worried.. i went ahead and removed some of the yellowed out leafs on the larger colas, to allow for more air flow between them. I'm not letting ANY colas touch! I know what will happen if they do

& thanks for the compliments I appreciate all of them

Anyway, here's the pics. thanks for reading if you did.

Wide angle shots

Thermostat Sensor

What I can get the humidity down to. The temp stays between 75-78 during the day.

(I've been keeping my tent unzipped for hours at a time also. Just to get a lot of airflow...


Vertical. Looking good yes? Not bad for my first HID/Tent run. I'm totally making the height more manageable next grow.

FAT colas taking up space

Who knew 250w could do so much?

 

[peaceloveandpaws]

Dude forget the foxtails, you are going to have some CHRONIC!! That vertical pic is impressive. I'm excited to see what comes out of the 250. Gunna be buds all the way down those little trees. And it still blows my mind when I think that still came out when you had to fuckin chop them in half however many days into 12/12! Lol crazy

 

[Sr. Verde]

Dude forget the foxtails, you are going to have some CHRONIC!! That vertical pic is impressive. I'm excited to see what comes out of the 250. Gunna be buds all the way down those little trees. And it still blows my mind when I think that still came out when you had to fuckin chop them in half however many days into 12/12! Lol crazy

thanks and yeah seriously... on day 15 all the [now] top colas were new nodes with 1 set of leaves...


I honestly am interested in the sativa, that thing is PURE white. You guys will be straight IMPRESSED when I cut down the one in the front and get some NIGHT pics of the sativa in back!

It has like 2x as much trichs all over the place, but the hybrid sure is pretty!

The sativa has like a 4 inch foxtail its redic. There are some really nice nuggets in there though.


As far as buds to the bottom, yeah there are some gram+ nuggets on the right side that are actually fattening up really well.

It's developing pretty evenly from what I can see... I guess another like 7 days for the hybrid, it's still got pistils turning with quite a few receding.

 

[cannabis420420]

mouth watering budzzzzzzzzzzzzz

 

[Sr. Verde]

Hello Verde (and everyone else, seeing as I'm new to the forums)

Thanks for this journal, it's been especially of interest to me because I'm about to start a very similar TD grow, almost right down to every detail (except that I have a GL80 tent instead of a GL60) - forgive me if I missed it as I went through every page catching up, but did you list details on your nutes? I haven't bought any yet but I'm about to this weekend.

Hey buddy, you came to the right place

No problem on the journal, I was hoping that clearly outlining my motives and plans would assist some newbies


Glad that your using a bigger tent, the tangerines will probably appreciate it...

First, I must say, if you missed this.... Flower EARLY! These tangerine dreams are some SUPER SUPER stretchy strains! I've kept track of 3 different grows from veg to flower and ALL of the tangerine dreams stretch 4-5x!!! So basically, if you WANT your tangerines to finish around 3 feet tall, you NEED to flower at like 6 inches! Seriously, this plant does like 95% of it's growing in flower I swear.... Some plants stretch 2... or 2.5x their original size in flower, NOT this one... 4 or 5 times the size!

I had to cut my plants in half about 2 weeks into flower because they were already out growing the tent at that point... The TD's stop the major stretch around day 30... and pretty much hault most stretch growth and focus on buds around day 33-35 flower.



As far as nutes go... I'm using the Technaflora line of "recipe for success"

It's basically a tiny suitcase full of a BUNCH of little bottles, full of boosters and all that.... It gives you enough nutes for about 1 soil grow with a few plants.

If your a newbie, honestly I'd go with this kit. I really liked the simplicity. It cost about $35 or so, which is actually less money than 3 NORMAL bottles of GROW/BOOST/BLOOM...

The recipe for success kit comes with cloning gel, kelp additive to promote rooting, thrive alive (general plant tonic), CalMag ( calcium/mag is ESSENTIAL for healthy growth when using filtered water), grow, boost, and bloom (basic nutes) as well as a few others.


So yeah my thoughts are go for the small simple 'recipe for success' kit.... If you don't like it, you don't end up with a LOT of nutes you wont use. You can also try out a few boosters and see which ones of those you like. Some are better than others.


Any more questions? go ahead and ask them..

If your using Fox Farms Ocean Forest soil then your good on nutes for about a month.

The TD is very picky, one week it wants more nitrogen, and another week it needs more magnesium...... you really need to look at your plant and read what it's telling you with it's leaves

 

[Sr. Verde]

Day 68

Everything looking good, watering tomorrow.


I bumped a little side nugget when flushing last friday, today the wound didn't seem to be recovering so I snipped it so it wasn't constantly stressing from that wound!


I figured I'd trim it up and see where the trichomes on the calyxes are at..... I'm actually vaporizing a volcano bag of fresh trim.. the vapor is very thick and delicious and HEADY.. zero drying, LOL gotta love vapes..


For your folks analysis:

For your folks pleasure

My, oh my... will these be beautiful nuggets when they are finished... Maroon red/bright orange hairs, with bright green calyxes with light purple tones in some calyxes (especially on the sativa pheno)

 

[DesertSativa]

Thanks, I'll definitely be using your insight and experience from this TD grow of yours to maximize mine. I think it's going to be much easier now.
I chose TD for the first grow in my new tent really for two reasons: first because it seems that from what I've read, the notoriety of TD being hit/miss on many grows made it appeal to me because I love a challenge. Second, I'm a skeptic, and a skeptic who happens to love oranges. So when I heard all that mad shit Derry talks up on the TD strain I had to find out if it's true or not. Even the PR-speak on Attitude sounded too good to be true... I wanted to find out.

Yeah I followed your issues with stretch. I wasn't expecting that from what I've read on the strain. It's good to know. I'll flower at 6". I haven't picked up soil or nutes yet, I'll be doing so this weekend and I'll go with your selections to see how that works for me. Looks like it's worked out for you alright!!

I know it's usually a waste of time to estimate before harvest, but have you thought about how much you'll likely yield off the two that are left?

Looks tasty!

 

[Sr. Verde]

Thanks, I'll definitely be using your insight and experience from this TD grow of yours to maximize mine. I think it's going to be much easier now.
I chose TD for the first grow in my new tent really for two reasons: first because it seems that from what I've read, the notoriety of TD being hit/miss on many grows made it appeal to me because I love a challenge. Second, I'm a skeptic, and a skeptic who happens to love oranges. So when I heard all that mad shit Derry talks up on the TD strain I had to find out if it's true or not. Even the PR-speak on Attitude sounded too good to be true... I wanted to find out.

Yeah I followed your issues with stretch. I wasn't expecting that from what I've read on the strain. It's good to know. I'll flower at 6". I haven't picked up soil or nutes yet, I'll be doing so this weekend and I'll go with your selections to see how that works for me. Looks like it's worked out for you alright!!

I know it's usually a waste of time to estimate before harvest, but have you thought about how much you'll likely yield off the two that are left?

Thanks for reading up dude, just by reading your post I can tell that you actually took in what I've been putting out there. It's a good feeling not having to explain twice

Also, please start a journal and give me the URL... I will FOLLOW that shit and point out any place or thing I think could be helped... or avoided!

Good call on the 6" flowering height. I just looked at my plant, the highest cola is at 3 feet and most of the canopy is at 2.8ft...

Yes, the stretch was not expected! It is "medium" according to attitude which is totally bullshit!

The smell is really awesome.... I've heard it described by a guy here as "Mandarin Orange Tea" type smell.... I would agree on that... it's like the mandarin orange tea with a SUPER candied/blueberry type overtones..... slight hints of vanilla over the buleberry tones... I find that the indica/hybid pheno smells a little more on the DANK side of the spectrum... like CHRONIC plants... and the sativa pheno is a lot more smoothed out... with a resonous tangerine candied blueberry smell just pouring from it's trichomes...

The smell is literally the best thing about this strain I think. I can't comment on the smoke, or flavor (though I imagine it's incredible)... the nug I took at day 60ish was some of the dankest smoke I've ever had in my vaporizer.. and I go through like lbss... you dig?

It's supposed to be 25% THC content (in the trichs).... it could be a type of exaggeration like the height/flower time.... but with all the resin I see I would believe it..



As far as yield... I really have no clue! I can't eyeball wet nuggets. Dry nuggets I can... I can tell you that I estimate the one plant to fill up three or four 2.5ftx1.5ft drying screens!

I plan on not smoking any of this Tangerine Dream until it's at it's peak potency! So I will have a final weight for you guys for the first plant within 2-3 weeks.

 

[Sr. Verde]

Day 69 today.



I just FED the sativa in back with full strength nutes... I noticed quite a number of pistils have turned, but 65% are still bright bright white. They also seem very thin.. So I'm estimating 2-3 weeks left on the sativa in the back (putting it between 80-90 days at harvest)... I plan on letting it eat all of it's food today, then in 5 days when I water again I will probably FLUSH it with a few gals of plain ph'd water with "botanicate: sweet [raw]" added 20mL/gal... it's basically Magnesium Sulfate...


The HYBRID one in front I FLUSHED again today! I used 3gal of h2o.... VERY thorough flush taking about a half hour to let all the excess salts get sucked up and flushed out.



The Hybrid pheno is looking very yellowed! Like its 5 days or so away. (5 days from now lands it at 74 days @ harvest) Removed a shit tonne of dead leaves today on both.

I'm going to go through some pics I took and see if I can post any

 

[Sr. Verde]

Day 69.. again
Barneys Farm: Tangerine Dream



first..play..
[youtube]Rg3fVe1-Joo[/youtube]



enjoy.. and enjoy..




The sativa pheno in the back, that i've been saying is going to take a few more weeks... Nice clear shots

Here is some outside nug shots of the INDICA/hybrid pheno... the one that should be done within 5-7 days.. the one I just flushed today with 3 gal of h2o, first flush was last friday (5 days ago)

I'm proud of myself on this one.

Here is a trichome zoom in of the indica/hybrid pheno... I'm seeing them starting to milk up, maybe like 25%-40% remain clear?

Thoughts on harvest date/ripeness would be appreciated, again were on day 69 flower.

 

[cannabis420420]

Day 69.. again
Barneys Farm: Tangerine Dream



first..play..
[youtube]Rg3fVe1-Joo[/youtube]



enjoy.. and enjoy..

Trichs:

very nice Sr. Verde this is my favorite picture

 

[Sr. Verde]

Thanks


And yeah the sativa picture!

You see that nugget inflating on the left side? It's still got a lot to fill out too! it's like almost twice as frosty as the hybrid...

The sativa nuggets should be like frosted over and then some by the time I chop down... also getting some very bright oranges on the sativa pheno...



They are both really nice though.

 

[cannabis420420]

Thanks


And yeah the sativa picture!

You see that nugget inflating on the left side? It's still got a lot to fill out too! it's like almost twice as frosty as the hybrid...

The sativa nuggets should be like frosted over and then some by the time I chop down... also getting some very bright oranges on the sativa pheno...



They are both really nice though.

+rep great job keep it up

 

[Sr. Verde]

Oh and I get my dehumidifier tomorrow!

*now look at my avatar*

 

[peaceloveandpaws]

Niiiiice

 

[cannabis420420]

Oh and I get my dehumidifier tomorrow!

*now look at my avatar*

yeah your avatar is funny as hell hope your dehumidifier works well

 

[harth234]

Sr. Verde!!!! whats up man. its been a while, anyway im growing this summer again and im pumped to see all ur girls they look soooo good.

 

[Sr. Verde]

Sr. Verde!!!! whats up man. its been a while, anyway im growing this summer again and im pumped to see all ur girls they look soooo good.

Heyyyy harth hows it going! thats good to hear!


It's hard to wake up every day and not have something growing

 

[bleedintears]

Hey man. I noticed you have about 7% amber going on there.
what you thinking lol

 

[Sr. Verde]

Hey man. I noticed you have about 7% amber going on there.
what you thinking lol

I'm thinking my vision is rather poor then!

few days then we will see