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

Just read the thread from start to finish, very informative and it will be interesting to see how my girlz stretch.

I'll be switching my TD's to 12/12 in a week or two - as soon as a flowering spot is available, but I hopefully shouldn't have your stretching issues.

I grew two seeds, both popped within 2 days - one was a tall stretched out plant which became the root stock for a multi grafted mother and the second (shorter/bushier) had 4 clones removed to become my TD mini-ScrOG.
I grafted some of the shorter TD to the multi grafted mother and removed any trace of the original TD.

Once I switch to 12/12 I keep all growth below the screen until flowering has begun, then they can grow through the screen and stretch away.

My screen is attached to the pot and is only about 3 or 4 inches above the pot, so far I haven't had to deal with over stretched plants and hopefully I can keep the TD under control.

My current LSD ScrOG pushed about 6 inches above the screen before the stretch slowed to a stop, hopefully the TD will do similar.

faithfulmastiff said:

ok now i'm starting to sweat a lil, i flipped my 3 TD's when they were just over 13", that was 6 days ago & i'm adding a 600w hps tomorrow, maybe i should of got the 400w

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Grumpy Old Dreamer said:

Just read the thread from start to finish, very informative and it will be interesting to see how my girlz stretch.

I'll be switching my TD's to 12/12 in a week or two - as soon as a flowering spot is available, but I hopefully shouldn't have your stretching issues.

I grew two seeds, both popped within 2 days - one was a tall stretched out plant which became the root stock for a multi grafted mother and the second (shorter/bushier) had 4 clones removed to become my TD mini-ScrOG.
I grafted some of the shorter TD to the multi grafted mother and removed any trace of the original TD.

Once I switch to 12/12 I keep all growth below the screen until flowering has begun, then they can grow through the screen and stretch away.

My screen is attached to the pot and is only about 3 or 4 inches above the pot, so far I haven't had to deal with over stretched plants and hopefully I can keep the TD under control.




My current LSD ScrOG pushed about 6 inches above the screen before the stretch slowed to a stop, hopefully the TD will do similar.

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Goood luck you two


pics coming up tonight

Day 54 Tangerine Dream (supposedly 16 days left)...
I'm expecting it to go a bit past 70 so I'm going to do my first flush around day 58... should be 2-3 weeks for them to eat up all the nutes.
LAST FEEDING WAS TODAY!

I think you guys might like these.


NUGS. Look at those hairs, and the sparkle.










It pretty much all looks like that









This thing is HUGE. Hard to get a clear shot of it though! biggest cola by far if you look close, it goes really far down





Comments appreciated

Nice buds ... Barney's farm do have a habit of producing trichome factories

thanks

that and the smell are the only things I realllly like about this strain... everything else is very eh.

Thanks for the tip on the thread

They look nice bru, I hope the long flush plays to your favor. I don't remember how much experience you originally told me you have with grows but I can lead you in the direction of a trich whore if you're interested. Frostiest strain I've seen or grown to date but I have a feeling that TD is going to have a really nice flavor to it. I can even send you a few pics too if you like of couple flowers I had with it. I have'nt had it tested and neither has the creator but I'd put it at the top of my list for potency for sure and so do my friends that I shared it with. It's a bit on the sour side, hehe.

Getting close! You have any goals for harvest?

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Getting close! You have any goals for harvest?

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Good weed potency over quantity.... I almost lost these plants a few times. I had to cut a foot and a half off every main branch so that they would fit by the end of flowering... with the 1.5ft cut off my light is sstillll on the ceiling today .. I couldn't raise it 2 inches if I wanted to..

So I'm considering myself lucky for not getting herms on day 17 with that much mutilation.... and I'm also lucky that they actually FIT at the end.

So I'm getting whatever I get, all for myself... declaring it a victory... and then starting some Reserva Privada Headband genetics next - I've spoke to a few people who have grown it, it stretches 2-3 times... but other than that is a very stable plant from what I hear....... The TANGERINE dream is NOT stable though... smells and looks amazing right now though. So thats good.

good work homie!

Those are looking really nice, when looking at those pictures of the buds I forgot they were from a 250w light . I've loved keeping up with this thread and learning from it.

Day 57 today... 13 days til day 70.

Watered through with clean water on both, I think the sativa will get fed once more, and the hybrid pheno will get flushed with 2gal h2o in like 4 days when it needs water.


I was noticing today that the pistils are JUST starting to recede. Good news for the Hybrid.

On the sativa, it's still packing on clear trichs. The pistils are just beginning to turn.




On another note:

@ juman

thanks dude, they should be 2x-3x bigger though I had to chop my plants in half on day 17 flower because they ended up stretching 5x from veg! unheard of! No hermies though! So I can be glad about that.



The nuggets continue to swell and new calyxes patches form every day

Day 60

Barneys Farm Tangerine Dream


Chunking out now. Calyxes fattening a bit, still a ways to go though. Pistils still not turning so much on the Sativa pheno. It will be a long flower I feel. Whatever, I got time . The hybrid pheno is turning a lot of pistils but they haven't begun receding very much, so I figure it'll keep turning them for a while then recede. It has plenttty of light

The plants:




The colas:




SATIVA nug, probably the frostiest, but hard to tell b/c it's in the back


lower nugs, look delightful and frosty


Front of the canopy flashed, your looking a the hybrid pheno here



I watered with plain water last time, so I think I will feed the hybrid pheno half strength nutes, just to keep it rolling, then next watering after that I will flush. I will give the sativa pheno a full feed until I see the pistils start to turn. Pretty much trying to give them a 10-12 day flush before chopping. It being day 60 on a "70" day flower it would seem I should be flushing now. But I think they will go for a while yet, so I figure on a 75-80 day flower for the hybrid and like 80-85maybe90 on the sativa pheno.


I'm going to make sure these ladies get to optimal ripeness before I chop. Gotta get those terpenes in the essential oils

Right on Verde, looks super dank!

btw, this headband is so dank after a four-five week cure, tastes amazing, I might even snag a few nugs to make some bho

Nice Sr. Verde! Plants are looking lovely! Bet it smells awesome in there. I'm glad you are gunna let them go as long as they need to - patience my friend, patience. It will pay off in the end. Also - I finally managed to get a couple threads up and rollin - they're in the sig - would love for you to stop by and check em out. Be easy!

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Right on Verde, looks super dank!

btw, this headband is so dank after a four-five week cure, tastes amazing, I might even snag a few nugs to make some bho

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That's good stuff I'm excited to get some RP in there. I think I will get some floros like a T5 in there for veg... veg them to 6-7 inches and flower them out under the 250w hps with 80w CFL side lighting... then down the road I will add a cool tube, 6 in vortex... then a 400w ballast and bulb Going to make the tent pay for itself though i think, after the RP headband I should have some extra $600 to upgrade

peaceloveandpaws said:

Nice Sr. Verde! Plants are looking lovely! Bet it smells awesome in there. I'm glad you are gunna let them go as long as they need to - patience my friend, patience. It will pay off in the end. Also - I finally managed to get a couple threads up and rollin - they're in the sig - would love for you to stop by and check em out. Be easy!

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Yes it smells fannnntastic. Wish I could upload smell you guys would go nuts.

I will get into your journals and sub

So I'm planting some chili pepper plants, and 3 tomato plants outside...

Kind of late in the season for the tomatos, whatever though. The chilis should be pretty cool! I'm using Fox Farms ocean Forest, as well as my basic ph balanced nutrient solution... I'm using root 66 and thrive alive balanced to 6.4 right now... Jalapenos and "New Mexico Big something" or something like that..

Expect pics of those too. I hope I can keep the chili plants going for a few years

Not too late for Tomatoes. Tomatoes need Summer heat

Right on man! I grow lots of tomatoes and chilies for the farmer's market down here. I have quite a few pepper varieties, my favorites are the rainbow pepps and serrano, I always have my fridge packed with garden fresh salsa

upthearsenal said:

Right on man! I grow lots of tomatoes and chilies for the farmer's market down here. I have quite a few pepper varieties, my favorites are the rainbow pepps and serrano, I always have my fridge packed with garden fresh salsa

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Bad ass. That's what I'm hoping for...

Could you give me a quick low down on the peppers, coming from extensive cannabis growing knowledge?

I know they like their ph around 5.5-6.5 in soil.... and the tomatoes are 6-7...


I'm hoping the chili pepper plants can live for years to come and just turn into tiny trees

I really wanted a Habanero (sp.?) plant but they were out!

I figured it would be better to start with simple, not so hot chilis... jalapenos should make for some decent salsa! I'm just tired of the jalapenos but I guess fresh will be way better eh?

They are super easy to grow man, personally I didn't adjust my pH for them specifically but I remember when I started growing I read a study on how slightly acid soil was really beneficial early in life, so with that in mind if you want to do it all pro you could start them in pH specific soil like in a container, then move them into the ground. Later in life, if they are in the ground especially, the pH will balance out to what they need.

I just introduced habaneros this season so they are still pretty small, but I have a "chili piquin" that is around five years old, and before I cut it back last year it was like 6ft tall and super lanky, it's was pretty cool. I got the seeds from some plants in the mountains in mexico, it was like a field of chili, cool shit.