600 Watt 5 x 5 tent 3 Strains First Grow..... in a long time

AngusMcKay said:

also, just a side question, a friend told me something I do not think is true, but want to ask anyways, he told me not to flower multiple strains in the same room that they could cross pollinate the females. I don't even see how this is possible, I thought only males could cross pollinate with females. please let me know if what he is saying is true or not. I started from clones, so they are all female, no danger of males or anything like that.

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Ok so after a good amount of discussion it looks like my water only flushes ere throwing a wrench into the mix. So i have been feeding every other day with the same nute mic at 650 ppm and things are looking better, installing the ventilation this week as things are starting to get stinky in there. I have not been measuring my plants and just measured this last saturday, they are all between 20 _25 inches, i am flipping today.

Plants are ready to flip. they are about 22- 26 inches. the FIRE OG and Skywalker OG are on the shorter end and the GSC is on the higher end. they are looking great. have been feeding at a lower PPM than I was before. the FIRE and SKYWALKER took more time to get used to the nutes than the GSC. I don't know why, but they are all taking off now. I switched to 1000 watt light, the 600 had to be returned because of Amazons bullshit A-Z order policy. the seller messed up on my order and in order to get a portion of money back, they made me return the entire order, so I figured F it, just get the 1000. I also ordered a MH bulb and the plants are loving it, shit, I am too because the HPS is blinding. so this morning just after the photo shoot, I shut the lights off and will let them sit until tonight, so my off hours will be 7 am to 7 pm. Anyways, I just wanted to say thanks and that I appreciate the help I have been getting very much. looking forward to showing everyone more shots as time permits.

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update, the GSC hit 29 inches overnight, that is huge, the flip is going to spawn a jungle, i know i should expect 2- 2.5 stretch with the GSC, but will they really get to almost 80 inches if i started at 26?

Boom GSC is at 33 inches now, stretching like a MOFO.

DUE to the issues on this site. I am stopping my updates of my Grow Journal. too much bs to come back here every other day and not have my posts going up, not to mention how long it takes to update this crap, only to be unsure if it is even updating.

so this is my last post, until I harvest at which time I will upload some harvest pictures.

ok so I changed my mind, things are looking spectacular. day 24 of flower. Some things I hav elearned along the way.

- Coco Coir needs to be watered at minimum ever 2 days, you can get away with 3 but your plants will be noticeably happier with once per day or once ever two days feeding
- feed to run off at least 20 percent, in order to fully saturate the coco, you have to drown the fuckers. I feed about a gallon or slightly less every two days, I will be switching to daily feedings soon
- House and Garden Nutrients are perfect by themselves. the A and B cocos formula will do very well by itself. no need for all the additives until later in the grow. I only use the following nutes. cocos A, Cocos B, Multi-Zen, Bud - XL.
- Aminos treatment from House and Garden is so expensive its not worth buying, I instead use botanicare silica blast by the recommendation of a Humboldt Wholesale sales rep and it is working very well.
- Adding Cal Mag to House and Garden is to be done sparingly. I was adding to every feeding and I think it was not helping as much as I first suspected, I removed it from the line up and things look very lush, no more issues with overfeeding.

Ok, so here are some pics, I have hundreds from the past 24 days, but I don't want to bore anyone with the bs, here is day 24 of flower. oh yeah, they are at 52 inches now, so I have been weighing some of them down with random shit to bend the tops down, it seems to be working well. I super-cropped a bit before and during flower and they are looking great.

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Some updated pics, the bud XL definitely is helping out.

Man thats nuts! Your grow has given me so much information on the rate photoperiods grow vs a autoflower. Your plants seem like they will yield really nice in 3 gallon plasti pots with having more space in a 5x5 then my 7 plants in 5 gallon smart pots with my 4x4 tent.

With supercropping/fimming it's interesting to see the extra bud sites where an auto takes what it can give lol...guess that's somewhat of a trade off ... speed vs technique basically?

I think next round I'll only do 4 plants in 5 gallon smart pots with a scrog. Less plants seems like less hassle and worry?

Zspy1985 said:

Man thats nuts! Your grow has given me so much information on the rate photoperiods grow vs a autoflower. Your plants seem like they will yield really nice in 3 gallon plasti pots with having more space in a 5x5 then my 7 plants in 5 gallon smart pots with my 4x4 tent.

With supercropping/fimming it's interesting to see the extra bud sites where an auto takes what it can give lol...guess that's somewhat of a trade off ... speed vs technique basically?

I think next round I'll only do 4 plants in 5 gallon smart pots with a scrog. Less plants seems like less hassle and worry?

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Thanks, yeah it seems like we started around the same time, hopefully they yield well, they are all between 46 inches and 53 inches from the top of the pot. I am running out of space for sure, not height wise, but width. I wish I would have up potted to 5 gallons before instead of 3 gal, but from what I have come to understand regarding COCO COIR I should be fine in the 3 gallon pot through flower, I hope anyways. I think I will do a total of 6 next run, easier to circulate air around the plants, easier to get into the tent and work, all around a better bet. I definitely overloaded it this time, but its fun so I don't mind. I also want to try th efabric pots, seem like a great idea especially in coco. I am probably going to avoid the scrog, I already invest enough time into this, I couldn't imagine doing a scrog, my tent is 80 inches tall, so I am not worried about running out of space

boom day 45 of flower things are looking great. my Girl Scout Cookies are a little bitch with nute burn. I though that the OG Kushes would be the ones to show signs of nutrient burn first, but low and behold the GSC fan leaves are crispin up nicely. I really don't care because the nugs are great and the majority of the leaves look just fine, just some here and there. I feed them the same nute schedule which in my opinion is pretty light and they still wont bounce back, so im just rollin with it.

Boom day 51 has arrived. So plants still look the same to me. Buds are definitely ripening up and bulking out. So i did something stupid. I'm supposed to be using top shooter from house and garden right now but I accidentally used top booster at 10 for my 7.5 gallon mix. Way below the recommended dosage but I'm just trippin maybe I messed something up. I did end up adding the top shooter but I did less then I normally do. But the leaves and overall growth look pretty much the same. I guess I'll see tomorrow how they look.

Checked them this morning and everything looked as good as ever.

upped my nutes today slightly 1 mil per gallon style. I have been feeding 20 mil to 7.5 gallons of water 2.6 mil per gallon of A and B because it recommends while using top shooter which is a PK booster to lower your nutes to half strength. I still added 15 mil of bud xl which is 2 mil per gallon and 1.2 mil of drip clean .186 mil per gallon, they recommend .4 per gallon but I don't think that's necessary, everyone says to use .2 or so. I had been using silica blast, but have cut it out as I don't think I need to be adding it every feeding like I have been, it raises PH too much and I don't like adding too much PH down to my solution all the time. so I think ill do it once a week for now. during the last two weeks I am going to start using moab. so today being day 52 I will start that schedule in just a few days. I am definitely pulling right around 70 days, 8 of the plants, I am thinking about harvesting two at day 60 because I want to free up some room in the tent and get the real big dogs producing in their last little stretch. I plan on doing a two day flush at the end, for two reasons, I'm not fully convinced the flush is entirely necessary and don't want to mess with the quality of the buds. the second reason is that I am using drip clean and every person I talk to regarding drip clean says you do not need flush as hard if you use it during the grow. so I trimmed off some nugs that were starting to get PM on them, I washed them in the ways of George Cervantes and let them dry for 4 days so far, I hung them for 3, then pulled them put them in a Tupperware container for 12 on 12 off, today is day five and they smell like cut grass for the most part, but I can smell the faint dankness underneath and my fingers are super stinky just like I remember the skywalker OG smelling like when I blazed it up before. so I'm going to continue this 12 sealed 12 unsealed until the stems start to get crispy them move them to glass jars. I just grinded a little fiver up and vaped it in my arizer Q and it is already pretty stoney, after letting it dry I am starting to get a little body high, but its 90 percent head high. very nice though. taste was good, not like the smell at all. oh and I got these little packets, called Boveda Humiditiy packets. they are basically humidity regulators. if you put them in with fresh buds that have been drying they will regulate the humidity and draw excess moisture from the buds down to the set humidity. the ones I got put my humidity at 62% and they are pretty much made for cannabis. so anyways, party on and have a good night.

Some trich pics and my favorite cola. Things are foing along nicely. From start to finish i have been at this grow since 11/21/15. Two more weeks to go i have to keep myself from the urge to harvest but i want that stoney nugget so im hangin on. Will pull down 2 of the plants in 7 days the rest in 17 or when trichs show first sign of amber.

AngusMcKay said:

Some trich pics and my favorite cola. Things are foing along nicely. From start to finish i have been at this grow since 11/21/15. Two more weeks to go i have to keep myself from the urge to harvest but i want that stoney nugget so im hangin on. Will pull down 2 of the plants in 7 days the rest in 17 or when trichs show first sign of amber.

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Looking great! I need a freakin proper usb scope! Nice clean shots.

Zspy1985 said:

Looking great! I need a freakin proper usb scope! Nice clean shots.

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Yeah I was looking into the USB microscope they look pretty sweet but I actually used and $9 macro lens for my cell phone to take those pics got it on Amazon

AngusMcKay said:

Yeah I was looking into the USB microscope they look pretty sweet but I actually used and $9 macro lens for my cell phone to take those pics got it on Amazon

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I was thinking about that as well. Been lazy and checked stores...they wanted $50+ for some of them. I seen them on Amazon but I'll have to get it next grow more than likely as the wife is complaining about the extra things I've gotten throughout the grow. What magnification was the macro lens did you buy?

Zspy1985 said:

I was thinking about that as well. Been lazy and checked stores...they wanted $50+ for some of them. I seen them on Amazon but I'll have to get it next grow more than likely as the wife is complaining about the extra things I've gotten throughout the grow. What magnification was the macro lens did you buy?

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This is the one I got off Amazon its pretty easy to use, just make sure you have a good cell phone camera and this will make the extreme close up shots sick, it also comes with two additional lenses
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00QXT58JA/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1