75 watts vs 7 Gallons
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IlovePlants
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Ha, when I originally started I never knew I was going to even use males. I had a failed feminized run that was going to work, but circumstances kept me from ever completing seed production. I'm really thankful that I'm able to have my own genetics. Making your own smoke, made from only what you love, is a joy that few get to cherish.
^Above^ is Paradox, she has about 15 to 20 days left. She smells out of this world, all of the crosses are like their mother, but with this super sweet tart candy jet fuel funk added in. The High that is currently being smoke tested is insane, but definitely all of the crosses tend to favor the mother when it comes to flavor and effect. Although I will need to test further to back up this mildly informed assumption.
I'll get some full body shots of Paradox once shes out of the room. Right now shes in a far corner, and it's damn near impossible to get a good shot of her. It's funny you mention feminized seeds. Once I have pheno's that have proven themselves I will be selfing so I have the pheno forever. This Huckleberry pheno of Cheddarwurst that is growing may get dusted later with Paradox female pollen.
So yeah I may have some fems available eventually. Next year I'm going to be hitting my full stride. I have my own strains, and they are way better than their parents. I'm sure eventually I will asking some in the RIU community to do tests. It would be great to get these genetics out there and see what people make of them. I make dank with them
Sincerely,
ILovePlants
^Above^ is Paradox, she has about 15 to 20 days left. She smells out of this world, all of the crosses are like their mother, but with this super sweet tart candy jet fuel funk added in. The High that is currently being smoke tested is insane, but definitely all of the crosses tend to favor the mother when it comes to flavor and effect. Although I will need to test further to back up this mildly informed assumption.
I'll get some full body shots of Paradox once shes out of the room. Right now shes in a far corner, and it's damn near impossible to get a good shot of her. It's funny you mention feminized seeds. Once I have pheno's that have proven themselves I will be selfing so I have the pheno forever. This Huckleberry pheno of Cheddarwurst that is growing may get dusted later with Paradox female pollen.
So yeah I may have some fems available eventually. Next year I'm going to be hitting my full stride. I have my own strains, and they are way better than their parents. I'm sure eventually I will asking some in the RIU community to do tests. It would be great to get these genetics out there and see what people make of them. I make dank with them
Sincerely,
ILovePlants
IlovePlants
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Duly noted guys.
Just wanted to inform you guys that some buds are ready to come down, and they will receive the axe tonight. This little girl is going to be a progressive harvest. I will harvest her tonight, and then again 3 to 5 days from now. I'm treating the amber like a disease and cutting out below the amber line. She's going to be a skinny princess again. Before the door was closed this morning some of the upper buds had 15-20% amber, not just amber creeping but fully caramelized trichs, and I can't tolerate any more. That is just my personal preference.
Anyway, I hope you gents have a good one.
Just wanted to inform you guys that some buds are ready to come down, and they will receive the axe tonight. This little girl is going to be a progressive harvest. I will harvest her tonight, and then again 3 to 5 days from now. I'm treating the amber like a disease and cutting out below the amber line. She's going to be a skinny princess again. Before the door was closed this morning some of the upper buds had 15-20% amber, not just amber creeping but fully caramelized trichs, and I can't tolerate any more. That is just my personal preference.
Anyway, I hope you gents have a good one.
IlovePlants
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Prototype yielded 52g dry. Considering that the 75watts included 13w of ventilation, I feel like it went well in the cabinet. My flowering room averaged 28w/sqft so she probably maxed at 70w of light when she was in there. Anyway it was 52w of light for 5.5 weeks and 70w of light for 3, or about 59 watts of light on average throughout the grow. About .88g/w, so I feel that additional veg time was all that was needed to maximize yield, but I was trying to keep this plant small in order to fit her under the prototype lamp, which wasn't built 
Anyway I recently rearranged my room, and I need a place to keep pictures until I start a new thread. The camera is working again so I'll load some pictures. Nothing dry right now, only the room. I've got some Purple Paradox, new mini-vertical scrog, and full room shots. Paradox is a pain in the ass to get pictures of, it's just so white it's crazy. The camera I'm using is starting to show her age, but I'm sure there is still joy to be had in these shots.
^About a week ago a bud fell off do to weight issues, anyway this plant is incredible. I'm going to be popping these beans for a while. About 7 days left in these pictures, she's 4 days older now. As winter hits, my grow room finally drops 10-15'f rather than just 5 degrees at night, and my girls are starting to show it, I never new I would get a Purple Paradox, but I'd always really hoped
The whole room is finally lit up. I went from averaging 28w/sqft to 35w/sqft! The plants didn't know what hit them. Everyone has been freaking out, the mainlined AO X CW even burnt itself on the light just a tad. Anyway I didn't really need to spread my lighting out and it was a good move to centralize the lights. I was extremely hesitant to move the lights in closer to each other, because my first grow with these lights killed my plants, but it seems like everything is finally in order.
In the back left corner of my room you can see the prize. She's my triforce of power! I built this cage because I thought that there could be a way to grow out large colas with premium lowers. As my soil has been cooking, over the last year of use, the plants have started fading more heavily on top first. This leaves me with a bunch of tops, and a plant that can be kept in flowering for another 4 to 6 days for 5-10% increased yield if I have room for it. This type of canopy arrangement also lends itself to maximum surface area in the sweet spot of lighting.
Well I thought I would just post something since it's been a bit. Great things in store over the next few months, I'll try to keep RIU up to speed if I come across anything interesting in my experiments. Really though, I'm working on these mini-vertical scrog plants as my next main transition. I'm planning on buying corncob style leds to put in the center of each plant to illuminate the lower nodes. It is only going to add about 48w total to the room if I end up doing this change, but hopefully it would be the final piece in the puzzle to getting more out of this training method.
If I could switch over to this style it would save me about 1 week of veg per plant. Significant over time, but that would all depend on whether or not the yields match the additional wattage. I'm not going keep at this if my room only grows another 45grams every 2 months, what I hope to get is 110% on total plant yield upon initial testing and hopefully 125% of current yields with additional testing.
Peace,
ILovePlants
Anyway I recently rearranged my room, and I need a place to keep pictures until I start a new thread. The camera is working again so I'll load some pictures. Nothing dry right now, only the room. I've got some Purple Paradox, new mini-vertical scrog, and full room shots. Paradox is a pain in the ass to get pictures of, it's just so white it's crazy. The camera I'm using is starting to show her age, but I'm sure there is still joy to be had in these shots.
^About a week ago a bud fell off do to weight issues, anyway this plant is incredible. I'm going to be popping these beans for a while. About 7 days left in these pictures, she's 4 days older now. As winter hits, my grow room finally drops 10-15'f rather than just 5 degrees at night, and my girls are starting to show it, I never new I would get a Purple Paradox, but I'd always really hoped
The whole room is finally lit up. I went from averaging 28w/sqft to 35w/sqft! The plants didn't know what hit them. Everyone has been freaking out, the mainlined AO X CW even burnt itself on the light just a tad. Anyway I didn't really need to spread my lighting out and it was a good move to centralize the lights. I was extremely hesitant to move the lights in closer to each other, because my first grow with these lights killed my plants, but it seems like everything is finally in order.
In the back left corner of my room you can see the prize. She's my triforce of power! I built this cage because I thought that there could be a way to grow out large colas with premium lowers. As my soil has been cooking, over the last year of use
, the plants have started fading more heavily on top first. This leaves me with a bunch of tops, and a plant that can be kept in flowering for another 4 to 6 days for 5-10% increased yield if I have room for it. This type of canopy arrangement also lends itself to maximum surface area in the sweet spot of lighting. Well I thought I would just post something since it's been a bit. Great things in store over the next few months, I'll try to keep RIU up to speed if I come across anything interesting in my experiments. Really though, I'm working on these mini-vertical scrog plants as my next main transition. I'm planning on buying corncob style leds to put in the center of each plant to illuminate the lower nodes. It is only going to add about 48w total to the room if I end up doing this change, but hopefully it would be the final piece in the puzzle to getting more out of this training method.
If I could switch over to this style it would save me about 1 week of veg per plant. Significant over time, but that would all depend on whether or not the yields match the additional wattage. I'm not going keep at this if my room only grows another 45grams every 2 months, what I hope to get is 110% on total plant yield upon initial testing and hopefully 125% of current yields with additional testing.
Peace,
ILovePlants
PetFlora
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Purple Paradox- I'm drooling just thinking about it
Since switching to Hydro-Research VEG+BLOOM my sat dom secondary long stem branches are much tougher/stronger. May not need twist ties to hold them up
Check out Astirs LED thread on riu It has the answer you seek fr side lighting and more
Since switching to Hydro-Research VEG+BLOOM my sat dom secondary long stem branches are much tougher/stronger. May not need twist ties to hold them up
Check out Astirs LED thread on riu It has the answer you seek fr side lighting and more
IlovePlants
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This will not be the keeper pheno: 1. I didn't save a cut. 2. It was literally the first seed I popped out of that trial. 3. I'm looking for something shorter. I have a more promising pheno, looks a bit more CW'y and a bit less SweetD. It appears that the male passed on a larger flower to leaf ratio, and knockout potency. She's bone dry and beginning curing. Looks like RIU is having technical difficulties, I can't seem to manage attachments. Well once it's fixed I have an update. So that outta be nice. Yeah it's weird I can't alter text size, or manage attagements, and my message viewer is a completely different format. Oh well, I've needed to have a break for a while anyway. See you later RIU!
IlovePlants
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It's time to dump some photo's, but now that my cannabis is getting to this quality I notice that I need a new camera. I'll get it as a new years resolution present.
She's bone dry, but still has a long time to cure. All of the smoke testers agree that she is; really dense, smooth, flavorful, and powerful. She needs a month in a jar to meet my liking. Planning on crossing a stud male with my best AO x CW. This plant has exactly what I want from a female, other than it's stature. She stretches like a motherfucker in flowering and I wasn't around to keep her in line. I payed the price yield wise, 1 of the 6 main cola snapped off 2 weeks prior to finish, and 1 of the colas managed better than the others and strangled them out of light.
One thing that I have learned with that male is patience. At first you think that every plant is a bust, they go through these cycles of looking really good, and not really changing much, but I can tell you for a fact that during the last two weeks of budding she turns into an absolute monster. Really cool male plant, he made some killer weed.
I'm going to do some breeding within my lines to get out some stability without over inbreeding. I plan on crossing half siblings with familiar CW phenotypes. The male I selected from Cheddarwurst was only done because I felt that he was the best male I had seen to date. He had the biggest leaves I had ever seen on a 2 gallon plant, my hands are 9" across outstretched and this dude covered them with inches to spare. He also had the hairiest stems, and reeked up the veg room to the point that it smelt like he was a flowering plant.
Anyway, I'm looking for a short Funk-o-saurus Rex to splatter his potent pollen all over some tender young calyxes. I have hundreds of seeds to pop so I'd better get cracking.
She's bone dry, but still has a long time to cure. All of the smoke testers agree that she is; really dense, smooth, flavorful, and powerful. She needs a month in a jar to meet my liking. Planning on crossing a stud male with my best AO x CW. This plant has exactly what I want from a female, other than it's stature. She stretches like a motherfucker in flowering and I wasn't around to keep her in line. I payed the price yield wise, 1 of the 6 main cola snapped off 2 weeks prior to finish, and 1 of the colas managed better than the others and strangled them out of light.
One thing that I have learned with that male is patience. At first you think that every plant is a bust, they go through these cycles of looking really good, and not really changing much, but I can tell you for a fact that during the last two weeks of budding she turns into an absolute monster. Really cool male plant, he made some killer weed.
I'm going to do some breeding within my lines to get out some stability without over inbreeding. I plan on crossing half siblings with familiar CW phenotypes. The male I selected from Cheddarwurst was only done because I felt that he was the best male I had seen to date. He had the biggest leaves I had ever seen on a 2 gallon plant, my hands are 9" across outstretched and this dude covered them with inches to spare. He also had the hairiest stems, and reeked up the veg room to the point that it smelt like he was a flowering plant.
Anyway, I'm looking for a short Funk-o-saurus Rex to splatter his potent pollen all over some tender young calyxes. I have hundreds of seeds to pop so I'd better get cracking.