GrumpyToker
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Well I appreciate your help airwalker16
COB Talk
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kmog33
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To be fair, the pics he spoke of look like they had about a month left. Now they look like they have 2ish weeks. So not too far off in either direction.
Airwalker16
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Thank you. I was helped a lot and feel pretty l knowledgeable now and feel it's only right to pay it forward
J Bleezy
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Actually, like I said before,the pic was taken 4 days before I posted it. So, yes he was far off. If I took it down in 25 days it would be booboo.
Good luck on your grows guys
kmog33
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You said it was a week earlier in your previous posts yeah? So now your story is changing...
kmog33
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I should've noted that the pic was from last week in the post. I can give an update in a couple weeks, but enough about me and my plants.
I just posted the pic in reference of the no foxtailing, but there probably wouldn't have been much foxtailing then anyway. Admittedly, I was high.
Anyway, I kept my light (12 cxb3590@1050ma) about 16" from the canopy and not a problem anywhere. I'm thinking I'm gonna try 12" next time and see what happens.
So 1 week ago he said a picture of a plant plant you stated was taken the week prior looked to be about a month out.
This week you post a picture of a plant that looks to me to be about 2.5-3 weeks from being where I would chop it.
So both you and he guessed the same range of time. But you started to get mad about it, at least that's how it seemed from your posts.
Airwalker16
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Ya and I had the shortest most non Confrontational post of all. You just have a bug up your ass JBleez.
GrumpyToker
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Who wants to talk about COB's?
I got love for all you crazy COBbers no matter when you cut your shit or how old you say it is.
Peace, put it in the air!
I got love for all you crazy COBbers no matter when you cut your shit or how old you say it is.
Peace, put it in the air!
ttystikk
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Ok, let's talk about what's been happening in front of my COBs for a minute;
From my first run, the nugs are much more dense, hard, the smells are stronger and have more depth, and...
Fuck. I've been growing these strains for years so I know what to expect... but it's been awhile since I've taken two hits and got completely twisted.
Wake and bake so it's the only thing I've smoked, and whoa.
The foxtailing vanished, that may have been a consequence of stunting it early in the run, but welcome nonetheless.
Here, have a look at the Hillbilly Hobby (pre '98 Bubba Kush x Moonshine Haze) coming down today;
kmog33
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Lower foxtailing could also be possibly attributed to the lower canopy/leaf temps. Either way it's a plus in my opinion. Not a fan of foxtails. A few bulbous calyx are fine, but I'm done growing haze dominant crosses after the last i grew. Foxtails everywhere, was a real bitch to trim. Good smoke though.
ttystikk
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Yep, they smoke fine but they look silly and trimming them SUCKS!
J Bleezy
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Dude...Let's not start fabricating here. It did not say "about a month", it said "at LEAST a month". And while I can admit I wasn't in the best mood yesterday, how am I the dick for correcting someone who tried to correct me and they were wrong?
Idk, just something about that response that rubbed me wrong, that's all.
I love me some bubba. I ordered pre98 bubba bx2 from cali connection in hope that it will be anything like the original.
ttystikk
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The pre '98 Bubba Kush x Moonshine Haze cross, I call my pheno Hillbilly Hobby, is my favorite cut, period.
kmog33
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I said you were both in a similar range. Not that you were wrong. I think maybe your bad mood got the better of you lol. You went a little overboard IMO in your response is all, even if you disagreed, which to me didn't even seem like that was what was going on here lol.
Watch for herms with cc gear but there are definitely great phenos in their pre 98 bubba beans. But there is also a lot of herms in that line afaik.
J Bleezy
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Definitely heard mixed reviews about cc, probably mostly negative as people don't seem to like swerve lol. But I wanted the pre 98 badly. I've bought a lot of seeds lately and I'm pretty hyped about those.
I'm finishing up some juicy fruit for the first time soon (relatively lol!). Got one pheno much different than the rest. Smells like purple pez and looks to be a huge yielder, they all stretched pretty badly though and there's definitely some foxtail going on. Can't wait to get this one under some cobs
I'm finishing up some juicy fruit for the first time soon (relatively lol!). Got one pheno much different than the rest. Smells like purple pez and looks to be a huge yielder, they all stretched pretty badly though and there's definitely some foxtail going on. Can't wait to get this one under some cobs
GrumpyToker
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Who wants to roll up their DIY gloves?
Here's my idea for next level implementation the pin sinks.
Say you have a 4x4 or a 4x8 for example.
Part 1
Have several rows of pin sinks COB's covering the area but instead of a level horizon build use the angle aluminum (cut it up use bolts or rivets) to make a arch or you could create this arch with precut "ribs" to bolt the pins to create an arch shape.
Part 2
Here's the best part. Now that our lights are hung in an arch/bow shape (instead of flat) let's not fire them all up at once spreading the current evenly. Let's use Arduino controls to have the lights come on in the morning where your COBs are lit on one side of the arch. Starting at the lowest end of the arch (like the sun coming up from the horizon) and control the current to that lower row giving it more current than the other COB's making that side brighter and the other COB's dimmer. Then as time passes the current moves up higher in the arch and higher throughout the day till it gets to the bottom end of the opposite side of the arch at 12 hours. My idea is to keep the current the same but to move the current around through the day to different COBs. You would be driving some COB's harder and others softer so the draw would be the same.
With a laser cutter or water cutter to make those ribs (or with drawings you can take to a metal shop) and a prebuilt Arduino program in a case that controls the COBs through the day on the arch/ribs would make for a next level DIY
After all the Sun is not flat and travels in an arch throughout the day. This would lead to better penetration without any extra wattage by moving the wattage around.
Why move your lights when you can move the wattage around and better replicate the sun.
Here's my idea for next level implementation the pin sinks.
Say you have a 4x4 or a 4x8 for example.
Part 1
Have several rows of pin sinks COB's covering the area but instead of a level horizon build use the angle aluminum (cut it up use bolts or rivets) to make a arch or you could create this arch with precut "ribs" to bolt the pins to create an arch shape.
Part 2
Here's the best part. Now that our lights are hung in an arch/bow shape (instead of flat) let's not fire them all up at once spreading the current evenly. Let's use Arduino controls to have the lights come on in the morning where your COBs are lit on one side of the arch. Starting at the lowest end of the arch (like the sun coming up from the horizon) and control the current to that lower row giving it more current than the other COB's making that side brighter and the other COB's dimmer. Then as time passes the current moves up higher in the arch and higher throughout the day till it gets to the bottom end of the opposite side of the arch at 12 hours. My idea is to keep the current the same but to move the current around through the day to different COBs. You would be driving some COB's harder and others softer so the draw would be the same.
With a laser cutter or water cutter to make those ribs (or with drawings you can take to a metal shop) and a prebuilt Arduino program in a case that controls the COBs through the day on the arch/ribs would make for a next level DIY
After all the Sun is not flat and travels in an arch throughout the day. This would lead to better penetration without any extra wattage by moving the wattage around.
Why move your lights when you can move the wattage around and better replicate the sun.
kudos for imagination and taking a theory all the way through the rabbit hole after alice.
BUT ...
most of the cob experience users lighting are NOT using light movers. They aren't needed anymore. just put the cobs where one can get a nice even coverage.
Laying out cobs for even distribution across the whole canopy automatically gives us the side angle light that would normally be received as the sun moves across the sky 180 degrees.
Light movers and arches, which is what you are describing is reserved for people trying to adapt a very high powered single spot light over an area instead of spreading medium powered cobs over the whole area.
VegasWinner
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I hang my cobs individually. Easier to move them and adjust them up or down. I don't install passive COBS in frames, just hang them with a hook and install and eyelet in the base of the cob. peace.
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GrumpyToker
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I'm sure that allows you a lot of flexibility. Do you tilt the outer most COB's in a few degrees?
GrumpyToker
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To all you know it all micro-foucsers