FlowaMasta's Methodology @ How to Grow Monster pound plants!!! ( Jack H X Skunk )

Okay im definitely following you. Im new to growing and was looking into starting up a DWC. I don't know if i want to continue anymore, your set up has been eye opening to the fullest. Your reservoir is a boss set up. I did have a couple questions how long did it take for your last harvest. Also was that just one plant !? Also was your airstone in your reservoir as well as in the bottom of flowering pot?

I was looking into some autoflowering plants to cut down harvest time. What would you recommend is it worth a couple more weeks to just use a photoperiod strain?

Scroga said:

just got my DM gold potash+ ,on the back of the bottle is says not to be used with dm gold nutrient range? im using cyco normal flower nutes as base as well as silica,dr repair,swell and floralicious plus...just wondering how i might incorprate this in with the rest? any thoughts mate?

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Go easy on ALL the cyco stuff if using Dutch masters Gold Range... it looks to be high ppms/ec and will mix up the ratios if you're not too careful! I used potash, BUT i soon learnt it was too much, as the .add27 from Dutch covers most of your phosphorus needs, a little low for my liking so this weeks flush i added 40ml of both Swell, and add..27 along with only 40ml of silica and 100ml of base A+B, (usually 160ml) Dr Repair will be needed in my opinion, watch it closely as the magnesium is quite up there in Part B flower gold range. Always good to change things around a bit I have gotten vastly different results this round, and only changing a couple of minor things!

swazzy420 said:

Okay im definitely following you. Im new to growing and was looking into starting up a DWC. I don't know if i want to continue anymore, your set up has been eye opening to the fullest. Your reservoir is a boss set up. I did have a couple questions how long did it take for your last harvest. Also was that just one plant !? Also was your airstone in your reservoir as well as in the bottom of flowering pot?

I was looking into some autoflowering plants to cut down harvest time. What would you recommend is it worth a couple more weeks to just use a photoperiod strain?

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lol Thanx mate!

I have only 1 air-stone in the external res (40 litre) 1000 litre/hr pump, with custom feed ring with enlarged holes. Automatically feeds every 3 hours at the moment for 15 minute drench. (100% perlite)
My last harvest was only 21 days vegging and i think 46 days flowering, very fast finisher my current, but very nutrient sensitive. I made a couple of blues here and there this round and have gotten a few seeds growing on the lower branches, which it looked like was going to happen last round, but no seeds... this time there is, but i'm not too fussed as the quality of resin will be more than enough to handle

Bigger plants flower faster, make bigger buds, produce more, different more mature high in my opinion.... every extra day after 2 weeks vegging counts BIGTIME.

Day 35!!! I'm absolutely shocked.















Yes i'm afraid i'm terribly obsessed





This Cola is the size of a 2 litre coke bottle..... You WILL see









Getting very close!! I have to push a couple of weeks, so i'm limiting... sorry, cutting the nutes down considerably and will continue her carbs (.add27)

I love this strain , but a little huffy bout the big green seeds i see growing on a few small budlets. bllluhhh its perso I'm sure i'll be happy!! Trying to get hold of a new strain apparently called G9.... anyone heard much of this?

The last two pics do it for me mate! Shows a lovely form of her! She must be a touchy lil lady to throw out a a few seeds, from the pics she looks like it could handle the nutes you gave her. She is still looking pretty gold in my books!!!

Never heard of G9, but off to have a look, see!

FlowaMasta you continually blow my mind! I can't wait to try your method indoors. Unfortunately it is still waiting until I finish the greenhouse.






Babies are loving the sun!







I hope my sunny summer pictures help you get through winter like yours helped me



Cheers,
Mo

Fuck sake it's pics like that, that make me have to read from the start 117 pages err!!

Also it looks like you have the same problem when growing big plants this is popcorn BUD, as from what I've read so far as this is not your first time with this strain would you trim her a little higher or not.

nice lookin btw.

Chipper Pig said:

The last two pics do it for me mate! Shows a lovely form of her! She must be a touchy lil lady to throw out a a few seeds, from the pics she looks like it could handle the nutes you gave her. She is still looking pretty gold in my books!!!

Never heard of G9, but off to have a look, see!

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Thanx Chipper! She is kinda touchy, it could even be the slight salt build up fro the dutch masters nutes... not entirely sure yet, but i do know one thing! she has started to slow down her drinking so nearly time to ripen up already! i think the lack of light underneath could even possibly cause some seeds to show, i have seen nannas in 1 other grow a long time ago now but only down low where there seems to be a lack of light. It was ok a couple of weeks ago, but it seems even the massive 4 trim sessions i did might not have been enough! I'm cranking alot of light in there too though, Heat is not an issue i can see that but still learning and we'll wait and see what the inside of her colas hold soon crossing my fingers shes not magically hermied on me, this did happen to the guy i got the strain off, BUT my last round was 100% fine with NO seeds and this round is her offspring....
I can't see a plant producing soo much resin + bud IF she's put into seed production... it just doesn't seem likely to me, no nannas in sight, no polinated pistils.... She's looking like my most potent yet. These buds will look white i'm guessing when dried if i'm lucky! some is starting to go purple aswell given the 17 degrees during daytime while she sucks cold fresh air from outside. I have high Hopes and only thinking positive! The smell is incredibly sweet, almost like fairly floss cotton candy!!??

I haven't checked for g9 yet, going on persons word as of yet... let me know

Mohican said:

FlowaMasta you continually blow my mind! I can't wait to try your method indoors. Unfortunately it is still waiting until I finish the greenhouse.






Babies are loving the sun!







I hope my sunny summer pictures help you get through winter like yours helped me



Cheers,
Mo

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Thanx for those awesome sunny pics MO!!! jealous big time! They are growing at an incredible rate Mo!! I think they might race you to the finish line with the greenhouse
Very cold winter here, so again thanx!!! Glad you like my current pics! They ALWAYS seem to get better quality by the end for some reason, like my camera gets all excited or something! Finally ran out of room on my memory card last night and i had soo many pics it took half an hour to delete them lol! My favourites folder is now categorized into about 5 different things hehe

GREEN HOUSE GREEN HOUSE Just think how much they will love the extra humidity as little babies

Lemon king said:

Fuck sake it's pics like that, that make me have to read from the start 117 pages err!!

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Lemon king said:

Also it looks like you have the same problem when growing big plants this is popcorn BUD, as from what I've read so far as this is not your first time with this strain would you trim her a little higher or not.

nice lookin btw.

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lol Thanx matey! cheers for stopping by, and i'm glad you like my pics! I'm quite obsessed and can't seem to put my camera down these days. I think you may be right about the popcorn stuff, i thought with 1200 watts the penetration would be enough, but the mass of buds now up top has grown a little larger than i had anticipated and shading more than i thought. It will make it last longer having to pick some seeds out here and there.... it doesn't look like the overall plant to me so i hope we're right! With resin like that i know i'm gonna get nice and high though, and thats what i'm after!
Have some ideas about next round, saving my specials for next year in my new location.

I trimmed quite alot of underneath material, and i mean ALOT. I may have to trim higher with this strain, but it might be the last round for her if she's riddled.
Again, crossing my fingers and hoping for the absolute best i've had!

The size of a coke bottle eh, fark thats massive lol

I would love to see magazine of just your photos, that would be do sweet

eastcoastmo said:

The size of a coke bottle eh, fark thats massive lol

I would love to see magazine of just your photos, that would be do sweet

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That is an understatement!!! They will never dry, Flowa

Good job bro you must be pretty happy with your plants. I recently watch some videos on you tube (SOG, SCROG, FEMMING, TOPPING). You probably dont need any advice but check it out this guys pretty good at shaping his plants. Any info helps right....... Let me know what you think of his channel.

Also when you say your plant is nutrient sensitive how so? If you can let us know what nuts your running with it could help also.

Also juss trying to possibly make harvest better. I heard that if at the end of bloom you turn off the lights and dehumidify the room as much as possible it will condense the budds and produce more resin in the process. This allows the budds to become very dense. I MEAN REALLY DEHUMIDIFY..............

Do a search for Cyco in this thread and you should be able to find info about his nutes.

eastcoastmo said:

The size of a coke bottle eh, fark thats massive lol

I would love to see magazine of just your photos, that would be do sweet

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Maybe one day I'm thinking of making a calendar, have gotten photos printed before no problem, i just think they might be a bit of a shock to whoever sees them lol But the pics come out great! incredibly detailed, impossible to see the pixels even on A2 size sheet. You know its a good pic when they average 6.8 - 7 MB in size!! I've seen porn clips that are less than that. Keep an eye out for the Flowa Cal one day

Chipper Pig said:

That is an understatement!!! They will never dry, Flowa

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LOL a bit scary..... yes! humidity is also around 60% so RIGHT on the edge of the seat here!!! I can't get it any lower during dark hours as its so wet outside and being winter..... well its a given. Hard trying to balance a good time for both lamps so it keeps a nice temperature with lights on. The nets are also struggling to hold this girl up, although she looks well balanced, the colas are thick, and heavy and are trying to slide down, so i've been busy with the cable ties here and there to make sure things stay UP!!! VERY HEAVY PLANT this round. Extremely. I'm scared to knock the net, as she felt like a top heavy bowling pin waving the entire tent from side to side!!

swazzy420 said:

Also juss trying to possibly make harvest better. I heard that if at the end of bloom you turn off the lights and dehumidify the room as much as possible it will condense the budds and produce more resin in the process. This allows the budds to become very dense. I MEAN REALLY DEHUMIDIFY..............

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In my opinion its not the humidity that will tighten them up, Heat is relative to humidity, so lowering the humidity will only increase the temperature. Hot temperature will tighten buds up late in flowering. Not giving the plant light is far from being in my books i'm afraid as humidity will increase drastically and likely cause issues. I try to keep a constant reliable temperature, similar to simulating outside.

Making your buds tighter WILL NOT make your buds ANY better, or increase resin!! Resin stops being produced before the end of flowering, my plant has almost stopped producing resin already and now in the process of ripening. Trichomes are always there, from the moment the first pistil protrudes, and begin as tiny little clear spikes and in my opinion our resin coverage is estimated fairly early on, as the trichomes ripen they produce sugar, the resin is the outer sticky layer formed around the sphere and coating over the leaves and calyxs.... As i'm learning more also i have found that potency is not in the 'amount' of trichomes, its in the ratio of psychoactives. Some plants may have heaps of resin but a low THC content, another plant may produce less resin but more THC visa versa. I've even found that some of the BEST psychoactives come from the earlier THC glands and the more narcotic type in the later on stages.

Cheers for your input though!! i see where you're coming from, i do. But my system is calculated and pre-planned in every aspect, and i try not to deviate from her 'kinda natural' flow... Besides... These buds don't need to be any tighter.... tight buds get less light, less air for breathing, less room for growing..... and well, its just not natural. These half ounce colas are plenty big enough to put an overly large smile on my dial

I don't think i can make more resin though!! I don't think she even needs to LOL!!

Mohican said:

Do a search for Cyco in this thread and you should be able to find info about his nutes.

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Cheerz Mo, I've used mostly Dutch Masters Gold Range this round, a little of cycos thrown in the mix to up the ratio of Phos, but i have kept her very simply this round, saved some cash, and really impressed with my results soo far, i'm really keen to try her out!!

I hadn't realized you had changed nutes for this round of wizardry. I would love to try the DM brand one day. I got some free samples of House and Garden from the hydro store last visit

Mohican said:

I hadn't realized you had changed nutes for this round of wizardry. I would love to try the DM brand one day. I got some free samples of House and Garden from the hydro store last visit

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I use the House & Garden range Mohican. They are fairly concentrate so i find i use less dosage than the bottles recommends, and they always mix up really well. They are up on the expensive end of the nutrient range though.

I like the fact that the bottles have dropper tops so you can put in drops of nutrients right from the bottle without spoons or pipettes.

I will be first in line to get a calendar bro

Maybe we should hit up RIU mods to see if they can run a comp and best pics go in a calendar

Got some nice Macros for everyone!! Tonight is actually Day 40!!











Check the sticky sap in the centre of the pic below

Look at those little stem buds! How cute

Brilliant macros mate - well done! That resin coverage is insane!

Im with Mo, that resin is out if control