Jonny's LED jungle of super happy fun time

Continued...you'll notice some crunchy leaf margins and tips. This is not nutrient burn. It's light burn. I have low headspace. It is what it is and does not harm flower quality:
Jager:

This is interesting here. I planted a girl scout cookies and jager clone in the same bucket. Very bad idea. I yanked most of the GSC out and only left a couple healthy branches. The plant looked terrible. I completely fucking forgot about it. I'm looking at buds and branches and I'm like, what the fuck is that? Oh shit! Girl scout cookies! It looks nothing like the plants I grew last cycle. They were terrible. This is frosty dense and oh so amazing looking. I must have have some kind of root zone issue with my last GSC cycle, because the couple few branches of it I have this cycle are incredible:

Is the Critical Mass from Mr Nice?

Opie1971 said:

Is the Critical Mass from Mr Nice?

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I actually am unsure. I got the seeds from a friend in another state. We trade back and forth through the mail and I didn't see any breeder info in his seed packs. Phenomenal strain. I'll snap some pics after it's all dry. The buds are like a fire pink inside. I've never seen anything like it. Sticky as a mother. Trimming was not easy. Heavy colas though. Looking forward to the smoke report.

I've been busy trimming for nearly 2 weeks now. Almost done. 12 hours/day almost every day. We took 2 days off I think. Down to the bones of jager, critical mass, and blue dream:


I shut down all the HID's and moved the plants under my LED's. My 2 new 660's are scheduled to arrive in about 10 days. I think I'm going to leave the two 1000's in the middle and replace my 600w HID's with the 660's. I don't want to lose production and I can't afford another 2 boards yet. I could run on just the 4 LED boards, but as I said - I don't want to lose production. 8# is my goal each cycle and I want nothing less.

I'm so effing tired of trimming I could puke. I may consider a T6 Twister in the future. I don't think I could go through this every 3 months. It's rough.

Here are some pics of the next generation plants including a mammoth critical mass, godfather og, bruce banger, and god bud. This critical mass is out of effing control man. And the two 110w boards are at 50%. Love me some LED!:

I’ve got some CM from Mr Nice going right now, and I’m thinking about crossing it with either Wedding Cake or MAC1, or maybe both. It’d be great to come up with heavier yielding versions of either, as long as you could keep most other traits too. Might be asking for too much though, lol

Nice grow man

Opie1971 said:

I’ve got some CM from Mr Nice going right now, and I’m thinking about crossing it with either Wedding Cake or MAC1, or maybe both. It’d be great to come up with heavier yielding versions of either, as long as you could keep most other traits too. Might be asking for too much though, lol

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I'm very pleased with the performance and the more I learn with each flower cycle about her growth traits I get more efficient at maximizing yields. I really screwed the pooch on this last cycle with my CM's, but they still performed very nicely. I just wasn't satisfied with how I trained them when they entered the flower room and I up potted too early from my 1.8 gallon nursery bucket to the 5 gallon finish bucket. If I had given them 2 more weeks of root development in the 1.8 gallon container they would have had a stellar performance. It's all good though. I've got 4 CM's going for the next flower cycle, and this time I got the bull by the horns Mr. Nice has some solid genetics from what I hear. I think my next strain is going to be that Skunk #11 (I think it's called #11). It's supposed to be an old school heavy producer where the flower just consumes 3/4 of every leaf. It's just a little hair cut on the outside and done at harvest time. I'm thinking of cycling blue dream out. Great potency, amazing aroma, and great flavor. Nightmare to trim. Absolute nightmare. For that reason alone I think BD is getting axed. CM is incredibly easy to trim. Lovely trait of the strain.

That wedding cake cm cross would be very interesting! Increase in potency with the weight of CM. That's a winner for sure!

Looks great man.
I agree with you on the blue dream. The couple I grew were great plants, but a bitch to trim and the buzz just wasn't my thing.

Speaking of trimming, I've got 2 I need to do today.
Time to get to it...

.Smoke said:

Looks great man.
I agree with you on the blue dream. The couple I grew were great plants, but a bitch to trim and the buzz just wasn't my thing.

Speaking of trimming, I've got 2 I need to do today.
Time to get to it...

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Isn't trimming the effing worst? I've been on it with the wife for nearly 2 1/2 weeks now. Today is the last day. I take down the bones of my last blue dream and 2 critical masses tomorrow. I'll be dry ice hash processing all of it. Hoping to get about a 1/2# of good quality hash out of it for my hash caps. My wife likes to clean her scissors with coconut oil. I prefer isopropyl alcohol. Scissors were so gummed up the other day I literally had to fill a 16oz cup with iso and soak them overnight. I've got 4 fiskars I keep on the table. Great lightweight scissors with precision, but 3 are coming off track in how the blades close down so I'll be swapping them out under their lifetime warranty before the next harvest.

You just convinced me to eliminate blue dream. I really do not care for it. It's not that it's bad quality or anything. It's just not that special. I'm really eyeing up that Skunk #11 by Dutch Passion. I thought it was Mr. Nice that did that one. I had 4 I was gonna run next cycle. Not anymore. I'll run 2 with heavy dofliation in week 3 so it isn't so dam leafy to trim and then she'll be sunset for good. Replacing her with gg#4. Seeds on hand already from seedsman. I've got high hopes for this godfather og, god bud, and bruce banger. It's been a minute since I've ran any new strains. I'm pretty excited. And it's been 2 years since gg#4 has graced the garden. Super potent. Super pretty. Super easy to trim. And a nice yielding plant. I can't effing believe I ever got rid of it. Live and learn right?

I feel like I've been harvesting for a lifetime. It's almost over. Cleared the last 2 critical masses today. My god have I got a shit ton of top shelf hash making material. The canopy was so thick and I didn't really peel off the scraggly shit underneath I had a lot of fluffy under developed flower sites. I cleared the top of the canopy and left those under developed flowers. Moved on to the next plant. Many hardened up nicely and were actually trim worthy as flowers. The others did frost up a bit more but didn't quite harden. That's okay though. It made for excellent high quality hash making material. I have a 5 tier 3' drying net with 5" rims on each tier. They're full to the effing top. I mean packed. Dehumidifier right below set at 50%. We don't want no mold

So here we are. Down to the scraps of the largest blue dream. I'm quite surprised how many flowers hardened up on this plant. I'd estimate an extra 2-3 ounces of trim worthy material just from letting the skeleton flower a bit longer while the wife and I worked the critical mass plants. Clearing this bitch tomorrow. Trimming the last of the good flowers and hashing the rest for my personal stock of coconut oil hash caps. Highly psychoactive

I just got great news this morning that my shipment with my 2 new 660w qb's from alibaba just arrived in port in Los Angeles from China via express sea freight. Saved me $200 versus UPS express air. They could have strapped those bitches to a couple of messenger pigeons and given 'em a smack on the ass for all I care. Express sea freight took about 3 weeks versus 8 days via UPS express air. For anyone ordering off alibaba almost all of the light vendors quote UPS express air. If you request express sea support freight you'll save a substantial amount of money off your order. I only ordered 2 qb's and the savings was over $200.

I'm sterilizing the room, removing the 600w HID's and ballasts, cleaning all the fans, modifying my HVAC a bit, and prepping for the installation of my new lights. Once they're mounted I'll be moving in the next flower cycle, however they're going to veg for 3-4 more weeks in the flower room on 18/6 prior to going 12/12. Gotta bush 'em out a bit.

Found out today I have spider mites in one of my nurseries. The only explanation is they came in from outside on my clothing. Hosed everything down with Forbid 4F @ 75% strength. I'm gonna nuke those mother fuckers. One of god's worst creations. I'll spray again in 4 days to break the larval cycle. I had a feeling once the warm weather moved in those filthy cocksuckers would bed down in my garden again. I absolutely hate the warm months. I love the winter. No dam bugs. I'm armed to the teeth though. Forbid 4F for veg then venerate cg and grandevo cg for flower in case they're still lingering. No worries. I got it handled

Check out this monster fucking tomato plant. Isn't that just inappropriately big?

Look at this leggy fucker. She's spreading allover the floor

Flowers for the garden. All perrennials. Gorgeous little things. Asters and cardinal flowers. Bee balm....can't really remember them all. Some cone flowers too

One last thing. I've had my 150gpd ro unit jamming for a year now without changing any filters. Today I noticed it took almost 18 hours to fill a 30 gallon res. Ordered the replacement kit for $50 that replaces the 2 carbon blocks, sediment filter, and di resin. Should get me back up and running lickity split. Don't forget your maintenance like I did. It's like watching paint dry waiting for those tiny little drips to fill a reservoir at this point

Update: Last harvest is finally over. It took a total of 3 weeks. Cleared the tops on each plant first and left the immature growth as we went plant to plant. We then circled back around after all the tops were cleared and then took down all the immature growth that had a chance to harden up for about a week after the tops were cleared. Worked great! I've actually been smoking all the immature stuff because it turned out so good. I just roll joints of it and both the flavor and high are excellent. It's very nice burning down hog legs knowing I'm not burning up all my top shelf buds. I like to save those for special occasions. Something really wild happened that I'd like to share. It only happened with 1 strain: blue dream. The buds dried too quickly at 3-4 days. The smoke was so harsh I was pretty depressed for a few days after trying the first bud. I went ahead and tossed it all in containers to cure and pretty much forgot about it all for a week and a half. I had no interest in smoking more of it that's how harsh it was. I actually ordered a boveda 62% pack. It was the $25 big pack. After about 10 days of curing without the container opening I then tried one more bud. The flavor was not only amazing it was smooth as silk. I was in disbelief. I have 3 containers and thought it was a fluke. I tried random buds from each of the other 2 containers. Same thing. Smooth and unbelievable blue flavor. I'm sending the boveda back and saving $25. I've had some strains improve with curing in the past, but this was a complete 180. I almost thought I was going to have to hash it all that's how dramatic the change is.

In summary the previous harvest was incredible. Flavor, potency, burn qualities, and bag appeal all turned out fantastic! I will continue to use and recommend the 7-15-30 finish formula. I could not ask for better quality product. I'm so happy with my results with jack's 3-2-1 and the 7-15-30 finish formula that I just ordered a 25# bag of their 20-20-20 all purpose from walmart for $62 with free shipping. That'll last me a few years easily. I applied some of the 20-20-20 on my flower garden and all of a sudden everything looked like it had a plant boner reaching for the sky like they were on their tip toes. This happened within hours of watering it in. Just incredible fertilizer that I don't think can be improved upon.

Where's jonny's alibaba lights? Stuck in the Port of Los Angeles for 10 fucking days. That's how backed up the port is with congestion. 2 months ago they had up to 40 container ships in a holding pattern off the coast of California, because they couldn't offload their cargo. Kinda like a rush hour traffic jam for international trade. That had to be a sight to see. The cargo containers are making billions just having their ships sit there because they charge by the day. Kinda unreal situation. Then once they get the shit off the fucking ships finally do you know where they go? Into a giant container yard. They then have to be transferred to their holding location and then finally unpacked. Then the goods have to shipped to UPS's warehouse. Then the UPS tracker that was created a month ago in China from the vendor goes active. Long story short I should have my two new 660w LED qb's in 3 or 4 days. UPS just got them today. Would I order express sea freight again after waiting 30 days for this order? You bet your ass. I saved $200, and I can't even install them for another week or so. I could care less if it took 30 days or 8 days. Had I paid the extra $200 for 8 day shipping they'd have just sat on the floor and collected dust. What's the point? Have patience. Save money. Express sea freight.

I'll be cleaning and sanitizing the room with 10% H202 today and tomorrow. Walls, floors, and every surface I can see with my eyeballs. I ordered a 3 pack of forbid 4F, floramite SC, and Avid off of ebay in 1oz quantities which will last for years. I have mites already. Fuck I hate growing in spring and summer. It is impossible to keep them out. Shoe hitchiking little motherfuckers. Even if you change your shoes at the grow room I can assure you at some point a single egg will find it's way into your garden. That's all it takes. 1. In any event I tossed 1 plant and hosed the entire garden down at 75% strength first. Not good enough. Blasted them all with 100% strength. Problem under control. That's not good enough for me though. I'll be doing 3 day rotations starting today. Floramite then wait 3 days. Avid then wait 3 days. Forbid then wait 3 days. That should nuke those little motherfuckers to kingdom come before I hit my flower cycle. I've got Grandevo CG and Venerate CG which are safe organic pesticides in the event this problem comes back in flower.

I'll snap some pics later of the plants in my outdoor garden after getting jack's 20-20-20. Man it's impressive to see the results so rapidly. I actually took a 32 gallon brute can along with one of my spare mighty pumps and garden hoses. Attached a wand to the hose and hooked the pump up to a keychain on /off remote. Filled the res with my garden hose. Added jack's at the recommended rate. Hit a fairly low ppm. I can't recall but I wanna say it was in the 500 range. Checked PH. Right at 6.2. Watered in. Even sprayed the foliage. They loved it!

Finally got my flower cycle under way. It's scaled down from my last cycle due to summer heat. I've got the following strains going:

Maui waui
Jager
Critical mass
Blue dream
God bud
Bruce banger

The monster in the rear left is critical mass. She's a bigg'un. The canopy isn't quite as thick as I would prefer entering into flower, but the CM is so dam large I can't postpone any longer and I don't do staggered harvests so on with the show. Target is 7# this cycle with the reduction of two 600w lights and I only have 1 monster in the room this time instead of the 3 monsters I was dealing with last cycle. We're balls deep in summer now and the heat is here. I'm hoping the AC will rarely run with such a high volume of air movement in and out of the room. 500cfm in and 500cfm out at lights on. I'm ordering 2 more 460w 4 panel qb's tomorrow. Sea freight of course. $475 with shipping. Should take about 40 days or so. Plenty of time to get here before the next flower cycle fires up. I have not fired up the 2 COB's in the rear right yet. No need for the intensity in veg. I'll fire them up tomorrow night which is the first night of 12/12. Right now the boards are all at 25% power. I'll kick it up to 50% tomorrow. 75% by the end of week 1. 100% at the end of week 2. I like to wait until flower set has occurred before I blast them with light. The goal is to nurture those baby flower sites. Not fry them to wilted sadness. Here's a few pics of the setup. I plan to spread the 660's apart and put the 460's in the middle of those. That'll cover the room wall to wall. Just right

Fertilizer is jack's 3-2-1. I'm at 600PPM at the moment with a PH of 5.8. I will add epsom salt on the next reservoir swap to increase the level of sulfates. Light speed ahead! I'm already ready for winter.



Got 'em all perched up so there's a nice even canopy. As you can see it's a little tight. Don't even ask how I water

nice grow man. Can't wait to see this upcoming cycle!