Mars Hydro FCE4800 Giveaway Win--Journal

Stoked to see how that Raspberry Ice Cream turns out!!

TCH said:

Stoked to see how that Raspberry Ice Cream turns out!!

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My buddy who gave em to me said his was "bland-ish" which IMO might be from the ICC lineage, Cake strains are often helllla frosty but not very smelly or tasty, in my experience. We'll see though, I'm also excited for the possibility of raspberry herb

PopAndSonGrows said:

My buddy who gave em to me said his was "bland-ish" which IMO might be from the ICC lineage, Cake strains are often helllla frosty but not very smelly or tasty, in my experience. We'll see though, I'm also excited for the possibility of raspberry herb

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Well that's unfortunate. Lol. Fingers crossed for something better.

TCH said:

Well that's unfortunate. Lol. Fingers crossed for something better.

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I recently dug through all my Happy Bird Seeds I bought when getting started and picked out the ones that used different HSC strains for crosses. I am going to randomly toss those into tents with my next grows just to see if any magic happens.

TCH said:

I recently dug through all my Happy Bird Seeds I bought when getting started and picked out the ones that used different HSC strains for crosses. I am going to randomly toss those into tents with my next grows just to see if any magic happens.

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HSC for the most part is some REAL terpy weed. Can't go wrong with them, if your goal is smells and tastes, the potency is OK to good but flavor and smell wise they're nothing shy of GREAT.

PopAndSonGrows said:

HSC for the most part is some REAL terpy weed. Can't go wrong with them, if your goal is smells and tastes, the potency is OK to good but flavor and smell wise they're nothing shy of GREAT.

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I got lucky with the one single bean of Blueberry Cupcake that I got. Smell is great and it's potent. I have been running that and now have a mom set up of it. I'd love to find something in the HBS beans I'll run, but I believe most are autos so they will be one or two runs then done. But at a buck a seed or so, im not too worried about it. We shall see.

Damn! 143.something gms, or 5.1oz off a single plant!!! Biggest plant haul to date! This is the HSC Nutter Budder

Is that the first of the 4 to harvest in this group? If so, id say you're well on the way to bout a pound!! Great job.

TCH said:

Is that the first of the 4 to harvest in this group? If so, id say you're well on the way to bout a pound!! Great job.

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Thank you! Second actually, the original PBB got pulled just before this, and I got a respectable 3.78oz off that one. No pics or anything because life happened, and I'm already having to smoke on it before it's had any cure time it's still fantastic.

The third one, Kropduster PBB bx1, comes down next and she CHONKY

The Kropduster was so flopped over, I had to tie it to its neighbor's cage, lol! And had to buy a shop vac specifically for handling the runoff, which is nice to have now anyway

AND THEN THERE WAS ONE. The last ----or, what was supposed to be the last ---- original PBB. Turns out my Dad didn't ditch his cut, so I'm definitely gona have to run this again. So far this original version BLOWS AWAY the others in all aspects except yield; so far yield goes to Nutter Budder.

This MFer is just getting POUNDED by the FCE 4800, I dimmed it to about 85%. I hate to waste all this space, but I absolutely have to stop staggering my flower runs. Just gotta ride this one out.

OK so we're wrapping things up! Finally got all my PBB plants finished, here's a couple nug shots:

I got 3.8 oz off my original PBB clone. SUPER dense and frosty nugs, proper earthy/nutty aroma and taste. Gassy but also kinda "meaty". Chopped at day 64 because quite frankly I was out and it was "close enough" to be chopped.

Got a whopping 5.1oz off this one! Biggest single plant harvest to date. Super gassy, similar to PBB overall but less nutty & more gas-forward. Slight airy spots in some nugs, but proper overall density. This went 68 days, was gona go the full 70 but it was just kinda in the way so WTH, what's two days.

Got 4.9oz off this one. HUGE HEAVY flowers wich are frosty and dense, but lack aroma compared to the other two. Still a proper PBB vibe but the original was definitely the most aromatic. Chopped this at day 77.

I am BEYOND pleased with this FCE light fixture! Changing no other variables other than my light, i was able to nearly DOUBLE my harvest capacity. I usually get 2-3 oz plants, now I'm closer to averaging 5oz plants, hopefully more on the next run.

Job well done, sir!!!

TCH said:

Job well done, sir!!!

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Thank you, definitely still improving which is a good thing

Oh and another thing about the FCE 4800:

I hadn't really been paying attention to the overall conditions even though I still monitor them. Turns out, this light does in fact generate a decent amount of heat if you want it to! With the driver left in the tent, exhaust turned down a bit, I'm able to hit the high 80s

My understanding is these slightly higher temps are good for LED grown plants, and my increasing harvest and overall plant sizes would support that.