CanadianONE
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Following along to see how that girl turns out.
One Pink Lemonade - no-till cycle 7 in 4 foot diameter pot, 5x5 tent
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Well things are coming along... slowly. The plan is to flip next weekend after a really good cleanup. I've been a bit lazy in upkeep and let her get ahead of me. I reset all the branches under the net this morning, and she looks very sad (photo taken immediately after):
I'll post an "after" photo when she recovers in a day or two.
It's pushing up the net even after retucking everything. I really need a more rigid SrOG setup and I might consider that for my next project. Tomorrow evening when I have the time I'll tie down the net with some string in a few places and anchor it to the lower thick branches/trunk to pull the net down.
I added the vegetative material left over from bubble (ice water) hash making as a mulch over everything else a couple weeks ago. The material was from bud and sugar leaves from my last grow cycle, so that concludes the recycling of the last harvest. Keep in mind that what I added to this pot during this cycle will only benefit the next grow or 2 in this soil. All the nutrients this current grow is using are from doing this same routine during cycle 5 & 6. Here's what the bottom of my pot looked like shortly after applying the bubble hash stuff:
There's no sign of most of those stems from the last harvest I had added. The bigger stems are a bit more persistent, but they're black and soft and moist. The springtails have increased in population with all the fungal activity.
I'll post an "after" photo when she recovers in a day or two.
It's pushing up the net even after retucking everything. I really need a more rigid SrOG setup and I might consider that for my next project. Tomorrow evening when I have the time I'll tie down the net with some string in a few places and anchor it to the lower thick branches/trunk to pull the net down.
I added the vegetative material left over from bubble (ice water) hash making as a mulch over everything else a couple weeks ago. The material was from bud and sugar leaves from my last grow cycle, so that concludes the recycling of the last harvest. Keep in mind that what I added to this pot during this cycle will only benefit the next grow or 2 in this soil. All the nutrients this current grow is using are from doing this same routine during cycle 5 & 6. Here's what the bottom of my pot looked like shortly after applying the bubble hash stuff:
There's no sign of most of those stems from the last harvest I had added. The bigger stems are a bit more persistent, but they're black and soft and moist. The springtails have increased in population with all the fungal activity.
Brandon137
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looking great how tall is your tent is it a 7ft? Will be interesting to see it in flower
Yeah about 7 feet (well 80"). It's just a cheap 5X5 Vivosun tent from Amazon. I still have lots of headroom for raising the lights, so I think once I flip I might only continue the tuck for another week before letting them go.
Well damn, my bubble hash making session outside was interrupted by very cold rain now after only getting 3 runs done. I just covered everything with a tarp minutes ago and ran indoors to warm up and dry off a bit. Hopefully it stops soon. These ones I'm doing today are fresh Argyle (Nordle) strain with the 50-50 thc/cbd. It's yielding much better than I thought, with few trichomes ending up in the 25 micron bag. No idea if half and half cbd/thc would get me very stoned, but this is the meds I'm doing for a friend. I'm definitely going to cure and keep a nice ball of it for myself though out of curiosity and to expand my temple ball strain collection.
SnidleyBluntash
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Do you have any worms in there?
Yeah red wigglers from my worm bins because I didn't bother separating them from the EWC when I added it to my soil mix, along with regular garden earthworms I collected from the garden outdoors, and a European Night Crawlers I bought that are intended for fishing bait. I figure all 3 species like different places in the soil: Red wigglers like close to the surface, the garden worms in the middle depths, and the night crawlers go deep.
The baby red wigglers really love the humus layer just under the mulch. I added them 7 grow cycles ago, but I see lots of babies right near the surface still. I can only assume the other 2 types of worms are doing okay, but I can't be certain because I don't dig in my pot.
Today I ended up finishing my bubble hash making in the cold rain. It was not a super fun time even though I dressed for it. I decided to try be a bit more patient this time and didn't even get a hint of green no matter how many washes I did. I decided to follow Frenchy Cannoli's advice to the letter. The difference this time is that I didn't use a wash bag and just threw the untrimmed buds in the machine freely. I also used less ice with more water, and watched how much weed I was processing at a time. I find his method yields the best results for me. And I really love his "nested bucket" idea and spaying the shit out of it to clean out contaminants. I cut Canadian Tire 20 liter buckets in half just for the purpose. lol
I don't know how many times I've watched this. Even the boring parts while waiting for something he has an important message in there if you listen closely:
Here's a photo of my last batch of today's, with 7 washes. You can hardly tell the first wash from the last. I probably could have done a few more washes. Frenchy has it right:
I don't know how many times I've watched this. Even the boring parts while waiting for something he has an important message in there if you listen closely:
Here's a photo of my last batch of today's, with 7 washes. You can hardly tell the first wash from the last. I probably could have done a few more washes. Frenchy has it right:
I'm having difficulty filling the corner holes, so I still haven't flipped. Not only that, but I think one reason I was having trouble filling the space was because she was a mess. I think I had at least 10 times more growing nodes than I had holes in that scrog net. So yesterday and today I did a drastic defoliation to see what the heck was going on, and I pinched and snipped off several hundred nodes and branches. She's weak, and unhappy with me.
Well at least she's officially 5 feet in diameter. (Damn you corners!) lol
I plan on adding another scrog net about 10 inches over the first one later this week, and let her grow vertically after flipping next week, aiming some colas for the corners. I need her to grow more leaves again before flower, otherwise I'm going to have scrawny small colas. I'll remove all the growing side-nodes between the bottom and top net, leaving all the leaves on. I grew her pretty low for a plant of this size, so I still have a lot of headroom for raising the lights even if she gets twice as high. I would like to get people's opinions on this plan though. This is how much headroom I have:
On another note, I did get to harvest something from this cycle already:
One of the mung bean plants managed to finish. These can be mixed with other stuff for my next cover crop that I'll be planting in near the end of this cycle's flowering period. I can say one thing, it would take an incredible number of mung bean pods to produce one cup of mung beans. lol
Well at least she's officially 5 feet in diameter. (Damn you corners!) lol
I plan on adding another scrog net about 10 inches over the first one later this week, and let her grow vertically after flipping next week, aiming some colas for the corners. I need her to grow more leaves again before flower, otherwise I'm going to have scrawny small colas. I'll remove all the growing side-nodes between the bottom and top net, leaving all the leaves on. I grew her pretty low for a plant of this size, so I still have a lot of headroom for raising the lights even if she gets twice as high. I would like to get people's opinions on this plan though. This is how much headroom I have:
On another note, I did get to harvest something from this cycle already:
One of the mung bean plants managed to finish. These can be mixed with other stuff for my next cover crop that I'll be planting in near the end of this cycle's flowering period. I can say one thing, it would take an incredible number of mung bean pods to produce one cup of mung beans. lol
I set up the second layer of scrog net yesterday. Yeah it's a little ghetto, but I think it will work.
I'm going to flip her, so tonight will be her first long night. I'm disappointed I couldn't completely fill the left side corners, but I can't let this go forever. I don't want to die of old age before I see this girl in flower... so...
I'm going to flip her, so tonight will be her first long night. I'm disappointed I couldn't completely fill the left side corners, but I can't let this go forever. I don't want to die of old age before I see this girl in flower... so...
Brandon137
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Do you plan to totally fill net before you flip
KK26
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SnidleyBluntash
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I think in a few weeks those corners will be filled and you will be begging for more space. Looks like you could use a hedge trimmer on the thing. Looks good. There’s enough room under there to have a whole other layer of buds and a set of lights.
I certainly wanted to fill it corner to corner. I hate wasted grow space. But the corners are really stubborn. Why can't cannabis plants grow naturally square? lol
So I'm flipping tonight. I think I'll be able to at least aim some of the branches toward the upper corner squares once they get longer in stretch. Meanwhile I'm removing all growing side-nodes coming off these branches until they pop above the top net, then I'll let it go. The quantum boards are going full blast now without dimming, so I'll space the boards closer together tomorrow and add 2 bathroom bars on each side with 8 light bulbs each. That should give me the coverage I'm looking for during flower (I hope).
With all this veg time, I better damn well get over a kg from this girl! Grrr...
I'm already thinking about my next grow. I've ordered some Bubba Kush seeds that supposedly yield really good and have up to 27% THC. My next run will be easy and quick because it will be 4 plants! lol
SnidleyBluntash
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What if you try and do some grafting on the trunk after you chop this down. Graft 10 or more new branch’s on and make another monster. Or maybe reveg it.
I guess I'll see how the corners fill during the stretch. She's very "indica" so I don't expect her to double in size, or I'd be screwed. lol I still have a lot of headroom though, so I'm not too worried if she does the unexpected.
I advise people not to try this at home. Trying to fill a 5X5 tent with wall-to-wall colas growing only a single plants is stupid. Now and then I get a little complacent and bored with this hobby, so occasionally I try a stupid thing just to see. I'll not do this again. lol
I wonder if people have tried grafting vegging stems onto a stock that's been flowered? I've never heard of it before, but I haven't searched yet. Interesting idea actually. You could even do 3 or 4 strains from the same stock! lol
I'll not reveg it, because that takes patience. And my patience has now grown a little thin with this extra-long veg. I'm going onto the Bubba Kush I think for the next cycle - 4 plants for sure! lol
I did! Tonight she will officially finish her second day of flower. Of course no flowers yet...
She better stretch at least 50%, otherwise I'm going to be wishing I vegged another week or two. By the way, I only found the first pre-flowers last Saturday which is really weird for such a long veg. I'm using feminized seeds, but in the back of my mind was the fear "what if it's male?". It would have been an epic fail after going to this amount of trouble - not my worst but damn close. Yes, I would have cried. Lol
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