SuperSkunk Manifold

If I just did 4 main cola, but let them get tall, I could do 2-3 plants in my closet without too much crowding?

Done thinking for the night. Peace out!

H.A.F. said:

Don't know what saucer you are talking about, but I do have both blue and yellow bucket-grids that I set the pots on. If that isn't what you mean, tell me which post.

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The plant stand.
https://www.rollitup.org/t/superskunk-manifold.982650/page-8#post-14717195
https://www.rollitup.org/t/superskunk-manifold.982650/page-8#post-14719091

mobone said:

The plant stand.
https://www.rollitup.org/t/superskunk-manifold.982650/page-8#post-14717195
https://www.rollitup.org/t/superskunk-manifold.982650/page-8#post-14719091

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Made for the bottom of a 5 gallon bucket, so there are no size options for bigger pots.

Just when everything was going perfect, power goes out in the middle of lights on...

Woke up early (thank God) and it was eerily quiet. Power was on, but breaker was tripped for the closet. I had a space heater in the hallway to warm the area, not even in the same room, but it has a thermostat and kicks on when needed. I even considered that this could be an issue which was why I put it out in the hall. Terrible way to find out that your grow-closet lighting is attached to the hallway breaker and not the room that it is in...

It was only out for about 3 hours (by the mechanical timer) so I flipped it back on for the remaining 2 hours and reset the timer to the original 7pm-7am settings. Don't think it'll be too much of an issue since I caught it quick, but it's always something...

And the most LS-est of LST's you'll ever see!

She isn't very sturdy yet, so there is almost no tension on the hooks, mainly their weight. Just wanted them to get more light.

Since this is my first clone grow, and from a flower clone, this will be a learning experience. Seeing how they grow sprouts "marching" style (left right left right) it would be better to start them on one side of a pot, then train it towards the other side. I'm leaving this one as is, and if one of the skunk clones makes it I'll know.

I knew this but never put it together. Live and learn

Also, that junk in the middle of the stem from the old flowers is on there. I can't even pry it away enough to see how it is attached to the stem, so there's no way I'm digging in there. I hate doing it, but I may re-pot it when it gets taller just to cover that up with dirt.

Just soaked on the 30th, and it's already light enough for a feeding tonight. I think the tall skinny style of the 3 gallon pot is a big part of that, instead of short fat 5 gallons. I wonder if a tall skinny 5 gallon would be good, since I don't have height worries?

There was nute burn on some of the leaves I pruned last time and a little showing up now, so at least I know she's getting enough now, backing back off to 75% strength.

13" tall now, lights at 28"

H.A.F. said:

Also, that junk in the middle of the stem from the old flowers is on there.

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Damn! It even still has frost on it! Good job.

Life lesson - be prepared!
Today is feeding day for skunky if she still feels ready when the lights come on, so I figured I would give a 50%veg feed to the clone.
ppm in 500. seemed pretty safe. I mixed 3/4gal for the 2 gallon pot and had run-off (note to self )
The run off was 1750ppm! I have no clue where it came from! I have added very little over the past month, but I guess she wasn't eating, and I didn't water to run-off. So many wrongs LOL

Anyway, after I literally said "OH SHIT!" I had to start the RO because I was out of water. I was doing other stuff as well, and wasn't really in a hurry, so a few hours later after I mixed sledgehammer in 2gal, and pH'd it, 45ppm, and went to get the plant and found this:

I ran a gallon through before I even bothered checking the ppm, then put it on my plant caddy to get a sample. Thankfully it was down to 960ppm.

In a soaked 2 gallon with my soil that drains really well, I can pour in between 1pt and 1qt before I have to let it settle for a few minutes. I wanted to see how fast it was losing the ppm, so I topped it off one more time and when it was almost done draining took another sample and it was at 750ppm. I figured that was safe enough and called it good.

Random shit to follow...

H.A.F. said:

And the most LS-est of LST's you'll ever see!
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She isn't very sturdy yet, so there is almost no tension on the hooks, mainly their weight. Just wanted them to get more light.

Since this is my first clone grow, and from a flower clone, this will be a learning experience. Seeing how they grow sprouts "marching" style (left right left right) it would be better to start them on one side of a pot, then train it towards the other side. I'm leaving this one as is, and if one of the skunk clones makes it I'll know.

I knew this but never put it together. Live and learn

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Seeing this, I realize I missed lots of time early on to start pulling branches, and start the training. I will know more for next time. Figured I was more worried about her getting her first month going vs training for optimization. I also realize you say that you dont have tension, just the weight.

Sledgehammer is an extract from yucca and is like a natural soap that binds to nutes, cleans the roots, etc. I have no clue what was taken and what was left in that 750ppm.

So yes, I do give a damn about ppm and check it religiously - and this is why, we'll see what happens. That said, each grow is different (plant, seasonal climate, etc.) so I don't see value in tracking it that closely for future reference. I think it is a 'get it and forget it' thing.

I didn't use any flush yet on skunky. She has been eating well and I am not yet convinced that the first flush right before flower wasn't the beginnings of my issues last grow.

• I have been using FF religiously because that is what I got used to.
• Up until this grow I have flushed per their schedule right at the flip, then about every 3 weeks after that.
• In theory this makes sense. There are actually 4 stages of flowering, all with different needs (google it) so the flushing made sense in a way.
• however, you water between every feeding which encourages the plant to use nutes already there
• You then feed with the new nutes that it wants
  
• As a result, ou have a healthy plant in a stable environment and by choice you completely discombobulate the chemistry.

So if this plant does generally better than my last few, I am thinking about just adding a second watering before the feeds that recommend a flush on the schedule. I am also thinking about placing a label on the sledgehammer that says Emergency ONLY!

Oh, and for this instance, since humidity was low I was feeding right before lights out. I pulled her out of the dark to do this because damn! LOL


Liken I said, random shit. Notes for me when I am riding a different buzz and need a refresher about what I was thinking

buddha61 said:

Seeing this, I realize I missed lots of time early on to start pulling branches, and start the training. I will know more for next time. Figured I was more worried about her getting her first month going vs training for optimization. I also realize you say that you dont have tension, just the weight.

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My ONLY goal doing that is to get more light to the leaves. shade is bad.

In this instance, I've never grown a clone before, so I have no "plan" like with the manifold. I just want everything to get as much light as possible, encourage sprout growth over leaf growth if it comes to LST or pruning, and then wing it.

@buddha61 honestly, since I am not dealing with a seedling, I'm just tryng to figure out when to start "week one" for feeding LOL

Edited: it ain't now! LOL

Oh, and on that close-up leaf pic you can see that it affected the lower leaf first. I know that it is effecting them all but the older leaf with bugger veins cycling more water shows it first. Part of the reason that during the grow I try to keep an old healthy leaf as a barometer.

It worked! After about an hour of lights on she was perky again.

So I bent her over LOL

For the other clones, The humidity has been easy to maintain in the dome but they felt light so I just soaked them. I have no clue on the clone thing, but it can't hurt, the soil drains good and I turned the "no-bottom' solo cup a little so it didn't seat right in the one with a bottom to make sure it drains. The red cup is my experiment cup. I soaked it this afternoon - no issues - did the others tonight.

Porn

Here's the purplish pistils I mentioned. They are not red/ripe/dead/whatever. Still fat just purple.

And a peek under her skirt

Big plans today... I looked close at the GDP clone, and the reason it wasn't very stable when I tried to LST is that the stem below that junk is actually smaller than the main shoot above it.

For the Skunk clones, after soaking them with no ill effect, and having the vents open full on the dome for a few days, it's sink-or-swim time. The only intake vent I have open is to the lower right, so they are protected from major airflow (because of the low humidity). But there is a warm front coming, so if the polar crap is done I will look at popping a seed if one of these 4 don't take.

Starting to check for roots now, but nothing yet.

I think this is the beginnings of a new tiedown idea. It needs smaller holes (those are about 1/4") so I may jam something between the screen and the soil, but this provides a sturdier pot-top and unlimited tie-down possibilities. Rigging a new pot would take fewer (or no) grommets.

Here was the process after I zip-tied the screen on. The 2-liter to keep soil off the plant and add around the edge, then slowly lift the bottle
I watered in the new soil well with a spray bottle and pushed it around the stem real well.

Before my cloning success, I had a pot ready for a seedling (my northern lights seed) and figured I would update the pot while I wait, and share how I set up the soil and why. But first, a smoke report on my fully cured "lefty" herm GDP nuggies. I found that posting the "full Image" allows for killer zoom!

General -

• Harvested 6 weeks into flower, the plant (broken-half-manifold) matured rapidly after the flip, had pistils in 7 days, and the first brown pistil in 18.
• Most of the pistils were brown at harvest, and all the trichomes were at least milky, with a few random ambers on the sugar leaves but not the buds yet.
• Every bud including the tops were about the same size - like a red grape - and had just started to fatten.
• 6 weeks into flower She/he started producing pollen sacks at the base of the stems.
• These could have just been calyxes that would eventually produce a pistil, but since it was a grow with heat issues (my fault) I wasn't going to chance it since I had my primo manifold in the same room.

I had no tops that deserved TLC, and it was already 3 days dry and ready for watering (heat issues had the leaves brittle, but still green) I went straight to the hand-crank bowl-trimmer. I tossed them all on a drying rack, yada-yada-yada.

[when I process hang-dried prime stuff like my avatar I snip the lower cola for the bowl trimmer - then have a long handle for manicuring the top]

The bowl trimmer in this instance had over 3oz of sugar leaves with only 3-4 bud pieces that were probably from snipping errors. After I dumped out the sugar leaves, I brushed all the remaining sugar onto my dry-sift screen and just tapped it repeatedly until 90% fell through. the rest was mostly red hairs and were immediately consumed. I'm not a cheater unless I'm desperate, so this stuff is all I sample before full-cure.

That's the preliminaries from a grow with no journal on here. If you want pics, lemme know.

Appearance - like tiny Brussel sprouts (because I didn't mess with a fine trim), and they are dense like little pebbles. Each nuggie weighs about .4g-.5g and the size of a large pea. Ground it is dark green, with less evidence of the red hairs that were on the outside.

Taste - (takes another hit to refresh memory ) sweet, a little chemical, but not harsh. It is also very resinous and slow burning.
Overall, watching for amber trichomes may be overrated. All brown pistils - regardless of trichome color - is a plant that will get you high. Also, milky trichomes are ripe. google it. amber trichomes are past prime. What isn't factored in is that we always check the tops, and the tops mature faster, and if they have "x" ambers, the bulk under it will have less and be prime. So......