is this a AUTO or Photo plant @Coffin_Dodger
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Bro, ya need to do a book.
Great write up’s. To the point. Interesting reads. Easy to understand as a noob.
Beautiful journal CD and @JustTieflingThings
because as we know. Behind every great growchacho, is a great growchachaet 
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I love how @Coffin_Dodger explains things. He’s got a good eye for what information is valuable, to himself and to others. We work well together. Did in body modification too. But NOW we have no boss, no salty artist types, no mean clients… Just honest labor and the fruits it bares.
For each other. For our family. Aaaaand, for all of you who help us, gas us up, make this WELL written log worth keeping.
Love you @Coffin_Dodger
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The DSCBD are fem photos. We haven’t grown autos yet, but they’re on the docket for next year.
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Coffin_Dodger
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Cool. Can’t wait for that chapter…
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Heyhey, all you fine folk!
Here’s hoping this week has seen y’all gaining ground on projects, tending happy gardens, or otherwise enjoying the fruit there of. Most everyone’s got a million things to get done to wrap the year and prepare for the next, or major holidays to celebrate, and I hope y’all find plenty of time to breathe and burn a few to offset the bustle.
Our work this week was cut out for us, but so enjoyable none-the-less, I damn sure can’t find room to complain. As the tent was flipped to 12/12 last week, we braced ourselves for the storm we’ve barely weathered with our rowdy girls before:
The Stretch.
Everything in the tent has taken off this week, as we’ve continued with multiple tucking sessions each day followed by periods of rest both in light and dark cycles. Though NB #QT’s surprising us by only just now reaching the screen, all other corners are filling nicely and everyone is really bulking up. We’re gonna have some work on our hands in a week or two with the major Lollipopping we intend to impose below the screen by that time. We will be tapering off the tucking as the screen really fills through, unless our runt catches up and needs an extra hand. The DSCBD 30:1 are both multiplying their growth tips and bud sites just about any time we look away for longer than a few hours, by the look of it!
Training through the use of the ScrOG continues to be a therapy in itself, as we get a feel for how the plant responds and make it a daily routine. There’s a different set of limits and approaches, but it will definitely be a mainstay in our arsenal.
Our worries about having a male we weren’t prepared for on our hands have abated more, thanks again to @Kgrim for the advice to let it be a see what happens after the flip. Feeling much better about what we are near positive is a girl, now. Raises our hopes of seeing all four plants through to the end of harvest! Here are some of NB #FD’s nodes:
This week’s feed went ridiculously smooth, as @JustTieflingThings and I switched roles and I manned the pumps while she kept the hose. This was a dramatic improvement on her comfort, and we’ll probably keep to it in the future. Since feeding, we have seen a persistent rise in pH, though it never drifts beyond 6.3 and we have actively managed it closer to an average of 5.9 to avoid the fussiness we saw in the week before flipping. Our tap water this week was pretty damn alkaloid, coming in at 9.1 pH and cold, out of the hose at below 58 * F, though between drain and hard water, we started about 100 PPM lower than last feed. No new nutes were added, and we calculated for 35 gallons again.
The light has remained the same, though we have dialed the ACI Controller 69 PRO VPD triggers higher, ratcheting up to a target of 1.00 kPa as we enter flowering.
Yesterday saw a bit of trouble-shooting the same equipment again, as our ACI T3 Humidifier began to act strangely. The icon for the huey had a slight slash through it, and although it appeared to be fully functional, drilling into its info on the app claimed it to be OFF due to being over-full. We had heard that over-filling can end in disaster with these little machines, so having never gotten close to that, we were initially at a loss to the cause. We shut it down, and employed a round of LITFA tec. The tent was going dark soon, anyway, and “night” levels are fine without it. While this did not solve our problem by the time we looked back into it, plugging back in showed the same results. We figured if we kept an eye on it, it should be fine. It continued to be OFF but fully-functional for about a day total before I got a chance to get a better look. I figured for a float-valve sticking issue, but found a bit of build up on what I presume is a sensor or valve in the center. Cleaning it out well again seems to have fixed the issue.
BAREBONES STATS
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63 Days from Seed, ~32 Days of Vegetation, 7 Days of Flowering -
All plants seem happy and responsive, with only slight signs of stress.
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Lights remain the same, 12/12 cycle, 360-550 PPFD and ~22 DLI at screen level, 39" below the light board. This puts us slightly over 30% output . -
Solution remains actively maintained to stop upward pH creep after feeding. Averages steady and comprable to last week at **5.9 pH, 68 * F and 1400-1430 PPM.
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VPD triggers ratcheted up as of yesterday to 1.00 kPa. Averaging 73.7 * F , 59.4 %RH and .916 kPa VPD through the week.
This week also had Jessicat the Mail-Bearer busy, as she and her mama dragged in a few packages- preparing for the holidays, and expected from those just past. We picked up an ARIZER Solo II as part of treating ourselves for our anniversary, and dip our toes in the waters of dry herb vaping. Holy. Shit. Hot Damn. That’s another game changer. …and damned if it isn’t all the more reason for me to get around to that Smoke and Wash report from last week (and the week before.) I might just get the time this week.
…if that thing would stop refilling itself. Highly raccoon-mended so far.
We also caught the beans sent by @The_Vault_Team , and added Citrus Paradisi (C99 x Landrace Sativa?) from Garden of Green to our humble seed collection. Thank you again for the chance at seeing what they have inside!
As always, THANK YOU! 
reader, for keeping an eye on us and our garden, showing any support or interest, sharing your experience or ideas, and any encouragement or constructive feedback. If nothing and nowhere else today, you left this place better for your having been here. All the best to all of you and your people this season.
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Coffin_Dodger
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Good deal!!!
Glad you decided to let it hang around.
Things are looking good!!!
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Heyhey, everyone!
Hope every one of y’all here in the states had a great holiday, with all the trappings, whatever that may entail for you and yours. For those of you in other parts of the world, I hope you got to take a break and enjoy some time with the people and folks you care about, whatever the excuse, before that deep-winter chill sets in. 
Here’s to warmth and grateful work through-out the season.
After all the excitement of spending time with family and a hell of a work week, I was damn sure looking forward to some time in our garden, with @JustTieflingThings and the Jessicat, some good music, and plenty to get done. We have our week three under-canopy lolipopping coming up, and have certainly seen some leaves that could go in our (thankfully) compact jungle, so we decided while feeding to spread that work-load out and acclimate the plants to the torture to come by doing some leaf thinning this week.
ScrOGging is still proving to be a great tool, and intuitive for us. Being able to tuck things just about anywhere, even if just for a better look or a few clips of the shears, has been pretty damn handy for accessibility of maintenance. The position of the tent in the lung room this run has given some drawbacks, though, and has me second guessing how optimal it is. I have a feeling things will be moving again before we dive into our Year of Autos in '24. I’ve also got designs on some small fabrications for little solutions here and ther in the garden- like grouping divider toggles for the air lines.
We fed this week as usual, continuing the GH Medium with our usual additives, the biggest change this round being a larger dose of Kool Bloom. The girls all seem to have adjusted to the high-end PPM we run, and other than some slight clawing (mostly present in the lower leaves of DSCBD30:1 #LG) just as likely, it seems, to be from a slightly-too-high humidity level at localized areas (nearest the huey) as a possible reaction to Nitrogen.
Here’s some root porn and a shot of the monitor before we treat the tap water or add nutrients.
The smells in the garden have ramped up this week, and, as of the 14th day of flower, we have begun to see pistil development kick into gear, with an abundance in the feminized DSCBD30:1. While our NB girls still seem to be taking their own time, we are happy to allow for it. This has been giving us a better last-chance at some vital training.
The expressions between the two cultivar continues to be remarkable, with the stretch giving a spindly, burgeoning vining growth, while the NB both continue to thicken out in all dimensions, Each NB branch is already as wide around as some of the main cola stems of our last grow, at maybe 1/6th of the height. These girls are ready to get FAT.
The DSCBD30:1 has a stem-rub with heavy Mint according to @JustTieflingThings palette, though we both got a very unique sort of mélange from the nose, over all. I was struck immediately by notes of ginger and cinnamon that left me instantly thinking of a good spice-cake. Their leaves are typically narrow, and they exhibit the kind of node structure we’ve seen before.
The NB are much more savory over all. There seems to be a much heavier peppery end to things here, with little to none that could be described as fruity or floral. @JustTieflingThings said the taste was reminiscent of well seasoned steak (which neither of us has had in years.
) I’m excited to see how this develops, as there does seem to be some pine-y quality as a more suppressed note. They are both stocky, strong, and ready for massive weight. Those cyclopean fan-leaves weren’t f#cking around. The taste from the greens lingers for me and builds like a chili on the back of the tongue.
We have not edited the automations this week, and plan on ratcheting about 0.10 kPa VPD once every other week, until we should be hitting harvest at a solid upper 1.3-1.4 kPa without any massive swings. We have also not yet changed anything about the lighting, as the girls seem to be happy to stretch into the light, with many bud-sites now ~4-8" above the screen, closer to ~30-35" from the light. This has us comfortably maxing ~720 PPFD in the middle of the tent. DLI is between 25-30 at the tops of the sites.
BAREBONES STATS
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70 Days from Seed, ~32 Days of Vegetation, 15 Days of Flower (12/12)
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DSCBD30:1 smell like rich spice cake, with heavy tones of ginger and cinnamon, and lower notes of vanilla and citrus. Nodes are stretchy with 1.5-2.5" between most. Spindle branches of narrow-bladed mid-to small fans everywhere. NB smell like savory, earthy, pepper. Some hint of sandalwood or pine. The branches are near-thick as the meristems of mature plants we have seen. Most nodes are on the closer side of .75-1.5" apart.
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Lights have not been changed (30% output @ 39" from screen frame), most of the canopy now at ~30-35" below the light board.
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Solution was allowed to drift upwards in pH for the last three days of the week, and actively lowered after feeding. This may take more work this round, as it seems to be higher on average at pH 6.0, 67 * F and 1450-1470 PPM. The picture of the monitor above shows our base water before dosing with pH Down or feeding. -
VPD triggers remain the same. Averaging 71.9 * F, 57.1 % RH, and 0.92 kPa. Some of the evident drop in VPD or rise in RH here can be explained by probes which had to be adjusted.
In other grow related news, Jessicat the Mail Bearer was just as busy this week as we were, with a letter from @Rhai88 , @SkunkIE , and @Rena93 . We had the luck to win some BBD F2 X Black Cherry beans over on the RYKNOWS Selections Discord Server. There were a couple new slaps in there, too, so @JustTieflingThings got to decorate the tool cab some more. If you aren’t already hanging out over there, check it out!
Then, just last night, another came! This letter had the BBD F2 pack we scored in Rhai’s Overgrow Thanksgiving Extravaganza(!), which surprised the hell out of me to have made the trip in less than a week!
Looks like there’s gonna be plenty of BBD around here soon enough- and that sounds damn fine to me! THANK YOU All the festivities here definitely made having to work the day-of much easier to handle! 
Also! A new experiment is on the horizon, with @JustTieflingThings preparing to make her first run of topical medication. any tips for that kind of processing come to mind? She’ll be using some lowers and trim from last season to make some lotion and hopefully never have to deal with a dispo again, soon enough. With topicals covered, our last real hurdle will be FECO or RSO extraction.
As ever and always, THANK YOU! (yes, you) for reading along, following, watching, any and all advice, anecdotes, jokes, or constructive feedback, and ALL your encouragement and support. Hope everyone has a great week, I’ll catch yas soon!
Stay up!
Coffin_Dodger
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No feedback besides…FNA!
Another great write-up and looks like you’ve got everything dialed in to a tee.
Hope you and the dam had a great holiday 
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Well, hell! Fancy meetin’ you all here again!
Hope this cold/hot/cold we’re facing in the river valleys isn’t rearing its ugly head where ever you hang your hats, and that your people are gardens are happy and well-tended to. The Almanac says its gonna’ be a brutal one here this season, and I don’t doubt it with the temp swings we’re getting outside.
Inside, though- That’s another story. Shake off the cold and spark one, we’ll go over the week.
As the story goes so far, it was another easy week, as the girls all cruised right along. The DSCBD30:1 are both looking to be making a lot of spears, having stretched all through the week. Nodes have opened up a bit in spacing, and we’re seeing a lot closer to 2"-3.5" apart on the tallest branches. The leaves are narrow on both plants, and both continue to give off a STRONG aroma of gingerbread or @JustTieflingThings ’ home-made spice cake. My old man got to stop by during lights up this week, and immediately agreed. Hahahah I think I caught ‘im droolin’!
Our NB are showing some big differences in expression by this point, with NB #QT remaining small and sturdy, though in the final tucks of the ScrOG we have been able to open her up quite a bit with little major fussiness, if a little bit of stunting. NB #FD is stretching right along with the DSCBD30:1, showing the same trunks-for-branches as her sister, but much more vertical growth and spacing. Fan leaves remain few and huge, and grow with great structure. Strong as hell. The smell on both phenos remains similar, with that Mushroom-Steak seasoning @JustTieflingThings is now getting a slight note of citrus in, deepening the steak seasoning savory qualities. Some differences in the two may be related to the time we waited before topping NB #QT, or how shallow we got NB #FD in her RDWC site.
We passed day 21 of flowering, and had waited more or less patiently to do much defoliation or pruning, wanting to see how the plants managed themselves and not wanting to risk too much stress with the ScrOG already in play. Over the course of three days we started taking many more leaves, then built up to pruning the majority of the branches that did not seem to be making it up to the canopy. There’s a few more to get (ain’t it just always so) that we’ll be getting today and then- HANDS OFF!
This was an alternate week, so we set to dial the whole environment up a bit more, setting all the ACI automations to a VPD of 1.10 and raising the light before dialing it up to maintain and slightly increase DLI. We raccoon to be at about 40% output, at a distance to the highest canopy of about 28.5". According to Photone we are netting roughly a ** 35.6 DLI and 777 PPFD, center tent. ** The plants seem grateful for the slightly increased temperatures thanks to the driver working a bit harder and there doesn’t seem to be any negative reaction to the increase.
Here’s some root porn and the feed schedule, with a shot of the tap water we were running.
Unfortunately, in the pruning, there was a casualty as I reached for what I thought was one of NB #FD’s massive leaves, only to pull out a beautiful little branch that would have otherwise been fine.
So it goes. We made the most of it, and @JustTieflingThings wore it in her hair a while.
I done a goof.
BAREBONES STATS
76 Days from seed, ~32 Days of Vegetation 
, 21 Days of Flowering 
All plants continue to flower well, and are getting their final tucks, All have been lolipopped and defoliated below the screen.
Lights raised to accommodate stretch, then dialed up. ~29" from canopy, 35.6 DLI and 777 PPFD at center tent.
Feed schedule remains the same, with slightly better tap water this change out. 6.0 pH 58.5 * F and 1400 PPM
Environment steady all week averaging 72.6 * F , 58.7 % RH, 0.97 kPa VPD. Ratcheted up automation on day 21 to 1.10 kPa VPD target. Nominal day/night cycle differences. Tap water was fairly cold, at 51 * F to start feed.
In other news,
Jessicat the Mail-Bearer had a slower week, with the arrival of a letter 
from @JustANobody regarding some beans courtesy of CaliCaveman. The surprise left-over spread from Thanksgiving was a delicious sounding (Watermelon Zkittlez X Grand Daddy ORANGE) X Cherry Bomb. The cross sounds amazing, and @JustTieflingThings and I will have a hell of a time at this point deciding on the next photo run line-ups. Thank you again!
I also posted up a nice shot of a baby bud in the POTY thread. Thanks to all the donors there and especially to @Heliosphear for running the big show and everything else he does around here.
Make sure you check it out and post up in there! OGTW with love!After a busy week/end outside of the garden, we’re looking forward to taking an extra, relaxing day and maybe trying our hand at making a medicated salve/lotion out of last rounds trim and some lowers. I raccoon we’ll knock it out of the park and have something to be damn proud of and grateful for by the end.
As always, 
Thank YOU!
for all you do around here, any share of your own grow you have going, following along, all the kindness and generosity, all the information and resources compiled at our finger-tips and any and all encouragement, feedback, questions, constructive criticism or otherwise! Keep kicking ass, and-
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Coffin_Dodger
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My buddy ran those outside last year and he was VERY pleased with it. Nice set up you have!
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Thanks! … always on the look out for ways to improve it and make it work better for us. And thanks for dropping by! Have a great day, keep bringing that OG Spirit
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Coffin_Dodger
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Which version of the DSCBD30:1 (reg or auto) are you running?
Cheers
G
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Photos. The Great Auto Experiments will begin with next grow.
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…and we have plans on running Seedmans Purple Kush CBD 1:1 Auto Fems to check out different ratios, as well. Thanks for covering, @JustTieflingThings .
The CBD autos might not be part of our first run next year, we’re still kicking around some ideas (mainly monocropping) and line-ups.
Thanks for checking in, @Gpaw . Hope you and yours are well.
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Coffin_Dodger
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Hey, everybody!
Hope y’all are well and keepin’ plenty warm. The weather here just hit too-damn-cold 
for the first stretch of more than a day or two, and it seems like winter is finally catching up with the calendar. No snow yet, but gonna’ be a long one.
… now, that’s out there, and we’re in here, with four happy plants and plenty of good smoke. Let’s take a look in the garden for the week, eh?
This week saw an overall easy build up, as flowering has really hit it hard. We’re starting to see some solid stacking and density in the canopy. All four plants have taken well to the lolipopping and under-screen defoliation they received last week. We’re clear of the stretch and can still see the tops of our plants, so we’re pretty damned well-off in our position compared to the first two grows. Trichome production is in full swing!
ScrOGging has really given a much clearer idea of how much “steering” these girls can take. It’s definitely helped get us over the hurdles of being too worried about results to really get in there.
Through the work week, and into my week/end, we have been largely hands-off, as planned, except for taking the occasional crunchy looking leaf or two in a day, or lightly leaf-tucking here and there.
This week’s feed/res change was a bit more complicated than we had planned, as we thought and mulled it more. By the end of the week, the solution level was pretty damn low, probably the biggest dry-back of this crop. The plants have been guzzling solution, and it was getting fairly concentrated as a result (nearly 1580ppm, though with stable pH). So, we considered starting with about 5 and a half or 6 more gallons more still, while keeping the calculations for the nutrients the same for 35 gallons. This has us starting the week at ~1280 PPM or ~2.56 EC and should allow us to add either tap water or small-batch solution midweek if we need to. Tap water this week was cold as hell at 46 * F, but the pumps and lights warmed it up to a respectable mid-fifties after a short while.
It feels good to take a more practiced hand to the feed, and we still managed it in near record time. @JustTieflingThings runs a tight pit crew for these oil changes, I’ll tell ya. Hahaha
The smells have mixed into quite a slap in the face when the tent is opened, though it’s still easy to pick out notes of both the musky, savory NB and the sweet, spiced Christmas baked-goods of the DSCBD30:1. The latter have started to really stack the bud sites on all the upper branches wonderfully. The NB are both not far behind, with NB #FD stacking a bit on her taller colas, and NB #QT really coming up hard from behind, short, but dense and spread enough that even sites under the netting are keeping up quite well. We may yet need some LST to keep her out of any shade from DSCBD30:1 #LG but, with the big leaf-strip only two weeks off, it should hold out well.
The lights were kept at the same distance, as we seem to be done stretching, though we did dial it up about 5% to hit the gas pedal a bit more and net us a center-tent DLI of ~38.5 or ~1000 PPFD. The plants have been grateful for the extra heat during their day cycles.
Feeling better everyday about pulling all four plants out of that tent come harvest, which would be a first. We have lost one plant after flip in each grow so far for one reason or another.
BAREBONES STATS
- 83 Days from seed, ~32 Days of vegetation , 28 Days of Flowering
- Hands off the plants this week! All are recovering from under-carriage clean up very well.
- Light intensity dialed up slightly again. Distance maintained. **~29" from the canopy, ~38.5 DLI and ~1000 PPFD at center tent.
- See above for details, currently being actively maintained. post-feed pH 6.0 (targeting 5.8 by lights out), 56.9 * F, and 1280 PPM or 2.56 EC.
- Average of 72.3 * F, 57% RH, and 0.953 kPa VPD
In other news, @JustTieflingThings made a damn fine first stab at an infused, full-spectrum salve. Such things are a staple in her medication, and a nice thing for me to have around, too. Using 10 grams of dried bud and trim, and a few grams of ABV, she was able to whip up a very effective replacement for the expensive, hard to track down, and largely much less effective sh!t she had been getting from dispos and head-shops. I’m so proud of her for taking such an important thing into her own hands, and we have notes to improve on this run for next time. …like MUCH more essential oil.
She netted 4 1/2 “quarter” jars of the stuff! We’ll have plenty to share with family this holiday, and look forward to making more. In the background of that shot is our humble seed vault, with all the mounting decisions and priorities it now holds. Hahaha
Next tec to cover for us will probably be FECO, and then gummis. By that point, we will have completely cut dispos out, and damned if I ain’t looking forward to that day.
If you haven’t for whatever reason, go check out the POTY thread, now with mini-auctions courtesy of MANY awesome OG donors, and headed up by @Heliosphear and @Rhai88 . Get something great on the cheap, win something, or support everyone’s favorite site, and show some love.
2023 OverGrow Picture of the year contest. Prizes: 850+ seeds, 3D printed Bong, OG T-shirt, OG Poster, Stickers and more!
As always, dear readers, thank you! for all the encouragement, advice, stories, any and all questions, constructive criticism, or feedback in general. Would we be doing this anyway? Hell yes we would. But it certainly wouldn’t be as much fun, or nearly as easy to overgrow the hurdles that come up. Thanks again and always, and good luck in all, to all. 
Stay up!
Coffin_Dodger
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You’re journal is very organized and a good read, always enjoy your updates @Coffin_Dodger !
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Thanks! It’s really become a nice part of ending my week/ends, and useful for looking back through when I don’t wanna go dig through all the notes we keep (which @JustTieflingThings has a great handle on.)
Glad you dig it, and thanks for droppin’ by!
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Coffin_Dodger
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Just caught up the last few weeks, looking great in here my friend! Very cool that you are working towards cutting out purchasing goods from dispos, awesome!
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Damn! Monday already, huh? I guess so. 
Time to round up the week. And what a week it’s been. Bitter cold is catching up, but there’s still plenty of hot coffee on here, and the furnace is kickin’. Been a hell of a week, so pull up, light up, and enjoy.
The week’s work started just about as soon as I posted last week, with sudden disaster striking!
Our AC Infinity Controller 69 PRO WiFi, Aya, from which we were timing our lights and running our humidifier, began acting strangely again. Much as we had seen with the humidifier being recognized as a fan at the beginning of this grow, the controller began the same issue. I figured to solve the problem the same as we had before, by unplugging the humidifier and letting it basically reset. When the controller changed the light to a “Heater,” though, I got a bit stressed. It looked like it was still set to run as scheduled, so I woke up @JustTieflingThings and let her know about the weirdness going on. We decided that she could run the humidifier on a timed schedule, on its on without even a probe, to keep the humidity from bottoming out too hard, and we would watch the light closely until I got off work the next morning, and could run out for a digital timer to hold us over in the meanwhile and take that controller totally out of the loop.
Luckily, the schedule held, the controller still recognizing our HLG 600R-Spec as a “Heater,” appliance, and claiming it was set to “3.” The controller can’t even adjust light levels on non-propriety lights (at least, not ours.) Despite this, the lights went off and came back up. What a damn relief that was! I Sent an E-mail about it with screenshots to AC Infinity’s support box, and hoped for the best. They’ve certainly gotten back to us quickly before, and made things right.
I hit Harbor Freight on the way home and grabbed a very affordable digital timer, and with a little frustration from me trying to program the thing, which @JustTieflingThings handled wonderfully, we were set. We pulled the ACI Outlet Adapter and all now-unnecessary cords out of the tent. @JustTieflingThings kept a closer eye on the remaining controller, manually adjusting the humidifier as she/we saw fit or necessary. Not the easiest work for her under that Scrog net, but we managed, and she did a great job stabilizing them.
When we were feeding and changing the reservoir tonight, and otherwise handling some upkeep and plans, I wondered if the LITFA tec we had applied to the humidifier had been effective yet, now a week later. I grabbed one of the UIS cables we had been using with Aya, and plugged it into the humidifier and controller. The controller did not respond. I tried some of the buttons, and then set on checking the connections. When I unplugged the cable from the back of the T3 Huey, the connection was HOT. I’ve always worked with my hands and played bass, so I’ve got plenty of calluses built up, but damned if that thing weren’t just about as hot as putting a cigarette out between my thumb and finger. I showed @JustTieflingThings, and though she was hesitant to mess with it further, I asked her to let me try swapping out that cable for another we had on hand. After weaving it back into position, I plugged it into the T3 then into the Controller 69 and to my surprise by this point, a few seconds later it was up, on, and acting right. We now have only the T3 huey running on that controller.
As of writing this, now a week out, AC Infinity has not replied to our email. Obviously, I will be emailing them again this morning to add in this new, fun potential hazard.
We have had a great experience with their gear so far, over-all, but we also have back-ups and contingency plans in place for potential complications like this. Given that this has been our third major issue with this controller specifically, though, we are starting to falter in what had been a confidence that we would be continuing to support them and their gear. We’ll see what happens with it.
Obviously, our environmental averages this week show some strangeness.
Other than that bit of added stress and holding on we had to contend with this week, things have continued to sail along with the girls in the buckets none-the-wiser to their precarious situations. Resin and trichome production are in full swing all around, as are the wonderful blends of the very distinct smells either cultivar is putting out for us. The DSCBD30:1 are still distinctly season-appropriate, with the smell of ginger-bread, spice cakes, and mulled apple spice. The NB are both still on the savory side with stem-rubs and manipulating the veg, but the buds seem to be taking on a more sickly sweet undertone, to my nose, at least.
We have not adjusted the light this week, but have slid into a higher VPD due to the humidifier being timed rather than automated. We were mostly in tolerance-range for all parameters through out, though, and may be increasing the output on the lamp this morning before lights out, possiby for the last time this run, to target a DLI closer to 40 for maturation before dialing it beack for ripening and finish.
Our feed this week was again off-set, as we formulated for 35 gallons and started with 40 gallons of tap-water. We are repeating last week’s Medium recommended schedule again, since we plan to stagger our harvest this run, like last run. This extended feed will eliminate the recommended “flush,” and we’ll start tapering back starting next feed, more than likely. We saw some bigger swings in the solution this past week, as the girls continue their ravenous hunger and thirst. Our pH at time of feed at been allowed to swing down to 5.4 with our ppm at about 1375-1420 through out, and a comfortable ~67 * F average.
BAREBONES STATS
- 89 Days from Seed , 40 Days of Vegetation , 35 Days of Flowering (12/12)
- All plants have stopped stretching noticeably and started to really thicken up and stack. We are seeing heavy trichome and resin production all around. Some DSCBD30:1 colas are becoming a bit heavy for the spindle-spears they’re on.
- No change in light yet this week, though we may dial up to a target center-tent DLI of 40 before lights out tonight.
- Repeated last week’s feed. Tap water was very cold, starting at 48 * F and increasing into the 50’s quickly. At end of feed day, we are at pH 6.1, 59 * F, and 1250 PPM.
- Average of 74.8 * F , 49.9 % RH, 1.23 kPa VPD, though these averages are thrown off from issues resulting in one of the ACI Controller 69 PRO’s being down for the week.
In other news, we were happy to receive an order from @JohnnyPotseed this week. Can’t say Jessicat handled that mail-pick up for us, though! There’s a whole story to it here, in my post on his Feedback Thread. USPS around here has been slacking a bit here and there, but JP wasn’t gonna let that stop his beans from making it to us. I cannot recommend him more to anyone looking to get hands on some serious genetics. We picked up Triforce X PPP, Luke’s Force, Hubba Bubba, Walkenstein, and NL #2 Fems, plus JP’s Choice of Brain Damage and his Mystery Mix. 
Thanks again, man. Looking forward to growing 'em out.
Thanks as always to all you readin’ this, first-time visitors and regulars alike. Your encouragement is a damn great blessing to our work, and helps us keep sharp and moving. Any and all tips, tricks, stories, resources and simple moral support here are worth their weight in gold and then some. Keep doing what you do best, good luck to y’all in all ya do , and
Stay up!
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