Very nice thread
Your set up is not only interesting but very clean
Great yield!
Paps
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I’m at 250 - 300ppm out of the tap.
I’m running something like 60 gallons across 3 RDWC systems and I’m too much of a stoner to plan things out that far in advance.
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By plan several days ahead for a res change what I really meant was put a float valve on a really big rubbermaid tote and wait… and wait… and wait.
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Also don’t have the patience for that!
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the one’s that had sense, avoided me. from what, I recall? go figure!
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Well it’s been a minute, time for an update!
This is day 41 of flower.
I haven’t given them a haircut in a bit, its getting jungly…
Time to pull these ladies out and give em a proper defo.
I didn’t get any pictures on the right side before the defo. I got started, my fingers get sticky and I dont wanna goo my phone. This is just after I switched sides and also gloves. I’ve pulled the strawberry cough out…
Smells amazing, really looking forward to it!
She’s a very well behaved passenger, doing great, and except for a few shady leaves she got a big fat helping of everyone’s favourite product.
Thankfully, LITFA can be applied as a foliar on a case by case basis, which is a great feature, because with Diamonds onboard there can be no adding it to the res this round!
Diamond Kush is not ideally suited to captivity, and honestly prefers a more spacious environment. One day I’ll get a chance to run her as a tree outdoors… someday girl, I promise…
Ah hell, she’s trying to climb into the cockpit again!
Ok I wrestled her outta the back seat and, well, she’s all kinds of messy. Been misbehaving back there where it’s hard to get at her.
Lemme just get cleaned up a bit here and… oh. Wow.
An hour later, my arms smell so delicious my wife will probably try to smoke em! 
She’s looking much better now, all clean and lean and ready to stack on the green!
I sure took a lot off though, so many stupid little twisty leaves clogging up the airflow in the back. Got the unruly colas that were smashing into the light pulled back better as well.
That entire pile came from just the one Diamond on the back left side. 
This is a shot of the left side with both sites pulled out. I didn’t have a good shot of how the deck worked in my first tour so I thought I should throw one in while I had the ladies out. You can see my hacked intake vents as well. Loose wires are for 12v fans that aren’t in at the moment
I’ve also had what I think is good news of a different kind. A few days back I posted about these…
Well now they look like this.
Soooooooo… In pretty sure I’m a little bit pregnant for the first time! Pretty excited.
I had some questions about the process but I thought it would be better to break them off into their own thread, just to make the data more accessible for future growers. It seemed like the more useful way to do it, but if it’s considered more polite to keep it all in my own thread I’d like to know.
Long story short, I think I have successfully pollinated a branch of both the Strawberry Cough and the Diamond Kush with female pollen from another tiny Diamond Kush. The full story is here…
I hope I’m not too late to get some viable seed off them, hit em on the morning of day 39, running her 63 days so cutting it a little close. We’ll see! 
That’s it for this time, thanks to everyone for stopping by!
-gR
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Looking good, I see you have found ReikoX’s product shop. Just be careful with the Litfa, especially the concentrated one, I accidentally got a big whiff of fumes and it rendered me useless on the couch for 2 days 
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Yeah that LITFA is powerful stuff, I’ve certainly made the mistake of over applying it before…
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I have too. It just seems so easy using it. 
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Right? It’s a perfect consistency to mix a batch up, it just flows so naturally.
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Update!
Day 46
Right side
Diamond kush
Wall o diamond buds basking
Left side, Strawberry Cough in front, Diamond in back
Strawberry Cough
The strawberry screen
Left side front row party people
A couple strawberries for ya
Diamond smashing the ceiling
Swapped the res today, got about 2 1/2 weeks to go,
Running at 600ppm on a 0.5 scale. Gotta remember to mark down the EC so my posts are useful, maybe next time.
Been stupid busy this week, got a lot on my plate. Decided to stop fucking around and get my ACMPR, started the process, hoping to get my paperwork finished and off in the next week here. Then the waiting game… I wonder how long that’s gonna take? Probably not quick Oh well, still progress.
Peace all, thanks for dropping in!
-gR
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It took me 5 months to get my renewal this year, it took 8 months the first time 3 years ago, as they do police checks which means more waiting.
Make sure you don’t miss signing the bit of form to allow the police check, it’s at the top of one of the pages, I missed it, luckily the wife spotted it when I asked her to check the form over, when I finished.
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Wait… a police check of the property? As in they come around to look? Because I specifically asked the place I was dealing with if that was part of it and they said no. I dont really want the cops showing up at my door, making the neighbors ask questions.
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No dont panic lol, police check as in criminal records.
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Ooooooooohhhhhhhh. Ok. Well that’s fine then, I’m clean. Ginger Rick is a gooooooooood boy. 
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Hello everybody, this is your UFO captain speaking.
We are at day 52 of our flight, and will soon be commencing our descent. The current reservoir conditions are 6.2ph at 515ppm, as we begin thinning down towards the fade. We’re looking on schedule to land at 63 days.
Right side, Diamond Kush
Front row packing out
Where’d my fan go?
Left side, Strawberry Cough in front, Diamond in the rear
Strawberry screen
Standing room only in front
Diamond up high, doing that “above the sun curl”
Another Diamond cola, snapping its fan leaf against the ceiling
I just picked up a cheap little microscope on Amazon. Still trying to get it figured out, it sucks to focus, jiggles like mad. A couple attempts at an extreme Strawberry closeup.
I took it over to a friends house, found a few if these lurking about. There’s no webbing present, and they haven’t exploded in numbers at any point. He’s found a few now and then, been rubbing the leaves down with End All dipped finger tips, but he’s 35 days in now and getting worried. I haven’t done much googling yet, just got home with this shot.
If anyone has any late flower murder suggestions for my pal I’m all ears! I made a lovely video of them dying terribly right after this shot, I’ll see if I can get them up soon.
Thanks for flying with us!
-gR
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The dreaded 2 spotted spider mite, remove any damaged or old leaves, keep using the end all and alternate with other things like lime sulphur, alcohol and water at a 1 to 10 ratio, or water and bleach at a table spoon bleach to 5 gal water. Treat every other day as most stuff doesn’t kill the eggs, except for the home defense bug killer strip, but it’s very toxic so I am using it after my plants finish except for 2 I am trying to breed so nothing will be consumed from them.
Wash the leaves off outside to try and knock as many off the leaves as possible, turn the fans up high they don’t like windy conditions for breeding in. Keep the temps low as possible that slows them and their breeding rate.
When the plant finishes trim outside and wash buds after trimming.
Then shut the tent down turn everything off and hang a home defense bug killer strip in the tent for a couple of weeks to kill anything lurking in the tent.
If it was with other plants start treating them as well even if there are no signs of mites.
Personally now, I am of the opinion it’s easier to kill off everything except what is flowering, and then sterilize everything and hang the home defense strip up for 2-3 weeks.
Good luck, I hope he succeeds in terminating the little barstards.
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What Shady said!!!..temps and wind help if you have to live with them for a while,. And stops breeding so you can break the cycle. The larvae will go dormant or something and as soon as live vegetation goes in BAM!!’ Bitches back again.I used Smite andDr. Zyme. Every 3-4 days alternating with 50/50 alcohol and water if vegging. Next time you clean room NUKE!!! It. I mean full defcon take no prisoners…
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Take your100x loop and look at the BORG, if they were the size of kitten and hankered for human flesh we would all be wilting leafs…
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Well dammn. I was afraid I was seeing what I thought I was seeing. Boo, hate those bastards.
You would still spray all that into flowering? He can wash at harvest, but not outside I’m afraid. Thinking were gonna be sitting in the middle of tarps wetted down with end all, should be pleasant. Yeah, it got too hot in there the last few days and all of a sudden, bam.
Might convince him to chuck more pollen on em, it’s just a small run so.
I’ll try and convert the video I shot with the microscope later, its satisfying. 
Suffer and die you little Borg bastards!
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