amazing plants bro holy shit
wish i could find something with that happiness you said
my five plants are 55f days under a 120w samsung qb
last week i had a little problem with high humidity so i had to inspect deeply the buds and make sure it wasnt mold
the plants look great and some are showing a little fading
I’m no math wizard, but I think the radiated flux is 6.87w, and to find relative system efficiency you take that divided by the input power of 12.9w to get ~53.3%. I used that particular plot because it’s closest to the power that I’m using mine at on average. The efficiency varies a bit based on system input power, but that’s a good baseline.
And, this is the 2700k 90cri version, which trades some 5-10% efficiency for extra far red and color accuracy, both of which have significant benefit. The 6.6% far red itself is a huge boon that samsung diodes don’t have.
Thanks for following up with your grow @ervasagrada. Your plants turned out great, and it looks like you found good variation in them! Good rate of male:female too! I’m glad the pollination worked out for you! Now you’ll have enough CBD seeds to last your entire life.
Please report back after you’ve harvested and had a chance to smoke them. I hope they end up being happy weed for you too!
That tent is so full looking and its only gonna get fuller haha im so jealous Nice looking girls @Nube
So far everything looks awesome ! I still have a few of these from your work, and love seeing what to expect when I get to them. I appreciate it.
Those look delicious haha
Im hoping you have that happy weed too. Im also happy you were able to make some more seeds for yourself. Definetly come back with a smoke report when you can !
Here’s day 21F. The plants are smelling great and just starting to show signs of frost. All the budsites are blowing up much faster than I anticipated. I gave the plants a topdress of kelp, neem, alfalfa and ground barley, covered with EWC and compost. I also watered in with a epsom salts and a little gnatrol, since I’ve seen a dozen flyers in the last week.
I also wanted to mention my temps are 80F/60F with the lights at the 400w level, with around 70% humidity daytime and 60% at night. I lowered the lights down to just above the fan and raised the power to 550w, which has made the temps look like 84F/60F with daytime humidity of about 50% and nighttime capped at 60%. My temps get down to 60F every night since that’s the temp we keep the house.
My philosophy with defoliating is the apple orchard approach: you can either do no defoliation and lower flower site removal and get a bunch of small apples, or do some selective removal of leaves and budsites and get fewer larger apples. The middle and top buds are usually the most potent, as long as there’s not a heat issue for the tops, so I try to encourage growth from the middle of the plant on up.
You can see I didn’t go super hard, but I tried to take off all budsites and sucker shoots on the bottom half of the plants, since it’s mostly larf or just wasted youth. I try to keep the leaves since they’re basically batteries for the plants later in life. I also don’t need much lower growth for reveg, since I have clones of all but 1 of these plants.
It’s gotta be from the barley, I think. I top-dressed with some like five days ago and everything kinda blew up real quick, got frostier etc. Plants are looking like they’re gonna finish much faster than I anticipated. And that one Ancient OG cross finally started to take off, too. I remember Coot saying something about MBP shortening flower times, although I’d forgotten about that until I saw how the plants responded to it. I need to remember to use that more frequently, I think. Or at least once a grow haha…
Nice. The ground barley always works well. Neem is good up until week 4 of flowering, after that the residue is in the flower. Starting neem early in veg causes the plant to distribute it throughout the plants natural defense/circulatory system. After the first few weeks of flower, it becomes redundant. I remember reading this in several college botany research papers.
Definitely can’t hurt. I think it’s a combo of barley, good solid veg that got them all relatively healthy, and running from clones. For me, plants that have vegged a good amount are always faster to flower than ones who aren’t quite as mature.
Nah, I don’t mean sprayed neem oil, I’m talking about neem seed meal used for food. It has almost no oil left in it - it’s actually the waste product left over after they press the neem oil out, but has plenty of nutrition. But, I do use neem oil in my IPM spray, which these got through the first week after flip and no longer - didn’t need it.
Hope everyone’s doing good out there. Have a great weekend!
That’s interesting and probably also true. That same Ancient OG cross that took longer than what I would consider usual to start stretching/flowering after I’d flipped was only vegged for like 45 days or so, which is two weeks shorter than I usually veg.
We’re at day 35F and they’re getting their flop on. I’m not sure why they went super floppy on me this time, especially after all the wind from the fan in veg, but #1 and both #6 phenos are flopping all over. I wonder if it’s because I added pumice instead of rice hulls for aeration when I recycled it this time? There should have been plenty of rice hulls in the soil from before… Who knows, but a few days after these pics I installed cages and 4lb mono fishing line to keep them upright.
Notes: Flower development, frost, and stank are all good so far. There haven’t been hardly any gnats this week, but a couple are stuck here and there to sugar leaves. No big deal. I’ve been slacking on watering due to work being so heavy and having trouble getting to the garden during daylight hours of 6am-6pm, but aside from some droopy and ragged leaves and burnt tips, I think we’re OK.
#1 is the fastest drinker out of all of them and has been suffering the most from water stress, despite also getting the most water. Now that we’re in crunch time, I’m going to have to plan to water at least 3x a week, if not more. I found one nanner under a bud on #1 that definitely had opened, and a couple on #3 that were poking out of buds. I see a few swollen calyxes, but not too many outside of the vicinity of the nanners. I’m guessing it’s from the water stress, but I will be keeping a close watch on them for any more. Their smoke had best be exceptional for them to stick around.
Anyway, that’s about it from this end. Hope everyone has a good weekend! Also, pray for peace and for all the innocent Ukranians.
Looks good some fat buds for 35 days no wonder some are floppy already , wonder what there going to be like in a month?
They might all be laying down on the job!
Very familiar looking bud structures in there, very nice work @nube nanners are a drag but like you said, maybe the quality of the flower will be worth it. You’ve already sampled all of these phenos right? Or will this be the first proper sampling run?
Day 42F here and the tent smells are incredible. Fruity candy smells all around, with some hints of chocolate, some savory, and a whole lot of goodness. The smells are a blast of almost rotting tropical fruit when I open the tent, but it’s not the kind of smell that goes through the filter. I’m thankful for that.
Yeah, I’ve ran these all three times already - once to make F2, once as a sensi run, and now another sensi run to finalize keeper(s).
I have visitors coming to stay with us next week, so I’m going to have to chop and reset that room. Not sure where I’m going to hang the plants to dry…might have to be outside in a shed in the cold temps. Wish me luck!
Just wanted to thank you for this, and all your other write ups. Been doing a ton of reading through the archives the last few weeks and your reports have truly been the highlights of days of reading.
and its only gonna get fuller haha im so jealous 
Nice looking girls 
Now that we’re in crunch time, I’m going to have to plan to water at least 3x a week, if not more. I found one nanner under a bud on 
and don’t have the space for it.