Week 2 from flip. Bud sites are just starting to form since a few days ago. Hoping I only have 1 week of stretch left or imma have to raise the ceiling lol.
Just did another round of heavy defoliation. This was before.
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And this is today after a moderate defoliation and tie downs to separate some future donkey dick colas
Buds are starting to get bigger. Day 15 since flip.
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Day 18 from flip. Stretch seems to be nearing the end
Res change tomorrow which should hold them over until week 6 res change
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Day 20:
Stretch is over. Hasnt grown vertically in the past 48 hours. Since this strain will be ran until I get sick of it this is helpful to know. Ill flower in the future after 3 weeks in veg. Keeping it low was too much of an effort.
Decent frost forming already. Internodal spacing got shorter with the lights being so close and the buds on the closest nodes will start coming together.
Heres a shot from the other side
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Just had a straight idiot moment…was topping off my res and figured id multitask and calibrate my meter and water my orchids…then I notice water seeping out the room. I enter and every tote has water pouring out of it. Throw my meter on the ground and switch the hose off and think wtf I do. I grab the shop vac and then im like naw I got a submersible pump and hose. Rip that off the wall and run it to my washer throw it in one of the buckets and start pumping.
Was trying to save time and added 2 hrs to my night after working 12 hours picking up water off the floor. Had to take a piece of drywall off in my veg room to put a fan behind the wall of my flower room where the ground slopes cause I could tell a lot went back there. Luckily the ground also slopes to the part of my basement thats unfinished.
Talk about a dumbass moment.
Once the water stops pouring out I grab the shop vac and start sucking up some of the water and I smell mildew. So I shut that off and start picking it up with towels.
Now im nervous I put off mold spores in my grow room from the shop vac. I mean mold is mostly everywhere anyways it just needs the right conditions to take a hold. I guess time will tell if i fucked up my grow.
Man talk about a fucking day…
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I’ve taken to blaming all my screw-ups on my cats. Works great 
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I wish…cats dont even got thumbs to operate the hose. Lol.
Which reminds me…is should shut the hose bibb off that my garden hose is attached to just in case the valve on the sprayer ever gives way ill have an entirely flooded basement.
Luckily I actually went back downstairs and didnt procrastinate after calibrating the meter. I had reusing the calibration fluids to calibrate my pH doser on my mind.
That would have been a nightmare!
I may have gotten the growing down, but stupid shit still happens!
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Day 30:
1.2EC at 5.9pH
0.3pH rise in 4 days. About what I expect at this stage.
EC has dropped 0.1
Will top them up and add more fertilizer after turkey day festivities
Scrog isnt the most even, but it will do. She sure is frosty. Her berry smell is starting to come in.
Happy Thanksgiving!
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Have to run some additional boxes off my 20A in the Veg room before I get my 12gal tote site setup.
Have to make a stop at Lowes in the AM for some supplies. Going to make a hanging wire drying rack above the lights that will stay there full time. Sucks to have the 2 week downtime, but I can always use the veg room to flower while I wait. Plus its more convenient not having to build a drying room. The flower room already is fitted with an AC so thats a plus.
Nevermind the sad clones. They got a bit too much LITFA. Still got 3 weeks until they flip to flower. Plenty of time to recover and grow into beasts.
I did give them some new nutrients and corrected the pH
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Day 34 from flip.
Getting some pistils turning orange. About 4-5 weeks left. Will have to go back thru pictures to see about how long it took last grow. These buds are shaping up to be bigger than last time. And they were pretty big last time. The biggest buds are 8oz cola can size. I was worried since they looked so bare and spaced out. But keeping the light close shortened up the internodal spacing a ton
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Had to defoliate some more last night. Lowered RH to 45%. Had water in the basement from some record breaking rainfall Monday night so it struggled to keep at 55% yesterday.
Rose to 65% for like 9 hours when I left the exhaust fan unplugged after people were by yesterday fixing my electric box. I left for work and plugged everything back in besides that. When I came home it was 85F and 65%RH. Never knew the exhaust fan helped so much with humidity. I figured I had the dehumidifier and circulating fans setup and that would be enough.
Thankfully the water is drying up and I was at 45% this morning.
Having someone come by again today to finish the job so hoping I dont forget to plug the exhaust back in.
Just worried about powdery mildew with the dense garden. Talk about back breaking work laying on top of those totes on my back looking up and removing foliage from the thick spots. Was like stargazing.
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Day 38: 1.2EC at 5.8pH
Starting to get some tip curl upwards. Will have to monitor EC levels and maybe dilute my feed a bit.
Stacking nicely under the 1400w. This weekend im going to do an experiment in sealed rooms and will keep my fan off and see if the dehumidifier can keep RH down
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You really have an ocean of green going man, quite the operation! Well done.
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Impressed as well, I am pulling up a chair. Can’t wait to see them put on their prom dresses .
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Day 40
EC is 1.1 and pH 6.0
Been letting pH rise and lowered EC on purpose they seem to be wanting less. Should be ready in 3 weeks.
Had to tie them up a little earlier this run compared to last. Pumped the wattage up from 1000w to 1400w this grow compared to last so thats what is causing the weight gain. Buds are already so big. I defoliated as much as im comfortable removing at this stage. Over the final two weeks ill have them completely stripped little by little each day. Easier to harvest like that.
Will start them on their finish nutrients soon. Start tapering down N and upping K, Mg and S
Temps a little cool this morning at 68F and 40% RH.
Going to raise the heat up a bit. Weather in New England has been so unpredictable. 50F one day 25F today
Take a seat @Orloff and @2K19Starter this is where the fun begins praying off bud rot
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Nothing new really to report. Bud growth has slowed if not come to a halt. pH is crashing and EC is rising which tells me its time for a res change and to swap out my pH down with some pH up in my doser.
Will be switching to my Jacks Finish and Epsom salt for the last 2.5 weeks.
Was kind of hoping for tighter buds. Memory is foggy on whether or not my lower buds were rock hard at this point.
All my upper buds are solid. There is a lot less light making its way down so maybe lower wont ever get as hard as it did last grow. Canopy this go is a lot thicker than last. Plants are less lanky.
Aiming for 3.5 to 4.5#
The seeds I started the Blue OG and Original Amnesia look most promising. Amnesia is putting if 9 finger leaves at 8" tall and stalk is already about half an inch. Such vigor.
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Gave them a res change just now. Added 240g Finish and 40g Epsom to my 100gal system.
Got the fresh water diluted to 140ppm (90ppm is true tap so still had 50ppm of residual nutrients leftover. Close enough.
Once the new nutrients mix in i expect to be around 1.2EC. At about 40% strength than what Jacks lists since they say 540g/100 gal Finish and 100g/100gal Epsom. They said that mixes to 2.1EC so gave them 0.84EC feed plus my 0.3 residual+tap is 1.2EC about.
Ill dilute if needed. Dont think i used this much last grow. Though I think the ziplock on it isnt exactly the most airtight and I think it absorbed some water from atmosphere because it was sort of clumpy
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