F15
Lessons Learned:
Stress test cuttings of your plants, not the ones you plan on growing.
Prepare to up pot and don’t procrastinate going to the grow shop for more media.
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These girls are short short. like zero stretch.
Could be the pre flower stress. Probably root bound in the 1 gal pots more likely.
Here they are a few days ago:
…potato phone looks like there’s mist in the room; it’s just a shitty phone.
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F20
Fancy AC Infinity pots with LST points were convenient. I had sliced the 1 gal pots to anchor the wire/foam thingers & paper clips I use for LST.
Temp 80F RH low 60s during day.
I’m venting on Temp > 70F right now just cause I don’t see RH get all that high.
I usually vent on RH, but there is usually a LOT more plant matter in this tent.
Lung room RH is in the low 70s so this is a learning opportunity for me working with small plants.
Light - Medic Grow Smart 8 is running 80% 604 watt 22 inches from the tops ~800 PPF.
Not seeing any nute burn, so I could have pushed these more.
…I think I max fed at 70% on general organics chart.
…No PGR, like EVER. No bloom boosters.
Thanks for following folks!
First time shooting between the bars.
Good Fortune for your grows!
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She probably can take a good amount of feed
I love general organics used mostly that in veg for a long time, swapped out the fulvic for ful power didn’t use the root one and instead used sea green
Compost teas once a week
I might switch back to that honestly
but I think she could take more man
They’re looking great regardless
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F20 Additional
I am not a big defoliator or lolippper.
I am a huge picker tho.
That being said, I pluck fans on the interior of the plant that shade bud sites.
Also clearing out the interior is important for air flow.
What I do spend time on is picking all the little bud sites that aren’t going to amount to anything.
…This works great at a low plant count, but is untenable at a higher count where lolipopping is the way to go.
Over the next 2 weeks, I’m sure there will be fans that get plucked, But I hope that I can leaf them be.
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General Organics Black Diamond has been hard to source.
Been using New millennium Ruby FUL#$% instead.
Good, better, worse…I dunno. So long as things look healthy
If I were to get off the General Organics bottles, New Millennium is where I would go.
…I watched a web thing with the founder and he struck me as totally legit.
…They seem focused of sustainable, high quality sourced ingredients.
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F25
Seeing my typical cal/mag deficiencies that always show up around week 4 for me.
Usually I measure plants in feet, so it isn’t urgent.
These are all under 18 inches, so it is worrisome.
…There isn’t enough biomass for transportable nutrients to move around the plants/
It is maddening because I do this EVERY time. Dang Blammitt.
Just hit them with 120% dose of calmag + 100% Fluvic tonight; too soon for a regular feed, more like tea time.
On the good side: stem rubs are all old school dirty sock funk.
On another good note: This strain really is showing a lot of “If I knew back then what I know now” behavior. It is feeling like an OG strain.
…I imagine that the gear I ran in the 90’s (not poly hybrid) would be looking a lot like this if they were run in the same way; back then they were all 3 foot Christmas trees in rockwool flock draining into plastic gutters…
Cheap phone taking consistently shitty pix.
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You said that right, I imagine the weed stinks. Thai does that on crosses sometimes. Some bad ass weed has come from Thai crosses.
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Looks great
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F25
Better shot.
You can see the mag deficiencies in this one.
Turning light down helps with the pix…
My 6x24 Phat filter is having trouble containing the smell; it is 5 years old, so I’m not shocked.
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Looking good dude…
Always interests me when you journal a run…
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Stream of conciseness, random ramblings, and assorted helpful (I hope) commentary…Well these are getting real raggady.
I would not put this on Mountain Organics at all.
This is on me 100%.
Measuring nutes to “close enough” is probably the second problem.
The first, and biggest, challenge these girls faced was that I absolutely abused them for 6 weeks before flowering, and my general abusive treatment in the first 4 weeks of flower.
I’m seeing every deficiency under the sun if you go by fan leaf indicators.
Pix this weekend won’ be pretty.
PH is the only thing that is spot on, did an over water at 6.2 and saw 6.0 slurry check; PPM slurry check is pretty irrelevant because dirt.
…That, and when I up-potted to 5 gal pots they got 2 gals of fox farm strawberry fields at the bottom and the rest was whatever old dirt I had on hand from the GG4 grow.
Either way the tops look super tight and stink of old school gas, and I’ll be on nanner patrol for the next 6 weeks …which was kind of the point of the abusive treatment.
I’m just worried about how many fans will be left in 4 weeks…
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Im late to show but im glad i found it. looking good…
I learn the most when I mess them up for whatever reason. you grow you get better.
Cheers to you and those lovelies you have there. Cant wait to see how it turns out!!
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lol, that takes a special kind of talent!!!
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F32
Please note that any ugliness is not on the source; it is all on me and my treatment of these plants.
Blame the tradesman, not the tools.
Of course the one that stacks best is the prima donna; right in the center.
…tightest/best stacker…although all these buds feel real tight.
These are looking very different from what I have been growing; they’re so short.
These had literally no stretch, so there is a great choice for cabinet growers, or anyone that has a vertically challenged grow.
We are still under 2 feet tall.
No baked goods or candy smells, dank foot detected.
Seriously dank…
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Yummy dank foot sounds right up my alley lol. I may have to buy some of these seeds.
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F 53 Week 7-8
I am thinking that these old school plants are not liking new school lights.
Then again, they had a really hard Veg stage, so I would focus their shortcomings on that more than the genetics.
They are all looking pretty roasted for plants at this stage; light has never been above 80%.
Aside from the fan leaf die/burn off, the tops are looking really nice and tight and frosty.
The one that was front left threw a nanner a week ago, so I pulled it out of the tent.
…I’ve been watching it outside the tent and have not seen any other intersex nodes, so I think it was me going way over their desired PPF/PAR.
…Probably just a reaction to me burning the crap out of her top at 900 PPF.
Also being old school, I will not be suprised if these take 12+ weeks/84-100 F days.
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Hello!
Didn’t you measure the pH of drainage?
Usually excess light is manifested in the whitening of the upper points or twisting the sheet in relation to the light source, you do not see these symptoms. It seems to me that the problem in the root zone is more likely. Since the problem is not similar to the insufficiency of any one element, it is likely that the block of several elements is caused by a curve pH.
I do not claim the truth, just try to be useful …
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Looks like some Danky Stuff!
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Thanks for the reminder Shev. I did check slurry on your recommendation, but it was spot on, so that’s not it. But when I checked PPM of the slurry, my meter cried “MOMMA” and went tilt.
The soil I used for flowering is just too hot on these.
Fans are all looking as burnt as I’ve ever had…oh it’s bad…
…At least it isn’t bugs…fingers crossed there.
I put a gallon and a half of the fox farm strawberry field at the bottom and filled the rest with what I had hanging around from my last grow…Which I never had flushed cause my last run of Tony Green GG4 I was poisoning with nutes and it kept asking for more.
If I were to run these again, I would do FF happy frog all the way through.
If you are in coco or hydro this isn’t an issue, but there’s no way/point in doing a massive flush at this point with a week or so left; it would just cause a stall at exactly the wrong time.
I also think these would be ding better somewhere between 600-800 PPF rather than the 800-1000 PPF I have run them; that’s another variable.
Thanks for the poke/reminder tho; should have done it a month ago when it would have made a difference 
Got lazy on this run. Always a lesson to be learned brother!
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