Aberration Goes Ker Bloom! - Perpetual

[MSquared]

Thanks for that excellent description Abe!
Your L.6A and L.6D are going to be monsters and I can't wait to see them.

Have a great weekend Abe!

 

[Aberration]

Thanks for that excellent description Abe!
Your L.6A and L.6D are going to be monsters and I can't wait to see them.

Have a great weekend Abe!

We shall see about L.6A and L.6D ('lavender' indica) becoming monsters - I put them into bloom today. They are 20" and 18" tall, respectively, so they will only get so big. This is the new bloom size I want (I think).

I also transplanted the four veg plants that were in 1 gallon pots to 9 gallon pots and the four veg plants in 5" pots to 1 gallon pots (details below). The ones that went to 9 gallon pots will be going into bloom in two weeks or so. They four I moved up to 1 gallon pots will go in soon after.

===> Placed into Bloom:

L.6A, L.6D

==> Transplant:

BD.7C, BD.7J : 1.00 gal ea
CH.1A, CH.1B
Transplanted to 9 gallon pots

MTP.4A, MTP.4D : 0.50 gal ea
SLH.2B, SLH.2E
Transplanted to 1 gallon pots

-Mix (6) gallons.
-Per gallon:
2 T Organic Supplement
1 t Big Foot (1st)
2 t PGE
1 T Yucca
1/2 t Companion
Natural @ 500 ppm
pH target: 6.20 (±.05) Actual: 6.19 @ 19.1 C
1/2 T Myco powder
1 t Bt-i

==> Bloom - Pre-feed:

BBX.4C (41/56 days) : 0.50 gal
GKA.1B (41/63 days) : 0.50 gal
WW.0A (41/63 days) : 0.50 gal
SLH.1A (41/77 days) : 0.50 gal
AH1.0B (41/77 days) : 0.50 gal
TDR.1B (41/77 days) : 0.50 gal
SLH.1D (06/77 days) : 0.25 gal

-Mix (4) gallons
-Per gallon:
1 T liquid steamed bone meal
1 T Yucca
1 t blackstrap molasses
pH target: 6.20 (±.10) Actual: 6.27 @ 21.3 C

==> Bloom - Feed:

BBX.4C : 1.00 gal
GKA.1B : 1.00 gal
WW.0A : 1.00 gal
SLH.1A : 1.00 gal
AH1.0B : 1.00 gal
TDR.1B : 1.00 gal
SLH.1D : 0.75 gal

-Mix (7) gallons - MID
-Per gallon:
--- T liquid steamed bone meal (out)
3 T Biggest Bloom
2 t PGE
1 t Silica Blast
2 t Cal-Mag
1 T Yucca
2 t Notrozyme
2 t Organic Supplement
2 t Soil Nute
--- t Big Foot (ord)
1 t Calcium Syrup
1/2 t Carbon sweet
2 T Amino Blast
1/2 t TM-7
1 t Companion
Natural @ 1080 ppm
pH target: 6.20 (±.10) Actual: 6.28 @ 22.0 C

==> Medium Veg:

SLH.2H, SLH.2J, SLH.2K : water to saturation

AH1.1A, AH1.1B, AH1.1C : water to saturation
WW.1A, WW.1B, WW.1C
GKA.2B, GKA.2C

-Mix (1) gallon
-Per gallon:
2 t Pure Blend Pro Grow
1 t Cal-Mag
1 T Yucca
--- t Big Foot (ord)
--- t TM-7
1/2 t Companion
Natural @ 690 ppm
pH target: 6.20 (±.10) Actual: 6.12 @ 21.6 C

 

[Aberration]

Two things are different about tonight's feed report:

First, at 9 this is the most plants I've ever had in bloom at once. There will be 12 soon.

Second, I have changed my target pH for general use. It was 6.20±0.10 (6.10-6.30), but I have decided to try 6.6±0.10 (6.5-6.7) and see if I get better absorption of calcium and magnesium, based on these charts:

I'm jumping in without a safety on this one but I think I'll be OK.

==> Bloom - Pre-feed:

BBX.4C (43/56 days) : 0.50 gal
GKA.1B (43/63 days) : 0.50 gal
WW.0A (43/63 days) : 0.50 gal
AH1.0B (43/77 days) : 0.50 gal
SLH.1A (43/77 days) : 0.50 gal
TDR.1B (43/77 days) : 0.50 gal
L.6A (02/56 days) : 0.25 gal
L.6D (02/56 days) : 0.25 gal
SLH.1D (08/77 days) : 0.25 gal

-Mix (4) gallons
-Per gallon:
1 T liquid steamed bone meal
1 T Yucca
1 t blackstrap molasses
pH target: 6.60 (±.10) Actual: 6.70 @ 21.3 C

==> Bloom - Feed:

BBX.4C : 1.00 gal
GKA.1B : 1.00 gal
WW.0A : 1.00 gal
SLH.1A : 1.00 gal
AH1.0B : 1.00 gal
TDR.1B : 1.00 gal

-Mix (6) gallons - MID
-Per gallon:
3 T liquid steamed bone meal
3 T Biggest Bloom
2 t PGE
1 t Silica Blast
2 t Cal-Mag
1 T Yucca
2 t Notrozyme
2 t Organic Supplement
2 t Soil Nute
--- t Big Foot (ord)
1 t Calcium Syrup
1/2 t Carbon sweet
2 T Amino Blast
1/2 t TM-7
1 t Companion
Natural @ 1270 ppm
pH target: 6.60 (±.10) Actual: 6.53 @ 21.4 C

L.6A : 0.75 gal
L.6D : 0.75 gal
SLH.1D : 0.75 gal

-Mix (3) gallons - EARLY
-Per gallon:
1 T liquid steamed bone meal
1 T Biggest Bloom
1 t PGE
1 t Silica Blast
1 t Cal-Mag
1 T Yucca
2 t Notrozyme
2 t Organic Supplement
2 t Soil Nute
--- t Big Foot (ord)
1 t Calcium Syrup
1/2 t Carbon sweet
1 T Amino Blast
1/2 t TM-7
1 t Companion
Natural @ 960 ppm
pH target: 6.60 (±.10) Actual: 6.67 @ 21.4 C

==> Mature Veg:

BD.7C, BD.7J : 0.75 gal ea
CH.1A, CH.1B

MTP.4A, MTP.4D : 0.25 gal ea
SLH.2B, SLH.2E

-Mix (4) gallons
-Per gallon:
2 t Pure Blend Pro Grow
1 t Cal-Mag
1 T Yucca
1 t Big Foot (2nd)
--- t TM-7
1/2 t Companion
Natural @ 870 ppm
pH target: 6.60 (±.10) Actual: 6.58 @ 21.6 C

==> Medium Veg:

SLH.2H, SLH.2J, SLH.2K : water to saturation

AH1.1A, AH1.1B, AH1.1C : water to saturation
WW.1A, WW.1B, WW.1C
GKA.2B, GKA.2C

-Mix (1) gallon
-Per gallon:
2 t Pure Blend Pro Grow
1 t Cal-Mag
1 T Yucca
--- t Big Foot (ord)
--- t TM-7
1/2 t Companion
Natural @ 710 ppm
pH target: 6.60 (±.10) Actual: 6.56 @ 20.7 C

 

[MSquared]

I think that is sound plan and makes complete sense. I always wondered why you kept your PH so low in soil. I guess I just figured there was something in your soil comp to raise the PH once you fed.
This will be interesting for sure. Just curious what made you think you needed to change.
Take Care

 

[BWC BayArea]

Where did u get those charts? Are they cannabis specific? Anyhow, still sounds like a logical course of action. Interested to see and compare ur harvest results after upping the PH. What do u mean no safety? You've got us!! A bunch of growers and stoners.

 

[Aberration]

I think that is sound plan and makes complete sense. I always wondered why you kept your PH so low in soil. I guess I just figured there was something in your soil comp to raise the PH once you fed.
This will be interesting for sure. Just curious what made you think you needed to change.
Take Care

To be honest, I didn't have any good reasoning to use 6.20 other than it was working really well. I have been growing for a few years with considerable success in both quality and quantity (on average) at that pH. What can I say? When I started out, I wandered a bit on what I thought was a good pH, but I soon latched onto 6.2. This was based on the feeding chart for the local nutrient line I have always used. It says "Make sure to pH adjust to 5.8-6.5 every time you feed." When I looked at the only chart I had (from the Cervantes Grow Bible if I remember right) it looked like I needed a number high in that range to get decent absorption by everything. That was this chart:

But lately I've had persistent problems with calcium and magnesium deficiencies. Not bad enough that I really identified it as such most of the time, but enough to cause trouble. This was recently swirling in my head just a few days ago when another user here made me curious enough about BPN nutes to go to their web site. There I found these charts:

I had never seen the first chart before afaik, but I'm almost positive I have seen the second chart somewhere else before. Not sure where. I knew that there were several nute charts and that they differ even if all are supposedly applicable to cannabis, but my recent issues with Cal-Mag made me compare the charts for those nutrients. I was surprised to realize that 6.60 was at the center of a band that seemed to agree positively with all three charts. Or as close as I can see anyway.

Looking back it is interesting that I did so well at that pH isn't it?

Where did u get those charts? Are they cannabis specific? Anyhow, still sounds like a logical course of action. Interested to see and compare ur harvest results after upping the PH. What do u mean no safety? You've got us!! A bunch of growers and stoners.

By no safety I mean I'm upping the pH for my entire grow. If this is a mistake it will affect every plant. I have no control group and I have no fallback position really. But it's good to know you guys have my back. I'm pleased that I seem to have made a sensible choice.


I have three different bloom groups again now.

==> Bloom - Pre-feed:

BBX.4C (45/56 days) : 0.50 gal
GKA.1B (45/63 days) : 0.50 gal
WW.0A (45/63 days) : 0.50 gal
AH1.0B (45/77 days) : 0.50 gal
SLH.1A (45/77 days) : 0.50 gal
TDR.1B (45/77 days) : 0.50 gal
L.6A (04/56 days) : 0.25 gal
L.6D (04/56 days) : 0.25 gal
SLH.1D (10/77 days) : 0.25 gal

-Mix (4) gallons
-Per gallon:
1 T liquid steamed bone meal
1 T Yucca
1 t blackstrap molasses
pH target: 6.60 (±.10) Actual: 6.55 @ 22.3 C

==> Bloom - Feed:

BBX.4C : 1.00 gal

-Mix (1) gallon - LATE
-Per gallon:
2 T liquid steamed bone meal
1 T Biggest Bloom
2 t PGE
1 t Silica Blast
1 t Cal-Mag
1 T Yucca
2 t Notrozyme
2 t Organic Supplement
1 t Soil Nute
--- t Big Foot (ord)
1 t Calcium Syrup
1 t Carbon sweet
2 T Amino Blast
--- t TM-7
1 t Companion
Natural @ 1100 ppm
pH target: 6.60 (±.10) Actual: 6.62 @ 21.7 C

GKA.1B : 1.00 gal
WW.0A : 0.75 gal
AH1.0B : 0.75 gal
SLH.1A : 0.75 gal
TDR.1B : 0.75 gal

-Mix (4) gallons - MID
-Per gallon:
3 T liquid steamed bone meal
3 T Biggest Bloom
2 t PGE
1 t Silica Blast
1 t Cal-Mag
1 T Yucca
2 t Notrozyme
2 t Organic Supplement
2 t Soil Nute
--- t Big Foot (ord)
1 t Calcium Syrup
1/2 t Carbon sweet
2 T Amino Blast
1/2 t TM-7
1 t Companion
Natural @ 1130 ppm
pH target: 6.60 (±.10) Actual: 6.52 @ 21.9 C

L.6A : 0.75 gal
L.6D : 0.75 gal
SLH.1D : 0.75 gal

-Mix (3) gallons - EARLY
-Per gallon:
1 T liquid steamed bone meal
1 T Biggest Bloom
1 t PGE
1 t Silica Blast
1 t Cal-Mag
1 T Yucca
2 t Notrozyme
2 t Organic Supplement
2 t Soil Nute
--- t Big Foot (ord)
1 t Calcium Syrup
1/2 t Carbon sweet
1 T Amino Blast
1/2 t TM-7
1 t Companion
Natural @ 950 ppm
pH target: 6.60 (±.10) Actual: 6.62 @ 21.0 C

==> Mature Veg:

BD.7C, BD.7J : 0.75 gal ea
CH.1A, CH.1B

MTP.4A, MTP.4D : 0.25 gal ea
SLH.2B, SLH.2E

-Mix (4) gallons
-Per gallon:
1 T Pure Blend Pro Grow
1 t Cal-Mag
1 T Yucca
1 t Big Foot (3rd)
--- t TM-7
1/2 t Companion
Natural @ 930 ppm
pH target: 6.60 (±.10) Actual: 6.58 @ 20.8 C

==> Medium Veg:

SLH.2H, SLH.2J, SLH.2K : water to saturation

AH1.1A, AH1.1B, AH1.1C : water to saturation
WW.1A, WW.1B, WW.1C
GKA.2B, GKA.2C

-Mix (1) gallon
-Per gallon:
2 t Pure Blend Pro Grow
1 t Cal-Mag
1 T Yucca
--- t Big Foot (ord)
--- t TM-7
1/2 t Companion
Natural @ 720 ppm
pH target: 6.60 (±.10) Actual: 6.64 @ 20.6 C

 

[MSquared]

Very nice indeed Abe! OF COURSE WE HAVE YOUR BACK!
I think the reason it was working as well as it was is that soil a super great buffer and you seem to have a killer soil comp. By chance did you ever test the run off of your PH? I do think that this will be a very nice step forward and I wouldn't be surprised to see you ladies do even better!

 

[Aberration]

Thank you MSquared.

==================

There is another matter that I forgot to write about last night. When I started my post one of the things I wrote was "I have been growing for a few years..." I had intended to elaborate on that a bit at the end of the post, but I got too stoned, like ya do, and I completely forgot about it.

Yesterday was May 16th. If you look back to page one of this journal, you will see that I began this journal on May 16th, 2009. For three years I have tried to document everything I have done in enough detail that someone else could copy my grow well enough to succeed in growing as I have. I have grown somewhere north of 30 pounds of usable cannabis in that time and most of it has turned out far better than I ever would have though possible.

I have never had anything like a green thumb. I think my wife was unsure what to expect when I started talking about growing. She had seen the occasional attempt on my part to grow a basic houseplant over the last 20+ years we have been together, and I don't think she had high hopes for this project. I can't blame here, either. I killed a lot of plants.

But I had a mentor, and I had 420magazine.com. I had been a member of overgrow.com for a year or so when it went down, and that being the mythical place it was I had always thought I would have a grow journal there. It wasn't to be, and I just kind of dropped the journal idea after that. But someone I know on another forum suggested I should throw a journal up here. I won't mention who it is for security reasons, but they know who they are, and to them I say "Thank you for sending me here."

My mentor was a lot of help getting me going, and I have bought and read almost every book available on growing pot indoors, but it was 420Mag and it's members that really made the difference for me. My mentor was often not around, and the books disagree as much as they agree. 420Mag was always here with answers and encouragement. 420Mag also kept me honest. If I didn't post my activities on time I felt like I was letting someone down, and that kept me posting on time (mostly [noparse][/noparse] and kept my posts accurate and complete.

So I should also say thank you to all of 420Magazine.com. Thank you for being the awesome community you are.

That said, I have decided that at this third anniversary of this journal it is time for a change. I have decided to stop posting all the gory details. I will still keep everyone updated on the grow as I expand to twice my previous numbers. I will still post pictures, and I will still describe what I am doing, and explain my procedures in great detail. However I an going to eliminate the "feed report/action report" format and I am going to limit the full details a bit. For instance I won't give actual numbers of plants or their unique names. I'll simply refer to them by strain and group. I may also stop giving actual yield numbers and let the photos speak for themselves.

I am doing this partly because I think I need a little more security, or at least to feel a little more secure. I trust 420Mag members, but not the nameless authoritarian visitors that doubtless infest our forum. I am also doing it because I doubt many are using that level of detail, and for those that do there are three years of reports to work with. I will still share what I learn, and based on my recent pH 'epiphany' I still have plenty to learn. But I have decided this is the right course of action over the last three or four months, so I'm pretty decided.

Please don't leave though. This journal is not over. It is just entering a new phase with a new approach to the same task - sharing what I do. I will also be posting in other journals, at least as much as I already do anyways. I'm not going away and I value every reader of my journal.

Thank you all.

Aberration



P.S. - Three years! Wow! s are on me folks. Toke up!

 

[donpaul.p]

i think your journal was a brilliant idea, its a perfect guide for anyone to follow who dont know much about growing, i know its hard work keep entering all the feed info and growth info like you do, but i think you have posted more than enough to get anyone started and growing some decent bud, i found your journal like as if someone was writing a book at home about their grow, covering every details, its the only journal i have come across of its kind, so anyone who wants to start growing should take a look at this and they can achieve good results by following your detailed journal, but its hard work keeping all the info up to date but i think you done a great job, and it covered everything that needed covering, so for a new starter they should come and have a read of this, as its more in depth than other journals.

so great work mate, and brilliant idea for a journal, im sure the next journal will be just as informative but in a slightly different way,

keep growing

 

[MSquared]

and I am not going anywhere Abe!

Have a great weekend!

 

[BWC BayArea]

Actually, what ur saying sounds like a good idea. 3 years of looooong feed reports, lol. Can't beat ur meticulous attention to record keeping and detail. I'm still in bro.

 

[Aberration]

i think your journal was a brilliant idea, its a perfect guide for anyone to follow who dont know much about growing, i know its hard work keep entering all the feed info and growth info like you do, but i think you have posted more than enough to get anyone started and growing some decent bud, i found your journal like as if someone was writing a book at home about their grow, covering every details, its the only journal i have come across of its kind, so anyone who wants to start growing should take a look at this and they can achieve good results by following your detailed journal, but its hard work keeping all the info up to date but i think you done a great job, and it covered everything that needed covering, so for a new starter they should come and have a read of this, as its more in depth than other journals.

so great work mate, and brilliant idea for a journal, im sure the next journal will be just as informative but in a slightly different way,

keep growing

Thank you. I am glad to hear you have enjoyed it. But this is the next journal.

and I am not going anywhere Abe!

Have a great weekend!

Good to hear. You have a good weekend too.

Actually, what ur saying sounds like a good idea. 3 years of looooong feed reports, lol. Can't beat ur meticulous attention to record keeping and detail. I'm still in bro.

Thanks for the compliment and your presence BWC.

I'll try to keep it interesting.

I fed all but the mature veg. They aren't ready yet. Bloom is looking great. They might be starting to recover already. :fingers crossed: I am considering whether or not I should delay some of them. I'll try to get pics posted this weekend to illustrate, so it'll be better to go into detail then.

The White Widow is insane. It's trying to form one big cola under all those leaves. Insane, I say.

 

[Aberration]

In the spirit of my three-year anniversary I was thinking statistics. Now don't get me wrong - I'm not focused on view numbers very often. I mostly don't pay attention. But I do get curious from time to time. I jot down the number of views this journal has on my calendar so that when I do again later I can figure out how many people visit per day. On September 9th of last year I noted that the thread had 55137 views.

So here's evidence that I really don't think on it much: I hadn't thought about it since, until tonight when I was wondering again. See? Eight months. So tonight I see 79648 views. That works out to 24511 views in 248 days, or 98.8 views per day over 8 months.

Hey! All you out there who read (or skim, can't blame you) but haven't been posting: Say "high". I won't bite.

 

[darkpiece]

although i have 50 posts in this thread... i probably have 3000 views

this thread is legendary.

 

[donpaul.p]

k mate, my bad, i thought you was going to start a whole new journal, but your going to keep it going in this one but without all the specific details you have been putting in since the start, im amazed you did it so long, now thats really does show dedication, didnt realise you had been here that long, i recon you have helped loads of people with the details you give, and anyone can follow it and get similar results, so it was worth doing, plus for yourself you can look back and see what you changed or what you was using at a certain time then tweek it slightly and try and improve on it, either way you done a great job and im along for the ride no matter which way you choose to do it,

 

[Aberration]

although i have 50 posts in this thread... i probably have 3000 views

this thread is legendary.

Hey darkpiece, good to see you. Thanks, but I don't know about legendary...

k mate, my bad, i thought you was going to start a whole new journal, but your going to keep it going in this one but without all the specific details you have been putting in since the start, im amazed you did it so long, now thats really does show dedication, didnt realise you had been here that long, i recon you have helped loads of people with the details you give, and anyone can follow it and get similar results, so it was worth doing, plus for yourself you can look back and see what you changed or what you was using at a certain time then tweek it slightly and try and improve on it, either way you done a great job and im along for the ride no matter which way you choose to do it,

That is exactly why I keep those records for myself: it helps me to correct or improve my technique. Thanks.

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OK, so I'm frustrated. I posted a photo set last night, but apparently I never actually pulled the "post" trigger, so now I have to reconstruct it. I'll have pics up shortly...

 

[Aberration]

So first, some pictures of the jarred Matanuskan Thunderfu@k I took on the 7th:

Today I went on an adventure. I drove a couple hours to visit someone near and dear. They have an outdoor-only grow going right now and they carry flowering girls indoors to provide the correct amount of dark time:

It's a lot of work. However, what isn't a lot of work at that location is making bubble hash. They bought a Wacky Willy's Bubble Hash Blaster. It does the agitation in ice on the left and has a centrifugal spinner on the right to spin the water out of the bags. It works great and speeds up the process considerably. We did have to use more water on the bags to wash the trichomes back down to the bottom of the bag, but only a trickle which squeezed out easily. We hashed up a pound of trim in a few hours and most of that time were simply ignoring the machine:

I got over 60 grams of lovely hash for my share:

 

[donpaul.p]

what an amazing machine, makes hash making a lot easier and the way it does it surely would improve the amount of trichs you get wont it, looks a good thing to have, do they cost much, not thinking about buying one just yet but just wondered how much they cost

 

[CronicHempHog]

yea that shit is cool
of course i dont have a huge grow to justify buying something like that but its some cool shit to have for hashmaking

 

[donpaul.p]

if you saved up all the plant matter over say a good few grows, i mean i was thinking of saving mine for at least 12months until i can make enough hash to make it worth while, but i got a good few grows to go before i get to making hash