Grow #1 - 2014 - Featuring Critical & Fruit Spirit - Indoor - LED - High Brix

[Icemud]

re: Grow#1 - 2014 - Featuring Critical & Fruit Spirit - Indoor - LED - High Brix

Hey Timothy Paul!!! Man, I've been gone for a little while and come back and boom!!! your plants have exploded! It was a good move I think putting those 2 extra LED's in your flowering chamber as it looks like they are really fattening up!!! Very nice job and such a clean grow area you have going on!!! This looks like its going to be a great harvest coming up

 

[timothypaul26]

re: Grow#1 - 2014 - Featuring Critical & Fruit Spirit - Indoor - LED - High Brix

Thanks ice, i sure hope so. Dave is supposed to be sending me the gen 2 replacements soon too, that may also help

 

[Groovy Bud]

re: Grow#1 - 2014 - Featuring Critical & Fruit Spirit - Indoor - LED - High Brix

So nice!
There's no doubt that high-quality LEDs really are the new technology. To bad cheaper ones don't get that spectrum nor light penetration as yours! I can clearly see that even the bottom branches are getting enough light!
As soon as I get some $$$ from the incoming MH/HPS journey, I'll be investing in a decent LED and start contributing for science.

I wish you the best of luck, and will be watching your grow!

If you have the time, please stop by my journal to give your 2 cents, to get my boat running.

 

[timothypaul26]

re: Grow#1 - 2014 - Featuring Critical & Fruit Spirit - Indoor - LED - High Brix

Thanks for the kind words, and welcome Groovy Bud. These are my first lights, and i cant say anything bad about them, I'm glad i went with led. The savings in electricity alone were the deciding factor for me, and these seem to be very good, and from what ive heard the gen 2s are even better. I can wait to see them in action.

 

[timothypaul26]

re: Grow#1 - 2014 - Featuring Critical & Fruit Spirit - Indoor - LED - High Brix

Ok I got my microscope in the mail, and decided to do a bit of playing around. I think I may have waited too long to start flushing, I think there are already some amber trichomes here. Anyone have any input that may help me here. I did my first water flush today and was going to wait for it to dry out and flush again, but will this go too far if I do that?

Royal Cheese Trichomes Day, 41 of flower

 

[toker69]

re: Grow#1 - 2014 - Featuring Critical & Fruit Spirit - Indoor - LED - High Brix

Yup looks past ready to me buddy.

 

[timothypaul26]

re: Grow#1 - 2014 - Featuring Critical & Fruit Spirit - Indoor - LED - High Brix

Here are a few closeups of the buds

Royal Cheese bud closeups

 

[lexblaze]

re: Grow#1 - 2014 - Featuring Critical & Fruit Spirit - Indoor - LED - High Brix

Wow that Royal Cheese is a fast girl!

 

[timothypaul26]

re: Grow#1 - 2014 - Featuring Critical & Fruit Spirit - Indoor - LED - High Brix

Thanks for stopping by lexblaze

 

[timothypaul26]

re: Grow#1 - 2014 - Featuring Critical & Fruit Spirit - Indoor - LED - High Brix

Yeah she took me by surprise that's for sure.

Last night she came down, I'm not sure if I got that great of a yield or not, but I do have a few really nice sized nugs. I'll post final weight after she is done drying. Thanks for your help Ice, and toker

Also, since my mother tent is still crazy packed, I decided to take the Pineapple Kush outside, should be ready toward the mid-end of October. She is so thin and gangly, I had to do something. I might even take the Blue Cheese out there. Hopefully the frost holds out. Fingers crossed.

 

[timothypaul26]

re: Grow#1 - 2014 - Featuring Critical & Fruit Spirit - Indoor - LED - High Brix

I have an update today. I decided to move my Pineapple Kush and Blue Cheese outside since my mother tent is still so packed. They were looking pretty stretched out, so I figured what the heck, try to get a little something from them. The day after I placed them outside, I got a nasty storm, and it broke a top off of the Pineapple Kush, then snapped a limb on the Blue Cheese. I took the PK limbs and threw them into my aero cloner, and taped the limb on the BC. It's been 2 full days and so far they are all doing well.

And the indoor girls are doing very well, I have cut back on the watering quite a bit, and not feeding every watering anymore. I am now feeding every 3rd watering, and watering every other day, with 1/3 gallon of bubbled tap water, ph'd to ~6. The plants seem to really like this adjustment, and not as many bent tips any more. Plus they seem to be filling out nicely. I was feeding 1 gallon of tea and on the growology girls I was also giving them full strength step 2 and now step 3 every watering, with bubbled non ph'd water.


Blue Cheese and Pineapple Kush

BC Taped Limb

Fruit Spirit and Critical

FS

Critical

 

[timothypaul26]

re: Grow#1 - 2014 - Featuring Critical & Fruit Spirit - Indoor - LED - High Brix

Final weight of the Royal Cheese after 6 full days of drying, 79g. Haven't tried any yet, but the buds are very sticky, and has a slight fuel smell mixed with grapefruit.

 

[GrizzWald]

re: Grow#1 - 2014 - Featuring Critical & Fruit Spirit - Indoor - LED - High Brix

Well done man congrats on getting the meds you should end up with a fair stash there.

 

[timothypaul26]

re: Grow#1 - 2014 - Featuring Critical & Fruit Spirit - Indoor - LED - High Brix

Thanks! Yeah I'm hoping that the girls indoor produce well. The royal cheese has a lot of sativa in it, so I'm not sure if that's going to work all for me or not. Ill give it a while to cure and test it out.

 

[timothypaul26]

re: Grow#1 - 2014 - Featuring Critical & Fruit Spirit - Indoor - LED - High Brix

I have a bit of an update on the girls today, I was able to grab a couple of pics of the outdoor girls between raindrops. Having some pretty nasty storms today. The outdoor girls are on day 12 of being outside, so I'm calling that start of flower.

The indoor girls are on day 33 of 12/12, and last friday I received my replacement Gen2 Intelligent Gro LED's in the mail. I didn't have any issues with my Gen 1's but Dave is replacing them all with Gen 2's, so why not?!?

I have been giving them all a foliar spray of Bloom Khaos and diluted T&J tea. The indoor girls are really liking that, and starting to really take a "shine" to it, they are getting very frosty too.

Outdoor Girls

Indoor Girls

Fruit Spirit

Critical

 

[GrizzWald]

re: Grow#1 - 2014 - Featuring Critical & Fruit Spirit - Indoor - LED - High Brix

That's great that danky came through for you like that. I hope he comes through for me with the new ones. I also brought the gen1 4x114's, only had one run with them, now there packed waiting to go again in Afew months. I didn't have a problem with them either, but the gen2 seem to have any issues resolved. Hate to have them go on me in the middle of a grow, makes me worried about using them again, not as a hazard, just not having lights to use.

 

[timothypaul26]

re: Grow#1 - 2014 - Featuring Critical & Fruit Spirit - Indoor - LED - High Brix

I had to contact him, since they were ordered before the website was up. He didn't have the info. You may want to contact him.

 

[geturgrowon]

re: Grow#1 - 2014 - Featuring Critical & Fruit Spirit - Indoor - LED - High Brix

great grow ill be watching ! !

 

[timothypaul26]

re: Grow#1 - 2014 - Featuring Critical & Fruit Spirit - Indoor - LED - High Brix

Welcome geturgrownon, pull up a beanbag. Thanks for stopping by.

 

[timothypaul26]

re: Grow#1 - 2014 - Featuring Critical & Fruit Spirit - Indoor - LED - High Brix

Finally have an update for you guys. I've been sick and just now getting caught up.

The indoor girls are 44 days into 12/12, the Fruit Spirit girls seem to be farther along than the Critical girls. I decided to look at the trichomes, and I see a couple of burnt ones from the foliar spray, but most are looking milky.

The outdoor girls are coming along, have some small flowers on them. It was too nasty rainy out, so no pics off them today.

Indoor Girls

Fruit Spirit

Critical