The Gee Spot - You Finally Found It

[Gee64]

There is high chance that I will.

SweetTag me please if you think of it.

That is so interesting. It’s like 3 plants growing fused together.

I will take some detailed pic's of the main stalks later. It's pretty neat.

REVEG REVEG REVEG

Never, die mutant die. The next "Big" thing in cannabis is mutantism. You breed it this way and that, and you end up with some kind of superweed that apparently only produces infertile seeds, so if that's true, nature says it's a no-no and it's clone only.

I never read too deeply into it to get a full understanding as I'm headed in the other direction. It does sound scientifically interesting tho.

I would rather have a Mother Plant of her Hot Sister

 

[Keffka]

Other than the timer thats pretty much identical to the one I pieced together. That will work

My main concern is the bigger pots. I feel like a drip on one side of the pot won’t be enough to cover the entire width of the container. I’m thinking I’ll need to put down 2 of the drippers to cover the pot. Thoughts?

I have my eyes on a few kits that come with sprayers and variable drip nozzles. The main issue I’m running into is they’re all designed with connectors for spigots and not a submersible pump. I need to get my eyes on the pieces I’m working with so I know which connectors I need from the corner hardware store. The kits are difficult to decipher without being able to touch it.

 

[Janluna]

Tag me please if you think of it.

Bet

 

[Gee64]

My main concern is the bigger pots. I feel like a drip on one side of the pot won’t be enough to cover the entire width of the container. I’m thinking I’ll need to put down 2 of the drippers to cover the pot. Thoughts?

I have my eyes on a few kits that come with sprayers and variable drip nozzles. The main issue I’m running into is they’re all designed with connectors for spigots and not a submersible pump. I need to get my eyes on the pieces I’m working with so I know which connectors I need from the corner hardware store. The kits are difficult to decipher without being able to touch it.

I use a piece of 3/4" plastic underground irrigation tubing, the black stuff that comes in 100' rolls. I attach 32" of it to the 3/4" pond pump head and plug the other end. Then I plug dripper lines into it with those little plastic nipples they design to plug 1/4" dripper lines into the main feed tube. The nipples pop thru the 3/4" tube and self seal, then you run a 1/4" dripper line off the nipple to this....

I made 9 up quick because it was leave for Hawaii Day the next day so it was this or dead plants. 16 days later I got home to a great flowering tent. So I still use them lol. 6 years now

Elbows in three corners.

Tee's to the dripper heads.

And the fourth corner gets another Tee to hook in the feed line.

If you need, I can pull the pump out to show you my "manifold". Lemme know it's not a hassle.

 

[Gee64]

Ikky has the green petioles. Her mutation is milder and only on 1 clone branch.

RV2 has it on both clone branches. It's way worse. 6 leaves off one side of 1 node is the thickest one I could find. Her red petioles make it easier to see.

The manifold under the catapillar cola. Pretty cool!. A sixpack manifold to the top.

Very scruffy from afar.

 

[Keffka]

I use a piece of 3/4" plastic underground irrigation tubing, the black stuff that comes in 100' rolls. I attach 32" of it to the 3/4" pond pump head and plug the other end. Then I plug dripper lines into it with those little plastic nipples they design to plug 1/4" dripper lines into the main feed tube. The nipples pop thru the 3/4" tube and self seal, then you run a 1/4" dripper line off the nipple to this....

I made 9 up quick because it was leave for Hawaii Day the next day so it was this or dead plants. 16 days later I got home to a great flowering tent. So I still use them lol. 6 years now

Elbows in three corners.

Tee's to the dripper heads.

And the fourth corner gets another Tee to hook in the feed line.

If you need, I can pull the pump out to show you my "manifold". Lemme know it's not a hassle.

Yeah a shot of the manifold would be awesome if you don’t mind

 

[Janluna]

Ikky has the green petioles. Her mutation is milder and only on 1 clone branch.

RV2 has it on both clone branches. It's way worse. 6 leaves off one side of 1 node is the thickest one I could find. Her red petioles make it easier to see.

The manifold under the catapillar cola. Pretty cool!. A sixpack manifold to the top.

Very scruffy from afar.

Hands down one of the coolest things ive ever seen. I could only imagine hows shes going to bulk up.

 

[Gee64]

Yeah a shot of the manifold would be awesome if you don’t mind

k, gimme a couple hours

 

[Keffka]

k, gimme a couple hours

How did you come to your watering rate? Without some sort of smart moisture sensor you’re pretty much flying by the seat of your pants yeah?

 

[Gee64]

How did you come to your watering rate? Without some sort of smart moisture sensor you’re pretty much flying by the seat of your pants yeah?

Pretty much, and one of these...

and then I up my schedule continuously thru veg until stretch is over, when they finally settle into a good rhythm.

Here's my current schedule....

 

[scottreid1966]

Hi Scott.It's called manifolding or mainlining. Its a bit like a quad but you get bigger colas and less larf.

When it all comes off the same node, and I prefer node 3, it distributes all nutes equally to all 8 colas with equal apical dominance for all 8.

If you look back to early December in here you will see a grow I did of 4 plants at 8 colas each, giving the tent a perfect 32 cola canopy similar to a scrog, but you can pull the plants out if you want. It's my preferred method. All cola, no larf. It makes for easy harvesting.

The 4 plants gave me somewhere around 1 3/4 lbs. Not bad for 4 sativas. That's about average, but there wasn't any larf, only nugs. All the other trainings I have tried create too much larf and lesser colas.

These TMSC plants were only manifolded to 4 tops each, and I left the clone branches on, so 6 tops each, but they had a very rough start so they aren't trained well at all.

The small BK is manifolded to 8 tops and will stretch into a good shape though. Well if that little pot makes it thru stretch.

Here she is today on Day 3 of Flower. She's starting to stretch already.

Thanks Gee, got it book-marked. Going to be doing a @seedman421 compaarative out-door grow starting mid-May. Will definitely give it a go on one or two depending how many I tap outte the 5 they gave me. They are small, makes me nervous. I will be quadding one and doing a horizontal grow.

Thanks for the 411.

 

[Gee64]

Thanks Gee, got it book-marked. Going to be doing a @seedman421 compaarative out-door grow starting mid-May. Will definitely give it a go on one or two depending how many I tap outte the 5 they gave me. They are small, makes me nervous. I will be quadding one and doing a horizontal grow.

Thanks for the 411.

If you think of it Scott shoot me a tag when you start the journal up please

 

[Gee64]

Yeah a shot of the manifold would be awesome if you don’t mind

I forgot that I cut it down. It's only about 14" tall now. Here are the 9 lines coming off it.

You use a finishing nail held in vice grips to poke a pilot hole into the tube, then press one of these in and attach the line.

 

[Gee64]

The BK cuts. Company is coming so the wife absconded my wet lab, aka the guest bathroom, so they are on the floor of the veg tent now.

The 2 header.

The 3 soil clones and the 4 potted aero clones.

And the tortured souls, except the lil buggers are rebelling the torture and coming around already. That veg tent is 35% RH, they should be screaming in pain. I'll get you you lil buggers! I don't want 3 more plants lol.

But there is still time to go south. They aren't flourishing, but not regressing either other than the one that looked weaker to begin with. It's in the bottom pic, but it has stopped sliding too.

This one,

Which is also this one, isn't hurting at all. Tough booger.

Here is the runty one, but it has already stopped regressing.

Tomorrow is topdressing day for everyone, these included as well, and dry or not they get fish soup for dinner with the top dressing. That should perk them all up.

 

[Vegan4life]

@Gee64 and anyone else running indoor drip irrigation. The kits Im looking at all show hook ups for a faucet/spigot. What is your setup for running from a reservoir?

I am doing indoor drip irrigation. I have 2 - 10 gallon buckets that auto-fill with RO water. I use a RV water pump to pump the water. The water pick ups in my storage buckets have stainless fine mesh screen for a filter. The water also runs through a wye strainer and a pressure reducing regulator (all drip irrigation fittings), keeping pressure down to 15 psi. I use timers with solenoid valves to turn water on and off. The RV pump turns on and off on demand using a built in pressure switch. I am using this along with Blumat drip rings, which the manufacturer recommends keeping pressure down to 15 psi .

 

[Gee64]

TMSC - Day 23 of Flower.

Just a group photo tonight.

Day 6 of Flower for the BK manifold in the 1.66gal pot. Gaia green ferts make for a beautiful shade of green.

Day 6 for the 1.66gal aero clones. They are almost ready to take off.

This is the smallest one.

2nd smallest.

2nd largest.

And the largest one.

Turgidity is starting to rise, it should happen any day now.

They get fish tomorrow, which will likely make them wet and fat again, but thats OK, gotta get it in. Then they can dry down. They will be better off in the long run for it.

Once they have had their 1st dose of fish their immunities will rise and they will be able to handle more light. Thats when I will start raising intensity. Myco should be starting to flourish right about now as well. They already look linked. I think they are about to go. Usually Day 18-20 is when I get root tips poking thru the pot bottoms, so lets see how these ones compare.

They are handling the 35%RH like champions.

The heat mats underneath are set to 78F.

 

[Stonecrusher]

I forgot that I cut it down. It's only about 14" tall now. Here are the 9 lines coming off it.

You use a finishing nail held in vice grips to poke a pilot hole into the tube, then press one of these in and attach the line.

This is great! I bought a little Vivosun submersible pump system and have been all over Amazon and garden stores to try to add emitters since it comes with 8 and one really needs 4 per plant. I know because I was running 2 per plant and the pot stays half dry even when you water heavily.
The problem comes because standard drip systems aren't necessarily made like the submersible pump systems. Those parts don't play well together and I was getting frustrated. You came up with a simple solution, just use garden store parts coming straight off the main line. Why couldn't I think of that?

 

[Gee64]

This is great! I bought a little Vivosun submersible pump system and have been all over Amazon and garden stores to try to add emitters since it comes with 8 and one really needs 4 per plant. I know because I was running 2 per plant and the pot stays half dry even when you water heavily.
The problem comes because standard drip systems aren't necessarily made like the submersible pump systems. Those parts don't play well together and I was getting frustrated. You came up with a simple solution, just use garden store parts coming straight off the main line. Why couldn't I think of that?

Most of these parts are made by a company called Rainbird. You can buy all the fittings individually in packs of 5 or 10's and they work with 1/4" dripper lines. Easy Peasy.

 

[Vegan4life]

TMSC - Day 23 of Flower.

Just a group photo tonight.

Day 6 of Flower for the BK manifold in the 1.66gal pot. Gaia green ferts make for a beautiful shade of green.

Day 6 for the 1.66gal aero clones. They are almost ready to take off.

This is the smallest one.

2nd smallest.

2nd largest.

And the largest one.

Turgidity is starting to rise, it should happen any day now.

They get fish tomorrow, which will likely make them wet and fat again, but thats OK, gotta get it in. Then they can dry down. They will be better off in the long run for it.

Once they have had their 1st dose of fish their immunities will rise and they will be able to handle more light. Thats when I will start raising intensity. Myco should be starting to flourish right about now as well. They already look linked. I think they are about to go. Usually Day 18-20 is when I get root tips poking thru the pot bottoms, so lets see how these ones compare.

They are handling the 35%RH like champions.

The heat mats underneath are set to 78F.

Looking Great! How tall are those mutant plants from top of soil?

 

[Gee64]

Looking Great! How tall are those mutant plants from top of soil?

It's lights out, but I would guess about 48". I'll measure for you tomorrow.