Michael Hunt
Well-Known Member
Welcome to our journal everyone. Glad to be back on the forums after a long hiatus from growing any fun plants. There will be a giant plant, lots of rambling, and with a little luck, tons of pictures of big ol sticky buds.
This grow is already pretty far along so i will go over the environment and do a recap on what has happened so far.
This one is a tent grow. 3x3x6 Plant House tent and really wishing we could get a bigger one already. The lighting is a mars hydro tsw2000 LED light with the drivers outside of the tent. Exhaust ventilation is being taken care of by a 6” hyperfan with speed controller, rigid 6” elbows for improved airflow a short piece of semi rigid straight duct venting outside. Capped inside the tent with a 6x16 common culture carbon filter and prefilter.
The intake side has a small 4” booster fan and some flex duct. We’re also using one of the screen vents on the side while the light it on and close it in the morning when it turns off and we turn the exhaust fan down.
We’re running 3 wireless temp/hg sensors #1 is 4” from the floor in the back left corner. #2 is in the front left corner at canopy height. And #3 is in the ceiling. These are the temps with the lights on.
Nutrients are General Hydroponics Flora series Gro micro and bloom. We’re also using Botanicare’s CalMag and Hydroguard.
Now onto the star of the show. The seed came from a batch of “sherbert” we had gotten from a local dispensary. We have smoked ounces of this particular strain from the same dispensary over the years and have never found a seed. It just felt right when this one came to us. She sprouted some time ago in the usual wet paper towel. Then moved to a rockwool cube and eventually to her first bucket as soon as 6 roots popped free from their cube. Why 6? No idea, it just looked “ready”. The first bucket was 3 gallons and slow going. She started life under a kessil deep purple h350 led with some “full spectrum” led bulbs as supplemental light.
This was May 18. Not sure exactly what week of veg this was but she kept on like this for 9 long weeks. When we finally got our Mars light, we gave her one more week of veg to gradually bring the drivers up to 100% making the total veg time on this plant 10 weeks.
At the onset of 12/12 we changed her over to a 5 gallon bucket since the 3 gallon was just too little water for the size the rootball was reaching. After 2 days of 12/12 pistils started showing all over the big girl. Then came the stretch. . . And did she ever stretch. Even the rootball seemed to be stretching. This soon lead to the 5 gallon bucket becoming too small for the massive lump of plant mass this lady calls her roots.
This grow is already pretty far along so i will go over the environment and do a recap on what has happened so far.
This one is a tent grow. 3x3x6 Plant House tent and really wishing we could get a bigger one already. The lighting is a mars hydro tsw2000 LED light with the drivers outside of the tent. Exhaust ventilation is being taken care of by a 6” hyperfan with speed controller, rigid 6” elbows for improved airflow a short piece of semi rigid straight duct venting outside. Capped inside the tent with a 6x16 common culture carbon filter and prefilter.
The intake side has a small 4” booster fan and some flex duct. We’re also using one of the screen vents on the side while the light it on and close it in the morning when it turns off and we turn the exhaust fan down.
We’re running 3 wireless temp/hg sensors #1 is 4” from the floor in the back left corner. #2 is in the front left corner at canopy height. And #3 is in the ceiling. These are the temps with the lights on.
Nutrients are General Hydroponics Flora series Gro micro and bloom. We’re also using Botanicare’s CalMag and Hydroguard.
Now onto the star of the show. The seed came from a batch of “sherbert” we had gotten from a local dispensary. We have smoked ounces of this particular strain from the same dispensary over the years and have never found a seed. It just felt right when this one came to us. She sprouted some time ago in the usual wet paper towel. Then moved to a rockwool cube and eventually to her first bucket as soon as 6 roots popped free from their cube. Why 6? No idea, it just looked “ready”. The first bucket was 3 gallons and slow going. She started life under a kessil deep purple h350 led with some “full spectrum” led bulbs as supplemental light.
This was May 18. Not sure exactly what week of veg this was but she kept on like this for 9 long weeks. When we finally got our Mars light, we gave her one more week of veg to gradually bring the drivers up to 100% making the total veg time on this plant 10 weeks.
At the onset of 12/12 we changed her over to a 5 gallon bucket since the 3 gallon was just too little water for the size the rootball was reaching. After 2 days of 12/12 pistils started showing all over the big girl. Then came the stretch. . . And did she ever stretch. Even the rootball seemed to be stretching. This soon lead to the 5 gallon bucket becoming too small for the massive lump of plant mass this lady calls her roots.
Yeah the dispensary labels the stuff as a Hybrid called "sherbert". Don't know much else about it aside from it has a great fruity taste and stinks to high heavens. We're considering running a second filter to deal with the smell. We took 2 cuttings from down low on her after she started showing pistils. They haven't rooted yet but we also don't have anywhere to keep em so they're off in the corner under the canopy. It was more of an impulse job to see if i still had the touch.
We've been considering making a little tote/clone chamber with the little led lights that were used in the beginning. completely forgot about the whole light schedule to get roots started. We already veg 24/0 normally so it wouldn't be too out of ordinary for them. Will be bringing a tote home with me this evening and getting that going.
