Indoor - Acapulco Gold - Carnival - Sugar Punch - Kit Soil - Cheap LED

[VonDankenhoek]

Greetings,

I had my kit soil cooking for quite some time as I finished up other plants in the pipeline. In future posts I'm gonna journal the progress of the 3 ladies in the title.

But for now I'm gonna start off with pics of what is just finished or is currently finishing up.

The flower room is lit by 1-500 actual watt LED. This lamp works great. I bought it on ebay. It's been going for about 14 months. The grow area is about 24x40 inches. I fit 3 or 4, 7 gal fabric pots in there. The exhaust is overkill at 600 cfm and it's attached to 640 Phresh can. These run 24/7 except in coldest winter.

Most of the plants in the photo's were grown in mineralized soil with some foliars. I often use SST and or basic ACT.

Moving forward with the high brix grow I am following the protocols as outlined in Doc Bud's how-to-use thread.

 

[ozone25]

Wow they look awesome! I don't know a whole lot to answer your question so ill leave it to the experts. As for the LED what LED did you go with? You said one from ebay, link?

 

[DrZiggy]

Looking awesome! (Everything is awesome when youre part of a team..
..and sub'd

 

[DrZiggy]

The ready to chop buds look delish!

 

[VonDankenhoek]

I don't think links are permitted. The vendor i used is known as ledgrowlightmanufacturer. BUT since then there are a new bunch of contenders in my book. Specifically platinum looks to be growing really well. You've no doubt heard of alibaba. It's a smorgasbord of lamps there.

One important point to keep in mind is that the light is only one part of the environment. Temps, humidity/vpr, and especially air circulation are significant factors in my experience.

 

[DrZiggy]

VonDankenhoek, is this your survey up above?

 

[VonDankenhoek]

yup...a well respected gardener i follow was ruminating on the default practice of highest yield timing. I thought it merited inquiry.

 

[Doc Bud]

Looking good bro! I'll be following along daily, as much as possible. Looking forward to it very much.

 

[Graytail]

Great looking plants, Ludweed!

subbed!

 

[VonDankenhoek]

Thanks very much folks. I appreciate your interest and observations.

In this pic see 3 Jack Herer f7's. The ripe one is 13 weeks 12/12. The more lively pair were grown outdoors and then brought in recently when weather required. I'm at 39° N.

The small plant on the right is carnival waiting for a brighter spot to become available..

Both are in 7 gal fabric pots. BUT the lively 2 plants, potted from rooted cuttings, were fitted into space carved into a pot of used (1x) mineralized soil. It was packed with roots. It's interesting that the plants flourished and flowered profusely considering the combined mass drawing from a single pot. Some of the buds are close to fist sized.

 

[VonDankenhoek]

These are my best buds ever!

Meanwhile my kit plants are doing great. I still have one large JH in there. It is preventing the placement of my largest kit plant into the flower room.

The bud in the upper pics (same bud both pics) is from the plant in the foreground.

The plant in the background, another JH, was cat drenched when very well flowered. Even though it wasn't kit soil she responded with some frosty girth. It's my first experience having success with the cationic
drench. I'm really looking forward to the effect it has on properly, kit grown plants.is

This is flower room queen for now.

 

[VonDankenhoek]

Here's a look at a bud that benefited from the cat drench. Since drenching twice in a row she's been given straight tap water for 2 consecutive light waterings then a drench with energy and a little tm7 in r/o water. This plant got its flowering cues from natural light. It grew outside until recently. When it landed in the flower chamber it began an 11/13 schedule.

I expect a good bit more swelling with all the pistil production currently going on.

 

[DrZiggy]

Big!! VonDank, which 1 is that?

 

[VonDankenhoek]

It's one of the pair of JH that shared the used soil and grew outside. It's the JH F7. I have some drying right now that I will give a smoke report on maybe after the w/e. It smells phenomenal. Thanks for your interest.

 

[Graytail]

F'n gorgeous, man!

That cola is stellar and the rest of 'em look great!

 

[VonDankenhoek]

This is the high brix Sugar Punch. It's getting plenty of veg time as I'm waiting for bloom room space. It is healthy as can be. The pre flowers are lurid! I can see that once she goes 12/12 there's gonna be a lot of flowers

This is the JH that taking up so much space. Seems like it's worth letting it finish up on it's own schedule. It's been steadily fattening up since the cat drench a couple weeks back.

The carnival and acupulco gold are a few weeks into flower in the bloom room. They are not much to look at so far.
Once the jack finishes up I expect to see the High brix plants to shine.

 

[Duggan]

Mornin VonD! Things are lookin mighty fine in here ! Just how long do ya think the A.G. will go for? Great work BTW! Cheers.

 

[DrZiggy]

Von, what do your just harvested JH smell like? We get incredible visuals, I want to know what the buds smell like, please.

 

[Mars Hydro]

I don't think links are permitted. The vendor i used is known as ledgrowlightmanufacturer. BUT since then there are a new bunch of contenders in my book. Specifically platinum looks to be growing really well. You've no doubt heard of alibaba. It's a smorgasbord of lamps there.

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ledgrowlightmanufacturer, this is our EB store, we changed to marshydro now

 

[Ravyn]

Very nice tops. Congrats on the personal best buds.