Indoor RDWC Grow: Space Candy, Jack Herer, GG#5, Blackdog Phytomax 2 800, & Connoisseur

@Michael Hunt indeed. I think I waited a little too long to start flowering and the plants are straight up growing around the sides of the screen. I have more tops than I've been able to count. As long as there are no major issues I think the yield is going to be insane.

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So the plant in the cat litter container is just an absolute beast. She started after most of the other plants, but has far outgrown all of the other plants
More photos? I thought you'd never ask. I think I went a little too hard with the bud blood/big bud I used in the first couple weeks of flower. Got some burn on the leaf tips that's not going away, but it looks like they're growing healthy now. Next time, will definitely skip the bud blood.

Today I'm picking up an extra fan for the bottom of the canopy and some terpinator to resin these gals up

Check out the stem on the plant in the car litter container. She's far otherwise the others and grown a stem so thick it broke the net cup

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Happy 420!

The canopy was starting to get very dense and the gorilla glue was really starting to crowd out the other plants so I gave her a good haircut. We're 2 weeks into dlower rather that 21 days so I hope I don't stunt growth. This let's some of the other buds get some light. Going to finish the defoliation this week or next.

I've also topped my 2 largest clones in preparation for manifolding.


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A defol was definitely the right move yesterday. Now that the other plants have access to light they have started to catch up. I also added some fluorescent grow lights I had sitting around to the underside of the canopy. May as well get as many buds as possible.

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Thanks Michael.

I've been composting:
Avocado pit and rind
carrots
Tomatoes
Celery
Coffee grinds (I know now that cannabis doesn't like this)
Egg shells
ash from my pellet stove
and fan leaves.

I also dumped in part of my old nutrients when I did a reservoir change. It's starting to get really heavy to turn. I'm wondering how do I know when it's time to take the soil out? Should I stop adding stuff so the stuff that's in there can finish decomposing? Was it unwise to add nutrient rich water directly to the compost?

I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing compost wise. I would love some advice if anyone has experience.

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Thanks Michael.

I've been composting:
Avocado pit and rind
carrots
Tomatoes
Celery
Coffee grinds (I know now that cannabis doesn't like this)
Egg shells
ash from my pellet stove
and fan leaves.

I also dumped in part of my old nutrients when I did a reservoir change. It's starting to get really heavy to turn. I'm wondering how do I know when it's time to take the soil out? Should I stop adding stuff so the stuff that's in there can finish decomposing? Was it unwise to add nutrient rich water directly to the compost?

I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing compost wise. I would love some advice if anyone has experience.

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Love that composter bin :green_heart:

I Haven't done it myself, but will be starting later this year
 
@Rexer yeah the compost bin came with the house when I bought it in December so I figured I had to put it to good use.

I started futzing around with the under canopy lighting (bad idea), because it looked like the leaves were getting all distorted trying to point down rather than up. I was trying to move the lights to the sides and I accidentally knocked out the hose for one of the buckets, which proceeded to empty out the entire reservoir change I did last night (thanks pump on a timer).

After a good 45 minutes after the lights were supposed to be off, I was trying to vacuum up the spilt water, pouring a new reservoir with new nutes, etc. Ugh.

Crisis averted though. No permanent damage. Long story short, if it aint broke, don't fix it.

One thing I've noticed is the rather long internodal spacing. I think there were just too many plants in there and the canopy was too dense, so the other plants had to climb to get light.

I've been considering doing some super cropping. Anyone have any experience? Is now the right time to do it? I've been just bending the stems (LST) back to try to even out the canopy which has produced some big hearty stems.

I've also noticed the candy queen is a lime green color and not developing as well as the other strains, I think they may have a nute deficiency. Will increase ppm when I do a reservoir change for them tonight or tomorrow

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@Rexer yeah the compost bin came with the house when I bought it in December so I figured I had to put it to good use.

I started futzing around with the under canopy lighting (bad idea), because it looked like the leaves were getting all distorted trying to point down rather than up. I was trying to move the lights to the sides and I accidentally knocked out the hose for one of the buckets, which proceeded to empty out the entire reservoir change I did last night (thanks pump on a timer).

After a good 45 minutes after the lights were supposed to be off, I was trying to vacuum up the spilt water, pouring a new reservoir with new nutes, etc. Ugh.

Crisis averted though. No permanent damage. Long story short, if it aint broke, don't fix it.

One thing I've noticed is the rather long internodal spacing. I think there were just too many plants in there and the canopy was too dense, so the other plants had to climb to get light.

I've been considering doing some super cropping. Anyone have any experience? Is now the right time to do it? I've been just bending the stems (LST) back to try to even out the canopy which has produced some big hearty stems.

I've also noticed the candy queen is a lime green color and not developing as well as the other strains, I think they may have a nute deficiency. Will increase ppm when I do a reservoir change for them tonight or tomorrow

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Oh boy, I feel your pain! I've been playing with a new bucket system- had a few flooding incidents.

Look on the brightside- you could have accidentally knocked it loose and not noticed.

I have done some supercroping. It's a high stress training- it works but with anything the puts high stress should be done with care.

If you know your going to be doing it- my personal trick is to soften the spot I'll be bending. I'll put my middle finger up against my index, and place the stem between those fingers and my thumb. Then very gently soften the spot. Sometimes the stem will be soft enough to go ahead and do it (supercrop), other times it'll soften the spot up as it's repeated.

As to if you should do it, I dunno. Maybe @StoneOtter could chime in? He keeps a great even canopy!
 
Oh boy, I feel your pain! I've been playing with a new bucket system- had a few flooding incidents.

Look on the brightside- you could have accidentally knocked it loose and not noticed.

I have done some supercroping. It's a high stress training- it works but with anything the puts high stress should be done with care.

If you know your going to be doing it- my personal trick is to soften the spot I'll be bending. I'll put my middle finger up against my index, and place the stem between those fingers and my thumb. Then very gently soften the spot. Sometimes the stem will be soft enough to go ahead and do it (supercrop), other times it'll soften the spot up as it's repeated.

As to if you should do it, I dunno. Maybe @StoneOtter could chime in? He keeps a great even canopy!
What's going on in this beautiful garden? :green_heart:
 
Ah. Supercropping is a cool tool!
How late into flower do you supercrop? Is 2.5 weeks too late?

Looks like the gorilla glue is really starting to bulk up. The Jack and candy queen have much more spindly stems and aren't growing as well, but I did another defol so hopefully that will get more light to the buds

Cheers
 
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