New Grow: Gonna Need Some Assistance Here Please

[gr865]

Today is the first day I have felt like doing anything. Think I am on the up side.
Knew I didn't have Covid as I never lost taste or smell.
Anyway here a few from today.

Everything is going along nicely. I am still using the low dose multi cycle feeding method. 21 gallon rez last around 5 to 6 days at 5 cycles, 1st and last are at 65 seconds, providing some runoff for the 1st cycle, and a good runoff for the last cycle. The three cycles in the middle are at 50 second, minimal runoff but not extreme. After 6 days I have about 2.5 to 3 gallon total runoff.
Every time the tent is opened I look to move/retie/rearrange the ladies to get the best light. I really wished I had put a screen on this grow, it sets up perfect for a SCrog, but alas I was in a big hurry to get this grow into flower and done.
I am please the way they are recovering from the 21st day trim, growth has not missed a beat, they are thickening and I just start adding Liquid KoolBloom to the mix at lite rates.
I can see there is some more lower growth I need to remove, will do so in the next few days, out of energy today.

 

[gr865]

Day 36 12/12 Christmas Day

Merry Christmas everyone

Here we are at day 36, plants have completed their stretch and starting to bulk. Five irrigation cycles, one and 5 are at 1:05 minutes and the other three are 0:50 seconds. Just stepped up the KoolBloom to 10 ml/gal, backed off the Canna A to two ml/gal, increased the Canna B to 5 ml/gal. I set the pH at the start of the Irrigation cycle @ around 5.8 and let that float over the 5 cycles to between 6.0 and 6.05, this seems to work the best for my grow.
The HLG Scorpion Diablo is running full boar, temps are 80 to 83 lights on, 68 to 70 lights off, and humidity's range is 55 to 70. This coming Friday will be day 42 and will do the final trim, only removing fans at block bud sites after that.

 

[HayStack]

Day 36 12/12 Christmas Day

Merry Christmas everyone

Here we are at day 36, plants have completed their stretch and starting to bulk. Five irrigation cycles, one and 5 are at 1:05 minutes and the other three are 0:50 seconds. Just stepped up the KoolBloom to 10 ml/gal, backed off the Canna A to two ml/gal, increased the Canna B to 5 ml/gal. I set the pH at the start of the Irrigation cycle @ around 5.8 and let that float over the 5 cycles to between 6.0 and 6.05, this seems to work the best for my grow.
The HLG Scorpion Diablo is running full boar, temps are 80 to 83 lights on, 68 to 70 lights off, and humidity's range is 55 to 70. This coming Friday will be day 42 and will do the final trim, only removing fans at block bud sites after that.

Looking great. Don't you just love this stage of the grow. You can see new bud growth everyday. It's amazing. As usual, your grow is turning out great.

 

[gr865]

Looking great. Don't you just love this stage of the grow. You can see new bud growth everyday. It's amazing. As usual, your grow is turning out great.

Coming from you this means a lot! Thanks, just hope I can live up to my reputation!

 

[HayStack]

We want more, we want more, we want more!!!!!

 

[gr865]

Getting cold here, and they are getting frosty. A couple of the pheno's are more leafy than I care for, but took a chance on some free seeds. So you get what your get. My GF will be moved in by the time I harvest so she can help.
Anyway, here are a couple from a few days ago.

 

[HayStack]

Hey, it looks like both of us may be harvesting at the same time. I finally had a chance to go back in your journal and see it all. Looks like you flipped on 11-19. I flipped on 11-24.

As usual, it looks like you are going to have another great harvest!!

 

[gr865]

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[gr865]

A bit behind on my journal, so let's catch up.
Day 46 of flower.

Need to do a bit of trimming, mainly remove fans that are covering other bud sites and some lower growth.
Wanted to get one of those CO2 bags to hang in the tent but alas fucked off too much and it's to late now.
I do have an HLG 30 UVA SUPPLEMENT on it's way and will run it the last three weeks or so.

 

[gr865]

Just a couple of my frosty Cookies & Cream @ day 50!

Love the little tuffs of white hairs, indicating spurts of growth from doing a minor flush at rez change. When I have about a gallon left in the rez, I add about 5 liters of strained compost tea/RO to the tank and run one minute cycles about 5 minutes apart till the rez is empty. When i add the 5 liters the EC is @ 1.7 and after the addition of the 0.0 RO it is down to around 1.2 or 1.3, pH the solution and do the minor flush.
I get 7 days worth of feeding from a 21 gallon rez with just a small amount of solution left and it is to this that I add the compost tea/RO. This burst of grow occurs about two days after I do the mini flush.
Then I start a new rez, I pH every morning after the lights come on and I let the pH float during the day. I start the pH at 5.85 +/- and let it float during the 5 cycles to around 6.0 by the end of the 12 hour light cycle. I do not add compost tea every time I do the mini flush, some times just straight pH'ed RO water added to the remaining solution in the rez.

I believe I will be harvesting within the next couple of weeks, the trichs are just turning cloudy, maybe 40% or so. This 50/50 hybrid who's parents, GS Cookies and Starfighter #2, should finish in 56 to 63 days according to the breeder and they are putting out the fragrance.

 

[HayStack]

Looking good man. You are cing down the home stretch and those little growth spurts are nice. You know you're finishing nice when you get those little growth spurts.

 

[gr865]

Looking good man. You are cing down the home stretch and those little growth spurts are nice. You know you're finishing nice when you get those little growth spurts.

Thanks man,
I think it was the Compost tea I gave them last rez change. This is a couple of pics from today. Looks like little explosions!

Also just added a HLG UV 30 to the lights, too early to give an assessment of this lamp.

 

[gr865]

Just a few pics at day 55.
I just changed the rez today, emptied and did a mini flush, cleaned the rez, added 21 gallons of RO with 4 ml Cal/Mag and 0.75 grams of Epsom per gallon and no additional nutes. Doing the final flush and should empty the rez around Wed of next week and will harvest at that time. pH'ed and running on same irrigation schedule, 5 cycles, 1st is one minute minor runoff, then the three center cycles are 50 secs with very little run off and the last cycle of the day is 1 min 10 seconds and getting a good runoff.
This is the first time running a week long flush, usually just do a two to three day flush but want to clean the root zone well. Have heard that flushing does not remove anything from the plant but I always get a good burst of growth so wanted to see what I would get doing it for a full week.
Love the purple, my tent temps are 80 to 82 lights on and 69 to 70 lights out, humidity around 40%. My shop temps are 75 to 77, and humidity is around 30%, love the low humidity during the last week or so of flower.

The new HLG 30 UV lamp I hung in the tent last week seems to have thicken the trichs but really hard to say the benefit, I should have put it in earlier.

It will go into the tent earlier next grow.

 

[StoneOtter]

Garden's budding up real nice GR!

 

[gr865]

Garden's budding up real nice GR!

Thanks Dude!
I love your handle, what is your line of work?
My guess, stone mason or you inscribe cemetery memorials.

 

[gr865]

Well it has been 60 days since I started flower, breeder says 56 to 63 days. I really did not pay as much attention to the plants as I should have, but the seeds were a gift and I was unsure of the origin, The person that gifted me the seeds said she thinks these are Cookies & Cream and since this was my first grow with this new lamp I mainly wanted to see how they preformed under this lamp. I could have done more trimming and spread them better, this grow would have made a great SCrog and the production would have been higher also.

Today I did a flush with the remaining solution of pH'ed RO water with just Cal/Mag, Epsom and Cannazyme. Made this 21 gallon mix up last Thursday, increased the run times about 10 seconds each and today there was around 5 gallons remaining so ran 3 -15 minute run times and the final run was about 8 minutes and emptied the rez. With lights out tonight at 8 I will shut down the lamp but still run the HLG 30 UVA SUPPLEMENT overnight and harvest tomorrow. One thing I have noted on most all my grows is that when I do a mini flush, after each rez is about empty I add 3 gallons of RO to what is remaining the rez, taking the ppm down considerably, is a burst of growth. This time I did the same but at the last rez fill I did not add any nutes, just RO, Cal/Mag and Epsom. You can see the white tuffs formed from running this flush.

Really love the Purple's.

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Now for the HLG Scorpion Diablo. A little history, started growing with 400W HPS, did three grows with this lamp, was best for Vertical grow single lamp. The next lamp was a SS400 from Cal light works, used it for 4 grows and switched to two 315W CMH's. These lamp were great for vertical and horizontal grows, my best with this lamp was just over 2 lbs.
This grow I switched to the HLG Scorpion Diablo, the pics above were grown under this lamp. Started them under a 6 lamp florescent and moved them into the tent under the SC at about three weeks growth, Continued vegging them for around 4 weeks then flipped. I kept the dimmer at a power level of 4 to 5 for the first 10 days then increased the power level to 10 over the next few days. The lamp preformed great during veg and when I switched to flower I was really impressed. They started forming buds in 3 days and by day 21 they were rocking the buds. Buds aren't massive but I did top the shit out of them during veg so lack of bud size is made up by the quantity of buds made.. A you can see in the final two pics that trichome production is not lacking. Overall I am pleased with this lamp, does what they say it will do, the folks at HLG are super friendly and customer service is excellent. I with I had purchased the HLG 30 earlier as I only had it on the plants for about two weeks.
The plants were grown in a 70/30 coco/perlite mix using Canna nutes full line.
Based on my past grow experience I am guessing 24 to 28 zips, cured and in jars off this grow.
Expect to harvest tomorrow and Wed.
Will post chop pics plus updates as the plants are drying.

 

[gr865]

Harvested today, day 60 of 12/12, breeder says 56 to 63 days.
Just chopped and hung only minor trim. Will do the final trim after a few days of hanging.

Good strong base, it is putting the fan on them right after sprout till repotting, then a stronger fan help build this.

Timber!

And now we wait, check tent daily for temp/humidity and how they are drying.

 

[HayStack]

I could be wrong, but I think you will get right around 2 lbs. on this grow. What a great job and the trichs and terps look amazing on this grow. Do you think it was the lights that you are using now? I think it might have a lot to do with it. You were using the CMH lights for a few grows. They work great, but I think they might burn off some of the juicy goodness. I've had the same problem with my CMH lights too. They produce a lot of heat. But it's not like it's really a problem, it's just that the buds don't get as wet and juicy.

I've been looking at lights like yours and other similar larger footprint lights. I may have to bite the bullet and buy one of them.

 

[gr865]

I could be wrong, but I think you will get right around 2 lbs. on this grow. What a great job and the trichs and terps look amazing on this grow. Do you think it was the lights that you are using now? I think it might have a lot to do with it. You were using the CMH lights for a few grows. They work great, but I think they might burn off some of the juicy goodness. I've had the same problem with my CMH lights too. They produce a lot of heat. But it's not like it's really a problem, it's just that the buds don't get as wet and juicy.

I've been looking at lights like yours and other similar larger footprint lights. I may have to bite the bullet and buy one of them.

I did a review of the lamp in another post and it was deleted by Admin here. Said that the company was not one of their sponsors so I could not post about them.
Mars contacted me, I guess after reading I was in the market for a new light, offered me a free lamp if I would start a journal here. Oh but that's ok, they are a sponsor, even though their lights can't compare to the lamp I bought.

Now I will probably hear from Admin again,

 

[gr865]

Ok, harvested on Tuesday, removed the lamp, drain tray, tray stand and the drain tub from the tent and hung whole plants. Humidity was 65% and I was think a good slow drying, but to no avail we had a cold front come in on Wednesday drop to todays is 20% in the shop and 26% in the tent. I even put a cup warmer in there with pot of water on it but the humidity is still low, drying way to fast. Going to add another warmer and pot of water to see if I can get the humidity at least to around 50%.
I am searching for my drying rack but with the remodel it is put up somewhere I can't find, but when I do I will remove the branches from the mainstem and put them on the rack. If the fan are dried I will remove them prior to placing them on the rack. Thinking I will fill at least 5 of the trays hopefully all 6 trays.