Spumantii's First Grow Op

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Did the swap with my lights, I'm back to the 600w MH for veg, and giving the flower tent over to the Spectrum King. Been watching it go at a moderate pace under the HPS, we are into day 24 and day 19. Now will get to see how much this light accelerates the process.. Also makes taking good pictures a lot more convenient

 

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Pics in the red tent, and the sole survivor of rockwool type one (banned from operations)

 

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So I had so much humidity in the cutting domes that the cuts didn't bother to do much rooting, and as a result the transition back to indoor pot shocked them. That's been the issue for weeks now. From here out, only the shrinky ones will get the dome, everything will still be on mats and I'll still heat the reservoir in this and when covered will trap humidity from below. This way I can train them to root quickly, and the bushings accommodate both the pad and rockwool plug. Either way rooting should be faster and more reliable. The tray gets too humid. I haven't found the balance there but it's good to perk up dying cuttings and seedlings do double time. Between this and the tray I hope to be able to rehab or propagate any cuts and never lose anything. I'd be happy with 90% or better.

 

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Bubba kush "Rachael Potley"

 

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It works!!! When using it for rockwool, will either have it run once or twice a day or mask some of the spray as they really soak. Should be enough to try aeroponic. It's nice and warm, humid only inside. I'm going to put a port in the top to let that humidity up, once I find a suitable dome part.. Need to get another 2 gal bag to block light coming in.

Day 30 flower Jackie o. Buds are all about an inch wide rn and starting to really sparkle. One or two amber pistils in a few buds. Smells like butter and old bananas

 

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Some pics with flash and the basil is outgrowing this one

 

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I've heard a load of different ways to accomplish a harvest, I have a hanging dry rack thing, as I understand humidity is critical and it's been super low lately. Outdoor humidity dropped to 15%, and in the tents I was struggling to keep it at 30. It's best to long term store it at 55-62% humidity right? Is there such thing as a bud humidor? I plan to jar it using boveda packs, how long do you dry for and how? Do you flip yours turn them pack them unpack them bag them and for how long?

 

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Feb 27-mar 1
Snow, then very low humidity for a week. Cuttings took root without yellowing having green lighting.
Branches on Jackie starting to fall over. Useless screen at this point for anything other than this.

 

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Mar 1-2 and both flowering plants are in the max nute kick, I've been watching the ph of the feed and I've been slamming them with pk cal mag, I thought maybe they weren't accessing it all so I dropped ph by .5 and gave one the last feeding thinking I should start cleaning the soil soon. Still shown are calcium deficient spots not dramatic but there even after dumping about a litre of dolomite lime a week ago. K yellowing like banana. Couple leaves with brown spots look like p short. On the next plant over it looks like nitrogen first as some leaves yellowing from the bottom up and edges in. Very red stems on that one.

Since then, also lowered ph and gave it some grow nute in its last feed. Both soils very wet and must be hot.

 

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Michelle has growth spurts and runs out of something. She's always hungry. Growing up she had mag shortage then p shortage and I've added Epsom salts lime and perlite to the soil though I've been lowering the feed ph to 6.0 because the soils all read neutral or alkaline slightly. The branching is crazy. She's sensitive but I can tell this plant is going to yield monster buds.

 

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Update on groot training and the clones, drooped for a night but seem to be up now, there's the Michelle clone that took, my younglings station, the death bubba seedling, and a new secret.

 

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Last week in the flower tent days 35-42 and they are both frosty, one is slowing down, couple of ambers on one bud..

Also got to mention I left the tent door open a couple times last week and exposed them to off hours light for a little longer than normal, and on one piece of larf at the bottom I spotted a pollen star emerging and I removed it. In hindsight I feel kind of bad. A couple seeds wouldn't be the end of the world and she's worked so hard.

 

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Day 46 and 41 and both look almost ready.. already

 

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Specifically trichomes

Also, if Michelle is always hungry, Melania is always thirsty. I've had to go easy on her a bit because of height limit.

I am going to harvest one on Sunday. Mixed emotions, anticipation and excitement but shame sadness remorse or reluctance on what has become a labor of love. I have plans to keep things going one way or another, so nobody dies.

 

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Oh and one other thing, I was happy with the last hydro bill but this one was concerning. The hvac fan I have turns out to use 140w, not good. I'm going to have to replace that metal halide with a led of equivalent strength. 220 every 2 months is more than I thought, last bill was partial, anyway I've pulled the plug on a bunch of things around here since and considering running the fan half time on a timer

 

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Need some feedback here, I've been fighting a losing battle trying to stop both flowering plants from draining fan leaves of nutes. I am supposed to stop feeding but next watering I'm giving ph 5.5 water. The meter on the soil ph tester is a bit lower on both still above 6.5. I've already been doubling the feed amounts. Do they always drain themselves during flower end kick even with the presence of nutes? I'm using a flusher with just water on the first one. It's day 47 and this one's not growing just going a little copper and draining the fans. Too early though? Idk.

 

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It's been a long day full of mixed emotions toward this whole process.

It took hours into what i thought would be a fully free Day, finding errands to do first and observing myself shirk this task. I feel an empathy for a plant. I said a few things to it, a long bit about humanity and how ashamed we should be about many things, and promised to the plant and myself that life will continue and or the plant goals will be met. We have an obligation to everything we take care of and to be responsible stewards for all life around us, and to stop harm. We are confused conscious beings capable of both empathy and compassion and careless callous disregard. It took almost an hour once I got all my make work interference reluctance and prep tasks done, just to make a cut. What if plants feel pain? I don't want to think about it. Together, we made you from a seed that would have otherwise been in a drawer for who knows how long, and now that you are alive I will do my best to see that continues. If you leave a plant alone beyond flowering, it will seed itself? If not, she will rejuvenate. Jackie O is amazing. Going by trichomes not pistil color suggested now was the time, even though it seemed to be early to me, a day 49 harvest.

Shown are the 2 mostly untrained Dec 30 Barbaras being brought out to make room for proceedings. A number of looks at Jackie swollen after a full watering the day before. Having removed the screen, which was a fucking sweat inducing nightmare i dont want to repeat, many tops are collapsing. The one saving feature of the flowering scrog is it holds the branches upright. The harvest has blown me away and pictures are coming but it has surpassed all expectations and i have a second plant to do tomorrow. Barbara caught up in flower maturity real fast and matched the ripeness, and I have to minimize her too just to empty the veg tent. There's a growing line and not enough room.

 

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I have dabbed her cuts with aloe and am leaving these buds on to become new branches, let's keep our fingers crossed, I'll clone properly if it works, and the monster crop might even surpass the yield.

Final wet weight trimmed
Jackie O Northern Lights
788g / 1lb 11.8oz