Th34v4t4r's D.I.Y. Octopot Shananingans

[Th34v4t4r]

Sorry guys been way busy.. me mother went on holiday and asked me to look after the animals for a few days, so off I went. Any how...

Switch flipped today!

When I returned today they were bloody bushy... also alot of the smaller nodes have grown 2 or 3 Inch and stretched. .

I have added the other light back in and tonight T 22:00 we went lights off for the next 24 hours.. the long night... clocks are set to come on 12/12 tomorrow night.

I've upped the ppm count with calmag and some a n B nutes I'll increase the a n B in a week...

Before I went away I removed the mini svrogg nets and let them stretch freely with no stress..

I've replaced the scrogg now slightly bigger.

The roots went wild and I have a few roots touching the sides of my res ....

I'm going to let them have few days into stretch before I defoliate again..

Yes @GanjaPreneur420 your sorta right. I wanted the old growth gone asap as it was either deformed or blistered or had some discoloration.. the new growth is golden Nd the more new that come thru the more I could tell the old was shoddy

Hopefully we see some real stretch in the next month...

 

[Th34v4t4r]

DAY 1 flower!!!

so... the plants went to sleep for 33hrs.. I was debating my schedule... do I start the clock at night in off peak times for cost efficiency or do I set it during peak times where I can check it twice a day before and after work?

in my case you lot would probably say the former so it's less time to fiddle about

talking of which... there has already been some considerable stretch since the light turned on this morning at 7am.... full power.

All colas where about 3inch above my canopy.

The one on the right is going hay wire fucking and weaving it self up. Was a bit of work to pull them apart into some sort of order.. unlike the left plant which is growing nice and uniform and requires very little work to tuck into the next square out.

Plant left....
P.h 6.2
Res temp 21°
Res ppm 1600

ROOTS!!!


PLANT right....

P.h 6.5
Res temp 20°
Ppm 1400

ROOTS..
not so many at all??? I think she is struggling for somereason...



TENT!!
Temp 27.3°
Humidity 62%
Lights 12" from canopy top on full power.

Here a picture before I just tucked and wove.

I'll take another in a hot second

Day1 week1 flower

 

[Mushie1005]

Looking good

 

[Th34v4t4r]

They pictures were after flattening them out again

 

[Th34v4t4r]

That's it. Lights have gone out for night 1..... cnt wait to see them in the morning lmao....4-6 weeks of tucking bending and weaving... I wonder just how much these are going to stretch in this next month.. I think the left is going to be much bigger then the right. Judging by the root systems and top growth the left looks mightier then the right one...

Nowjust to go back and look at exactly which 2 dates to defoliate

 

[Th34v4t4r]

Day .2 flower.....

Same as day one with a few extra inch

Conditions are remain quite constant and I literally have to do fuxk all lmoa...

 

[Th34v4t4r]

I think I'm going to let the reservoir get drunk fairly low and let the girls have some clean p.h water for a week before we hit full flower... What you guys reckon.. they havnt had a clean drink since they went in the res... It's always been nuted?? I'm wondering if having a flush with some clean water will give them a bit of a kick and a detox.. I read about salt build up ect.. It's got me kinda thinking I should give them a clean solution...

Hope everyone is all good as well lmao

 

[StoneOtter]

I think I'm going to let the reservoir get drunk fairly low and let the girls have some clean p.h water for a week before we hit full flower... What you guys reckon.. they havnt had a clean drink since they went in the res... It's always been nuted?? I'm wondering if having a flush with some clean water will give them a bit of a kick and a detox.. I read about salt build up ect.. It's got me kinda thinking I should give them a clean solution...

Hope everyone is all good as well lmao

I wouldn't have thought of that but there's only one way to find out. Either way won't kill them. Me not so much though.

 

[Th34v4t4r]

Yh I don't think it will hurt will it.. troy or is it takes about 10 days to drink up half the res lmao... I really don't want to take any out manually that's a ball ache lmao... I think I'm going too though.. take as much out as I can get some clean water in there and p.h it.. let them flush for a week.. I'll keep the solution low as well to try and encourage them roots down abit further

 

[Th34v4t4r]

That's it I took the water as low as I could with out taking the resevoirs out, using bottles lmao...

30odd litres between them both..

Whilst I was doing it I thought I'd save my nute solution. No need to waste. I'll keep airating it for a week whilst they sup up the new solution.

It's p.hd to 6.0 and the ppm is 600.. I cut really go lower without adding water and staking away again.

I took as low as I could added 6l of water took it back out and added another 3litres. P.hd it and that's when I took the count....

Now that I've lowered the water level boy can I see some roots.. so I thought I'd show you guys that too

PLANT on the right....
ROOTS arnt as full as the other plant.. I wonder why she's struggling more

Plant on the left... the strong one.. just look at those roots

 

[Th34v4t4r]

I think I've sussed it a touch to late.. for some reason my plants ate showing nute burn all of a sudden after the water change.....

Conclusion.. the build up has just been released. Maybe it was a good thing I just done..

I can only assume the nutes had built up and the cleaner water has flushed them thru the system a bit faster

 

[Th34v4t4r]

Woke up this morning gave them a quick check and the tip burn hadnt got any worse.. So ibthink it was just that release that deffo done it... Inkmew unwant over my dosages nonfrigging way lmao

 

[StoneOtter]

Steady as she goes

 

[Dutchman1990]

Nice roots. Ow avatar glad they are looking good!

Onwards and upwards!

 

[Th34v4t4r]

Day 3.... flower

@Dutchman1990 Yh the roots are looking really good. ..

I've got home from work and got my eyes closer and there seems to be a lot of burn going off now...

... Maybe because it's been drinking more... So I've added 3 litres took out 6 Nd added 6 more litres then p.hd.. the ppm still reads 600, but I know it has to be less.. I don't want to add to much water as I want to encourage those roots down further...

I am noticing stretch though. Those squares are filling up. I've had to 're adjust my res so the plant sit more central in the scrogg net...

Like @stoneotter say... onwards and upwards.

 

[StoneOtter]

Big potential in there!

 

[Mushie1005]

Looking good man!!!

 

[Th34v4t4r]

So we are day five, I've had an eventful day, some bone head ran him self over smashed into my van and then into the house... fuming...

So I thought I'd take some stress out on the girls... I've given another heavy defoliation. Again maybe too much maybe not... we now have 10days for stretch and recovery before final defol.

I've had to spread the pots apart again as the stretch is really good now... It's fast and thick and lovely.

The roots on the right girl are starting to develop much better and her on the left. Well just av a little butchers and you'll see how dandy they are.

 

[Kongfuzi]

Well they certainly look a lot better now that you’ve left leaves on them so that they can actually grow lol. I would have vegged them another month or so personally to fill the tent.

 

[Th34v4t4r]

Hey @Kongfuzi how you keeping

Yh they was doing well soon as I lowered nute solution...

They got very bushy but I left them be a bit...

I had to strip them back abit though cause it's just been going haywire lmao