THC Bomb & WW/Skunk - CFL Hood/Veg HPS/Flower

[Skybound]

Likewise LA! Glad to have you stop by, and no worries about lurking. Great thing about this community is that there's no pressure to make your presence known frequently. If/when you want to chime in, awesome. If/when you'd rather be tacit, also awesome. It's all gravy baby!

 

[danklover79]

I'm lurking myself bro, been busy as hell, so not much time to socialize lately, hope you're well.

 

[B A R]

Busy is good Dank. Likewise Sky.

 

[Light Addict]

All Gravy baby! I love that, you made me chuckle out loud and the missus is a sleep lol.

 

[stealthgrow]

Hi Sky, Happy Skunkday to you.

 

[AfricanGrower]

Sky

Hi Sky, Happy Skunkday to you.

Stealth, when are you doing another journal bro?

 

[B A R]

Stealth, when are you doing another journal bro?

Yeah dude, what AG said.

 

[Gozgrow]

I don't know if I neglected to mention that, but this last res swap I did completely empty the res and washed out all the gunk from the tank, fed line to the union and pump, then added the new nutrient mix.

Edit - also did not mean to imply "add", but rather maybe bump up or lower an ingredient to very slightly increase the presence of Mag.

I have noticed build up in my Closet grow rez also. Although mine is to be expected as im not even close to light proof. Although I have found that it takes longer to appear when I wash out my rez I completely sterilize it with an 88 cent bottle of Hydrogen peroxide and wipe it out well. I then add all my nutes and wait 24 hours to add beneficials. Hoping the h202 that may remain has been converted to oxygen.
my other rez I haven't had any build up occur yet and its 100% light proof and the pump is not in the rez so temps stay low, I Still sterilize this rez also.

 

[Skybound]

I have noticed build up in my Closet grow rez also. Although mine is to be expected as im not even close to light proof. Although I have found that it takes longer to appear when I wash out my rez I completely sterilize it with an 88 cent bottle of Hydrogen peroxide and wipe it out well. I then add all my nutes and wait 24 hours to add beneficials. Hoping the h202 that may remain has been converted to oxygen.
my other rez I haven't had any build up occur yet and its 100% light proof and the pump is not in the rez so temps stay low, I Still sterilize this rez also.

Do you dilute the H2O2 with water? If so, consider using straight up as it's probably only 2% H2O2. I like the 29% as it's very thorough when used to disinfect.

 

[Skybound]

Sky



Stealth, when are you doing another journal bro?

AG B A R

Stealth's Journal

 

[AfricanGrower]

AG B A R

Stealth's Journal

Where has that gem been hiding. Thanks Sky.

 

[b.real]

pretty sure you have to dilute it if youre gonna feed it to plants. to wash with nah kill whatever you want with it

 

[Skybound]

My apologies if I implied that the H2O2 is to remain. After using it in a Live growing environment, I most definitely rinse everything off thoroughly before filling up with nute water. If growing sterile, it wouldn't matter unless there was so much that it might disrupt the H2O2 dosage, but it will likely be years before I try sterile if I do at all.

 

[b.real]

ive put it in my soil diluted to restart the biota. just whip with peroxide then fill up res with clean water and i would back down nutes the tips have burn. you can always increase ppm later with a P or something

 

[Gozgrow]

Do you dilute the H2O2 with water? If so, consider using straight up as it's probably only 2% H2O2. I like the 29% as it's very thorough when used to disinfect.

I do not dilute it with water, just peel the foil off the top and squirt the whole bottle in there. I then take a shop towel and wipe everything down really good. Then I use a shop vac that I have bought just for cleaning my Rez and suck everything out. ( of course this is after the entire Rez has been completely emptied of any nutrient water.) I wipe the Rez completely out one more time to get any remaining h202. Then proceed with the re-up of the water nutrient and adatives.

 

[Skybound]

5 days into week 7 of flower
97 days alive

I topped up the res last night with 4 gallons of nutrient water. I discontinued use of Silica and Flora Blend from the nutrient recipe and will only use Heisenberg Tea once, maybe twice more. I also began to decrease Gro nutrients from the recipe and next res change it will be dropped leaving only CALiMAGic, Flora Micro and Flora Bloom. Now it's 5ml/Gal CALiMAGic, 1 part GH Flora Gro, 3 parts GH Flora Micro and 5.1 parts GH Flora Bloom. I may also use a bloom booster that came with the General Hydroponics Performance Pack. Also, I just removed about 70% of the Scrog screen as it was becoming less of an asset and more of a liability with rubbing on branches and scarring them and what not. I'm having a little bit of a heat to RH issue and have my light maxed out for height. I will leave the buds alone now, but if heat burn/stress persists, I will super crop them in hopes to save the plant and harvest. My new prediction is between 2.5-4 zips, but hopefully on the higher end. I have one or two 15" long colas (maybe even longer), about 2-3 foot longers, maybe 5-10 8" long and the rest are lower growth of popcorn buds, so perhaps a reveg is in the future and aside from the fact that I am still hard pressed to find a nice trichome colony, I am amazed by this strains ability to make the small grower regret having such a small space. I'd really love to see what she could do if she were allowed to really spread out. Her buds are swelling like crazy and the diameter of the larger 15" tops are about the size of major league baseball bats and nearly as long too. Between yesterday and today I noticed they are hardening pretty nicely as well. Hope the added bloom nutes next week really gives her a nice boost and maybe an increase of weight. She consumes about a gallon a day and I feed her 4 times during a lights on cycle. First feeding is 10 minutes and the rest are 5 minutes. Her Mg deficiency appears to be held at bay in that the symptoms don't appear to be progressing any and hopefully that leads back to a gradual return to optimal levels. Research says this is an 8 week finisher, but DonPaul.P said it's a 10 week or more, and I'm believing him now as I can see there's still time yet to go. Right now, maybe 3% of her pistils have ambered. I will wait till that number increases before I really try to find some trichomes to judge.

I took an ass load of pics so hope the white light did her justice;

Also forgot to mention that I transplanted the bubbler clone into some rockwool cubes. I will do the same for the other 2 that are both already in cubes. The other clone in the bubbler stopped growing roots and they started to brown so I tossed it with hopes of saving the other one. I now have access to an RO unit so I will mix up a light seedling/veg mix tomorrow and begin weening in nutrients as needed.

Take care 420!

 

[Gozgrow]

Dang you weren't kidding those are some fat flowers. Looks like a really good game plan on the nutrients. When you flush are you going to try out the flush KJC uses that he posted on my thread? I don't think I'm going to be able to this round but I will be slowly purchasing the ingredients for my next grow so I can try it out. Looks like your not far behind me except a lot of my pistils have browned so I have been checking Trichromes, no sign of ambers yet though. Can't wait to see if you hit your yeild expectations. I thing I really messed up on my grow not growing the same plants even if I get 3 oz total it's across 6 different strains so I'm kinda disappointed in that but I know now.
Question about those cubes do they sell them like that or do you have to cut them up like that?

 

[TheCapn]

The pistils make these colas look so furry!

>>I am still hard pressed to find a nice trichome colony

I'm sure there are plenty under all that fur. Some strains just don't have much trichomes on the leaves, so you might not get nice trim for making oil, but I'm sure the bud will still pack a nice punch!

You gotta love it when the breeder says it's a "8 week strain". Whatever they say, I always add another week at least. It also depends on the phenotype, and how long you vegged. Since it took a week or so into flower before you saw pistils, I'd say donpaul is right with a 10 week prediction. If you flower out one of your clones, you will see it flowers faster. Are you going to run another one in this cabinet or no?

Those colas are disguised by a lot of leaves, but they are really getting huge. way to go.

 

[b.real]

coming along nicely. I love my white kush. I bet white skunk is gonna be even better.

 

[Skybound]

What's up Capn. Yeah they are very furry and chunky, but I may only have access to a 10x loupe b/c I can't find the 30x-100x one I had. I bet tric inspection to determine an accurate harvest time is gonna be tricky if most of the trics will be hidden from site. I'm a little freaked out about possible mold as some colas were crushing up against one another. That's why I removed most of the screen. Now have many LSTed to a fixed point like a screw of eye screw with gardner's wire. Also turned on the 24/7 fan again blowing up from the floor. It's only a small 6". RH is now down to about 46% with lights on, hope for dryer readings when lights come back on.

I'm not feeling this location for another and will chalk this one up as luck. I found some takers for the little ones and hopefully they stay alive till then. I am looking at other options and will post what I can, when I can. Hopefully something good is yet to come, but if luck does not change, perhaps the risk must continue but that's down the road a ways.

@Goz
The cubes come already sized. There are 2 sizes, and the recipe calls for the mini (10mm) cubes which I have pictured. There is also chunks which are about 2-3 times larger that I haven't used yet.

For flush I am planning to drop PPM down to about 300@.5 for about 3-7 days till the sugar leaves get pretty yellow then RO only for the last day or two unless otherwise advised by more experienced members growing simple hydroponics Capn style. To my knowledge, The Capn, S1ingblade and African Grower are the primary 3 that have steered my grow in good directions by doing great in their own grows. All grows are done Capn style with a simple media, simple top feed and drainage, simple nutrient recipe with a simple compost tea inoculant. If other conditions are met at least satisfactorily, great yields based of great plants on great white root masses are a no brainer. A lot of square inches are being consumed of my tiny 15"x30" with nugz due to a happy root zone, this at least I was able to provide and I know when harvested I will find some nice white roots and if possible, put right back in and revegged.