The Challenge: Cardboard Flowering Box

[jandre2k3]

Done!

 

[jandre2k3]

Click link for full update: Cardboard Flowerbox Test 3 - 41 Week Perpetual SOG

New clones today for the left side.

Due to observations, I have decided to veg these small clones for 9 weeks, instead of 8.

5 x Lamb's Bread
5 x Green Fluffy Bunnies
6 x Purple Widow

 

[jandre2k3]

03-09-2012, 10:46 AM Update

Flower Day -0.5
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03-19-2012, 01:40 AM Update

Okay, folks! Test 1 was a success and even turned out to be a little more than I had hoped for. This means that Test 2 is officially underway.

First we had Ken's GDP go in, and now with the harvest of Test 1, and a thorough cleaning, we finish up with the transfer of Thing2 LST, and the last 2 pigmy GFB's I had.
Target Date 5/21/2012

 

[jandre2k3]

03-23-2012, 08:32 AM Update

As of the completion of Test 1, I believe I have identified the strain of Thing2. I smoked some last night and here are the results from Test 1 from the smoke report:

Thing2 is quite the racy sativa indeed. Tastes of fuel badly, has "purple" undertones. Feels to me like a Blue Diesel (Sour Diesel x Blue Dream). So much in fact, that is what I shall call it henceforth.

So in this and the third, I shall refer to Thing2 as Blue Diesel.

 

[jandre2k3]

03-23-2012, 11:43 AM Update

Reflector Concept 1. Wasted light to the sides is reflected to the underside of the plant.

 

[jandre2k3]

03-26-2012, 09:24 AM Update

Picture Day!
Week 2
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Flowering Times:
16.1 days tracking Ken's Granddaddy Purple - GDP
7.3 days tracking Blue Diesel - BD
7.3 days tracking Green Fluffy Bunnies-Clone - GFB
7.3 days tracking Green Fluffy Bunnies-Clone - GFB

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[jandre2k3]

04-02-2012, 12:06 PM Update

Picture Day!
Week 3
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Flowering Times:
14.5 days tracking Blue Diesel - BD
14.5 days tracking Green Fluffy Bunnies-Clone - GFB
14.5 days tracking Green Fluffy Bunnies-Clone - GFB
23.2 days tracking Ken's Granddaddy Purple - GDP

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[jandre2k3]

04-07-2012, 07:55 AM Microscope Pics

MOMMA GDP!!

NEXT! Green Fluffy Bunnies makes their debut!

And finally, Blue Diesel (LST)

 

[jandre2k3]

04-07-2012, 09:20 AM BPN Review Cont...

A Blue Planet Nutrients review: Part 2 - Vegetative Growth

I have been using BPN Elite 3-part with Liquid Blue Bloom Booster now for two months. Since part one, I have now seen how this system works for vegetative growth, and for cloning. Let me tell you, "I'm amazed" doesn't even begin to cover my impression of the difference from the other nutrients I've tried!

At first I was a little reluctant to really let the plants have as much as I thought they could handle. I know that now, that although it is wise to err on the side of caution, it was not necessary with these nutrients. I should have just started with Crazy Growth and let them run wild.

I say this for one simple fact: When I mistakenly started that schedule 2 weeks earlier than intended, they not only improved in overall health, (with Advanced Nutrients Jungle Juice I was having a problem with nutrients either being too hot, or undergrowth just dying off) but in stem structure, and vigor as well. I have been able to take 35 clones from 3 mothers in 2 months, and they bounce right back and put off side chutes almost immediately. Keep in mind that I keep my mother plants under 22 inches tall and in tight quarters. Four plants in no larger than a 21w x 19d x 24h space. Given the size of the three donor plants, that number of clones in two months is remarkable growth. Also, there is no lag in time between taking cuttings, and the plant growing new chutes; it seems to happen over-night.

Furthermore, the cuttings I take when they show roots out the bottoms of the starter squares, although it is recommended to start them on the Seedling schedule, I am able to go straight to Veg1 for a week, the straight to Crazy Growth on week two after roots. I have seen no ill effects from this and have not even tanned the tips of those delicate cuttings. Now, I know results vary, but with performance like that, who would mess around with any other nutrient line?

In all this, there was one minor adjustment that I had to make for my particular situation: I had to go up to 12ml per gallon of “Grow” for the Crazy Growth schedule, because 10ml wasn’t supplying enough Nitrogen and I was losing strength, and color in new growth. That was easy enough to figure out, and now I have bushy plants that promise to be very fruitful mothers. For proof of all these claims, click on any of the mothers in my signature. For proof of the clone performance, click on Third Test Run in my signature.

To Be Continued… Part 3 Flowering

 

[jandre2k3]

04-09-2012, 09:05 AM Update

Picture Day!
Week 4
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Flowering Times:
21.3 days tracking Blue Diesel - BD
21.3 days tracking Green Fluffy Bunnies-Clone - GFB
21.3 days tracking Green Fluffy Bunnies-Clone - GFB
30.0 days tracking Ken's Granddaddy Purple - GDP

Target:
-41.6 days tracking Ken's Granddaddy Purple - GDP
-48.6 days tracking Green Fluffy Bunnies-Clone - GFB
-48.6 days tracking Green Fluffy Bunnies-Clone - GFB
-55.6 days tracking Blue Diesel - BD

I had to pull one of the T5 tubes from the ceiling and place it underneath the canopy. The GDB is growing so dense that T5 light is insufficient to reach under/through the canopy and down to the underside even with the reflector underneath...

PICS!!

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[jandre2k3]

04-15-2012, 12:54 PM Microscope Pics

Weekly Close-ups!

Momma GDP:

Green Fluffy Bunnies:

Blue Diesel:

 

[jandre2k3]

04-17-2012, 11:05 AM

Hydrofarm Digital Timer Failed. Lost 1 to 2 days of watering. Greenhouse Garden Supply replaced, no questions asked.

 

[jandre2k3]

04-17-2012, 11:31 AM Update

Picture Day!
Week 5
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Flowering Times:
29.4 days tracking Blue Diesel - BD
29.4 days tracking Green Fluffy Bunnies-Clone - GFB
29.4 days tracking Green Fluffy Bunnies-Clone - GFB
38.4 days tracking Ken's Granddaddy Purple - GDP

Target Date:
-33.5 days tracking Ken's Granddaddy Purple - GDP
-40.5 days tracking Green Fluffy Bunnies-Clone - GFB
-40.5 days tracking Green Fluffy Bunnies-Clone - GFB
-47.5 days tracking Blue Diesel - BD

These pics are after they had recovered from the wilting.

Momma GDP:

Green Fluffy Bunnies:

Blue Diesel:

 

[jandre2k3]

04-21-2012, 09:12 AM Update

Picture Day!
Week 6
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Flowering Times:
33.3 days tracking Blue Diesel - BD
33.3 days tracking Green Fluffy Bunnies-Clone - GFB
33.3 days tracking Green Fluffy Bunnies-Clone - GFB
42.3 days tracking Ken's Granddaddy Purple - GDP

Target Date:
-29.6 days tracking Ken's Granddaddy Purple - GDP
-36.6 days tracking Green Fluffy Bunnies-Clone - GFB
-36.6 days tracking Green Fluffy Bunnies-Clone - GFB
-43.6 days tracking Blue Diesel - BD


Momma GDP:

Green Fluffy Bunnies:

Blue Diesel:

 

[jandre2k3]

05-01-2012, 09:52 AM Update

Picture Day!
Week 7
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Flower Times:
43.4 days tracking Blue Diesel - BD
43.4 days tracking Green Fluffy Bunnies-Clone - GFB
43.4 days tracking Green Fluffy Bunnies-Clone - GFB
52.4 days tracking Ken's Granddaddy Purple - GDP

Days Left:
-19.5 days tracking Ken's Granddaddy Purple - GDP
-26.5 days tracking Green Fluffy Bunnies-Clone - GFB
-26.5 days tracking Green Fluffy Bunnies-Clone - GFB
-33.5 days tracking Blue Diesel - BD


Momma GDP:

Green Fluffy Bunnies:

Blue Diesel:

 

[jandre2k3]

05-06-2012, 11:22 AM Microscope pics

Weekly Close-ups!

Momma GDP:



Green Fluffy Bunnies:



Blue Diesel:

 

[jandre2k3]

05-07-2012, 11:21 AM Update

Picture Day!
Week 8​

... started "the flush" today for the GDP as well since we only have about two weeks left. I will start the same on the other side before I go camping this month and when I return, it should be time to harvest the GDP. Hopefully the time away will keep me from getting impatient and cutting a bud and sampling. I may take a smaller bud before camping, though, just so we can enjoy some nice home-grown while out. What a nice little time that would be. Place the paper bag up in the back window to help stave off mold on the way up since it's a three and a half hour trip, and set it in the tent's overhead mesh once we get camp set up and the tent pitched.


Flower Times:
49.4 days tracking Blue Diesel - BD
49.4 days tracking Green Fluffy Bunnies-Clone - GFB
49.4 days tracking Green Fluffy Bunnies-Clone - GFB
58.4 days tracking Ken's Granddaddy Purple - GDP

Days Left:
-13.5 days tracking Ken's Granddaddy Purple - GDP
-20.5 days tracking Green Fluffy Bunnies-Clone - GFB
-20.5 days tracking Green Fluffy Bunnies-Clone - GFB
-27.5 days tracking Blue Diesel - BD


Momma GDP:






Green Fluffy Bunnies:





Blue Diesel:

 

[dadums]

WOW they look yummy love the microscope.

 

[jandre2k3]

WOW they look yummy love the microscope.

Thank you! did you see all the updates from March to now?

 

[BCBudd]

woot woot you got it goin on brudda