The Phantom Og The Opera Goes Apeshit: Starring Barney's Farm Gorilla Zkittelz, Phantom OG & Supporting Cast

[Ganjagrandaddy]

Things are good Gg thanks for asking. Just got back from another camp out this weekend and getting caught up on everyone's journals. The Os will be getting harvested this week in my garden so all is well.

Impressive ladies and i would grow the O.s again. looking forward to see how you yield with her.
Do love camping but UK sites are a bit crap and even a fire would bring them running with buckets of water. No bears or wolves to worry about though !. lol

 

[Ganjagrandaddy]

Update day 39 flowering. Ffs it seems i let too much rh kill couple of tops off. Nothing major but did some damage. The milk spray and moving air flow around has nailed it better now so will hopefully stave it off until harvest around 6th sept.
The Gz are knocking it out of the park for their bud qualities. colours are rapidly changing and a beautiful solid field of nugs is blooming. Even the smaller 2 are pushing solid buds. The pictures cant do them justice really.
Pog is still fairly small compared to all her neighbours, she needs lots of calmag if grown in future. Her buds are decent enough just very small at the moment but with budswell she may surprise me.
Os has had the worst of it with rhe bud rot but not too bad and her cleaned up bud is going sideways like a budtrimming method produces. Her nugs are very dense and stink of oranges now. She is flopping with her bud weights so yo yo time is imminent now as for the Gz too. Cookie Kush is swelling her tops now andlooks very top heavy. her lower buds needed more light or a harder defol for the quadlining method. same with the rest too. I will ot be as gentle next run with it. was trying an idea discussed with prof but still more leaf removal for air would have been better.
With just over 2 weeks and the budswell looking set to start with all the" wound up" sacs bursting pistils , i am more confident of the yield now i think .
The Bg41 early girl smokes well and is doing the job for me till real harvest time. she is still finishing drying but the sampkes i have been taking are good. as i said previously, i am amazed to get any buzz at all but this is oddly good !!
Have sone bud porn to share and some pics from todays playtime. please feel free to comment . always welcome.

WARNING !!! BUD PORN BELOW

 

[Ganjagrandaddy]

general crop shots day 39

 

[MrSauga]

Nice bud shots up top GG! Looking delish so far!

 

[Carcass]

You know,GG- those general crop shots also qualify as bud porn!
The next two weeks is going to be interesting,watching them fatten up even more!

 

[Mars Hydro]

I am sure with your caring, they will soon be better. Grow monster buds

 

[Ganjagrandaddy]

You know,GG- those general crop shots also qualify as bud porn!
The next two weeks is going to be interesting,watching them fatten up even more!

Thanks Cass , harder to do individual plant shots now too. They are so close to bursting open now. hate waiting for this bit.

 

[Ganjagrandaddy]

I am sure with your caring, they will soon be better. Grow monster buds

Thank you Sara. I am impressed with the bud tightness from the lights.

 

[Ganjagrandaddy]

Nice bud shots up top GG! Looking delish so far!

Thank you Mr S. feels like an age getting here so far.lol

 

[Virgin Ground]

Your girls are banging GG!
Looks like these leds were a good fit for your space. Glad you took the leap.

 

[Ganjagrandaddy]

Your girls are banging GG!
Looks like these leds were a good fit for your space. Glad you took the leap.

Thanks Vg. i am happy with the change over so far. saving on the running costs is a bonus too. buds are definitely tighter with led. love the gorilla Zkittelz

 

[Virgin Ground]

Thanks Vg. i am happy with the change over so far. saving on the running costs is a bonus too. buds are definitely tighter with led. love the gorilla Zkittelz

Who doesn't love tight buds? I still see nay sayers every once in a while that say leds can't grow. SMH.

 

[Ganjagrandaddy]

Who doesn't love tight buds? I still see nay sayers every once in a while that say leds can't grow. SMH.

It took me years to trust them tbh Vg. old dinosaur on hps. I am impressed so far

 

[irie lion]

Hey brother GG, things are looking amazing in here man. Your nugs are looking soooo good!
Sorry to hear you had some bud rot show up, but good thing you're working on lowering RH. If you've got another house fan or anything throw it in there to disturb any stagnant air pockets in the grow, any extra air flow is gonna help prevent more mold arising - just my thoughts.
The LED's sure seem to be doing the job. I know you are happy with them, but fill me in on your thoughts on the power consumption of the LED's compared to HID fixtures ? Just like you i stuck with HID as it has proven results regardless of the high power consumption. I'm spending big money on electricity monthly at the moment and i'm thinking i need to make the jump, i just need convincing.
Hope you're doing well my friend

 

[Ganjagrandaddy]

Hey brother GG, things are looking amazing in here man. Your nugs are looking soooo good!
Sorry to hear you had some bud rot show up, but good thing you're working on lowering RH. If you've got another house fan or anything throw it in there to disturb any stagnant air pockets in the grow, any extra air flow is gonna help prevent more mold arising - just my thoughts.
The LED's sure seem to be doing the job. I know you are happy with them, but fill me in on your thoughts on the power consumption of the LED's compared to HID fixtures ? Just like you i stuck with HID as it has proven results regardless of the high power consumption. I'm spending big money on electricity monthly at the moment and i'm thinking i need to make the jump, i just need convincing.
Hope you're doing well my friend

Hey bro. good to see you. Thanks for the comments. locing the density of the nugs . never had them this solid to be fair. I have ran them on full power which is supposed to have a 300w draw at the socket for each unit. I dont meter or measure my power use but switch companies a lot and set up payment plans to cover tje cost.lol. fuck em i love owing them money and dribbling them payments heehee. I assume the claimed consumption by Mars to be true.
I have no regrets at the switch Irie. penetration is definitely less with them so lowers need more enouragement to get light with training ( my learning curve lesson for this grow !.lol) but besides this , my old.set up was a throw together of 2 x 600w in cool tubes that didnt use the best of the available lumens and wasted a lot of them. Heat loss is brilliant though. so.much easier to keep things copable with the heatwaves we had for sure. I genuinely dont have any regrets so far mate. hope it helps. Lets see what the gpw is at the harvest. fingers crossed its more than the stated 1.5gpw

 

[N420]

Looks Great in the room Gg! You have some beautiful colors coming out on those buds. I'm so impressed with what you have been able to do with those Barney's beauty's.

 

[Ganjagrandaddy]

Looks Great in the room Gg! You have some beautiful colors coming out on those buds. I'm so impressed with what you have been able to do with those Barney's beauty's.

Thank you very much N. The genetics are beautiful with Barneys. just need to sort this rh issue out for when they all thicken up. scary watching buds take damage.

 

[Ganjagrandaddy]

Day 42 flowering : I did a little defol of some lower stuff today. I know i left way too much in the bottoms to try the lights out for penetration . Thankfully airflow is good down there but the formed buds on the gz#1 and Os could have doubled the yield output if i had taken more out. The lowers on them are beautiful and chunky but on small stalks so wont be stacking up but will need some support to keep growing. I may take the big mains of her out to get the lowers another weeks development but i am up against the clock for the "visit" to check electrical wiring ect... by the council. Only have till mid sept to shut down temporary while they get done.
Looking at the colours and the maturity of the main crop , i could be easily fooled into believing they are done. They are beautiful looking close up with a very ripened appearence with new pistils creeping out.
The pog had some extra calmag today along with one of the gz. They look like they still need sorting which is frustrating with the pog having so much bud growth within it too. 2 weeks could give her time to catchbup a little i hope. Gz are poking hairs out ready for next flush of flowering with the buds as hard as rock to squeeze. Lots of trich formation going on and some look to be taking over the sugar leaves as i have seen in other grow pics. I am in love with #1 for her size and buds. it will be good to see her hanging trimmed ( Due to the mould , i am going against my regular "no cuts till dry" harvest. I may have to try a faster dry on the ones at risk to at least save the thc over terps. No more signs of bud rot and the milk spray is hopefully doing some good.
It is killing me to see them so close to looking done but still 2 weeks minimum for the earlier girls at 56 days. I will be surprised if there is much to wait for after this point due to using flowering start as day 1. I am hoping it will show what i shout about so often when told the flowering weeks are being counted wrongly . I finish this batch of feeding around sunday , then its on to the Dragon force for a week before their waterings to finish ( no flushing, diluted feeding for last few days of run).
Been using a few yo yo's to bring some of the thinner stemmed buds closer to the lights too. The Os and Gz have a very similar issue with huge buds on skinny stems so plenty of opportunity for them to be
used.

 

[Ganjagrandaddy]

dragon force added at day 43 and i expect these girls to be ready within the next 7 days for 1st harvests. woohoo

 

[StoneOtter]

Good morning/afternoon/evening GG, You are knocking this out of the park my friend! Thanks for telling me about your lights. I caught some of your comments about how much you like them and their power to make what we're all here for. Big, rock hard, super frosty nugs! Your grow is superb! I can't wait to get mine and try it out. I remember you saying something about an adaptor for making the driver remote to remove even more heat? I think that's a good summer thing for me. I'm afraid it won't be long before I have to replace the ones I have now too. The price is friendlyish and I might be able to do it. One grow should tell me I bet at 50% higher weight chance for me from the way the gms/w it produces. Cheers!