Bamalabrat
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Has the Vlad considered raising the "sun" 3"? To prevent further heat damage. By the way the "Hooch" looks good bro! 
Unstoppable Vlad Goes Into Space - Journal 4.0 - Colombian Gold - DWC - LED
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VladimirPutin
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I just raised the lamp, thanks for the recommendation Bam!
Poor little plants, I was starting to cook them again
Now it's 10 inches above the little critters and also I put them on 24/0 again. Found out that 18/6 doesn't give benefits. Ed Rosenthal and others have said 24/0 is the best for veg.
This brew will be ready to drink in 3 weeks. Reducing the sugar content helps the fermentation process go faster.
Bottling it is still a challenge as the liquid will continue fermenting long after packaging
V
Poor little plants, I was starting to cook them again
Now it's 10 inches above the little critters and also I put them on 24/0 again. Found out that 18/6 doesn't give benefits. Ed Rosenthal and others have said 24/0 is the best for veg.
This brew will be ready to drink in 3 weeks. Reducing the sugar content helps the fermentation process go faster.
Bottling it is still a challenge as the liquid will continue fermenting long after packaging
V
Bamalabrat
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LOL. I had my girls on 24/0 for two weeks until yesterday after reading yours and sciguys comments. I will have to go back to 24 hours now. LOL
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LOL. I had my girls on 24/0 for two weeks until yesterday after reading yours and sciguys comments. I will have to go back to 24 hours now. LOL
LMAO!! I have no need to reinvent the wheel during this grow. The most important thing I read is that plants respond "mechanistically" to light. So no harm done if you don't sleep them
I just flushed them with pH'd chlorine free water. 3 liters total flush for all 4 little plants, just to make sure there were no salts in the coco, runoff came out to 5.9 pH.
I like coco a lot because of its porosity and just the right amount of water retention...
They'll be fine tonight. They are in the nursery bucket which is heated and the light will be on so...
Until tomorrow Comrades
Far East Buds
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LOL. I had my girls on 24/0 for two weeks until yesterday after reading yours and sciguys comments. I will have to go back to 24 hours now. LOL
I ran at 20-4 my last grow and this one i switched to 18-6 recently was at 20-4 as well. I started with it as a let things cool type of thing. No idea what is better but I do like the idea of giving everything a rest. My local guy says 18-6.. Has asked me more than once.
FE
HizzyB
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I wanted to stop by and say HIGH and I like the stuff your up to, Ill be back if thats ok
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Welcome aboard HizzyB. Reps to you, your grow is awesome
F.E. - yessir, that would be the main and "only" benefit of not going 24/0, to cool the lamps and maybe to save %25 on your energy bill.
Meanwhile, the Vlad wants more buds NOW! Especially want to wrap it up before "New Years" corporate celebration day.
I flushed them last night. It was great, felt fulfilling on so many levels. The coco drained out and is ready for another watering in 12 hours. They are getting ready to blast off like little Intercontinental ballistic missiles.
Vlad
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when the calendar thing goes to 28 of October, going to flip the lights to 12/12.
That should bring me to day >63 F by December 31
wild card grow for POTM 2016
F.E. - yessir, that would be the main and "only" benefit of not going 24/0, to cool the lamps and maybe to save %25 on your energy bill.
Meanwhile, the Vlad wants more buds NOW! Especially want to wrap it up before "New Years" corporate celebration day.
I flushed them last night. It was great, felt fulfilling on so many levels. The coco drained out and is ready for another watering in 12 hours. They are getting ready to blast off like little Intercontinental ballistic missiles.
Vlad
EDIT
when the calendar thing goes to 28 of October, going to flip the lights to 12/12.
That should bring me to day >63 F by December 31
wild card grow for POTM 2016
chenzi
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Vlad bring it on !!
OttawaGreen
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Love the "wine" too. Your idea got my started and now I have made raspberry, pear, grape.... Mmmm, tasty and cheap liquor is great
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Thanks Comrade SG
I flooded them a phew times to make sure there was no more salts built up in the substrate. I guess I was getting kinda rusty at popping seeds and caring for seedlings since I had not planted in more than 6 months. The last two grows were from clones.
I just reviewed on the golden rule of sprouts is that they should only be around clear pH'd water for the first 3 weeks of life. Long time but oh well that's nature!
From this grow I want to take clones, 2 from each of the 3 best plants. I have a propagator set up that's going to work like a champ for 6 cuttings.
I will take the clones 1 week before flip to 12/12, or approx 21st of the October.
I don't care if I have a male or two in this grow. I may just keep one and make my own seeds. It has been hard to get seeds lately, without resorting to visiting unsavory characters.
Vlad
I flooded them a phew times to make sure there was no more salts built up in the substrate. I guess I was getting kinda rusty at popping seeds and caring for seedlings since I had not planted in more than 6 months. The last two grows were from clones.
I just reviewed on the golden rule of sprouts is that they should only be around clear pH'd water for the first 3 weeks of life. Long time but oh well that's nature!
From this grow I want to take clones, 2 from each of the 3 best plants. I have a propagator set up that's going to work like a champ for 6 cuttings.
I will take the clones 1 week before flip to 12/12, or approx 21st of the October.
I don't care if I have a male or two in this grow. I may just keep one and make my own seeds. It has been hard to get seeds lately, without resorting to visiting unsavory characters.
Vlad
Bamalabrat
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They look good Vlad. Like they are getting their vigor back. Keep it up comrade. Your light runs a little hot so remember to keep it a little high and I think you will be rocking it!
Your light runs a little hot so remember to keep it a little high and I think you will be rocking it!
chenzi
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Nice work V.
They "Are" fighting back
They "Are" fighting back
why not just use colloidal silver on a female to get seeds. just spray a branch, grow the plant out somewhere else like a closet or balcony until the sacs grow and open, then take a q tip to collect pollen and just pollenate the lowest buds on your female plants that are in flower, this way you can harvest all the rest of the buds for smoking and just leave the bottom buds to produce seeds, these will also be around 99.1% feminized if done this way.
You could also just harvest what you want off the plants and leave buds on to continue growing, if its female, after the harvest window, she will kind of hermie herself as a last ditch effort to reproduce, you can get lucky and get pollen off of the plant this way as well, although not guaranteed like colloidal silver is.
I'm sure you already knew those ways but just wanted to remind you if you were needing seeds.
Too bad the vlad lives out in the middle of nowhere, makes it a little hard to get seeds in the mail.
You could also just harvest what you want off the plants and leave buds on to continue growing, if its female, after the harvest window, she will kind of hermie herself as a last ditch effort to reproduce, you can get lucky and get pollen off of the plant this way as well, although not guaranteed like colloidal silver is.
I'm sure you already knew those ways but just wanted to remind you if you were needing seeds.
Too bad the vlad lives out in the middle of nowhere, makes it a little hard to get seeds in the mail.
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Hmmmmmm. I could do that. Very interesting and relatively easy-peasy, nothing to mess up!
Let's see how these 4 phenos do.
TBH, they don't even look like land strain sativas :rolleyes3
These are the shortest things I've ever grown.
Already a branch is beginning to form above the first true leaves.
These seeds were planted with tap root on 2 of October. And the roots are preparing to poke downward in mass through the net pot holes.
I feel kinda weird just having a res of straight pH'd water under them. so I was getting ready to mix up a reservoir of 1/4 minimum strength , like 250 ppm. I have to run a lower number because using the public water, it's around 100-130 ppm
Sounds like phun right?
V
EDIT : SO I put a thermometer down where the plant canopy is and observed the temps. I set the lamp at 10"
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VLAD UPDATE
So this morning marks Day 1 in the reservoir, filled up high to 15 liters. PPM 400 pH 5.8
Already have ivory white roots dropping down !
Root porn coming perhaps tomorrow when they are longer.
V
So this morning marks Day 1 in the reservoir, filled up high to 15 liters. PPM 400 pH 5.8
Already have ivory white roots dropping down !
Root porn coming perhaps tomorrow when they are longer.
V
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Looking good Vlad! Remind them that they are expected to get big fast. If they fail I suggest lowering the "sun" for a few minutes to remind them. Carrot and the stick for more intense training.
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