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Re: Grow Journal

by nineandfive » Mon May 19, 2014 6:19 am

I ran Fox Farms Sledgehammer through the medium followed by clean distilled water. This Friday i figured it would be chop down day. I wasnt going to feed any more nutes but i wasnt planning on giving anymore water either. Just out of curiosity what would your procedure be? Being new i am more then open to suggestions!

actually messed up lol i thought i was on a 18/6 schedule lol iam actually on 20/4 for the autos lol SO with that in mind SME question.... cause the autos run on a time scheduled more then a light scheduled and and there doing nothing but great under my 110w veg light. IS it possible to flower them under the 110w ? With just the veg lights ? It may sound like a dumb question. But its a curios one that i have. Being the first time growing them i ve seen many journals with people using other grow leds. However the majority of the journals other growers are using full spectrum leds. I was going to switch them to my other tent to sit under the 2 SS but they would of have to be in there with my Skywalker on a 12/12 scheduled till he finished up. Now with berry being done and moved out Skywalker is in there by herself and the autos in my the other tent vegging i am now thinking i might get away with there time frame of them turning to flower or just on the veg of vs. skywalker coming out of the tent.I guess what iam asking is. If they go in to flower while there in the veg tent waiting to go in to the other tent will it hurt there yields ?

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Re: Grow Journal

by SisterMaryElephant » Mon May 19, 2014 1:18 pm

In hydro I run nutrients until the end unless I'm coincidentally refilling the res 1 or 2 days before harvest. In soil the most I'd flush is I'd skip the last feeding or two and just use water instead. I might even give them a little drink of water on the morning of harvest to perk them up a bit.

1) Autos flower when they're ready (based on age) although hybrids *may* be able to be manipulated a little.
2) IF you can flower autos with a fluorescent light then you can flower one with an LED veg light. Plants like more light.

3) Other specras might be better but that's something you'd have to test. Veg lights might be better for autos, that I wouldn't know without running my own tests.

Disclaimer:
I still use HID and I'm NOT an LED expert. All of my LED knowledge is from other parties or research so I can't say from first hand experience one way or another. I also run a medical grow consulting business in SoCal.

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Re: Grow Journal

by nineandfive » Tue May 20, 2014 3:24 pm

Well i skipped the last feeding on saturday and now berry is sitting in the tent just chillin out till Friday. Thats when shes going to get the chop. I took a good look over her and it know that being the first grow and never doing this before there were LOTS of mistakes that where made. However ! there was LOTS of stuff i learned from as well. BUT i feel that my yields will be low........... very low! lol but its all cool! Bomb Berry Bomb however i did research alot of other grow journals and surprisingly not to may have gotten big yields off of them with out using a SCOG method or hydro.
Skywalker got a rinse out today and i think will be still good to go for at least another 2 more weeks then it will be her turn on the chopping block.
And the autos..... Well ones already 9 inches at 3 weeks old the other 2 arnt far behind

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Re: Grow Journal

by SisterMaryElephant » Tue May 20, 2014 3:37 pm

Don't sweat yield; you can always grow more. It's useful as a baseline so you know how much better you do next time. It's still good data to have.

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Re: Grow Journal

by nineandfive » Fri May 23, 2014 5:32 am

Well its Good Bye Berry! Last night was harvest time! I was a little bit surprised at the out come to everything. I knew going in to the harvest of her that she wasn't going to be a huge producer. Lots of little popcorn buds came off of her and some pretty decent mid to bigger ones. With some problems right from the start and things that were done wrong. With the addition to other stuff i think that over all it came out not all that bad for a first time. Indicas seem to be a bit difficult to grow especially when it come to nuts so i felt or at least this strain which several other people have said in other grow journals. However i wish i could say what the wet weight was. However my scale took a bit of a nose dive...... down the stairs. SO dry weight its will have to be! Lol . Skywalker however is loving all the freed up space in the tent now and iam going to guess that it will be another 2-3 weeks before its her time to harvest. The autos! well there a different story all together. Ill post pics of them later today.

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Re: Grow Journal

by rkymtnman » Fri May 23, 2014 7:19 am

Nice Work! Hope it smokes as good as it looks.

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Re: Grow Journal

by nineandfive » Fri May 23, 2014 8:44 am

Aright! Here is the Red Poison autos. This would be the start of week 4 for them. They have come a HUGE way in 7 day time! I am actually having fun with these ones. I am very impressed at there growth. However they are going rapidly! One is touching 16 " another is 13" and the last one is 12" . I hope they start flowering soon and stop growing lol

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Re: Grow Journal

by SisterMaryElephant » Fri May 23, 2014 10:26 pm

Party at 14's house...

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Re: Grow Journal

by nineandfive » Sun May 25, 2014 6:30 am

HAHAHA ok ok party at my place! lol. SO i was able to get a semi dry weight finally after have to replace my scale. Now keep in mind i did say semi dry cause they have been sitting in the basket for 3 days drying now. So the weight was 2.47g. I know that ill loose more water weight so rough guess will be 2 ounces give or take. Not that bad i guess however there wasn't much for big buds. But iam cool with it. Skywalker however has a very nice assortment of bigger buds on him!

The autos iam starting to get a bit nervous with lol. As i reported i feed them on Friday and the one tall one was 16" well its Sunday now and shes 19" i have to keep moving the light up cause shes growing quick. I have only been giving her veg nutes. But now iam starting to think i might have to feed her flower nutes to try stunt her growth a bit. I ll give it one more week to see what all happens!

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Re: Grow Journal

by nineandfive » Thu May 29, 2014 6:06 pm

Well its now going in to week 5 ( 28 days ) with my auto grow.... and holy shit they are growing! With one at 28.5" another at 26.5" and last 24" they seem to be loving life! Except my lights are maxed out already in my tent! the top of the plants to the light is sitting at 17 " difference...... I really hope they stop growing lol

Skywalker got flushed yesterday and is on her way to chop time. I am going to give her a full 12 days of mostly water and light and no nutes. I moved one 400w led in to the autos tent cause i needed more light in there for them!

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