The AltarNational Garden
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AltarNation
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Thanks a lot man... this batch is not looking as happy in the leaves but I think they'll all pull through decently. I'm still really not utilizing my wattage ideally though... if I spread out all the T5's over one 8x4 scrog I think I'd see a pound out of that. The same lights in 4x3 are giving me around a half pretty consistently, but I feel like I can't seem to get much past that no matter what I do in that foot print.
AltarNation
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Actually that wouldn't be 8x4 at all, not sure what I was thinking, haha. (Was thinking 8 bulbs is 4 feet wide--it's not) It would be about 5x4. I still feel like it would kick ass.
AltarNation
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You make a good point... this is only day 34. Ha. I believe C99's finished flipping on the 27th... I think the NLxNL's were also in there at the time. Diesel was added four days later, so she's at 30 days.
Then... it was the 5th when the CJxGM's went in but only one of them flowered immediately. So I figure that one is...maybe 9 days younger, if I computed that right... so that's day 25... the other CJxGM's took their time flowering and are at least another week in development behind the first one.
Wish I could get better pics of the individual plants. Maybe I'll clean out my closet so I can roll the wheelies out for some photo ops in a week or so.
AltarNation
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BTW much thanks for the praise guys... means a lot to have people riding along! I used to do internet blogging and shit but dropped off so it's good to have an expressive outlet here.
I'm already imagining ways to improve this design simply... one thing I wanna do is move the screens so that they're all the way to one side of the row of pots... I will have to grow a little longer to get over, and ideally I'd be in a more open space to accommodate the extra width, but I love the idea of being able to scrog without making the damn pots hard to water. This way is better than it was when they were hidden entirely under the canopy, but I still have to duck and bob under the screen as I come across to the other side of the surface with my watering wand. I'm tired of watering blindly and that should fix it.
That, combined with the idea of simply getting those screens filled up all the way for both sides... could work great and finally get significantly more out of the tiny footprint... but I am not counting on being stuck in there for another round at this point, probably going to open it up one way or another, whether I move or not...
I'm already imagining ways to improve this design simply... one thing I wanna do is move the screens so that they're all the way to one side of the row of pots... I will have to grow a little longer to get over, and ideally I'd be in a more open space to accommodate the extra width, but I love the idea of being able to scrog without making the damn pots hard to water. This way is better than it was when they were hidden entirely under the canopy, but I still have to duck and bob under the screen as I come across to the other side of the surface with my watering wand. I'm tired of watering blindly and that should fix it.
That, combined with the idea of simply getting those screens filled up all the way for both sides... could work great and finally get significantly more out of the tiny footprint... but I am not counting on being stuck in there for another round at this point, probably going to open it up one way or another, whether I move or not...
AltarNation
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C99 rolled out for front shots last night:
Tightened up the lean a little with some tiebacks to the screen and moved the C99's closer to the T5:
From the back:
Lights on group shots:
Tightened up the lean a little with some tiebacks to the screen and moved the C99's closer to the T5:
From the back:
Lights on group shots:
Growpasty
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Your indoor c99 buds look great! I'm growing female seed 'outdoor c99' in a poly tunnel, and the flowering has been sloow. With the gradual change in light levels I'm reckoning they need quite a big longer flowering time. And the stretch is crazy..gone from 3.5 to almost 6ft in a month.
AltarNation
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Thanks!! Funny, coincidentally I just had a friend of mine asking yesterday if my clones were from the outdoor c99 strain because he thought they were autoflowering... but I don't think the outdoor strain is either so that wouldn't explain why he started seeing bud development in veg, haha.
I looked it up and it looks pretty similar... they say better leaf to bud ratios in the colder weather though, so I guess that's a plus. It does say 55 days though, so not sure about longer flowering time! http://www.femaleseeds.nl/en/outdoor-c99-68.html
AltarNation
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Stretch is almost finished on the GJxGM's I think/hope... I LST'd the main colas toward the LED to take up some gaps in the most intense part of the footprint and to let the skirt of smaller buds underneath get some direct light.
Waaaaiiiiting is the hardest part.
Waaaaiiiiting is the hardest part.
AltarNation
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Ah, that's an interesting angle... I believe he was still feeding his veg mix but I'll have to ask to make sure.
AltarNation
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Got into my canna-coconut oil last night late night to great effect. I only took a nibble but combined it with some really nice keif hits. My tolerance has been up and this got me around the curve and made me feel a bit higher than i have in a while. Which worked out nicely because I wrote a song for the first time in quite a while.
Watered last night and took some pics... I am happy with the bud development on the C99s. The NLxNLs look pretty nice too. Both have great crystal coverage. We are at 37 days on the C99's and NLxNLs. Diesel 4 days younger at 33 is also producing really nice top buds so far. The lower nodes are still thin despite direct light thus far.. waiting on that... CJxGM's are at 28 days.
Here we grow:
CJXGM family shot (one leaning in from the left, one in the back, then the right cola and all the small buds in the foreground are the front plant.)
Lighting alternate:
C99s from the back:
Closer:
Zoomed through the netting:
A peak behind the curtain on the C99 side (flipped it sideways to get the shot to show a little bigger):
Same on other side (NLxNL visible):
Trying to get a shot of the diesel but that fuckin NLxNL kind of overshadows it in the shots cuz of the way I trained her over..
The two biggies at the top right, the left is the NLxNL LST'd cola , to the right you can see the diesel but I didn't get the focus:
Garden Shot:
Watered last night and took some pics... I am happy with the bud development on the C99s. The NLxNLs look pretty nice too. Both have great crystal coverage. We are at 37 days on the C99's and NLxNLs. Diesel 4 days younger at 33 is also producing really nice top buds so far. The lower nodes are still thin despite direct light thus far.. waiting on that... CJxGM's are at 28 days.
Here we grow:
CJXGM family shot (one leaning in from the left, one in the back, then the right cola and all the small buds in the foreground are the front plant.)
Lighting alternate:
C99s from the back:
Closer:
Zoomed through the netting:
A peak behind the curtain on the C99 side (flipped it sideways to get the shot to show a little bigger):
Same on other side (NLxNL visible):
Trying to get a shot of the diesel but that fuckin NLxNL kind of overshadows it in the shots cuz of the way I trained her over..
The two biggies at the top right, the left is the NLxNL LST'd cola , to the right you can see the diesel but I didn't get the focus:
Garden Shot:
AltarNation
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Must be doin SOMETHIN right, lol.
I'm looking at that last shot and picturing another screen across the middle to support middle plants. Not gonna make it happen this time obviosuly but it wouldn't be too hard to accomplish just by peeling down the upper halves of the existing scrogs.
Longer veg on the center row and it would be the tits. Maybe stick to indicas down there. Shit, forget peeling the uppers, I could just add another screen across and leave the uppers... that way I could grow a bunch of sativas straight up the sides...
I'm looking at that last shot and picturing another screen across the middle to support middle plants. Not gonna make it happen this time obviosuly but it wouldn't be too hard to accomplish just by peeling down the upper halves of the existing scrogs.
Longer veg on the center row and it would be the tits. Maybe stick to indicas down there. Shit, forget peeling the uppers, I could just add another screen across and leave the uppers... that way I could grow a bunch of sativas straight up the sides...
AltarNation
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I think altar likes sativas..
Looking good in there buddy. Glad you liked the c99!
I really do, but I need both to stay sane.
AltarNation
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BTW yeah, that shit is mad popular over here... personally, I really enjoy it's potency... the clouds I get through the vape are beautiful... twice as dense as the vapor from my kolossus cuts at the same temp. I think those kolossi did not take reveg as well and were starting to build seeds at the end of life. Honestly, it's just not very potent stuff anyway though. That's why I'm phasing it out.I think altar likes sativas..
Looking good in there buddy. Glad you liked the c99!
Anyway... my friend who took some cuts really likes dat c99 too, and he says it became his wife's new favorite strain right away when she tried it. C99 does please!
AltarNation
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Just hit 40 days here, coming in on the home stretch for C99's. Hairs are starting to turn over... on both the C99's and the NLxNL's. I'll probably let the NL's go a couple weeks longer than the C99's though, iirc... I'd take more pics but I just posted a batch! Oh wait I did take more. Hahaha. Okay. Pics!
Oh yeah, now I remember why I don't remember: I made some indica trim BHO and did a bunch of dabs through the sublimator... pretty effective but you gotta be careful... it's kinda like playing operation, try not to touch the sides while you stick the dab in the hole. Took some fine tuning to learn it, lost a little concentrate... did pretty well overall though. You just gotta aim for in or just below if you miss, then you still get the vapor in the hole... maybe I'll buy the dabmaster adapter at some point. ... what was I saying?
Yeah, so I was so high on this shit when I was taking pics that I got hit with a wave of munchies so bad my brain I had to stop what I was doing and go eat before my brain stopped functioning entirely... heh.
PICS...
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... ROFL, I wrote all of the above last night and passed out before the pics were done uploading
Here we go guys:
Upper half of CJxGM's (The final K1 behind them in the background there):
Lower buds from the front one noticeably enjoying the new light:
Top of the most progressed CJxGM:
C99:
C99 from the back side where the LED hits em:
C99 with flash:
Backside again with flash, close up:
C99 top buds:
NLxNL:
DIIIIESEL: (Only strain I like as much as C99 so far, except chemdawg from the dispensary... gotta find a clone...)
Oh yeah, now I remember why I don't remember: I made some indica trim BHO and did a bunch of dabs through the sublimator... pretty effective but you gotta be careful... it's kinda like playing operation, try not to touch the sides while you stick the dab in the hole. Took some fine tuning to learn it, lost a little concentrate... did pretty well overall though. You just gotta aim for in or just below if you miss, then you still get the vapor in the hole... maybe I'll buy the dabmaster adapter at some point. ... what was I saying?
Yeah, so I was so high on this shit when I was taking pics that I got hit with a wave of munchies so bad my brain I had to stop what I was doing and go eat before my brain stopped functioning entirely... heh.
PICS...
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... ROFL, I wrote all of the above last night and passed out before the pics were done uploading
Here we go guys:
Upper half of CJxGM's (The final K1 behind them in the background there):
Lower buds from the front one noticeably enjoying the new light:
Top of the most progressed CJxGM:
C99:
C99 from the back side where the LED hits em:
C99 with flash:
Backside again with flash, close up:
C99 top buds:
NLxNL:
DIIIIESEL: (Only strain I like as much as C99 so far, except chemdawg from the dispensary... gotta find a clone...)