DaGambler's 4k HPS 99 Plant Hempy Grow

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DaGambler

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raiderman said:
wats up DG? hows the smoke? hope everythings ok.see ya bro.
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right, right... bussier/busier than a fugg'in bee...

SMOKE REPORT:

Durban Poison - A racing cerebral high that leaves you a bit drained after a good couple hours.

Mr. Nice (G13xHashPlant) - Pure indica cross that deffinitely encourages a full-on relaxation. Sandalwood flavor.

White Widow - A nice mellow high, not quite as deeply meditative as the Mr. Nice. But a good feelings weed.

White Russian (AK47xWhiteWidow)- 9 different females / phenotypes... Ranges in smell and taste from spicy to grape candy to 'what the fug chemical is that ?!' Can be an 'initimidating' high... are you ready to go on a cerebral sativa rush for 30 min. to 2 hours (depending on how much you smoke) and then to get serious indica couch-lock munchies ?

Total Harvest: about what i expected given some of the set-backs. just under 4.5 lbs. I'll post a photo update very shortly with some indications on how i hope to remedy that. Avg. yeild per plant was right at 1 ounce. The smallest was 14g dry. The largest was around 50g dry.

Buds were harvested between day 60-65. Immediately manicured and placed in open paper lunch sacks on 'open weave' shelving. The buds were 'tossed' once daily. The final weight was determined by drying to 1/4 the manicured bud weight. This seems like a very accurate way to do things. If you are 1 to 3 grams over the 1/4 dry weight you'll be able to tell that it doesn't burn right. If you are more than a gram or two under the 1/4 weight you'll start to see the buds getting overly crisp. The buds were then placed immediately into plastic sandwich bags. Dry time was approx. 5-7 days.
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DaGambler

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Thundercat said:
Sounds great man, can't wait to see some post harvest pics man!!
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Well, my friend, i may dissapoint you there. No macro function on my camera... and of the 72 plants... i didn't really get too attached to any of them. There are some nice Bud Shots in the YouTube video in my signature... otherwise, it's all been bagged and tagged, D.O.A.

_ P-H-O-T-O _ _ _ U P D A T E _

Pic 1: FreshStart - The Flower Room (13' x 15') empty. Finally got around to dropping the 5th ballast below the house... temperatures are back in check for now. Have an extra 8k btu a.c. to supplement the 13k btu, if necessary, though i'd have to run 75' of extension cord from the other side of the house at this point to actually run it. :D Added a couple of feet to all the hanging chains so i can get the lights right on top of 'em from the start this time. Flipped a couple of the CoolTubes 180 degrees so that the 'loose' end of the bulb is downwind... so that they will bobble up and down less.

Pic 2: GoodHome - The new batch of clones sitting on top of the Hempy Buckets. All they want is a good home. Last time i ended up running (72) 3 gal. containers with 86 plants total. (Some pots had two plants.) This time i will be running (108 ) 3 gal. containers with a bit over 216 plants. (All containers have at least two plants.) I predict a pitiful harvest from at least two of the buckets... as they contain a handful of auto-flowering plants that didn't want to re-veg.

Pic 3: Alien-Invasion - This is what happens when you use 'Blue Mountain - Super Plant Tonic'. These little fellas colonize your root system. The plants are sensitive to fertilizer shortly there-after so be careful feeding. I do think it may help my plants to utiize the organic nutes... in the fairly sterile medium of perlite. The initial clone media is M.G. Seed Starting mix (mostly sphagnum and a bit of perlite).

Pic 4: Trans-Plantation - Is there ever enough time in the world ?! Some days i only transplanted like 10-15 containers and then gave up for the day. It took me a week, which is very sad, 'cuz its really not that hard slipping them into some perlite. The perlite is the same. I didn't even bother to rinse it, though i did flush during flowering while the last girls were using it.

Pic 5: Lil-Girl - One of the larger clones. Wish they all looked like these two... if they did, i'd prolly flip the switch to 12/12 already. But many have yet to show some re-invigorated veg. growth after the hurting that i put them through toward the end of their stay under the flouro's. I will be 'upgrading' to include another 1k HPS lamp in the center of the clone room so that they can veg. for the last 2-3 weeks under that before going into the flower room... having spent the first 5-6 weeks under the flouro's. I would like shorten the turn-over to every 73 days. It is currently around 90 days... with plants growing vegetatively 2-4 weeks in the flower room. Hopefully the new HPS will allow me to flip the switch immediately after transplanting into the 3 gal. containers.

Pic 6: NewBegginings - Look FDD, I swept my dirty floor :D and i put a 35 dollar shop-vac in the budget too !! Hopefully i'll be filling this room with clones next weeked and then again the weekend following. I'll pull around 240 ... and hope to use around 216 of 'em. There is a 6' by 6' area in the middle where the new 1k HPS will hang. I splurged and got a working de-humidifier from Lowe's or Home Depot (God Bless both of them). The portable a.c.'s i got on line were a steal, but i've been burnt on two different online de-humidifiers. Hopefully a few tweaks here and there will allow me to pull 6 lbs. from now on... in a couple less weeks. As far as the 'UVB Experiment' went, i can't say that it seemed to help any. So i can't personally recommend switching HPS to MH in the last 3 weeks of flowering (i switched out one of five). Using a light meter under the new clones i quickly jumped back to HPS on all 5 burners. Can't beat 140,000 lumens.
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Thundercat

Thundercat

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JUst figured it was all pretty when it was done, but I feel ya man. I can't keep much even from my little grow, its gotta get me a new place, and a better set up.
 
420weedman

420weedman

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pic # 2 , so you wash the soil out and then they go in with just perlite or does the soil go in there too ?

if you have a walmart near you, thats where the best deal is on dehumid/acs
and its very easy to exchange if they break :)
and if its not you just buy a new one, put the old one in the new box and return it.
ahhhhh thats walmart :)
 
danksmoker77

danksmoker77

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hey man, good to see everything came out great. I was nerv..... nevermind no need to bring in the negetivity ya dig. Ill definitely be watching the next round also.

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DaGambler

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420weedman said:
pic # 2 , so you wash the soil out and then they go in with just perlite or does the soil go in there too ?

if you have a walmart near you, thats where the best deal is on dehumid/acs
and its very easy to exchange if they break :)
and if its not you just buy a new one, put the old one in the new box and return it.
ahhhhh thats walmart :)
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i just transplant the M.G. seed starting mix in 16 oz. cups (almost pure sphagnum and a bit of perlite - basically a 'soil-less' mixture) directly into the pure perlite Hempy Buckets.

Wally-World is deffinitely in my favorite 3 Picks.
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