250W hps SCROG - barneys blue cheese & big buddha cheese

[schmoker]

cheers robinbkk, appreciate that!

ive had a few looks since and now i know what im looking for im finding them more then i wanted to, some colas leaves are worse then others, some are pretty clean. i think im going to get the hoover in there tomorrow with the brush end and have a good suck around the leaves. after smoking some pretty shit weed picked up locally and smoking it this evening, i thought even with spidermites having had a feed it cant be as bad as this shit im smoking lol....i bet ive smoked mite infested bud more times then i could imagine and im sure you can all remember the hash days! lol
i got sloppy and its a lesson learnt but thankfully at the back end of flowering then in early veg....time to order some shit to clean my tent

im going to chop them next week a week earlier then i really wanted so i think im going to pass on sprays and just trim as close as i can and bring the temps down and humidity up and hope for the best

 

[schmoker]

some photos at 7.5 weeks (sorry about crappy photos)

i removed a blue cheese cola last week as we had none left and i didnt fancy paying someone for shit weed...AGAIN.... used salter kitchen scales and it weighed in 36g trimmed and wet. its being smoked now, its ok, nice taste but the others will no doubt pack a heavier hit having been left 2 weeks longer

i ordered some SBPI and with the hoover i've been battling the mites. fuck them. they can sit and chew away, im not going to win and remove them all until the tent is empty, its just a never ending battle they beat me at.....however....the buds seem to be filling out really nicely even with the mites, so they might be slowing me down a bit, but in the grand scheme of things im not too worried as the buds arent going backwards, they are definately progressing...glad i didnt panic harvest!

im going to chop a cheese cola for some smoke whilst i wait on the rest finishing up, its been 10 days of flushing so far but they could probably still go another 2 weeks...probably should have nuted a week longer...oh well...next time!

 

[ROBinBKK]

Really impressed with what a 250w can do under the right conditions.

I got mites too, gave the leaves one wipe down then thought....fuck it. Let em have a nibble, still got plenty of green leaves about and only a couple of weeks left.

When your grow is done, how are you planning to sterilise your room?

 

[schmoker]

ive got a permethrin smoke bomb (mini fortefog p) that im going to blast off in there then i'll remove and clean with bleach. im going to really go over all the passive air intakes and gaffer tape the silk cloth inside and out this time to be double filtering and i plan on bleaching all equipment used. they will probably still come back the little fuckers, but what can i do?!??!!...i'll try and keep them away for sure and be more vigilant about letting them come in and settle down, but they are so bastard small by the time you notice them its already too late.

im going to use the SBPI on young seedlings when they are a couple of weeks old and keep going right through veg with it and maybe into the first 2 weeks of flower, so if i do get hammered its only a 6/7 week mite battle.

 

[Beansly]

Pretty god damn impressive. I live in vegas, and am forced to go indoor ops
(but that doesn't keep me from trying, don't let anyone tell you its too hot to harvest in vegas) and im planning on doing a scrog myself. My space is big enough to use a 400w light so im hoping for good things.

 

[schmoker]

right guys - the journey is pretty much over. i have harvested the ladies and they are drying.
this grow was significantly better then my first so heres to hoping the next one is better still! thank you alll for your help & ideas and general banter getting through this, been much appreciated

ive already been smoking the blue cheese and have finished off a cola bar maybe 2 joints and had chopped another cheese cola the other day so i'll never know the weight, but i'll take some other pics when its all dryed if i dont end up being a blazing mess and forgetting to put up a pic here...lol

some pics

CHEESE ON THE LEFT - BLUE CHEESE ON THE RIGHT

THE REMAINS OF THE SCROG

off to roll a joint and watch match of the day - peace

 

[ROBinBKK]

Great looking buddage, congrats buddy.

Looking forward to the smoke report.

 

[wyteberrywidow]

Yeah it def looks great good job on the nice harvest.I would like to know what was your yeild on the cheese and the blue cheese?and the taste of both if you dont mind describing.

 

[Nitegazer]

Enjoy the sweet taste (and smoke) of success, schmoker! It is indeed a good thing that you didn't panic about the mites. Many of my mistakes with growing relate to over-compensating a problem, only to make a bigger one.

Curious if you plan on growing a clone mother for the BC, or if you plan on moving on to other strains. I kinda like this strain, and plan on keeping it around at least a year or two. She's pretty tough, and I like the high-- but I especially like the blueberry smell and taste of her.

 

[schmoker]

Pretty god damn impressive. I live in vegas, and am forced to go indoor ops
(but that doesn't keep me from trying, don't let anyone tell you its too hot to harvest in vegas) and im planning on doing a scrog myself. My space is big enough to use a 400w light so im hoping for good things.

thanks beansly, ive been to vegas and had a good time, even scored some really nice smoke about a 15 / 20 min car ride out of the main town into some housing estates that locals live in, was really nice sticky bud. good luck with your scrog - the 400w will be really sweet, it will get those lower pop corns into much harder nuggets. i dont imagine you will dissapointed if eveything else goes to plan

Great looking buddage, congrats buddy.

Looking forward to the smoke report.

thanks mate....i'll have a slightly biased smoke report - i ran out of my last blue cheese harvest a few months ago and have been smoking pik n mix street weed so i know this will be way nicer then that, so probably not a good footing to give you a smoke report lol

Yeah it def looks great good job on the nice harvest.I would like to know what was your yeild on the cheese and the blue cheese?and the taste of both if you dont mind describing.

thanks mate - sure thing, i'll report back. ive already been smoking the blue cheese and i really it and i will probably be smoking some cheese as of this week - but i'll come back and give you my take in a few weeks time when its dried and cured nicely. i did notice with my grow that my cheese looks a lot more to the eye but the density of the blue cheese buds look and feel much denser and their weight follows suit. if im honest they could have both happily gone another 2 weeks and i should have started the flush about now...but i'll still come back and let you know how mine faired up in comparrison

Enjoy the sweet taste (and smoke) of success, schmoker! It is indeed a good thing that you didn't panic about the mites. Many of my mistakes with growing relate to over-compensating a problem, only to make a bigger one.

Curious if you plan on growing a clone mother for the BC, or if you plan on moving on to other strains. I kinda like this strain, and plan on keeping it around at least a year or two. She's pretty tough, and I like the high-- but I especially like the blueberry smell and taste of her.

cheers pal i dont plan on having a BC mother or keeping a mother at all if im honest.... i grow from seeds and have a good mix up of beans at home. next up is some ak47, then bubbakush and white whidow and after that im not sure but i have enough beans to last me another year and a half i would have thought...maybe after that i might get into clones and mothers but i dunno, it seems a long way off....however i do agree about the blue cheese though...its a really nice smoke, one of my favourites for sure. want to go to the Dam and smoke some out there when we next take a visit .... that trip cant come soon enough

 

[wyteberrywidow]

+rep for your good grow.Ill be waiting to hear about it.

 

[schmoker]

holy mother of god - i threw out the remains of the scrog and there were literally millions of what look like thrips and other things in the soil. the roots on the plant were brown or going brown not that glowing white they usually are and when pulling the soil apart it was crawling...the soil was practially alive! there was what looked like white sand through the soil, presumably eggs...holy shit, im glad i pulled them down as my grow room was definately becoming infested in a heavy way.

the tent is being fumigated now and will remain sealed for the next 2 hours - then bleach and clean and then on Friday im going to put another fogger in there and finish off any eggs that have hatched and hope that does the trick?!?!

thanks for all the + rep in the last 48 hours - some of you i dont know who its from, so thanks

 

[wyteberrywidow]

Did you grow with just the 250 hps start to finish?

 

[schmoker]

yep, 250w from the day they were put in the ground as a seed until they day they were chopped. HPS all the way too.

Next time im using 250W but with a Dual bulb to hopefully aid with the stretching, also be interesting to see how it differs compared to outright HPS.

 

[wyteberrywidow]

Was it alot of stretch to you?I was thinking of veggin a couple plants to mothers and growing the auto freebies with my 150 hps in a seperate closet when they get here.I cant use my 400 because i will be using it to flower the kushberry and super lemon haze i have now.

 

[schmoker]

if im totally honest i cant really judge it against a pure MH or even a Dual bulb to give you a real good indicator. it did stretch pretty heavily in those first 2 weeks of flowering. one of my blue cheese colas would have been 6foot easily if it had grown naturally, if not more then 6ft. the nodes werent as close as some have them, which is why im trying the Dual to see the differences etc.

I would say for autos just crack on, even if they stretch good and propper, they cant go too mad surely as they are dwarfs? in my 1.40M height tent i would grow auto naturally with a HPS and wouldnt care too much about the stretch.....whilst its obvioulsy better to have those nodes bunched up, if you have a nice 400w grow cooking in the background whatever you get from these freebies, as long as it covers you electric and nute cost is just all good

 

[NewbGrower^.^]

I think I can smell that funk through my computer! Some purty buds I tell you wut =]

 

[wyteberrywidow]

if you have a nice 400w grow cooking in the background whatever you get from these freebies, as long as it covers you electric and nute cost is just all good

You sure are right about that.I got my week old seedling under the 400 mh right now.Im gonna leave them under it for another 2-3 weeks see how they look then ill put them to flower and start the new seeds that should be coming.Thats when i will start a perpetual grow again and harvest every month.Using my t5s and 150 hps veg/clone and my 400 hps to flower.Im not sure i will probably throw the 150 in there with the 400 to flower and hopefully get some bigger buds.I guess we will see.Gotta get some t5 bulbs

 

[dababydroman]

can we get a close up

 

[schmoker]

good luck with that WBWiddow - would love to have a perpetual harvest....although i would likely be a much bigger smoker if that was the case! lol

dababydroman - you sure can. i'm waiting on this drying and then i'll snap away some photos when its about to hit the cure and get a rough weight. ive genuinley no idea how much i have, but i would say between 3 - 4 ounces if i was having to guess, but i could be miles off! lol