Iced Grapefruit, Skunk#1, Menage a Trois, Flower from day 1

[mycomaster]

I thought I would go ahead and do a proper journal of my grow this time now that I have a flower and a veg area going again. I wrote what was going on in this grow during veg in my journal on my profile so if you want to know what's been going on up to now you can check it out, but this will mainly just be a flowering report for the most part. The Skunk#1 is from G-13 Labs and popped on 3-31. I started a main-line on her, but decided to leave the 4th node as well and see what comes of it. I did the Menage a Trois a little different she popped on 4-2 and I went with a more strict main-line, but while being too aggressive one time working her I broke a branch off. I was left with 3 mains that will provide just fine though. Now the Iced Grapefruit from Female seeds that popped on 4-21 I just topped her and pulled her open but left all the bottom nodes while vegging, just cleaning her up some and doing a bit of tieing on her. I Have the Skunk#1 in a 7 gal container the MaT in a 5 gal and the I.G. is in a 3 gal container. I just flipped the light to a H.P.S. and set the timer on a 12/12 from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. last night so it was the first night with 12 hours darkness. When the inline kicked on this morning the whole room filled with that great skunky kind of smell, but still floral cause of no flowers. I forgot how much I missed that, and I also thought I better get out my carbon filter and hook that sucker back up. I was down to one spot to flower and veg, and was hating life with the smaller amount of available meds. Now that I have a seperate place to veg and flower my girls again I'm a very happy boy! I started some seeds as well, but I think I will keep that seperate from this and do another journal for that. I will at least up date daily if not post a pic or two, but sometimes I get sick and go down for a little so I apologize in advance if I miss a day or two. I hope this can help someone who has one of these strains although I doubt anyone has the MaT as it was a freebie from a breeder I don't believe is around anymore. If anything it should be a fun ride, sit back roll a phatty and lets do this! First off here's the group shot from this morning.The next picture is of the Skunk#1
I think she is gonna be epic with this method applied to her, but we'll see. The next is the Menage A Trois in all her glory.
Last but certainly not least is the Iced Grapefruit that hasn't had as long to veg but I think she will fill out a little in the stretch and do ok.
So there they are and like I said I will update daily so stop back and check the girls out. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you will continue to do so. Enjoy your day R.I.U. community and out.

 

[Slipon]

nice, I will follow this one for sure, cant wait to see the skunk 1# and also interested in the main linen

 

[mycomaster]

Ha Ha congratulations you are the first one to post a response, you just received a +rep. Thanks for following, I'll try not to disappoint. I think it will go ok although your led's are just kicking butt, you have to be really happy with your fixture. I would be. Peace out.

EDIT: Sorry it won't let me rep you!

 

[brotherjericho]

This thread saddens me. Last order I received a 4 pack of Grapefruit instead of the Iced Grapefruit I ordered.

 

[mycomaster]

I'm sorry to hear that man. I have to say she is really nice so far. I like her growth pattern and just generally her overall appearance. I also have to say she is quite the smelly girl right up with the Skunk#1 so far and I think she's just gonna get stronger in that department. I have a Blue O.G. and a Sour Blueberry vegged just as long but I want them to be proper bushes before I flower them though because I don't have as many seeds of them to mess around with and I can always take a clone if she starts to blow me away or anything. I've known people who have grown the Ice from Female seeds before but never the Grapefruit. If you grew the Grapefruit out would you leave a brief description for me so I can get an idea of how she might act. I also got a Bubblegummer and a Purple Maroc from Female seeds as freebies from some Tude promo. I have to say I've never received the wrong seeds like that, knock on wood. Thanks for stopping in brotherjericho come back and there will be updates. Peace out.

 

[GandalfdaGreen]

Hey Myco. You know I will be here. I am glad to hear you are up and running proper now with the Bloom and Veg rooms. Congrats. I have a Bubblegummer up right now. Looks healthy. Things look very nice. Top shelf operation for sure.

 

[mycomaster]

Thanks bro, you've always been kind and I'm glad you're gonna take this ride with me. I'll see what I can do with these girls and give you guys a good show. All the girls are looking good today after the second night of 12/12. I'll post a pic later, but not much has changed of course since the pic yesterday. Anyways, welcome along and smoke a phatty cause it's just getting started. Peace out.

 

[brotherjericho]

Well, I do have ICE and Grapefruit, so maybe I can grow them both out and just mix the buds together when I vape

 

[mycomaster]

Well, I do have ICE and Grapefruit, so maybe I can grow them both out and just mix the buds together when I vape

That's one way to go for sure, I like your attitude. I really like the Ice from Female seeds, It's a tasty way to put yourself to sleep. How is the Grapefruit, do you like the structure or is it stretchy? I've seen other breeder's Grapefruit variety's but never Female Seeds variety, I know they can be similiar and all, but I've also seen plants vary quite a bit so I was just curious. Well to get into it I just wanted to give a quick update on the girls in flower. They already started to stretch just a bit, I have to say that the Skunk#1 has pushed the most, but it's really minimal right now. Here are a few pics. First up is the Menage a Trois, She has to be the most stinky of the bunch so far, really making an impact on the senses.

After her is the Iced Grapefruit, she's a little smaller than the others but none less impressive I think. I really like her sativa look and wide stance, she'll have good light penetration and fill out nice in her stretch I think.

Last but not least is the Skunk#1, she did stretch just a tiny bit so far but I can see her taking off soon enough. Wonderful to look at and when the tent turns on and the fan exhaust hits the nostrils it reminds me of why I like this strain so much.

They seem like a happy group of girls to me, no pushin or shovin for space or attention. I'll have a couple of more girls coming in the tent in a couple of weeks, two to be exact. After these girls are mostly done stretching I'll find them a place. I need as much meds as possible and have decided to stop spending $ on higher priced bulbs and just replace cheaper ones after every 10 weeks of flowering to keep my lumens as high as possible. i've only ever noticed very small differences if any at all after buying those $120.00 bulbs. I think if you have a enhanced spectrum bulb no matter the price and just replace the thing as much as possible to keep as many lumens as you can, it's a much better situation and deal I.M.O. Two last pics of the group together, enjoy. Have a great day everybody and thank you for stopping by. Peace and love.

 

[GandalfdaGreen]

You take it to a high level Myco. I love it. Here are the bulbs I use. Sweet deal and of the highest quality. I used to buy the really expensive bulbs too. Not anymore.

http://www.htgsupply.com/Product-GrowBright- 600w-High-Pressure-Sodium-Bulb.asp

 

[mycomaster]

I picked up a case of 12 bulbs of apollo horticulture or something of 600W hps bulbs off of e-bay for $270. I figure every 10 weeks I'm gonna change my bulb out. I think that is more than worth it, just about a year and a half of really great intensity for under $300. That's worth it all day long for me. I just can't see paying so much for a bulb and when you're done with one flowering with it it's almost worthless. Great for a back-up if the need arises but that's it as far as I'm concerned. Good lookin out on the website, but I don't even think I'll be spending that much. I at least have bulbs for a year and a half and with the fresh one I just installed I won't even need any of those for 10 weeks. The one I just put in I paid $24 bucks for and is 90,000 lumens and an enhanced spectrum, and is bright and right, my girls love it. Just a tip when you buy a bulb always check it out, I've seen people try to sell used bulbs. When you get a brand new bulb the center white cylinder in the hps bulb should be pristine white, and not have any burnt ends. If it's even fired up once it will be darkened on the ends, and should never be like that when bought unless you see it's new and they test it first. I've seen people get burnt that way and when I look at the bulbs at the hydro shop they may be insulted, but it's better that than get a used bulb and a crappy harvest I.M.O. I just started to do this recently when a buddy of mine received a used hortilux after paying way too much and was pretty much stuck with it. I thought right then, not me. Thanks for all the support and the great info as always. Lookin forward to sharing this grow with you. Peace out

 

[brotherjericho]

That's one way to go for sure, I like your attitude. I really like the Ice from Female seeds, It's a tasty way to put yourself to sleep. How is the Grapefruit, do you like the structure or is it stretchy? I've seen other breeder's Grapefruit variety's but never Female Seeds variety, I know they can be similiar and all, but I've also seen plants vary quite a bit so I was just curious.

Have not grown it yet, just got the seeds on my last order. Female's Grapefruit is just their C99 mixed with another unnamed sativa though, and I've already grown the C99. That is why I wanted the Iced Grapefruit! Oh well, the C99 is good, Grapefruit hopefully will be just as good if not better (here's hoping).

Your plants look very good!

 

[mycomaster]

Thanks for the Kind words brother, we seem to have the same tastes a little when it comes to strains. Yeah I've grown the Cindy99 too. As a matter of fact I just popped a seed of Cindy99 a day or so ago, but it's from G-13 labs not Female seeds. I love the high and the taste, not a ton of different phenos really, but everyone is a keeper I.M.O. I'm trying to get my perpetual harvest going again so I'll probably start another thread with my veg area and keep everyone up to date on what is going on in there. All the girls are getting in on the stretch now. They're all happy and healthy that's for sure. The Iced Grapefruit is doing just as I thought and starting to fill in like the sativa she predominantly is. I really wish I could have vegged her for longer, but I need meds soon and had to flip her. I have 3 more seeds so I'm not worried about losing the strain or anything and I could always pull a clone and re-veg it, even though that's an enormous pain in the butt. Just takes forever with some strains is all. I like the way the Menage a Trois is looking as well, she's filling in and reaching for the light. The Skunk#1 is the clear winner on sheer volume though, she's taking up quite a bit of room and will be taking up even more soon when she really takes off. She has stretched though just in these last couple of days. Usually Skunk#1 kinda sits there for the first couple of days and then all of a sudden takes off, and then she comes to a screeching hault and packs the weight on pretty nice. I've never grown the MaT or Iced Grapefruit like I said so I don't know what exactly to expect, but I like what I see from both of them so far. I sprayed them down before I closed my tent last night and left some warmed water in the tent to spike the humidity, and when everything turned on this morning the smell that came out was heavenly. I had got out my carbon filter yesterday, but I want a couple of more mornings with that smell before I hook it up. Nobody could possibly smell it that I don't want anyways, I just hook it up to keep everything as discreet as possible and it can be overpowering in flower sometimes so I like to have it going. I really didn't think anybody would follow this cause I don't have a bunch of green dots next to my avatar or whatever, but I promise I won't disappoint. Well that's pretty much it for now, thank you everybody for coming in and checking it out. More to come, and oh yeah the PICS! First up I guess will be a group shot.
So for the rest of the pictures we'll do it in order of age, so first up would be the Skunk#1.
Here's another angle of her.
Here's the Menage a Trois, and here's another angle.
Here's the Iced Grapefruit, and yet another angle. I'm sorry so many of the Iced Grapefruit pics look alike but I haven't moved it any since it's been in flower except to rotate her. I like the way they're all looking so far, pretty much like I expected. I'll keep posting, you keep enjoying and I promise the action will start to pick up soon enough. Take it easy everyone, and Peace out People! Ok one last group shot before I go.

 

[mycomaster]

Well no pics today, sorry. Look at the ones from yesterday pretend it's today and you get the idea. Not much has changed, except I was looking over the Skunk#1 and I noticed a calyx on a lower part of a branch that didn't get cleaned off with the other foliage. I was scoping it out and it had trich's on it that were milky. I've never plucked one before and was curious enough to look at it with a scope. Is this just because the trichomes on it have been maturing since they appeared a while ago? I'm just curious to know if the whole plant will mature at the same rate as those or according to something else. In a sense If I knew when they appeared and how long till they turned milky mature I would maybe know exactly how long it would to take the rest that will appear to mature. Just something that started swimming in my head, among so much other crap. I've grown a ton of different strains, mainly cause I grow different ones at a time hardly ever two of one strain at a time. I almost always buy 5 packs or higher though, although I like to pick up a single every once in a while to maybe get an idea of what you might get from a strain. I have a Sour Blueberry from H.S.O. in veg and this is a stinky ol sticky girl. I was doing some lst and bending her around and all and I smelt my fingers afterward because the sticky resin caught my attention and this thing is a sour candy smell that blasted me back to being a kid in a corner store getting candy after school. I love this thing and I haven't even flowered her for a minute. I think I'll grab a clone just in case and put her away for a rainy day or something. I only have 2 more seeds of her cause I only picked up the 3 pack, but I can always get more seeds. I'm going to have to make a purchase sometime in the next couple of months, well maybe up to 4 months I'll see how things go I guess. Does anybody have any experience with super lumens settings on digi ballasts? I have a Lumatek and have never done the whole super lumens, does it mess up or shorten the life of the ballast in any way? I couldn't care less about the bulb as I bought a case on e-bay. I'm gonna start swapping them out every 10 weeks or so to keep my lumens up as high as possible. I think as long as they're enhanced spectrum and start at 88,000L or higher they should be just fine every 10 weeks even if they are $20 bulbs. It's about the intensity not the fancy box of a $120 bulb. I just never switched on the super lumens cause of heat concerns, but now that I have a window unit blowing right in my tent virtually it's not a problem. I just thought I would fly it by people before flipping it on. I think i will at the beginning of the second week of flower or so though. I'm sure more than anything it just zaps your bulb, but like i said that's all good to me. I think when I put the Blue O.G. in here and the Sour Blueberry and get a proper full canopy of girls it might be more exciting. By then the rest will have some good little flowers and there will be something to watch. Until then it's like watching grass grow. Something I did do today with the girls in flower is I put a fluoro stick under the canopy of the Skunk#1 to give her some light under the skirt, I'll she if she responds to it at all. Well I better get going, peace out all.

 

[mycomaster]

Sorry for the absence yesterday, but I said I'm a sick bastard and can go down or have little hiatus. I top=dressed the girls yesterday regardless of having to carry around a bucket with me. I woke up this morning and opened my tent and there was a myco web on top of the dirt of the top-dressing, happy dirt. All the girls really perked up last night cause I had also watered them after the top-dressing and it drooped them for a couple of hours. I gave them silica, Neptunes harvest fish & sea weed, G.O. Bio-grow, Fox Farms Big bloom, epsom, Botanicare Strapped. I top-dressed with High P&k bat guano epsom, and my bloom S.S. recipe. I don't think they've been happier. After watering in all that the next day I like to kind of till the soil to get it even again and to allow air to mix with the top of the soil and to keep it from getting crusty. I had someone pick me up some dry ice to make some hash and did a run of trim and small buds I've been saving up for a little while. I think it was about 3 ounces and 4-4 1/2 pound of dry ice. I'll post some pics of the girls and the hash a little later. It was really nice to have some hash since I've been feeling like crap so much lately. It's also really nice to have people you can rely on when you're down, A huge props to all the CAREGIVERS out there!! I've been using the rest of the left over dry ice, putting it into gatorade containers and putting water in and gassing my plants with it. The added bonus of humidity and a little cool air is pretty cool as well. It sounds weird but dry ice is a ganja farmers best friend at times, at least very useful. I just wanted to post a quick up date this morning, and get to my daily chores. This evening the pictures! Peace out everyone and smoke a phatty, even God rested today!

 

[prosperian]

I'm sub on this thread.

 

[May11th]

Hope your better coma. Ill follow this thread and maybe one other because I can barely keep track of my stuff lol tonight im going to go nuts on my bitches, cut down some even though their cloudy. I want stuff good for everything even if it sits awhile in a jar. Ill have plenty of sleeping aids and muchie creators.

How long have you been growing and smoking? I started under a year ago and man my life got busy. I smoke alot and spend 2-3 hrs in my rooms. I sleep maybe 4 hrs a night lol I bet your the same too.

 

[prosperian]

I like how easy dry ice hash is to make. Not something I use very often but it's nice to know I have it. Plus, I feel like I'm making the most out of my grow by capture the THC from the trimmings.

My son loves dry ice. He's been begging me to pick some up at the grocery store for him so he can "experiment". They used some in his science class and he's been wanting some ever since. If he only knew how familiar I am with it. Laugh.

 

[mycomaster]

I just wrote a 20 minute diatribe and the thing messed up and didn't post so here's number 2. Probably what it will be but here it is anyways. The girls have been doing great with the Menage a Trois being the winner in the stretch department. The Skunk#1 and Iced Grapefruit are putting on some pistils and swelling at the tips some. They're all very majestic and beautiful in the autumn light. I really enjoy the flowering period and not just the flowers, I really enjoy the ambiance of it I guess. So here are some pics of yesterday that I meant to post but fell a little ill. The first being a group shot and then some individuals.

I guess the first single will be the Menage a Trois, you can see how she is stretching out and claiming her space.
Next up is the Skunk#1, she's a beautiful specimen and happy as could be.
Last but not least is the Iced Grapefruit, filling in the space between it and the light.
I also took a couple of pics today in case I'm not feeling to great and am down for the rest of the day. I thought what the heck, and I have some hash pics as well, so here's all that.And the girls this morning.
I also have some pics of hash cubes I've been pressing but I can't find them on my computer at the moment so I'll have to put them up later. I hope everyone enjoys the pics and I again apologize about the sketchy up dates I think I'll be doing better so that should stop. Thank you everyone for following along and the support as well, it really helps let me tell you. I want to leave you with one last pic I took yesterday of the Skunk#1 that shows some pistils and the growth getting denser in preparation for flowers. I apologize that I have such a crappy camera on my phone but it's the only way to get pictures up so deal with it. LOL. Take it easy all and PEACE out.

EDIT: It posted this time. WOO HOO!

 

[Slipon]

I hate when that happen, remember to copy, or did you try Restore Auto-saved Content at the bottom left ?

plants look great, so 8 week`s of flowering ehh, we can compare on the way, just started one in 12/12 to day