150w HPS Mini Cab Grow Journal

[budbro18]

Thanks it should be comin soon! The strain supposedly takes 75 days so i figured the first 2-3 weeks were veg/flower stretch into the 4th. So hopefully another week or 2 and ill have some to show.

Dyna gro is workin perfect as usual! Got her lookin nice and green. Gonna step up the nutes to 3ml/gal for the next feeding.

 

[budbro18]

The side branches are comin out. Looks like its gonna be a bush but stretch probably just hasnt started yet.

Still usin dyna gro GROW. Gonna switch to BLOOM once i see some vertical growth.

Moved the light a few inches up in case i miss the stretch but its still only 6" or so away.

Ill have some pictures up tomorrow.

 

[budbro18]

Day 27 goin into flowering without much stretch. Im gonna say roughly a week into flowering and shes beginning to stretch but is staying pretty bushy. But considering shes got a slightly longer flower period than most autos im hopin she grows a little more vertically. Debating if i should start training the side branches once they get longer. I probably will.


About 6-8 inches tall. Has a bunch of hairs comin out of the top and a bunch of side branching. Looks like a producer.



Heres that female preflower again more mature. Should have some barely legal bud porn within a week or 2. hahaha


Just switched over to dyna gro bloom formula at about 2.5ml per gallon right now.

Im not sure if its the auto genetics or if i over did the nutes a little earlier in veg but the new growth is a little clawy, like a nitrogen problem. But once they grow out they flatten out. All the lower leaves did this even before i started on nutes and my medium isnt rich at all.

So im pretty sure its the auto genes because this girl is solid green, but not too dark, and has no burnt tips, chlorosis, coloring of anykind. Barely even any purple/red in the stems! My ph has been on point and it cant get much easier than dynagro. Shes in a 2 gallon pot and has a few roots comin out the bottom but shes definitely not root bound. I know autos a finicky with pot size but damn!

Maybe someone out there whos grown a few more autos than i have would know if its just genetics or not.

So were lookin at another 45 days til shes done give or take.

 

[budbro18]

Shes really stretchin now! Finally, i was getting worried i was gonna have a short little fat bud with not side branching.

All the side branches are comin out and i might pull them out towards the rim of the pot kinda half ass LSTing them just so the higher ones dont block the lower ones.






These pistols are FAT too. Bigger than most ive seen. Wonder what color theyll turn!!! I think cheeses tend to lean orange but im not positive.


Thats it for now. Ive been giving her just water to make sure that its not the nutes that are making her claw. Its been a little more than a week since last nuting an theyre still clawed but only on the newest growth, and the older it gets it flattens out. No burnt tips still. The only thing ive noticed is that the very very first single serrated blades were still on the plant and just barely starting to yellow. Could be from lack of light because theyre about .5" above the dirt but i think i might be due for a feeding. Gonna give it some of the lime additive i have from the Nectar for the Gods pack i got. Used to keep your ph of your medium in check. Just a few drops per gallon should do it. After she finishes drinking all that ill hit her with some light BLOOM from dyna gro.

Cant wait!

 

[budbro18]

Well i was debating it since the first day whether i was going to do any type of training to this autoflower. So i finally decided to do some LSTing.

Just the 4 bottom branches for now. I als removed 2 little small branches at the very bottom becuase they probably wouldnt have done much.

Ill probably LST 2-4 more branches depending on how much the ones above the ones i did stretch. The whole plants gained about an inch or so since yesterday alone.

 

[budbro18]

Those LST pictures





A shot of the top. All the new growth is still slightly clawed but nice and green and the older/bigger leaves are fine. Its weird.


A couple of the fan leaves are mutated together too. Ive heard this is a cheese trait. Like webbed leaves if that makes sense. Ill get a close up in a day or 2.

 

[Freedom35]

dumb question and i know my own answer but cant think of it right now, wat is the name of the plastic u used to wrap ur box in

 

[budbro18]

I know it as B&W poly.

It also goes by panda film, orca film, visqueen if youve ever watched jorge cervantes.

 

[kushdaddy1980]

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Lovin dyna gro more and more everyday. Gonna buy a quart of the grow and bloom in a few days.

its always wonderful to see those little white hairs, but in my case i have often been decieved. working with bagseed i run into hermaphrodite plants all the time, they pop out hairs but dont reveal their pollen sacs until its too late. if youve got good genetics though your probably straight. i just switched to dyna-gro from flora nutes and im lovin it. super rapid growth without all the mixing and measuring.

 

[budbro18]

thanks kush daddy! i actually had a similar thing happen to me. I never run bag seed but found a single seed in some super kill that me and my friends got. Only seed in like 4 zips so i assumed itd be female.

Grew it out, topped it, lstd it, it threw out some white hairs and a few days later i put it in flower. Didnt come to check on it for 2 days and that bitch had the most pollen sacks on it ive ever seen, in my room at least. I pride myself in keeping the males out and working with fem seeds. So needless to say he pollinated my whole tent. Luckily, theyre 2 similar strains so if i grow out the seeds there shouldnt be much difference in phenos. Both short, fat growing indica doms. Gonna start fuckin with those seeds in spring gettin em ready forthe summer.

As for seeds, id hit up the breeders boutique. Theyve got some of the lowest prices on the best shit out there. Only 1 fem strain though, but the rest are kill and cheap enough that a 10pk of regular seeds will cost you less than pickin a few fems or a 5 pack of fems from any other site.

check out the DOG LED grow or the DOG OFF to see some pictures of some of their strains.

 

[kushdaddy1980]

thanks kush daddy! i actually had a similar thing happen to me. I never run bag seed but found a single seed in some super kill that me and my friends got. Only seed in like 4 zips so i assumed itd be female.

Grew it out, topped it, lstd it, it threw out some white hairs and a few days later i put it in flower. Didnt come to check on it for 2 days and that bitch had the most pollen sacks on it ive ever seen, in my room at least. I pride myself in keeping the males out and working with fem seeds. So needless to say he pollinated my whole tent. Luckily, theyre 2 similar strains so if i grow out the seeds there shouldnt be much difference in phenos. Both short, fat growing indica doms. Gonna start fuckin with those seeds in spring gettin em ready forthe summer.

As for seeds, id hit up the breeders boutique. Theyve got some of the lowest prices on the best shit out there. Only 1 fem strain though, but the rest are kill and cheap enough that a 10pk of regular seeds will cost you less than pickin a few fems or a 5 pack of fems from any other site.

check out the DOG LED grow or the DOG OFF to see some pictures of some of their strains.

happened to me too i went to squeeze what i thought was a huge bud, and the seeds just fell everywhere and there was hardley no bud on the plant, i counted 33 seeds in one bud.

i try to never use seeds,always clones, it took me a year to find a plant with good genetics, now im rooting clones in about 4-5 days, thanks to that dyna-gro, and have a mother plant that is a pure female strain , no hermies! lol

you said you were going to grow out the plants from the herm/fem crossed seeds? but wouldnt those plants be herm as well? could you eventually breed the herm genetics out of it? do you risk contamination again?

 

[budbro18]

Well i guess the herm trait dies off in most after you clone them. But i am planning on making some fem seeds from any pollen sacks that show up. Im gonna save them in individual containers and once i finish flower the first batch ill use the best and cross it with itself or with a better yielder, less stretchy, etc... Im almost excited about the potential of pollen sacks. Itll give me a little stock pile of DOGs to stash away for the apocalypse.

 

[budbro18]

Comin along day by day. Somewhere around day 45 ish maybe 50. So estimated harvest time is from a few days before christmas to a few days after new years. Either way ill have some holiday hash for the winter!

 

[budbro18]

The auto cheese is swellin more and more everyday. Ive added co2 with the sugar/water/yeast mix from some leftover turbo yeast i had from makin the shine.

Good thing about it is itll pump out alot more co2 than the usual yeast, bad thing is itll only last a few days and doesnt take well to adding more sugar because the alcohol content gets too high and kills most of the yeast off.

But i want to say ive seen some difference. Ive already ran 2 jugs over the past 2 weeks and im not sure if i just started it at the right time or if its really doin shit cause ever since then shes been packin on the weight.

These pictures are from about 3 or 4 days ago and shes almost doubled since then.




This is my co2 set up. Switched the main fermenter to a 1 gallon jug and covered it with a black shirt to keep the light out and absorb some heat to keep fermenting right on track.


Shes really gotten bigger since i took these pictures so ill post some new ones soon.

 

[Abiqua]

^ This is interesting budbro! I read about this once in an old book I cherish, called The hydroponic hothouse but I have never had the guts to try it out.

I guess you might be able to use a sniffer too, to measure your Co2 content? Cool idea, have to read up and maybe I will have a few questions to ask, thanks mang

 

[budbro18]

Thanks its pretty easy with the yeast. Just follow the instructions on the pack usually and scale down to size.

I like the turbo yeast because it may not last as long but there is a constant bubbling of co2 coming off so it flows through the tubes easier.

I have a 5 gallon carboy that i was going to use because that thing would put out some serious co2 for the last couple weeks of this things life but i dont feel like gettin it all together so im switchin it up after this grow.

Im planning on upgrading to paintball co2 tanks because a friend has a few lyin around.

Ive got to get an adapter and a needle valve and ill probably get a small co2 sensor. No controller but ill try to dial it in to the right amount so i can have it flowing while the lights are on then just cut the main valve and leave the needle valve in the same place so it is at the same position the next day.

But thats for the future. Ill throw some more pictures up tomorrow.

Fed with snow storm ultra and shes really gettin BIG!

 

[tortie]

Subbed! Whats up bro?

 

[budbro18]

Thanks! not shit,

My cameras been out of service for a while but im about to throw up a bunch of pictures and hopefully a video today.

 

[budbro18]

Here we are approaching the last few days before i kill the lights for 2-3 days.

Sorry for the yellow glow. My computer is fucking up and wont let me run the program that allows me to edit RAW images so i cant bring it back to MH lookin.





Heres the top. Gettin some purple to it. Ill have to take some pictures in my bathroom with the whiter light.




One of the lower buds i trained to be away from the middle.



Lookin super frosty!!

Got a case of butane in the mail the other day along with an extractor. All from ebay.

Should be choppin any day now!!! Very excited for this auto to finish.

 

[HighnessBC951]

nice. fat nugz