6th CFL Grow (Cabinet) - Chemdawg

Dragon311 said:

Ask and you shall receive....

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Flush for another 2 weeks and check your trichomes. They are looking good, but I'd still wait.

Maxed Out said:

Flush for another 2 weeks and check your trichomes. They are looking good, but I'd still wait.

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Two weeks of plain water is way too long for coco IMO, it would starve the plant. I flush one time when I'm ready to harvest, using 3x the volume of the pot. Then once it dries out from that is when I chop.

We'll see how she is this time next week, I'll think she'll be ready by then. I don't think she's going to pack on weight like what I'm used to seeing in my SLH, but I could be wrong.

No signs of amber trichs yet, 95-97% milky...

Time for another update...possibly the last flowering update for this grow. I haven't made a final decision yet, but I'm leaning towards chopping her this weekend.

Her trichromes are 99% milky with no amber degradation yet that I've seen. I don't think she's put on much more weight this past week, but it's hard for me to tell anymore, since I oogle her every night

It appears that all of her 3 tops, and 4 main side branches are ripe now, as all pistils have changed color and been sucked back into the swollen calyxes. The only place I see white pistils still are the fluffy buds that are hidden in the dense foliage that don't get as much light.

I've only been feeding her plain water this week, and flushed her with 4 gallons of water last night. I did start taking a couple testers from her lowest branches. While they weren't as mature as the rest of the plant, the potency is top notch! I'm looking forward to tasting her after she get's a chance to cure a bit...

@Dragon311

when you flushed, do you flush with the same water you feed with? or is it different? i'm wondering on that if its safe to flush
with tap water even though i use diff type to feed with.

Dragon311 said:

Time for another update...possibly the last flowering update for this grow. I haven't made a final decision yet, but I'm leaning towards chopping her this weekend.

Her trichromes are 99% milky with no amber degradation yet that I've seen. I don't think she's put on much more weight this past week, but it's hard for me to tell anymore, since I oogle her every night

It appears that all of her 3 tops, and 4 main side branches are ripe now, as all pistils have changed color and been sucked back into the swollen calyxes. The only place I see white pistils still are the fluffy buds that are hidden in the dense foliage that don't get as much light.

I've only been feeding her plain water this week, and flushed her with 4 gallons of water last night. I did start taking a couple testers from her lowest branches. While they weren't as mature as the rest of the plant, the potency is top notch! I'm looking forward to tasting her after she get's a chance to cure a bit...

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Hey man looks incredible! Have u got any side on bud photos or pics of the whole plant? Love top see it in all its glory! Congratulations!

justghost said:

when you flushed, do you flush with the same water you feed with? or is it different? i'm wondering on that if its safe to flush
with tap water even though i use diff type to feed with.

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When you flush it's with plain water. You're flushing the existing nutrients in the medium away. It's typically recommended to flush with 3x the volume/size.

The day has finally come. I chopped the girl down. My three headed Chemdawg has run it's course. She was a stout, girthy bush of a plant. You can see how thick her trunk had gotten! The three main tops were over a foot in length, and the side branches were just under a foot.

I'm going to use all the fluffy stuff from the bottom with the sugar trim and make some ISO hash out of that for my vapor pens...I've been waiting to do that again for 4 months


Notes about this grow:

She's wasn't a heavy feeder. I noticed when I tried to push her nutrient intake to the max, she responded with a slight tip burn, so I dialed it back a few ml/gal. I also think I had a Phosphorus deficiency at some point in the grow too. The red stems were the early sign, and I chose not to address it. Not sure if that ended up affecting yield, since this was the first time I ran HSO's Chemdawg. If I could go back and do anything different, I would've vegged her for another 3-4 weeks.

There was alot of trimming for this one. I ended up with more sugar trim than my biggest yield before this, but I feel like this harvest is well under my previous total of just over 4 zips. I tried a wet trim this time, it did seem to be easier than doing a dry trim like I've been doing. We'll see if it affects my drying/curing process.

Pics are of the skeleton trunk after cutting, and the branches with only fan leaves cut. I used the trimmers for scale in the pic. I'll post up some manicured and dried pics in a couple of days, before I jar them up with Boveda 62's.

I posted a pic of one of my testers in another thread, but I'll repost it here too. The tester was from an immature lower branch.

Congrats my man. I've been looking forward to this day. Makes my day every time I see another successful harvest.

nice buds my man! by 4 oz do you mean wet or dry?

Darn, it seems that I can't rep you!!

Anyways, congrats on this BEAUTIFUL harvest!!
Looking forward to the smoke report!!

Cheers!! Peace and Love!!

@Spanky thanks man! Always feels good to see a grow thru to completion

@Lee Harvey my last harvest was just shy of 4oz dried

@CoolDudeStuff ROFL, too high to find it eh? Thanks man!

Hey, I just recalled, it was in another thread! (Not high though! )

p.s. "The high packs quite a punch" is not a smoke report, I'm waiting for the real deal!!

Cheers mate!!

CoolDudeStuff said:

"The high packs quite a punch" is not a smoke report, I'm waiting for the real deal!!

Cheers mate!!

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Don't worry Gotta wait till she gets her proper cure before I give a real report. In the meantime, I will just enjoy the fast dried stuff I set aside.

Welp...she's had time to dry and start the curing process now. I'll wait another week or 2 before I give an official smoke report. In the meantime here are some closeups of the dried and manicured buds...soooooo frosty!

Damn bro!!

What a frostiness!!

Cheers!!

@Cool Dude Stuff thanks man.

Welp, after 6 successful grows, I figured it's time to upgrade. I pulled the trigger on an Area 51 XGS-190 to go into my stealth cabinet. I'm looking forward to see what she can do. It should be in by next week or so. I have a Reserva Privada Silver Kush seedling who's looking forward to breaking in that XGS-190

Wow!!

LEDs are the way, my friend!!
And Reserva Privada genetics?

That'll be a jackpot!

Cheers!!