Alien x Triangle auto comparison by The Vault

UniDragon said:

I kinda got the idea of turn off the lights and leave the fan on for a few days and then harvest based on your post stating that you went on vacation and did basically the same thing with success, so that's what I decided. I noticed during final inspection, immediately before turning off the lights, that a majority of the trichs were on the leaves as opposed to the buds. Is that normal?

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Hmmm I'm not sure I've seen that before...usually the other way around. Would be great for trim runs though!!

I stand corrected: there are in fact a ton of trichs on both the leaves and the buds, it's just that the amber trichs are on the leaves and not the buds. Bumped the fan to close to max, which is 449 cfm to prohibit mold from forming on the buds. I do have a substantial amount of mold on the surface of the soil, but that comes and goes. We're thinking that we may chop her up today and hang'er up.

UniDragon said:

I do have a substantial amount of mold on the surface of the soil, but that comes and goes.

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Sounds like the top of your soil is staying too damp? I would watch that, any spores are the worst enemies IMO. I like to feed 1/2 the water into the runoff tray first, then dump the rest on top. I find the thirstiest roots are at the bottom, but the medium holds too much of the top-down feeding. This does become an issue for strong feeders, or scroggers, because you don't get the little "mini-flushes" you get from % runoff feeding, but I tend to feed light and do a few routine flushes throughout the cycle so it hasn't been a buildup/toxicity situation for me yet. In fact, they seem to love it and suck the tray dry in minutes lol

If your soil is mold on it,I wouldn't do a lights out thing. Mine were in the dark with dry soil. It really wasn't the way I wanted to do it. Just had to work with the time I had. Trust me, there's nothing worse than ruins no a good grow at the end due to mold, mildew or bud rot.

As for trics on the fans...very nice. These autos seem to do that. My fans and other leaves have tons of trics. They make great hash. My pe keeper does the same. Just make sure there's good airflow while drying.

twistedentities said:

I usually just chop and hand the branches a few days after removing the fans. I trim around he buds after 48 hrs....sometimes immediately after chop. The lights out thing never did anything to the buds to make me keep that in the ritual. Seems the easiest way
For mold......

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Hows your looking

Getting there. I'm starting to get some change to orange on the hairs. They are definitely gonna go over 100 days. Once my heisenburgs and other beans arrive, I might put them outstanding de to finish. Not really wanting to clog up the other tent.

twistedentities said:

Getting there. I'm starting to get some change to orange on the hairs. They are definitely gonna go over 100 days. Once my heisenburgs and other beans arrive, I might put them outstanding de to finish. Not really wanting to clog up the other tent.

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Yea feel like mine are 100 day too ill post a pic tonight

The taller one in the back is gonna go well over 100 I'm thinking.

Quick after harvest update:
Dried for 10 days and then trimmed, largest plant was 3.5oz of bud and others were pretty close to that. Couple pics below, one of the smaller plants pre trim and the main cola trimmed also a pic of the largest plant all trimmed out. The angry kitty smell is strong with 2 of the plants while opening the jars of the other 2 is a sharp and frosty lemon blast that is really nice plus it's the first lemony weed I've ever smelled. Can not wait till they cure for a while.

Thanks again Jack, George and Mephisto, hope everyone has enjoyed this as much as I have.

GuyLeDuche said:

Sounds like the top of your soil is staying too damp? I would watch that, any spores are the worst enemies IMO. I like to feed 1/2 the water into the runoff tray first, then dump the rest on top. I find the thirstiest roots are at the bottom, but the medium holds too much of the top-down feeding. This does become an issue for strong feeders, or scroggers, because you don't get the little "mini-flushes" you get from % runoff feeding, but I tend to feed light and do a few routine flushes throughout the cycle so it hasn't been a buildup/toxicity situation for me yet. In fact, they seem to love it and suck the tray dry in minutes lol

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The nutrient schedule requires something called Multitotal. It is basically a pond enzyme that breaks down the junk in the soil and feeds it to the plant. Because I was in flushing mode, I didn't want to feed that to her during flushing (which would defeat the purpose of flushing) so I just left it alone. Throughout this grow, mold has appeared on the surface of the soil and I raked it with a plastic fork and then fed Multitotal and it went away within a couple of days and Ripley seemed to perk up a little bit after that. But, yep, I agree mold spores if not dealt with swiftly and aggressively will not only ruin your grow but could potentially turn into black mold that I understand can be fatal.

TA-DAAAH! Here is Ripley in drying mode. It took me and my wife 8 hours, with breaks, to harvest, trim, soak the stems in honey and hang. It's probably not the best haul for one plant, but I made a ton of mistakes along the way, and torching her probably didn't help, but not bad for a first run with my Tron not really knowing what I was doing and having to rely on advice from other people. Oh, forgot to take pics of the leaves: one large freezer bag and one medium ziploc bag full of leaves so I will experiment with hash making as well. So, I consider this my benchmark grow and will try to improve with future grows. The buds seem smallish in comparison to everyone else's results, which I expected based on research that I did on the Tron before using it, but then again, I am not in this for profit, just personal hobby, so no complaints.

I have the fan on max, 449 cfm, with a second fan running in the tent so she can dry out. I plan on taking out the soil today and flushing it with water. I have read that you can reuse coco, so I am planning on using this coco for my next grow and just adding some more as needed.

Another huge thanks to The Vault and everyone who navigated me along the way. You are true champions!

@twistedidentities after you are done growing in your Tron, do you clean your light bulbs or do you just leave the sticky stuff on them to burn off over time? I am planning on doing a major cleaning over the weekend to prep for my next project and wanted to know if, or how, I should clean the pll/biax lights.

UniDragon said:

@twistedidentities after you are done growing in your Tron, do you clean your light bulbs or do you just leave the sticky stuff on them to burn off over time? I am planning on doing a major cleaning over the weekend to prep for my next project and wanted to know if, or how, I should clean the pll/biax lights.

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If your plants were brushing against your bulbs in the tron, which I imgine they were then you should wipe them down with some alcohol to get all the rez off them. You need all the light you can get in there.

nomoresnow said:

If your plants were brushing against your bulbs in the tron, which I imgine they were then you should wipe them down with some alcohol to get all the rez off them. You need all the light you can get in there.

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Thanks nomoresnow. Would I be damaging the coating on the bulbs by doing this or does it matter?

UniDragon said:

Thanks nomoresnow. Would I be damaging the coating on the bulbs by doing this or does it matter?

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The bulbs will be fine just make sure they are cool before you wipe em down.

nomoresnow said:

The bulbs will be fine just make sure they are cool before you wipe em down.

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Great! Thanks!

PRELIMINARY SMOKE REPORT: Well, I actually have three reports. The first of three is: my wife and I smoke some of the bud and leaf material left over from the harvest and jarring procedure. Within 30 minutes of smoking I am watching T.V. and talking to my wife at the same time and looked over and she was sound asleep; thank you, thank you and thank you.

Second smoke report: For some reason, after finishing my bowl, the question came to mind: "What would I tell Jack if he called to follow up on the results of my grow?" and then I laughed hysterically because, first of all Jack probably would not hunt me down just to follow up with me and second this movie scene came to mind:

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