Supramanrz
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Ok so alot happened during this setup... from using fluorescent as the main to a small mars 600 all in the closet... to the bigger picture with a tent and MH/HPS lights instead.
Ended up using the GH Flora kit with some hydroguard. Barely had enough nutes to the end as i used excessively large tubs and will never again! lol But overall was impressed with how easy it all was to use with the proper PH down and PH/TDS digital water testers. Am currently using the flora trio with different additive nutes for my 2nd round... to be posted later!
so i don't count the first week to 10 days of the sprout trying to obtain a tap root through the rockwool as its first initial countdown of the growth cycle... once it gets the tap root and goes into the super mild nute water is when week 1 starts. (Mind you also for the following because i never mentioned... im checking the damn ph levels every 2-3 days as they tend to rise slowly... constantly adjusting throughout the process.
Week1- started off super low at about 300-400ppm which is still higher than i wanted... but with my tap water tesing about 120-150 after sitting out for 24+ hours i really wanted about 200+ppm of the flora nutes for starting. Lights were on a 20/4 cycle and it started under a 600w mars led light
Week2-added a shot of extra nutes in the mix after about 7 because im looking to change my water about every 15 days or so. Bumping up the ppm to about 600-700. Nothing much has changed really for conditions yet
Week3-changed the water at 15 days, refreshed with roughly same amount of the micro and veg nutes, sitting at around 800-1Kppm... not close enough to flower yet for me to reduce the nitrogen. i believe around this time i got my tent and bumped up the light quality from that 600w mars light to a sexy 600W mh w/ carbon filter and a cool tube plus 6' inline fan and an exhale co2 bag. added a cool air humidifier and a few fans for circulation/cooling purposes, ran a bunch of tactical ducting etc... Tent maintained a steady 24-26 degrees celcius and at least 40 up to 80% humidity at any given time... every 2-3 days spraying the plants with a ph'd down water only mix.
Week 4-not much new here, just mad growth since the water change. AGAIN will never use such large tubs without the proper drainage system... wasn't going that route and totally had an extremely hard time every water change. Added a fatty shot of bloom nutes and ultimately i should have switched to flowering here... but i didnt realize the type of stretch that comes from hydro setup+flower... ppm about 1kish
Week 5-Change the water again at 30 days and cut back the flora veg and micro in half at least. added probably double the amount of flower nutes. (as per there "balanced" feeding plan" because simply i did not have any BIG BUD bloom nutes or anything special at the time), and got the ppm sitting right around 1200. Along with the extra nutes and new water, i decided to get myself a bigger better 1k ballast and light with cool tube combo to add in for extra wattage with blooming! Switch both bulbs to HPS... now this being said i was in for a wicked treat... the temperature go figure went from a sweet cool 24-26 to about 28-30... yeah so i shut that shit down in a hurry and had to figure this puppy out... added a window a/c to the room and had to keep the tent propped open 100% of the time.
Temperature eventually regulated down to about 25-26
Week6-8 -Some super unfortunate findings during the next couple weeks of flower... two of my lemon kush trees that were about 4-5 feet tall at this time... started developing both pollen sacks and hairs... these sluts went hermie on me and wanted to ruin my crop. so they were yanked and snapped and chucked, all with a little tear shed. No idea why as every other plant worked out wonderfully. Water was changed again and spacing was necessary, bumped up the ppm to my final high of about 1400-1500... starting to tie branches up and strategically position them around each other in the tent... because my 2 ft plants are now 3-4 ft beasts!
Week 8-12-Im not sure if its the lights or the extra nutes or what i'm doing right because the plants wont stop growing and
buds wont stop swelling, had a few branches snap on me that i didn't even notice... ended up supporting as much as possible but it was quite the dense jungle in there. The plants got one more nute refresher during this period as i got ready to plan my harvest. At week 12 it is roughly 7-8 weeks of flower and these trichomes are starting to look really cloudy.
WEEK13- HARVEST TIME ... so i take a week off of work for the special occasion ahah the ones that made it to finish...
2 X Sweet Skunk by Sweet seeds... personally this one was incredible. Auto strain too... and to be honest i actually harvested this one probably sometime around week 10... it was quick! and delicious... amazing smell and taste. I got about 50G dried weight from that, that one plant... because only one of the 2 plants grew above 6 inches and produced anything... would have loved for 2 producers!
Kc Brains Northern Lights was another one... but it was a bitch ass straggler plant that never produced a single dense nug, it was all light and fluffy and very popcorn tiny sizes. Only got about 5-10 grams of skimpy nugs off this 4 foot plant.
Purpe Pyramid by Pyramid seeds, it grew from the start as if it had genetic issues, it is the one in the pictures all scraggly looking and deformed in its early stages. Although none of the others were like this. It also was an auto strain and really didn't produce more than a mere 5-10 grams of dried weight for its nearly 3ft figure.
Girl Scout Cookies by Fast buds again this was an auto strain and it went the whole cycle of them all and only ended up about 2.5-3 ft tall producing a minimal 10-20 grams of dried weight... Rather disappointed in most of my plants... they grew and looked amazing throughout the process but then during flower there was only one champion.
Delicious Candy by Delicious seeds was by far the most amazing and epic plant i've ever grown and may ever grow in quite some while...This was the only plant that i TOPPED, and not even because i wanted to... i wasn't going to top any of these ones but this one was just growing so damn fast i figured if i topped it... the vertical growth would slow down for a few days to a week... but it didn't... this plant wouldnt stop growing in every which way with the utmost hugest limbs... limbs bigger than the other plants stock. All in all this hefty producer yielded me roughly 250 dried grams of the most pungent hard hitting sticky yet dry and tasty bud i've ever had.
Ended up using the GH Flora kit with some hydroguard. Barely had enough nutes to the end as i used excessively large tubs and will never again! lol But overall was impressed with how easy it all was to use with the proper PH down and PH/TDS digital water testers. Am currently using the flora trio with different additive nutes for my 2nd round... to be posted later!
so i don't count the first week to 10 days of the sprout trying to obtain a tap root through the rockwool as its first initial countdown of the growth cycle... once it gets the tap root and goes into the super mild nute water is when week 1 starts. (Mind you also for the following because i never mentioned... im checking the damn ph levels every 2-3 days as they tend to rise slowly... constantly adjusting throughout the process.
Week1- started off super low at about 300-400ppm which is still higher than i wanted... but with my tap water tesing about 120-150 after sitting out for 24+ hours i really wanted about 200+ppm of the flora nutes for starting. Lights were on a 20/4 cycle and it started under a 600w mars led light
Week2-added a shot of extra nutes in the mix after about 7 because im looking to change my water about every 15 days or so. Bumping up the ppm to about 600-700. Nothing much has changed really for conditions yet
Week3-changed the water at 15 days, refreshed with roughly same amount of the micro and veg nutes, sitting at around 800-1Kppm... not close enough to flower yet for me to reduce the nitrogen. i believe around this time i got my tent and bumped up the light quality from that 600w mars light to a sexy 600W mh w/ carbon filter and a cool tube plus 6' inline fan and an exhale co2 bag. added a cool air humidifier and a few fans for circulation/cooling purposes, ran a bunch of tactical ducting etc... Tent maintained a steady 24-26 degrees celcius and at least 40 up to 80% humidity at any given time... every 2-3 days spraying the plants with a ph'd down water only mix.
Week 4-not much new here, just mad growth since the water change. AGAIN will never use such large tubs without the proper drainage system... wasn't going that route and totally had an extremely hard time every water change. Added a fatty shot of bloom nutes and ultimately i should have switched to flowering here... but i didnt realize the type of stretch that comes from hydro setup+flower... ppm about 1kish
Week 5-Change the water again at 30 days and cut back the flora veg and micro in half at least. added probably double the amount of flower nutes. (as per there "balanced" feeding plan" because simply i did not have any BIG BUD bloom nutes or anything special at the time), and got the ppm sitting right around 1200. Along with the extra nutes and new water, i decided to get myself a bigger better 1k ballast and light with cool tube combo to add in for extra wattage with blooming! Switch both bulbs to HPS... now this being said i was in for a wicked treat... the temperature go figure went from a sweet cool 24-26 to about 28-30... yeah so i shut that shit down in a hurry and had to figure this puppy out... added a window a/c to the room and had to keep the tent propped open 100% of the time.
Temperature eventually regulated down to about 25-26
Week6-8 -Some super unfortunate findings during the next couple weeks of flower... two of my lemon kush trees that were about 4-5 feet tall at this time... started developing both pollen sacks and hairs... these sluts went hermie on me and wanted to ruin my crop. so they were yanked and snapped and chucked, all with a little tear shed. No idea why as every other plant worked out wonderfully. Water was changed again and spacing was necessary, bumped up the ppm to my final high of about 1400-1500... starting to tie branches up and strategically position them around each other in the tent... because my 2 ft plants are now 3-4 ft beasts!
Week 8-12-Im not sure if its the lights or the extra nutes or what i'm doing right because the plants wont stop growing and
buds wont stop swelling, had a few branches snap on me that i didn't even notice... ended up supporting as much as possible but it was quite the dense jungle in there. The plants got one more nute refresher during this period as i got ready to plan my harvest. At week 12 it is roughly 7-8 weeks of flower and these trichomes are starting to look really cloudy. WEEK13- HARVEST TIME ... so i take a week off of work for the special occasion ahah the ones that made it to finish...
2 X Sweet Skunk by Sweet seeds... personally this one was incredible. Auto strain too... and to be honest i actually harvested this one probably sometime around week 10... it was quick! and delicious... amazing smell and taste. I got about 50G dried weight from that, that one plant... because only one of the 2 plants grew above 6 inches and produced anything... would have loved for 2 producers!
Kc Brains Northern Lights was another one... but it was a bitch ass straggler plant that never produced a single dense nug, it was all light and fluffy and very popcorn tiny sizes. Only got about 5-10 grams of skimpy nugs off this 4 foot plant.
Purpe Pyramid by Pyramid seeds, it grew from the start as if it had genetic issues, it is the one in the pictures all scraggly looking and deformed in its early stages. Although none of the others were like this. It also was an auto strain and really didn't produce more than a mere 5-10 grams of dried weight for its nearly 3ft figure.
Girl Scout Cookies by Fast buds again this was an auto strain and it went the whole cycle of them all and only ended up about 2.5-3 ft tall producing a minimal 10-20 grams of dried weight... Rather disappointed in most of my plants... they grew and looked amazing throughout the process but then during flower there was only one champion.
Delicious Candy by Delicious seeds was by far the most amazing and epic plant i've ever grown and may ever grow in quite some while...This was the only plant that i TOPPED, and not even because i wanted to... i wasn't going to top any of these ones but this one was just growing so damn fast i figured if i topped it... the vertical growth would slow down for a few days to a week... but it didn't... this plant wouldnt stop growing in every which way with the utmost hugest limbs... limbs bigger than the other plants stock. All in all this hefty producer yielded me roughly 250 dried grams of the most pungent hard hitting sticky yet dry and tasty bud i've ever had.
