Gastanker's 600+w Organic UV Grow

i finally got my truck running again, had to replace the motor...that was fun. got a guy to come help me he took everyhting apart and pulled a no show for the re assembly so i had to figure it out on my own....

ok so the girls are chopped and trimmed, i seriously almost cried chopping down the blue cheese since she had around 3-4 more weeks

i have a few others that are just starting to flower that arent worth chopping so ill reveg them outside for the summer.

weighed them and wet weight was....

Blue cheese: 277.3 grams

Frisian dew: 165.2 grams

Bag seed: 28.9 grams (i already chopped the tops off it was letting it get a little more weight on the lower nodes)

so a grand total of 471.4 grams (wet) if i get 1/2 that in weight ill have 235.7 grams, 8 1/2 Oz so lets say 6 Oz to be on the safe side...not too shabby i guess for 2 plants. that blue cheese was going to be a fucking monster and probally would have been well over 600g wet alone if i could have let it go another 4 weeks....

cant really complain about chopping the frisian dew as it was pretty much ready as you can see in the pics.

anyways heres the pics, frisian dew is up first..




and heres the blue cheese, not sure whats up with the darker one in the middle, maybe it was closer to the UVB bulb or something, i realize its turned the opposite way of the others but it is distinctly darker than the rest.




hope you guys like, im saddened but also pleased with my results, if i could have waited another month no doubt in my mind i would have done over 1g per watt so i must have done something right

They look amazing. Pretty well developed for being so immature.

Gastanker said:

They look amazing. Pretty well developed for being so immature.

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yeah i was going to have a monster man so discouraging.... what ya gonna do though

It does suck but I kind of like early harvested bud. And like you said - no other option.

Gastanker said:

It does suck but I kind of like early harvested bud. And like you said - no other option.

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i dont think quality suffered much, it was yeild that took the hit. though i really would have liked to see a fully ripened bud

Just waking up here.

good to see Gas!! looking nice and healthy! wave goodbye to your last grow

looking great Gas, when are you flipping?

last grow? who's last grow?

lookn real good gas! i wana see those ladies flower!

matt that sucks about having to harvest early, but still looks ok! damn man i only got 1 zip of my first two ladies...

I want to say they've been in 12/12 for a couple weeks now. The higher heat during lights off and lower heat while lights on seems to be slowing them down quite a bit when it comes to transitioning to flower. I'm thinking I might but down the lights on period to 10 or 11 hours.

i didnt notice the buds on the back left plant... some plamts just take longer..be patient bud you will get there, 3 more weeks you be taking them macro shots

I guess I kind of forgot that two of my plants were Dutch Treat - was just reminded by the presence of balls on both of them. Never grown it out before so I have no idea if I like the strain but the plants look very pretty and stink real bad so I plan on taking pollen and perhaps making some more seeds this run.

I am really hoping that this Dinafem cheese (reg) seed i just popped is a male, ill be making all sorts of fucked up crosses lol

cheesy Northern big bud

Old Grandpa Cheese...

I dunno lol im sure i will get some interesting seeds out of the deal...either way the genetics should stay fairly good. if im lucky ill get the qualitiesi like from the other strains and the potency of a cheese strain.

Today we had a guest lecturer who focuses on vernalization - the acquisition of the competency to flower after cold exposure. So I asked her what was going on when plants take longer to flower based on differces in night/day temps and this is what she had to say:

Flowering locust C (FLC) is a MAPS-box transcription factor which transcriptionally regulates flowering based on the levels of the transcription activator of FLC called FRIGIDA. FRIGIDA is regulated via the epigenetic change of DNA methylation and acetylation of the histones responsible for chromatin compaction which influences RNAs ability to transcribe (transcriptional repression).

Still not sure how temps directly influence methylation/acetylation but I guess that clears things up? lol

lol yeah totally clear

u nerd u smart man, me caveman

Oh, I forgot - practically speaking the only portions of the plant that are responsible for detecting the necessary heat changes are the root and shoot tips.

Maybe water via ice cubes during the day for a week?

I was talking with someone about pot sizes and how they influence plant growth. Both the larger plant and the smaller plants have around the same number of nodes but everything is just larger - node spacing, leaves, ... I guess I never realized that pot size can more or less dwarf a plant versus just preventing additional growth (smaller leaves versus less leaves). I should have probably repotted them all huh? lol The large one in the back is looking a bit funky but starting to put out pistils.

Great Work Gas! things look like they are going well for you, with the setup you have in the attic, you're getting the most out of it! i see flowers love the variety once again, thanx for all the pics, i felt like i was there hehe