GroErr Grows...

Re-loaded the flower room last night so Day 1 tonight for the new one. Put a 10gal Blue Ripper indi-dom pheno in and changed the bulb to the 210w. There really doesn't seem to be much of a difference in light intensity, want to see what the 210w can do, should end up about 2x3 or so. This one stretches fast and straight up but I had room for 4x trellises and will guide the branches to spread it out a bit. Nice healthy plant, should do well.

The 2x 7gal at the back are filling in, not bad development for Day 24, lots of time to thicken up






Cheers

you out-skill me by an order of magnitude

borbor said:

you out-skill me by an order of magnitude

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Don't know about that but thanks borbor, those Blue Ripper's make it look easy Cheers.

what size is the room your growing in? how are your lights set up above plants? do you have a seperate veg room? plants look really healthy,,good going,,grow well n be well

TheChemist77 said:

what size is the room your growing in? how are your lights set up above plants? do you have a seperate veg room? plants look really healthy,,good going,,grow well n be well

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Hey thanks, these one's are nice and healthy, should do well. That room is strictly for flowering, it's 4' x 9.5' x 7.5' H. I have a DIY 2x4x5.5' cabinet and 2x4x5' tent that I veg in, under those LG Top LED reflector panels. I have a small 2x2x4' tent mainly used for males/breeding with 200w of LED COBs as well.

Lights are side by side but a few feet apart and each can cover about 3.5 x 3.5 well if I'm running both 315's. I run them 20-22" above the canopy and try and keep an even canopy across so I can keep the lights at the same height and get some bleeding between the 2x LEC's. Those 2x 7gal are more like 3x4' now so really stretching that 315w on that end of the room. Cheers

GroErr said:

Hey thanks, these one's are nice and healthy, should do well. That room is strictly for flowering, it's 4' x 9.5' x 7.5' H. I have a DIY 2x4x5.5' cabinet and 2x4x5' tent that I veg in, under those LG Top LED reflector panels. I have a small 2x2x4' tent mainly used for males/breeding with 200w of LED COBs as well.

Lights are side by side but a few feet apart and each can cover about 3.5 x 3.5 well if I'm running both 315's. I run them 20-22" above the canopy and try and keep an even canopy across so I can keep the lights at the same height and get some bleeding between the 2x LEC's. Those 2x 7gal are more like 3x4' now so really stretching that 315w on that end of the room. Cheers

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have you ever did a test piniing the cmh against the cob led? id like to see a good comparison cmh vs cob of the same or close wattage. im not led technically inclined, so im weary of purchasing any led. i was weary buying the cmh but now im very happy i tried it.. i bought a few led lamps years ago, needless to say they wer garbage, a total waste of cash.. after that all the led talk made me a skeptic..

TheChemist77 said:

have you ever did a test piniing the cmh against the cob led? id like to see a good comparison cmh vs cob of the same or close wattage. im not led technically inclined, so im weary of purchasing any led. i was weary buying the cmh but now im very happy i tried it.. i bought a few led lamps years ago, needless to say they wer garbage, a total waste of cash.. after that all the led talk made me a skeptic..

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No haven't done a side-by-side and really can't do that without breaking my perpetual cycle. I did the same thing about 3 years ago and tried some Chinese LED's that ended up being crap for flowering, they veg great and are part of what contributes to my plants exploding when they hit the CMH in the flower room, the kelvin/spectrum difference Is part of it. Since then though, COBs have developed and they do a great job, top notch quality too. When I run them in my small tent I've never been disappointed with the quality and I've pulled .9 gpw in there with them so they can produce, and that's not even the latest like the CXB-3590 Cree's which are much better.

If our Canadian dollar wasn't so bad right now I would have already pulled the trigger on 300w of 3590's, I don't have the time to build and there are no commercial panel builders that I've been able to find here but our dollar is about .70 to the US dollar so very expensive to buy from the US right now. I'll likely go ahead anyhow, I need a new toy for the new year I couldn't do a side-by-side but I could run same clones back-to-back under CMH and then COBs to see the difference in the same environment and grow style. Timing would be the most difficult doing it that way, I'd have to time my cloning so both sets of clones got the same amount of veg/size going in.

I'm looking at. 3x of these, they'd fit very nicely into a 3x3 and I like the design in that I can use 2 or 3 depending on my footprint, move one around if I want to do a small/test run in my 2x2 tent. With 3 of them I could spread them evenly across whatever canopy I'm running to get nice even light distribution/coverage. Or, mix them with CMH and use them to cover a larger footprint.

Hi all, likely last time I'll be on here today and wanted to wish everyone a great holiday season and best wishes for 2016. No matter how or why you celebrate, hopefully it will include some down time and quality time with friends and family. That's what the holiday season means to me, some extra face time with my kids and grandkids, enjoy some good food, visit or host some close friends and just chill. Cheers!

GroErr said:

Hi all, likely last time I'll be on here today and wanted to wish everyone a great holiday season and best wishes for 2016. No matter how or why you celebrate, hopefully it will include some down time and quality time with friends and family. That's what the holiday season means to me, some extra face time with my kids and grandkids, enjoy some good food, visit or host some close friends and just chill. Cheers!

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you said it brother!!!! best wishes to all!!!

GroErr said:

Re-loaded the flower room last night so Day 1 tonight for the new one. Put a 10gal Blue Ripper indi-dom pheno in and changed the bulb to the 210w. There really doesn't seem to be much of a difference in light intensity, want to see what the 210w can do, should end up about 2x3 or so. This one stretches fast and straight up but I had room for 4x trellises and will guide the branches to spread it out a bit. Nice healthy plant, should do well.

The 2x 7gal at the back are filling in, not bad development for Day 24, lots of time to thicken up

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Gorgeous!

TedeBoy said:

Gorgeous!

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Thanks and cheers @TedeBoy Took a while to find those 2 Blue Ripper phenos but well worth the search

After a lot of eating last night and more tonight, some fresh desert straight off the vine, sampling them all Ho, ho, ho



Cheers

Wish I could try some of that blue ripper!

ttystikk said:

Wish I could try some of that blue ripper!

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Hey @ttystikk, once I get through some of the f2's to see how that male mixed with these 2 female phenos, I have all 3 in clone and run a batch of seeds to share out. Have 4 initial seedlings in cups from the f2 batch, looking good so far, identical leaf/growth structure so far but they're only shooting out the first set of leaves. Cheers.

Cheers everyone, Day 29 and Day 6 in the flower room.

Blue Ripper's in 7gal at Day 29 are setting up for some nice weight about 1/2 way through. Nice early frost coming in on both phenos, both are smelling strong but that indi-dom pheno is through the roof strong, blueberry perfume, sweet, underlying lemon/citrus. Can't wait to finish this one and build a stash up Newer 10gal Blue Ripper at the front is Day 6 and started to shoot up a couple of days ago. It should even up with the rest by next weekend. Seems to be doing fine under the 210w bulb, about the same pace as the 7gal under the 315w at this stage. 2 gal Fire OG is doing fine, but no wow factor, smells nice but subtle compared to the Blue Ripper's, no significant frost or anything special about it so far, maybe it'll surprise me later, or not - lol

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Blue Ripper sat-dom pheno, Day 29:



Blue Ripper indi-dom pheno, Day 29:



Fire OG, Day 29:



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First few Blue Ripper F2 seedlings starting up. I threw down 3 testers of each to see if they were ready to germinate. Both were hit with the same male which has a nice structure and had a nice strong fruity/blueberry smell to it. The sat-dom mother seeds all popped a tail and 1x indica-dom mother popped. About a week in the party cups and all are looking good so far. The strongest and most vigorous so far is the 1x indica-dom pheno mother seedling. Other 3 are doing Ok but that one is taking off ahead of them (one of the others stretched like a mofo out of the gate and I had to prop it up until the stem gest strong enough to hold it up). All are looking similar in colour and leaf structure, looking indica-dom but very early at this stage so it's just a guessing game until they throw a few more nodes. Will flower out the fems at some point depending on how many make it through culling. Just threw down 8x of each mother's seeds as they should all be ready to germinate. Hoping to get 6 to 8 fems to grow out in 2 or 3gal's depending how many I end up with.



Indica-dom mother seedling:



Sat-dom mother seedlings:





Cheers

looking good, the hunt is on....

Is blueripper a cross of JTR and bluedream? I've never heard of it.

TheChemist77 said:

looking good, the hunt is on....

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These will be taste testers and will likely run them in 1gal's under LED's in the small tent. Have a couple of males in there which will be done in 3-4 weeks then these can go in there

redi jedi said:

Is blueripper a cross of JTR and bluedream? I've never heard of it.

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It's just what I'm calling it, it's a cross of JTR and Blueberry. Originally wanted to see if I could add some production to JTR and it did that plus took on some even nicer traits like faster cloning, better taste, maintained JTR's frost/fire at least in the 2x keepers that I used for the F2's

GroErr said:

These will be taste testers and will likely run them in 1gal's under LED's in the small tent. Have a couple of males in there which will be done in 3-4 weeks then these can go in there


It's just what I'm calling it, it's a cross of JTR and Blueberry. Originally wanted to see if I could add some production to JTR and it did that plus took on some even nicer traits like faster cloning, better taste, maintained JTR's frost/fire at least in the 2x keepers that I used for the F2's

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JTR is a TGA strain correct?