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GroErr
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Depends on season but typically shoot for 78-82F lights on/68-70F lights off, right now it's been cold and averaging around 79-80 lights on, 66-68 lights off. Here's how I know, that sensor that hangs on the wall (left) sends me readings every 15 minutes.
Lights on last night:
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GroErr
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Those La Crosse sensors rock, I can see what's going on and tell if anything goes wrong from wherever I am. If temps or humidity go beyond a low/high range I set, I get a text. They've saved my butt a couple of times, I know what "normal" is so if anything goes like a fan or the like I can see right away there's something wrong and look after it right away. Technology makes it so easy nowadays
oldbikepunk
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oldbikepunk
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Thai has been making hermies since the 80's. Thai was used by a grower i knew to make purple 'African Indica' from Mendocino back then change from 2' to 4' plants into 8'+ monsters with one-ounce buds outdoors.I have only had this happen with males I was gifted and one cross with TGA Jilly Bean. The Paki Punch and Landrace sativas have had zero hermis!
I am only working with my lines from now on and not taking any more donations. I may still try and breed this problem out of those crosses. I will need to be careful not to let them contaminate any of my clean lines.
The AK, MK Ultra, Pre-98 Bubba, GTH, Fireball, Triangle, and LA Confidential strains also seem to be very stable and will be further backcrossed to find the magic.
AK x Paki = Akki
This cross smells like Juicy Fruit gum. It smells so good that Mrs Mo wants to try it!
Cheers,
Mo
oldbikepunk
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Talking about technology, a camshot view of the ops. Every room is pretty well at capacity, nice
View attachment 3587468
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oldbikepunk
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I had a solidly-male 3D plant, intentionally kept very small, get confused in my kitchen and it decided to make female flowers. It was forced to show sex, grew male, got the balls, and then started throwing female flowers at it's own male-ness. Not the female throwing nanners or the random, individual, perfectly formed male sac that grows and pops so fast. I have a 9lb Hammer that is Jesus OG dominant (tall and skinny and stretched in bud) which popped two male sacs at the topping point. It's ok. It made a few theoretically female seeds on itself and if there are a few seeds nearby I'll know what they likely are besides the female parent. I eliminated stress so I'm guessing these are natural. I have many renditions of 3D by chance from years ago. 3D has Apollo-13 and JTR from TGA and Space Queen and Haze among other things. It makes some plants purple in crosses. It's all by chance of what I get in males. I'm making IBL's of weird stuff for fun.
GroErr
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Hey thanks for popping by, "normal" is all over the place but I find most strains do well in the 78-82F range, just need lots of airflow across the canopy and stay on top of watering as the higher temps + airflow can dry them out quick. Humidity is somewhat relative to the temps, with higher temps I prefer higher humidity (high temps/low humidity will stress them), I try and stay in the 45- 50%, 55% or less lights out but it sometimes crawls closer to 60%, anything above that and I have to worry about PM. Never had mould (good airflow takes care of that) but PM can trigger at anywhere around the 55-60% mark and my area is really bad for it. PM resistance is one of my first selection criteria, even certain phenos of the same strain can vary widely in their resistance to it.
I've always started clones/seeds in beer cups, mainly for the space, gives me a couple of weeks of extra space which makes it easier to manage available footprint. With seedlings I also cull anything that doesn't look exceptional or gets signs of PM so the first few weeks in the beer cups reduces medium usage and space. Only the strongest make it from there into 1gal pots. From seed I can keep and sex them while they're in the 1gal's, that gives me several weeks between the beer cups and 1gal's without a lot of real estate. Good for males too, I can keep a male in perpetual cloning in the smaller containers for 6-8 weeks without a lot of re-potting, using less medium, and minimal space.
Talking about beer cups, if anyone is interested in seeing what you can grow in a beer cup check out this thread. There's a new comp starting up now as well, second link you can register for it. It's called a competition but it's just a lot of fun trying to grow 12/12 from seed in a beer cup
Last comp results:
https://www.rollitup.org/t/the-7th-official-party-cup-grow-competition-voting-thread.893506/
New comp sign-up:
https://www.rollitup.org/t/the-8th-official-party-cup-grow-competition-registration-thread.896271/page-2#post-12242554
GroErr
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Can't have a page without buds 
The first pheno will be good to go mid-week or so, buds are nice and tight/dense now. Second pheno should go until next weekend, it's still sucking up whatever I give it and has room to fatten and tighten up a bit.
Blue Ripper 1 Day 50:
Blue Ripper 2 Day 50:
Cheers
The first pheno will be good to go mid-week or so, buds are nice and tight/dense now. Second pheno should go until next weekend, it's still sucking up whatever I give it and has room to fatten and tighten up a bit.Blue Ripper 1 Day 50:
Blue Ripper 2 Day 50:
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BobBitchen
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I really like that blue ripper....beauty
GroErr
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Cheers Bob, hoping to find some more of these in the F2 run, still have 14 going, wish I could fast forward them a bit - I'm like are we there yet? lol Enjoy the skiing this week! We're getting a storm today/tonight, everybody's freaking out, I'm thinking snow day
GroErr
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Cheers JD, just tools of the trade imo. I couldn't run this many rooms and keep them dialed in/consistent (remember it's a hobby) without the tools/tech, huge time savers and peace of mind not having to check things manually. I've had some of those sensors and cameras running for 3 years, very reliable tech considering they're in hot/humid rooms... Lovin those crusty Blue Ripper buds
BobBitchen
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Snow day with a pocket of blue ripper sounds like a winner....Cheers Bob, hoping to find some more of these in the F2 run, still have 14 going, wish I could fast forward them a bit - I'm like are we there yet? lol Enjoy the skiing this week! We're getting a storm today/tonight, everybody's freaking out, I'm thinking snow day
GroErr
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Ha, couple of hits of Blue Ripper kief (no flowers until this round ends!) and everything slows down a bit, no fear, just go over the top and figure it out on the way down
BobBitchen
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I like your style...lol....Ha, couple of hits of Blue Ripper kief (no flowers until this round ends!) and everything slows down a bit, no fear, just go over the top and figure it out on the way down
GroErr
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Couple of shots last night, getting close for the 2x 7gal's, they're still sucking back their gallon/day or so, will let them go until they slow down. Could be last watering tonight or tomorrow for Pheno 1, Pheno 2 could go another few days imo. 10gal is throwing out a bunch of bud and looking happy at Day 31.
Group shot: Day 54/Day 31
Blue Ripper 1, Day 54:
Blue Ripper 2, Day 54:
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Group shot: Day 54/Day 31
Blue Ripper 1, Day 54:
Blue Ripper 2, Day 54:
Cheers
GroErr
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2x Fireballs males in the LED tent are good to go. Going to try something a little different with these. Turned off the light and letting them dry out in the pots for a couple of days, they were due for water (you can see some droop on the larger one on the left). Will line the floor with parchment paper to capture the "snow" when I start cutting off flowers and cut off the flowers when they're more dry than normal which should reduce any issues associated with damp flowers getting moisture in the pollen.
The pheno 2 male that early on looked like it might hermie didn't pop any female flowers, only 2 hairs on the top of the main bud, weird haven't seen that before.
@bf80255 any thoughts on those 2 hairs, right at the top of the 2nd pheno 2 pic? They didn't develop into anything beyond what you see...
Last shot before turning the lights off, both are impressive looking and smelling studs. The one on left grew right into the lights. Like the size and shape of the "colas" on the shorter one:
Pheno 1:
Pheno 2:
Cheers
The pheno 2 male that early on looked like it might hermie didn't pop any female flowers, only 2 hairs on the top of the main bud, weird haven't seen that before.
@bf80255 any thoughts on those 2 hairs, right at the top of the 2nd pheno 2 pic? They didn't develop into anything beyond what you see...
Last shot before turning the lights off, both are impressive looking and smelling studs. The one on left grew right into the lights. Like the size and shape of the "colas" on the shorter one:
Pheno 1:
Pheno 2:
Cheers