Key Lime Chem journal

Harvested A4, A6, A8, and A12 on Wednesday at day 80 from flip.

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Using an inline fan and carbon filter, clip fan, 3 hygrometers (more is more philosophy), with plants hung inside my seedling greenhouse. Also using frozen water bottles to try and chill the temps. It dropped the temp from 75 down to 71 and rh between 50 and 55... I'll take it.

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Still have A6 A7 and A12 in the tent. The four A6 and A12 were all equally ripe, so I'll be able to compare what the extra time does.
 
Ended up keeping A7 and A12 pheno and gave the other mother plants away. For the full run, I took an A7 (left) and transplanted up from solo to a 10 gal fabric pot. Took two A12 (right) plants and up potted to 5 gallons. This pic is on 10/18.

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I put a scrog net up and reinforced with two wooden dowels that I notched at both ends like an arrow for the net to sit into. Keeps it sturdy. Flipped on 10/25. This is the tent on 11/2.

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I had the same clawing as I did with the 1 gallon run. Still not sure what is causing that. It happened at around the same week of flower (2-3) so maybe this geno is just sensitive at that stage. Either way, it didn't impact things too badly, I hope. This is from 11/27.

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BlandMeow said:
I had the same clawing as I did with the 1 gallon run. Still not sure what is causing that. It happened at around the same week of flower (2-3) so maybe this geno is just sensitive at that stage. Either way, it didn't impact things too badly, I hope. This is from 11/27.

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Who bred the key lime chem? are you still using the bat guano? if you are that could be the reason for that claw, but these things are so complicated. Sometimes it takes me years to find out what I did wrong.
 
DankTankerous said:
Who bred the key lime chem? are you still using the bat guano? if you are that could be the reason for that claw, but these things are so complicated. Sometimes it takes me years to find out what I did wrong.
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Second Generation Genetics is the breeder. The A12 seems to be the most impacted by this, and they've been getting the same watering/compost tea etc. However, there are some changes I made based on the first run. I amended the pots with a charge of the Coast of Maine fish bone meal. I'm also doing two top dressing of the Stonington plant food. First top dress was based on estimates by CoM feeding in stonington soil. Second top dress will happen next week at 7 weeks from flip. That's to say, I've only made things more complicated!

I'm going to run Lake Tahoe from Best Coast genetics next, while keeping moms of these two phenos. So it will be a while before I get back to this cut. Trying to keep the journal so I have at least some notes on what I've done.
 
I'm ditching the 5 gallon pots for the next run for sure. I think some of this is genetics since both 5 gallons look pretty much the same with the leaves dying off and they are both the same pheno. I'll need to run them in a 10 gallon next time to confirm.
 
Day 63

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Those 5 gallons had me chasing my tail and couldn't catch up. This plant demanded feed and I was too late with the top dress. Hopefully the 10 gallon will help address that next time.

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This pheno is doing better, but I think I also missed a need for top dressing a few weeks into flower. The larger pot size may have helped lessen the damage. Still has a few weeks to go. STINKS of grapes.
 
Chopped the two A12 plants yesterday at 10 weeks from flip. They probably would go a little longer if I didn't mess up the feed schedule during early flowering. Can't change that now, but remembering for the fall run.

Focusing on the drying, I improved my drying space from the repurposed clear portable greenhouse I used to start veggies in the spring, to a small 2x2x4 tent I sniped from a @Marq1340 deals post. Thanks!

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Hooked up the ink bird and plugged an inline fan to the dehumidifier control set to 65% with a 1% tolerance. This way, I'm not constantly pulling air out of the space. It kicks on every 5-10 min and drops the humidity from 66 down to 60 before slowly creeping back up to repeat. Have one small fan in the tent just blowing air around. Let's see how this setup works.

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Wow! You got totally different phenos than I. I had 2 phenos from 2 plants, one was a bleeding pheno that foxtailed like crazy and looked like your A12. The other looked like A4. Ran into some clawing problems... JD Short said the "clawing" could either be nitrogen/PH related or a trait from the F4 Blueberry male used in the cross.
 
Lambda Genetics said:
Wow! You got totally different phenos than I. I had 2 phenos from 2 plants, one was a bleeding pheno that foxtailed like crazy and looked like your A12. The other looked like A4. Ran into some clawing problems... JD Short said the "clawing" could either be nitrogen/PH related or a trait from the F4 Blueberry male used in the cross.
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Thanks for popping in. Was wondering how others were doing growing this strain. The A7 pheno had a little purple that oozes sometimes, but nothing I would call a blood pheno.
 
I'm at 9 days of drying time in the tent. The RH won't go above 55% anymore. I don't have a proper humidifier so I am spraying a water bottle on the floor of the tent in the path of the fan. This brings the tent right up to 65% again before slowly dropping over the course of a couple hours.
 
Correction. After spraying the floor a couple times, the rh rises to 65% and slowly falls over the course of 8 hrs. I feel better about things now. I thought it was drying out faster and considered trimming some, but will hold off until the conditions change.

Buds are not breaking off yet and the stem bends as it is pulled back. I may still be able to hit my 2 week drying target if the spray bottle method is sustainable.
 
Man those are pretty plants. I would keep up the slow drying like you are doing. I think the red stems and dying leaves are holding them back some. If you ever get the nutes sorted out or if they were in DWC they would explode in size.
 
The purple stems happen all the time with this pheno, but I def need to figure out proper top dress schedule. What I want is the grape profile of A7 with the bud structure of A12.
 
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