Kitty's Commercial Grow Op-Bigger & Better Every Day!
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WestCoastDank
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Wow just read through every single post, VERY interesting thread! How is everything doing now Kitty? Also was wondering if you picked magnetic's over digi's for a specific reason?
Everything looked very professional and tidy! Congrat's!
Everything looked very professional and tidy! Congrat's!
researchkitty
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I did have two digital ballasts, they are grey in color and were from eBay a few years ago. Both have retired, into the "oh shit I started to smoke so i got thrown in the trash". The digitals would create interference with our Tri-Meter too, which is no good, since if you cant get accurate pH and ppm then why have a meter for them, right? 
While I'm sure that better digital ballasts would have a lesser chance of interfering with other electronics, it was also creating line noise on our Internet Cable modem. No good!
Today is day 45 of flowering the endless skys.... Took pictures of them yesterday and will have them up shortly tonight. I picked the ballast based on the cheapest possible self contained switchable ballast. The C.A.P. ValueLines arent bad ballasts, they do run hot, and they need locking nuts on the bottom instead of the regular ones but beyond that they work great.
Endless Sky...... So what do I have to say thats useful.... Its a fast flowerer, thats for sure. It is most certainly not 42-45 days, as it isnt done yet. It looks like it needs another week. I'm guessing day 52-55. Nutrient levels are around 1200ppm for the closest-to-harvest plants and 900ppm when they start. Its certainly a nutrient saver, that's for sure. The plants grow nice and short, and are very sticky, smells like lemon mr clean. Greenthumb, the seed maker, has updated his site to say Endless Sky is now a 42-52 day flowering strain instead of 42-45. I'll likely call and complain since even though I'm happy with the strain, we paid a $200 premium for these seeds to be an expedited flowerer and it isnt. The other strains we have getting ready to be mommies (Snow White/Nirvana, Bubblelicious/Nirvana and a few more) are 56 day flowerers, so it'll all come down to a little variety and keeping the best genetics we can.
Having mothers and cloning has helped *substantially*. Reducing the pots from 16 plants per light to 12 plants per light also gave the plants much needed breathing space. They didnt need quite that much with grapefruit diesel but that strain is such a piece of shit indoors, yet a stellar outdoor strain. I'm glad to have it gone and still have a couple seeds somewhere to try outdoor grow next spring with just for shits and grins. Never tried outdoor growing before, we want to keep around 5 to 20 plants give or take havent really decided quite yet.
That's about it from the soapbox tonight.......
While I'm sure that better digital ballasts would have a lesser chance of interfering with other electronics, it was also creating line noise on our Internet Cable modem. No good!Today is day 45 of flowering the endless skys.... Took pictures of them yesterday and will have them up shortly tonight. I picked the ballast based on the cheapest possible self contained switchable ballast. The C.A.P. ValueLines arent bad ballasts, they do run hot, and they need locking nuts on the bottom instead of the regular ones but beyond that they work great.
Endless Sky...... So what do I have to say thats useful.... Its a fast flowerer, thats for sure. It is most certainly not 42-45 days, as it isnt done yet. It looks like it needs another week. I'm guessing day 52-55. Nutrient levels are around 1200ppm for the closest-to-harvest plants and 900ppm when they start. Its certainly a nutrient saver, that's for sure. The plants grow nice and short, and are very sticky, smells like lemon mr clean. Greenthumb, the seed maker, has updated his site to say Endless Sky is now a 42-52 day flowering strain instead of 42-45. I'll likely call and complain since even though I'm happy with the strain, we paid a $200 premium for these seeds to be an expedited flowerer and it isnt. The other strains we have getting ready to be mommies (Snow White/Nirvana, Bubblelicious/Nirvana and a few more) are 56 day flowerers, so it'll all come down to a little variety and keeping the best genetics we can.
Having mothers and cloning has helped *substantially*. Reducing the pots from 16 plants per light to 12 plants per light also gave the plants much needed breathing space. They didnt need quite that much with grapefruit diesel but that strain is such a piece of shit indoors, yet a stellar outdoor strain. I'm glad to have it gone and still have a couple seeds somewhere to try outdoor grow next spring with just for shits and grins. Never tried outdoor growing before, we want to keep around 5 to 20 plants give or take havent really decided quite yet.
That's about it from the soapbox tonight.......
Rickybobby0007
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Love this thread Kitty! (Him and Her)
Great to see info on lots of topics along with the pics
Great to see info on lots of topics along with the pics
researchkitty
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researchkitty
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How long ya think till the Endless Skys are done? Closeups are there take a peek!
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Rickybobby0007
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Kitty, I'm sure you MUST use a trimmer for harvest! (or you have 20 hostages in your basement trimming) If so, which trimmer do you use?
researchkitty
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Harvest day Mr Kitty cleans hydroton, buckets, and brings me the plants. Ms Kitty trims them all by hand.......
ClamDigger
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has anyone ever told you that your FRICKIN HARDCORE?
in the best of ways.
researchkitty
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Thanks clam. Find me a trimmer that actually does a good enough job and.......................................... Nah...
fdd suggested to me that we hang the plants and just get the "big shit" off of them, and then trim them after they are dry, and its allowed us to manicure the hell out of them and its much easier. We've done that now the last few harvests.....
Find me a trimmer that actually does a good enough job and.......................................... Nah... fdd suggested to me that we hang the plants and just get the "big shit" off of them, and then trim them after they are dry, and its allowed us to manicure the hell out of them and its much easier. We've done that now the last few harvests.....
Rickybobby0007
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Hhmm, now I'm feeling a bit lazy! But fuck I hate trimming 
researchkitty
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I believe with trimmers you snip off all of "the big stuff" and then the trimmer gets the rest, and then you have to go over them again if you want them to look perfect-ish...........
So, we chopped down 45 or so plants today, the first of the Endless Sky's..................
It was about 60% ES and 40% Grapefruit Diesel. Our first clones were shorter than we'd like, however the yield looks extremely nice hanging in the dry room so far! I'm going to guess between 2.5-3.0#'s........The next harvest in a few weeks will be our first 100% ES cycle of everything where we want it........
Pictures when I get home tonight, took plenty!
researchkitty
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Here's the pics! The ES were on Day 50. The next batch is being flowered till day 56.
