Welcome back everyone. Hope all of you are doing OK with the heat and fires. It's been one hot week here in my little slice of the Obama-Nation, but the ladies have managed to survive, especially last Saturday which was a 102 degree day outside and a balmy 96 in my living room. Fortunately for the ladies, the flowering tent peaked at 88 that day. One of the things I did to help out with that is I finally started modding my panels to try to deal with the heat by removing the fan guards to get my panels to run cooler. I found these
to use as replacements for the fan guards. They cost 5 bucks a piece, but the screens are removable so they can be washed or even replaced. Unfortunately I had to install them on the interior of the 5x60 due to the way the case is designed.

There are threaded posts that the fans are mounted on and cutting into them was problematic, so I installed the covers on the inside. This means the fans are now closer to the heatsinks and while I don't have any hard data for you, the flowering tent's hottest reading was 88 degrees since the mod, so in my book it was worth the thirty bucks. I'll be doing the BS240s soon and will probably go with the screens again or maybe just wire frames to save some cash. But what I really want to do is to flip the center fan over so it's sucking out and add one of these
and attach it to my exhaust. Maybe I won't have to run my AC so much. Now that would be cool

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So after a great day at the beach Saturday, (I just love standing waist deep in the ocean with a tap Blue Moon, shitty funk band in the background and that stoopid "I'm too stoned to be bothered look"), I've got to come home to this:

Ohh babies what did I do to you? There's so many good LED grows on RIU right now, I've totally become jealous of anyone who has more green on their plants than I

. And to really put this grow into perspective, Sunday when I went to snap some more photos and to see if the Magic Bud was getting light enough to water, one of the colas just snapped right off when I moved the MB plant.

FUUUUCCCCKKKKKK!

It's then that I also noticed that the plant is no longer sitting in it's bag as firmly as it was, nor does it seem to be drinking as much (just 24 oz of H20 this week), and to me that means the roots have gone to shit

or even that this plant for all intent, is finished. I was very happy when I put this lady in the flowering tent and thought it had a chance as a good yielder because of the roots, but it was not meant to be it seems. So the final decision on this plant will be done on Wed. If the gaps between buds are getting smaller, I'll consider her growing and leave her be. But if it's not growing and it is just going to eat itself I might as well chop her. She's got some amber trichs on the fans so maybe I'll get something out of her. Still there's too many clear trichs for my liking. One thing to note is that the bud that fell off is shockingly heavy. I never had a MB bud this dense before, so it may not be a total wash. Here's some pics I snapped on Friday.
The BC is fairing better but it is still ug-a-lee in my book. It's growing slowly but is a big finisher so it will be interesting to see where we end up with this. And it is a drinkin and stinkin, which I love, but it's showing amber trichs prematurely like the MB, which I don't love. So the question I keep asking myself is; "Was it the PH or the 660nm+730nm combo that is creating amber trichs on my plants after less than 8 weeks actual flowering time"? Guess I'm just gonna have to fix my mix and do this whole thing again

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The SoG is starting to get going again after getting sidetracked with the Tangerine Dream and Clone Massacre, but we'll have to fix my mix before any more plants are cloned since all the plants that I've used my mix with are showing signs of stress. The newest BC plants have burnt leaf tips and I haven't fed them anything but water. So I'll have to grab some Happy Frog and Ocean Forest to use while I try to fix my approximately 10 square feet of soil. It's so beautiful and black and just smells wonderful. Shit, I leave it's container top open sometimes just to get the smell going in my apartment, that's how great it smells. It's hard to believe it's a slow killer of plants and a breaker of hearts

! So before I dump it and try something else (coco or bust?) I've decided to try to amend it with some fresh compost and some more Espoma Soil Acidifier to try to drop the PH down. It won't happen over night, but before I throw this lovely looking (and expensive) soil mix away I've got to try to save it. Plus dumping that much mix is time consuming, and where I live, could be a dangerous breach of security throwing it out. Too many bored prying eyes in this neighborhood

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So take care all you little revolutionaries out there and I hope to see/hear from you soon. And PLEASE BE SAFE.
Tigers and Blue Cheese. A match made in heaven. Guess they love the smell too!
Bonus Question Time!!!
+Rep to anyone
* who can name this island/beach.
Hint: It ain't Long!

P.S. Can you see the deer? Things are all over the place here. At one point I had some buck running down a path straight at me while I was hiking that day. It was running right at me with all those points on it's head and then it just made a left into some bushes about 20 feet in front of me. Fucking killed my high completely

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*Except PSUAGRO. Sorry Hoss, but you got yours already 
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