New grow

[fhydro]

with skunk special from female seeds. The buds are so beautiful, and powerfull, i put my last 4 seeds to germ. Now they have 15 days. They should be bigger, no? What do you think ? (DWC, GH nutes, EC 1,1, 250 HPS, 20/4, 26 celsius) The roots are nice, white, 10 cm long.
Fhydro

[Garden Knowm]

looks good... seeds can take awhile.. looks fine for 15 days... it is the next 15 days that the plants should grow grow grow... : )


A closer pick of the leaves would give me a better idea.... they may look a bit light.. what's you PH and PPM?

[fhydro]

PH, 6.5 : PPM : 600. Is it too much ?

[fhydro]

Hey there, here are some new pics of my new hydro grow. The biggest are skunk special from female seeds, they have 3 weeks from seedling, 250 MH for a few days, and i see the results. You can see the progress since last week. The smallest are AK47 from serious seeds and skunk #1 from sensi. They have 1 week from seedling, they stretch quite a lot i think and they still look for light and they have 250 MH not far, so i put a clod bulb to help them. You can see also a 3 weeks old root system in bubbler device.
What do ya think ?
Fhydro

[Budking]

Nice fucking buds! Makes me wanna jack off, Keep up the good work bro.

[GraveReaper0]

fhydro what do you do when they get bigger? To me it seems like the plants will just tumble over since the lid is just laying on top.

[fhydro]

What do i do ? I see them growing. The net pot is tied in the top and should not tumble over is the plant is not too much desiquilibrated. I had some much much bigger in the previous grow, bended, and it finished "quite" OK. Good remark...
Fhydro

[fhydro]

Hello, i send an update of my new grow. The skunk special from female seeds has gone in the flowering chamber with a 600 HPS. They are 6 weeks old and 10 days under 12/12. The biggest sucks 2 liters a day. In the growing chamber, on the right, a few afghan successfull clones, in the middle skunk from Sensi seeds, and on the left, my first AK47. They are in the 4th week since seed. They are going to switch to 12/12 on sunday. The main problem is heat, sometimes it's 30 celcius in there, and the main of the main is providing air to the bubblers.
Comments, advises are welcome.
Fhydro

[fhydro]

some new pics : these ones are 4 ak47 on the right and 4 sensi skunk on the left. 34 days from seedling, and 4 days into 12/12. The AK seem to be all females, i took cuttings today, i hope it's not to late. AK is very lanky and stable, while skunk is less. On the 4 skunk, 2 are big, 2 are small, and i don't know the sex yet.

[fhydro]

Here, 4 skunk special feminized, the biggest one the right has got few males balls. 20 days into 12/12, the cristals are coming on the buds. More on the right i put since sunday a bucket with 4 afghan clones. 24 liters of nutes every week, i can't believe it. I'm going to buy some new GH nutes bottles.
Do you like them ?
Fhydro

[fhydro]

Hi there, here are some new pics I've just taken during artificial night. First is skunk special 27 or 28 days of 12/12, the second is my ak47 and sensi skunk, one month of veg, and now 10 days into 12/12. Buds are coming but are not visible yet. I bought a 400 w HPS to enhance my lighting system. So there are 650 w HPS for 8 plants which are all females, 4 skunk, 4 AK. Incredible, very high female/male ratio with good breeders. What do you think ?
I'll keep you informed.
Fhydro

[LOC NAR1958]

Awsome dude.I wish I could smell those pictures. Hope mine turn out too. I was thinking of trying GH nutes too. Whats the best ? what is PH buffered ?

[sheist]

are the leaves necessary? can ya cut'm off? jus curious.. what are those balls for??

[fhydro]

Yes, i think that the leaves are necessary until they are completely dead. I wish i could remove them. About GH nutes, you must use a PH balanced water, but it's OK. I use now a lot of flora bloom, like 300 cc a week, yes, that's correct, in 72 liters of water every week for 12 plants. They drink all the water. I feed them twice a week. I added air pomps, i have 3x540 liters/hour of air and that's better. And i add a little of CO2 with baking soda and vinegar.
Thanks for comments.
Fhydro

[fhydro]

Hi,
i succeeded in making better pics, i hope so for the less, so i want to share them with you. Now, pic 1, the skunk special is 1 month into 12/12. Second pic, a skunk special bended bud. I make that to save heigth. In the same room, i put afghan clones that are 2 weeks into 12/12, showing tiny but cute buds(pic 3). In the other room, following pics, 4 ak47 and 4 sensi skunk, 2 weeks into 12/12 but not showing buds as the afghan, maybe the sativa pheno? What's your opinion? Any experienced AK47 grower ?
Fhydro

[fhydro]

Sheist, what balls are you talking about ?
Fhydro

[fhydro]

Now, the skunk special is 5 weeks into 12/12. 3 weeks left, i hope the buds will be bigger. Do you see the brown pike of the leaves. They are burnt, too much heat ? It smells quite strong now. The last pic is an AK47 3 weeks bud, the trichs are there but the bud is not as big i would expect. Each strain is different. I added a 3 weeks into 12/12 afghan clone. It looks much more like a sativa strain, sativa bud. What do you think ?
Fhydro

[latewood]

that's a beautiful grow man...I wish mine looked that organized...maybe next time...
good job...keep it up...peace latewood

[fhydro]

6 months of flo for those skunk special. They get bigger every day. On bud close to the wall is getting very fluffy, beautiful. 2 weeks more to harvest those big and dense buds. Tomorrow i stop giving them flora grow for the 7th week. The last week they will drink only water. The grow room smells a lot. The last pic shows the ak47 4 weeks of 12/12. They don't thrive as i would like, for one month of 12/12, they look very thin, now ? They have a lot of trichs, but they grow long but not thick. Did someone grow ak47 before, to tell me? Have experienced a problem of PH low and high EC, maybe they have not recover yet ?
Fhydro

[fhydro]

they are 6 weeks, not 6 months of 12/12. Sorry...
Fhydro

[fhydro]

Now they smell very strong! I started the flush today until the harvest, I think 10 days. The trichs are still clear and the some pistils become to be brown, like 10%. They are quite sane for over ferts plants, look at the leaves and they keep on getting bigger everyday. 10 days more :D
Fhydro

[fhydro]

In the other chamber, the ak47 and sensi skunk 5 weeks into 12/12. They have experienced an over ferts problem and now they are in a curing flushing mode. 3 days with plain water PH 6.0, every day i have to lower it. They drink more now that they have been flushed. How long do i have to flush them ? AK47 is very very well trichomed, for 5 weeks. And the buds are getting thicker now after having stretched. The smell is not that i've heard, my skunk special smells alot more. The leaves are a little burnt by ferts, but i hope it's the last time it occurs.
Fhydro

[latewood]

PH, 6.5 : PPM : 600. Is it too much ?soil ph 6.5
hydro ph optimum is 5.8, but I run mine starting at 5.4-5.6 and let it run up to 5.8 as the plant takes in nutes it releases toxins and byproducts in the res that can raise your ph...

[Zandor]

soil ph 6.5
hydro ph optimum is 5.8, but I run mine starting at 5.4-5.6 and let it run up to 5.8 as the plant takes in nutes it releases toxins and byproducts in the res that can raise your ph...
Dead on advice: dude you have learned a lot.

Right on!

Bumping up to 6 or even 6.2 can be ok. Look at the chart Ph is one way to give exact nutrients. Like if you are lacking one by raising the Ph you can increase one nutrient over another one.

Like Ph of 5.8 there is no real Mn uptake, Fe is reduced and so it B & P & MG. By playing with the Ph you are playing with fire. If you do it right you can fly through a grow and have results others can only dream of.

[fhydro]

How long time must i flush them before giving them food again before final flush, please ?
Fhydro

[Stormcooker]

wow zandor, that's great knowledge. Tell me.... what is your pH "regimen" as to certain pH at certain stages. I have a constant pH monitor, and although I get a slow steady rise in pH especially after a nutrient change, I keep between 5.6 and 6. I would love to know what you recomend for all phases from seed to harvest as to exact pH and when.

[Stormcooker]

Fhydro....where did you get your skunk special?? Do they come feminised too?

[fhydro]

from the same breeder as your grape fruit, femaleseeds.nl. I read your threads because you have strains from female seeds that i've never tried. Anyway this is a fucking good breeder ?
Fhydro

[Stormcooker]

hell yeah. 4 out of 4 Grapefruits germed. They are so big and strong that I had to give 2 away due to lack of space. The Easy Bud is short but FAT and good for lack of height and space in a grow room. The EB seemed to be a bit more sensitive and "needy" to optimum conditions (proper pH and light, and temo). The GF seems to be a no brainer!!!

Female Seeds .nl just sent me an email about a new strain they carry now. I asked for a Hash Plant or similar and they sent me an email that they now have Hash Plant x Northen Lights. You have to try it!!!!!!!! I will definitely try for my next grow starting mid september. we should both try at same time and compare notes!!!!

[Stormcooker]

Your skunk specials look AWESOME dude. I would try them myself but I have to have low odor strains for my stealth cabinet. By the way, the EB has little to no odor yet and the Grapefruit, well, the Grapefruit smells like grapefruit!!!!!!!!!

[fhydro]

It begins to smell like hell in the second month of flo. So wait a little bit for your easy bud. And the grape fruit smells grape fruit? Very stealthy, no? Good idea for your proposition. I checked the web site and no hash plant for the moment. But i will try it... See you!
Fhydro

[Stormcooker]

Female Seeds .nl has a website that you can grab their email address. They always write back to me in a day or so. Ask them about he Hash Plant x NL. They sent me a picture of it!!!!

[Joel]

fhydro, if you get your hands on some hashplant seeds you definatly have to post a diarie on it. Hashplant = my favourite :D. I love growing it, I grew it once in soil and it turned out nice.

[Stormcooker]

Tell me all about your Easy Bud grow F !!!!!!!!

[fhydro]

Hi, i'm proud to announce that my 4 skunk special from Female Seeds have reached the peak potency. After 1 week of flush and a diary study of the trichomes with the microscope i had when i was a child ( X 100 200 300 ), i decided to put them in the dark during at least 36 hours and harvest them. In the same grow room there are my 4 afghan clones, 6 weeks of 12/12, and they are rippen i think. I did not check the trichs, but the hair are all brown, the leaves are yellow and they seem ready.
StormCooker, you told once you had grown some AK47, so could you tell me how many days you let them under 12/12 before harvesting. They are given for 47 days, but i'm sure it's bull shit regarding it's a most sativa strain.
Comments ???
Fhydro

[Stormcooker]

Fhydro, those skunk specials are so awesome, like huge pine cones for colas. What do you plan on doing with all that weed? Tell me, does that plant produce more odor than most plants or about the same? After seeing those, I gotta try them. Female Seeds .nl right?

I flowered my AK47 for about 8.5 weeks before harvest. Your results may vary because I was still learning a lot during that grow and had a lot of bumps in the road possibly effecting the final outcome (such as pH and resevoir algae). In the end however, due to this plants prolific strength, I ended up with about a half-pound of the stickiest ickiest weed in town. Everyone I gave some to said it was as good as it gets.




Grapefruit and Easy Bud 51 days from seed, 21 days of flower

[fhydro]

I think that i'm gonna smoke 90% and give the other 10. Just to share the taste and have some congrats. But i don't want to be so famous, you know. I feel very paranoied because of these huge buds. Tomorrow, harvest day, manucuring day also, and cleaning day to start the other crop, AK47 in a new bubbler set up.
Your grow is splendid, StormCooker, the plants are so healthy ( not even one fert burn ) that you will get the max of the strain, i think...
Keep in contact.
Fhydro

[Stormcooker]

You will be astonished by AK47. Even the novice grower can have huge results. you will see that you will have multiple colas not just the one from the tippy top. Heavy side branches. I almost want to suggest you grow the AK in the best way you know how, instead of a "new" way to maximize potential. Is the bubbler setup new to you? 6 out of 6 were female for me. I got them from Serious Seeds. You should try some in bubbler, and some in the way you have done. You will learn a lot that way. I'm not sure if you saw my pic of the AK in grow stage (about 3 weeks from seed). I'm still smokin' it now 3 months from harvest. A little dab will do ya'. It's a great up high, little couch lock, a good all-day pot.


Here it is

[fhydro]

Nice pic, mine are not like this. I think i missed my AK grow, for many reasons : first, i had bought new and cheap air stones, and the first days, they coloured the roots with grey at the water level of the bubbler. I had a problem of heat, which resulted in lanky seedlings that i had to maintain with a wood stoke. After, putting them in 12/12, they stretched a lot because of the heat i think ( summer time despite 3 blowing fans 24/7). Then i experienced an over fert problem and i had to flush them. They have recover, but the buds are far not so dense than skunk special ones. Finally, the bad air stones desintegrated themselves, giving bad air input. Now that i put more air and good air stones, they drink more than before. They have between 2 and 3 weeks to go, and i think it will not be awesome. Anyway, some pics of the Skunk Special harvest anyway.
Yes you could go with skunk special in your closet, because they are short plants. The biggest is 50 cm. The others are 40 cm. But the smell is terrific. Now that i had cut them, no smell in the grow room, though there is AK and sensi skunk growing in there.
Fhydro

[fhydro]

Update of the AK47 from serious seeds, i had 4/5 females, good seeds, but you see that for 6 weeks of 12/12, it's not very good. A lot of trichs anyway, more than on the skunk special. Then, the grow room after harvest, the new centralized bubbler system that will be more stable than little buckets, and finally, a snapshot of the skunk special.
Fhydro

[Stormcooker]

Awesome. I hope my Grapefruit looks as good as your skunk specials do. I'll know in 5 weeks. I might try that bubbler system someday. If you can centralize it like you said, have one main resevoir that feeds your individual buckets, that would be so convenient. You would only have to check pH of the reservoir, and mix one batch of nutes. Thanks for your info.

[fhydro]

... I've got a seed !!! Yes! I found a seed in a afghan clone little bud that i cut 3 ays ago, and they were in the same room with the Skunk Special feminized plants, right? I noticed in the begining of the bloom stage some male flowers on a branche of a female plant. I noticed also that these afghan clones have rippen very fast. So i'm sure that i have a afghan female crossed with a skunk special feminized male seed!!!! I'm wrong ? But i'm sure that the skunk did not pollinate themselves because they are from the same batch or because they are female seeds, i don't know, but the skunk did not rippen as fast as the polinazed afghan, and don't have seeds...
Fhydro

[fhydro]

it will germ fast !
Fhydro

[Joel]

Grow it and make active posts on forum ;). If it is skunk x afghan, Im going to purchase seeds from you ;).

[Stormcooker]

Good luck with that seed. You may be onto something

[fhydro]

and i am pretty sure that it's a female seed ! The mother is a female and the father is also a female ( male flower of a female plant ). If it sprouts for sure...
Fhydro

[Stormcooker]

i don't know how that works even though I use feminised seeds too, but it sounds right to me, like you made your own strain of feminised.

Check out my new RO system.

I am thinking about going with Skunk Special next grow, but Dr. Chronic also has Strawberry Cough feminised that I like the sounds of but it's expensive. It has to be a maximum yielder with at least 50% sativa.

[fhydro]

StormCooker, i hope that those pics will gonna change your mind. Go with skunk special for the next grow, very very good yielder, but buy a carbon filter, LOL. The 4 plants not dry are quite heavy in the hands, i think i will have lot of Oz of dry buds. I put some new AK seeds to sprout, 6, hope i'll get 5 females for my new set up. After i will try the new stuff from female seeds, because they are for me the best breeder fot the moment.
Fhydro

[Stormcooker]

is that just 2 skunk specials?

[fhydro]

No there are my 4 plants, 2 per hand. Why, it does not seem enough for you ? LOL ! The 4 fresh plant weigh aprox 2.5 kilos. How much when dry ?
Fhydro

[fhydro]

My AK47 is nearly 7 weeks of 12/12. Buds are rippening, lots of trichs on AK, less on the skunk. I send 3 pics of AK47 ( 2 close-ups) and 1 of the Sensi Skunk. I'm disapointed by this grow because i made a lot of mistakes, and because the previous with Skunk Special was so awesome that now i'm sure i won't make better. The buds of this grow are not dense at all. For 1 meter plants, it won't be an awesome harvest. Next week will be a flushing week. I started checking the trichs with my scope and for the moment they are very tranlucids. Normal, 10 days left. StormCooker, were your AK buds like this ?
Fhydro

[Stormcooker]

Yes my buds looked like that too. I had problems with mine due to lack of experience with the grow setup not to mention that I went away for 11 days and had a friend with NO experience look after them for me. I used a lot of Floraliscious in my reservoir as prescibed which must have helped a lot because no matter how screwed up the grow was, those buds are still kickin' my ass today. Everyone RAVED about it. The stickiest icky ever. It does what it says and yours will too.

[Stormcooker]

that's funny you have that same leaf tip "burn" like I have on my GF end EB now. Can't figure if it's nute burn or heat burn. Cal-mag seems to help, Silica blast too. There's a science to pH levels that I'm figuring out now. Don't be disapointed by your yield with this grow. Your end result will be worth the time and effort. It' s a good strong sativa that keeps you up and going.

[fhydro]

leaf tips burnt are a consequence of nute burn. That's what i learnt the last 2 months. A lot of leaves are impacted, next grow i will put less nutes, better and cheaper also.
Fhydro

[Stormcooker]

How about heat? Are you sure it's not heat? what were your ppm's throughout the grow? I did order those skunk specials. Any advice on that strain with nute plan? what was your ppm throughout that grow?

I follow the nutrient feeding chart that GH Flora series publishes. I have a bit of a heat problem too. Since the nutrient feed chart isn't designed solely for cannabis cultivation, maybe I should use a little less than they recomend?



this is 57 dAYS FROM SEED, 27 days of flower

[newgroweroldsmoker]

want to ''hear'' something ''funny''?

yesterday , before i add the co2, the EC meter was saying 1.5 in both tanks

36 hrs later the EC meter reads 0.85 & 0.9, it seems someone is sucking up the nutrients, i wonder who ;)

anyway, i plan on changing the water on the tanks tomorrow instead of monday and will keep changing it every sunday from now on...

18 days from seed 16 days into the nft trays and the plants are going to grow like monsters, look at the pics that i took an hour ago

your plants look great, i wish mine will look just as big, fat and juicy:)

take care and keep up the good work that you do :)


NGOS:)

[Stormcooker]

looks like everthing is in order. Cheers!!!!

[fhydro]

StormCooker, i've been without computer since sunday. Right! Skunk Special is very resistant to over fert, so you will have less problem. Yes i'm sure it's over fert and not heat burn. I ran 2 till 2.8 EC in the flo stage, and 1.5 during the veg stage. My temp was max 30° Celsius. And i did not have lots of over ferts problem. Far less than with AK47. About the yield ! I get 280 grams of dry smokable manicured buds on 4 plants, one bud is 30 grams!!! The smallest plant 56 gr, and the biggest 110 gr!! The stone before curing is already amazing, very strong, but indica's high. Very physical, i'm waiting for the AK47 testing plan... There are in last week, flushed.
Fhydro

[lemonboy]

Enjoyable thread. Very nice work :)